[Attack on Titan] The flower that failed to bloom

The author has something to say: I originally planned to overhaul this article, but I took a look at the courses of this semester today, and there are still things to do.

It is estimated that it will take a long time to finish this article, so after thinking about it, I still don’t post the revised parts.

Let this article restore it to its original state, so as not to worry about it.

If there are typos in the remaining chapters, I will come up and fix them later when I have time.

I am very sorry.

"Why do you keep looking at my left hand?"

Hermia's voice sounded very close in front, and it was only then that Allen realized a left arm wrapped in a brown uniform appeared in front of him.

Captain Hanji's experiment to make Allen a giant is today.For this reason, the entire Levi class who was in charge of monitoring Allen went to the empty grass near the old headquarters.

In order to control the situation when Alan lost consciousness after he became a giant, Alan was asked to conduct a giantization experiment at the bottom of the well, while others observed the situation from a distance.

Allen thought that as long as he bit his hand to bleed like before, he would be able to become a giant smoothly, but in fact, no matter how many times he bit himself, at least what Han Jiqi expected to happen did not happen.

After pulling Allen up from the dry well, Hanji and other people who came to assist the experiment went to a nearby grove for no reason, and Hermia, who was also an assistant and one of Hanji's subordinates, went to the nearby woods not long after. He came out of the woods with the medicine box in hand.

Now the people in Levi's class are just next to each other, each holding a cup of tea in their hands, seemingly leisurely, but in fact, Allen knows that each of them is on guard all the time, and when he suddenly becomes a giant and loses his reason kill.And he and Hermia were sitting at a place far from the long table in the back. Hermia gently held his scarred hand bitten by him, and the girl with silver-gray hair was lowering her head and carefully treating the wound for him. .

"No, I, I just lost my mind because I was thinking about other things." As he said, Allen quickly looked away.

"Is that so?"

Hermia, who was concentrating on treating the wound, looked up at Allen in doubt, then quickly lowered her head, turned around and took out a new medical cotton swab from the box next to her.

If she confessed to Hermia that she was not only looking at her left hand, but was thinking of what she had said about the arm a few days ago, she would be angry.Hermia has always hated her bad side being exposed in front of others.

However, such a beautiful person, her hands... Alan felt that he dared not and couldn't imagine Hermia's expression when she had just completed the amputation, and how she spent every day.

Allen still remembers the first time he saw her with messy hair in order to memorize notes and forget to sleep and eat. The other party violently threw the things at hand and yelled "Get out!".At that time, Allen was attacked by an ultra-thick hardcover book flying from the front, and he fell to the ground and even had a nosebleed.

When we first met, I obviously hated Hermia.He gets angry at every turn, and has a terrible temper; when he is at home, he is terribly sloppy, and his image is not even the floating clouds in the sky, but as long as he goes out, he tidies himself up neatly, even the trivial things like the length of his bangs It can be tangled for a long time, which is extremely annoying.

but……

"..."

When she reacted, Hermia's silver-gray bangs appeared in her sight. The thickness, length, and even curvature of her hair were just right, and her beautiful thin eyebrows were looming under her hair.It has eyelashes like a feather fan held by a lady, and the blue eyes are deeper than the color of the sky. Although I have never seen a gemstone before, it probably looks like this, right?

How could such a sight not be noticed?Even an uncle in Levi's class sitting at the next table looked over.No, I heard that he is actually very young, although he has an uncle face.Hermia glanced in Levi's direction calmly.

Seeing that Allen's gaze shifted to her left hand again, and thinking of the young man with the uncle's face and the real uncle with the boy's face in Leviban, Hermia sighed silently in her heart. The cotton swab coated with the medicine is now pressed directly on the wound.

"hiss--"

Seeing that the other party's reaction was as she expected, Hermia curled her lips proudly, but soon returned to normal.

"What are you looking at?" the girl asked knowingly.

"No, it's nothing, I said I was thinking about other things, so I was distracted." Allen refused to admit it, although it could be seen from his eyes that this person already knew everything.

Hermia didn't expose it either, she just threw the used cotton swab into the garbage bag that she had prepared long ago, then raised her head and frowned her pretty eyebrows: "I wouldn't have told you if I knew it earlier, why do you care more about it than I do?" ?”

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When living in Wall.Rose as a refugee, she was always unable to complete the assigned work as required due to lack of physical strength. Hermia couldn't distribute the bread that was not enough to feed her stomach every day.

Hermia, who was suffering from hunger but could not get food, had to steal food from stalls and shops for a living like a small group of refugees.

Before Alan joined the training corps, similar things often happened around him.Children who can't bear a lot of physical work and want to survive can only use this opportunistic and risky method, because once they are discovered, they will be beaten to death by the shopkeeper or the members of the garrison regiment patrolling nearby.

Hermia's hand was trampled off by a soldier of a garrison regiment at that time, and the injured part could not be treated in time. Although she met a kind old doctor later, the original good left hand only Can end up with amputation.

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What if you don't care?

In other words, even if you want not to care about it, there is no way to do it in your heart.

A long time ago, I realized that I began to care about inexplicable places. Hermia’s dominant hand is the right hand, but in fact, both hands can be used, and the writing on the left hand is more beautiful than that on the right hand. Whether it is walking or running, it is the right foot. He goes first and likes to grow flowers, but because he has enslaved him for a long time but does not do it himself, he actually doesn't know as much about the actual operation as he does... Some subtle points are clearly impossible to memorize, but they can be easily picked up.

Allen looked into each other's eyes and exclaimed that it was indeed a beautiful blue color.

Everyone knows that no one wants to mention this kind of thing, and Hermia won't like it, but it's probably okay to apologize like this, right?He just knew about it, and he was still surprised, and he was still in a state of disbelief about it. Can Hermia understand?Although Allen really felt sorry for bringing this up again.

"I'm sorry, but I still really care."

I know very well in my heart that no matter what I do, there is no way to change Hermia's hands back to the way they were before, but ever since I found out about this, I have been thinking about what I can do for the current Hermia, even thinking if that When he, Mikasa, and Amin were able to find Hermia, probably she would not encounter such a thing.

"Because I was taken aback, right?"

However, Hermia was not angry, she just sighed helplessly, let go of the young man's hand and began to pack the medicine box.

"I don't know how surprised you are by this matter, but I can understand that you care about this matter, because to be honest, this is not a trivial matter."

The hand holding the medicine pot stopped in front of the girl for a moment, and the blue eyes glanced at the dangling arm seemingly unintentionally: "But it's fine if you know about it, no matter how much you care about it, I can't grow it out of thin air." Show me an arm. I hope Alan, you can help me keep the secret as before, this is already a big help."

"He..."

"Hey! Brat over there! Now is not the time for you to have a leisurely romance! Come here quickly when you're done!"

What I wanted to say was still hidden in my heart, and even before the person's name was fully called out, the disturbing voice broke the delicate atmosphere around me from the beginning.

Allen wanted to deny Oluou's words, but Hermia obviously reacted faster than him.

"Whispering! How can a person who has been alone and jumped from childhood to middle age understand the touching reunion of childhood sweethearts?! Besides! It didn't take me long, did I?!"

"What did you say? It's too arrogant to be a recruit, right?!" Oluou over there put down his teacup and stood up, even with an expression on his face that he was about to rush over to teach someone a lesson.

"Is this your attitude towards seniors?! Bastard brat!"

"Senior Petra said that it's okay to treat the person who often bites his tongue while riding a horse!"

"Well, even though I said so, Hermia, if you say so..."

"Petra! You..."

The war shifted, and Allen didn't know whether Hermia did it intentionally or unintentionally, but at least when he saw Captain Levi's back without any movement, it made people feel that he might kill everyone in seconds at any time, He felt that Hermia was right in doing so.

"Anyway, I'm going to deal with the garbage first, and you just wait here for the team leader to come back for the next round of experiments." Hermia, who packed the medicine box, stood up from her seat, and put the used medical supplies by her feet. The bag was raised.

Allen nodded, thinking that Hermia would leave just like that, but he didn't expect a thoughtful expression on the other's face, and a pair of blue eyes looked straight at this side.

"Speaking of... Alan, what's the difference between the last time you became a giant and this time?"

"What do you mean by difference?" Why can't you become a giant this time, and what is the difference between now and then?This is exactly what Allen has been worrying about since the beginning.

"The surrounding people and things, the environment... Well, the team leader said that the chance of affecting the giantization is very small and basically negligible." Hermia thought for a while, and the expression on her face became uncertain: "I said... what were you thinking at that time?"

"What did you think at the time?"

Regarding the question raised by Hermia, Allen seriously recalled: "At that time, I just wanted to plug the hole."

"And what was it just now?" asked Hermia again.

Just now……

It's just an ordinary hand biting, without thinking about anything in my mind.

"!!!"

A certain thought flashed through Alan's head, probably because the thought in his heart was too obvious on his face, Hermia walked in with great interest: "What? Did you find anything?"

Allen stood up and stretched out his potion-smeared hand to Hermia, wanting to tell him the difference he found.

Without warning, Allen felt that his outstretched hand became extremely heavy, and his elbow was as hot as a fire.Allen only felt a cold and sharp pain, and the silver flash rushed from Hermia's direction, cutting through the large amount of steam that burst out of nowhere in front of the boy.