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Sasha's eyes were still a bit red from crying. She sniffled one last time and sat down next to Connie.
"...Do..you think that this is our fault...?" She softly said to him and she leaned on his shoulder. Most of the soldiers sat in silence, while Reiner and Annie were still mourning for their lost friend. "I mean...we were the ones that led everybody to it.."
Connie didn't reply for a while. But then, slowly nodded his head. "Yeah...I think so. I don't think any of the would forgive us, though. That's what I'm afraid of.." He leaned back against the wall.
"..I'm afraid of that too.." Sasha could feel tears slipping out of her eyes again, and let out more sniffles than she imagined. Connie furrowed his eyebrows and patted Sasha's head while looking down. He started to cry a little more too.
Eren turned around with a bit of tears in his eyes. His teal eyes were shaped in an angry expression with his eyebrows. He looked directly into Sasha's and Connie's eyes.
"You...you guys are the reason he's dead!" He advanced towards them, but Armin and Mikasa held him back just in time.
"Eren, don't shout." Mikasa held him firmly and kept in place.
"E-Eren! I'm sure that we can all work this out..!" Armin on the other hand, was struggling to keep Eren still.
Connie and Sasha kneeled next to Bertholdt's body, and looked at Annie and Reiner. Their eyes started to get watery once again.
"We're sorry...for the loss of your best friend..." They bended down on their knees and cried.
Annie stared at them, having no emotion whatsoever, Reiner nodded his head.
"Well...There's nothing we can do about that..He's dead." He said. "It's not like this doesn't happen often in the Scouting Legion.."
"We promise that we'll find a way to get out...To make it up to you.." Sasha said as she looked at the two with big eyes.
Marco sat next to Reiner. "Yeah...Even though we have lost a comrade, we can still get out. He knows that we'll always remember him." He smiled at Reiner, which cheered him up a little more. Reiner couldn't help but smile back a little, and nodded his head again.
Mikasa and Armin soon let Eren go. He calmed down and sat on the slightly bloodstained floor.
"...I really wanted to get out all together..but..." Eren crossed his legs and stared at the floor. "Please, any of you..just don't die. I don't want to lose anyone else..!" He said to everybody.
Everyone else nodded their head. They all conversed and wondered who would die next, or how they would get out. Levi was in the corner thinking to himself. Christa went to Ymir to help her cope with what was happening.
"Well...We don't know who will die next(that's a 50/50 chance). So we better use the same strategy as last time; to stay together as a group." Armin explained.
"Wait...Does anybody know a room where we can put his body...?" Annie raised up her hand, which made Armin turn her attention to her.
Everyone stood silent, until Mikasa had broken it. She turned her head and glanced at Annie.
"There was a painting that was thin...I don't think it was a painting at all..But, there was a hole in it after that thing attacked me, so I bet that there could be a room there..."
Annie made a small sound, as if to agree with Mikasa, and walked into the safe room. As she walked in, she felt that it was the only place they would be able to actually be safe, with no worries. With a sigh, she took the blankets and bed sheets from Bertholdt's bed. It wasn't that heavy for her, but since the blankets were long(due to Bertholdt's height), she stumbled a few times. Annie took a short glance a tthe fod supply, somehow it really did look like someone had added more food it, like Marco had said. She just shrugged and slowly opened the door.
"Guys, I think using Bertholdt's blankets and bed sheets should be useful for wrapping up the body." She laid them on top of Bertholdt, and flattened them down. She flinched a little while feeling the huge hole in his torso.
Levi felt the cloth, and softened his arrogant expression that he usually wore.
"This is quite similar to the cloth we use to wrap the bodies during expeditions..." He muttered to himself before standing up and fixing his cravat.
"I'll carry the body.." Reiner said after Annie had wrapped his whole body up.
Jean and Marco walked to Reiner. "W-we'll help you," They both said in unision, and Reiner nodded.
"Alright, then."
It took a while for everyone to walk out of the room, and down the stairs. Mikasa led the group, shortly being followed by Eren, Armin, and Levi. It took them about twenty minutes to reach the painting.
"Is there a door...?" Eren questioned himself while lifting the frame. It wasn't a door...It was more like a hole in the wall. Levi walked inside the dark entrance and found himself in a cold, eerie room. His expression didn't change, as always. The room had a single lamp above, and there were twelve tables. They seemed to be for "test subjects" (or we can just say like the ones in Mad Father..You know that game?). It was a really wide room, though.
'Twelve tables...' Levi thought while the others were walking inside the room. 'Fuck...does that mean that only one of us will make it out of this damned place..?'
Reiner, Jean, and Marco carefully put Bertholdt's body on the table. Reiner closed Bertholdt's eyes, and put the blanket over his face. Annie looked over his covered body again for a few minutes, and whispered,
"...I guess we couldn't finish our quest.." She then turned and walked back to the others.
"We should go back to the safe room..It is getting late.." There was a window in the room, and Marco could see that the moon was far up in the sky. He sighed, and walked out of the hole.
And so they all walked back up to the safe room. Reiner and Annie felt a little empty, but they knew that they had eachother. They quickly ate the remaining of Marco's cooking from the morning and went to sleep.
According to Levi's thoughts, do you think only one will come out?
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