The Island of Devils

Chapter 7

"Nice work, Falco." Falco was sitting beside Eren again, however, this time, Armin was actually by his side as Eren's caretaker. "It's all thanks to you, Kruger! But at this point, I honestly doubt I can pass up Gabi. Even so, I'm gonna keep moving forward."

"I see." Falco looked at him. "I'm the one who should be thanking you, though. I'm grateful you've been sending all my letters. You've been a big help."

"Yeah..." he scratched his cheek. He noticed the baseball glove beside Kruger. "Did your family send you that?"

"They thought it'd make hospital life less boring." He touched it. "Hard to do much in this shape, though." He looked up. "I need to move forward, too. When the festival's over, I'm going back to my hometown."

"I see." He saw a doctor coming out. "A doctor's coming. I'll get going!" Falco walked away.

"Yeah." Kruger looked after him. Armin frowned, Falco looked like a good kid, but the fact that he would try to kill them in the future hurt him.

"May I sit next to you?" the doctor asked him.

"Yeah, sure." The doctor sat down. "I appreciate it."

They looked at each other. "I'm Yeager, a physician for the zone. I come here to drink tea sometimes."

Armin widened his eyes in surprise, but Eren just simply said, "Nice to meet you. I'm Kruger. And this is my caretaker Armin."

"Nice to meet you, Kruger. You seem to get along with that boy."

"Yeah." Eren nodded.

"I see. I think I could get along with him, too. I sit here on this bench looking for people to talk to. His uncle was a leader of the Eldian Restorationists. Restorationists are sent to Paradis and not even their family is spared." Falco was seen walking down the street. "To protect their family, he and his brother trained to be Warriors, and when his brother was chosen to inherit the Beast Titan, the Grice family knew they were finally safe."

"Why are you telling me this?" Eren asked.

"Stop asking the boy to do favors for you. If he comes under suspicion, all their effort will have been for nothing. And if you're truly healthy, you should go home to your family. Someday, you won't see them anymore. Don't wait and live with regret."

Inside a nurse saw them talking and pointed it out to a doctor.

"Regret, huh?" Eren asked. "You have regrets about your own family?"

"There's not a day that I won't. That day, my son took my daughter outside the walls. It's because I was too strict about him becoming a doctor!" He was panting and began to yell. "It's my fault! Everything is my fault!" He grabbed his face and screamed, while Eren just watched him.

"Mr. Yeager!" A doctor and a nurse were running toward them. "Please don't go around on your own!"

"I'm so sorry. I looked away for a second." The nurse apologized to Kruger.

They walked away with Mr. Yeager. "This way, Mr. Yeager." The nurse said.

"Everything will be okay." The doctor said.

Eren looked down at his hand, he was holding a baseball, and someone threw the baseball in the air.

"He seemed to regret what happened to your aunt..." Armin muttered.

"He kept believing the lies made by Marley and kept telling Zeke, on the other hand, my father also told Zeke about how Marley was lying. With the information bursting in his mind, it was no wonder Zeke betrayed my parents and turned them in..." Eren frowned. "I'm glad that old guy was willing to admit it's his fault..."