Ever since that speech of which Cecelia made by heart, the cadets that once lived in fear started to train just as hard as the experienced cadets. One cadet in particular spoke when walking up to her: "So? You're Ryu Miyamoto's daughter, huh? You sure have the right words to say. But can you back them up?" Those words came from Annie Leonhart that Alexandra would accompany with. Annie is a young woman of considerably short height with a small yet very muscular build and physique. She has moderately short blonde hair that is often tied at the back with her right fringe mainly draping over the right side of her face. She tends to push it to the side on occasion possibly for better visibility. Currently she wears it down and it falls slightly below her neck. She has an oval-shaped face, blue eyes, a Roman nose, and pale complexion. Her hair is particularly pale and reaches down the nape of her neck when it's untied. Her eyes, although of considerable size and proportion, often have a sullen vibe to their appearance. Annie's casual attire mainly consists of a hooded sweatshirt underneath a jacket accompanied by dark gray pants. She is often seen in the Training Corps uniform and then the Military Police Brigade uniform after graduation. Cecelia could only guess that Annie is subtly asking her to spar against her in this training in the means of entertaining her to say the least. She nodded her head and replied, "As you wish." Annie takes in her unique fighting style that has to do with a strong focus on minimizing the advantages of larger, stronger opponents through kicks, throws, and holds. As for Cecelia, this is when she takes her position of which Annie has no idea of. The front leg and the forward foot are turned in approximately forty-five degrees. And her toes of the front foot are positioned roughly in line with the toes of the rear foot as shown below: mainly her right foot in the front and her left foot at the back. Cecelia rushed in forward to thrust her palms out, but Annie pulled back a little and tried to do for the low kick to knock her opponent off the footing. But that's when Cecelia pushed her weight onto her hands and performed the Cartwheel Kick across Annie's face. Standing on her hands, she rapidly twirled her legs like helicopter blades to Annie's face repeatedly without stopping: "Spinning Bird Kick!" Annie grunted in pain as she then got knocked down on her butt to the ground as Cecelia did a sweeping kick similar to a break dance before twirling to land back on her feet in position.
Annie looked up and said as she got up on her feet: "Where did you learn how to fight like that?" Cecelia answered: "A friend of mine from another country taught me Kung Fu...a Chinese martial arts at its finest in one of many forms." Annie nodded but didn't look 100% impressed despite that it did slightly peak her interest. She said she takes a look around the training ground: "It's pointless you see. This damn son of a bitch of a system wants us to play its game. Don't be a pawn of it." Cecelia said as she blocked an elbow strike on the side from Annie: "Sometimes, you got to play the game to even uphold what you are fighting for! And I'm doing just that because I have many I swore to protect!" As soon as she pushed Annie back, she spun for the backwards Crescent Kick with her right leg as it strikes across Annie's face. That's when Cecelia began to execute the barrage of kicks in the mix of three martial arts styles: Xingyi, Cai Li Fo in the means to disarm Annie multiple times, and Dragon Baguazhang. Annie threw in for the punch after dodging a kick, but Cecelia landed on the fist and balanced on her hands to make an encircle by spinning her lower torso and legs being closed together to send Annie backwards to skid across the grounds before landing back on her feet. Alexandra and Abigail hurried over after they saw everything. It seems as if Cecelia is the most skilled female cadet thus far as even Mikasa herself couldn't do those full feats without losing balance. Eren ran up to Cecelia and asked: "You said that you learned it from a friend in another country. Do you mean that you traveled here across the sea like in the books that Armin would always read?" Cecelia answered as Alexandra checked up on Annie: "You can say that, Eren. There are a lot of things that you don't know about." He said to her as he could only guess: "It's your magic, isn't it? Abigail told me of what had happened yesterday. You seemed to have this power to reform the Titans into human beings. But why saving them when you should focus on humanity?" She turned to look into his eyes and then looking out as if trying to find someone: "The truth of the matter is this. Eren...those Titans that you and the others have been fighting against a long time ago are actually human beings like us. It's hard to believe and I can understand that. But It's true because a friend of mine named Merlin did her research and it's a 100% evident that those creatures are humans all this time." Then, she said to him with a saddened yet determined look in her eyes: "Father has written a letter to Captain Levi about it, but it was never mailed here because he and Mother were killed before he could do that." During this time in training, Levi was in his office. He noticed a unknown envelope and noticed a seal that's designed like a dragon. He seemed to recognize it and opened it up. It is written in the handwriting belonging to Cecelia's father as it says this:
"Levi...if you are reading this, that means neither I or Sayuri are alive. There are some things that you must know...things that I have tried to tell you but have met my untimely death. First of all, I have recently found out that these Titans even you would slay every day are actually human beings. More than several tests were confirmed of that theory. I could only believe that my only daughter have shown you her means of magic. What I have ordered her not to tell you is that she's the Keyblade Master of my wife's Redemption Keyblade that saves many lives. And what could be one of my well-hidden secrets is that the Miyamoto family is of royal blood. This means that my daughter Cecelia is the next legitimate heir to the throne to rule every Wall and District. I beg of you to protect her at all cost. Please keep her safe. I'm sorry my friend...
Levi couldn't believe of what he had just read in that letter. Being told that magic is real is one thing because she have already proven it. But to be told that the Titans are human beings like everyone else, this internally terrifies him because he never would have thought that he would slaughter down mortal beings without his knowledge. He puts the letter in his jacket's inner pocket before heading out the door. The Expedition is about to start soon and there have been reports of a Female Titan from somewhere. This will count as the 57th Expedition despite that it'll be the first for Cecelia, Rika, Axel and Erica. As the gates opened and the scouts began to go into formation, there stood the rumored Female Titan among with the group of Titans alongside her. As the few other Titans made a split in different directions, this Female Titan rushed in forward at full speed. But just as "she" was about to strike, a huge weapon was swung out of nowhere and send "her" flying by several feet at ease in a way. That's when Cecelia looked up and her eyes widened in shock and sudden joy: "...Diane?" Diane is the Serpent's Sin of Envy of this group known as the Seven Deadly Sins. She is a member of the Giant Clan and is thus much larger than ordinary people, including her fellow Deadly Sins comrades. Her Sacred Treasure of a powerful weapon is known as the War Hammer called Gideon. She uses in conjunction with her inherited power from birth called Creation. As a female giant, Diane is several times larger than an ordinary human being due to standing evenly in thirty feet currently. She is a fair maiden and would be described as "lovely and beautiful" with purple eyes and medium length brown hair which is tied up into large twin tails. She has a well-endowed and curvaceous body. Similar to most of the other Seven Deadly Sins that Cecelia have met and bonded with in the past, her facial appearance is relatively childlike and has shown little change over the years. Her symbol of which is of the Serpent is located on her left outer thigh. The Sacred Treasure Gideon is a gigantic war hammer designed for a giant. It is as tall as Diane with its head being double-sided with one side being a typical hammer and the other being a war pick. Gideon also includes a pommel on its other end. Sasha Braus cried out in a fright: "W-What is that?! Another Titan!?" Cecelia stated with even Abigail and Alexandra: "It's okay! This is Diane! She's not a Titan but another friend of mine!" Seeing more of these Titans rushing in quite a line, Diane slammed the Gideon into the ground of which impacted and raised a large number of jagged rocks: "Rush Rock!" She then controlled these rocks to be launched in rapid speed at the large amount of the Titans that were about to ambush and devour the unexpected cadets. The Female Titan has no choice but to retreat into what would be at Eren's direction.
Armin said in shock and worry: "No, no, no! That's the direction where Eren is at with the others...!" Diane said to Cecelia before she starts ton the pursue: "King and Gowther are over there. We decided to split as soon as Merlin filled us in of what's going on. Follow me!" Cecelia kicked a bit on the side for her black stallion to motion forward on the run: "Hyah!" In a rather large forest, Levi and a few of his cadets such as Petra and Eld have Eren accompanied them as they're being chased by the Female Titan. Just as the Female Titan got rapidly close, Eren looks behind to see something moving faster than a blink of an eye attacking the foe in all directions. Levi noticed it as well and ordered the cadets to use their gears to retreat into the trees to hide. What was attacking the enemy is a long and broad spear with two out-turned lugs at the base of the head that forms a guard similar to that of a boar spear. The one who is responsible for this weapon to be used is King the Grizzly's Sin of Sloth. King's fairy form resembles a young boy with short brown hair, a high forehead, thin eyebrows, and brownish-orange eyes. He wears a long orange and an aqua sweatshirt with a hood and navy blue sleeves, quarter-length navy blue pants, and short boots with large buttons matching his hoodie. He also carries a green leopard pattern pillow which is actually a transformation of his spear Chastiefol. Despite being a fairy, he has yet to grow visible wings. However, his magic is not to be underestimated as he is known as the Fairy King Harlequin. No one in this world knows who he is, but this strangely puts Levi's mind at ease because King just might be yet another of Cecelia's friends. Using his inherit power called Disaster, he seemed to have control over the nature: from rapidly growing the vines on the trees around the Female Titan to capture "her" to hardening of which any sort of movement can cut her skin and bone. Levi decides to confront the stranger as he stated: "Who are you? You'r certainly not from around here." The fairy king turned to the captain and answered: "No, I'm not. My name is King and we both have a friend in common. I also have a half-sister named Rika." Levi managed to put two and two together and responded: "I see. So I was right. You are another friend of Cecelia with magic. As if things couldn't get any crazier." He said it like that because he still finds it hard to believe that magic actually exists. Gowther the Goat's Sin of Lust along with the newest Seven Deadly Sins member named Anastasia the Peacock's Sin of Remorse both led the way for Erwin and his other cadets after explaining of who they are and of their common bond with Cecelia.
Anastasia is a young woman in the age of eighteen in appearance. She has an hourglass figure of a goddess in similar to Cecelia with her chestnut-brown hair and a pair of eyes of a rare husky blue color. In her normal form as halves of both a goddess and a demon, she's always on the run from both clans because of how she is. Despite looking as if she's eighteen, her actual age is of 2900 years. She was just a young child when the time of the Holy War was around three thousand years ago. Her Sacred Treasure is a Bo Staff that can transform into any weapon she chooses on the battlefield. Gowther starts to think as soon as he sees this Female Titan and turned to Erwin before speaking: "I can offer to read into this creature's memories. That way, even you would know who this culprit is." Axel chuckled and said, "No way. You can do that? Well, that would give us the time we need to know who this Female Titan is." Erica nodded in agreement and Erwin looked at Levi who finished talking to King at the moment. Levi seemed to have heard what Gowther was saying and he said when he's standing on the head of the Female Titan: "You know? There are a lot of shit that I don't know about. But so far, it seems as if these strangers with magic have something that has me thinking back on my previous decision. If I were to have magic of my own, I would like to cut off the hands and legs of that person inside you. What do you think of that?" Suddenly, the Female Titan lets out a loud screech of which Cecelia, Diane, Alexandra, Abigail, and the other cadets like Armin and Reiner with Reiner, Bertholdt, Mikasa, and Sasha can hear before entering the forest. Cecelia said as even she pushes her horse forward: "Diane! Go on ahead! That might be the Female Titan up ahead!" Diane nodded and ran as fast as she could through the trees. On the other side of the forest, Miche said to Erwin: "Sir! I can smell the Titans coming this way in every direction at full speed...!" Erwin calls in for the cadets to form in to push the Abnormal Titans back, but everyone was in shock when those Titans completely ignored them! One of the soldiers called out: "Three Titans have broken through! Captain Levi!" Levi grunted in annoyance as he stomped on the head of the Female Titan: Hey! What did you do?! Call in some friends, didn't you?"
Halfway running, Diane said as she could see a dozen if not more of the Abnormal Titans running towards the center: "I won't be able to make it in time!" She sets forth the previous attack from before and the whole ground shakes even the extremely tall trees of the forest. Gunther wondered in shock: "What the Hell was that?!" Diane called out as she pursued forward: "Rush Rock!" The large amount of jagged rocks rapidly launched far and wide to cover the grounds. Erwin and the others watched in shock as each of those jagged rocks pierce either through the chests or the heads of the Abnormal Titan as they all went down three at once in max. Miche's sharp sense of smell picked up an unusual yet pleasant scent as he said: "This one doesn't smell like any Titan that I would know or encounter." He's right in some sense as Diane was running to the scene with the Gideon in her hold. Erica was about to attack out of defense by striking first but stopped as King flew in forward: "N-No! It's okay! This is Diane! She's Cecelia's friend too!" Levi used his gear to land at a nearby tree so he'll be in the same level as where Diane is standing as she talking to King. Then, he asked her: "Just how many of you and your friends are Cecelia's friends?" He's being rather blunt about this when asking the question. He's not normally approachable in the eyes of the public. But if he wants to trust any outsiders, he hopes to know at least one thing: if Cecelia knows that person personally and how. Diane answered: "Well! There are ten of us that are her friends, sir." Levi is a little surprised that this Giant who is as tall as most of the common Titans is another dear friend to Cecelia. Gowther spoke up in a matter-of-fact kind of way as he tipped his glasses a bit: "There's no one inside the Female Titan's body." This caught even Erwin's attention and Diane carried Levi in her hand towards the body of the enemy. As it turns out, Gowther was right because the nape of the neck was slashed open despite the hands seemingly covering it. Anastasia said in confusion, "But how can that be? That thing didn't even move one bit." Gowther said when looking at his friend of a half-goddess and half-demon: "This culprit has likely slipped away when Diane took down the Abnormal Titans. But I don't that we should be worried. The captain and Ban are at the east while Merlin and Escanor are at the west of this area." Erwin called out an order: "Retreat in formation back to Wall Maria!" Levi looked around and saw Alexandra and Abigail rejoining with the rest. But as soon as he noticed that Cecelia isn't among the group, he frowned a bit and asked Alexandra when joining the group: "Hey! Where is Cecelia? I thought I told you before not to let her out of your sight." Alexandra responded to her older brother: "She have left with a young man with blond hair and green eyes and a tall man with pale blue spiky hair and red eyes. She said that they are two of her other friends that would accompany Diane." Here is what happened back then:
Earlier when Diane pursued forward to where the Female Titan had let out "her" piercing scream, Abigail looked onto the side and was about to use her own Gear when a huge Abnormal Titan was about to grab her. But that's when there were "flashes of light" as if blades are cutting up something nearby. The entire arm of that Abnormal Titan was cut into several big pieces from the tips of the fingers all the way up to its shoulder. A voice of a man spoke from one of the huge branches: "Eyes open there. I might not be able to protect you all the time." This man is very tall and muscular man with tan skin and possesses a set of well-developed abdominal muscles and usually has a slouch. He has short and spiky pale blue hair and thin black eyebrows with scarlet-red eyes. On the left side of his jaw and extending down to his neck, he has quite a large scar. He is shown wearing a red leather jacket and pants with metal studs sewn into both alongside shoes of a similar yet darker color. in his hold, he has a Sacred Treasure of a weapon called the Courechouse that's designed specifically as an ornate four section-staff with the ends being spikes. Cecelia called out with a smile on her face: "Ban! You're here too? It's good to see you again." Abigail rode alongside her and asked, "umm...Cecelia? Do you know this guy?" Cecelia responded when turning to her and Alexandra: "Indeed I do. This is Ban the Fox's Sin of Greed. He was like my mentor in combat when my parents have passed away but mostly like a loyal comrade and friend to me." The Abnormal Titan roared as its eyes are directed right at Ban before charging forward. Ban wasted no time on using this ability called the Banishing Kill under his inherit power called Snatch. The Banishing Kill is a technique that allows him to pull himself over a distance, delivering a near instantaneous and fatal slash to his opponent as he is propelled across from this Abnormal Titan. This allowed him to slice its head completely off before landing on one of the other tree to stand alongside his friend known as Meliodas. Despite having the appearance of a child, Meliodas is much older, which would make sense as he is more than three thousand years old. He is exceptionally short compared to even the tall and handsome Ban with messy blond hair and a pair of emerald eyes. He also lacks facial hair of which further accentuating his adolescent appearance. Regardless of his stature and youthful looks, he is relatively muscular with his body possessing an array of well-developed abdominal muscles. He often wears an ordinary, clean white button-front shirt and a black sleeveless vest on top with a loosely worn tie. Without any socks, he wears a pair of black boots. His most distinctive trait is his Dragon symbol carved at the top of his left bicep just below his shoulder.
Levi turned to Alexandra and stated an order: "You and Abigail better get to Eren now! I'll catch up with you after finding Cecelia" Erica stayed behind with Erwin and Axel as Levi landed on Diane's head. He then said when she slightly looked up for their eyes to meet: "Hey...your name is Diane, right? If your friends are out there, we better not waste any more time and get moving." King flew alongside Diane after she got Gowther sitting on her left shoulder and she took off on foot. She kept in a safe distance but not too far away from Alexandra and Abigail just in case any other Titans might come out of nowhere for yet another ambush. Meanwhile, Eren is ordered to retreat back to HQ and he decided to trust on his teammates as the Female Titan was temporarily blinded and was cornered into one of the huge trees with her right hand covering the nape of her neck. But then, a tragedy took place of which changed the formation and the teamwork into disarray. The Female Titan caught Eld by "her" teeth and killed him by biting him in half! Petra yelled out in shock as the enemy spat out the lower half of the boy: "Eld!" Eren couldn't believe his eyes and turned the cables back around at full speed. Petra is in shock as she tried her best to retreat: "What?! She can see?! That's impossible! It hasn't been thirty seconds!" To her shock, the Female Titan has her right eye fully healed before getting up on her feet to charge in forward. Petra gasped in shock and horror: "Only one eye?! She channeled her energy into one eye to grow it back quicker?! How can she do that?!" Oruo called out from afar: "Petra! Pull yourself together! PETRA!" Just when it looked like Petra is about to die from this devastating kick, something fast got right in front of Petra and held the foot firmly in place. This gave Petra the time to pull herself together and setting herself in one of the hidden trees. And to Oruo's surprise, that unknown force strongly pushed the foot back of which sent the Female Titan flying to skid a few feet away from the area which taking down a few tall trees.
"I'm not going to kill you...but I won't let you destroy any lives either. You might be wondering why. Well...here is my answer. Because I have many others I swore to protect!"