Isilya has to spend longer than she'd like at her base in the Underground, healing after the battle in Shiganshina. After she's well enough to move around, she spends much time traveling around Wall Rose, doing everything she can to help whoever needs it. Sadly, almost everyone needs help.

All of the survivors from Wall Maria had retreated into Wall Rose. Food had quickly become scarce and riots had begun to break out after a short amount of time. Isilya had begun to use all of the money Lillian leaves for her to get food to feed who she can.

Not that long after the loss of Wall Maria the king and the nobles had a brilliant idea, so they said, to reclaim their territory from the titans. They decided that 20% of humanity would be sent beyond the wall, ignoring the fact that most of those people were not trained soldiers. Isilya had helped where she could, killing as many titans as she was able to reach. Still, humanity lost that 20% in a very short amount of time.

Isilya stayed inside of Wall Maria for two weeks after that, taking out her anger and guilt on the titans. Because of that, some people began to question where Humanity's Angel was. Most feared that she was sent out with the rest of the large group into Wall Maria and that she died at the hands of a titan. Some had decided that she was, somehow, just a human. A human who had to follow the orders of the Royal Government, just like the rest of them.


Levi sits in his office doing paperwork. He runs his hands through his hair and goes to get more tea. While in the kitchen, he hears cheering coming from the dining hall. He raises a brow at the noise. Nobody has made such loud, happy sounds since long before the makeshift expedition the King had ordered, at least. He walks into the room to see what's going on.

"Humanity's Angel has survived! We thought she was dead but she's alive!" One voice shouts, holding up one of the newspapers from town. The crowd continues to cheer, hope returning to their hearts. Levi watches with a bored expression as people talk about how great the cloaked hero is.

"Maybe she did die, but she's risen again!" One voice adds to the noise.

"It's a miracle!" Another voice cries out. Levi rolls his eyes and walks through the dining hall, wanting to get away from the noise and the memories of Isilya. Before he can make it to the door, Hanji Zoe, a squad leader and titan enthusiast, stops him.

"Hey, Captain Shorty!" Did you hear about everyone's favorite Angel?"

"Tch."

"I thought you'd be happy. After all, there are rumors that you and the Angel somehow knew one another when you lived in the Underground." Hanji stares down at Levi with wide eyes. Levi glares at the squad leader but doesn't respond.

"You just might be the only one who knows her true identity!" Hanji squeals. The look she gets when new questions about titans arise is the same look that now rests on her face.

Levi realizes this is her way of asking him to give her information. He simply walks around her and heads back to his office, neither confirming or denying any answers he may have. Hanji watches him go with a gleam in her eyes.


Isilya smiles when she hears that Armin has been asking around for people who have seen 'the Angel' recently. She realizes that she has been so busy that she hasn't talked to him since Wall Maria fell. It's been almost a full year. Of course, she had kept tabs on him, helping him from the shadows, but she hadn't made time to talk to him. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she realizes that she has been scared to face him. She's ashamed. Especially after what happened to his family.

Isilya opens a portal outside of the dormitories after all of the cadets are in bed. She opens a smaller portal inside of the dorm and whispers through it into Armin's ear. He recognizes her voice and sits up, looking around the room with furrowed brows as he rubs his eyes. He doesn't see her anywhere so he slips out of bed and walks outside, looking around more. Isilya closes the portals and steps around the corner. She lowers the black hood from her head as Armin turns to face her, relief in his expression.

"Angel." Armin lets out a breath, "I thought you might've-"

"Isilya."

"What?" Armin stifles a yawn.

"I told you that if you survived and we saw one another again then I'd tell you my name."

"Isilya." Armin repeats her name, smiling as he sticks his hand out. Isilya laughs at him and clasps his hand in her own, using it to bring him into a hug. He wraps his arms around her in return, a smile on his face as he burrows into her shoulder like he used to.

"You were about to say that you thought I'd died." Isilya mumbles. Armin's face flushes.

"Nobody had heard anything about you for a while after all of those people were sent outside of the walls. And there have been fewer and fewer people talking about you, again, recently, so I..." Armin trails off, not sure what else to say.

"Don't ever doubt me again." Isilya says, stepping back to hold Armin out at arm's length, a smirk on her face. Armin laughs and nods in understanding. Isilya's smirk falls as a serious expression comes to rest on her face. She lowers her arms from Armin's shoulders.

"Armin, I'm proud that you decided to become a cadet," Isilya states, "But I'm sorry that I wasn't able to help your family. I heard that they passed." Isilya stares at the horizon behind Armin, not able to look him in the eyes. She had promised to always help him, but she hadn't been able to do anything for his parents.

"It's not your fault. It's the royal government's fault for their Wall Maria Reclamation Expedition." Armin shakes his head in disappointment and anger as he spits out the words, a cold look in his eyes as he thinks about the culling the government had performed. Isilya furrows her brow.

"What?" Isilya blinks, meeting Armin's confused gaze. "I was outside of the Walls with that group. There were many people, of course, but I never saw your parents." Isilya and Armin stare at one another, many questions floating around in their heads. They remain silent for a while, trying to figure out what could've really happened.

"Go back inside and get some sleep. Tell Mikasa and Eren I said hello and I'm proud of them as well. I'll see you three around." Isilya places a hand on Armin's shoulder and squeezes it, then she walks around him.

Armin moves to walk back into the dorm but then turns to say something else to Isilya.

"When-" He stops talking as he looks around. Isilya is already gone.


Isilya shakes her head as she chuckles. Her legs are propped up on the desk in front of her and there are rows of portals on the wall. She lazily picks at the food on her plate as she stares through one of the portals. On the other side, Eren finishes up another fight with a fellow cadet. Isilya watches the form and strategy of both of them. She can tell that Eren will be near the top of the class when it comes to hand to hand combat. He still has pent up anger that he needs to learn to control but the drive that it has given him has certainly helped his combat skills.

Isilya's eyes move to a second portal, where she can see Mikasa easily taking down a cadet as well. Another laugh leaves Isilya's mouth as a few cadets gawk at Mikasa as she walks away. Unlike Eren, Mikasa has shown that she can control her anger and all of her other emotions. She's excelling in all areas of training, but still needs to work on teamwork. Isilya thinks about how long it took for the girl to warm up to her. It may take a while, but Mikasa could be a great leader one day.

Armin dodges a few punches and kicks. Isilya resists the urge to jump through the third portal and help him. Over the last few years, Armin has become much stronger and no longer needs to be protected from bullies. But he's still not as strong as most of the other cadets. However, his academics are impressive as ever, and Isilya is sure he will be a helpful strategist in the future.

Her plate now empty, Isilya moves her hands through the air to close the portals that showed her the training grounds. She moves her legs from the desk and leans forward, eyes roaming through the remaining portals. Her eyes narrow as she notices a commotion in the Stohess District. She flicks her wrists to close the portals and grabs her cloak, heading out of her base.