Deadly [Attack on Titan]

Chapter 2

-10 years later-

Blair's POV

I was using the gear that I stole from one of the guards to travel around the underground city, getting a bird's eye view of the streets while looking for a specific guard who should be patrolling this area. A person whose name I didn't bother to learn hired me to kill them and since I need the money any way I agreed. Yes, I know what you're probably thinking by this point 'shouldn't you avoid being an assassin since that's what got you killed before' well this is necessary if I need money because in the underground jobs are scarce. I was now 12 years old, or at least, that's what I'm guessing, I looked rather similar to my last life, the only real difference was my height instead of being 5'11 I was now only 5'2, this was probably due to my current age, although I really wish I could just skip all this growing and just get my original height back, I miss being able to reach things easily.

I spotted the guard rounding the corner of the street I was on, I landed behind him as silently as I could and pulled out a knife from the inside of one of my boots. I grabbed him by the neck and pulled him close to me, I also covered his mouth as I realised that he was about to scream, I quickly slit the mans throat and threw him into a wall, I cleaned off my knife and turned to leave hearing the man coughing and spluttering on his own blood behind me. I put the knife back into my boot and went to go meet up with my client to get my pay.

-1 week later-

I had just killed another military police soldier and was on my way to gather my payment when I began to hear the telltale hissing and clicks of the gear, I directed myself down a side street and landed, I listened closely and heard the sounds getting closer, instinctively I ducked down behind the piles of trash in the street and looked towards the directions that the sound was coming from, a few moments later a group of people landed just outside the entrance to the side street I was on, they wore dark green cloaks with a symbol that I don't believe I've ever seen before, it wasn't the military police unicorn symbol, nor was it the rose symbol that would occasionally appear on the backs of other soldiers. This symbol was a pair of wings, one was white and the other was blue. A person at the front of the group began to speak.

"They did come down this side street, didn't they? Where did they go? it's not like they could move that fast, even with the use of the 3dmg"

They began to walk further down the side street completely passing me thankfully, considering that it was apparently me they were looking for. They continued to walk further down the street and I made the stupid decision of trying to leave, the second I moved the bags around me rustled and the man at the back of the group, a short man with black hair, immediately looked towards me, we made eye contact for two seconds before I hurdled over the remaining trash bags and sprinted towards the entrance of the side street, the second I reached the slightly more open area I took off using the gear. Much to my dismay, I heard the sounds of them chasing behind me.

Oh well, if its a chase they want, then its a chase they'll get.

I gave a quick glance behind me and saw that a group of three were right on my tail, there was the short man from before, a man with blonde hair and an androgynous person with long brown hair and glasses. The short was in the front and was rapidly gaining on me, I used some of the gas to put some more distance between us, only to hear them do the exact same thing, I quickly realised that if it was going to be like this the whole time I'd be caught rather quickly as I assume they're in the military, they would have easy access to the gas needed for the gear, I, on the other hand, was already running low as the canisters were only half full when I stole the gear and I have had the gear for six months already.

I eased up on the gas and tried to think of what to do, the best option would be to make them use up as much of their gas as possible while conserving my own, that way I could escape easier, I tried to think of the best route. I was smaller than most of them, the shortest one being the only exception, although while we were the same height he had a thicker build than I did, so the best way to do this would be to go through as many tight spaces as possible. I took a sharp turn to the left and aimed myself towards one of the thinner alleyways, it was only spacious enough for one person to fit through at a time, any groups would have to go through in a line, that should probably slow them down at least a little.

I wormed my way through the alley and watched as instead of trying to fit through they used their gas to launch themselves higher and flew over waiting for me at the end of the alley. Instead of going towards them I broke a window and climbed through, entering into someone's house, thankfully no one was inside. I ran over to a window on the opposite end of the house and jumped through that one, heading back towards the first area I was and the complete opposite direction from where they were, they were quick to realize where I had gone and once again began to chase me, despite my attempts to conserve my gas as much as possible I quickly began to run out and the people chasing me began to realise this too. They increased the amount of gas they were using and were gaining speed on me quickly, forcing me to use the last of my own gas in a futile attempt to try and escape them.

I gave up and landed on top of a building one my gas canisters ran dry. They land a second after I did. They stared at me for a few seconds before the brown-haired one began to talk.

" Erwin are you sure this is the right person? it seems to me like their just a kid"

The blonde-haired man, Erwin as he was referred to by the brown-haired person, looked back at me and looked me up and down as if I was some kind of product to be inspected, he was about to reply before the short one chimed in

"Of course it's her, no one else in this shit hole would have access to 3dmg, they're hard to come by down here"

"You know I would prefer if you would tell me why you were chasing me instead of you three theorising about me like I'm not here"

At this they all looked at me, well two of them looked at me the short one was just glaring, 'Erwin' took a step towards me, causing me to take a step back, he sighed and instead opened his mouth to talk.

"We have reason to believe that you are connected to a string of murders"

He said seriously.

"What do you mean murders? Do you know where we are? Murders happen here every day, you're going to have to be more specific"

I replied, pretending to be clueless. Suddenly I felt like someone was staring at me and began paying closer attention to my surroundings, it was then that I noticed the group of soldiers that the three were with in the first place were beginning to group back together and they were all heading to this rooftop. This set off alarm bells, I realise that there was no point in trying to act clueless as they already knew what I had done, they were simply distracting me long enough to get the rest of them here, they're most likely going to try and surround me. 'Erwin' followed my gaze and realised that I knew they were there, he raised his hand and signalled them to come to the rooftop.

After landing two soldiers quickly grabbed both of my arms to restrain me. Erwin once again stepped towards me.

"Remove your 3dmg and come with us peacefully otherwise we will have to use force"

"I can't"

I replied to him.

"And why is that?"

The short one asked in an irritated tone.

"Because there are literally two people holding my arms you dumb fuck, how the hell am I supposed to remove anything without being able to use my arms"

The short one tch'd and the brown-haired one started snickering. Erwin sighed and told the soldiers to release my arms so that I could remove the gear, I looked around while doing so and noticed that they hadn't bothered to block off the side of the roof where the original three were standing, if I could push past them I may be able to get away. I slowly removed the 3dmg and as I took off the last strap I quickly bolted past them and to the edge of the roof, I dived off and on to one of the lower building landing in a roll, I jumped up quickly and began sprinting. I humped from roof to roof, listening out for the sounds of the 3dmg and trying to get to places where it would be harder for them to manoeuvre around, after running for around 20 minutes I heard the sound of gas sputtering, I smiled as I knew that that meant that they were about to run out.

I pushed myself even harder running into cramped spaces, and generally just making it difficult for them, after another 5 minutes I knew that their gas would have run out and 10 minutes after that I could hear no more signs of me being chased, just in case however I hid and didn't come out for another hour. Just as I had thought, they gave up after running out of gas, I have no doubt that they will definitely be back though. At least I can finally go get my payment.

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