God of Hate
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Godzilla or Attack on Titan
NOTE: For the record, as some people still don't realize: Erendorah is currently smaller, wingless, and less durable than normal Ghidorah. As someone said it, he's basically a baby-Ghidorah in comparison.
"OUT OF MY WAY!"
Hange looked like she could rip through ultra-hard steel as she forced her way passed the soldiers, gathered some distance from the giant golden body. She rushed up and skidded to a stop in front of the resting form of their resident Titan killer; resting, and recently injured.
"Ohh, Trips, you poor thing! What have those barbarians done to you?" Hange said with an incredibly distraught look as she approached the head that was lying down. The brow was stained with black blood and one of its horns was still missing. "And it was the sweetheart too."
Drei groaned in his throat, an attempt at pained amusement, while Eins didn't even give her a glance as he was clearly glaring at the cannons atop of the wall. Zwei glanced to her, though, before staring off to the side with a neutral, guarded look. She blinked before following his gaze and, for the first time, noticed the large horn fragment that lay off to the side.
Unlike Sasha, she immediately noticed that the horn appeared to be devoid of any fragments from the skull. That was good, great even. It meant nothing really important was damaged. And Hange would take great delight in studying that piece of Eren later. Right now, they had a situation to resolve. And for that, she needed to understand the situation.
"Ma'am."
Hange turned to see Mikasa standing before her, and for once, they seemed to be entirely on the same page.
"What happened and who needs to die?" Hange asked, dark and serious in her tone.
Mikasa was not bothered by it, for her look was at least as wrathful as Hange's, if not more.
"There was an incident where two of the cannons open fired on E-Trips," Mikasa answered flatly. "And they nearly caught me and Cadet Blouse in the attempt."
Hange balled her fist, giving Mikasa her utmost attention. "Tell me exactly what happened."
Both of them noticed the three heads focusing on them, Drei tilting himself to eye them better while Eins leaned in impatiently and Zwei merely watching on. They noticed but didn't react for the moment. After all, it was only right Eren knew what happened.
Flashback
Mikasa hadn't killed anyone.
"LET ME GO! LET ME GO, WE HAVE TO STOP IT!"
"Hold him down!"
But only because she wasn't the first on the scene, apparently.
A hysterical soldier was struggling against his comrades as he tried to get to the cannon. "Don't just stand there! Reload you idiots!" he screeched out desperately.
Two members of the cannon crew looked uncertain, another one having drawn his blades and pointed them at the soldiers. "Don't you idiots dare! I don't care if I have to cut off your hands, I'm not letting you try to kill that thing!" he yelled with his own look of fear and rage, making them flinch in uncertainty.
"It's trying to let the Titans in!" the man being held down screamed out. "We have to stop it before it moves the boulder!"
"Why would it do that!?" the blade wielder countered. "It saved Trost, it fucked over that-that-that Skinchanger of a Titan!"
"You think it's a friend?! A pet?! That thing doesn't care about us! It's just another monster and it'll turn on us the mo-!"
Everyone went silent as Mikasa suddenly leaped forward, her blades glinting in the light of the torches as she slashed...
"...No," the hysterical man whispered numbly.
...severing the firing wire, rendering the cannon unable to fire without a replacement.
"What is going on? Why were my comrades and I nearly hit by cannon fire?" Mikasa demanded sternly. "Who is in charge here?"
"You've...you've doomed us," the man said on the floor, holding his head, a distant look in his eyes.
"The captain here WAS in charge until a second ago when he lost it," one of the soldiers answered, frowning at Mikasa. "A cadet? You're one of the soldiers assigned to keep an eye on the big guy down there?"
"Yes, I am," Mikasa answered flatly, glaring down at the captain. "I'd ask why, but I believe I heard enough."
"We'll be eaten. The walls will come down. I've failed us all," he muttered unresponsively.
"Ignore him. What happened down there? Is the big guy okay?" the soldier asked with a frown.
"Yeah, he should be good."
Everyone turned to see Sasha landing on the wall. "Sasha? You mean he's...?" Mikasa asked in concern.
"Pissed off and a bit out of it, but it looks like he'll heal fine," Sasha assured, Mikasa sighing in relief.
"Thanks the walls," the soldier at the cannon said, lowering his own swords with a groan.
Mikasa took a step closer to the first soldier, giving him a dangerous look. "What. Happened?"
The soldier swallowed thickly, feeling like he was staring down a vicious animal and not a cadet. "We saw the big guy coming to the boulder. The captain started getting antsy, but we couldn't make out what he was doing down there. When I refused to pull the trigger, and the others wouldn't do it, he grabbed it before we could stop him," he explained, glancing at the other cannon several meters away. "The other crew just fired when we did, they assumed we saw something."
Mikasa understood that. She did. In a situation like this, when someone starts attacking something, their comrades generally join in on the assumption there is a good reason to be attacking. In the dark of night, of course they just followed the captain's lead. It didn't make her any calmer about the situation.
"He was trying to move the fucking boulder!" the captain screamed out suddenly. "Why else would he be there, touching it!?"
"Hey, Asshole!" Sasha yelled. "Did you think for a moment Trips thought it was coming loose?! That he was worried about them getting in too!?"
"How would you know?! You think you can understand that, that thing!?" the captain screamed. "I don't care if you say it can understand us! That doesn't mean it's not a monster!"
End of Flashback
"They knocked him out not too long after that, Sir," Mikasa explained solemnly as she repeated the story.
This time to Erwin, Pyxis, and her fellow cadets that were in the know.
"It seems that one of our soldiers cracked," Pyxis said in an unusually severe tone. "A captain, to make matter worse."
"I'll be sure to...verify his side of the story, thoroughly," Hange stated coldly, disturbing some of the others.
Erwin wasn't sure he had ever heard Hange quite so serious, in a murderous manner at least.
"But, he's alright, right?" Connie asked, glancing off the side of the wall to the shining, golden mass not too far from them.
Eren was no longer lying on the ground, merely standing off to the side. It was hard to tell, but he seemed tense. Especially the rightmost head, that one seemed like a coiled snake in some ways, on edge and preparing for another attack. The left head though, that one almost seemed...depressed? Lethargic? Maybe he was just woozy; Connie knew he was horrible at this.
"He's not very responsive to our questions, but he did answer yes to being alright," Erwin stated, seeing that the cadets weren't that convinced. "However, he is obviously upset about what happened."
"No kidding," Jean said with a snort. "I'd be pissed too if my ally shot a cannon at me," he said, looking to Mikasa in concern. "You sure you and Sasha didn't get hurt?"
Mikasa just nodded while Sasha rubbed her ear. "My ear is ringing a bit from the explosion, but they said that should go away," Sasha answered honestly, mostly unbothered.
"So, what do we do about this?" Annie asked idly, wanting to move the conversation along. "I feel like we weren't all called up here just for an update?"
Erwin nodded in agreement. "Yes, you're correct. This group has been kept rather informal for the moment due to how uncertain the situation is. However, this incident proves we need some procedures in place to keep things from escalating."
"We will be briefing all the soldiers soon," Pyxis began reassuringly. "And they will know that there is to be no attempt to attack the creature without approval from myself or Commander Erwin. And that if they have a concern, they should bring it to one of you."
"Are they really going to listen to a Cadet though?" Marco asked skeptically.
"In this case, they will have to," Erwin said with a scowl. "Any future attempts will result in the offenders being regarded as traitors."
"Well, that should keep most of them from doing something stupid," Reiner agreed under his breath. After all, here being a traitor meant being a "traitor to humanity" instead of just a traitor to a country.
"Also, we've been considering increasing those within your group," Hange said with a smile. "Do any of you see a problem with Bertholt Hoover or Krista Lenz joining us?"
"Bert?" Reiner said in surprise before turning to relief. "Well, glad that's over. Been kind of awkward, not being able to explain why we're the ones guarding Scales."
"Why didn't we go with that codename?" Hange murmured to herself in thought.
"Umm, Commanders?" Armin spoke up in concern. "I'm not sure if you're aware, but Krista Lenz is rather...close to Ymir."
"Are you suggesting she knew?" Annie asked with a scowl.
"I don't want to think so, but we can't rule it out, can we?" Armin pointed out reluctantly. "But even if she isn't, well, what do we say about Ymir's...situation."
"Armin, I don't think we have to worry about that," Connie stated flatly.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Jean asked with a frown.
"Well, the commanders and...Sorry, Ma'am, I forget your rank, but they're smiling like they already knew that," Connie pointed out.
Hange waved off the apology in amusement while Erwin gave a brief nod. "Indeed, Cadet Springer. However, it is good to be cautious in times like this, so your concern is appreciated Cadet Arlert," Erwin assured
"Is there anything else?" Pyxis questioned, eyes scanning over each of them.
No one spoke up, having no objections and clearly with minds preoccupied with recent events.
"Very well, you're all dismissed, except for Ackerman," Erwin instructed. None of the cadets looked all that surprised. After all, Mikasa was the main one at the scene last night.
"Of course, this does leave a rather important question in the air unanswered," Pyxis stated once the other cadets had left, leveling a look at Mikasa.
"Mikasa? I don't know how you feel about the commanders, but I think you know I trust him," Hange said, nodding down to Eren's form below. "So I hope you know I'm asking this without doubting him: Why was he near the boulder to begin with?"
Mikasa had a dark look on her face as she met their gaze. Not angry so much as...on edge. "Eren woke up last night and approached the boulder. He placed his head...heads on it. Not to move it, more like he was...listening for something. Something outside the wall," Mikasa explained.
Erwin narrowed his gaze. "Do you know what he heard?"
Mikasa nodded slowly. "I used my gear to land on the wall, to get closer to the boulder," Mikasa explained, pausing as if reliving something in her head. "We could hear...something outside, in the breach. It didn't sound like a Titan. It was strange…like something was gurgling and licking."
Hange frowned. She had seen plenty of abnormals, but that did seem rather odd even for them. "Did you warn any of the other soldiers?"
"No," Mikasa admitted. "I was too busy making sure the crews didn't try to kill Eren."
"What makes you so sure it wasn't just a Titan?" Pyxis asked idly.
"I wasn't finished, sir," Mikasa informed respectfully. "When we were still listening, we both heard something...speak."
No one said anything, almost unable to process what Mikasa claimed. "S-speak?" Hange repeated. "As in you heard a voice?"
Mikasa nodded slowly. "Just barely, but yes. Like it somehow knew we were there, listening to it."
"Well, what did it say?" Pyxis asked, wondering why this normally straightforward soldier was beating around the bush.
"...Yeager. It said his name, Yeager."
Meanwhile
"So...why Krista Lenz?"
"Huh?" Krista tilted her head towards the wall, knowing Ymir was on the other side. "What do you mean?"
"Just wondering. There a reason your fake name is Krista Lenz?" Ymir asked curiously.
Krista frowned in thought. "Yeah...yeah, there is," she answered with a distant voice.
"You okay? Bad Memory?" Ymir asked in concern.
"Not in the way you mean. Just kind of hard to recall," Krista answered. "When I was little. There was a book I read, filled with stories. One of them was a girl named Krista Lenz."
Ymir raised an eyebrow, feeling something nudging at her thoughts. "Oh? What was the story about?"
"About a girl that wanted to be helpful and loved by everyone," Krista said with a small smile. "Someone ladylike."
"Krista...?" Ymir questioned in concern.
"The story went that she made a deal so that she would be able to bring protection and prosperity to her people," Krista continued, almost automatically
Ymir's eyes widened as dots began to connect. It wasn't possible, right? There was just too big of a coincidence, right? "A deal with...who, exactly?"
"I think it was called a devil," Krista remarked idly, smiling a small bit. "But it looked more like a big goblin or something, wearing a cloak and holding...something. I think it was a torch? Might have been a lantern?"
Ymir barely heard her, processing what she just heard. She knew that story or some version of it. She had heard people speak of the stories Marley taught as fact, but for some reason, the name Ymir Fritz was changed to Krista Lenz in this story. Why? Was it important?
More importantly, did that...imply something about Krista? About her family? Because if it did, then...
Ymir lost all color in her face.
"Ymir? You alright?" Krista asked with a worried tone.
Realizing she had been silent for too long, Ymir forced herself to smile and hope her voice was convincing. "Y-yeah, just trying to imagine you making a deal with a devil," she admitted with a forced snort. "But, what even was the deal? What did she have to give up?"
"That was the confusing part, because- and I remember this part distinctly because it confused me so much- she had to grow an apple the devil gave to her," Krista explained.
Ymir focused on that, but almost lost it again at the implication. "Oh? Did you...ever figure it out?" she asked idly, trying so hard to sound coy.
Krista rolled her eyes. "Yes, I know. She was "given his seed" as it were," Krista said with a snort. "It makes sense, I guess."
"...What?" Ymir asked in confusion.
"Well, I'm the bastard of some noble family. Of course, they had a story like that. It's basically some tale about a girl having to marry someone she didn't like for the good of her people, or something like that," Krista explained with a sigh. "And I can't say I don't understand the logic."
Ymir frowned. "Don't tell me you'd take that deal."
"Depends on the deal, I guess," Krista said with a sigh. "I mean, imagine if someone offered the power to end the Titans? Or..." Krista trailed off.
"Or?" Ymir asked intently.
Krista scratched her cheek, debating if she should say it. "...Can I ask you something first?"
"Y-yeah?" Ymir asked, feeling very focused on Krista now.
"Would you...hate being human? Just human?"
Ymir froze as she started to understand. "No...no I wouldn't," she admitted, feeling herself fumbling as she knew where this going. "Are you saying...you'd make a deal with the devil...just to make me human again?"
Krista smiled idly. "Well...It wouldn't be that bad. You always talk about marrying me, but you never say what'd we'd do about kids."
Ymir nearly jumped at that, rattling her chains. "EH?! Where did that come from!?" she asked with a blush on her face.
"Oh my walls, I wish I could see your face!" Krista said with a chortle of laughter.
Ymir panted a bit before allowing herself to smirk. "You're just determined to give me a heart attack, aren't you?"
"Nope! You're just adorable flustered," Krista teased.
"A-adorable!? Me?! Fuck off, you pint-sized witch," Ymir shot back good-naturedly.
"Yes, really, fuck off."
Krista leaned to the side and spied Levi returning with Petra and Oluo. "Eh? That you shrimpy?"
"And Petra, and the one who kept biting his tongue," Krista answered.
"Oi, show some damn respect you brats," Oluo scolded with an eyebrow twitch.
"I'm sorry, Sir, but you...never actually told us your name," Krista pointed out.
Petra smirked in approval as Oluo simmered, trying to recall if he had indeed forgotten to mention his name. Levi, however, paid this all no mind. "We need to talk," Levi said as he opened Krista's cell.
"Hey, I already agreed I'd talk," Ymir reminded with a scowl.
"Stop your squirming, Jaws," Levi remarked as he feigned removing the bonds from Krista. "This isn't related to you, and she's not in trouble."
"Oh. Well, okay, have fun with shrimpy, Krista," Ymir called off.
"Try not to make Petra mad again!" Krista called back as Levi led her out.
"Yes, try not-" Petra paused as she stood in front of Ymir's cell and squinted. "-to. Are you okay? You're looking pale?"
"Living underground does that," Ymir remarked with a smirk. "Relax, just some of that shit you fed me not agreeing with me."
Petra didn't look convinced but merely took her place sitting in the chair opposite the cell. "If you say so."
Ymir rolled her eyes as she ran a hand over her face, hoping some of her own dread wasn't showing.
She thought that Krista and her connection to the higher-ups in the Walls might give Krista some leverage to get some kind of life outside the walls. That she was important enough to be worth sparing.
But there was such a thing as being too important.
If Krista- no, If Historia was a bastard of the royal bloodline, a descendant of the Fritz family then Marley would have a fate worse than death in store for her, Ymir was almost certain. Even ignoring the very real possibility of torturing her just for her bloodline...
Ymir didn't know everything about the Titans, not by a longshot. But she knew that there was a reason that the Nine were kept in certain bloodlines. That certain abilities responded best to hosts of certain descent. At least, that was some of the things she had heard and read about during her days of being worshipped like a goddess by that cult. If that held true then the Founding Titan only responded best to the Royal Family.
And if Marley was after the Founder, they needed royal blood to use its full power.
They'd definitely use Krista to make more royal blood. The idea haunted Ymir's mind: Historia, in a cell not unlike this, chained like she was now, and forced to wait...
Wait to give birth or wait to be...given someone's seed.
She gave a trembling smirk as she realized, without a doubt, she had made the right choice.
Meanwhile
Everyone gave them a wide birth. Their friends were gone, probably some meeting about what happened. They weren't included.
[[[They probably think we're still healing.]]]
[[Or pissed off.]]
[We are!]
Eins growled to himself while Drei snorted.
[[[Calm down. I was the one that lost a horn.]]]
[You're me and I'm you, and so is he!]
[[We all lost a horn.]]
[[[And yet, I'm not that mad about it.]]]
[Well why not!?]
Drei shared a look with Zwei before they glanced to Eins, who begrudgingly got their meaning.
[[[[We were expecting this to happen.]]]]
Humans were fearful, ignorant, and quick to lash out. He knew this very well, having seen some of the worst and best of humanity after the Fall of Maria. He knew eventually there would come a point where someone in the humans would lash out at him.
[[At least it was like this.]]
[...?!]
[[[He means that someone cracked, instead of the military just trying to kill us.]]]
[...True. But what do we do if they try that again?]
[[What do you want to do? Throw giant rocks at the walls with our mouths?]]
[...I mean, it's an idea.]
[[[No.]]]
[You know that the only way to survive is to fight!]
[[[Yeah, but...]]]
[[None of us are wrong.]]
Both side heads looked to the middle one, who scolded at the ground in thought.
[[We won't just lie down and die for them if they turn on us, but we shouldn't give them more reasons to be threatened by us.]]
[[[It'd be easier if we could talk. I mean, I know they might not listen, but...]]]
[Yeah, yeah. Why the hell can Ymir talk at all in that form, but we can only growl and grunt?]
[[Different vocal cords, probably.]]
[That was rhetorical and you know it!]
[[And you know I'm just responding to distract us, so stop you're complaining.]]
Eins rolled his eyes. They had been fairly in sync in what they thought ever since they made Mikasa and the others realize who they- he was. But taking a cannonball to the head had divided them more than before. Eins was perpetually pissed off by the entire event, while Drei was just resigned and accepting of what happened. Zwei was stuck meditating as he did his own musing. They were still Eren, but the three parts of Eren were very much out of harmony about the situation...
"Yeager..."
...And, if they were all being honest, they were ignoring the bigger, more alarming problem.
"Yeager..."
The voice from last night slithered in his head like a damn ghost.
"Yeager..."
What was it? What was out there? Was it another shifter?
"Yeager..."
Or was it...something else? Something like himself? But most importantly...
"I'm here, Yeager..."
[[[[How did it know my name!?]]]]
They felt a frustrated snarl forming on all of their maws. Something out there knew who he was and somehow knew that he had become this...thing now. But how!?
[[[[...We have company.]]]]
The three all noticed it at once, the approach of a mostly familiar group. They allowed the tension to roll off their scales and turn their minds away from that unanswerable question…for now, at least.
"Oooh, Trips!" Hange yelled with an enthusiastic wave.
All three heads stared down as Eren regarded them with some fondness and a great deal of relief. Being alone with himselves wasn't appealing at the moment.
[[[And there's Armin.]]]
Indeed the blond boy was trailing behind the section commander, along with another short blond.
[[Krista?]]
[[[Haven't seen her since we saved her.]]]
[You think they told her about Ymir?]
The three aspects of Eren put that aside for now as they arched their heads downwards to get a better look at the trio. This was why he preferred it when they spoke to him from rooftops, it felt more...normal if he didn't have to look that far down just to have a conversation with them; As much of a conversation as he could have in any case.
Hange was her usual self again and Armin looked relieved to see him, while Krista had a very...awkward air about her.
"It's good to see you up and about, Handsome! I trust you're filling all better?" Hange asked with a grin.
[[[[More or less.]]]]
Eins tilted his head to imitate a shrug while Zwei and Drei nodded, Drei's being a bit more lethargic than Zwei's.
"Umm, Section Commander?" Armin spoke up curiously.
"Just Hange is fine, Armin," Hange assured as she waved the boy on.
"Didn't you say one of his horns was missing?" Armin asked, squinting at the heads.
"...Eh?" Hange blinked, as did all three of Eren's heads, the other two leaning over to examine the third.
[[[Is it back already?!]]]
[I look away for one hour and it's done regrowing!?]
[[I thought it'd be weeks before it looked the same!]]
[[[[The hell?! Amazing, but the hell?!]]]]
"Ahhh, how could I be so stupid!" Hange bemoaned, slapping her own forehead. "I missed a chance to document an important aspect of his healing factor!"
Armin just stared on awkwardly as Hange and Eren, all three of them, were equally baffled and impressed by the latter's healing factor.
"Hehehe."
The display was cut short by the soft laughter of Krista Lenz, regathering their attention.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh," Krista apologized, feeling far less intimidated than she did a few minutes ago.
[You try waking up like this and not be surprised.]
[[[Hush.]]]
"Yes, well," Hange spoke up and regathered herself. "We've decided to bring more into this little group. More from the 104th actually. I've heard you two already...met, shall we say?"
"Yes, Section Commander, I've told you about being in his mouth repeatedly," Krista said with a sigh before smiling up at the golden behemoth. "I guess I should say thanks for saving me, Eren."
All of them stiffened, staring at Krista in surprise.
[[[[Did she just...?]]]]
"Is everything alright?" Krista asked uncertainly, glancing between the three...well, five since she looked to all three heads as well.
"How...did you know who he is?" Armin asked slowly while pointing at Eren, all three heads nodding in bewildered agreement.
Krista blinked, looking at everyone again. "I mean...it's not obvious?"
[Should I feel insulted?]
[[You should feel confused.]]
[[[I'm a little impressed.]]]
"Really?" Hange asked curiously, glancing at Armin, who looked just as bewildered.
"What gave it away?" Armin asked, trying not to sound off-put that Krista noticed it instantly when he didn't.
"I'm...not sure how you can't tell. The way he's acting, that's clearly Eren," Krista said, motioning to him as if it was as obvious as the sun in the sky.
[[[...Okay, maybe feel insulted.]]]
[No, NOW I'm confused.]
[[Shut up both of you.]]
"Plus, Eren is the only one I can imagine arguing so much with himself," Krista added on, a bit apologetically, while the heads glared at one another.
Eins, Zwei, and Drei all paused at that and grimaced before snorting in reluctant admission.
[[[[Okay, granted.]]]]
"Well, now that that is out of the way," Hange said, despite being still bewildered. "We're calling him Trips for the time being while no one knows who he actually is."
"...Okay?" Krista answered, glancing between Hange and Eren with a very skeptical and confused expression.
"Is something wrong?" Hange asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, just about anyone that knows Eren will figure out it's him fairly fast," Krista pointed out.
Armin grimaced before putting on a reassuring smile. "Well, the group is currently just us from the 104th, those that were in Trost and know Eren well."
"Oh. Okay, well, that'd be most that could recognize him, I think," Krista mused. "So, what do we do, exactly?"
[[[Follow us around.]]]
[[Interpret us.]]
[And, you know, help make sure no one shoots us with cannons!]
"What's wrong?" Armin asked, looking to the clearly annoyed Eins.
Krista raised an eyebrow. "I think he's still upset about getting shot?" she pointed out slowly.
Eins nodded in confirmation, his brow furrowing.
"Oh," Armin said, a suspicion growing in the back of his mind. He glanced to Zwei who was eyeing Krista oddly. The middle head caught his look but didn't give any response as it observed Krista.
"Yes, well, it's mainly having eyes on him while keeping the peace between him and the other soldiers, let them know what he's doing so they don't overreact like last night," Hange explained idly.
"He needs help for that?" Krista asked in surprise. "After everything he did to close the breach, you'd think-"
[[...Should we tell her what she tastes like?]]
[The fuck?!]
[[[Eh!?]]]
While Eins and Drei gave Zwei startled looks, Krista sputtered a bit and cleared her throat. "Y-you'd think they'd be giving him the benefit of the doubt."
[[[...Wait a minute.]]]
All three heads leaned down a bit more, staring at the small female human with rather intense looks.
"Trips?" Hange asked curiously but made no move to stop whatever was going on.
[There's no way, is there...?]
"E-Eren, what is it?" Krista asked nervously.
Armin looked between the giant reptile and the small cadet as his suspicions came to the surface. "Krista...can you...understand him?"
Krista blinked, looking at Armin owlishly. Slowly, she pointed up at the three-headed beast while staring at her fellow blond. "You can't?"
End of Chapter
...Okay, so yeah. Something outside the gate said Eren's name, and Krista can understand Eren. I knew I was going to do this since Krista went in Eren's mouth(lol) and decided to keep Eren's thoughts unseen until the chapter that Krista found out she could hear Eren.
So, yeah, the plot is offically speed up again. Erendorah's Slice-of-Kaiju-Life phase is coming to an end as several things boil to a head.
Oh, yeah, and Ymir realized that Krista's fate outside the walls might have worse than just dying behind the walls, due to the royal blood. I figure that book that Frieda gave Historia/Krista is probably the last one or so on the isalnd, and would be a good hint to Ymir about Krista's true origins.
PS I love writing Eins, Zwei, and Drei conversing again. I don't know why, but I do. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this!
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