Volume 5

Ch. 60 Letter

Pov.

-Falco-

"C'mon" dad finally says

"That was really close don't you think?" Mom asks

"Yeah" he grabs her ear "now what I say would happen?!" he growls

I almost wanted to step in for my mother but if I did, I know it would only end badly for her and I alike

"Agh" mom gasps before dad pushes her aside

"Anyways I can't believe I could hold myself back like that" he looks down at his hand "man that was close" he smiles widely

"Anyways c'mon let's eat here" Mom says as she pulls on dads arm

We go inside a type of Asian restaurant we ordered and they handed us chopsticks

"So how's Gabi doing?" Mom asks

"Gabi? How should I know?" I ask

"You should've seen him mom he made sure she was right beside him from the beginning" Colt says

"What the hell?! My ass I was not!" I shout

"C'mon, Falcons only waiting for the right time to get behind that ass" dad chuckles

"Hey your right I want grandkids" mom claps

"What?! Gross she's like my sister" I cross my arms

"Well if my sister looked like that, I know I'd be tapping that ass for nine months" dad says

"What?! You know she's only thirteen" I say

"What's wrong with that? That's eighteen on the Eldian calendar you know I already had Colt at your age" dad says

"Yeah? Well don't expect the same from me" I cross my arms

"Hey what about you Colt you been awfully quiet" mom says "how's Piek?" She asks

"Yeah, how is Piek?" I ask Colt

"Sh-shut up" he grumbles "I haven't been able to talk to her since the war ended" he says

"Stupid of you to go for a warrior" dad says

"Dad tone it down we're in public" Colt whispers

It was a crime to talk bad about the warriors since they inherit the power of the Titans to help Marley

So it is nothing short of a crime to talk poorly of them

"Well don't get attached to her cause you know exactly what'll happen" dad growls

"Alright how about we not ruin the mood yeah?" Mom says

"You're not gonna touch her that's for sure" Colt growls

"You guys stop!" Mom raises her voice

Luckily everyone was pretty loud so we didn't catch anyone's attention

"Please just give it a rest for one day" she begs

"Sorry mom" Colt sighs

"Yeah whatever" dad mutters

Colt fights the urge to scold our father

Not long after we ate and talked some more, miraculously not arguing for the rest of the time we were there

After watching dad eat ten more bowls of chicken noodles he finally paid the bill and we left

"Man oh man was that good" dad sighs

"If they hadn't run out of chicken I wonder how long we'd be there for" Colt says

"If only your mother could cook like that" dad fidgets with the chopsticks twirling them around his fingers

"I don't know what your talking about I know how to cook" mom pouts

"Sure you do" dad chuckles

"Oh my god what a beautiful family!" Some guy hops infront of mom "my, my you look like you work terribly hard" he holds mom's hands

Dad pulls his arm back into his cloak hiding himself as he always did when someone came up to us

"Heh yeah I like helping my husband at work" mom leans her head onto dad's shoulder

"Aw you should take a break, a time to relax you and your husband work far too hard to make sure these young little soldiers have a roof over their heads" he peeks under the coolie getting a look at dads face

"Nghk" dad clenches his teeth

"Oh my what a lucky girl," he puts moms hands to his face "how embarrassing, I dare show my face like this to such a handsome young man" he shakes his head

"Hehe thanks" mom giggles

"You sure he isn't your son? He looks far too young to be your husband" he says

It's true dad looked like he were Colts age maybe even younger 15-17 even though he was forty years old

He looked more like our brother than our father, he's aged very little to nothing really, his physique is the only thing that has changed over the years it's gotten leaner

But from the looks of it he wasn't very happy getting these kind compliments from another man

"C'mon in for a spa day I'm sure your children will agree you two need some time for yourselves" he reaches for dads hand

Dad quickly grabs his finger with the chopsticks before he could even touch him

"Don't you dare touch me, pathetic excuse of a man" dad growls

"Mgh h-hey" the man groans painfully

"Arthur!" Mom uses dad's alias "don't be so disrespectful!" She scolds him

"Watch your tone" he says calmly before he throws the poor man aside

"Agh" he gasps as he smashes his head on a large metal dumpster with such force that it dented just a bit

Everyone turns to us as dad pulled his arm back ready to throw the chopsticks at him

But Colt grabs his wrist before he murders him in front of everybody

"Your kind are going to be the first thing I get rid of when I become ruler of this wretched plain" he says in disgust

Back in the island they had very little knowledge of the outside world we used to think the world was at most about 150 million square miles

When in reality the surface area is estimated to be tens of billions of square miles

The world is beyond our imagination

A plain is described as a set of United Nations that share the same species of human/animals, the average area of a plain is 200 million square miles

We are 'United' in a sense that we'd fight off outside invaders if it ever came to it

But now every nation in the plain is fighting for the title of Overlord, the ruler of an entire plain.

It's a title given to the strongest, it's why Marley resorted to a peace treaty with paradise island. they knew if his enemy's allied with paradise before they did, they'll surely be pummeled into the ground

it's what dad is aiming for

In order to free paradise he has to come out on top

Having every nation in our plain at his command will free the millions of Eldians that are at their countries mercy

But Paradise ended up signing peace treaties with many nations making it neutral in the war

He pulls his arm back from Colt before tossing the chopsticks aside as if they were contaminated after touching the man

The rest of the way home was quiet up until we arrived

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Mom puts her foot down

"What?" Dad asks "it's unnatural, those things disgust me" he says dropping his cloak down to his waist

It always took our breaths away seeing how badly he was scared

"What's your deal with them anyways?" Mom asks

"Don't worry about it" he says before slamming the door to his bedroom shut

"Man what's his deal?" Colt asks

"Well you know that pride of your fathers" mom sighs "but who really knows why he has so much hate towards this world" she adds

"Sashaa" dad calls out from their room

"Well, I'm gonna go see what your father wants" she stands up "you two shower, I don't want you to keep Reiner waiting" she says

"Oh… right" Colt sighs "I'll go first" he says

After Colt I decided to take a quick shower and I went to go change in mine and Colts room as he waited for me in the kitchen

Five years ago dad finally had enough money to rent out a larger room, he then proceeded to soundproof the walls since they are really thin

Since then we've never had any problems

Before Marleyan soldiers would come check what all the ruckus was about

It was usually mom and dad fighting which always ended up with mom getting hurt

The Marleyan soldiers would just shrug it off since we're eldians they don't care about our well being

"WHAT?!" Dad grabs mom by the hair

"I-it's what it says" Mom says painfully

"Calm down!" Colt comes to moms aid

"Shit! I had it all planned out, what the hell is Eren doing?!" He pushes mom aside

"What is it?" I ask taking the letter mom just read to him

I skim through it and from my understanding it said Eren had gone rogue, Eren is the Attack Titan he's gotten very strong over the years

It said here that one day Eren had completely disappeared

Till one day a letter came in with very explicit orders to invade Marley.. tonight

"This better be a damn joke" dad growls

"Mgh" mom groans

"You two get going" she says

"What?!" Colt asks

"Eren might know something we don't, try to get intel from Reiner and after that come right back" she says

"B-but what's going to happen ?" I ask

"C'mon Falco" Colt says

"R-right" I follow Colt out

The both of us stayed quiet the entire way

What was all that about ?

As far as we know me and Colt are supposed to inherit one of the remaining Titans each

That was dads plan anyway

Is Eren really going to interfere?

This can be bad.. very bad

"Don't think about it too much Falco" Colt rubs my head

"Y-yeah" I agree

"Lets just try to find out what we can about tonight" he says

I nod before he knocks twice

After a few seconds the door finally opened

"Oh… hey Pieck" Colt says a bit surprised to see her

"Hey Colt" she smiles

"Come in have a seat" Reiner says at the table

"Thanks so much for having us" Colt says taking a seat beside Pieck as I sit down beside Gabi

"Aw man why'd you have to go and invite him" Gabi pouts

"Don't be like that darling you saw how much Reiner wanted them over" her mom says

"Yeah well I was hoping I'd get to talk with your parents but if they have work then I guess it can't be helped" Reiner sighs

"Anyways you guys should chow down before your food gets cold" Gabies grandma says