𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒇 | A Yeager Story

[02] Mina Carolina

???'s POV

Mina Carolina. I remember her based on the pictures that my mother has shown me in the past.

Her black hair was tied into two low pigtails, she had fair skin, and her small frame was almost identical to my original body. The only differences were the hairstyle, a slight height difference – she was shorter – and the eye color.

And here I am, standing at a tall wall alongside people who were in their teenage years. My first life ended at a young age, similar to theirs and similar to the person I am occupying at this moment. So, being thrown into this body didn't feel weird at all.

Which is weird in its own way, considering how normal I felt.

According to my mother, Mina was supposed to die during the second appearance of the colossal titan. Her death was as cruel and torturous as most victims of the Titans. So, as Ymir had told me, she wanted to make me see how dirty the world is before I was even born.

It doesn't make sense, though, how Ymir is able to do such a thing. But who am I to question it? After all, I'm simply a mere soldier.

Seeing both my father and mother in their teenage years will feel unnatural, and I will want nothing more than to run up to them and hug both of their bodies. But Mina Carolina wasn't that kind of person. She also was not close to them. So, why should I do it? Ymir only wanted to show me their past, so what did she mean that this was the world where my father properly did his job?

"Mina!"

There was one thing, however, that I immediately learned, and that is Ymir has a sadistic personality.

She threw my soul into Mina Carolina's body right when a colossal titan was staring right at our group. I had never tried to use an ODM gear back in my first life, so I blanked out just when a large amount of air pressure managed to push all of us away from the wall. In addition to that, a metal rod that was used for a cannon was suddenly impaled on my hand.

So, even when Mina's memories began to combine with my own, I couldn't properly use this gear.

Dying right after Ymir has given me a second life is as embarrassing as it could get. Maybe she won't even give me another chance.

Just when I was readying myself to die for the second time, a strong and sturdy arm was suddenly wrapped around my waist, perfectly catching me from falling towards death.

"Do you want to die?!" The voice, a young man, screamed enough for me to hear. When I finally had the chance to look, there I saw my eyes directly gazing into my own.

My father, Eren Yeager, caught me at the right moment. A second late, and I would have most likely died.

"I'm sorry!" I hastily apologized and pulled the impaled metal rod from my hand. As Mina's memories began to combine into my own, just like she had done a hundred times, I moved my body to adapt from 'my' ODM gear, eventually pulling myself away from the younger version of my father.

"Don't die!" His determined eyes struck me, almost making me thank Ymir for allowing me to witness such a beautiful sight.

"The wall has been breached?"

I eventually snapped upon hearing those words.

"Not again..." Someone muttered in terror. "The Titans will come inside the walls again!"

After dishing out an unused handkerchief and tying it around my wounded hand, my gaze landed on my father, whose eyes were showing both terror and rage.

"Annihilate all of you..."

Just with those words, he has regained his composure. He said, "Fixed cannon maintenance team 4, prepare for combat! Our target is the Colossal Titan before us!"