ɪɴᴛᴇɴꜱɪᴛʏ [ᴇᴅɪᴛɪɴɢ]

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ꜰᴏʀᴛʏ-ᴏɴᴇ

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"Ronette, my dear, don't ever disappear. Do what you want, as long as you stay here."

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And there it was in all its glory.

Eren Jaeger's Founding Titan.

My eyes widened at the terrifying sight. From what I could see, it was just pure skeleton. And the eerie Titans following him only added to that fear.

Finally...after all these sacrifices...we're free.

Everyone, I hope you're seeing this...

"Hear me, Subjects of Ymir," Eren's voice suddenly spoke. I was transported to that place. That ethereal blue place with the luminescent light sky.

My eyes softened.

"My name is Eren Jaeger. I'm addressing my fellow Subjects of Ymir. Speaking to you directly through the power of the Founder. All the walls on the island of Paradis have crumbled to the ground, and the legions of Titans buried within have begun their march. My only goal is to protect the lives of the people of Paradis, the island where I was born.
Right now, the nations of the world are united
in their desire to exterminate my people, and it won't end with our island. They won't be satisfied until every last Subject of Ymir is dead.I won't let them have their way. The Titans of the walls will continue their march until every trace of life beyond our shores is trampled flat, and the people of Paradis are all that remains of humanity."

And that was it before I was transported out of that lonely setting and back to Shiganshina. Eren's gonna take it from here. Everything from this point forward has been me. I trust that he'll prevail.

I just sat back down with dead eyes and watched with folded legs as Eren kept moving forward. Everyone's going to die.

Right now, I just wanna sleep. Even if it's for a little while.

But that's when it occurred to me.

Eren had undone all the hardening within the walls. With wide, tired eyes, I shot up again from my seated position.

Annie!

I held a cold palm to my head to calm my headache.

No...not yet.

Annie waits. We have a bigger problem on our hands.

I turned around the the Titans swarming Shiganshina and sighed. I was running low on gas. The most I could do is use up my last bits of energy to form spikes that pierce through at least some of the Titans.