Chapter 26 (Oh? A spar?)
Alright, hello fellow readers, just a quick update about the story. I know there are 2 whole episodes for Grisha and how Dina became a titan but I won't follow that Instead, I will focus on the heroes and the aot protagonists. So I'll skip Eren's nightmare and I'll start from the cells. Anyways, Good Life, Health Full and Thank you all for reading!
Eren screamed and woke up with tears in his eyes. "Where is this? Who.. am I?" Him and Mikasa was in 2 cells and Armin was right outside to guard them.
"Eren, relax! You're in the stockades. You and Mikasa are serving time for insubordination." Eren and Mikasa were in different cells but next to each other.
Both of them had messy hair, that was the only thing that they didn't concerned about. Mikasa approached the cell bars and said. "Were you having a nightmare, Eren?"
"Yeah... I was... Wh-where are the heroes, Armin?" The blond titan shifter answered almost instantly.
"Saitama and Genos are with Hanje, they trying to make Annie confess. Tatsumaki is taking care of with medical attention, Blast is with her too while the other guy that kicked my face is h-" A manly voice cut off Armin and appeared from the shadows.
"Not so many details!" Garou appeared with his hands in his pockets, he were having a bored expression.
"Now, speak. I want to know what is going on too." He replied whilst he scratching his leg with his arm.
"Eren... you said... 'Who am I?'" Mikasa agreed with Armin "You said it. Are you crying, Eren?" Her hair was all the way up.
Eren walk inside his cell and sat down, placing his hand on his head.
"I feel like... I just woke up from the longest dream ever. No... Not a dream... Memories..." Mikasa, Garou and Armin were hearing Eren with moderately widen irises.
"Just now, I was connected to my dad's memories. That titan... It was you... Dina..."
Meanwhile with Saitama and Genos
While Eren was remembering more about the Owl named Kruger and his father Grisha. Saitama and Genos were with Hanje outside of the Walls.
The Military Police brought them Annie full chained, even her mouth was covered.
"Ahh, There's our guest, yes, yes, put her down here." Hanje smiled and blushed in guilt a little bit.
One of the Military Police Members said to her with a furious expression. "Hey! I hope you know what you're doing! She's extremely dangerous!"
"Naaaaaaahhh! It'll be fiiiiine! Am I right Saitama? Heheheh." She smirked, and changed her stare on Saitama who was picking his nose with a boredom expression.
The sun's beams were reflexing from his shiny baldness. Genos step back with the Military Police cause Saitama told him so.
Hanje nodded to Saitama with a wink. "You know what to do." She, Genos and the Police members retreated back on the Wall.
"Hanje!? You're crazy! She will escape!" One of them screamed angry toward her but Hanje cleared her glasses and reply happy.
"Don't be so dramatic, One Punch Man got this!" Saitama was staring at them mumbling atop of the Wall whilst he and Annie were down there and mading eye contact.
"Okay, I'll untie you now." Saitama kneeled and broke Annie's chains with not even trying.
"You fools!" She shouted and bite herself. Saitama got knocked back meters away from the pressure of her transformation but he stand still after a couple of seconds.
The female titan transformed front of Saitama and stare at him with a smile planted on her face. "Ahhh, I'm guessing we are fighti-"
Annie didn't let him finish and stomped on him with her giant foot. She didn't stop slamming her foot again and again until she make sure he was dead for sure.
After some more stomps she flee away. "Hanje! You crazy bitc-" One of the Military Police members was about to say but Hanje shut his mouth by screaming.
"Oh! Oh! Look, now it's the best part!" Annie thought she'd won, little did she know.
Saitama was on top of her right shoulder and he was knocking her nape.
"We're done. Come out now gi-" The Female titan grabbed the bald hero and threw him to the ground.
Saitama gave her a face that could be described with words 'I'm not impressed at all, you're boring as hell.' The hero stood up with only dust and dirt on him and said.
"Ahh crap, you ruined my suit. Now I have to tell Genos to sew it up again for me." No response from Annie, all she did was to harden her giant hand and clench it into a fist.
"Oh? You want more? You don't listen do you?" Saitama prepared his fist with a neutral expression.
'How is he so strong?! He's strength and speed makes no sense!' Annie retorted inside her mind.
They fist clash, the surroundings got brutally damaged from their combat. Even though Saitama wasn't even trying against the Female titan.
Her hardened fist broke entirely like thin ice. She fall down to the ground scared. 'That's not possible... No... NO! It can't be! I have to escaped! I have to run!' She spaced out for a few seconds.
"I'm hungry, let's get this over with so I can go eat some decent food with Sasha okay?" No answer from Annie. She ignored him and ran away from him.
"Nah, I won't lose my launch because you are stubborn." Saitama retorted and jumped on top of her nape.
"Come out! Or I'll take out." The hero replied whilst people had gathered and staring their fight from atop of the Wall.
"Hanje? You shitty eyes! You didn't took my permission about this." Levi walk and came face to face with Hanje, he had a serious expression on.
"Oh, come on Levi! It's Saitama we're talking about! He will bring back Annie you'll see." She defended her point and forced Levi to watch the spar between the hero and the Female titan.
Saitama knock again her nape gently. "Oi, come out now, pretty... uhh? Please?" The Female titan tried to grab Saitama with her other hand but he delivered a normal punch to it got completely shattered.
"Awwww, Sorry for this, nothing personal." Saitama opened her nape wide open and took her out of there. Annie had an utter shock around her face.
"How...?" That's all she could say to him. "I really doesn't understand what you're talking about, I just did what any other person would do if he was in my place. I simply took you out of your nape thingy, from where you was controlling the titan."
Saitama placed her on his shoulder and jumped back atop of the Wall with the others.
Annie didn't believed a single word of the hero, she was just hitting his back in a weak attempt to escape.
"Let me go! Demon!" She screamed. Saitama placed her down and patted her shoulder. "Calm down, now." He replied with a calm tone.
Levi kicked her face and made her lose her senses. "Take this arrogant brat back to her cell, Oi Saitama." The hero shifted his head to Levi.
"What is it?" "Queen Historia wants to see you and Eren." Saitama raised his hand and scratched his armpits in a boredom expression. "Okay."
"Hanje, you coming with me to Eren and the other two brats, Saitama you go see the Queen, I'll show you first."
"Alright, Levi." Hanje changed her expression and answered to him serious.
Saitama followed them, Genos followed his master and the Captain.
Meanwhile in the cells with Eren, Mikasa and Armin
Armin was sitting on a desk and he was writing informations about the titans, Eren was talking to him and Mikasa in a calm expression.
"The Owl said it was called Ymir's Curse. Ymir herself died thirteen years after she acquired her powers." Armin raised his head.
"So I have thirteen years to live. And you have..." Eren answer for him "Eight years... not even that."
"It's not true." Mikasa mumbled from her cell to them. No one responded to her and Eren continued.
"If the bearers of the Nine titan die without passing on their powers, that power awakens within a baby among the Subjects of Ymir. The only explanation is that all Subjects of Ymir must be connected in some unseen way. Some with titan powers spoke about seeing some kind of paths. The blood and bones that form the titan, and sometimes the memories and will, can be transfered along those paths. And all of those paths converge at a single coordinate. That coordinate... is the Founding titan."
Eren stated to his childhood friends and let them speak. "I saw a guy... Back in Wall Maria... Eren... He claims to be from the world that the heroes came... Plus he was having the same voice as you, and very similar face. He's name is Sonic. Can he be a Subject of Ymir as well?"
Mikasa questioned Eren and made him shift his head to the cell bars in order to be heared clearly.
"I highly doubt that Saitama, the other heroes and that Sonic are Subjects of Ymir. Since they are from a different world, they have nothing to do with Ymir or the Coordinate."
"I see" She exclaimed calmly whilst Armin wrote everything.
Levi and Hanje walk in and ordered Armin to unlock Eren and Mikasa's cells.
"Let's go now." Levi stated to them "Where are we going Captain?" Eren asked him worried.
"The Queen herself has requested an audience with you and Saitama. In Trost, Blast and Garou are there with her too.
"Garou is here with us... Wait, where did he go?!" Armin asked himself shocked.
"He probably left and we didn't noticed it." Mikasa said to her blond friend.
Historia with Ymir's letter
Histora had the politely short curved hairstyle again, she were reading a goodbye letter Ymir wrote for her.
'My beloved Historia, as I'm writing this, Reiner is standing over me. He's trying to peep on my love letter to you. He's such a creep. He'll never get a girl to like him. But he did promise to deliver you this letter. He says it's to return the favor for that time I saved him. Sorry for what I did back then. I never thought I would pick them over you. I hope that superhuman Saitama will always protecting and watching you my beloved Historia. I'm going to die very soon. But I don't have any regrets... or so I'd like to say, but to be honest there is one thing that still bothers me:I never did get to marry you. Sincerely, Ymir.' End of the Letter.
Historia touched the letter with her hand and saw memories of Ymir's life, the paths and her sad ending.
"What just happened?" Historia asked herself. "Is something wrong?" Blast extended his hand to the Queen.
"Oh, no. Is this everything?" She questioned Blast who answer back to her "Yeah, but I believe she didn't write anything that could be useful to us."
Jean jointed the conversation and ask "Was there any kind of message that only you would understand like a code?"
Historia respond to the Scout and the Blue cape hero. "I don't know. But I think there probably isn't one. Ymir was such an idiot. A true idiot. She would always try to hide her embarrassment. I still don't understand..." She holded her tears but a knock on the door made her to clean her eyes.
"They're here" Levi stated from the other side of the door. "Come in." Erwin said to him and opened the door. Letting Saitama, Levi, Genos, Hanje, Eren, Mikasa and Armin inside.
"You're Majesty." Everyone bowed, even Saitama a little bit. "C-Cut that out, it's not even official yet." Historia exclaimed and made them to turn their gazes straight up again.
She turned her head to her protector and resumed with a slightly smile on her face. "I miss you my protector, Saitama. You and everyone else here must've been through a lot, haven't you?"
She asked and continued with a cute face. "Meanwhile I've just been sitting inside the Walls, staring out at the southern sky."
Saitama nodded to her and changed his expression into a serious one. "It's what the heroes do, my queen. We will keep fighting our enemies till you and your people are saved from those titans."
"I'm glad to hear that from your mouth protector." Saitama's expression turned back into his goofy one and nodded. "Yeah."
"Should we get started?" Hanje took several papers in her hands.
Sasha was resting on her bed and she were staring at the sky, thinking about Saitama. 'Awwww, we'll do it someday Saitama, my womb wants your seeds so bad!'
In the court
Everyone sat down on their seats, excluding Saitama, Genos, Garou and Blast who were standing behind Historia as her guards.
Darius spoke first.
"Grisha Jeager's memoir, a complete story of the titans, and a summary of life outside the Walls." The three books of Grisha's basement and the photo was at the middle of the table.
Darius continued so everyone could hear the story.
"The only ones who know about the existence of these three books are the people in this room. The efforts of the three heroes, the nine members of the Survey Corps and the sacrifice of Moblit are what won us these books. This meeting in the presence of the Queen will attempt to bring all in attendance up to speed in order to better plan how to move forward."
He shifted his gaze to the Survey Corps regiment members who were at the middle of the court. "Survey Corps Commander, Erwin Smith. "Yes." He stood up and resume.
"Thanks to the heroes and the few brave Scouts. We was able to retake Wall Maria and obtain the power of the Colossal titan. However, we humans inside the Walls are still in a dangerous position. How great it would be if our only enemies were the monsters called titans. But instead, our true enemies are civilized humans, or to be more accurate the whole world."
Erwin continued after a few seconds of silence.
"We are members of a race capable of transforming into titans, called the Subjects of Ymir, and it's said that we could one day rule the world, as we have before. That is why the rest of the world apparently seeks to eradicate the Subjects of Ymir."
Whilst Eren had memories of Kruger, Erwin shifted his head back and stared at him.
"Dr Jeager completed his mission and then passed the Founding titan on to his son Eren. The Founding titan's full power can only be used if its bearer is a descendant of the royal family. However, any royal descendant who inherits the Founding titan will be possessed by the king's will. They become unable to act against the king's wishes. That is likely because of the vow to renounce war, But even so, in the past, Eren has been able to command pure titans in order to escape a dangerous situation. Though Eren is not of royal blood, he may have the potential to use the Founding titan's powers nonetheless."
Saitama was struggling not to sleep and lose his balance, this whole titan backstory was boring him to death. Genos assist him by holding his chest tightly.
"Don't worry sensei, Commander Erwin is almost finished." His disciple whispered toward Saitama.
Suddenly, Eren stood up and grabbed everyone's attention. "That's it!" He shouted.
"AH!? WHO?! WHEN?!" Saitama shouted thanks to Eren's scream. "Oh... Sorry." The hero closed his eyes again and everyone's eyes went on Eren again.
"What's gotten into you?" Erwin asked Eren who was shocked.
"I... Uh... I just.." Darius reply to Eren whilst he was having his hands crossed together.
"Continue, titan of ours." Eren took a glance at Mikasa and then back to Darius and Historia.
"It's nothing. I apologize for interrupting."
"I see." Erwin mumbled and shifted back to the Queen and Darius.
"He seems to be going through a phrase where he thinks it's cool to suddenly shout or talk to himself out of the blue."
"Ah, is that so? How unfortunate. He is at that age."
Eren spaced out and talk inside his mind.
'I didn't tell anyone, even these two, that the titan killed Hannes and my mom was my father's previous wife. After all... If I were to tell them... If I were to touch a titan that carries the blood of the royal family, there's a possibility that I'd be able to use the Founding titan's powers. But it's just that. A possibility. And if I told everybody about it, what would they do to Historia? I hope Saitama and the other heroes won't let something bad happens to her.'
Eren finished and had another flashback with Kruger, telling Grisha to complete his mission, in order to save Armin and Mikasa.
Grisha didn't know those people and ask Kruger who they were, he didn't know either and asked himself, whose memories are they from?