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Chapter 4

That night I couldn't sleep again, but this time I had a good excuse considering that I had a couple of broken ribs and fractured a couple of bones in my spine it was hard to sleep. I could barely get up once I lay down on the bed. So all night long I continued to stare up at the ceiling hoping that I could somehow fall asleep. Later I heard footsteps outside my room. Carefully I got up from the bed and crept over to the door. Then slowly and quietly I opened the door just a crack to find Annie from training school sneaking through the halls.

For the moment I couldn't help myself from wanting to follow her and see what she's up to. Carefully I sneaked behind her throughout the halls and outside of the building. Then she went into the storage shack behind the stables. From the one window of the storage shack I watched Annie tend to her injuries. As I carefully looked at each of her injuries I couldn't help but notice that they weren't really injuries, but skin problems. Plus these skin problems didn't look like regular skin problems.

The skins she was peeling off slowly burned off into some sort of vapor. After a while of thinking about it I finally realize that the skin she was peeling off was titan skin. Some of the vapor was escaping through the cracks in the door and it smelled an awful like titan vapor when they die. This meant that the female titan was Annie. Quickly but carefully I hurried over to Levi's room back inside the building to report what I saw. Luckily his room was the one closest to the exit I went out to follow Annie. When Levi answered the door he was definitely not happy looking.

"Do you know what time it is Sergeant Lantsov? What is so important that you couldn't wait till morning to tell me?" he grumbled as he let me in. Quickly I looked out his window which had a perfect view of the stable and the shack and could still see little streams of vapor coming out from the shack door.

"Captain Rivaille, I figured out just who the female titan really is." I reported. Instantly his eyes widen and he was now fully awake.

"Well who is it?"

"It's a girl I remembered from training school. She was the last person I suspected to be. But now that I remembered all the movements the female titan made were all the same to hers. Her name is Annie Leonhart."

"Just because you assume the same things the female titan were related to her, doesn't mean that she's the same. Unless you can get me proof that she really is the female titan, don't bother me with such nonsense." Just when I thought I could keep calm at the situation I completely lost it when I saw Annie leaving the storage shack. Suddenly I grabbed Levi by the wrist and started pulling him through the halls. As I was pushing myself and Levi through the halls to confront Annie I couldn't quite understand why I suddenly felt empty in me. But just when we encountered Annie, I finally understood why I was feeling empty. She was the one who stole my very best friend away from me. While Levi was catching his breath Annie and I stared at each other knowing that we both might start a fight.

"Lantsov, why'd you bring me here? Who's this? Why is everyone awake at this time of hour?" Levi questioned behind me. I didn't answer and I continued to stare at Annie while she stared at me. I could tell that we were both waiting for one of us to make a move, but it seemed like neither one of us will move. As I stared at the titan shifter that killed my best friend, I slowly started to cry. Finally I got the courage to question to Annie.

"Annie… why'd you kill so many lives just to get one person? What was the whole purpose of doing this? DON'T YOU KNOW YOU KILLED MY VERY BEST FRIEND!" I confronted her. Annie turned the other way and I could feel her guilt seeping out of her. Suddenly I grabbed Annie by the shoulders and started shouting at her even more.

"TELL ME ANNIE, WHY'D YOU DO IT? I NEED TO KNOW WHY!" I continued. Annie then pushed me aside and looked at me angrily. Tears were now flowing out and I couldn't make it stop. I've never felt this way before.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Right now I'm tired and I'm going to return to my room." Annie denied.

"I KNOW YOU'RE THE FEMALE TITAN! JUST ADMIT IT!"

"Like I said I don't know what you're talking about. Now if you will I'm tired." Just as she was leaving I saw a tiny piece of titan skin still stuck to her jacket on the back. Quickly I peeled it off and confronted her once more after I handed it to Levi.

"If you still deny it then why don't you explain this piece of titan skin stuck to the back of your jacket?" I announced. Annie looked surprised and turned around with a shocked face. She then tried to take the piece from Levi but then I blocked her way.

"Fine, if you really want to prove that I'm the female titan, then why don't we fight?" Annie declared. Suddenly Annie's ring concealed a hidden knife and she stabbed herself with it. Then within an instant she transformed into the female titan. Quickly I pushed Levi aside as he was about to get squashed by Annie's foot. Luckily for me before I followed Annie to the storage shack I already had my 3D Maneuver Gear on me so I quickly lifted myself above the roof and attacked Annie. Just like before in the forest I copied Levi's trick and continued to attack just before she can harden her skin. As I was doing that soon more soldiers started to help, but since I was moving so faster and all over the place the soldiers laid back for a while.

Soon I could feel all the broken and fractured bones starting to hurt all over again. In order to forget about them I had to think about what Annie did to Petra and the others. Just like that my strength continued and I was putting my all into every slice. Suddenly Annie twisted herself to the left just as I was coming in for an attack. With a closed fist Annie crushed me into the ground. When her first moved away I felt completely crushed and blackness was slowly engulfing me. Blood was gushing out of the side of my head and I couldn't feel my body at all. The last thing that went through my mind for some reason was Levi and how I thought all the time he was teasing me. For some reason that was the last thing that went through to my mind and made me smile before everything blacked out.

Levi's POV

The moment I got outside I saw Lantsov get crushed by the female type right into the ground. As I looked around I saw the other soldiers rushing in to contain the female type but was dying one by one. Soon Erwin came out and was standing beside me.

"Levi, what happened here? When did the female type show up?" he questioned. I was too in shock from Lantsov's crushing defeat that I could barely stand or answer Erwin. As I continued to stare at Lantsov's dead body small little tears started to drop from my eyes. Quickly I wiped them away and was shocked be crying at a time like this. Later Erwin looked at my direction and saw Lantsov's dead body.

"Levi, I'm so sorry. You liked her didn't you? She was also one of the last remaining members of your original squad that survived from what happened in the forest too." Erwin announced. For a moment I forgot that the day Lantsov joined the squad after I showed her the squad and went back to Erwin to get the rest of the report on the new mission, I happened to blurted out that I was in love with Lantsov. At first Erwin laughed saying that I really shouldn't fall in love at a time like this. Ever since then I've tried everything I could to hide my feelings for her. Sometimes I teased her only so that it wouldn't seem like I liked her. But now… she's gone and she was the only one that I ever fell in love with. Something about her made me love her.

Just before I got up, a flash of lightning came out from the sky and struck Lantsov's body. Right at her spot appeared a class 15m female titan. After appearing the new female titan tackled Annie and pinned her at the spot. For a moment I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Was Lantsov a titan shifter the whole time?

"Levi, did you see what I just saw?" Erwin questioned. I nodded and continued to watch the titan that I believed to be Lantsov fight Annie. Lantsov was then pushed away with a kick but then she immediately countered that with a punch. The fight continued until Lantsov got Annie in a head lock. With one bite, Lantsov pulled Annie right out of her titan and onto the ground. All the soldiers that were watching hurriedly tied Annie up while she was still unconscious. Moments later the titan Lantsov was in started to shrivel and Lantsov came out still unconscious. Quickly I hurried to her side and lifted her up. She was burning hot for a moment, but then she instantly cooled a bit later. As I looked at her face, she still had some titan skin stuck to her in the places that I remembered she was injured really badly.

"Levi, you do know we have to contain her now until she wakes up. Plus we need to question her if she knew she was a titan shifter all along." Erwin declared as he came up behind me.

"No… Lantsov wasn't a titan shifter before. I just know it. If she was a titan shifter and was after the same thing like Annie then she wouldn't have killed everyone back at the forest. If I am correct, isn't this situation the same as Eren's? Didn't Eren's friends saw him die but then come out of a titan?" I denied.

"Either way we still have to contain her otherwise the Imperial Capital will have another angry argument with me again."

"(Sighs) Alright, but you're going to assign me duty of watching her." Erwin nodded and I carefully carried Lantsov down to the prisons cells while ignoring all the pain in my leg. Even though Lantsov was pretty light for her height, I was feeling as though I could barely do this. But now that Lantsov was alive again I felt relieved that my heart wouldn't feel empty. For the first time ever before when I thought Lantsov was dead, I felt completely empty and lonely. Now even though she's going to be treated more harshly by everyone, I shall try my best not to show my feelings to her, but also protect her.