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

Hahahaha, I just noticed that this could be end of the 3rd volume of this fanfic. Think about it, Volume 1 would be the first chapter up to the fourth. Volume 2 is the fifth to the eighth chapter and 3 would be the ninth up to this one. Nothing, just a random thought LMAO.


Outside of the HQ, Eren panted slightly as he stood on top of another titan's corpse, managing to finish off this one by slashing through space itself with Yamato to get to its nape and cut through it. This titan was about to get to him earlier, had it not been for the giant footsteps that he easily sensed.

Eren looked down at the katana he had in his hand, taking deep breaths. "It appears that… I am still not trained well enough to use this at the level of how my father did… this sword is draining my energy too much…" He thought to himself, before Yamato disappeared as he looked up at the titans that continued to head straight for him. Compared to his mindless-like state earlier, he appeared to have finally gotten some degree of control over himself as time passed, at the cost of slowly getting closer to exhaustion.

He dodged an incoming 8-meter titan by jumping into the air, before quipping Rebellion. "If I can't use Yamato…" he said, using the weight of his sword to bring himself down in a massive slash that obliterated the titan's neck and killing it. "...then I'll kill you my own way!"

He turned towards the next one, while also taking a glance at the military HQ. Somehow, he wanted to run and check if his friends were okay after all this, but that would mean leading these giant bastards back there and his efforts to keep them away from the HQ would be wasted.

Dodging the titan hand that came to get him, he then used his Devil Bringer to kill the next one, teleporting behind it before crushing its nape with a single punch. He didn't even have time to take a breather after that, because there was already another titan ready to get him but he managed to use Air Trick and teleport to safety.

"Damn it… they just keep on coming." he cursed.


*DUNNN!*

*DUNNN!*

The sounds and ground tremors from outside the HQ were so strong that they could be felt by the people who were inside. Most of the cadets were still fearing for their lives, while some were beginning to rest easy, since there was someone who was fighting the titans for them, although it's unknown if that would last.

They were all waiting inside a small room, with a small group being sent out to look for even the smallest bit of supplies they can use. After all, they couldn't possibly be able to defeat the titans with empty gears.

"It'll be okay." Connie said in an attempt to lessen the fear that some of them were feeling. "Eren's stronger than you guys think… I saw him fight against multiple titans earlier, and… none of them could even inflict a scratch on him. They couldn't even grab him since they're so slow." Upon hearing his words, some of his comrades couldn't help but be intrigued and learn more, while simultaneously feeling somewhat calmer despite their situation. "As long as it's throwing down with the other ones… this building should be safe."

"Err, how much do you three know about Eren?" asked Reiner.

"I told you before, Armin is the only one who knows. You can't count on me to give a good explanation." Connie said, shrugging his shoulders. "And shouldn't we talk about that after we're out of harm's way?"

"Y-You've got a point… safety first…"

All of a sudden, the door to the room sprang open as Jean and his group came in holding a few crates filled with various equipment.

"Found 'em! Military Police Brigade supplies, although covered in dust… let's get to work!" he said.

Upon hearing his words, the other cadets followed through with what they were told before this. Most of them each claimed a rifle and began to loading everything with a few rounds. However, some of them, who were part of the top ten in particular, simply gripped their swords tight to prepare.

"Will buckshot really even do anything…?" Jean asked in confusion, picking up one of the extra rifles before looking at it closely. "I mean, using guns… against titans?"

Most of the eyes in the room fell upon Armin, considering he was the one who came up with the idea of using firearms in his 'plan'. The blonde boy looked down, before sighing deeply. "I think it's a lot better than having nothing… and even with this degree of firepower, it isn't impossible to incapacitate the seven 3-4 meter class titans that are occupying the supply room, and all at the same time."

"Then lay it on us. What's your plan?" Reiner asked as everyone else listened closely to Armin.

"First… we use the lift to lower most of us from the center of the ceiling. If those seven titans are 'normals', a large number of people should be enough to draw them to the center of the room. Next… the people in the lift will fire at the seven titans' faces simultaneously, thus robbing them of their vision. And then…" he looked towards seven particular people in front of him. "The next instant will decide everything. Seven people hiding near the ceiling will swoop down in time with the firing and slash the titans' vital spot. In other words… everything rides on this one attack. All of our lives are at stake."

Mikasa, Reiner, Bertholdt, Connie, Sasha, Jean, and Annie all donned hardened looks.

"The point is for seven people to kill seven titans in one stroke and all at once." Armin continued to explain, before looking down. "The seven people with the most athletic ability probably have the best chance of striking home, so they'll do the job… but, um… I'm sorry they'll have to bear the burden of everyone's lives on their shoulders."

"No problem," Reiner smirked.

"The risks are the same, no matter who does it. If one fails, everyone dies…" said Annie.

Armin scratched the top of his head, looking conflicted. "But… is my plan really our best option…?"

"We've gotta go with it. There isn't time to think of anything else…" Marco added. "Besides, we're all drained of any other possible ideas. So we just need to throw ourselves into this one, heart and soul!"

"Don't be so worried, Armin. I think everything will work out fine in the end." Krista smiled, causing everyone to look at her in confusion. Wasn't she depressed while mourning for Eren earlier? How could she be smiling right now?

"That's my Krista! Marry me when this is over!" Ymir said, pulling the blonde girl for a side-hug as the latter looked at her in confusion.

While Armin had his attention on the two, still looking conflicted, Mikasa put her hand on his shoulder and making him face her. "It'll… It'll be okay… have some confidence in yourself, Armin. Y… You have the ability to… to lead people where they need to go… that saved my life before, and… not to mention Eren's…" she told him in a reassuring tone, but Armin only looked back towards Mikasa in confusion.

"I-It has…? When?" he stuttered.

Just then, one cadet who was currently waiting inside the lift called out to all of them. "The lift is ready! The guns are all loaded as well!" He announced, causing everyone to pick up their rifles and head inside the lift, getting into position to execute the plan.

"You're just not aware of it… but… I'll tell you about it later… Just like how you're going to explain to us… about Eren… okay?" Mikasa told him, standing up and gripping her swords before going with the other six who were assigned to kill the titans in the supply room below them.

"Okay." Armin agreed, picking up his gun before joining the other cadets in the lift.

As they walked down the stairs to the supply room, everything was quiet between all of them, when Connie suddenly spoke up. "But… will we even be able to kill the titans without our vertical maneuvering gear?"

"Sure we can do it! The enemy's only in the 3-4 meter class. That makes their weak spot an easy target for us." Reiner told him.

Jean nodded in agreement. "Yeah… doesn't make a difference how big they are. It's always the back of the neck, below the head."

"Length: 1 meter, width: 10 centimeters!" Sasha exclaimed, remembering one of the most important lessons taught to them during their military training days.

"Or you can stick it up their asses! That's their only other vital spot!" Reiner added, causing Connie to look at him in shock.

"I didn't know that! So there are actually two ways?!"

"I… don't remember anything about that in training…" Sasha said, thinking deeply about what Reiner said if it was true.

"Reiner… those may very well be your last words." Jean groaned, gritting his teeth afterwards.


In the supply room, seven titans were wandering about. All of them looked like they were on the hunt for more humans to feast on, that one of them was biting one of the metal posts as if it was a substitute for a person. Their attention was quickly drawn to the center of the room, however, when the sound of the lift operating rang through the whole place.

The cadets of the 104th were scared, frozen, and nervous all at the same time. They were descending into a room full of titans, with nothing but guns to arm themselves. It's not like their bullets will keep them safe forever too, so they would need to put their faith into this plan.

"It's okay… still the same number of them…" Armin thought, when he saw the titans coming into their view. "We're going through with this!" As soon as he raised his rifle, the other cadets followed suite, ready to take aim and fire.

At the sight of humans, the titans began to head to the center of the room, all seven of them beginning to gather 'round. Most of the cadets were already tempted to pull the trigger out of fear, but Armin quickly took action.

"Calm down! Let them come closer!" He shouted, as the titans began closing in. His arm was resting on the trigger, but he didn't do anything yet. "Not yet! Wait for it!" Although they were slow, the titans' horrifying faces made it look like they were already upon them. "...Ready…" Finally, when they were only about a meter apart from the lift, Armin gritted his teeth and gave the command.

"FIRE!" he shouted, and pulled the trigger along with everyone else. Their aims were on point, successfully incapacitating the monsters and taking away their eyesight, and Armin waited for the seven people to do their part. "We have to avoid fighting them… if we don't want to let even one person die…" Armin thought, just as the seven people from the ceiling jumped down and had their respective targets in their sights.

"...This one strike has to finish it!" All of them thought at the same time.

*SLASH!*

"Got it…!" Mikasa thought as she landed on the ground gracefully, cutting through the nape of the titan behind her just as Armin told her to. "What about everyone else…?!" she turned her gaze towards the other six who were all supposed to take down a titan like her.

Jean, Reiner, Annie, and Bertholdt all performed clean and quick cuts on the titans' napes as all the monsters fell to the floor, dead. Even Sasha was able to cut through the titan that was in her sights, only for her to unknowingly crash into Connie just as he was about to kill his own target. The two crashed to the floor with a titan towering over them.

"Unhhh…" Connie groaned, just as Sasha struggled to get up. As she did so, the titan had turned around to look at them and both cadets immediately fell under the terrifying presence of the gigantic monster.

"Ah…" Sasha's lip trembled in fear. There was no vertical maneuvering gear to help them get out of this. There was no escape for the two of them… not with a titan cornering them like this…

"Sasha and Connie!" Marco shouted, getting the attention of the four other cadets as they looked towards the direction of the last remaining titan in the room. "Hurry! They need backup!"

"U-Um… w-we're… really sorry for… s-sneaking up on… y-you…" Sasha stuttered out of fear, as the titan slowly advanced towards them. Connie was behind her, already backed up against the wall with nowhere to go. Sasha's eyes widened when the titan suddenly fell forward and looked like it was about to lunge at her. "WE'RE REALLY SORRY!" she cried out, diving to the side in a desperate attempt to avoid the titan.

*SLASH!*

Hearing the sound of blades cutting through flesh, Sasha turned her head back and saw Annie standing on top of the titan's corpse, having killed it.

"Sasha… are you hurt? Can you stand?" The brunette turned her head again to see Mikasa in front of her with a concerned look on her face. With teary eyes, Sasha quickly stood up and wrapped Mikasa in a tight hug, greatly surprising the raven-haired girl.

"Mikasa… you guys saved my life! I'm okay thanks to you!" she said, hugging her savior even tighter. Mikasa could only wrap her arms awkwardly around Sasha in return, greatly confusing her since she wasn't even the one who killed that titan.

"Sorry about that…" Connie smiled at Annie embarrassingly, although he was grateful that she saved their lives right there.

"No problem…" she said with her emotionless tone.

"Hey!" Reiner exclaimed, running over towards the blonde girl. "That was too close, Annie… I'm just glad you didn't get injured…"

Realizing that the coast was now clear, Jean looked up at the cadets who were still inside of the lift with a shit-eating grin on his face. "They've all been put down! Now we can focus on stocking up!" he yelled out to all of his comrades as they burst into cheers.

"YEAH!"

Within minutes, the cadets of the 104th flooded the supply room, refilling their gas canisters while also bringing along extra ones for good measure. They also renewed their blades in the case of a titan encounter while they journey to the wall, but right now, one thing was in everyone's minds. And that was to finally evacuate this town.

"There ya go! Bring as much as you can carry!"

"The titans aren't coming in!"

"Eren must be keeping them busy outside!"

While everyone else was hyped in stocking up their supplies, Sasha had a look of remorse on her face as she replaced her empty canisters with fresh ones.

"Nh… I… I… yielded to a titan…" she mumbled out, feeling responsible for what happened earlier. If Annie and the others hadn't come sooner, Connie and her would be dead right. If only she didn't screw up her landing… none of that would've happened. "How can I… look at anyone…?" she asked herself, bringing her hands up to her hand as if she was panicking.

"Hey, it wasn't even you who failed to kill that titan." Connie told her, while also rolling his eyes. "Now let's hit the road before it really is too late!"

"We did it…!"

"We did it! Now we can get outta here!"

"Everybody out, quick!"

As soon as they were done stocking up on supplies, the cadets wasted no time and quickly high-tailed out of the HQ. Nearly all of them headed straight for the inner gate and join the evacuation, but there were some who weren't going to leave just yet.

Perched outside of one of the windows, Mikasa was ready to leave only to remember something important that they were forgetting. The sound of roaring in the distance was enough to convince her to fly to the top of the HQ, surprising Armin, Reiner and Jean who were still inside, supposedly waiting for her to zoom away.

Armin quickly looked out of the window and caught sight of Mikasa flying to the top of the building. "Eh?! Mikasa, where are you going?!" His statement caught Reiner and Jean's attention. Did that mean she wasn't following through with the order to evacuate?

The blonde teen immediately followed his friend to the top of the HQ, where he saw her simply standing there, apparently watching something.

"Mikasa… if we don't get out of here soon…" he tried to say, but Mikasa had already pointed to a certain figure below in the street.

"Eren…"

The sound of his friend's name was enough to get Armin's full attention. Right, he had forgotten about Eren since he was so focused on retaking the supply room from the titans earlier. Now that his mind was slowly coming back to its senses, Armin quickly walked up beside Mikasa where he noticed above a dozen titan corpses all over the streets, which were all starting to vaporize.

Armin widened his eyes at the amount of titans that were obliterated all around, before finally turning his gaze to the nearby building where his friend was holding off at least three 10-meter class titans. "Eren is…" He saw how Eren was struggling to fight them all off at once, mainly using his demonic arm to repel every attempt that the titans made to grab him. "He's being cornered by them…?"

Upon hearing those words, Mikasa was ready to fly down and help kill those titans but Armin grabbed her arm to keep her from going anywhere. "No, don't!" he said, shaking his head to tell her that it's not the right thing to do.

Mikasa tried to argue. Whatever Eren was, he could still die and she didn't want that. She didn't want to go through that pain again. "But…"

"We'd only get in the way! Eren can handle this by himself!" Armin pointed to the titan corpses all over the streets. "See those dead titans? He killed them all by himself. And he's doing it to protect us! Let's not go against what he wants to happen."

"No, I agree with Mikasa!" Reiner said from behind, earning Mikasa and Armin's attention. He was with Annie, Bertholdt, Jean, Sasha and Connie. "If Eren really gets killed, all of this will be over without him explaining what the hell is going on! Let's eliminate the ones who are overwhelming him before getting him out of there!"

Armin shook his head again. "No Reiner, you don't understand. Eren is not —" he was going to try and explain what he understood from Eren's true nature, regarding his arm and his strange abilities but Reiner cut him off fairly quickly.

"Save it, Armin. Even if you explain your side of the story, we still need to learn everything from Eren himself. And we can't do that if Eren's dead." He said in a serious tone, which managed to shut the blonde boy up. He couldn't find an answer to that, knowing that it was true. Even Armin himself wasn't really sure what was going on with Eren, everything that he thought about his friend from after he removed the bandages from his arm, had been his own interpretation.

While Armin was silenced, Jean walked up to Reiner and decided to voice his own opinion.

"Reiner, are you insane?! We're finally able to escape this death trap and now you want to stay and fight titans? You're gonna waste the gas that we worked so hard to get! Let's leave while we have the chance! Eren can take care of himself!"

"But what about the possibility of Eren becoming a valuable asset to us?" Annie spoke up. "If he's capable of killing all these titans around us without a sweat, letting him die here would be a waste and the likes of him may never be replaced."

"...?! An asset, you say?!" Jean was almost taken aback with Annie's words since he never expected those from her. "Is that seriously what you're suggesting when we don't even know what's going on with him?!"

While everyone else was arguing on what course of action they should do, Armin noticed a 10-meter titan passing by in front of Eren with the titans that surrounded him. However, it wasn't just any regular titan. The blonde teen was quick to notice how familiar this titan looked like to him… as if he had already come across it before…

"Ah… hang on… isn't that…" Armin's eyes grew wide as he remembered. "...the abnormal that ate Thomas?!"

"AAAAGGGGHHHH!" Eren's scream was enough to get everyone's complete attention, as all eyes fell upon the white-haired teen.


"That titan… I remember it! I'll kill you a thousand times over!" The Devil Trigger Eren said in his thoughts, and with a scream, he let loose a powerful aura of his demonic energy that pushed back all of the titans that were surrounding him. It also seemed to attract the attention of the abnormal, turning its head towards him.

Eren wasted no time and jumped off the building where he was standing before punching the abnormal straight in the jaw with his demonic arm, unknowingly shocking his friends at the HQ and sending it crashing into the ground face-first, but he wasn't done yet. While the titan was down, Eren jumped on top of it and began unleashing his fury on the monster in the form of relentless punches, as if he was releasing all of his anger into it. By now, the titan was already dead from its nape getting crushed but Eren kept on punching like it was the only thing he knew how to do.

"EREN! BEHIND YOU!"

Hearing that voice was enough for Eren to turn around, where he noticed that the 10-meter class titans he had pushed back earlier were back to their feet and were heading towards him.

Letting out a little growl, the Devil Trigger Eren jumped up high into the air before snatching the titan corpse under him by its nape. With incredible strength, he managed to lift the titan before drawing his arm back as its spectral image appeared. "You bastards should go to hell altogether!" As he said those words, he threw the abnormal's corpse towards the approaching titans as all of them were blown back as it crashed into them.

Eren then landed on the ground and the moment he did, he immediately fell to one knee as he panted heavily in exhaustion. The time he had spent in this state was taking its toll, and Eren felt like he could pass out any second. However, he was still able to look up one more time with his usual grin before as his eyes returned to their emerald color.

"Jack…pot…" he muttered before his Devil Trigger finally deactivated and leaving the white-haired teen in his original form. However, he was too exhausted to even do anything else as he collapsed and fell to the ground.

From the top of the military HQ, words alone can't describe how the cadets felt after watching all of that. From Eren blowing away a trio of titans with a lone scream, to him punching the lights out of an abnormal, to easily destroying said abnormal before throwing it towards the monsters that were ganging up on him earlier. They already had tons of questions lingering in their minds after what they had just witnessed but the one thing that was in common between all of them was their similar confusion towards Eren's right arm. Before all of this, it was under bandages and Eren himself stated it was due to horrible burns that he had sustained. But that couldn't be any more wrong, considering he had lifted up a titan with his right arm alone and using it to kill a titan without any weapon, let alone a maneuvering device.

It was like he was using his bare hands.

Amongst all of them, only Jean was able to find his voice and speak. His words were few, but it was because of his own state of shock.

"What the hell… did we just see…?" he mumbled, staring down below at the carnage that Eren caused because the titans that received the end of that abnormal that was thrown to them had crashed into several separate buildings.

However, it was Mikasa who was able to regain control of her own self as she realized what could happen next. Without hesitation, she quickly flew down to the ground and carried Eren in her arms, before she struggled to zoom back up. Unfortunately, she couldn't handle the combined weight of Eren and her own gear, so she only made it to the second floor of the HQ. Reiner, Jean and the others also flew down to the second floor as all eyes were still kept directly towards Eren.

Mikasa laid him down while supporting his head with her hand as tears brimmed in the corner of her eyes. She wanted to hug him out of happiness that he wasn't dead at all, but now wasn't the right time to be that way, not after what just happened.

Shocking everyone present, Eren began to cough as he slowly opened his eyes. He was still panting heavily as a sign of his exhaustion, but he was still able to see the person carrying him that he couldn't help but smile.

"H…Hey, Mikasa…" he breathed out.

Her eyes widened, and that did it. Those simple words were enough to break through her. Tears flowed from her black orbs as she sobbed into Eren's chest, while he weakly raised his right hand to pat her head softly, and inadvertently giving everyone a good view of his Devil Bringer. Most of them were startled and were even worried that Mikasa would get hurt, but nothing happened.

With Mikasa's head out of the way, Eren was able to see Sasha standing with the others, as tears started forming in her eyes. She was one of the people who were deeply affected by his 'death', only using her cheerfulness and bubbly nature to hide what she felt inside. That was how she had always been. It was a rare sight to see Sasha with a sad look, but if she did, it was mostly about food and problems regarding it. Now… seeing Eren in front of her… alive and well… she didn't know what to feel at all.

"Hey, Sasha." He called out to her, and her eyes widened just like how Mikasa did, before collapsing to her knees.

Eren was alive.

He was really alive.

He wasn't dead.

Sasha sniffled as tears flowed down her cheeks, before covering her face with her hands. She didn't want anybody to see her like this. While she cried her eyes out, Connie knelt down and started patting her on the back in an attempt to comfort her.

Eren sighed deeply as he looked up at the sky, letting his right arm fall to his side, letting himself fall into consciousness. "I think… I think I'm going to rest for a while…" His eyes began to slowly close. "That… took a lot out of me…"

While two of them were crying that Eren wasn't dead and the rest were left dumbfounded at everything that just transpired, Armin walked towards his friend's other side and knelt down, observing his demonic arm slowly.

"What were you hiding all along, Eren…?" Armin muttered, raising Eren's Devil Bringer as his eyes darted from the arm to the white-haired teen himself.


Damn, what a chapter! The cadets have finally reached the supply depot and they are evacuating Trost, but some were left behind as they witnessed Eren unleashing his demonic powers on the titans. Now that he's back to normal, what's gonna happen next? I'm sure you all know since this is the time when Eren, Mikasa, and Armin were cornered by many soldiers after finding out Eren was a titan, but what's gonna happen here? However, before that, everyone knows that we have a little side story that we have to go through. A side story entitled after a certain black-haired midget XD. Stay tuned!

Just to clarify once more, Eren's devil trigger here is the same as Nero's DT in DMC4. He is more adept in using Rebellion since Dante was his teacher. He can use Yamato, but not as efficiently as Vergil. However, while in DT, he is able to tap into his inner demon and be able to use Yamato a lot better only at the cost of his energy getting drained a lot faster.

Also, I think I have found a way to incorporate DMC4 into the story without having to wait for the you-know-what reveal. If I wait until that particular moment, I think it's going to lose hype because well… it doesn't feel threatening to the whole island anymore. But I'm gonna help in planning it out, so if anyone is interested in helping me make the DMC4 arc, please PM me.

Goodbye… and good night! BANG! *too sweet gesture*

-Lance