Chapter 2
Eun sat next to Mikasa while all the trainees had their dinner. Her head was on the table, eyes closed. Suddenly, a tap on her shoulder jolted Eun to her senses, and her eyes darted around, landing on a boy standing a few feet away from her, a crowd behind him.
Eun recognized him as Connie Springer, the one who did his salute wrong. She stared at him to speak, and he shifted before talking.
"You didn't introduce yourself today." He said bluntly. Eun brushed the stray bangs out of her face before answering.
"My name is Kim Eun. I came from Zhiganshina." Everyone's eyes widened.
"So you're the same as Eren!" Connie said excitedly. Eun nodded.
"Did you see how tall the Colossal Titan was?"
"Was it scary? I bet it was!"
"Did you lose anyone to the titans?"
The last question caused Eun to freeze. Her hand froze in midair, and dropped onto the table with a low clunk. Connie backed away slightly, his hands raised.
"Ah, gomenasai... We shouldn't have asked like that." He said sheepishly. But Eun wasn't listening.
"Eun! Run!"
Her brother's onyx eyes stared back at her, tears flowing down his cheeks. Eun's eyes widened as a titan emerged from a wreckage of buildings a few hundred meters away. It started towards the two siblings, it's gruesome smile sickening Eun. She struggled, grasping onto the heavy wooden beam that had fallen over Kai's back, the thing keeping him trapped.
"Dame! I'm not leaving you!" She cried, tears spilling from her eyes as her fingers trembled from the weight of the wood, blood trickling down her ruined hands. Kai's expression softened, and he grabbed his sister's hand, holding it tightly. Eun spun around to look at him, her lip quivering, glistening tears splattering onto the torn white dress she wore.
"Eun, I love you very much. Okaa san and Otou san, they love you too. Even if they were never our parents, they still love us, understand?" He said urgently, the titan's tread sounding closer and closer. Eun made a strangled noise at the back of her throat, before choking out barely audible words.
"Why are you saying this, Onee chan? Why are you saying what a goodbye will have?" She yelled, pulling onto the wood again. Kai stayed silent.
"Onee chan!"
"Eun... Promise me." Kai took a ragged breath, and smiled softly. "Promise me you'll live on, even in this cruel world, and that you will only die with meaning.
Promise me that you'll fight to win."
Eun shook off her thoughts, regaining her poker face.
"It's fine. It was a long day, I'm going."
Mikasa stared at Eun's backside, an unreadable expression on her face as she set her drink down.
"Eun..." She whispered, so softly no one heard.
"Are you... still not over that, even after 4 years?"
Eun lay on her bunk, facing the wall. She heard the other girls in the dorm talk and laugh, but she stayed silent, feigning sleep.
Sighing softly, she closed her eyes.
It's been a long day...
Eun was donned in the full soldier's uniform, a familiar green cape billowing over her shoulders. When she twisted her head, she could see a pair of wings etched into the fabric, covering the green. Her blades hung limply at her sides, her arms heavy. She couldn't move, she could only stand and stare at the titan towering over her.
The titan's gruesome face was painstakingly familiar. That same inhuman smile that she cursed every time she closed her eyes.
She was staring at the titan that killed her brother.
Her eyes widened as the titan reached a hand out to her. Her heartbeat pounded in her ears, her fingers shaking. Her blades dropped with a clatter to the cobblestones, which were streaked with crimson blood.
"No..." She backed away, her boots stepping over the ruined gravel. The titan's hand was only a few meters away, closing in on every second.
"No!" Eun cried out, turning to run out of the alleyway she was trapped in. However, her feet slipped on the blood slick stones and crashed to the ground in a heap, her maneuver gear scraping painfully on the pavement.
"D-Dameda..." She whispered, her eyes wide with fear. Her head thrummed with both fear and pain, and for once, she felt like that naive little girl 4 years ago, when Kai was still alive.
"K-Kai..." Eun tried to get up, but her legs twisted under her and she crumpled to the ground again. The titan's hand was so close now, she could feel the heat emitting off the skin.
This is it.
She squeezed her eyes shut, tears welling at the corners of her eyes.
I'm so sorry, Kai. I couldn't... I couldn't fulfill your last wish.
Then, suddenly, everything shifted. The sound of blades penetrating flesh reached Eun's ears, and the titan froze before stumbling and falling into the wall next to her.
Blood and gravel splattered onto the girl, and she shakily looked up, only to see a boy, slightly taller than she was, blades covered in smoking blood. A cloak with an emblem similar to hers flew out from behind him, and he turned his head slightly, causing his jet black hair to shift with the wind.
Piercing blue eyes met her own onyx eyes. Her eyes went wide as the boy jumped off the titan's carcass, making his way towards Eun. He couldn't have been much older than her, he only looked about 2 years older than her current age; 15, maybe.
He held out a hand to her, his piercing blue eyes analyzing her face.
She reached out to take his hand, and that's when everything shattered.
Eun jolted into a sitting position on her bunk, panting. Her eyes flitted across the room, recalling the familiar details of the dorm, and slowly, she began to relax. She could see Mikasa lying on the bunk across from hers, the red scarf wrapped around her, her eyes closed.
It was only a dream... Only a dream...
A small bead of sweat ran down her face, and she pulled her coat around herself tighter.
But... It felt so real.
The titan... It all seemed so real.
The boy's face flickered into mind again, his cold, emotionless eyes.
Eun shivered, wrapping her arms around her knees.
Who was he?
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