We run away.

"Do not separate!" She ordered in gasp. Of course in times like this, we shouldn't get separated. Even if no titans around, we still shouldn't go separated.

"Let's run to the North!"

"Do you know where is north?"

I look above, leaves from the trees blocking the sky. I can't examine the stars to see where is north. As we run, we could heard the titan's footsteps getting faster and closer.

"Shit, it's really a titan! What's a titan doing here? Another leak on the wall?"

"No idea." She tries to answer my question.

"Shit if I know this gonna happen, I'll bring my weapon." Why would I even take a boot dagger with me in a date? Protection from a date rape? That's ridiculous.

We're dead meat!

"Jean, at this rate, it gonna get us." Suddenly she stop running. She must be out of her mind, what would we do? We definitely can't fight the titan bare-handedly. Before I ask her anything, she found a piece of tree branch and break it into two pieces.

"Jean!" She throws one and I catch it just before a 3 meter class titan appears between the trees, right behind Mikasa. I shock in horror when I see it open it's mouth, showing teeth, about to crush Mikasa's neck.

"Mikasa, behind you!" I rush to her, need to do something with this branch before I lost someone important for me. But before I reach her range, she quickly turn over to face the titan and violently thrust the titan's throat with the tree branch. The edge of the three branch is sharp enough to pierce it's throat to the back of it's neck. Titan's blood spill over to Mikasa's face and linen dress.

But it still moving, and it don't fucking care about it's own pain, it just want to eat Mikasa. The titan grabbed on Mikasa's arms, trying to rip it off. She fall down to the ground, strugling hard to save her life or limb by repeatedly thust the Titan's neck. I pick up a big stone and swing it hard to crush it's neck. Armin will measuring the weak spot, but I don't give a damn. I'm tired, I'm thirsty, I need to get home and the girl I loved can die if I don't kill this monster as soon as possible. I repeatedly hit it's neck until it destroyed completely. The titan collapsed to the ground, pressing on Mikasa's body. I help her get rid of the titan corpse which is now begin to vaporise. Just like Mikasa, the titan's blood all over my face, hands and torso.

I check on her arms, not a big wound, just a bruise. "I feel like my bones about to scattered."

"We have to keep moving, looking for a safe place. If we don't know where the north is, at least walking through this woods will eventually lead us somewhere. There must be a village around this area." I tried to encourage her.

"Agree." I help her stand up and we pick random direction then continue walking.

It's getting dark, too dark to see our surroundings. Just the light from the moon above infiltrate among the leaves. I could only hear her steps, I really want to hold her hands.

"Jean."

I stop walking.

"So dark, hold my hand." Before I reach her palm, she touch mine and hold it tightly. We continue our walk.

I don't know where we are, or how long we had walked. I almost lost my breath but Mikasa is Mikasa, tough as always; she doesn't seems to look tired at all. Thanks to my pride, I manage to keep up with her pace, and relievely catch a breath when she stop by the end of the woods.

"Do you know what village there?"

I look at where she stares. Not far from where we stand, there's a small village with few houses and farm. "As far as I know, only a village located around the southern area of Wall Rose; Village of Dauper."

"How do you know that?" Her eyes stares at me. For a second, it hypnotized me again. If only she knew what I feel about her, if I could tell or show her exactly what I feel...

"It's Sasha's homeland. You don't know?"

She look away, "I don't think it's nescesary for me to know."

I chuckled, "Yeah, right. If it's not about Eren, it's not important."

"He's my family. Of course he's important." Suddenly she glares at me, looks like trying to give me warning to watch my mouth. I don't find it offensive myself, but probably this is the difficult part of being an honest man. Wait, I'm still 15, I'm still a boy technically. Must be realistic.

I follow Mikasa walking down the land to reach the village. Now we're in an open air, I could see the stars up in the sky. and I could tell that instead of getting closer to military dorm, we getting farther. If I'm not mistaken, based on the map I acknowledge, we're getting closer to the area of Wall Maria, and I'm positively believe that we reach the village of Dauper.

But still, I have no idea what village it is. Judging by the farm and the soil, I don't think this is Dauper. Dauper is village of hunters, and as far as I know, hunters don't farm.

As we get closer to the village, I could hear a dog barks loudly. This gives me the chills, makes me thinking that there's something wrong. A dog wouldn't normally barking like that unless something's about to happened. Mikasa reach the nearest door of the houses and tries to wake the owner by knocking at it. No answer.

While she knocking on the door, I found a machete stuck on a dead branch. I check on it, it's not rusty. I give a slash to a firewood scattered on the ground around it. It still as sharp as the razor blade. In normal situation, I will leave it as it is, for stealing is wrong. But the 3 meter class titan that we killed later starts to worries me. Where did it come from? Was there another leak? How many of them? How did it get inside here? And this is fucking midnight, how come that titans move around trying to eat people? Why this village gives me the creeps?

Therefore a sharp machette like this might come in handy. I slip it in my belt behind my back. Mikasa still haven't giving up calling on the owner of the cottage, I think I'll take a look around. Yep. There's nothing in this village aside barns, farms, stable, this is a remote village. The chickens sleep soundly, I follow the dog's barking voice, and found it. It's a German sheperd, male. And from his body language, he clearly states that he's afraid. A chain tied around his neck, as he desperately jumping around to get free. I return to where Mikasa at, she stop knocking and tries to peek inside the cottage.

"Still no answer?" I asked.

She shook her head. I could tell she realize the weirdness of the atmosfere but she don't care. She desperately needs a place to rest. Her wounded left arm begin to shaking.

"You alright?"

"It's hurt, I think the bone is cracking somehow ..." she sounds so tired.

"Well, I saw a horse ranch behind this cottage, looks like it's unlock. We could get some rest and apologizing the owner tomorow morning."

I walk her to the horse ranch, my heart beats faster in horror as I open the ranch where the horses kept. I think of stealing the horses and mount them to the headquarter. But Mikasa looks too tired, she found her bed above the straws and lie there. She's about to get sleep. I draw my machette and hold it tight, sit a couple steps away from her, and keep my awareness on while she's asleep.

"Hey, Jean ... ?" I heard her voice calling me softly.

"Yes?"

"You thirsty...?"

"Yes."

"Can you find me water?"

Fuck. It's creepy outside. What if when I get myself out there, a titan found me?

"Sure. Wait for a couple minutes. I won't be long." I stand up and carefully get out of this horse stable.