Chapter 68 (Liberio?)
Saitama followed Zeke and the others without saying anything else. Falco was now taking sneaky glances at Saitama and Reiner right and behind him.
'Officer Braun... Four years ago... He took on fill responsibility for the failure on Paradis island, and was stuck in a precarious position, about to have his Armor titan power revoked. However, because of the countless military gains archived thanks to his bravery in risking his life, his loyalty to Marley went undoubted, and there were no more calls to revoke his possession of the power...' Annie walk outside of the train as well.
She had a bored looking face as she reached next of Saitama, Falco continued his stupid thoughts about Reiner and Saitama. 'That's right... This man holds and has demonstrated more loyalty to Marley than any other soldier in the Army, both in the past and present. That's who officer Reiner Braun is." Reiner and Gabi noticed Falco who was looking at them in a weird way. The boy immediately turned his head back forward.
'But then... What was up with him last night? He wants me to save Gabi...? If anyone else overheard that, he'd be in deep water, but he still brought it up with me... ...If... If Mr. Braun is thinking what I'm thinking...' Falco turned his head on his left side again. 'If he also wants to free the Eldians from this war, then.. He might be able to do it.' He shifted his gaze from the other side and looked Saitama.
'Mr. Braun with Mister Saitama, he will be able to finally free the Eldians! That guy is not a devil... He might be actually a her-' Gabi appeared tremendously close to Falco's face and interrupted him from thinking about One Punch Man. "HM?!" Falco frowned. Gabi had a suspiciously expression planted on her face. "What are you scheming? You keep stealing glances back over here, it's annoying. What do you want? I'm gonna report this to the Squad as suspicious rebellious behavior."
Falco was now angry for what Gabi just said. They grabbed everyone's attention. "WHAT?! Do you...! Whose fault is it that-! URGH!" Gabi kept her detective-expression facing Falco. "Whose fault is it?"
Reiner answered to Gabi with a smile, then a random soldier next of them replied too. "Gabi, it's your fault." "My, what a sinful woman you've become, Gabi!" Gabi felt moderately horny by hearing that word again from someone else. She remembered what happened when One Punch Man changed clothes, she hid her excitement and shouted to the man. "WHAT?! How am I SINFUL?! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?! ARGH!"
Falco and Reiner made eye contact, both of them knew something was going on. After some time they finally made it to a gate where parents and friends were waiting to see their beloved soldiers who they had returned alive from the war.
Saitama followed Zeke to meet his parents, Annie finally saw her father again. After all those years. "Annie..." "Father..." He couldn't resist and hug his beloved daughter. "I thought you was dead!" He cried out loud.
"Grandpa! Grandma! I'm home, and this here is a great allie of Marley." Zeke's parents looked at Saitama with desperated faces. "You... Are you?" Zeke calmed his mother down cause they recognised Saitama's bald head and expressionless face. "He is not our enemy, he actually helped up to win the war. Isn't that right, Saitama?" The hero simply nodded to them. He didn't want his disguise to be blown up here from all places.
"Very well then. Thank you, Mr. Saitama. Zeke... You've carried out your duty splendidly..." Zeke placed his hand on Saitama's shoulder and uttered with a smile. "Not yet, I haven't. Me and him have A LOT to do with the demons of Paradis."
Saitama picked his nose in boredom towards Zeke and his parents. "Can you stop fighting with my others... Acquaintances. If you mean Genos and the other guys and girls." Zeke understood Saitama meant Levi and his squad, including the heroes. He kept his smile though and ignored Saitama.
"We will only kill the demons, heh. Come with me Saitama. You surely need rest." The hero truly wanted a deserved nap now, Zeke showed him a room where he could stay for a few days. Saitama layed on the bed and closed his eyes.
Time skip (The battle commences)
After Saitama spend many days with the Marleyans, he finally met one of his old allies. Eren Jeager. One Punch Man was standing behind Falco without showing his face nor saying anything to Eren. Reiner were also there with them inside of a cell. "You deceived me. I was encouraged by your words... And I... Respected you... But you deceived me until now..." Eren was totally different. His hair were long just like his titan form. He also had a bandage on his left eye.
He was very calm, after some suspicious glances he noticed the man in disguise behind Reiner who was sitting on a chair. "Sorry... Falco. I made you help me. But I have something to ask, Reiner." Reiner looked at Eren whilst he was watching Saitama hiding his face. "Huh?" Reiner mumbled.
"Who is that guy? Under that hat." Reiner looked at Saitama and took a breath. "It's over, take your clothes." Reiner tossed a small backpack to Saitama, the hero looked inside of it and saw his hero outfit. "Oh, finally. I got bored wearing those." Eren trembled when he heared the voice, Saitama revealed his identity while he was taking off the disguise to wear his classic red and yellow jumpsuit.
"So this is where you been, Saitama. Why you left us all of a sudden huh?" Eren asked the hero with a serious but also nervous expression. "I only helped those people to end a war they had or something like that." Eren gritted his teeth towards Saitama.
"Tch. You helped them... So you truly betrayed us didn't you?" Saitama shrugged without knowing what Eren was talking about. "I don't understand what you mean, I ain't betraying nobody. If you got some inner issues then you should check them out to a doctor." Eren was certain. For him Saitama was now an enemy as well.
Falco felt a sweat falling from his forehead as he entered their conversation. "That letter... The letter I send?! Where?!" Eren lifted up his pants sleeve to see his foot regrowing with steam coming out of it. "The letter wasn't to my family, but...it got to my friends while an idiot named Saitama didn't had a clue of what he supposed to do here all those days." Falco couldn't believe what Eren just said to them.
Saitama gave zero fucks about the trash he had front of him. "Ahh! Ah. That... No..." Falco fell down on the floor scared. Reiner stood up very frustrated about that, only Saitama was cool with all this, even though he never had a clue of what was going on. "Friends?" Reiner said to Eren.
A voice from outside the prison cell they were in could be heard loud and clear. "In other words, Eren Jeager could potentially have the ability to activate this rumbling. And don't forget the devil who is on his side. Saitama!" A blond guy with blue eyes was talking on a stage full of audience around him.
"While we saw the rise of weapons more powerful than titans in the last war. We will never see a weapon that can prevent the advance of millions of Colossus titans. If this rumbling is activated a single time... There will be nothing left we can do." The blond man stated serious at his people.
Saitama's muscles became visible, he turned into his serious gaze. "I won't let you kill innocents for your idiotic desires." The hero's irises turned a bright red colour as Eren understood what Saitama meant. "Saitama... My old 'Friend...' Things have changed, everyone changes... You don't want this fight with me..." Eren was almost fully healed.
"As this fight have to do with slaughtering families and innocents, I won't allow it to happen." One Punch Man and Eren made a killing eye contact. Saitama wasn't going to let Eren to get the best of everyone there.
As they were staring at each other the blond guy kept talking to the audience, even Gabi, Udo, Colt, and Zofia were there in the crowd. Hearing the man. "All that will be remain for humanity... Is for us to flee in terror of the sound of the inevitable footsteps signaling our end. Before long, these massive creatures will trample us all... Along with our cities, civilizations, and our entire ecosystem. They will literally flatten the ground. They might be even stronger than their master, the devil Saitama."
Gabi hissed at that. She was hiding Saitama's identity from all those countless people around her. Only few knew him. "It will all be too late then. If we want to stop the threat. Now is our only time."
Falco thought about it while Eren was glaring daggers at Saitama. 'That's right. This is the perfect chance. The Founding titan that Marley wants so badly... Has crossed the ocean and is sitting right here...Right now... ...Everything is riding on me, Commander Braun and Saitama.' Eren looked down and broke the silence, Saitama was still serious with clenched hands.
"He's right, as Willy Tybur says, I'm the bad guy. I might destroy the world. But you guys were seen as bad guys to me as well. Even you Saitama, from now on at least. That day... The Wall was broken and my home was ravaged by the titans... My mother was eaten by a titan in front of me... Where you was then? 'Hero.' Why you wasn't there? With your immense strength and speed to stop the titans..."
Saitama's eyes were now covered by shadows. Truly he wasn't in the titan invasion of 845. "No answer huh? Of course... From that day... Why did that have to happen to innocent people? Why did so many people have to be eaten alive...? I didn't understand." Eren changed his gaze at Reiner whilst Saitama and Falco kept hearing him.
"So why, Reiner? Why was my mom eaten by a titan that day?" Reiner remembered his terrible sin, he revealed the truth to Saitama. "Well... Because we destroyed the Wall that day..." Eren asked Reiner calmly, however he was in caution for Saitama.
Reiner spoke back to emo Eren with honesty. "My mission...We would use the chaos to sneak inside the Walls... To see what the king of the Walls would do next..." Eren asked again. "What was that mission?"
"...To retake the Founder. Our goal... Was to save the world..." Eren took that so seriously but he replied anyways. "Oh.. to save the world, huh... If it was to save the world... I guess you didn't have a choice." Reiner felt guilty as he holded his hands together. "I remember what you said... You said you would make it your mission to see us die the most excruciating death possible... That day... That's why you're here, isn't it?" Eren's face turned surprised and scratched his neck.
"Did I say that? Well... Pretend I did not." Reiner and Falco stared Eren tremendously nervous right now. Saitama was ready to go, even though he would hold back in the entire incoming battle. "It's true." Eren stated and resumed.
"I did see everything on the other side of the sea as my enemy. Then I crossed it. Just like you Saitama, I slept under the same roofs as my enemies, and I ate the same food as them... Reiner... I'm the same as you..." Eren and Reiner made eye contact. Poor Reiner didn't know what was coming next. Saitama was ready though.
"Sure, there are people who pissed me off. But there are good people, too." Eren remembered Falco taking care of his Marley badge. "Past the ocean, inside the Walls... We're all the same. But you guys... You were taught that everyone inside the Walls was different from you. That they were demons. That inside those Walls were devils who threatened you Eldians who lived on the continent, along with everyone else." Eren was getting to the point at long last.
"You were still ignorant children... And all of that was beaten into you by ignorant adults. You were just a child. What could you have done to fight back against that? Your environment. Your history. This whole time... It was painful for you facing us and the heroes like Saitama before he betray us, wasn't it? Right, Reiner?" Reiner showed tears whilst he had tightened his teeth. Eren kept going with his long ass sentences.
"I think now... I understand that..." Reiner shouted as he fell on the ground front of Eren. "NO! You are wrong, Eren...! I... That day... When Marcel was eaten... Annie and Bertholdt wanted to abort the mission... They tried to turn back, but... I convinced them not to... And made them continue... Yes... It was partially out of self-preservation... But... I wanted to become A HERO!" Saitama shook his head surprised.
"Hero you say... Eh?" Serious One Punch Man asked Reiner. He nodded to him with his eyes watering. "Indeed, Saitama! That's why before you come in this world... I'm was always acted like everyone's big brother, too. I wanted someone to respect me... That... That WASN'T about the age or my environment... It was MY fault. Your mother was eaten by a titan because of ME!" Reiner closed his eyes and hit his hands on the floor.
"I... can't stand this anymore... Just kill me, please... I want to vanish..." Willy on the stage was encouraging and motivating the people even more. "But... This danger now facing our world... can all be traced back to the existence of Eldians." Gabi and her friends were watching Willy determined. "I... ...Would choose to have never been born, if it was up to me... I've hated my blood. More than anyone else... I wished for the extinction of all Eldians."
Zeke was preparing to transform, it was finally time to begin the war. Willy continued with tears in his eyes. "But. I do not wish to die. Because... I was born into this world." Those words made Eren to widen his eyes, now it was the time to face off.
"We may belong to different nations and races! But I ask any of you who do not wish to die to lend me your strength!" Photographers were taking a lot pictures of Willy. People were cheering, clapping, and crying for him. "Please... I want to ensure our future together! I WANT YOU TO FIGHT WITH ME! AGAINST THE DEVILS ON PARADIS! AND THEIR LEADER! SAITAMA!" Eren had a tiny evil smile towards Reiner.
His foot was now fully healed as he stood up straight. "Stand up, Reiner. I... ...Get it now." Reiner looked up. Eren gave him a hand. "Eren..." Willy was now at the end of his determined speech. "It is true. We still face many issues that keep the militaries of the world from joining hands. But I believe we can band together in the face of this powerful enemy."
Eren mumbled to Reiner, Saitama, and Falco. "I was right, I'm... ...The same as you."
The people were loving Willy for his devotion of defeating the 'demons' together. "We should be able to overcome anything if only we can work as one! As ambassador for the Marleyan government, I, Willy Tybur...!"
Eren ignored Willy's voice and replied to Reiner whilst their hands were holding each other. "I think... We were born this way." "Huh?" Reiner snorted nervous.
"...Wish for world peace!" Willy said serious.
Eren knew what time it was now. "I just keep moving forward." A bright orange lightning covered Eren's hand, he was transforming "Until my enemies are destroyed. In those enemies... You're included... Saitama." Those were the last words Eren uttered to them before he transform.
"AND SO I PROCLAIM ON THIS DAY!" Reiner turned back to Saitama scared with opened mouth. True terror was written on his face. "SAITAMA! TAKE FALCO OUT OF HERE!" The Attack titan burst its way out from the building that was behind the stage. Willy shouted his last phrases before he sees Attack titan. "TO THE ENEMY FORCES OF PARADIS ISLAND! A DECLARATION OF WAR!" He looked above him, it was the last thing he saw.
Eren punched the stage and cut Willy in half like trash. "ROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gabi and everyone freaked out. Suddenly not only Eren but another familiar face show up. A girl stood up with a huge black cannon ontop of Eren's shoulder.
Black*Rock Shooter aimed at the crowd and begun slaughtering everyone, including kids and adults. Eren came out of his nape only to order her. "KILL SAITAMA! HE BETRAYED US!" Mato shook her head back surprised.
"Ah... So be it..." Eren went inside his nape again. He let Kuroi to jump off from his shoulder, then he start punching the crown with no mercy nor regrets. Black*Rock Shooter wasn't showing any pity on the Marleyans either. "...Die..." She mumbled whilst her left eye was blazing blue fire.
"No! Who the hell is that demon?!" People around Gabi and her friends were screaming in agony and despair. "Someone save us!" Gabi couldn't believe what was going on, she ducked down to avoid Black*Rock Shooter's shots. "Who IS THIS BLACK BITCH?! THOSE DEMONS... THEY CAME TO KILL US ALL!" She shouted to her friends tremendously frustrated and afraid.
"If that DEVIL Saitama is on our side... Then HE BETTER HELP US NOW! WE NEED HIM MORE THAN EVER!" Gabi shouted with a furious expression and raised fists.
So yeah, I made a time skip and passed some events in Marley. I went from chapter 94 to 100 cause I didn't want to include Reiner's past in the story, but now the war had begun. Saitama is Eren's enemy from now on. Hope you all enjoy and stay tuned for the next chapter!