[Attack on Titan] The flower that failed to bloom

"Before Captain Levi joined the Survey Corps...I heard that he was quite a famous gangster in the underground streets of the capital."

Levi isn't here right now because he's going to check on the completion of the basement cleaning.

After the captain left, Petra chatted with Allen who had just come from the basement, and talked about what happened before Captain Levi entered the Survey Corps along the topic.

"I don't know what happened later, the captain was taken away from the underground street by Captain Erwin, and came to the Survey Corps as a subordinate of the captain."

"Is it because of the captain?" Allen didn't know whether he was surprised by the past of the captain, or whether the captain actually let such a powerful person join the survey corps.

"what are you guys saying?"

The sudden sound from behind startled the two of them. Before Alan and Petra had time to think about who was talking, they each picked up the cleaning tools in their hands and fiddled with them to hide their guilt.

"Why are you in a panic? I'm not Captain Levi." The voice that suddenly appeared just now sounded again, and it was only then that Allen realized who the owner of that voice was.

It was Hermia who came.

"Hermia?! Why are you here?" Allen turned around with a sigh of relief.

Although Hermia joined the Survey Corps, most of her work was related to research because of her talents. Of course, she stayed at the headquarters of the Survey Corps as she followed Captain Hanji.

The time to see each other will definitely be greatly reduced in the future - it took less than twelve hours for this idea to come to his head, and now this blue-eyed girl appeared in front of him by herself.

The girl who usually wears a military uniform has changed into a beautiful dress today. In the past three years, her silver-gray hair has grown to the length that Allen remembered when she lived in Sigansina, and she doesn't know how to straighten her hair Also changed back to the previous micro volume.

The bright feeling in front of his eyes made Allen a little dazed, but he quickly recovered: "You, why are you dressed like this?"

There is an indescribable sense of incongruity.

"I had some personal matters to deal with today, but I was asked to send this document before I left."

It was only then that Allen realized that Hermia was indeed holding a document bag.

"Where is... Captain Levi? This document is for him." Hermia leaned sideways and looked at the room behind Allen. Because there was no gain at all, she could only resort to being present for help. Allen and Petra.

"The captain just left, probably just missed it." Petra on the side said, "Is this going to be handed over to him personally? If not, I can give him the document for you."

Hermia shook her head: "Thank you, but I'll just keep it. Captain Levi will sign this and I will take it back within today."

"Then wait here for a while, the captain will be back later." Petra suggested, quietly glanced at the two people standing face to face next to him, secretly raised the corners of his mouth while turning around, and took the broom to the The room was cleaned.

>>>

It wasn't until Hermia cast a suspicious look here that Allen realized that he had been staring at her.

But it was also because of seeing those blue eyes that Alan finally realized why he had always had a sense of disobedience since he saw Hermia.

"Hermia, your eyes..."

"What are you doing?!"

To confirm, Alan reached out to Hermia's right eye.As a result, the boy's fingertips just touched the skin under the eyelids when the other party grabbed his wrist and pulled him away.

"No, I'm just..."

Allen heard about this after the fact, because at that time he didn't have the extra energy to pay attention to what happened outside the court.

When the necessary "performance" was being performed in front of everyone, the excited Mikasa wanted to rush over, but was held back by Amin and Hermia, who were brought to court as witnesses, so he couldn't do so. The most important thing is that Mikasa, who was struggling at the time, accidentally gave Hermia a strong elbow, and it hit her left eye.The girl with black eye sockets instantly punched the opponent without hesitation, knocking him unconscious.

The bruises, which had been caused not long ago, were gone now.

Allen looked at his hands suspiciously, and found that the fingertips were covered with some powder that was the same as his skin color.

"I see, you used this to cover up the bruises?" Hermia could always find something weird and achieve the effect she wanted.

"Don't touch it!" Hermia frowned. "Really, can you see that the color is different from other places now?"

Without thinking too much, Allen looked carefully at Hermia's request, and then shook his head.

"That's good." The blue-eyed girl breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where are you going later?" Allen looked at the person in front of him again and asked unconsciously.

From the past, Hermia would dress herself very carefully whenever she went out, even if she just went to the grocery store near her home to buy seasonings.

"medical……"

"Hello... Ellen."

"Yes!!"

Captain Levi's voice sounded from behind Hermia, this time really startled Allen, and Petra also stood next to him with a broom at some point, with a little joy in her eyes It means jumping over Hermia and looking at Levi behind her.

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Hermia left after getting her signature, and Alan, who was asked to clean it again, had to go back to the basement without even seeing the girl's back.

There are still a lot of things I want to say, but Allen can only keep all these words in his heart now.

Allen also learned in the military court that he attacked Mikasa and Hermia after he became a giant, but he himself had no impression of this, and Hermia who came to visit him never mentioned it.

Damage to the optic nerve...

The private matter Hermia mentioned is probably going to the hospital for reexamination, right?Allen remembered what the girl had just said.

If only I had seized the time just now.

At least say sorry to her.

>>>

Two giants who were captured as experimental subjects during the raid were killed. Allen thought that Han Ji, who would light up his eyes when mentioning giants, would not ask him for experiments for the time being, but this "temporary" lasted less than two days. God, the person who was crying at the giant corpse in the mist came to the door with an excited expression on his face.

Allen originally thought that Hanji was planning to let him go to an empty place for giantization, but he didn't expect that all he had to do was an ordinary physical examination, draw blood, answer a few questions, and perform a few simple actions as required.

As for the attempt to become a giant, it was scheduled for a few days later.

This is what Allen learned from his conversation with Hanji.

Hermia's parents had been in the survey corps to study giants, and after the two died outside the wall, this job fell to Han Ji.

After those two people were gone, apart from the notes at home, they also left a lot of information in the headquarters of the Survey Corps. However, because of the enigmatic personal hobbies added to the individual drawings during the drawing process, no one could understand them except those two—until He Mia appears.

Therefore, Hermia, who originally planned to join the Survey Corps, followed Han Ji and started working in the Survey Corps with the badge of the Training Corps that had not been replaced in time without going through the recruiting ceremony.

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After completing the basic inspection and asking questions, Alan followed Hanji in the corridor of the current headquarters of the Survey Corps. Even if he didn't pay attention, he could still feel the uncomfortable sight that made him uncomfortable every time he passed by other soldiers.

"You and Hermia have known each other since childhood?" Han Ji asked casually.

For now, the only topic between the two is Hermia Baker, apart from giants. Although Hanji has infinite curiosity about giants, he doesn't always talk about giants, so the topic he chooses jumps to a certain topic. On a girl who is currently busy redrawing the map and annotating it.

Allen nodded, showing distress unconsciously: "Well, that's right, it's just..."

It's just that that person always thought that his childhood sweethearts were only Mikasa and Amin, and she was just a neighbor who happened to live near his house.

"By the way, where is Hermia now?" Alan stopped and asked.

"She's probably still working right now? Although what she's going to do this morning is not a big deal..." Seeing that the other party didn't want to go back to the castle immediately, Han Ji also stopped and turned around: "Alan asked He What's wrong with Mia?"

He just wanted to apologize to Hermia, would such a thing be allowed?

Allen fell silent for a moment, after all, he does not have any authority on him now.

"But it's better not to disturb Hermia at this time." Without waiting for Alan's answer, Han Ji frowned, as if thinking of something worth noting.

"Hermia hates people seeing her in a mess, and as long as she starts to work, she won't come out until she finishes her work. If you disturb her, you will be scolded."

This kind of thing has never happened since joining the training corps, but when he was living in Sigansina, Allen had seen Hermia's slovenly appearance countless times.

Although the other party did not hesitate to throw the small shovel for loosening the soil after seeing Hermia's completely different image from the usual one for the first time, but after that, there was nothing else except being asked to keep it secret.At most, if someone visits and encounters Hermia reciting the book until the sky is dark, they will be pulled out to find a solution.

"It won't be a problem." Allen shook his head.

He belongs to Levi's special team without any authority, even to get permission to get out of the castle.Ever since he knew that he had become a giant and attacked Mikasa and Hermia out of control, Allen has always wanted to apologize to those two people.It's just because I haven't had the chance to get in touch, this apology has to be buried deeper and deeper in my heart.

There is a rare opportunity now, and no influence will be found out, so Allen hopes to meet at least one of them.Even if it's only for a few seconds, make a good apology.

What happened to that man's eyes?Already all right?We have already met, even if I heard that it is ready to work, Allen still wants to confirm it himself.

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He said "as soon as possible" but didn't set an exact time, and also said that if he was hit after opening the door, he should run out quickly.

As the sub-captain, Hanji seems to be easier to talk to than Captain Levi—at least from the current level of understanding, Alan who is standing in front of a certain door now thinks so.

Knocking on the door symbolically, Allen announced his name and asked if it was Hermia inside, and opened the front door.

"I'm in."

"No, I said! Really wait for me! It's super messy here! Don't come in now!" The panicked voice from behind the door was indeed from Hermia.

Such an energetic voice made the heaviness in Alan's chest that he was only aware of now a lot lighter, and the boy who suddenly felt funny pushed the door harder and walked in: "The study is as messy as a garbage dump I've been in it before, and this kind of thing is just..."

"Don't come in! I just said wait! Not yet! Come in later!" Allen heard Hermia shout in a helpless voice.

Allen had already thought about how to answer, and he even felt a little happy.But Gulu Gulu's eyes widened instantly because of the objects rolling to his feet. The boy even began to wonder if he hadn't had a good rest in the basement these days, so he was hallucinating now.

What stopped at the boy's feet was a white and slender left hand, with a part of the arm behind the thin wrist, and the broken part of the arm obviously had a metal joint.

A thought suddenly popped into his mind, and Allen suddenly looked up in Hermia's direction.

The table was covered with draft papers, and the girl with silver-gray hair standing in front of the table used some method to straighten her curly long hair yesterday, and tied it at the back of her head casually.With his left hand behind his back, the blue eyes under the lens moved around but never looked at the boy who was already in a daze.

"He... Mia?"

My mind was in a mess and I couldn't think at all. Even the volcanic eruption, Alan felt that it was not enough to describe the one-thousandth shock in his heart at this moment.

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