The Island of Devils

Chapter 20

The room was filled with silence and they couldn't believe what they'd heard. Armin said, "Are you telling me that my family was the royal family for the Colossal Titan?"

"It is not just Armin, but Floch, Sasha, and you as well?" Hange asked.

Eren nodded and said, "Back when we retook Wall Maria, I knew if choosing between Commander Erwin and Armin, Erwin was the best choice. But for some reason, my mind kept telling me that I should continue to fight for Armin instead. It was until that Award Ceremony that I understood. If Armin took the Colossal Titan, then he wouldn't be able to die from the 13-year curse, and also using the full power of the Colossal Titan not even Bertolt could do."

Armin was surprised, he won't die after 12 years from now. "That's great, Armin!" Jean said to him.

"But what about you? You have both the Founding and the Attack in you. Will you die from the curse?" Historia asked Eren.

"Technically, I won't." Eren said. "My father didn't know that, so that's why he gave me the powers before his thirteenth year."

"But that meant except Historia... we have 4 Royal Blood with us right now." Hange said.

"No, there are five." Eren said. "Annie Leonhart was also one of the Royal Blood."

This caused everyone to widen their eyes.  Connie asked, "Are you telling me that you're going to have Annie on  our side?"

"Absolutely not. She had killed the people from Stohess and also my comrades." Levi said. "We're not letting her go."

"We knew Annie better than you guys. Annie only wanted to reunite with her father. She didn't care about Marley and others." Eren said. "If we use this to persuade her to our side, we would've been able to have another strength to our island."

"And how are you sure that she will agree to help us out?" Jean asked.

"Marley had abandoned her, so she wouldn't have a choice." Eren said. "Not let's count that Annie had joined us, we would have six royal families already. Two of them are living on the Marley mainland, while one of them was in the Cadet Corps."

This caused them to widen their eyes and Eren continued, "If she joined the Survey Corps, then we would have 7 Royal Families already, all that's left was to take the Titan powers from others."

"How are we going to take their Titan power?" Hange asked.

"I don't know, that's why we need time to come up with a plan." Eren said, and the others nod. Then Eren said, "And before we find Annie, there was also something that I also need to confess."

"What is it?" Historia asked.

"Before we got to the ocean, we managed to find a lot of pure Titans and killed them. However, they weren't dead. Instead, I turned them back to humans and I also brought them to a safe place." Eren said.

"Wait, what? Why didn't you tell us?" Mikasa asked.

"They need some time to heal themselves, and they don't trust anyone who gets close to them except for me. I couldn't just tell you so that you would bother them." Eren said, "They don't know anything about the memory wipe, and some of them weren't Eldia Restorationists, they thought of us as Island Devils and were scared that we would do something to us."

"Just how many secrets have you hidden after that award ceremony?" Levi asked. "And what was your reason to keep them a secret?"

"Because I said that the Attack Titan can manipulate time, and that means... I could see the future." Eren said.