A week has passed since the creepy guy incident. None of them have seen the guy again. Eren, Mikasa and Armin were walking to Reiner and Bertolt's house with their friends. The sun has already set and the moon was high in the sky.

They were in a dark alleyway, which apparently is a shortcut that Reiner had told them. It could turn the thirty minute walk into a five minute one. The trio was talking and chatting happily. Sasha and Connie were debating about chocolates. Annie and Christa just watched the others quietly. Ymir looked bored. Jean was sending text messages on his smartphone.

Suddenly, a man jumped out from a dark corner. He looked at Christa.

'Hey, Historia, long time no see.'

Eren and the others immediately stood in front of her protectively.

'Who are you? What do you want?'

The man ignored Eren's questions. He still stared at Christa.

She was shocked. Her lips trembled, but couldn't make a sound.

'Why did y-you come? I didn't break the promise!' Christa cried.

'Your dad told me to. Now, please follow me or have your friend's lives get as miserable as they could,' he said sarcastically.

'No. Christa is not going with you.'

'Fine, if that's what you wish,' he scowled. 'By the way, my name is Kenny. And Historia, remember our little promise.'

He smiled, and disappeared into the alleyways.

'Christa, I think you owe us an explanation.' Jean didn't look so happy.

Christa's face was as pale as a ghost. 'I-I…'

'Shut up, Jean. Christa is tired. We'll talk tomorrow morning. Or we could stay here and get mugged by some other guy instead.' Ymir hugged Christa and patted her reassuringly.

'Ymir's right, Jean. We should get back to the house first. This place is definitely unsafe. We should not use this shortcut again,' Armin said.

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'So, Christa, can you tell us what happened?' Reiner asked.

After bathing at the relatively large house, everyone sat in the living room, with serious expressions on their faces.

She took a deep breath, and began her story.

'I'm the daughter of Rod Reiss-'

'What?' Jean shouted. 'You're the daughter of Rod Reiss?'

'Who's Rod Reiss?' Connie asked. 'Seriously, who's that guy?'

Everyone sighed at Connie's stupidity.

'Rod Reiss is the mayor of Sina.' Sasha rolled her eyes. 'He collects extremely high taxes from the residents and businessmen. He said the money will be used to renovate the city and stuff. It's basically an excuse to make himself wealthy because he never actually really did anything except keeping them in his bank. He also allows all kinds of bad stuff, like drug trading, as long as it makes him money. He is the reason that eighty percent of the population consists of thugs, robbers, poor men and women, etc.'

Connie nodded, and everyone sighed again.

'As I was saying, I am the daughter of Rod,' Christa continued. 'My real name is Historia Reiss. Kenny is a friend of Rod. My mother died when she born me. Kenny somehow convinced him that I was a devil because of that. Rod let him beat me to half-death before putting me on a doorstep of a house in Shingansina.

'A nice old couple was living there. They took pity of me and adopted me. I never told them about Rod and Kenny though. They gave me my current name, Christa Lenz. I lived peacefully until the year before I met you all.

'I finally dared to tell the couple about my past. It turns out that they were once residents of Sina, but was forced to move away to somewhere else because they can't pay the tax. They told me that they would file a police report tomorrow. I went to the university the next day as usual.

'When I came back, I couldn't find them anywhere in the house. I thought they went to the police station so I didn't think too much. The next day, when I came home, I… I found them. Dead. You guys read the news, didn't you?'

'You mean The Murder of Shingansina?' Armin asked. Historia nodded.

Armin look at his two friends worriedly. Eren looked like he was nervous as hell, and Mikasa pulled her scarf over her mouth.

'What's wrong?' Sasha was worried about her friends' strange behaviour.

'Well, you know, we, uh, live just beside the crime scene,' Eren explained quickly. 'And, I-'

'Eren, it's okay if you don't want to say it.' Armin looked at Eren worriedly.

'No… Armin, uh, help me say the rest.'

'Guys, this is getting really creepy,' Connie said.

'Shut up, Connie.'

'Right. About the murder. Eren and Mikasa usually live at the dorm since his mother was… gone. That day however, they went back to get something from the house. When they were leaving, Eren heard someone scream in that house, and it was abruptly cut off in the middle. He told Mikasa, I think? But they didn't pay any attention to it. They left after that.'

'Hey, Mikasa, when is it when you two heard the scream?' Ymir typed something on her phone.

'It's about a quarter to four, if I remember correctly.'

'Well looks like we got our accurate time of death, and a possible witness?' She held up her phone for everyone to see.

It was a news article about the murder. Ymir highlighted a specific line: The predicted time of death is between 1400 and 1800.

'Real creepy.'

'Shut up, Connie.'

'What happened after, Chris- Historia?' Ymir asked.

'I reported it to the police, of course. But that night, I found out that Kenny had left a letter for me in my bag. I still have it on me. Here.'

She took out a piece of paper from her backpack and handed it to Ymir. She read it out loud.

DearHistoria,

This is the outcome of your doing.

Your father told me to check on you every week. You didn't even notice me once, though. How pathetic. My so called 'mission' is to make sure you didn't spill the beans to anyone. If you did, I can kill him/her/them. Well, you didn't get so lucky. Grandpa and grandma were destined to die the second you told them about me and Rod. You were the one who signed them a death warrant. You killed them.

Well, I'm here to laugh and make fun of you. But, I'm still worried about Rod turning me in to the police. Although probably can kill them with ease, I prefer myself walking on the streets a free man, or killer, in my case. Killing police every day will make me sick. So yeah, fuck Rod.

I've decided to give you a knife to stab Rod in the back, if you want to. Here's a complete list of the corrupt people like police and doctors and such in Sina. It will probably grow ten times larger in a few months but I don't give a fuck as long as Rod's going down. Into the drain. Send it to the police without letting them know the hell who you are will do just fine. And by police, I mean the Trost Police Department, not the one that Rod had founded, the fucking Military Police. It is so fucked up that if you're in there, you'll drop to the lowest level of hell if you die and never get out of that place again.

About the killing today, my intention isn't to protect Rod and me, it's actually only me. So yeah, you tell someone about me, they die. Is that fucking clear enough?

Regards,

Kenny

'That's all.'

'Ymir, do you seriously have to read out the swear words?'

'Not like anyone cares anyway.'

'So after receiving this thing, I never dared to tell anyone about him. And I'm sorry, guys. This is probably the last time we would see each other again. Alive, at least.'

'What.'

'We're going to die?' Sasha screamed. 'I still haven't had enough chocolate yet!'

'Sasha, you know you eat chocolate almost every day.'

'I know, Connie, but it's still not enough! And I'm still young! I don't want to die!'

'Hey, that Kenny guy probably only killed two old men in his life. So what are we worrying about? We got, like, nine people here. And we're still young. You tell me, how could he possibly kill any of us? And the list? I bet the names are all fake. It's just a trick to make Historia to go back to Sina in some kind of way. So, this meeting is now officially over and let's get some sleep. I'm super tired right now,' Jean concluded, and yawned.

The teens nodded.

And a truck crashed into the house.