chapter 21

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Adult Eren Yeager and Frieda Reiss were inside Frieda's chambers. Eren was doing pushups to keep his body active while Frieda was dressed in her white gown and brushed her long black hair while sitting in front of a large mirror. She stopped brushing for a moment and thought about what happened earlier after Carla

"I'm very happy that you reunited your family, Eren." Frieda said as she kept brushing her hair.

Flashback

Earlier that day after, five minutes after Carla had reunited with the younger Eren and Mikasa, Carla had reunited with her significant other, Grisha Yeager. The Adult Eren and Frieda stood from the sidelines and watched the married Yeager couple embrace in relief and in joy. Grisha sobbed with tears of joy as he hugged his wife, Carla.

End Flashback

"I'm happy that my father didn't go off the deep end." Eren responded as he kept doing pushups.

"I've never thought Doctor Yeager would break down in tears around anyone. But, then again, it's Miss Carla we're talking about." Frieda said.

"Funny. I never saw him physically cry at all. Except in my past memories." Eren said.

"I understand. Tell me, Eren." Frieda said.

"Hm? Something wrong?" Eren stood still in his pushup position and looked up to Frieda.

"How did you manage bring your mother back to life?" Frieda turned her chair around to face Eren.

Eren stood on his two after leaving his pushup position and walked toward Frieda. "To tell you the truth, Frieda. I didn't revive my mother." Eren told Frieda after he gently grabbing both of Frieda's wrists and bent a knee in front of her.

"Huh?" Frieda gave Eren a bit of a look of confusion as she didn't follow where Eren was going.

"No matter how powerful I've gotten... I still can't bring back the dead." Eren disappointingly admitted.

"Then, how did..."

"I went to another timeline and retrieved my mother from certain death. " Eren told Frieda.

Frieda grew a bit more surprised than she hoped to be. "What? Really?"

"Mm-hmm. I'll explain it to you as best I can." Eren said, then thinking back a bit.

Flashback

The Year Eight Fifty-Four

Eren had suddenly appeared in Shiganshina District, but there was a totally different atmosphere than when he first arrived. He looked at the sky to see the orange sky. He knew that the sun was planning to set within a few hours. He looked at his surroundings to chunks of wall debris had collided with a number of houses and crushed innocent civilians. Many people had screamed, ran and trampled over each other within fear as a majority attempted.

Eren climbed on top of the nearest roof and stared south towards the front gate within Shiganshina. His eyes squinted to get a closer look and her saw giant humanoid people entering Shiganshina through the breach.

As soon as Eren saw a small number of Titans walking through a large breach within the front Shiganshina gate, he immediately knew what was going on, where and when he was.

'This is it. I made it back to the day when Bertoldt and Reiner breached the Wall Maria. Looks like Bertoldt had already destroyed the front gate.' Eren then looked far behind himself to see the rear gate that leads to the outskirts of Shiganshina still intact. 'Looks like Reiner hadn't breached the rear gate, yet. Which means...' Eren then climbed down from the roof that he was standing on and ran down the street towards the direction of his house. He knew that a large chunk of wall debris had directly landed on top of his old home and trapped his mother. 'If I hurry and make a B line toward my house, then I still have time to...' Eren then thought of the last moments he had spent with his mother, Carla, before her own demise. 'Don't worry, I'm coming, mom! I'm coming to save you!'

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