Hello! So this is the last chapter of The Traitorous Friend. *Starts crying* I might be doing a prequel to this, Lost Girls actually. Please, follow, fave, and/or review when you are done reading.
I do not own Attack on Titan, it belongs to Hajime Isyama.
Jean leaned against the stone wall of some building, the urge of kicking something growing even stronger.
When the wall had been patched to hide the face of a titan, they had then received news that Wall Rose had been breached. After arriving where the titans were ripping apart another titan, they soon found out that Ymir was a titan shifter.
What was even more unsettling, was that Reiner and Bertholdt were the Colossal and Armored titans, the titans that breached Wall Maria five years ago.
The two had then captured Eren and Ymir and they were left to wait for backup. Luckily, Erwin came with members of the Garrison and Military Police and they soon set off.
The battle was, hard isn't even what they had done. More than half of the rescue team was killed, and Ymir had decided to stay with Reiner and Bertholdt. Not to mention that Eren had made a bunch of titans attack and rip apart another one.
Another thing that made him mad, was that they couldn't find Marco anywhere, he wasn't in Stohess, nor with the people who were sent to Mitras for safety. That was the icing on the cake for Jean's days.
"Um….excuse me, are you Jean Kirstein?" A voice asked, Jean turning to see a girl in a Mp uniform looking at him.
"Yeah."
"Um, someone asked me to give this to you if I see you." She said quickly, extending out a envelope that was shaking from her hands trembling.
"Thanks." Jean said, the girl only nodding before walking off.
Jean flipped the envelope over and stopped when he saw what was written on it, the initials M.B.
Jean's hands wouldn't stop shaking as he ripped it open, pulling out a few pieces of paper as he started to read.
Dear Jean, I don't even know how to explain what's happening. You're probably thinking about why I fought against you, and the answer isn't that simple.
The reason why I did what I did is because I had to find an answer to my question: does humanity still survive outside the walls? I mean, if Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie were attacking the walls, if they lived there, what would be their purpose?
I soon found out that humanity is surviving beyond the walls. Titans aren't ruling over the world, and we have a much bigger enemy than them.
Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie are a part of civilization that are called the Marley, who want to wipe us off the world and want to possess a certain titan that has the ability to control all titans around them.
The world that we know of Jean is a lie, and always has been. And I have no doubt that the government will do anything to make sure that it won't get public.
I have faith that you, Eren, Mikasa and the others will do anything in order for the truth to be revealed. The people have been kept in the dark for too long, it's time that they know the truth.
I guess I better tell you my backstory before I run out of paper. I never really knew my father, my mother said he died before I was born. The only family I knew was my mother, and my grandparents. But other than that, I lived a pretty quiet life.
My grandparents died when I was five, and my mother would always be searching for work, so I took upon myself the chores around the house.
One day, I accidentally stumbled upon my dad's things. My mother threw a fit when she found me looking through them. I don't even know to this day what she did with that stuff.
The day before I left for the military, my mother walked me into a woods saying she needed to tell me something. It was then she told me she was a titan shifter, and she inherited her powers from my father.
At first I was happy, because I thought my father was secretly alive. But my mother told me that a titan shifter has only thirteen years left to live, before they have to pass it on to someone else, by eating the person who has the titan shifter powers.
The rest was a blur, I remember her saying to look in her drawers, and everything went black. I remember waking up with a titan body disintegrating and my mother's dead corpse bitten.
I buried my mother's body, and then went towards my house and found all these books my father had written.
Jean, you'll find these books in my old house. It'll tell you everything you need to know about Titan shifters and the outside world.
I already knew about the outside world from the books before Reiner and the others told me, but I just played along, hoping I could get some insider info. I also wanted to know if it still did exist after the twenty nine years before my father arrived.
I'm not coming back Jean. I'm going to try and sneak into the Marley country and pretend to be a normal Eldian in order to infiltrate them. It might take years or until my time is up as a titan shifter. I'll never know.
Nevertheless, Jean, I'm proud that you're my friend and I'm glad that I met you. Who knows, we might see each other sooner than we expect.
Your best friend, Marco.
Jean's hands were shaking as tears went down his face and onto the paper. "Marco…."
Meanwhile, riding on a horse, Marco looked back towards the walls as a smile went on his face, before continuing to go south.
The End