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Happy holidays everyone! Enjoy this chapter!


Three squads ran along the top of the wall along with a certain white-haired demon, keeping their attention on the boulder that was near the gate. They were all equipped with their gears and prepared for combat. The orders were given to them, now it was up to them to execute the operation. The fate of humanity inside the walls rests upon them… especially towards a certain white-haired demon moving with the squads.

"Eren… how do you feel?" asked Ian Dietrich, as he led the small squadron of troops to their intended destination.

"I'm alright… never better actually." Eren answered, before a smile of relief appeared on his face. "It feels like I've gotten something really heavy off my chest…"

"That happens when you finally reveal something you've been hiding for so long, and I have to say, what the Commander said was probably the least I expected from him…" he then turned towards Eren. "But if you're going to plug up that hole, then I don't care what you are… protecting you is my top priority. We're all counting on you!"

"Roger that!" Eren nodded.

"We've almost reached the shortest route to the rock. Looks like there aren't any titans around at the moment… good sign that everyone else is successfully luring them away."

"There are… no demons around either… it's all free for the taking…!" Eren observed the giant boulder from afar, looking out if there were any possible demons around, whether they were scarecrows or something worse. Once he was sure that the coast was clear, Eren had narrowed his eyes in all seriousness. "Ever since those titans appeared… humanity hasn't beaten them, not once… with them always advancing… and humanity always retreating… we've been stripped of all but a sliver of our territory. Now those demons… whom my family spent years eliminating… they're threatening us even further with their presence. But when this operation succeeds… it'll be the first time we've taken our land back!"

"Here!" Ian screamed out, jumping off the wall with the others following closely behind. "Let's go!"

"And in that moment… for the first time…" Eren jumped off the wall after Ian, a grin forming on his face. "We'll triumph over the titans!" Firing his gear, he traversed through the streets towards the rock with everyone else, with Mikasa flying right beside him. Noticing her, he flashed a quick smirk before zooming past all of them so he could reach the rock first. "Compared to what's been taken from humanity… it may be a small thing. But it will mean we've finally managed…" Flying over a building, the boulder finally came into view as Eren reached out for it while still in the air, with its giant ethereal form growing large enough to be able to grasp the whole thing, causing the teen's smirk to turn into a smile. "...an attack on the titans!"

The other soldiers landed on the buildings surrounded the boulder, but only Mikasa was standing on the one that was the nearest to it. "By… human standards… I think… that rock is too heavy… to be lifted up that way…" she thought, watching Eren land on the ground as he tried to carry the boulder with his demonic arm. "But… we're all… counting on Eren…"

"Damn… this was harder than I thought…!" Eren already had sweat running down his face, as he struggled to get the rock off the ground. However, the only thing he managed to do was drag it along the ground for a few centimeters before he stopped, realizing that doing that will take more time. "If this takes any longer, I'll have no choice but to use my other form…! Those titans on the other side of this town won't stay there forever!" he thought, putting more effort in lifting up the rock only to freeze in place when he felt about a dozen familiar presences forming behind him. Turning his head around, he saw a horde of scarecrows hopping on the ground and were all looking at him as though he was the target, and he was.

"CRAP!" he shouted, letting go of the rock as he faced his enemies, quipping Rebellion in the process. He quickly looked back at the buildings where the squads were, and from their expressions alone, he could tell that they were seeing the scarecrows before their very eyes. "The demons are here! I can't lift up the boulder with them in my way!" He made sure to scream loud enough for them to hear before he charged towards the demons with fire in his eyes.


On the other side of the district, many of the soldiers were gathered atop the wall, surveying the titans down below. However, there were some who were using their ODM gear to act as bait for the titans, and let's just say that a few of them don't turn out too well. It was most likely that their total number had already exceeded a hundred, and that was only going to increase further should this operation take longer.

"Somehow, we've managed to get most of the titans into this corner of the town…" said Gustav, briefing the situation to his commander. "...but despite making every effort to avoid engaging them… we lost approximately 20% of our soldiers."

"We didn't lose them." said Pixis as he looked at his subordinate, before he started walking along the wall.

"Sir?"

"The soldiers didn't die of their own volition. They were sent to their deaths by my order. At this moment, our race is on the brink of extinction… To give humanity a chance to survive… I'm willing to become a butcher…"


Upon seeing Eren facing off the demons, a switch flicked inside Mikasa as she quickly jumped off the rooftop and fired her gear to come to the white-haired teen's aid.

"Hey!" Ian shouted, snapping out of his trance when he heard the sound of an ODM gear. "Mikasa, don't! Get away before you get caught in it!"

The sound of gear whizzing through the air was enough for Eren to temporarily turn his head, and he immediately saw Mikasa landing on the ground with her blades drawn, prepared for battle. Eren's eyes widened as he quickly shook his head repeatedly to prevent the girl from going any further.

"Mikasa, get out of here! These things could kill you!" He warned her, blocking one of the scarecrows' blades with his sword but his words only fell on deaf ears.

"I… need to help… Eren… even if I have to risk my life…!" she thought, walking up towards the nearest demon while taking a deep breath, drawing her blades in the process. Of course, these creatures weren't titans, so flying around using the gear in order to find an opening won't be effective. It'll have to be settled through an old way of settling differences.

When one of the scarecrows finally noticed her, it hopped rather quickly towards the girl and spun around so that its blade can get to her. Mikasa narrowed her eyes and stayed in her place for a few moments, and when the scarecrow had stopped spinning around, she quickly moved in and drove her twin swords into the monster's body, causing it to wriggle around and screech before disappearing into a swarm of insects.

Eren along with all of the other soldiers present there saw this, and they widened their eyes upon what they witnessed. Mikasa Ackerman just killed a demon on her own, using only her ODM blades no less.

Not wasting any time, Mikasa advanced further and killed a few more of them, dodging the scarecrows' every attempt to hit her gracefully before moving in for the kill. There were some that jumped up into the air and tried bringing down their blades on her, but the girl simply moved to the side every time and continued with her attacks. Thanks to this, many of the demons that had surrounded Eren turned their attention to her and decreasing the number of them that focused on him.

"It's… working…!" she said, managing to lure away the scarecrows away from Eren and towards her. Of course, this particular fact didn't matter to her and she kept on fighting every demon around her, left and right. However, even someone like her with remarkable combat skills couldn't possibly handle the sheer number of enemies that surrounded her from all sides that she couldn't even replace her blades when she noticed her swords becoming blunt.

"We can't leave her there!" Ian shouted to his comrades, but none of them could move from their places, as though they have seen something as horrifying as the titans, well except for the short white-haired girl who looked conflicted. "Rico!" he called out to her, as she was about to pull out a flare gun.

Mikasa wasn't exactly doing well, only barely managing to avoid the scarecrows as they each spun their blades to attack her as a whole group. She considered using her gear to fly out of there, but that would go against her plan to get the demons away from Eren.

"I… need to hold them off… for as long as I can…!" she struggled to say, forcing her senses to function in all directions to be able to handle the demons advancing upon her. When one had sneaked up behind her, Mikasa cried out in pain as its bladed leg made a cut on her palm, and forcing her to drop one of her swords. Her eyes widened in fear as the scarecrows closing in on her before a massive ethereal fist swept the demons away from her.

Eren quickly reached out for Mikasa the moment the area between them was clear of the demons, pulling her towards him before carrying her to the top of the boulder where he set her down before using her scarf to wrap the little cut on her palm to prevent it from bleeding.

"You okay?" he asked, placing his hand on her shoulder.

"I've… been better…" she said in a low tone, turning her head away from him. Some plan she had. She nearly got herself killed, and she didn't even truly get the demons' attention away from Eren. With her wounded, she wasn't sure that she could be any helpful now.

"Look, I appreciate the help Mikasa…" Eren said in a sympathetic tone, before glancing at the demons that surrounded this giant rock. "But this is way too dangerous for you. Join the others in taking out any titan that comes in our direction, your abilities are more suited for that."

"But… these demons… there are too many of them…" Mikasa turned back to him with a worried look that made Eren sigh.

"I can take them, there's no need for you to worry about me. But I can't do that, when I'm worrying for your safety." He drew Rebellion and prepared to fight the demons again. "Go and deal with the titans like what the squad leader told you to do. I'll deal with these bastards first and carry this giant rock after."

As he said those words, Ian had flown to the rock with them, helping Mikasa get back to her feet before he looked at Eren with a serious expression despite what he felt inside from being near these demons.

"Eren," he began. "Make sure to eliminate every single one of these creatures and carry on with the operation. More titans are getting inside the gate with every minute passing by and our troops won't last forever."

Eren could only nod as both him and Mikasa flew away, but not before the girl giving him one last look of worry before finally leaving. Now that that was out of the way, he turned back to the demons and pointed his sword at them. "Time for round two, you fuckers!" He gave a battle cry and jumped down into the horde of scarecrows with a furious look.

From the top of the building with the other members of the squad, Rico pulled out her flare gun and gritted her teeth at the sight of the demons down below. "The mission's failed!" She fired a red flare into the sky. "I knew it… there was no chance of succeeding in the first place!"

Ian, with Mikasa right beside him, turned one last time at Eren fighting the demons before regrouping with his subordinates. "With the number of those… demons surrounding him, the operation can't proceed as planned. It would take him more time to seal the gate with this!"

"Can he really handle those monsters by himself?" A soldier with a distinct beard whose name was MITABI, commented.

"Squad Leader Ian!"

Alarmed, the aforementioned man immediately turned his head to the one troop who was shouting from a distance.

"Two titans are approaching the front gate! A 10-meter and a 6-meter class!" The man pointed to the direction behind him. "There's one more coming up from behind! And we've got a 12-meter class heading this way!"

Mitabi and Rico quickly walked up towards Ian with serious expressions on their faces, yet if looked upon closely, there was also a hint of desperation in it. "Ian! We're pulling out!" the bearded man spoke. "Having the kid block the gate is the last thing we have to worry about right now!"

"Yeah… it pains me to say it, but we gotta leave him here…" Rico said with remorse.

Upon hearing their pleas to fall back and retreat, Mikasa turned her head to look at them slowly, with both confusion and shock in her face. Why… Why would they say those words? Do they… Do they not care about what happens to Eren if he remains here by himself?

Ian didn't fail to notice this as he too, was taken aback with the course of action his subordinates were suggesting to happen.


"Confirming Alpha Squad's red smoke flare…" Anka said, using a telescope to get a good view of the smoke that originated from the other side of the district. Beside her was Pixis and with them, were the different commanders and leaders of the Garrison, overseeing the nature of how things were going on. "Apparently, a serious problem interfered with the operation."

Daz was sitting just behind them, with his hand covering his face in despair yet again. "Damn…" he mumbled to himself. "Our comrades… died for nothing… was it all a waste…?" Pixis appeared to have heard him as he slightly glanced to the traumatized man, before turning his attention back ahead of him.

"Commander Pixis… we should return them immediately to gate defense." Hannes voiced, a little bit worried for both Mikasa and Eren. Those two were just kids, and they were on the front line battling against monsters that humanity feared above all. It shouldn't be that way, especially when he was supposed to be someone whom they looked up to. "Shall I give the order?"

"No," Pixis shook his head.

"Shall I give the order for Alpha Squad to withdraw?" asked Anka.

"Negative. Keep the titans in the corner of town with our 'lures'. As for the Alpha Squad, the leader is authorized to evacuate should he feels the situation is truly out of hand." He then narrowed his eyes slightly. "Except, they are not only highly skilled. They're the best of the best. And they've been entrusted with the fate of the human race… Giving up so easily would be unacceptable. What we can do to ensure that the slain soldiers didn't die in vain… is keep up the struggle for as long as we're alive."

Armin stood with his fellow cadets, acting as reinforcements and rescue should Alpha Squad succeed in pulling off the plan. All of them of course, took notice of the red smoke flare shooting up into the sky, and they were no fools in order not to understand what that meant.

"The red smoke flare…"

"Did they fail…?" Marco muttered to himself.

"How…?" Armin asked himself. "Eren… Mikasa… what happened…?"

"Huh?" Marco was confused when Armin suddenly prepared his gear before running away from their group, his blonde hair shadowing over his eyes. "Armin?!"


"Hey! What's there to think about?! Just give the order!" Mitabi said, with his voice now having a clear hint of desperation within it. "Ian! It's not your fault! Right from the start, this plan was iffy at best. Everybody knew that. Sure, it was worth a try, but it's obviously not working!" Him and Rico were about to turn away, but not before giving Ian one last look. "All right? We're going to climb up the walls with our squads!"

"You two…" Mikasa mumbled out in a very low tone, with her hair covering her eyes. The other three soldiers actually gulped slightly, afraid that the girl was somehow deeply affected with this and they didn't know how she would react. However, that changed when she looked up as tears formed in the corner of her eyes. "Do you not care about what happens to Eren…? He's out there fighting… fighting for humanity and… this is how soldiers like you act…?" she choked out, pointing towards Eren's direction with her sword before clenching her fists tight. "While he's fighting… you run away…?"

Rico gritted her teeth. It's not really as if she was trying to run away from this. Truth be told, she would rather stay and continue on but there was no guarantee of this plan's success, and she didn't want to lose more of her comrades. So she was undergoing a bit of an internal conflict right now. Meanwhile, Mitabi actually narrowed his eyes, having taken Mikasa's words as an insult to his self-esteem. But just as he was about to take a step forward, Ian raised his arm in front of Mikasa in a protective way.

"Wait… calm down, Mikasa." He turned to the girl, and she looked down and sighed in an attempt to indeed relieve herself of what she felt. With that, Ian snapped his head back towards Rico with a fierce expression on his face. "Rico! Have your squad take out the 12-meter titan in the back! Mitabi's squad and mine will handle the two titans in the front!" he ordered.

Rico's jaw dropped open. "What?!"

"I'm the one who was put in command here! So just shut up and follow orders!" He threw his arm to the side, as if to say he was denying something. "We can't leave Eren here fighting by himself!"

Mikasa had forgotten about her current state and looked towards Ian with wide eyes, the same happening for Rico and Mitabi.

"We're proceeding with the plan, no matter what. We're going to protect Eren, until he finishes off those demons before carrying the rock to the gate." Ian explained in a very serious demeanor. "Since it would be unwise to actually help him deal with those 'scarecrows', we'll just have to wait for him to kill every single one of them before protecting him altogether while he's carrying the rock. Despite of what he is, he represents a precious possibility for humanity. We cannot abandon him here." He turned towards Rico in particular. "Because unlike us, there isn't anybody who can replace him."

"Tch…" Rico scoffed. "Hundreds of people already died for this "precious" monster-human, demon, or whatever you call him… now it would likely lead to more… and you're saying we have to protect him so we can go through it all over again?"

Ian nodded fiercely. "That's right… no matter how many die, we must keep on trying!"

Needless to say, both Mitabi and Rico could only look at their leader in shock, as Ian kept a hardened resolve even with only his look.

"Ian?! Have you lost your mind?!" Rico shouted angrily, glaring at their squad leader.

"Fine! You tell me!" The tall man shouted back, nearly getting into her face in the process. "How is the human race going to beat the titans?!"

"...!" The angry look on her face fell rather quickly, as she didn't expect that question. She had no answer to that, and quite frankly, no one did. All they believed in was that if they continue to fight, they will eventually win against the titans in the end. But is there even a slight chance for that to take place?

"Tell me, Rico! How else will we get through this?! With our humanity intact! Without killing each other! What can we do to overcome the titans' overwhelming strength?! And now we learn all of a sudden that we have a new enemy that further drove us into a corner! If you have a plan to get rid of these titans and demons altogether, then tell me!"

"Of course I have no idea… how to defeat the titans…" the silver-haired woman said, as if she hated the fact that she had no concrete answer. "Nor do I know… if we are even capable of dealing with demons…"

"Exactly… if we knew of a way, it wouldn't have come to this. In other words… this is all that's left for us." He looked towards Eren. "I don't know if he can really do this, either… but we have to give our lives for him… with as much bravery as we can muster!"

Mitabi and Rico looked at Eren as well, before their faces turned into one that showed sorrow.

"Pitiful, isn't it…? That this is the only thing we humans can do… we're probably going to die like insignificant worms… for something we have no guarantee will pay off."

The feeling of the ground shaking was enough to get everyone's attention, like it was a signal for them that they were getting close.

Ian turned back to his two comrades and spoke once more. "So… what will you do? This is the battle we can fight… This is the struggle we can undertake."

Rico had turned her attention back towards Ian, but she remained silent for a few moments before gritting her teeth and walked away from them.

"I can't… go along with that," she muttered.

Ian's eyes widened. This wasn't supposed to happen. If she leaves, they'll be greatly weakened in terms of the squad's overall skill and that was a one-way ticket to their demise. "Rico!" he tried to call out to her.

The woman slowly turned her head back to face her leader. "I'll follow the plan… I think what you're saying is right…" She looked ahead again, a defiant look forming on her face this time. "But while I struggle, I'll teach them how terrible human beings can be. Because I refuse to die a dog's death… Leave the 12-meter class one behind us to my team." she said, before finally flying off.

Ian was shocked at her sudden change in demeanor and while he was left wide-eyed in his place, Mitabi bumped his shoulder with an elbow, snapping the former from his trance-like state.

"Enough talking, Ian…" His words caused Ian to turn to him with a surprised expression. "Let's go! We've got the two titans up ahead to deal with."

As Mitabi flew off, he man was left momentarily speechless from the complete change of demeanor by his two subordinates, but he quickly snapped out of it after remembering there was still a job to be done. "Right!" he exclaimed. Before he could jump off the rooftop though, Mikasa approached him from behind, bowing her head slightly.

"Thank you… Ian…" she muttered, keeping her head down.

Ian turned to her with his serious look. "Mikasa… there's no need to thank me. I got scared stiff earlier when you spoke out of nowhere because I had no idea what you were going to do… but you can move on your own to execute the plan. I think your abilities are better suited to that."

Mikasa snapped her head up all of a sudden, looking serious. "Yes, sir!"

"Protect your boyfriend."

The serious look on her face completely disappeared with those words, as she turned bright red with steam coming out of her ears. Her pupils shrunk and spoke in a shaky voice. "I-I-I'm… w-w-we're… we're not…" she stuttered, but she quickly snapped out of it when she turned her head towards Eren himself.

"He's… Eren's almost… defeated all of them…" she thought, quickly noticing how the number of demons that surrounded the white-haired teen decreased compared to their overwhelming numbers earlier. "If this continues… then the operation… will finally resume… Alright… I'll…I'll go down there and help…" she shook her head to get that particular thought off her mind, before closing her eyes and then taking a deep breath to calm herself. "No… I should… I should stop… Eren told me… he can handle this… if I go down there, then… it will just be like what happened earlier… I'll… be…" As Ian flew off, Mikasa gave one last look at Eren before following her leader closely from behind, with only one thing in mind. "Right now… I'm going to do what I can do."

At the same time, Eren wiped off the sweat off his forehead and rested Rebellion on his shoulder. He finally killed every single one of those scarecrows that were all hopping around here earlier, and there was nothing left to come between him and the giant rock.

"That… took longer than what I anticipated…" he breathed out, glad that all of the scarecrows were finally killed. "But anyway, that takes care of that… now to —" he immediately stopped in his words when he heard the sound of something flying through the air, causing him to look up. His eyes widened slightly when the same armored being that impaled him with his own sword earlier was descending from the sky and landing on the ground before him. But what made the teen grit his teeth in anger was that there were four of these armors all standing in some kind of formation in front of him, with their lances at the ready and their shields raised.

"And then these guys decide to show up… there are four of them too, as if one wasn't bad enough… unbelievable. I'm really starting to believe these things are demons… they can't have just chosen to appear after those scarecrows by coincidence… there must be a reason… but there's only one way to find out…!" He sighed, before pointing Rebellion towards the Bianco Angelos and narrowed his eyes. "So you four want to join in the fun, huh? Well, let's get this party started right now!"

At the same time, Armin had landed on the building that was the nearest to the rock, where he quickly took notice of Eren fighting against four weird armor-like creatures, but this wasn't the right time to be curious about what they were exactly. However, he was pretty sure that these beings were demons and this was most likely the reason why the plan has been delayed for the moment.

"Eren…" he mumbled out. "The operation can't be carried out if this goes on… you need to deal with them fast and get the rock to the gate…!"


With Ian and Mitabi's squad, they were successful in dealing with the two titans near the gate before regrouping at a wide rooftop, where they find that their work was far from done when their leader noticed more of their enemies approaching the location of the giant rock, where Eren was.

"This isn't good! Behind us!" Ian shouted, which caused the other soldiers to turn in the same direction. "A 13-meter class is climbing over a building! It's heading towards Eren!"

"No…!" Mikasa cried out of worry. She can't let this happen. Eren can handle the demons, yes, but… he can't possibly handle both those monsters and the titans at the same time! He'll be overwhelmed or in a worst case scenario, he'll die!

"More titans are coming in through the gate!" Mitabi voiced out, just as a total of four new titans made their way inside the district. "Looks like four 10-meter classes!"

Ian turned towards Mikasa, who was already about to make a run for it towards the 13-meter titan behind them. "Mikasa, take care of the one behind us! Don't let it get near Eren! I'll keep the enemy in check here!" he yelled out to her.

"Roger!" she responded before flying away, heading for the 13-meter class titan as fast as she could. "No matter… how good they are… two squads… can't handle four at once…" she thought, zooming high into the air before using her speed to maneuver back down, heading straight for the titan's nape and killing it. Mikasa landed on top of its head afterwards and just when she thought that was it, she quickly noticed several more titans heading to her direction, or more specifically, Eren's direction. "Wait a minute… why are… why are so many titans heading this way…?! There are hardly any humans around…"

The scene from about an hour ago where Eren was cornered by multiple titans suddenly played inside her mind, making her eyes widen in realization.

"Don't tell me…" she turned to Eren down below. "They're…They're attracted to Eren…?! B-But how?!"


"Eren! What happened to the plan?!" Armin shouted from the rooftop, which was enough for the white-haired teen down below to quickly turn his head, recognizing whose voice it was.

"Armin?" he voiced out, and because he was distracted, he wasn't able to evade a shield bash by one of the armors and knocked him back a few meters away, before barely managing to duck under the lance of another Angelo.

"What's going on here?!" Armin yelled, overlooking the fact that there were four unknown armored creatures that were slowly walking towards his friend. Eren also had his full attention to the blonde teen far away that he didn't notice all of the Angelos had spread out their wings and prepared to charge at him with their massive lances.

"Get out of here, Armin! It's too dangerous! I can handle this!" he shouted, turning back to the demonic armors only to be impaled by one of them through the chest. "Oh, hell no!" Eren grunted in pain before punching the Bianco Angelo away with his right arm and pulled out the lance from his chest, which caused him to cough up some blood afterwards. Although barely, he was still able to avoid the next Angelo that charged towards him by rolling to the side before surprising the demon with a Stinger to its exposed back. However, just when he was going to make another attack, a shield bash from a third Angelo sent him rolling away into the ground.

"A-Are they some kind of demons too?!" Armin spoke out, finally taking notice of the Bianco Angelos that regrouped and slowly advanced towards Eren, who was already back up to his feet and cracking his neck.

"I see you guys have strength in numbers, just like the titans…" he muttered, clenching his fist tight and leapt towards the armored beings. "If that's how it is, then I'll just have to separate all of you from each other!"

One of the Angelos prepared for another shield bash to catch Eren as he was about to land, but the teen was ready for it, destroying the shield with a massive ethereal punch that was also powerful enough to knock back the other demons a few feet. Seeing this opportunity, Eren backflipped in mid-air, throwing Rebellion towards the Angelo, before the sword began to spin on its own and managed to incapacitate the creature.

He landed on the ground afterwards and instead of charging at the vulnerable Angelo, he calmly walked towards it, before quipping Yamato with his Devil Bringer. "I'm still not used to this thing, but since I'm really in a hurry right now, I'll do what I must." He took a deep breath and assumed a battle stance with the katana, before flicking it with his finger and a split second, Eren zoomed past the Angelo with a slashing sound and with the Yamato drawn from its scabbard. The whole area was silent as Eren sheath his sword just as how his father would, when he would face demons in the past.

*CLICK!*

The armored demon behind him exploded into pieces as Rebellion returned to his back and leaving the teen with three monsters left to deal with. He turned to the remaining Angelos with a serious expression on his face.

"I'm done playing games with you," he said in a low tone. His demonic arm glowed slightly as the Angelos prepared to charge towards him once again, lances at the ready.

"Eren… you have to hurry." Armin thought as he looked on at the impending battle, worried that this fight could go either way.


A fallen titan on a rooftop that was seemingly killed earlier by the squad suddenly lunged for one of the soldiers, trapping him in its grasp and making the man scream in fear.

"What the hell? It's still alive?!" Ian exclaimed, his eyes widening in fear.

"Son of a bitch… it got him… it got one of our guys…" said Mitabi from beside Ian who was also taken aback by that titan's sudden movements.

Ian quickly noticed a terrifying presence from below, causing him to cry out to his nearby allies. "There's one more coming from below! Steer clear of it!" Just then, a 5-meter class titan had climbed up the rooftop where they were, and also reached out for them. Fortunately, none of the two were harmed although Mitabi had barely avoided the titan's hand.

"Keep your distance for now!" Mitabi shouted out to his teammates. "Mitabi's squad, form up!"

Just then, Mikasa came running across the rooftop towards the titan's direction with a furious look on her face. "Mikasa, reporting!" she called out, before firing her gear. "I'm joining with Mitabi's squad!"


"EREN!" Armin cried out, watching his friend get overwhelmed with the three remaining Angelos. It was as if after he destroyed one, the rest of them suddenly became more aggressive and didn't give Eren any chance to retaliate, attacking him again and again before he could make a move. The half-demon would do his best to evade the lances, only to be met by continuous shield bashes done by the armors.

Right now, Eren wiped off the blood from the corner of his lips and picked up the katana that was in front of him, before he slowly stood up. "These guys just won't let me make a damn move even once… I'm sure by now that they're demons, but to be as calculating as this? It's like they know what to do to get around my attacks. They aren't anything like the scarecrows… so there must be something behind this…! They can't be smart for nothing!" He thought, avoiding an armor that charged towards him with its lance before using Yamato's Judgement Cut to incapacitate the demon in its place. Quickly sensing a presence behind him, Eren avoided another charging Angelo from behind by jumping into the air where he was unaware of the last one already hovering behind him. Just as he was about to punch the Angelos down below with his demonic arm, the demon from behind him struck his back with its weapon.

As he was sent crashing back to the ground, Yamato disappeared from his hand as the teen clenched his teeth in frustration. "This is going nowhere! I can't find an opening without getting ambushed by the other two…! Damn it!" He slammed his demonic arm into the ground out of anger, before glaring at the Angelos that have already regrouped and were slowly advancing towards him. "While I'm fighting here… more of those titans are coming through the hole… and if I can't plug that up… thousands of people are gonna die and all of our sacrifices will be for nothing!" A few tears rolled down his cheeks as he struggled back to his feet, quipping Rebellion from his back and holding the sword tight in his grasp. "I don't care what these guys are or where they came from… I'm sealing that hole in the wall… even if I have to die trying!"

He was about to make another charge for the demons, if it weren't for the familiar voice that he heard in the distance.

"Eren!" Armin's voice was enough for him to freeze in place and look up at the rooftop where his friend was standing. The young blonde had a look that showed both great desperation and worry as he spoke in a frantic tone. "You have to end this quick! If you here any longer, the titans will kill you! They'll kill all of us! Everything will end here!"

"Damn it Armin, I told you to get out of here already!" Eren shook his head and shouted back in worry as well. "I'll take care of this, one way or another! And I'm plugging that hole no matter what!"

"There's no time, Eren! You have to end this now, or else it's the end for all of humanity!" A few tears had appeared in the corner of Armin's eyes as he continued to speak, before flying down towards the giant rock and standing on top of it. "Right now, Mikasa and the others are doing everything in their power to prevent the titans from getting to you! A lot of people are putting their lives on the line for this and it will all be in vain if we fail!"

Eren frowned and kept his look down on the ground grimly. "Let me worry about that…" he muttered in a quiet tone before sending a scowl in Armin's direction. "But I can't do it if I have to worry about your safety as well. Get out of here now, because I can't save you from any of these guys if one of them decides to go for you while I'm dealing with them. Go now, or I'll have to let whatever percentage of humanity die to save your ass." He turned back to the armors and was about to charge once more only for Armin to speak again.

"Eren…" Although he was already walking away from Armin, the white-haired demon was still able to hear his friend clearly. "Someday… we're going to explore the outside world, aren't we?"

That made Eren suddenly freeze in his tracks, his eyes slowly widening as he took in Armin's words deeply, and realizing the meaning behind them.

"We'll go far, past the wall… to see the burning water… the land of ice… the plains of sand…" Armin looked up into the sky, a sad smile appearing on his face. "It's why… It's the reason why you saved me from those demons, remember? You said… You said that it can't happen if one of us is missing…"

"The… outside world…" Eren muttered, his voice slowly becoming more demonic and his eyes turned red for a brief moment before returning to normal. The half-demon wasn't aware of the remaining Angelos each spread their wings and prepared to lash out at Eren with one final attack altogether, intending to finish him off.

"Eren, answer me…" That was enough for Eren to finally turn around and face Armin with a conflicted expression. Armin also looked down from the sky, turning to his friend with the same look on his face. "You always said that hell was waiting for us outside the walls… so why did you… ever want to go to the outside world?"

Eren couldn't say anything afterwards, before various memories filled his mind that were all connected to that particular dream of his. He first thought about the book that Armin showed to him, which first sparked the idea to him.

"Why…?"

Then he thought about Dante, his uncle through his father, whose words about the outside world only became fuel to his dream and further encouraged him to keep moving forward.

"Well, that's…"

The trio of Bianco Angelos took off from their place and flew towards Eren with great speed thanks to the thrusters on their backs.

"That's obvious, isn't it…?"

The armored demons were all but upon Eren as they thrusted out their lances towards him, before it seemed like time had begun to slow down for the half-demon, so he was still unaware of the Angelos that were just behind him. Those memories in his mind made him clench his fists and look down as he smiled in a sarcastic manner.

"It's because…"

His eyes glowed red once more, and this time they didn't turn back into their original green hue. His body also began to emit a blue smoky aura, before looking up at Armin with determination burning in every fibre of his being.

*BOOM!*

Eren's Devil Trigger activated afterwards, creating a small explosion that was powerful enough to knock back the three Angelos behind him as the giant ethereal demon appeared behind the teen when the smoke cleared, speaking in a demonic voice that resonated with his own.

"...I was born into this world!"


Well that ends this chapter! I really apologize if I took too long, but I had to finish my remaining school days, and my dad also returned from Qatar just last week. So, I've been spending time with him and my grandparents lately and it's gonna be that way until he leaves again. Anyway, we have finally reached the last part of the Trost arc, and I'm pretty sure all of you know where this will lead to. Are you all excited for Erwin and Levi finally meeting Nero? Me too! But first, we'll have to wrap things up with this arc so stay tuned for the conclusion next chapter!

So now I have come up with a plotline for DMC4 and DMC5, with my own twist of course. Now I won't say anything that will reveal much about them, but do keep these things in mind: (Slight spoilers ahead!)

1. DMC4 will be taking place after the Female Titan arc INSIDE the walls. There will be no Fortuna Island or anything like that.

2. DMC4 will be focusing on one girl of the harem, which is Annie, and give her relationship with Eren a lot of development. I still have plans for Historia, especially in the Uprising arc because I have some BIG twists waiting there. For the other girls, just wait and see.

3. DMC5 will grant Eren the Sin DT and his own sword named after him. Hey, Dante's dead here, so somebody's gotta take up that opportunity.

4. DMC5 is taking place after the RTS arc, three years after it to be exact. A lot of mysteries are waiting in this arc, especially my own twist about the REAL history of the Eldians and why they are referred to as 'devils'.

Got that? They didn't reveal much, right? I sure hope I got your attention now with those things… hahahahahaha.

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

-Lance