Vengeance Of A Human

Her Kingdom Come: Hardened Resolve

Joshua

"HUUUUAAHHH!" I cut the back of one of the Anti-Personnel Squad's members back, watching her fall to the crystal floor as I cover myself back in the screen of black and green smoke. Thanks to Armin in the back with Sasha, the smoke is constantly replenished, allows us cadets and our three executive leaders to move around and use our advantage of mobility against the Interior Police. Our ODMs are superior in the fashion that our weapons aren't limited by the direction of movement, whereas the MPs can only move wherever their guns are facing.

It's almost like fighting flying, gunslinging Titans. I smile as I set myself on a pillar, watching as the enemy falls back. Levi said there were thirty-five initially, but I can tell the enemy's forces are severely depleted. I swipe the blood of the humans I've killed off my face. At least Titan blood evaporates. I look around, seeing Hange engaging a blonde. Something is wrong, however, and I see it once my direct superior's back is slammed on a pillar. "Hange!"

Ignoring the retreating Interior Police, we gather around Hange.

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Historia

"It seems the enemy is nearby. Let's hurry, Historia."

"Right." Eren begins to grunt and scream as best as he can as he wrestles in his restraints. He was quiet up until the very moment Reiss took a syringe out of a black box. Looking up, Christa frowns at her friend. "What, Eren? Why are you glaring?"

"it's because," Reiss states, 'he has perceived his fate. That the stolen power will return to where it belongs. Historia… That means inside you." This is becoming more and more confusing for Historia. Eren has a power…that's rightfully Historia's? "This cavern, it was built 100 years ago by the power of a certain Titan. Those three walls were built by the same power. By creating those enormous walls, humanity was protected. The power of that Titan reached out to touch people's hearts and alter their memories. However, several bloodlines were excluded from that. But their descendants and the rest of humanity retain no history of the world past a century ago. Except for one, Frieda Reiss. Frieda possessed more than her power as a Titan. She knew how this world came about and all the details behind it. She was fifteen years old when that knowledge became hers. Right here, eight years ago in this very place after she ate her uncle, my younger brother. Frieda inherited the Founding Titan and the memories of this world. As had been done for one hundred years, repeated and passed through generations."

"Father…"

"Yes… Basically, if Frieda had just used her power, there wouldn't have been any problems. We might have eliminated Titans from this world entirely. If only his father hadn't stolen the power from her. Now, that power resides within Eren. However, that power, it can't truly manifest unless the blood of the Reiss family runs through them. As long as he remains a vessel for that power, this hell will forever continue."

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" The one named Kenny slides down from above. "So unless it's a Reiss who eats Eren, they can't become a true king?"

"That is correct," Reiss replies.

"Th-Then... even if I turn into a Titan and eat Eren, it'll mean nothin'?"

"What are you-?" Kenny suddenly grabs Reiss, holding Historia's father at gunpoint.

"Father!"

"Do you think I'm lying to you or something?"

"Nope. I waited long for this day 'cuz I knew you weren't lying about the succession ritual. For crying out loud, you used me this whole time knowing full well what I was after, you sleazy playboy!"