Vengeance Of A Human

The Breach: Utgard Castle

An hour later...

After leaving Sasha and the northern team, I traveled southwest, hoping to meet up with Nanaba, Christa and Ymir's western. It took an hour to find them and after giving Nanaba my report, I settled in with her team. They, too, were done evacuating villages and now heading south to Wall Rose.

"We're getting close to the Wall now," one of the senior scouts told Nanaba, "so there are no people living in the area."

"Right. That didn't take us very long. All right, let's head to the south."

"What for," Ymir asks. "There shouldn't be any villages south of here."

"We need to find the location the Wall was breached. We'll ride along the Wall from the west until we find it."

"But Christa and I don't have out battle gear. There's probably Titans roaming everywhere to our south. It's very possible that we'll become Titan fodder. Let the two of us withdraw from the front." Christa, riding to Ymir's left, softly calls her name, while I, to her right, chuckle low. What Titan would want to eat Ymir? Nanaba declines Ymir's request, saying she'll need them in case a report needs to be relayed and that, though she gets the feeling, this is what they signed up for.

"Ymir," Christa says as we come to a lakeside, "I'm fine with putting my life on the line. After all, I'm the one who chose to join the Scouts. But...it's not the same for you. The only reason you joined the Scouts was because-"

"Hmph! You think I did it for you?!"

"Then why are you even here? You kept trying to convince me to join the Military Police. But then you gave that privilege to me! There's no way I'm good enough to make the top ten on skill alone. I'm sure if I asked anyone, they'd say you deserved to be in it, not me. I don't know how you did it, but... Why? Why would you go that far for me?" Christa pauses for Ymir to give an answer to her, but the older girl holds her tongue as she looks ahead. Sighing, Christa speaks again, her voice becoming softer. "Does it...have to do with my family?"

Christa's family? Originally paying attention to the conversation just because I'm right beside them, I look to Christa, her body slumped on her horse. I wonder what Christa means by that, maybe I'll ask her later.

"Yeah, it does," Ymir finally says. "Christa... Don't worry about it. The only reason I'm here...is for myself and nothing else."

"...I see. Thank goodness."

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Four hours later

Seems we weren't the only ones with the idea to follow the wall.

With it being nighttime, traveling is ironically safer despite the lack of light due to the clouds, but that is trivial to the lack of active Titans. Torches alit, we scoured the Wall, yet not finding a single breach of Rose. Not even a sizable crack. This leads us to the present moment, where we meet up with Gelgar's southern team, along with him Conny, Reiner, and Bertholdt. "Did you follow the Wall here, too?"

Nanaba nods. "Yeah. Where did you find the hole?"

"Huh?"

"We didn't find anything to the west. Didn't you find it your way?"

"No. There's no hole this way either."

"What?" I look to Wall Rose, feeling a bead of sweat on my forehead. That's impossible. How could the Titans get inside the Wall without breaking through it? What they do, spring up from the ground?