Eren and the others were back in the headquarters for the night after the celebration in the streets… which continued until the night. People were already making plans to reassume the business the Titans interrupted when they invaded Shiganshina, specially the farming ones, and moving there. Newspapers were being imprinted with drawings of the scouting Legion when they appeared on top of Wall Rose, returning victorious from conquest. Jean pounded on a bathroom´s door.

"Connie! Get out of there, you midget! You have been there for an hour!" the horse faced teen continued to pound. Behind him in the line were Eren, Armin and Floch, all of them with a sour mood. "I don´t know why he tries so much. His mother´s still a titan, for god´s sake" he kept his voice down so Springer won´t hear him. "she won´t care if he smells good or bad."

"And we all need showers" the new transfer smelled himself. He reeked, that was true. "You know, forget it. I´m spending the night with my family, so I´m asking mom to lend me the shower before we go out."

"Are you going out with your parents, Floch?" Marlowe, already showered and refreshed thanks to his speed at putting himself next in line after the girls, commented from a chair in the middle of the stance. Sasha, dressed in her skirt and blouse, peeked from over her pre dinner.

"Yeah, mom was so glad I came back alive and not shell shocked like Sandra that decided to hold a family dinner at my favourite restaurant" he informed, satisfied with himself. "We are going to have pasta and meat" he made Sasha salivate a bit. "Why, Freudenberg? Do you want to join?"

"Nah, thank you, I´m spending the night with Hitch and my pals from the MP" he informed. "Tomorrow we are free too, then I´m going to see the family… after I got over the hangover that woman is surely going to inflict upon me" he laughed a bit, trying to keep the light atmosphere that settled in the headquarters despite the knowledge they all shared now. "And you, Blouse? What are you going to do with your free time?"

"Pops told me that if I returned alive from the recovering of Wall Maria, he and I were going to go to a hunting trip for as long as I had leave and then roast all the meat, no matter if winter is approaching and… and…" she salivated some more, dreaming of meat, like always. She was hurt, yes, but that won´t stop her.

"Sure you can handle it? The doctor said you should take it easy, you were badly wounded"

"Of course I can! I´m a hunter!"

"I see, you are going to fill yourself up with meat" Floch just rolled his eyes and the others sweat dropped. "And you, Kirstein? What are you going to do now that you returned alive from a suicide mission?"

"I´m going to see my mother in Trost" he said. "She apparently wanted to show her now hero son to all the neighbours and then offer me dinner… in that specific order."

"Then why don´t you shower home?"

"Because my mother told me when we met on the street and she finished crying in joy at my coming home that she won´t accept me home with that smell" he gulped. "And she is capable of fulfilling that comment, hero or not."

"Well, let´s hope Connie doesn´t…"

"Hi, guys! Hell, that was some shower" Jean quickly ran into the bathroom when Springer finally got out, slamming the door shut in his back. "what the hell is happening to him?"

"His mother won´t feed him if he doesn´t smell like roses when he goes home" Floch explained and turned around. "Anyway, we were talking about what were we going to do with our free time, now that we have some days of leave…"

"Oh, well… I´m going to visit my mother" Connie, as they all expected, confessed that. "I´m bringing her some sweets… and probably will eat them myself, but she always enjoyed when we shared sweets in family…"

"Ahhhhhh, Connie" Springer didn´t hear and ran out of the room, crying a bit. Yes, they recovered Shiganshina and beat the monkey guy, but his mother was still in that state and he was hurting because he couldn´t help her. The slam on his door shook them a bit, but Marlowe continued talking. "Well… that was uncomfortable" he commented. "Ehhhhh… hey, we haven´t asked the wonder trio" he signalled Mikasa, Armin and Eren, who were always together. "What are you going to do?"

"We are going to visit Eren´s uncle" the girl answered, looking at her adoptive younger brothers. "He promised we will do so as soon as we returned"

"Hum, apparently everybody is going to see family" the former MP looked through the window and cursed. "Guys, it´s late, I should have met Hitch as soon as dusk started to fall and… I´m sorry, I have to leave."

"Have fun, Marlowe, you surely need it" they said goodbye and started to walk towards a pub usually frequented by the MP. There he noticed Hitch and his old gang, minus Annie. He entered and greeted them, who answered lifting their cups and making a cheer for him.

"You took your sweet time, no, idiot?" Hitch, obviously a little drunk, took a long sip from her alcohol. "Next time we won´t invite you. Be grateful that you are the excuse to reunite here and drink some beer" she drowned her cup. "The fucking hero of the day, the suicidal fool that transferred to the Survey Corps… with you… Marlowe Freudenberg!"

"Thank you, Hitch, thank you" he sat down next to her, being given his own booze. "Hey, this is a party, no? Let´s forget all the problems and drink some more!"

"Wooow, Marlowe what did that trip to you? You usually are telling us not to drink because of the hangover" the woman commented, putting her cup on the table.

"Well, there are some times you need to get completely hammered, so just enjoy and let me enjoy" he drank his cup in one gulp, something that should be impossible. He immediately felt light headed. Ohhhhh, much better. Now he didn´t remember the books and… no, there they are. He needed more alcohol to forget.

"Why are you suddenly wanting to get drunk, eh?" she continued pressing, suddenly more than sober. She could sense that her friend was not feeling good, that there was something that was killing him and she wanted to help him. "What? Did you see some ugly Titan and ran? We are not going to laugh, we all are afraid of…"

"No, that didn´t happened. I was part of a suicidal charge against a monkey Titan and lived"

"Then what? Are you depressed because someone died? I heard commander Erwin died, but nothing more" she looked at him with worry. "I am your friend, you can tell me, as you can anyone here. Nobody in this table is going to judge you. In fact, we admire you because you were the only one to surpass that fear for the Titans while we stayed here like cowards and just let the…"

"I am not afraid of Titans! Don´t even dare to speak of something you didn´t know!" he exploded. "Do you want to know what I´m afraid of?! I´m afraid of what´s out there, past the Titans and everything we ever knew! And we didn´t knew!" he drank again a full cup and put it on the table with a slam. "Sorry for screaming at you, I didn´t mean…"

"What… do you mean with what´s out there?" she questioned him, feeling a little scared herself. Their companions, also shocked by his sudden blow of esteem, were just silently eyeing them.

"Let´s just say that we found Eren´s basement, the one that apparently held all the answers about the outer world… well, apparently it did. And what a surprise it was, finding out that doctor Jeager was born outside the walls and that he escaped for some reason…"

"Escaped? What?" Hitch wanted to press for some answers. "What the hell was in that basement? What did doctor Jeager hid? Are there more human beings outside the walls? Or are they like Eren and his father…"

"Oh, you will know soon enough. Commander Dokk is surely bidding his time to tell you after commander Hange and corporal Levi gave him and Zackley what they found in the basement. I would bet a hundredth dollars that soon enough you are going to know exactly what I´m talking about… nahhhhh, I won´t spoil his fun."

"Marlowe, tell me what the hell you are talking about now" Hitch demanded. She has been his partner since a lot time ago, for fuck´s sake, if anyone deserved an explanation it was her.

"They… told me not to do it…" he sang and started to drink, getting more and more drunk to forget what was about to come, what they would have to do, what they, a tiny spot in the world, were going to be pushed to do. All for the sake of surviving. "Hitch, if a man were to come up to you and ask you to marry him that moment, would you accept?"

"EHHHHHHHHHHHH?!" now she was alarmed.

"Just kidding" he said and continued with his compulsive drinking. God, how much he wanted to just forget all of this problem. To fake that everything didn´t exist, as Karl Fritz did, to return to normal, to marry Hitch and lead a completely normal life. But now, the world wasn´t as they imagined and it was time to wake up from the dream. They had to win the right to live… but before that, he was going to walk up to Hitch and demand to marry her. Who said someone couldn´t marry in a war? "For you I will win this war"

That was what he said, but he could never guess that those same words were being uttered by his teammates of the Survey Corps. By Jean in the middle of his family dinner, when he saw the happiness of his people and the smile so weird of pride on his mother. By Connie while he ate sweets next to his titanized mother, promising her revenge, trying not to cry at the horrible state she was currently in. By Sasha while her father convinced her to stay in bed despite her eagerness to hunt, giving her a smile and a proud word, telling her that they will hunt together later. By Floch, clutching his fists in rage in the middle of their family dinner, promising to gain the right to live and restore the Eldian empire so the world would never underestimate eldians again. By Hange, while she cried in front of photos of her and Moblit, a cup of ale in her hands for the fallen. By Levi, who stayed awake all the night with Historia, both of them promising to be strong for all Eldia as the royal family should be. By Sandra, while she was in the arms of her mother, crying and promising never to be a coward again. And finally, by Eren, Mikasa and Armin, after Javi went to sleep, looking at each other. The shifters were conscious that they don´t have much time left, one eight years and the other thirteen, but that wouldn´t mean they weren´t going to fight.

"Time to regain our right to exist" said Eren and everybody couldn´t agree more with him.

-In an office-

"Dammit, dammit, dammit, DAMMIT!" Nike Dokk punched a wall while Pixis took another swig from his liquor. The three commanders have been awake all night, reading the damn books and trying to find some sense in the fucked out world they were introducing them. "Why? Why are we the only people that needs a fucking herd of man eating monsters to be left to live? Why are the others attacking us? We are just… just humans…"

"I guess for the same reason we feared the Titans… we have power" Zackley commented calmly. It was taking him a lot of effort to keep his temper on check after reading the whole three books and finding out exactly who the true enemies were. He sighed, remembering something. "One cannot go against the world…"

"Well, we surely will try! I´m not letting those assholes touch Marie and my children!" the MP commander sat down again, still feeling like strangling someone. "For fuck´s sake, I´m almost wishing that dream Karl Fritz trapped us in have never ended."

"No, Nile, it was for the best" the commander in chief lighted a smoke. "We learned just in time about the existence of the outside world. A few years later and we would have been as dead as the people that once lived in Wall Maria. Is that what you wanted for your family? To die because of a stupid Utophy?" the MP commander lowered his gaze "That´s what I thought. Now get yourself together and start planning. It´s time to fight."

"Yes" Pixis finished with his wine. "We are giving those Marleyan idiots a fight they will never forget"

"You surprise me, Pixis" the black haired man sat down, grabbing the closest book. "It´s something Erwin Smith would have said."

"Well, not in vain the man and I were good friends, Nile" he closed his own book. "That said… we are in terrible disadvantage" he stretched. "The technology of the outside world greatly surpasses ours and their knowledge of our military is great thanks to the former cadet Reiner Braun." He sighed, looking through the window Dokk was about to break. "How are we going to explain this to the people?"

"First we have to think about a way to tell this to her majesty" the younger commander opened his eyes a bit. Of course, Historia has to be informed of everything. And then there was going to be a martial court to decide what to do in front of her and…

"I don´t think we have to worry about that. Corporal Levi never left the castle, so I guess he stayed with her and already told her everything" the leader of all the forces walked towards the window too, staring at the only other room with lights on. "Now, after all that… interesting reading" he went back to business quickly. "we need to form a plan. The survey corps are nearly extinguished, but the Garrison and the MP are still active. Gentlemen, I want to hear propositions about what to do next."

"Tactically talking, we need to clear Wall Maria as soon as possible" stated the oldest man, rubbing his chin. "Then… we need to send some people to the main land, but we can´t do that without…"

"You don´t need to say the obvious" Nile Dokk sighed, trying to keep himself still and not freak out again. "We have to plan this carefully…"

"Unfortunately, we don´t have time to plan this carefully. In fact, YOU have no time" Levi entered in that moment with his completely exhausted adoptive cousin. Historia had rings around her eyes, as well as Ackerman, who appeared to be an insomniac. "Any second… any seconds can be the last for our nation. Marley can attack and will attack soon and… my military advisors don´t have plans?"

"Your majesty…" Nile was about to put an excuse, but Zackley raised a hand. Yes, this situation was not what they were accustomed to, but the queen was right. They don´t have time for planning nor losing. "My queen, the Survey Corps are not in their full capacity, so the MP will take care of…"

"I want Shiganshina cleared of Titans by tomorrow afternoon. I don´t care that your men are hungover after partying all day or their numbers, we have to start reactivating economy" she turned then to Pixis. "You, I want plans to put garrison posts and troops in the seashore, preliminary ones, but ready for when the Legion gets out of the Walls again. And from both of you, a list of soldiers strong enough to go with them."

"Right away, my queen" both men seemed to have snapped out of their pity party now that they have something to do. And their mental engines were spinning too, making plans. There was only one way to endure survival in this position: espionage. Somehow, they have to go to the continent and steal the weaponry and other things from their opponents to quickly develop until they were equals. Possible? Barely. Probably? NO.

"You surely are adapting to the situation better than I could have hoped, my queen" Zackley broke the silence, getting up from his comfortable place. "I would applaud you, but as you said, we don´t have time to lose" he grabbed the three books. "I´m convoking that reunion as soon as possible, to put all the forces into alert." He bowed before leaving. "You will also be present, so wait for the call."

"I don´t think I can wait" Historia practically collapsed on the ground. No one said being queen was going to be easy. In fact, she herself knew it was difficult before she succeeded her father. But, if being queen was difficult, being queen in war time was even more. So much that a king forced her people and family to renounce their freedom to avoid it. And now, for the first time in a century, her country was at war. And she, Historia Reiss, was the first Queen in the Walls to go to war. "This is a nightmare"

"More than a nightmare, it´s a reality" Levi said before helping her up. "For now, you should go to sleep. No one can think rationally after a sleepless night" she shook her head, feeling her eyes closing. There was a lot to do and she need to prepare a speech and the preparations of the troops... "Go to sleep. I will do some research."

"You deserved to rest after the last mission…"

"I will rest after the marleyans are dust in the wind" they stared at each other for a moment, silently fighting. After that, they both agreed to take a rest and then think about what they should do. The Ackerman returned to his mansion, laying on his bed after briefly noticing that the house´s state worsened in his absence. He should really think in hiring a maid with his now enormous fortune, so the place wouldn´t become a damn mess every time he get out. Well… if one could stood his clean freakiness. Before he could notice, he was asleep. Next thing he knew, there was a banging on his door. "Yes?"

"Your highness?" a nervous soldier from the MP bowed before him before handing him a letter with Zackley´s seal. He opened it and read the first few lines. It was a summon. Woow, he surely was quick. "We… ummmm… we have another problem… ehhhh… this man got in and tried to…"

"I told you that if you want to live, take me with you, midget" Kenny get out of the carriage they have come in. "Hello, Levi, long time no see" his uncle walked into the house as if it was his. "See you are keeping things like Uri wanted them… this place is spotless."

"I beg to differ, uncle" Levi turned to him before reassuring the nervous soldiers that he will deal with the lunatic now. "What are you doing here? I thought the MP was going to be trapped cleaning the Shiganshina district today."

"Bahhh, we are doing it in turns. After all, someone has to patrol the city… and somehow that brat the MP call their commander got the Garrison brats to help while their elders are in a room trying to do whatever they do in their bubble" he sat down before his nephew could say anything. He then drank a bit of rum from a bottle he brought himself. "Well, I can´t stay for long, my turn will start again soon. By the way, Levi… Dokk told us something very weird this morning and I want to state the facts" they stared at each other. "Is it true?"

"What did he said?" the younger asked. He already knew that it was the truth of the outer world, but he wanted to be sure. Kenny just stayed in silence. "Don´t need details, just to tell me if it has any relationship to the basement or what was inside of it."

"Tell me, Levi"

"First I want to know what happened, what did that idiot say?" the other grunted, wanting more rum. After a quick trip to the kitchen and the cellar to bring themselves tea and liquor, the two Ackermans began to talk.

-A few hours before-

"What´s happening here?" asked a hungover Hitch, forming while nursing a coffee cup on her hands. After their talk with Marlowe in the bar, they have all drank a lot more than they first thought and ended up with the worst headache in history. She drank her coffee in one go, looking through the corner of her eye at a group of people that was suspiciously clad in black gabardines over their uniforms. "Is that the anti personel squad? What are they doing here?"

"I guess they were called, like us" another member of her squad, looking at nearly all the MP reunited in the room. Nile Dokk entered in that moment with his extremely pale lieutenants and a bunch of papers in his hands. And the first thing that he told them was that it was their duty along with the Garrison´s to clean the Shiganshina district, so everybody that was no on patrol was going to be…

"No fair!" there was screaming. They haven´t asked for this kind of task. Besides, it was the Survey Corps idea to recover Wall Maria, they should do the cleaning. Then their drunk heads remembered that the Legion was practically decimated and won´t be able to fight for some months, until the new batch of recruits graduated. Then Nile threw his bomb.

"I don´t care what you think about this, the situation has change so much you can´t imagine. We are at war" the commander finally said. "When have we even ceased to be at war with the Titans? I suppose you all would ask. Well… we are not at war with them anymore! We are at war with all the world!" all of them were spooked silent. "The Survey Corps discovered that we are not alone in the World. In fact, Grisha Jeager, Reiner Braun, Annie Leonhardt and Bertholdt Hoover were from there."

"But… but if there are some… some people outside the walls… then… then…"

"One would think so, no?" Nile continued. "Well, I´m informing you now that that isn´t the case. It happens that we, people inside the walls, descend from a race so disgusting for the outside world that we needed an army of man eating monsters for them to leave us live" they were all completely dumbfounded, even in denial. How could that happen? "I don´t know how to explain this… But I guess you are going to find out anyway, so I´m telling you this. The Titans have been our shield for a century, now we have to be our own shield. And this will initiate with eradicating Shiganshina´s Titan and opening a way for the Legion to reach the sea. Then… we still have to figure it out."

"Are… are you being serious?" someone asked, but the silence that followed that question was all the answer that was needed. After that all of them were taken to Wall Rose, from where they jumped. Hitch couldn´t believe it… but at the same time she could. All Marlowe said after returning from Wall Maria… that made sense now. It brought tears to her eyes. And rage. A rage she never knew was possible to have contained. She screamed and started slashing the napes of the monsters in a way that would have made Erwin Smith proud. Until then, she didn´t think she was capable, but… but…

"Hitch! Control yourself!" one of her companions, that dated her once, suddenly walked towards her. Her fierce expression, unlike the smug and egocentric one she usually wore, completely took him aback. For her part, she was saying goodbye to the girl that only wanted to be an official to gain money until she catches someone to marry. She didn´t have a place in this world anymore. The one who had a place was the soldier in her. "What is wrong with you?"

"That… that I don´t want to die" yes, she didn´t want to die. Not without getting married and having children, preferably with Marlowe, and making sure her family was going to be able to live. Not without getting older seeing her children and grandchildren running around. "I don´t want to die bring worthless" she continued. "And I don´t want to see those beloved to me die" she breathed deep and exhaled. "That´s all"

"Hitch…"

"I know what you are going to say, that now we are confronting human beings instead of brainless monsters, but we can´t give ourselves the luxury of living in that dream of peace anymore, no?" she patted his shoulder. "Soldiers sometimes have to kill to achieve security of our people" with that, she jumped to the next rooftop, slashing a five meters before it ate someone. With the Titan Guillotine and them working together, the job was far easier and safe than before. She raised her head and then saw a bunch of figures talking in another rooftop, all of them in black gabardines. Gritting her teeth, she went to them. "Teach me"

"What?" Traute turned around, dumping her bloody swords to the ground. Next to her, Kenny looked bored… at least until he saw the expression in the girl´s face. That expression… not quite like the one Traute wore when he recruited her, but there was potential in there. Hatred usually makes good killers if they managed to get a grab of their emotions. And that girl was doing exactly that now.

"Teach me how to be like you" Hitch continued. "Everybody knows the central MP´s reputation of being elite killers for the king. The next war… this war is going to be against people, we need more personal like you" she walked towards them. "So… I´m asking for you to teach me… so I kill as many Marleyans as I can"

"Hear, you…"

"Easy, Traute" Kenny advanced, grinning like a maniac. "The girl has spirit, that´s all. And I can say" he advanced, eyeing Hitch too closely for her liking, making her uncomfortable. "Is that what you really want?" she nodded trembling, trying not to go back on his word after seeing the eccentricity of captain Ackerman. "Sure?"

"Captain…" the blond female got to the front, not knowing why her commanding officer was asking those questions. Their group was disbanded, no? At least it was the last time she heard.

"This morning, when that Dokk fucker pulled me apart, he gave me permission to restart the anti personel squad" he grinned at the shock in his subordinates. "And gave us permission to recruit between the MP soldiers and recruits" he looked at the girl. "Apparently, we are going to be needed in the fight against that Marley thing or something."

"It… actually makes a little bit of sense" the older woman approached, staring around her at the recruits for possible recruit material. She suddenly jumped and slashed a Titan who was about to put a young soldier in it´s mouth. The boy cried at her feet when she freed him… hum, he was definitely not her squad material. From afar, Kenny, Hitch and Djel were looking at her.

"Do you see the dear Traute? A member of our squad needs to kill humans like they kill a Titan. Do you think you can achieve that?" the Ackerman continued to scare her, but the girl only nodded. Yes, there was definitely potential. "Okay" the Ripper said. "Normally I would start your training immediately, but the fucker on top demanded to make everything clear, so… fill your transference paper or the shit you need and you are in."

"Thank you, sir" she bowed. Kenny, for his part, only jumped and started slashing the monsters Ackerman style. This was not the beginning he had in mind, but was better than anything. Not all the people were made to become assassins. And, in this uncertainty times, assassins were just what they needed.

"Are you sure, captain? To let her in?" his blond second in command appeared near him. "I know we need to recruit quickly, but that girl didn´t seem material for the squad."

"Oh, right now none of them are. In this moment, you can just talk about the potential" he surveyed his surroundings. "Many of them could have the skills, but that´s not the only thing needed for getting in, no, Traute?" the woman only stared at the Titan in front of them. "What do you think will happen to the best in a month´s time?"

"They will crush under the pressure and the half of those left probably won´t be able to do it the first time we ask them to kill. And even if they are able to do it, by the end of that week we will surely lose more of them, because part of being assassins is to pass your corpses as accidental deaths" she looked behind. "You think she will be able to do it?"

"Nothing is certain… but I see potential" Kenny jumped again, performing a twist and slashing five Titans in a row. "Look around yourself and tell me who else has that potential. I ordered Sanes the same" he released his blade and put another on. "We have a squad to rebuilt"

-End of the Flashback-

"So that was the first action they took" Levi drank a bit of his tea at the explanation. "I can´t say I disagree. We are in such a disadvantage that trained killers like your anti personell squad will be valuable assets in the war" he sighed. "But you too are right. No everybody can become an assassin. Like not many people can really become soldiers" he stared at him. "Are you sure that you are going to find good material?"

"Heh, nothing is impossible. At least I have hope in that girl I talked to you about, once she completely leaves her silly fantasies behind" he sighed. "And? What do you really have to say? Marley is real? Are they the enemy Uri wanted us to fight?"

"Yeah… or at least a part of it. Our real enemy is the rest of the world" the Ripper nodded, remembering the times when the king muttered something about the world coming to kill them. "Are you going to be a part of this war?"

"Of course I am" he pulled out a knife. "I had my opportunity to slash many throats here, I wouldn´t give the opportunity to make my fame international up for the world" his finger traces his favourite weapon. "Besides… Uri only ordered me to prepare for war, but I´m sure that there was a "fight it too" implicit in the order. He wouldn´t leave his people without a valuable military policeman like me."

"How funny you are" the older Ackerman finished his cup and walked to the door. He needed to leave now to catch his squad in the next turn. "By the way, Kenny, I found the letter you hid for Uri-san. It was surely helpful."

"Only the letter?" he raised an eyebrow. "Uri ordered me to hid two objects, not one. If you only found the letter, then the knowledge is incomplete." Levi was opening his mouth to ask where the hell the other thing was when he waved and walked away. "See you another time, midget. Hope you find it soon. Time is running out after all."

"You complete asshole" his nephew muttered between teeth, getting back into the house. Cursing Kenny and thinking that Uri should have just ordered the fucker to give Levi whatever he wanted to give him, the younger Ackerman started to search through the house. Whatever the object was, it shouldn´t have occupied much space or Kenny would have gotten it out of the house. He was just entering the library when he noticed something strange in a wall behind a portrait of… Karl Fritz? Yes, there was that name in the frame. He pulled the portrait aside and found a hole that was not there before he left the manor as a teen. He put his hand on the hole and… pulled out a book. And not any book. A leather covered book that should have been worth a fortune even for a noble. He opened the book and found the title written in Uri´s handwriting: The Book of the History of the World. He turned the page and saw a short message specially for him.

"My dear Levi, this book should have been written a long time ago, but none of the kings before me had the willpower to defy the vow of peace and write it. Hope the king or queen after me can do the same and realised that the time to keep that promise is over… or that the promise should have never be given. This is the history of our race, the Eldians, the ones that can turn into Titans. The history of Ymir, of her daughters, the namesakes of the Walls, of the Fritz family that later would become the Reiss family, of the clan wars, of Karl Fritz, the last king of Eldia and the First in the Walls… and also of Hellos and Winston Tybur, the traitor along with my ancestor Karl. And please realise that after you open this book, there is no way back."

"Well, here goes nothing" he passed the page and started reading. The book was decorated with images made by the king himself and spots of ink and half ripped papers, probably from when Karl Fritz´s will win over Uri´s. And then… the revelation. He grabbed the book and dashed back to the city. He needed to tell Historia and the Military about Karl Fritz´s great idea of selling his Kingdom to the Marleyan hero Hellos and the Eldian nobleman Winston Tybur.

-In the MP Headquarters-

"Are you sure of what you are doing?" asked Marlowe, who was visiting his friends to apologize for his behaviour last night, only to hear that Hicks was getting translated from the patrolling squad per her request. "Hicks…"

"I made up my mind, don´t try to dissuade me" she was sewing her name in her new uniform. It was surprising how quickly things could move in times of war, her translate was ready when she came back from the cleaning of Shiganshina. "Marlowe, you already made enough for now, leave me do the same."

"But the anti personell squad…"

"Marlowe, you once said that you wanted to clean the MP from corruption, no?" he lost his speech. "And once we helped to do it… more like you forced me to help you do it, you changed military forces to do what you thought correct" he stayed completely silent. "You found out that… corruption was not the only thing we needed to clean from this world. And now we find this, getting thrown into a war we didn´t know about" she grabbed his hands. "Listen to me, I´m only doing what is correct, for everyone´s survival. Don´t worry about me."

"Hicks… you surely changed a lot" the now SC member said with admiration at how mature she became in such a few time.

"Do you think so?" she asked, completing her task. "I only think that… the circumstance is pressing me to act differently, that´s all" she put it on. "I guess we will see each other in the expeditions soon" the girl smiled, making him blush and changing the conversation to a much lighter subject. "You are going to need us if you want to conquer a few marleyan ships."

"I will be looking forward to work with you again."

And... the people now knows about the basement discovery. I made a few cahnges mainly because I thought of he strategy one would take in a possition such as Paravis Eldian´s now. Getting trained assasins to kill the most important Marleyan military leader would only work to their advantage, no? Well, they would need to increase their numbers first, so I choose a very known character to help them. What do you think? Review!