Between life and death, there is hope. But every ending has the same outcome: the Rumbling razes the earth, taking the person you love with it.
After you die, you reawake in the day you met your best friend, Eren Jaeger. In every life you relive, y...
Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry, you don't know how lovely you are I had to find you, tell you I need you, and tell you I set you apart
TWELVE
You eliminate your biggest enemy—yourself.
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As you hung in limbo through the Paths realm, your obsession only grew until you were pushed to your very last limit.
You have often thought you were the solution, that you were put into this world to fulfill the tasks required of you. But wars and destinies were dense with terrifying uncertainties, causes and effects, unsolvable computations, positives and negatives that could never reach a boxed numerical answer. There was no solid equation. You could only reason with humanity.
One spared life could result in the deaths of thousands of innocents. One slaughtered life could cause societies to flourish better than untouched biomes. A few words could change the course of history, but you couldn't get them out.
Eren was in love with you—that, you were certain.
You were awful. You ruined his life.
Not only have you hurt his feelings repeatedly, but you had made him go through eleven lives of suffering. You couldn't do that to him anymore. Knowing that it was all your fault made you certain that you were unworthy of being an object of his affection and desire.
It was so simple. You couldn't believe you hadn't thought about it before.
You were the problem.
You always tried to make sure that Eren would not fall for you so he wouldn't bring it upon himself to orchestrate that hell, and die early. It was a spurious solution.
You had to remove the error.
You had to remove yourself.
Perhaps you didn't belong in this world. Your presence has only ever made Eren's life worse. It didn't matter if you loved each other. Maybe it was for the better that you left.
So when you woke up in your bed that day in Shiganshina, only seven years old, you sat up and went to your mother. Instead of doing your task to tend to the garden, you stayed inside and wiped the plates clean. That was all you had to do to never meet Eren.
You peeped through the curtains. Sure enough, Eren was there, leaning over the fence.
"Eren, come in," you heard Carla calling. "Don't bother our neighbors."
"Yes, Mom."
When he realized that there was nothing of interest happening, he slumped and let his mother call for him to go inside.
With a heavy heart, you spent your childhood never going out and meeting Eren, Mikasa, and Armin. You heard their voices from your room as they spoke over each other in Eren's house, squeaking about going to the outside world.
