A/N:

Actualy, when I looked at Moblit in the anime, he is rather Hufflepuff-ish, So I pictured him that way.

And I've truly (with all my heart and brain capabilities) been trying to make the chapters longer. It was only 800 words/chaps before, and now it reached about 1400 words/chaps without A/Ns.

And hmmm... I suppose she is rather Sue-ish. Though I imagine an inventor working on a military as clever and knows at least a little fighting skills...

I'll try to fix that...

Anyways, enjoy :)

Chapter 27

Secret Out

Erwin went out of the tent. They had secured a checkpoint near a forest, and the soldiers where resting while some of the others kept watch. If he remembered correctly, the first night watch in the east area is Hange alone.

He walked towards the east area.

He had noticed that Moblit was a little different after reaching the check point. He knew that after seeing the deaths of comrades, one would get even wearier. But other than the streak of weariness, Erwin noticed another thing. It was not fear. It was a whole different thing, a fire of some sort.

It was determination.

When asked what happened, Moblit's only answer is…

"Captain Hange saved my life, so this life belongs to Captain. I will serve her, and if she so wishes it, I'll die for her."

It was a determination flared by the wish to thank his savior, a true loyalty.

And Moblit had brought his job as an assistant into another level. Whilst days before, he didn't seem to show any interest in any of Hange's inventions, he seems to thoroughly study her notes this night. Just tonight, Moblit had started serving her food himself, preparing her tools himself and even massaged her back himself!

It was no longer the job of an assistant. It's a servant's job!

That's when Erwin realized one other thing about Hange.

When Erwin reached the east area, he saw Hange leaning on the crate, looking up at the stars. Hange noticed his presence right away, but she kept her eyes up, only asking.

"What's wrong, Erwin?"

That's when Erwin gritted his teeth and growled, "You have been manipulating us since the beginning, haven't you?"

Hange's brown orbs looked at Erwin's blue ones in shock.

"What made you think that? There's no way I could manipulate you all!"

Erwin narrowed his eyes, "You chose Moblit and Levi to be in your team and asked if you could be in the outermost right wing despite being able to stay at the near centre, using your love for Titans as an excuse. You made Moblit and Levi see the deaths in the hands of Titans. And you saved Moblit's life and gained his pure loyalty. You seem to know that Moblit would be a good assistant since the beginning. As for Levi, it seems that you know that he would be one of the stronger soldiers of the whole military. And it seems that you knew it since the time you gave him that 3DMG."

Silence, as the wind blew and the trees rustled.

"There's no way I could know all that, Erwin. It was like knowing the future. And no one knows the future."

Erwin clicked his tongue in annoyance. "On the first expedition you have, you hinted me about a formation that can be used to detect Titans from afar when you are surely capable of making the formation by yourself! The formation that was on the testing period now! It was like you want me to make it without actually asking me! And the day Wall Maria was attacked, you seems so nervous as if you know what's going to happen."

"I was just voicing my thoughts."

"Then explain to me how you can make all those complicated machineries! Machineries that were clearly too complicated in this era. In the future, yes, but not now. You can clearly create even more complicated stuff if you have the tools required. And you clearly didn't learn it from anybody here, Hange."

"I learned it myself," Hange said as she rubbed her chest, where her heart should be.

"Then explain to me why you are rubbing your left chest. It was like there was a scar there, but I'm sure you never got any fatal wounds to the heart, or else you would be dead by now."

"Eh?" Hange froze, "I'm rubbing… a scar?"

"Seems like it."

Hange stared at her hands in a horrific fascination, "I didn't even realize I had been doing it."

"You don't, I do," said Erwin as he sat on the crate not far away from Hange.

"Guess I can't convince you the other way now, can I?"

"You can't. I'm pretty sure you know the future, or at least parts of it."

"Geez, Erwin, you need to give this poor woman a chance to breathe. I don't even think that my death would cause mental trauma!"

"You died once?"

"Hmm… At least, I thought I did. A shot through the heart in an assassination attempt, not much," she flapped her hand flippantly.

"You seem pretty dismissive about your death."

"Dying once will make you."

"No wonder you just hugged a Titan without care of your life. Though, I had to wonder how come you are not scared of the Titans."

"I'm curious, really, since in my first life, there was nothing like a Titan. It was all only words in a book, at least until I came here."

"A book," Erwin stated, "We are all part of a book. So you know the future through the book."

"It's a book which doesn't have an ending yet, to be more precise. All I know is the beginning, no important information about the Titans or the true enemy."

"Do you actually come from the future?"

Hange blinked. "I might come from the future, where Titans are extinct, or maybe the past, where humans are finding ways to be Titans, or I might even come from an entirely different world. Or maybe it was all a hallucination I believed in."

"Is that so…"

"Aren't you curious? About the future?"

"I am," said Erwin, "But I trust if there is anything too dangerous, you will make some change if possible. It is dangerous to play with time, after all."

"All the dangers in the future would be required," Hange stated sadly, "Even if I want to and even if I am able to, all the dangers will let us find something important that I might not know, so I can't actually change the future freely. But I can make some minor changes, improving the weapons, finding counterattacks against the Titans; keep the survival rate as high as possible."

"You made people think you are weird, so you can get away with doing things with weird or vague reasons."

A brown eyebrow was raised questioningly, "Aren't I naturally weird?"

Erwin scoffed. "'Levi is cute, so I'll be his friend', while in actual you knew Levi is a loner with foul mouth. Not many people would want to be with him, so you latched to him like a monkey and annoy him to death. 'I love Titan's so much and I'll hug as many Titans as possible', while in actual, you are trying on different ways to kill Titans or gain any other information. 'My inventions are my babies who I will protect with my life', while in actual, you don't want your inventions to fall into the wrong hands."

"Uwaah! Erwin! You made me seem weirder than I actually am! How did you know, anyways?"

"If I know you are capable of manipulating us like puppets, I can also deduce these small things. Just... tone down your acts."

"Hiks, you made me seem like the bad guy here."

Erwin ignored her as he stood up and dusted himself. "I trust that when the time comes, you would do what you think will be the best."

"Of course," said Hange as she watched Erwin walked away. "That's what I've always been doing. Oh, and Erwin?"

Erwin stopped walking.

"Since you know about my bits of knowledge of the future, I don't have to worry about you knowing my secret, and I have been itching for revenge since the second day we met, so…" Hange said with a mischievous smirk etched on her face.

"So what."

"So," Hange drawled, her smile became even wider, "I'll be going about tricking you with pranks every possible moment I have."

Erwin narrowed his eyes on her, but he continued to walk away after waving her warning off.

It's not like she is able to do it.

Right?