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CONFIDENTIAL – MARLEY CONFEDERATED UNION
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS – MARLEY/PARADIS DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC LINE
URGENT MESSAGE FOR: ARMIN ARLERT – MINISTER FOR ELDIAN AFFAIRS
SENDER: HER MAJESTY HISTORIA REISS, QUEEN OF THE KINGDOM OF PARADIS
21 OF NOVEMBER, 858
Hello Armin,
Mikasa told me it was time for me to tell you what has been going on. She is pregnant, and giving birth as I send this message. She asked me to keep the pregnancy completely secret and refused to talk about how this happened.
I don't understand. Mikasa is not the type of person to do something like this. Maybe the event at the ruins has something to do with it?
I'm worried about her. And scared too. She has been more gloomy than usual, she is not happy at all, it's like it's just her body present with her soul already gone. She refuses to talk to anyone, she will talk only to you, and requested me to ask you to come as soon as you can to see her.
I know this is too much to ask, but please, I beg you, come here as fast as you can.
Annie after finishing reading the letter started to pack immediately, meanwhile Armin was sitting trying to process the information, shocked and disturbed.
Annie: What the hell are you doing? SNAP OUT OF IT! We need to go right now!
Armin: Y…Yeah…
After a few minutes Armin and Annie were already on their way to Liberio's Port, having requested an emergency transport to Paradis. As the relations between the nations prospered, the travel arrangements between them were considerably relax, so in under an hour, the boat was already on the way to Paradis.
Armin and Annie did not speak to each other until they were on the boat. Armin was trying to put the pieces together to understand the situation, meanwhile Annie kept thinking about Mikasa, feeling very conflicted and disturbed…
Annie: She… couldn't have done something like that… right? It just doesn't seem like something she would do on purpose…
Armin: Yeah… I don't think this pregnancy is normal…
Annie feels saddened: She must have felt so alone… why you think she only wants to speak to you?
Armin feeling anxious: I… don't know…
As soon as Armin and Annie arrived at Paradis, a motorized vehicle was already waiting for them to take them to Mikasa's estate.
The Ackerman Woods
As the carriage approached Mikasa's cabin, Armin could see that Historia was waiting for them. She was talking to some nurses who were leaving the cabin. The entirety of the estate was under heavy security.
Armin running towards the cabin: Historia! What's happening? Is Mikasa ok?
Historia: She is fine Armin, she has given birth to a baby girl, she is fine too… but… -Historia starts to cry- she is not letting me see her… she asked the nurses to leave when they finished their work… she is in there all alone… and… -Historia starts to cry profusely- she is refusing to nurse her baby…
Armin and Annie are shocked and disturbed by the revelation
Historia crying: Please Armin go inside; you are the only person she wants to talk to… please help her…
Annie approaches Historia to console her. She looks at Armin with a concerned look: Go
Armin is terrified as he enters the cabin and goes to Mikasa's bedroom…
Mikasa is sitting on the bed with a baby in her arms. She looks pale, her face is almost lifeless…
Armin feels extremely anxious: Mikasa…
Mikasa looks at him with an empty expression: Armin…
Armin looks at the baby and feels like his body has sunk into the ground… the little girl is uncannily similar to Eren; she has small birthmarks under her eyes that look lie little streaks, 4 under each eye… they very much resemble titan marks….
Mikasa: It's time… for you to know… what happened that day…
After I touched the surface of the pond… I was somewhere else…
Mikasa finds herself in a familiar place… it's the paths… but the shining coordinate is no longer there… there is nothing in that place… only an endless sand ocean.
There was no one on that place…he was not there…
Mikasa is running in that infinite emptiness, feeling more and more desperate…
Mikasa: Eren! Please… answer me! Her pleas were not answered.
She sees as her surroundings start to change… she sees her parent's cabin… Grisha Yeager's home… the Training Academy… the tent at Marley… her home with Eren… a familiar tree at Shiganshina.
I was… so alone…
Mikasa, now looking like she did when she was a child, without her scarf, is sitting by the tree with her face between her knees… she has tears on her face…
It felt… like years…
Mikasa: I… am sorry… I can't… take this…
I wanted to die…
Mikasa heard something… for the first time in the unlimited time she had spent in that place… she heard a familiar voice… Fight.
His voice… come from within me…
Mikasa now looks like she did when she was at the academy… her scarf had returned… she stood up with tears in her face.
Mikasa: You… were always with me…
Something changed at that moment…
At that moment, Mikasa saw a shining column arise from the ground all the way up the sky… and something new had appear under her feet…
A fruit… a shining golden fruit…
Mikasa picked up the strange fruit… and felt an uncontrollable desire to eat it. She takes a bite of it… and blood starts to pour from it. Her eyes opened up…
I knew then… life… was inside me…
Mikasa wakes up in the woods of Marley… she has cuts in her legs and small crystal shards are all around her… she is covered in a strange fluid…
Armin is petrified looking at Mikasa's baby… she has woken up… her eyes… are green… and are shining.
Armin: She… is the source?! He sits down in a chair in shock… so many thoughts at the same time… meanwhile Mikasa reaches for the drawer next to her bed… she picks something up…
Mikasa: Armin…
Armin looks at her… and feels like the blood in his veins has turned ice cold…
Mikasa: Should I…
Armin recognizes the look in Mikasa's face… he has seen it before… she has the same eyes as Eren had… when they went to Marley… she has a dagger in her hand…
Mikasa: … spare her… from our fate?
