Just celebrated my birthday yesterday, so this got delayed a bit. Hahaha sorry! XD

Disclaimer: I don't own Attack on Titan, Devil May Cry, or any of its characters…


*continue playing Nero's DMC5 theme "Devil Trigger"*

As soon as he got close enough to the scarecrows, Eren immediately stopped in his tracks and let loose a barrage of bullets towards the incoming demons. He continued firing and eventually to walk closer to one of them, before stopping and using Rebellion to finish it off. He did the same for the two other scarecrows nearby, showing off the results of his training with Dante.

After dealing with them, Eren used his Air Trick to immediately get to another one, sending the scarecrow up into the air where he seemingly defied gravity by keeping the demon suspended there by firing at it with his guns. "WOOHOO!" He cheered, having fun playing with his enemies like this. That ended fairly quickly when two other scarecrows closed in on him, forcing Eren to jump up in the air and finish off the suspended one with his sword. Looking down, he saw the remaining four scarecrows all in a group, and he smirked.

"The weather for today is going to be raining bullets!" He yelled, pulling out Ebony and Ivory and firing before spinning in the air as he fell back down, allowing him to hit all of them at once. Eren landed on one of the scarecrows' heads and landing back down on the ground.

"Come on, is that all you got?!" He taunted, pointing his sword at the scarecrows. All of a sudden, one of them who was sneaking behind the teen, of which it had a yellowish color instead of those blue ones everywhere, jumped up and aimed its blade for Eren's head.

"EREN! BEHIND YOU!" A voice rang out of nowhere, with the voice belonging to none other than Armin.

Eren quickly rolled to the side to avoid it and performed one of Dante's signature moves after, which was the Stinger. "YEEAAAAHHH!" he shouted, catching the scarecrow in his attack before moving his arm back and forth at an almost-impossible as he unleashed the Million Stabs that sent the scarecrow flying towards one of the buildings, still alive but not for long.

"I see you're a tougher one unlike your other shit-face buddies… well, come here!" Eren taunted again, before he used his Devil Bringer to snatch the scarecrow back to him. "Catch this!" He then lifted up the monster with his demonic arm, before slamming it back down on the ground, effectively killing it. Turning, he quickly noticed another scarecrow spinning around with its blade leg sticking out and he jumped up to avoid it, before bringing down Rebellion in a massive slice from above that destroyed the demon.

"I'm getting tired of your faces so I'm just going to end this!" Eren shouted as he snatched one of the remaining scarecrows and did the same thing as he did earlier, lifting it up and slamming the bastard down hard.


While he was busy dealing with the scarecrows, his fellow cadets kept on watching him from the rooftop where they stood. They all had the same look of confusion, shock, and fear in one expression as they looked at Eren. Gone was the fun-loving, playful and smirking prodigy whom they all knew during their military days and got replaced with this… being.

Armin slowly put it together as he watched. So… Eren was like them. He was a demon. And demons exist. They exist just like how the titans do. But, did demons have human bodies? If their real appearance was like those… scarecrows down there, then maybe there's something about Eren that they didn't know about yet. But was he truly like them? He himself warned Eren of that scarecrow earlier out of instinct, since… well… he couldn't just forget over a decade's worth of friendship that he shared with the white-haired teen. But if demons were like the titans, their enemy, then is Eren their enemy? Not really likely, considering he himself had said that he was the "demons' worst nightmare" just earlier… yeah, maybe it wasn't the time to assume the worst.

It was then that Armin realized something. What were they doing here, standing around? Everyone was risking their lives, doing their best to fight the titans, but they were just here watching someone do the work for them? Maybe he was just being a burden all along, then? That he wasn't capable of doing anything helpful?

No… screw the fact that he was a burden. He wasn't going to stand by idly and watch while everybody else does the work for him.

"Guys!" He shouted, getting the attention of everyone else. "Why are we only standing here doing nothing?! Eren may be handling those monsters down there, but the titans are still invading this town! We can't let that happen! Let's move to another street and advance forward from there!"

"Good idea! Maybe we can see a senior officer on the way and ask him to put down that… monster!" Mina said, pointing to Eren with complete fear in her eyes. She couldn't even say his name anymore.

"Snap out of it, Mina!" Armin told her with pleading eyes. "Eren isn't our enemy! Those… demons he's fighting… they are the enemy! They're the enemies along with the titans! And we can't let them win!"

"Armin, are you out of your mind?!" Milieus looked at him in disbelief, before pointing towards Eren in the distance accusingly. "How can you say he's not the enemy?! He's one of them, for fuck's sake! Didn't you even see that fucking arm of his, earlier?!"

Armin tried to reason with them before this would go on any longer. "I did, but —!"

"Then you know he ain't one of us! He's the enemy like them!" He said, before getting up as he felt a surge of determination run through his whole body. Like it was telling him to… put an end to the devil. "And because he's the enemy, I'm gonna put him down like the rest of his kind!" His words appeared to have gotten to Mina and Nak, as they too prepared to fly down and kill Eren, but Armin stopped them with his own self, getting in their way.

"You can't! You have to see the truth before it's too late!" Armin pleaded, but his words didn't reach into his squadmates.

Milieus glared at the blonde. "Get out of the way Armin, or we'll think you're one of those monsters too… and you're helping —!" He was then cut off his words when Armin delivered a right hook straight to his jaw, making him fall back.

Mina and Nak looked at the fallen Milieus in shock, before turning to Armin afterwards, who was breathing heavily as he still had that desperate look on his face. "Listen to me!" he cried out, making sure his voice was loud enough so that his fellow cadets will have no choice but to listen to him. "Eren is NOT our enemy! If he was, then why would he fight with us against the titans?! Why would he spend three years in the military with us if he could've just killed us at any moment?!"

"That's…" Milieus tried to argue while holding his sore jaw, but he wasn't able to think of anything.

"And just look!" Armin moved so that they can have a view of Eren fighting against the scarecrows. "He's fighting against our enemies! If he was one of them, he wouldn't need to do that! He wouldn't fight against his own kind, but he did and he's doing that right now!"

Everything was silent around them after that. Mina and Nak could only stare at Armin after that, unable to come up with anything that could be an answer to the blonde teen. They even turned their attention towards Eren for a few moments, only to see him continuing to eliminate demon after demon. It took a full minute for them to finally respond, each one releasing a deep sigh as they looked down in shame.

"Maybe… Maybe you're right, Armin…" Nak finally spoke out, but Armin stood his ground firmly, thinking that they were trying to get to his head before they would strike. "Eren… Eren could have made a move to kill us… throughout those years when… when we were in the military… but… he never did…"

Armin looked at Nak as he spoke, with Mina getting his attention next since she too began to speak her mind. "I… I… think I get it now too…" she said, taking deep breaths in between her phrases. "Eren… Eren's always been on our side…" she then looked in the distance where the white-haired teen was fighting. "Especially now…"

Nak smiled apologetically at Armin. "Sorry about that, Armin… you'll have to excuse us for how we acted just now, but… well… you can't exactly blame us either for reacting that way." He explained, while scratching the back of his head. "Finding out that Eren was a… demon while we're under attack by titans is not a really fitting scenario to reveal a secret like his."

Armin kept a serious expression for a few more seconds, looking to detect if there were any lies in Nak's words before he finally nodded in understanding.

"Yeah… I'm sorry for how I acted too…" The three turned to Milieus, who supported himself up on his elbows. "I wasn't thinking straight just earlier… maybe I let my fear of those titans affect my mind too much… it clouded my judgement. I guess we'll just have to ask Eren to explain everything later…" He looked at Armin with a grin. "Thanks for that punch, Armin… that was a good wake-up call."

The blonde sighed in relief as he smiled as well, realizing that he managed to successfully convince his squadmates to give Eren a chance.

Milieus took another glance at Eren from afar and slowly came to realize something, a smile slowly forming on his face. "Hey… look at Eren's arm…" he nudged his head to make everyone else turn around to look at the white-haired teen. "Look at him decimating those bastards with it… if he's really on our side, then… the titans won't know what hit them…!"

Armin, Mina, and Nak thought about that possibility and the more they did, the more they liked it. Eren using that weird demon arm to fight the titans? Humanity just may have had its beacon of hope right here!

"And… And those guns too… he's using them like a veteran…! I…Imagine what he can— AGGHHH!" Milieus was cut off from his sentence when he suddenly got taken away by a giant hand, with his scream immediately ringing through the others' ears as they turned around in alarm.

Amazingly, that particular scream also rang in Eren's ears, as he glanced at the rooftop where he had left Armin and the others.

Their eyes widened when a 4-meter titan was on the rooftop with them, having a terrified Mileus in its grasp as it slowly lifted its hand closer to its mouth. The three could only watched in horror as their comrade was going to be eaten before their eyes. Milieus whimpered loudly in fear, unable to do anything to fight back.

"Milieus!" Armin cried out with tears in his eyes, only it was too late. The titan had already gulped down Milieus and it only took a few seconds before it turned its attention to its next meal. Them.

That managed to snap Nak out of his trance as he turned to Mina. "Quick! Let's kill it!" Nak said in desperation, snapping Mina out of her trance as the two prepared themselves for combat. While this was happening, Armin couldn't even move, speak or do anything. He was only frozen in place at the sight of a titan up close and personal, one that could eat him at a moment's glance.

Mina quickly fired her gear and went behind the titan to aim for its nape, only for the monster to reach out to her with its hand, inadvertently pushing her wire away and preventing her from attaching. She was then sent flying away, crashing on the rooftop before continuously rolling down because of its angle.

Nak, meanwhile, had no chance of attacking at all because as soon as he fired his gear towards the back of the titan's neck, it grabbed him and wasted no time at all. As he saw Mina fall from the rooftop, Nak could only scream in terror, with his life flashing before his eyes.

"Why…" Armin thought, confused with his own self. "Why… do I… have to watch my comrades being eaten?" While he was contemplating with what was happening, Nak was already in the titan's mouth as a whole while another titan found Mina's unconscious body after falling from the roof. It wouldn't take a genius to find out what happened when she began opening her eyes slightly.

"Why…" Armin continued to speak to himself, just as the titan before him lifted him up by his shirt before opening its mouth wide to be able to swallow him whole. It had his hand high, directly above its mouth. "...won't my body move…?" Armin looked down at the titan, before it let go of his shirt and causing him to fall.

*SLASH!*

Armin did fall down, but not straight into the mouth of the titan. The blonde quickly looked to the side as soon as he heard of a blade cutting flesh, and he was able to see Eren using his sword to kill the titan by slicing through its nape. How he got here when he was busy fighting earlier wasn't really important in Armin's mind, since he began falling back to the rooftop.

As soon as he heard the scream from that particular rooftop, Eren gritted his teeth and quickly dispatched of the remaining scarecrows around. Damn, these bitches are really a pain in the neck. Shooting the last one dead, Eren quickly made a run for it and climbed up the building using his Air Trick, as he saw Armin about to get eaten by a 4-meter titan. He charged in without hesitation, running towards the back of the titan and jumping up high before slashing through the nape with the Rebellion.

Once he was sure that the titan was disposed of, Eren quickly caught Armin in mid-air as they landed on the rooftop and he immediately set his blonde friend down.

"Are you okay, Armin?" Eren asked, panting slightly as he placed his right arm on Armin's shoulder in concern.

Although the fact that a hideous, demonic-looking arm was on his shoulder, Armin didn't make a move to scream or anything like that. This couldn't compare to how he felt earlier, while a titan was grabbing ahold of him… when he was so close to meeting his end. "I'm… okay… t… thank you… Eren…" he breathed out with the same of shock he had since earlier, not changing his expression at all.

Thinking that Armin was afraid of his arm, Eren quickly pulled away. "Sorry about that. You must be really caught off guard with this, huh?" The white-haired teen asked.

"No… it's… fine…" Armin shook his head to answer him, despite feeling the same as he was earlier. Completely useless.

Eren sighed deeply, knowing that that wasn't true. He was sure that Armin had questions for him, now that he basically revealed himself to the world. Questions about his arm, the sword on his back, and the guns he had on both his sides that replaced the area where his gear was supposed to be. That was when he noticed that it was only just the two of them on the rooftop, without anyone else. He frowned, before remembering that there was a titan here just moments ago and he killed it… but for how long was that bastard here even before he got back?

"Armin… where are the others…?" Eren asked, fear in his tone. He had a feeling on what happened, but from what it seems, he was too afraid to think it was real. It's like he didn't want to.

While still having that same look on his face, the blonde slowly shook his head, which confirmed Eren's fear as he slammed his fist down in frustration. He felt he had led them to their deaths, all because he wasn't fast enough to get to them. His face became deadly serious as a result, as no signs of his easy-going self could be seen before he stood up with his hair shadowing over his eyes.

"Armin… I know you have a lot of questions…" he muttered, before looking into the distance where the titans were. "But with those titans in the way… I can't take a risk like that. Now that the demons have also showed up, I need to make sure if they're all killed. This just isn't my lucky day. I'm going on ahead to fight, you get going and regroup with another squad. I'll answer everything you want to ask me later. But don't die." He took one last glance at Armin before leaving, only for his friend's voice to stop him in his tracks, preventing him from doing so.

"Why…" Despite him saying that he would answer Armin's questions later on, Eren stopped for a moment and listened to his friend. "Why did…" Armin slowly looked up at him, breaking his shocked expression as he had a face that conveyed confusion instead. "Why did you save me…? You're… You're a demon, right…?" he slowly asked.

Eren looked at him for a few seconds before his serious expression broke, and flashed a small smile. "We're going to see the outside world together, right? We can't do that if one of us is missing, Armin." He answered, before finally running off, jumping from rooftop to rooftop.

Armin was left wide-eyed and speechless after hearing what Eren just said. That… That made him remember something from their past… wherein he was showing Eren a book. It wasn't just a regular book, but it was something special. It held different kinds of wonder which the outside world had in store for them, once they finally leave these walls. Eren, at first, didn't like it in fear of being caught by the MPs, but was eventually drawn to various things that Armin mentioned like the "sea", which was a huge body of water filled with salt and more. From then on, they swore to one day explore the outside world and get out of these walls and that memory hasn't left his mind ever since.

In Armin's mind, nobody except Eren had any idea of this dream they shared… not even Mikasa.

The fact that Eren brought it up despite being a demon… and he didn't even deny that second fact…

He finally realized it.

"A demon… fighting… for humanity…" was all that Armin could think about right now.


The battle raged on, and countless titans were approaching the wall from almost every direction. The Garrison members on top of the wall were doing their best to repel them with various cannon shot, but none of them were able to get the job done. Every time they would bring one down with a good aim, it would only heal and get back to walking towards the wall.

"This isn't even doing enough to buy us time!" One of them said in fear, as he kept on firing shot after shot, but wasn't successful. Was it because of his aim? Or perhaps the presence of fear?

"Shut up, moron! If you have time to talk, you have time to raise the firepower!" Another Garrison soldier spoke, pointing to the town that was behind them. "Your wife and daughter are inside this wall, aren't they?!"

"Yeah! I don't wanna let any more titans in the town! But the cannons aren't really…" he looked down in fear, wondering if all their efforts would even pay off if the titans only continued to swarm them in huge numbers.

"We've got no choice! The advance team that was supposed to finish 'em off got decimated!"

"Damn it!" Multiple soldiers all around them all had looks of fear, since the titans just kept on coming without stopping. With every hit they take, they heal and continue in their slow trudge towards the town.

"Goddammit!"

"Just keep firing!"

Unknown to them, Eren Yeager was busy decimating titan after titan that came through the wall, easily getting their attention with his taunting and loud voice. Combining both the ability of his arm to 'snatch' and his Air Trick, he was able to dispose of them with ease and without even getting harmed in the process. He also kept a close eye at his surroundings, trying to scout for any more demons but much to his surprise, none have shown up so far. However, even with this strategy, the titans kept on coming through the massive hole in the wall without stopping which didn't lessen the problem one bit.

Taking a rest from slaying titans, Eren teleported to the top of the nearest rooftop and gritted his teeth. "Damn it! These titans just keep on coming! I could use Yamato to take out many of them at once, but that's not gonna do anything either with that hole in the wall!" Eren looked at the eight-meter high hole and looked down to try and think of a possible solution. "I don't have much experience in using my father's sword too, since Dante mainly trained me in using his sword and guns… but there's got to be a way to seal that hole! Think…!" He thought deeply to himself, before an earlier conversation with Armin sparked in his mind.

"Rock… Rock… that's it…!" He started to remember it now, when Armin mentioned that giant rock back in HQ that could be used to seal the hole, only they didn't know how. "I'll just use that and the titans won't be able to get in!" He raised his right arm and clenched his fist. "I really don't think my arm alone can carry the weight of that rock… but looking back… it's because of this I was able to save my mom in the first place… I'll have to put my faith in this…!"

"Alright, time to head for that rock!" Eren exclaimed, about to leave and search for the giant rock Armin told him about, only to stop when his ears picked up a strange wheezing sound from above and it caused him to look up.

"What the hell is that thing?" The white-haired teen said to himself, seeing an armored being with wings floating up in the sky, while also having a massive lance in its grasp. "Okay, last I heard, titans don't have any wings or can even fly… and they obviously don't have any weapons with those naked bodies they have… which only means…"

The armored being, which was also known as BIANCO ANGELO, then began to descended, navigating through the air as it passed through the buildings of Trost.

"A demon!" Eren pointed out, as he noticed that the armor was flying into the direction of the military HQ, and he immediately chased after it. "Crap! It's headed for everyone near the HQ! I need to kill it quick!" He was lucky that the demon wasn't that fast in flying through the air, allowing him to catch up little by little, but he didn't take any chances. Extending his demonic arm multiple times, he pulled himself through distances across the rooftops in an attempt to stop the Angelo from getting to everyone else.


"—in…!"

"Armin!"

"-!" The blonde teen snapped out of his trance as he was brought back to reality by Connie, who had placed his hands on Armin's shoulders and begun shaking him back and forth to bring him back to his senses.

"Wake up!"

"C-Connie!" Armin exclaimed in surprise at seeing the eighth best cadet in their ranks.

"Are you hurt?!" Connie asked in worry, before he noticed just now that there wasn't a single person around Armin. No soldiers or anything. If they haven't found him sooner, he may have went straight into a titan's stomach and it would be too late. "Hey! Where's your squad?!"

"S-Squad…?" Armin all but muttered in confusion.

"Come on, get a hold of yourself already! Why are all alone?!" Connie then noticed a strange viscous slime on the blonde's uniform, before using his hand to check it for himself. "And you've got slime all over you…!" He threw the substance on his fingers in disgust before turning back to Armin. "What the hell happened?!"

"..." Armin couldn't find an answer to that question for the next few moments, before he struggled to try and remember what exactly happened. "...Ah…" he tried to speak out, only for all of it to come crashing back to him.

Milieus taken right in front of his eyes.

Mina falling from the rooftop.

Nak eaten as he did nothing but watch.

Armin fell to his knees and grasped his hair tightly in his grip. "WAAAH!" He cried out in despair, with tears streaming out of his eyes. Never before had he felt like this. Sure, there were times where he had been the same but never before had he felt so useless… and so… weak.

"Armin…!" Connie screamed out of worry for his friend.

As he was crying over the loss of his comrades, his mind slowly went back to how he was almost eaten by a titan too… until Eren saved him from his death. Until someone… who wasn't even human as he figured out, saved him. Someone… who also happened to be busy fighting demons… saved him before he could become titan food. It did nothing to lessen the grief that Armin felt upon realizing what he did.

"...You… useless bastard…! You… You should've just died too…!" Armin shouted, and it wasn't hard to figure out that he was referring to himself. Connie quickly placed his hands back on Armin's shoulders and rocked him back and forth to snap him out of his state.

"Hey… calm down!" he said, trying his best to calm the blonde cadet down. "Armin, get a hold of yourself! Where is everyone?"

"Oh, just leave it, Connie!" came the voice of a girl who stood at the edge of the rooftop where they were, scouting the area for any nearby titans. "They've all been wiped out except for this guy!" Ymir said in a brash tone, apparently not having any sort of concern for the blonde who was going through a breakdown.

Connie looked up at Ymir and glared. "S-Shut up! Armin didn't say anything about that!" he yelled at her.

"Urgh, look around!" Ymir glanced at him and groaned. "It should be obvious, you idiot! And we don't have any time to pamper him when there are still titans roaming around the district!"

"Then why is Armin the only one who made it?! Answer me!" Connie stood up and demanded an answer from the girl, who merely sneered in response.

"The titans probably thought he was already a corpse." Taking a glance at the blonde teen, she noticed how white he had become in shock, as well as the grief and despair in his eyes. "I'm sorry he encountered multiple titans…" she turned back to surveying the area for their enemies before shrugging her shoulders. "...but rescuing this loser isn't worth the sacrifices of the rest of his squad."

Even though he was already distracted by thoughts of himself being absolutely useless and weak, Armin was still able to hear what Ymir said, and it made him feel lower than he already was. So… because of him… his… squad was… dead…

"Tsk…!" Connie glared hard at her before gritting his teeth. "Hey, you stupid bitch…" he stormed over to her but Ymir looked like she didn't give a shit. "How about I make it so you never say a damn word again?!"

Suddenly, Krista inserted herself between them both with a serious face. "Both of you, stop it!" she scolded, frowning at the two before it turned into a look of remorse. "Everyone is frazzled! All of us are! I mean, suddenly a bunch of our friends are dead… of course we're upset!"

Ymir then pulled the blonde girl into a hug while having her tongue stuck out in a silly expression. "That's my Krista! After this mission, marry me!" she said with a grin, while Krista looked at her in confusion.

"Psh… true…" Connie admitted, though he didn't like it one bit. "She's clowning around even more than usual…" He then looked at Armin. "Anyway, we can't just leave him here…" Connie then knelt down to offer the poor boy a hand. "Can you stand up, Armin?"

As soon as he saw Connie's hand right in front of him, Armin gasped and quickly stood up on his own, turning away from all of them immediately. "I'm sorry I caused problems! I'll meet up with the rear guard!" He yelled before flying away, leaving Connie and the others.

"Armin!" Connie called out for him, but the blonde teen didn't even look back.

One of squadmates grabbed his shoulder. "Let's go, Connie. Orders are to move forward." Although reluctant, Connie eventually sighed and gave up, flying off the rooftop with the others so they can advance to the vanguard.

As Armin flew away, his mind was going nuts. He didn't know if he should be feeling fear that he was leaving his fellow soldiers to themselves, relieved that he was going to be safe from the titans, or grief because he would be the reason why they would all fail.

"This is it for me… there's no way I can hold out… in this hell." He thought, before shaking his head. "No, it's wrong to say that… it hasn't become hell here… I just misunderstood. This world… has always been hell…" His mind went back to how he was almost devoured by a titan earlier, if it weren't Eren swooping in to save him. "The strong eat the weak. It's so easy to understand, that it's almost obliging…"


Connie and his squad were flying through the streets on the way to the vanguard, and they didn't know whether to feel lucky or not that they weren't encountering any more titans so far. They had already lost one of their comrades after dealing with a pesky abnormal earlier, therefore the feeling of fear over the titans was in everyone.

"You seeing any titans yet, Connie?" Ymir asked. She wasn't able to scout the area ahead since she was situated at the back of their formation. Of course, Krista was just beside her so she can keep the cute girl safe.

"No, nothing yet. Now shut your mouth or you and I are going to change positions." Connie responded, a serious note and expression taking over his entire being. He wasn't saying anything, but Ymir has been annoying him ever since they were put in the same squad, and the girl always had the last laugh against him. She annoyed him in more ways than one, and it included how she talked down on Armin earlier.

"Alright, alright, jeez… you need to learn how to lighten, airhead…" she said in a joking manner, but Connie didn't take it as one. If they weren't under attack by the titans right now, he'd approach and giver her a piece of his mind, screw what anyone else says.

"More importantly, there are no titans in sight so far for this street…" one of their squadmates said, assessing the situation. He was traversing beside Connie, allowing him to have a good view of what's to come. "You think the vanguard have sealed the hole already?"

"Are you dumb?! There's been no signal flare yet!" Another one said, shouting at his fellow cadet. "If they really sealed that hole already, everyone would fire signal flares to relay it to everyone else."

"Then that means—?"

"What the heck is that?!" Connie shouted, getting the attention of all his squadmates as they turned to the same direction where he was looking. Up at the sky.

Something… in the distance, maybe… about the size of a human… was flying against their direction and the worst part was, it was directly headed for them indeed. Thinking it was another soldier of the sort, they could only look on in confusion when they saw no face on its head, because only its armor was present. It wasn't even wearing any ODM gear and had literal wings on its back, with a giant sword in its grasp.

"Okay… just what in the hell is that? Is it one of the titans?!"

"I'm starting to think you really are dumb! Since when did those titans start to have wings and a sword on their hand?!"

"This isn't the time to fight amongst ourselves! Whatever that thing is, it's coming for us! That sword is pretty big so it's all or nothing. Be prepared to scatter when I say so!" Ymir said, getting everyone's attention as she spoke.

"Why wait for a signal?! We can just scatter right now!" Connie said in fear, the armor flying directly towards them, and the worst case scenario would be if it aimed for him.

"Because it can change direction if we do that! Stop acting like an idiot for once and listen to what I say!" Ymir yelled at him, while also groaning quite loudly.

"It's already getting close to us fast and you think you can —?!" Before they even knew it, the armor had passed by them. With a gasp, they turned to the side but the winged being wasn't there. Connie was already sighing in relief that it missed and they were safe… but not all of them.

"It got Daniel!" Krista cried out, as everyone else looked behind them. Their fellow cadet whose name was Daniel was impaled on the armor's lance, killed in an instant when they noticed that his face didn't show any sign of emotion anymore and they couldn't help but look on in shock. Before anything else could happen, the armor threw off Daniel's lifeless body and flew back towards the squad.

"Shit! He's on to us! Keep moving!" Connie shouted in fear, as they did their best to outmaneuver the armor. Little did they know that the armor itself had its own thrusters behind it, which allowed it to catch up to their speed easily despite their gears. They kept their eyes glued to the armor behind them, that they didn't even notice that another one was coming in their direction once again. Only Ymir managed to see it, but it was too late for her to warn everyone.

"Everyone, watch out! There's another one in front of us!" she shouted, causing all of them to turn back towards the front, where they came face-to-face with a second Angelo.

"Connie!" Krista cried out when Connie's face immediately met a shield bash from the Angelo, messing up his flight and knocking him to the ground. Ymir scoffed and lifted up her swords to try and fight the armor, but got kicked away and she fell to the ground as well, enough draw back her wires from the nearest building. Krista gasped as the armor's metal hand wrapped around her neck, beginning to struggle for air.

"Let go of her!" Their other squadmate yelled, slashing his sword at the armor only for it to block with its massive lance. He was surprised for a few moments that he didn't even have time to notice that he was already disarmed of his sword as the lance plunged through his chest, killing him immediately.

Krista's eyes widened as she tried to kick the armor repeatedly with her feet, feeling the life slowly fade from her. She had enough time to see that the armor had no face, yet it was breathing. She didn't have enough though, to continue seeing if there was anything else. She was… slowly… losing… unconsciousness.

*BANG! BANG! BANG!*

Three bullets were enough for Eren to get the armor's attention as it slightly let go of Krista's neck. "You have something that doesn't belong to you, bastard." He narrowed his eyes and teleported to the air where he immediately used his demonic arm to steal the armor's lance before impaling it with its own weapon, which caused it to finally let go of Krista as she fell through the air. "Take this!" Eren yelled, driving the lance deeper as he sent the Angelo crashing back to the ground with the strength of his arm. He saw the other Bianco Angelo approaching him, so he threw Rebelllion at it to stop it, incapacitating the armor and holding it in its place.

Looking down, he quickly noticed Krista about to hit the ground, so he used his Air Trick to teleport back down where he caught her perfectly in his arms. Just in time too, since she began to slowly open her eyes once again.

As soon as she noticed the white hair on his head, Krista already had an idea of who was carrying her. "E-Eren…?" she asked weakly, just as she was placed to sit down on the ground where she tried to sit up.

"Hey," Eren waved with his left arm while smiling.

"I… I thought you were with the rear guard…?" she asked, coughing violently to regain air since the armor's grip on her neck was a little too tight, it could've killed her honestly because of her small build too.

"Well, it's boring to stay and watch people move out of this town slowly… I wanted to get out here and have some action for myself." Eren answered, rubbing the back of his head. He made sure to keep his right arm hidden behind him for now, just to save her from getting any nightmares from seeing it.

She smiled for a few seconds before remembering what transpired just a while ago. There were two armors that resembled humans… flying through the air… had massive swords and… killed two of her comrades. She turned her head, where she saw one armor lying down on the ground defeated, impaled with its own lance. "Eren, do you know what are they?" she asked, looking up at the white-haired teen.

"You mean those armors just now?" He asked her and she nodded. "I honestly have no idea, but I swear I'll get to the bottom of it. They may be a whole new kind of demons that just showed up…"

"Demons…?" Krista asked in confusion.

"Oh right, you don't know yet." Eren almost wanted to punch himself for letting that slip. Great, now Krista heard it and most likely, she'll want answers from him. Well, Armin now knew about this anyway… but better be quick. "Alright, I'll explain it quick and get to the important stuff because we're still under attack from the titans. I'll go into detail as much as you want later, but right now, we have to stay focused on our mission." He told her in a serious tone.

Krista found herself slowly nodding.

"Then, listen up. I'm going to explain my—" Then Eren's eyes went wide, stopping his words. Krista already cried out his name, just as he looked down. His own Rebellion was cleanly protruding through his chest, as he spat out a handful of blood. Eren gritted his teeth and slowly turned around, where he saw the armor whom he had thrown his sword to from earlier. "Krista…!" He struggled to speak, using his arm to gesture for her to leave. "Get out of here…!"

The armor lifted up the sword so that it impaled through Eren until it reached its base, before throwing him towards the wall of one of the buildings. With Eren out of the way, the Angelo turned back to Krista, who was scared for dear life. She didn't even have enough time to take notice of that weird-looking arm on Eren because he was thrown away.

Finally getting back up, Connie immediately noticed that Krista was in danger. Ignoring the pain brought by his crash landing, he quickly ran towards Krista to save her. Ducking under the armor's lance, it didn't even have enough time to react as Connie flew away using his gear with Krista in his arms.

As they flew away from danger, Krista kept her gaze back at the street where they were just earlier. "Connie, we have to go back! Eren and Ymir… they need our help! We can't let them to their deaths!" she yelled out, tears flowing out of her eyes.

"I saw Ymir, and she's… fine…! She'll follow us when she gets back up…!" Connie answered despite his wounds. "I saw Eren too, but… he's dead…" he gritted his teeth in rage. Damn, if he had just woken up sooner, he could've saved Eren as well.

"No…" Krista mumbled in grief, feeling horrible over the fact that Eren sacrificed his life to protect her. The same Eren who was also the top of their class, who swore that he would one day go outside of the walls. The same Eren who told her to think of herself instead of others almost all the time.

"Damn those bastards! We can't fight against them and the only thing we can do is run away!" Connie gritted his teeth again, thinking back to the Angelos they had ran into earlier. "Come on, we'll regroup with Jean and the others… hopefully their squad is still doing fine…"

Krista didn't answer, feeling that she should have just been killed by that armor earlier. At least that way, Eren wouldn't have sacrificed himself… oh, how she felt that she was at fault right now…

Back at the street, Ymir finally got up from her downed state earlier. "Gotta follow Connie's direction… Krista is with him and… that little bastard is a pain in the ass…" she said to herself, standing up and glaring at the armor before who had its wings spread out. "Shit, he's gonna fly after them…! I need to hurry and protect Krista…!" she said, flying away on her gear without getting noticed. However, she was able to take notice of how Eren's right arm seemed to be glowing from afar, but she shrugged it off, feeling as if it was nothing important. She did feel bad for Eren having to die, but this wasn't the right time to feel that way.


The Angelo had smoke around him, about to take off and chase after Connie and Krista, only for it to explode completely after a single gunshot.

When the smoke dissipated, out came Eren holding Ivory while in a completely different state. His whole body was emitting a blue aura, with his eyes glowing red as the pistol disappeared from his hand. The Rebellion was still stabbed through his chest, but he took care of that by pulling it out of him completely, and he didn't even flinch! All of his wounds were already gone as he held Rebellion in his left hand, when the Yamato suddenly appeared before he grasped it with his right one. His Devil Bringer glowed brightly in resonance with the katana, and Eren could feel a surge of power within him.

"Not… enough… I need power… more power…!" he said, his voice being completely different from his normal one. He sounded more… demonic and somewhat akin to a real monster. "I need power to protect them all! I need power to destroy my enemies!" He roared out, as a giant spectral demon appeared from behind him that wielded a projection of Yamato. It was his Devil Trigger.

Eren turned his head to the side, where he saw a titan about to reach down to get him, only for him to teleport directly to the titan's face, where he held Rebellion and Yamato tightly in his grasp.

"I swear, I'll slay all of you! Titan or demon, I won't let you live any longer!" Eren shouted, charging forward against the monster with this new power he had awakened.


Phew! And that finally ends this chapter! The truth is out and Armin now knows about his demonic powers, but is missing some details. Will he eventually learn the full story? Of course he will, but that'll have to wait. Bianco Angelos have appeared out of nowhere, but where did they come from exactly? To those who have played DMC4, you know the origin of these armored dudes, but keep the answer to yourselves so you don't spoil anyone.

And lookie here, Eren has his Devil Trigger awakened! And how did that happen? He got stabbed by his own sword! XD. It ain't Devil May Cry if someone isn't stabbed by the Rebellion, lol. Now that his Devil Trigger is awakened, what awaits the battle of Trost?! Will things be any different? Will it be easier for them?! Tune in next chapter!

-Lance