kiss from a corpse ♡︎ereri/riren♡︎

₊˚๑ ༄ a book's guidance

[dang just begin] 

✧ LEVI'S POV ✧

i could feel someone tugging on my sleeve and i turned to find out it was eren. "hm?" i hummed in an asking tone. "levi, i want to stay here... so do you mind accompanying me back to the uh land of the living to tell someone?" he whispered and my face immediately lit up. "you.. want to stay here?" i was still in disbelieve, honestly. "certainly, its great here, with you" my mind and non-existent heart was racing when he said that. 

"i think hanji knows how to get back up there" 

the words i just let out couldn't help but invite a small smile to tug on my lips. eren smiled widely, took my hand, and ran after hanji who was a few meters in front of us. 

"oi, shitty glasses, do you know a way for us to go back up?" i asked, making hanji turn their head and moved their gaze down. 

"back to the land of the living?"  

"yes" 

"i do know there is a way, i don't quite remember it though. BUT armin has a book containing what you need to know" their cheery tone can obviously be detected. all three of us directed our heads to armin, who's at the back. the blond let out a small squeak of surprise as he noticed all eyes were on him. "w-what?" he spoke as he went back to his relaxed state. 

"hey pal, hanji told us you have a book about going back up to the land of the living?" eren claimed and pointed to hanji. "ooh, yeah i do" armin was now completely calm. "can we borrow it?" i added. "for?" armin raised an eyebrow. 

we all expected hanji to tell the reason but they just pointed two fingers at me and eren, then one finger up, then just shrugged. armin eyed hanji with a puzzled expression until a few seconds later he let out a long "oooooh" and nodded. armin started walking past us and we all presumed it was a sign to follow him to where the book is placed. 

after about 10 minutes of walking, we arrived at a familiar stairway which leads to a colossal building. "OOOH THE LIBRARY??" hanji's face beamed with excitement and armin just hummed in response. we made it up the stairs, opened the huge doors, and was greeted with the scent of old books. in my opinion the library was an utter mess. yes some books are neatly placed but most of them are just on the ground, or just hanging for dear life on the shelf. books aside, there were also a crap ton of parchment everywhere. whether it was rolled up nicely, scrunched up into a ball, ripped apart in two or into a million pieces, had ink spills, folded up into the smallest square possible, they were all over the library. 

i glared at the clutter, does anyone here know how to clean? 

my attention was pulled away from the disarray as i heard armin rummaging through the piles of books. hanji was flipping through all the books they can while wearing a bright smile. eren was sitting on a chair while reading this particularly long piece of parchment. 

"AHA! found it!" armin declared and we all rushed to him. armin opened the book and started looking for a specific page, while mumbling something none of us could catch. "here!" he exclaimed and pointed at page 104 [iykwim]. he got closer to the book and muttered the paragraphs before lifting his head back up again. "alrighty so all you need to do is, 'go to the place where you once stood after going through the barrier', basically go to wherever you guys landed after the swirling teleportation stuff. then you 'focus your mind on returning to the land of the living'. after that you should just expect that swirly feeling to come back." 

"seems.. easier than i thought?" i took the book from armin's hands and read it myself just to be sure. 

"well should we try it out right now?" eren suggested and we all nodded in agreement. all four of us headed back to the site. me and eren peered back at hanji and armin as they both just gave us encouraging hand gestures.  eren took my hand, trying to find comfort as i lightly squeezed his hand. we followed the book's steps and in a few seconds we were back at the spot we first laid our eyes on each other. 

"annie, eren has been missing for a long time, i'm hella worried here!" 

"mikasa, we're searching for him right now. please try to chill out so your mind can be in a better state to think clearly" 

"what if he's dead? what if he never returns? what if he's with someone else?" 

"why do you care if he's with someone else?" 

"annie- annie its not like that, i'm just truly troubled if the person he's with right now is-" 

two girls walked up to us then abruptly stopped. one was a fairly tall ravenette, with gray eyes, pale skin, and a red scarf wrapped around her neck, one end falling gracefully from the loose loop. the other had a smaller build, blond locks draping over her face no matter how many times she slipped it behind her ear, and blue eyes slowly getting wider, astoundment sketched over her face. 

"-threatening or bizarre..." 

[this fic makes no sense but putting that fact aside, until next time you wacky human beings that i appreciate]