Aldia's Demon

The urge to destroy everything...

This may be a fire of hell that has been suppressed for too long, and the impulse to create and destroy explodes from the bottom of my heart at the same time.

After his father was killed by Wang Zheng, he lived on the grounds of inheriting his father's behest...

After seeing through the nature of the chief of the corps, he lived on the grounds of entering the investigation corps and getting out of the wall...

After realizing that his reason for fighting is different from others, he lives for the reason of giving a human heart...

Until I met Allen, and lived on the grounds of taking back the Wall of Maria and finding the truth...

Now, I have found another reason for myself to revive Aldia and live on...

I want to live, I want to find out the truth, I want to regain my freedom, I want not to be enslaved by giants, kings, or enemies from afar, everything is for myself; I want to die, I want to end this stepping corpse in hell The crime of going on a mountain of blood and a sea of ​​blood.

Fear of survival, fear of the shackles of blood, fear of the price of choice, fear of betrayal by companions; fear of death, fear of humiliation of failure, fear of shattered nothingness, fear of lost freedom...

Thoughts were churning in my head, crazy or sad thoughts were intertwined, and finally calmed down...and turned into a ray of obsession that pierced my heart.

Since you've been walking in the hell called reality all along, keep going.The road I choose, even if I kneel, I have to climb to the end!

Because I have been living for myself from beginning to end...

When night fell, the three began to march again.Alvin used the three-dimensional motorized device to move to the branch where Allen and Mikasa were. The bruises on his face had faded away, but there were still some bruises.The two looked at each other, but they looked at each other without saying a word, and then began to move with the three-dimensional mobile device. There was a subtle embarrassment in the cold night wind.

After that, they walked silently under the cover of the dark night...

Until the sun rose slowly at the next dawn, the awakened giant found the prey in the vast wilderness, and gradually approached it.Allen turned into a giant according to the plan, and Erwin and Mikasa climbed on his back, and the group of people moved forward in the wilderness avoiding the giant as much as possible.

Suddenly, a strange species crawling on the ground with four legs rushed over, blocking Alan's way like a tiger blocking the way.It swooped in, and Allen had to get entangled with it, and at the same time, the giants around the three of them were getting closer...

Erwin didn't say a word, only heard the sound of the sharp blade rubbing in the air when it was pulled out. The next second, he immediately left Allen's back with the double blades in hand, using the attacking giant and the surrounding giants as the fulcrum, Use the three-dimensional mobile device to shuttle among them.

Seeing the situation, Mikasa also pulled out the blade, left the back of the attacking giant from the other side, and went to strangle the giant on Alan's left.And Allen desperately stopped the strange species that wanted to attack the two of them, and was in a stalemate with it.

There were not many giants on the left, so Mikasa cleared the nearby ones and returned to Allen's back, and saw Alvin wielding his double blades vigorously, cutting off the back neck of a 15-meter-level giant neatly.She suddenly remembered that this was the first time she saw the head of the group using a three-dimensional mobile device to kill a giant with his own hands.

In terms of technology, although he is not as good as himself, he doesn't have so many gorgeous and dazzling skills.But he can always calmly see through the giant's movements, and then give a fatal blow with the highest success rate.Although the speed is not too fast, it is more labor-saving.

After all, he was the soldier with the highest survival rate in the Survey Corps...

Mikasa thought, and when he was about to leave for support, Alvin had already chopped down the last giant near the right, and fell back on Allen's back, with the same expression as when he left.

At the same time, Allen finally knocked down the strange species in front of him, and ran forward with the two on his back.So, in the next period of time, they all repeated this way of traveling.Until the Wall of Rose can be seen from a distance, Alvin and Mikasa's gas is running low, and Allen has also slowed down due to physical exertion, causing the encirclement net of surrounding giants to become denser...

Before the group of giants on the right got too close, Erwin went to deal with the leading ones. After he left, a tall strange species suddenly rushed to the place where Allen and Mikasa were!

The strange beast rushed to Alan's left side and waved its giant palm at Mikasa. Mikasa quickly dodged with a three-dimensional mobile device. Alan wanted to support him, but suddenly felt his legs hugged by several four-meter-level giants. hard to break free...

Mikasa was wrestling with the strange species, but several 15-meter-class ones surrounded him behind him... Allen also lost his balance in the process of breaking free from the small giant, and was about to fall into the embrace of a 12-meter-class one!

"Alan—!"

At the critical moment, Allen supported the giant's mouth with his hardened claws, and he was in a stalemate with it.However, Mikasa was swept away by the palm wind of the giant behind him because of his distraction, and his body became unstable and fell to the ground.

【Mikasa——! 】

Allen was extremely anxious, and roared because of the eager cry in his mouth.The attacking giant smashed the huge mouth of the giant behind him, and then frantically rushed to Mikasa's position, and the three giants around her all attacked at the same time!

And Allen glanced at the left subconsciously on the way to run over—Irwin was also surrounded by several giants over ten meters tall. between the teeth...

He suddenly understood what Erwin was going to do. At this moment, he acted faster than he thought, and his whole body hardened and threw himself on Mikasa, not only to protect her from the giant's attack, but also to protect her from the next impact. she……

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In the next moment, the sky was bleak and the wind and clouds changed. A beam of light penetrating the sky and the earth struck down like a thunderbolt, followed by an explosion of energy like an atomic bomb... With the base point of the explosion as the center, the surrounding trees were all eradicated , razed to the ground, and all the giants near the explosion were also reduced to ashes, except Alan and Mikasa who were protected by hardening.

Allen poked his head out of the hardened iron shell, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the super-large giant standing on his left, which was still the same as when he captured the Xiganshina area five years ago, except that The manipulator has changed...

[Really... this bastard did it!But it almost killed us... The way this bastard came up with has always been like this! 】

Half of Alan's body was not in the attacking giant's body and complained, and at this time, Mikasa under the body also sat up with his head resting on his hand after a brief impact.Allen jumped down to her side and asked with concern:

"Are you all right? Mikasa."

"Hmm...it's okay." She sat up with some difficulty stroking her head, recovered her sanity for a while, and then looked at the super-large giant on the upper right, "...how is he now?"

"...Although I successfully transformed into a super giant, I don't know if I can move normally." As soon as the words fell, the super giant turned to this side and looked at them.

After receiving the signal, the two also used the three-dimensional mobile device to climb to the back of the super giant's neck, and then moved towards the Wall of Rose under its slow movement.

On the wall of Rose's Wall, members of the Garrison Corps and a part of the Gendarmerie Corps are waiting for the triumphant return of the Survey Corps. Commander Pixis and Sergeant Nair are also here.

The sun was setting, and the survey corps returned much later than expected, and everyone waited anxiously.Suddenly, a huge monster gradually became clear in people's field of vision...

"Yes—a super giant!!"

The soldiers who saw this huge monster gradually approaching the city wall panicked.

"It's an enemy attack! - Notify the headquarters!"

The giant giants approached the Wall of Rose, and the survey corps failed!The enemy will come to destroy the Wall of Rose, and mankind will face destruction!

In an instant, doomsday-like panic spread among the crowd, and many soldiers prepared their cannons to meet the approaching enemies.

"Commander Pixis! Let's go and inform President Thackeray..." Nair ran to Pixis and said, with a serious expression on his face, "The Survey Corps... failed in the end! Alvin he ...is it already..."

But Pixis still stared at the front, unmoved: "The identity of the visitor has not been identified yet, right? They brought an injection... That super giant may not be an enemy."

"...What!?" With an unexpected answer, Nair looked at Pixis with some puzzlement.

"Heh... don't rely on horses to go back," Pixis watched the super giant walking here step by step, showing a meaningful smile, "If it is true that someone among us made such a crazy move Well, it can only be you, right? Alvin..."

The gigantic giant slowly approached Rose's Wall, but it still didn't stop.Allen and Mikasa could already see a row of cannons erected on the city wall behind its neck, with the muzzles facing here...

"Stop it! We're coming to Rose's Wall soon!—" Allen anxiously knocked on the back of the giant giant's neck, trying to make Alvin hear it and stop, but with little success.

"... If you don't return to human form, we will be bombarded!" Mikasa also shouted eagerly, but still couldn't stop the giant giant.

"Damn... this guy can't hear anything! Like the time I turned into a giant in the Toros District." He scolded, thinking that it was so, how bad it was.

"Alan... If it really doesn't work, we can only use the three-dimensional mobile device to go to the city wall when we are close to the city wall, and then explain to them..."

"But... if we fly over during the shelling, we are likely to be shot down..." At a loss, what happened in the Toros District suddenly flashed in his mind, "By the way... there is another way !"

Alvin felt as if he had had a long dream.

In the dream, the blond child stayed in his home, but there was no one in the house...

Father... is no longer here.

The room after the important thing was taken away without any resistance left nothing but emptiness.

Why...just disappearing from this world just by being close to the truth?

That day...he stood in front of the newly erected tombstone, and the bouquet in his hand fell silently. The white chrysanthemums, white roses and gardenias wrapped in it reflected the unreal light in the daylight.

There was not a single tear in the corner of the boy's eyes, but there were tears falling in his heart, soaking a seed planted in his heart, and blooming a tender bud that blended into the cause and effect of this world...

An empty room, a silent cemetery, a street just like the past, a life that has been quietly tampered with... This is the world in which the young man lives, and it is also the picture that he has never been able to escape from in his heart.

Then, the scene changed, and he stood outside the window and watched the lone young man inside the window. With his palms on the glass of the window, his eyes moved and he frowned suddenly.

I have stared at this picture countless times in my mind and in my sleep.If you just freeze time at that moment, would it be a kind of relief...?

Consciousness was groggy, and he forgot what he was for a moment.Where are you at this time?It seems that he is moving forward with heavy steps, stepping out of the karmic fire step by step to charcoal the living beings, and everything he steps seems to be trampled by himself like ants.

The faces of his dead companions surround him, and even so, he must carry the heart they gave.

The mountain of corpses seemed to be piled up very high... If not, how could I look down at the Wall of Rose? ...

"Bah—!"

Suddenly, the glass window was smashed by a sharp object, and the sound of glass shattering alarmed the teenagers in the house.The boy walked to the window and looked at his own world with a hole in it.

There's a karma-burning, endless hell out there, so...why keep going?

【Just because...】

The boy stared at the karmic fire outside the broken glass window and thought.

【This room is too lonely...】

In an instant, tongues of fire struck from the window, the glass on the window suddenly shattered, and the blazing flames wrapped around the boy's body in an instant... The flames burned him painfully.But the boy still didn't retreat, but stood up and submerged into the fire, enduring more and more intense pain and continuing to move forward.

Yes, moving on...

Even if you are burned by fire, even if you are in hell, even if you go to the abyss...

Also move forward.

because……

There is nothing in this house! ! !

On that day, he walked out of the room that had haunted his mind for more than twenty years.The revealed truth is like a pierced skylight, showing the whole world to the teenager in the empty room.

The boy saw that this world was a purgatory.

The young man fell into the abyss of fire alone without saying a word, and was about to continue his journey...

This is the year 850, the triumphant recapture of the Wall of Maria by the Survey Corps.

A battle that changed the world and went down in history.

……

Suddenly opening his eyes, the pain in his shoulder blade became more and more clear with the words coming from the back of his head...

"Wake up!...The bombardment is coming!!"

"Are you going to kill us here again!? You devil!!"

Mikasa and Alan shouted to Alvin in the back neck of the super-large giant, one of Mikasa's blades pierced into the flesh and blood of the back neck, just as Alan was awakened by Alan in the Toros District that day. Same.

Seeing that they were getting very close to Rose's Wall, and the muzzles were all moved up to where they were, Allen and Mikasa yelled badly.

"It can't be done...we—" Just as Allen looked weakly at the muzzle of the gun and sighed, the super giant in front of him suddenly moved...

In an instant, the super-large giant in front of Rose's Wall suddenly disappeared, and Alan and Mikasa, who had lost their foothold, hurriedly hooked the three-dimensional mobile device to the wall of Rose's Wall, and took Erwin who had just come out of the back of the neck together. flew over...

Fortunately, it was not far away, so that it could successfully move to the wall under the cover of steam without falling to pieces.

Everyone on the city wall was stunned. The super giant who thought it was the enemy suddenly disappeared, and a few familiar faces rushed out of the steam.

The soldiers immediately surrounded them, asking them in surprise and doubt.

"The commander of the Survey Corps, Alvin Smith, and the three soldiers, Mikasa Ackerman and Alan Yeager, returned smoothly—!"

"Is it just the three of you!? What happened to the others? Was the battle successful? Why didn't you return on horseback? And that giant is—"

A series of questions from the heralds made both Alan and Mikasa breathless. Alan drank water gulpingly, with a bad complexion, and obviously had no intention of answering; Mikasa was also drinking water, and couldn't answer so many questions for a while.

At this time, Neil and Pixis also came to the crowd.

They looked into the crowd and saw the unconscious Alvin lying beside the exhausted Allen and Mikasa.Under his eyes are the deep marks left after manipulating the giant, the clothes on his upper body were melted by the high-temperature steam, his majestic torso was in the air, and the three-dimensional mobile device was still intact on his waist.

"Those marks under his eyes!?..." Seeing the astonishing scene, Nair exclaimed, his brain was temporarily occupied by a huge amount of information, and he came back to his senses after a while and said to Pixis, "Commander...I didn't expect you to really guess it!"

Pixisi smiled and said nothing, and Mikasa finally had time to explain to everyone after drinking the water:

"As you can see...the leader...appeared from the body of the super giant. He used the injection to take away the power of the enemy's super giant. We also went to the basement and negotiated with the enemy. The enemy withdrew, But the other companions were all…”

She said with some hesitation, and the words in her mouth were not all true...

"Oh! ——Captain, he took away the enemy's strength! Did he also restore a healthy body at the same time!!"

"Then...the battle to recapture the Wall of Maria this time can be said to be a success!? The survey corps went to the basement and forced the enemy back!"

After hearing her words, the soldiers were all excited, and the joy of welcoming victory shone in their eyes.

【Tsk... Although that scumbag is physically sound, his mind is not sound! ...]

Allen wiped his mouth, feeling disgusted watching those people who didn't understand anything show relief for this disgusting battle.

【Mikasa... why don't you tell the truth! ? 】

"Is there only three people left in the survey corps... This sacrifice is not insignificant," Pixis said after judging the current situation, "but in terms of the result, it is good. At least, we humans don't have to do it for the time being." It's coming to an end."

"Yes, yes!!"

"Great! We won! We survived!"

Listening to the commander's conclusion, the soldiers became even more joyful and began to celebrate this victory.

"Long live the Survey Corps!! Donate your heart to mankind!"

"Long live Captain Erwin!! The hero who took down the super giant!"

The people cheered, calling the inhuman demon in Allen's eyes a hero...it made him sick.

At the beginning, the survey corps, which he regarded as a hero, was once regarded as waste by people.Now, everything seems to be reversed.The same thing is, behind the gathered crowd, he is silently burning with anger.

Why... I always think differently from others?

【no! ...I must tell the truth! 】

After an unknown amount of time, Alvin slowly woke up...

As soon as he woke up, he felt a dull pain in the nerves of the entire spine and the back of the head, as if thousands of silver needles had been inserted into the spinal cord...

He closed his eyes in pain, but the movement of his body caused a crisp sound of metal and iron chains hitting the iron plate.He opened his eyes again and found himself in a dark room.With the dim light of the fire, he saw clearly that he was lying on the iron bed, his hands were bound by heavy shackles on his sides.

At this time, except that the three-dimensional mobile device on his body was removed, he maintained the appearance of coming out of the super giant body, lying on the bed in the dungeon with his upper body naked.

The guard outside the cell seemed to have noticed his awakening, and went out to report.After a while, when his consciousness was still drowsy, a familiar figure walked in, which made him wake up a lot. It was Nair.

He wanted to say something, but because of the thirst and hunger for several days, he couldn't exert his strength, and his throat was so hoarse that he couldn't make a sound.And he saw people bringing water and food through the iron fence...

After resting, he spoke first:

"How long has it been since I fell asleep...?"

"...It's been two days." Neil sat on a wooden chair outside the cell, folded his arms and said, looking at him with more suspicion and hesitation than ever before, "You have to Locked up here for a month. Alan Yeager told the truth, and your superiors judged you as a 'passive command'."

"..."

He lowered his head slightly, and in the cramped underground space, the already dull air fell into an awkward silence...

"Do you regret it?..."

After a while, Neil's question broke the silence in the dark, and his eyes were serious.

However, there was no answer to the inquiry, and the small space was once again wrapped in silence.

Do you regret it? ...

The questioning from his former classmates touched his heartstrings. Do you regret making such a bad move? ...

It wasn't a decision he hadn't thought about, he wasn't naive enough to think he could fool all of humanity, and he wasn't planning to evade sanctions.

But... isn't there a better way?

If he could do it all over again...would he still choose such a dangerous path?

If only there was an easier way to live...