[Attack on Titan] God Clockwork

The curtain leaning against the edge of the window was gently shaken by the wind, softly wrapping the sunlight coming in from the window, and then gently throwing it on the wooden floor, dropping gold pieces all over the floor, Beata moved the stool Sitting in front of the short table, bending over and squinting at the chessboard on the low table, the place opposite where people should be sitting is also empty, but if you look carefully, you can find that she is just playing with those chess pieces, although her eyes are watching The direction of the chessboard, but unable to focus.

——"After all, if you want to confess, it's always inconvenient to have someone next to you."

The young man's voice was soft and clear, and if he had to use something to describe it, it would be the gurgling sound of flowing mountain streams. His tone was the same as usual, with his unique teasing.

Yesterday Lake's words were like some kind of unknown spell, lingering in his ears, even at night because of these words, he couldn't fall asleep for a long time. When he woke up this morning, he found that there were two more obvious blue spots under his eye sockets. With the black traces, it is easy for people to see how bad her sleep quality was last night.

Although the young man's voice was full of jokes as usual, she could tell that it was different from the usual jokes. Hidden under the surface of the jokes was deep anxiety and a little unwillingness.

Growing up together, she understood Lake's easy-going gentleness and competitive nature better than others.

It's just that she didn't know why at the time, even though her heart jumped suddenly, causing a stormy sea, but she was still able to make a disapproving smile on the surface and shrugged her shoulders to tell him to stop making trouble-in fact, both of them I know he's not making trouble.

But both of them chose to use this kind of joke as the end of this confession.

From birth to the present, Lake's existence has long been engraved in her mind. To her, his existence is more like an elder brother who grew up with her and loves her, rather than a lover.

And it is precisely these years of getting along that the two of them know each other too well, and there are basically no secrets at all.But for Beata, even if she will marry and have children in the future, Lake, who generally exists as an "elder brother", has never been in her consideration.

"Ahhh—" With a long sigh, Beata threw away the chess piece he had been playing with for a long time, and his whole body leaned back. The white chess piece jumped twice on the chessboard and then hit the two opposite sides. A black chess piece, and the last few pieces rolled and stood still on the board-the pieces that fell here and there seemed to make people feel bored.

The chair under her moved backwards along with her movements. The two front legs were lifted up, only supported by the two back legs, and the shaking wooden chair made a creaking sound.

Although it was unexpected, this was the first time in her life that she had been confessed. For Beata, this was undoubtedly a question that should not be answered jokingly, so she was so annoyed at this time. Hair scratching here.

Of course, how annoyed she was at this time, what annoyed her even more was another thing - Lake's legs.

There were very few soldiers who came back with serious injuries after going out to investigate outside the wall. Many soldiers were either slightly injured or died directly outside the wall and failed to return. Naturally, those with disabled legs like Lake who could return alive were rare. Of course, he was able to save his life, which can basically be attributed to Levi.

It's just that in the past few days when she was back inside the wall, she was already wondering if she had made a wrong decision at the beginning.

——She shouldn't have asked Levi to save Lake...

For a soldier of the Survey Corps, perhaps dying outside would not have to face those gossips.During the only visit before, she and Levi heard a few talkative guys outside Lake's ward saying something【It's still possible to come back after being so injured】【It's not that strong The monster-like Levi went to rescue it] [This kind of person can save some food for the Corps if he dies outside the wall] [Rescued is also a useless person]...

She obviously didn't pay attention to words like this, but she kept drilling them into her ears. At that time, she almost couldn't help rushing up to reason it out, but was stopped by Levi's eyes.

She knew that many of those people were jealous—because they also had friends who were only seriously injured, but could not return to the wall due to various reasons on the way. In many cases, the troops voluntarily abandoned those people, but Lake was able to come back—those people didn't think about how much burden Lake had put on his already seriously injured body in order to keep up with the speed of the large army, and they didn't think about how much Levi would risk to save Lake. How much risk they have taken, they will only consider that their friends can't come back but Lake can come back alive.

Only after calming down, Beata found that she couldn't hold them accountable at all—selfishness is inherent in human nature.

Now she is only worried about whether Lake can withstand these verbal attacks-after all, he is the one who lost his legs, and he is also the one who is powerless to refute, because it is precisely because he is "Lake" and Levi's friend, That's why I was able to survive.And if he survived, he would still be in this disabled way...

Even she who has only been to the ward once can hear these words, let alone Lake who lives in the ward, but she doesn't know why even after knowing these things, he can still face her and Levi. At that time, he behaved as usual, teasing calmly, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth did not change at all. It would be impossible to say that he didn't care about the eyes of the people around him at all.

Perhaps as long as an adult with a normal mind can't easily accept the bad news that he will spend his whole life in a wheelchair in the future, as far as she is concerned, Lake's ability to bear is really too strong, which is beyond her expectations .

If she guessed right, Lake's words "I have something to tell her when I come back" before going out of the wall meant that he was going to confess—if he came back healthy and energetic, if he didn't have disabled legs, then this confession Maybe not in this form, but more carefully, in a carefully prepared way...

It's just that Lake chose this way to end, which shows that he is not the kind of person who doesn't care about other people's eyes.

"Then..." Looking up at the simple wooden ceiling - there is nothing on it, unlike the ceilings with various decorations and carvings that she was used to seeing before, but this did not make her feel unaccustomed, because she found this kind of The purest dark brown, close to the pitch-black ceiling is more able to let her brain be in a state of emptiness, as if there is something real in her heart that rises in the form of smoke... Familiar and trembling...

"Hey——!!!" Footsteps sounded suddenly outside the door, followed by the door being pushed open. She subconsciously increased the pinch between the chair legs and the ground, and her whole body He leaned back again, and Levi was upside down in his sight.

"...Beate!" Levi seldom called her name, she didn't know the reason, and she never asked herself, but the only thing she knew was—once the other party called her name in this tone, then Something important must have happened.

"Calm down and listen to me slowly..." Because of the long-distance running at high speed, Levi panted slightly. Under her gaze, the pupils of the youth's usually quiet three-white eyes shrank into a little smaller , trembling slightly, "...Like him, committed suicide..."

"Patta——" she didn't control the balance of the chair well, causing her whole body to follow the chair that lost her balance and lean back, and fell hard on the floor, the back of her head was hit painfully, but She found that the mist that suddenly filled her eyes was not due to the pain from her body. For her, the pain signal from the brain center was clearly tolerable after rigorous training.

——The smoke-like thing that rose in her heart 10 minutes ago, she finally knew what it was. , screaming desperately trying to break through the shackles on his body and then

The author has something to say: Tomorrow I will take the CET-[-] exam and ask for blessings_(:з」∠)_

Because I don’t want to read English at all, so I climbed up and added a chapter. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe heyhehehehehehehe heyhehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe), I feel that life is so sad, can I only use code words to relax myself...

Three extra chapters are planned, so there are still about eight chapters in the main text _(:з」∠)_ Or I really can’t write it, maybe I have a free chapter to write about my personality and ask a hundred questions [Don’t make trouble]

Forget it...... After the QAQ code, I'd better continue to read the English, if I don't read it, I might commit suicide in the examination room like Lake...【. . .

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