Attack on Titan/Zelda crossover - To Hyrule and Back Again

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Blitz

"It's over now... You're gonna be okay..."

"You're Mikasa, right? I'm Eren... Doctor Jaeger's son. You've met him, right?"

"He came to your house for an examination, and I was tagging along. That's when... I saw this happening."

"But... It's okay now. I'm here. Nobody else is going to hurt you."

"Mikasa," his dad says, later that evening. "Do you remember me? I've seen you plenty of times when you were younger."

"Doctor Jaeger... I... have to get home. Where... do I go... from here...? I'm cold..."

"I have nowhere left to go..."

And then, the boy walks over to me and begins taking off his scarf. He wraps it around me without hesitation.

He says, "Here, you can have this. Should be warm enough now, right?"

I touch the scarf with my hand.

"It's warm."

"Mikasa... You've been through too much... How about you come live with us? What you need right now is rest..." Doctor Jaeger tells me.

I don't move. Eren starts tugging on my sleeve, saying, "Come on, it's time to go home."

"Our home."

Mikasa's Point of View

I spot him aimlessly walking in the field west of Yarckel. He has no horse. And when he sees me approaching him on my horse, he stops.

I climb off.

"Eren. We need to talk," I say.

He's looking directly away from me, as if I'm not even here.

"About what?"

"You know."

He turns around and stares at me with his conflicted face. He sees my expression; one of confusion, regret, and sadness.

"No, I don't, because there's nothing to talk about. Leave."

"You know well enough that's the last thing I'm going to do, Eren."

The sky is becoming darker by the second. The clouds become thicker, and block out the sun even more. The grass is wet, and it's foggy. Eren obviously doesn't care. He doesn't even know where he's going. Food, water, shelter, directions... These things haven't even crossed his mind.

"Where is your horse?" I ask.

"It threw me off and left."

"And you're not coming back to Yarckel to get another?"

"No," he bluntly answers.

"Why?"

"I don't want to."

His short answers only add to the awkward silence overwhelming me.

I think for a moment. I wonder about him... What he's thinking.

"Where... " I begin.

"Where did I go wrong?"

He looks down to the ground, and doesn't answer. But I look to him in desperation.

"Tell me, Eren. What horrible thing have I done to you to cause all of this?"

Still, no response.