𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 || 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢 𝐀

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟑𝟖 : 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢

The figure began to pace towards me, I felt a surge of adrenaline coursing through my veins. My heart racing, I turned to make a hasty retreat, but my legs seemed to move in slow motion. The figure, on the other hand, seemed to be closing in on me with an unnerving speed.

I pumped my arms and legs as fast as I could, but it was no use. The alley seemed to stretch on forever.

My feet pounded the pavement, but I could sense the figure gaining on me. I was running out of time, and I knew it. The alley's walls seemed to be closing in on me, making me feel trapped and helpless.

Just as I thought I might manage to escape, I felt a strong hand grab my shoulder from behind. I tried to shake it off, but it was too late.

I tried to struggle, but the figure's grip was like a vice. I was trapped, and I knew I was at its mercy. The last thing I remembered was the feeling of being pulled back into the darkness, the figure's grip tightening around me like a noose.

As I stood there, frozen in terror, the figure spoke in a low, husky voice that sent shivers down my spine. "I'm sorry," it said, the words dripping with malice. And then, in an instant, I knew that voice. It was Toji's voice, a voice I had thought I knew so well.

"Toji?" I asked, trying to keep my voice steady.

Before I could even process asking anything else, a searing pain shot through my body, leaving me breathless and gasping for air. It took me a moment to realize that Toji had stabbed me, the blade slicing through my flesh with deadly precision.

"Toji, stop!" I cried out, trying to scramble away from him. "Please, don't do this!"

Toji released his grip on me, I crumpled to the ground, my vision blurring with tears of pain. I looked up at Toji, my eyes pleading for answers, and that was when I saw him remove his mask, revealing the face I thought I knew.

"Why?" I cried out, my voice shaking with agony. "Why did you do this to me?"

Toji's eyes gleamed with a crazed intensity as he gazed down at me. "I love you," he whispered, his voice dripping with obsession. "I love you so much that I couldn't let Levi take you away from me. If I can't have you, no one will."

I lay there, bleeding and helpless, Toji's words echoed in my mind like a curse: "If I can't have you, no one will."

Toji turned to walk away, I summoned every last ounce of strength to speak, my voice barely above a whisper. "Toji, wait...I'm pregnant," I said, the words tumbling out of my mouth in a desperate bid to stop him.

But Toji just kept walking, his back turned to me as if he hadn't even heard my words. I tried again, my voice growing louder, more urgent. "Toji, please...I need to go to the hospital."

But Toji didn't even flinch. He just kept walking, his footsteps echoing off the alleyway.

I could see the blood flowing from my wound, pooling on the ground in a sickening crimson tide. I felt a wave of dizziness wash over me, and I knew I was running out of time.

Just as I thought Toji had vanished into the night, he stopped and turned to look over his shoulder. His eyes locked onto mine, and I saw a glimmer of something there - something that looked almost like a triumph.

"Call Levi," he said, his voice dripping with malice. "If his love for you is strong, he'll manage to save you. But if not...you'll die."

With that, Toji turned and disappeared into the darkness, leaving me to my fate. I was alone, bleeding, and pregnant, with only the faint hope that Levi might somehow manage to save me.

I lay there, my life slipping away with each passing moment, I desperately tried to call Levi, my fingers trembling as I dialed his number. But my screen was slick with blood, making it impossible to get a good grip. I tried texting him, but my hands were shaking so hard that I could barely type out a coherent message.

With a Herculean effort, I pressed the call button, praying that he would answer. But as the phone rang, my vision began to blur, and my body started to feel numb. I whispered into the phone, my voice barely audible, "Where are you, Levi? I need you..."

But Levi didn't answer. I tried calling him again and again, but each time, it went straight to voicemail. Panic set in as I realized that I was truly alone, with no one to turn to.

In desperation, I tried to call Hange, but then I remembered that she and the others were out of the city for work. I was truly on my own, with no one to save me.

As the numbness spread through my body, I felt my strength fading. I tried to call Blake, but before I could even dial his number, my hands stopped working. The phone slipped from my grasp, and I was left lying there, helpless and alone.

Tears streamed down my face as I clutched my stomach, feeling a wave of despair wash over me. I whispered a prayer, asking for forgiveness from my unborn child. "I'm sorry," I whispered, my voice barely audible. "I'm so sorry that I couldn't protect you. Please forgive me..."

And then, like a curtain falling at the end of a tragic play, everything went black. The dimly lit alleyway, the cold, unforgiving pavement beneath me, the sound of my own ragged breathing - all of it was suddenly extinguished, plunging me into a darkness so profound it was almost palpable.

The pain, the fear, the desperation - all of it was erased in an instant, replaced by a vast, echoing silence. I felt myself being pulled down, down, down into the depths of that darkness, like a stone sinking into a bottomless lake.

And as I fell, I was aware of nothing but the sensation of weightlessness, of freedom from the burdens of the world. It was a strange, almost euphoric feeling, as if I had finally found release from the struggles and sorrows that had haunted me for so long.

But even that feeling was short-lived, for as I fell deeper into the darkness, I began to lose all sense of self, all awareness of my own existence. I was no longer a person, no longer thinking, feeling being - I was simply a void, an emptiness, a nothingness.

And in that nothingness, I found a strange, dark peace.