[Comprehensive] Light and Shadow

"Ri, Leo?"

On the second day after the experiment, when Alan saw Leo at the dining table, his brain nerves were cramped for a full minute.

The purple-haired man had his slightly longer hair combed up, but because the hair was not long enough, the combed hair could not be called a ponytail, it could only be called a sky cannon. Used a pink bow.

Yo, Er Leng, did you come out with this look to entertain the public?

"How about it, doesn't it look good?" Tepera sat aside, looking at Allen with some excitement, with a look of expectation in his eyes.

"Alan is fascinated by it." Leo's pale lips curled up slightly, the corners of his eyes turned up a bit, and he poked a bundle of hair on the top of his head with his index finger, tsk tsk, it felt like his scalp was about to be pulled out up.

Alan:  …

In this situation, looking at Tepera with an excited face, and looking around at the survey team members who looked stiff but silent, Allen seemed to suddenly understand something.

As a man of the Survey Corps, he can't disappoint the only woman, right?

"Ingenious." Allen had a stiff smile on his mouth, and then looked at Tepela with admiring eyes.

"Huh? Really?" After hearing Alan's words, Tepela, who has always been calm and steady, added a bit of joy in his glazed pupils, and then looked at Alan seriously, "If you don't mind— —”

"..." Allen's face was stiff, and his hair suddenly felt chilly.

"Hehe, I was just kidding you." Tepera couldn't help but pursed his lips and laughed when he saw Alan who had a face of lightning and thunder but didn't know how to refuse. This child is so innocent.

Allen listened, stunned for a while before reacting, and then scratched his hair embarrassingly, was his reaction too stupid just now?

Allen breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the surrounding atmosphere was much more relaxed than before today.

Originally, I always felt that I was alienated from the team members, but after yesterday's experiment, even though there was an unexpected situation in the middle, the estrangement seemed to have been unintentionally reduced a lot.

The sound of steady footsteps came, and the sound of boots stepping on the concrete floor carried a steady rhythm. It seemed that nothing could interrupt this person's pace. When the sound of footsteps crossed closer, everyone quietly looked at the door.

The black hair is swinging, those indifferent eyes seem to be looking down on everything from a high altitude, the body wrapped under the uniform, although not tall, is strong and powerful, leaving a graceful shadow on the ground, powerfully suppressing people's vision nerve.

It's just that when the man's eyes touched a man with a pink bow tied on his head, although there was no expression on Leng Ran's face, his pupils widened and even his pace slowed down by half a beat.

Allen felt a little comforted in his heart for a moment. You see, even the captain was surprised.

"Who are you showing this stupid look to?" Levi frowned, looking gloomy at Leo who had a bright smile on his face.

"Huh? Mingming Tepera said it looks good?" Leo showed an exaggerated surprised expression, then took out the teacup in front of him, looked at his own hairstyle reflected in the tea, and stroked the broken hair on his head. stroking, showing a satisfied smile.

"Are you a woman? Twitchy." Oluo looked at Leo's actions, and he was probably disgusted. Goose bumps all over his body. He took a sip of his tea and looked at Leo with a dissatisfied expression. Rio.

"Who are you talking about?" Tepela narrowed his eyes dangerously and looked at Oluo, and then cut Oluo with a knife.

"Pfft!" A mouthful of tea spewed out, and at the same time, he bit his tongue because of the strength of the back of his neck, and the familiar bloody smell filled his mouth in an instant. This is all right, even if he got off the horse, he would have to bite his tongue!

The hand knife on the back of the neck was strong and fast, so that it would not be to the point of fainting, but this kind of sober pain was really uncomfortable.

Oluo forgot, no matter what, you can't offend a woman, especially this woman is the only one in the special combat squad.

In the afternoon of that day, it was probably yesterday that the captain was considerate of the sequelae of Alan's physical exhaustion after he inadvertently turned his right hand into a giant riot yesterday, so Alan probably got a day off to feed the horses in the stables.

Originally, Allen should be followed by Oluou, but Oluou, who was biting his tongue and felt that the back of his neck was about to fracture, wondered if he had been inspired by Leo for many years, so he also howled to ask for leave from the captain, but the words just started After speaking halfway, the second half of the sentence was swallowed tremblingly by the captain's murderous eyes.

But in the end, Oluou insisted on throwing Alan to Leo because of his old age.

So now—

"Leo, do you really... like this look?" Allen fed the horse and looked hesitantly at Leo who was still standing beside him with a bow tied. He thought that Leo didn't want to disappoint Tepera. Wearing a bow tie, but it is not necessary to continue to wear it here.

"I like it very much." Leo raised his eyebrows, pinched the bow with his hands, and raised a brilliant arc at the corner of his mouth.

"..." Allen felt that Leo's image in his mind was constantly collapsing.

"That, you, and the captain used to be gangsters in the underground street of the capital?" Allen looked at Leo, and couldn't help but think of what Tepera said before. After all, he was a little curious. Although he didn't dare to ask the captain, but If it's Leo, you should be able to ask, right?

Allen suddenly felt a little strange. When he saw Leo for the first time, he felt fear and anxiety in his heart, but now he feels that Leo is easy to talk, and there is really no scary factor for the image of the pink bow.Thinking of this, Allen couldn't help imagining in his mind that the giants were all tied with bows, and they came to attack shyly...

"Yes." Leo nodded bluntly, "It's a very good place there."

"Why, why?" Allen looked at Leo in surprise. Although he had never been there, he also knew that the underground street of Wangdu was the residence of the poor and criminals. Called good?

"Because there are no rules, so you are free." The purple hair was blown by the breeze, but the man's eyes seemed to be shimmering.

Allen didn't speak, and looked at Leo quietly.

In this world, the word freedom is too heavy.

As the elite of the survey corps, the man who fought bloody battles against giants for the freedom of mankind said that he could gain freedom in the dark underground street, so, how could that be considered freedom?

Imprisoned in a dark iron cage like a prisoner, there is nowhere to go. Even if he is killed by an irrelevant person in the next second, it is common. This unruly area is like a replica of a giant. the same battlefield.

——People eat people, and the weak will always be trampled in blood.

"You, wouldn't you be afraid?" Allen looked at Leo blankly, always feeling that the thoughts in this man's eyes were hidden too deeply to see clearly.It's just that he remembered that when he was looked at by other team members with weapons and distrustful eyes yesterday, this man who was grabbed by his cape and should be most fearful and angry walked lazily towards the headquarters.

"Of course." Leo patted Allen on the shoulder, "It's just that in the underground street, if you are strong enough, you don't need to be afraid of anything."

Listening to Leo's words, Allen felt that the pat on the shoulder was a bit heavy.

Listening to Leo's words, Allen always felt that this man seemed to miss his life in the underground street.

"Do you want to leave here?" Allen thought so, and asked softly.

"At the beginning, I wanted to live at all costs, and then walked from the ground to the ground, but now I start to envy those days when I can only see the ground." Leo looked at Alan's serious eyes, and shook his head helplessly, It seems that there is nothing to do with this kind of innocent junior, "It's just that I never thought of leaving."

"Sometimes, I suddenly can't think about it." Leo stretched out his hand to touch a brown horse, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Is it for the freedom of human beings to die like this, or to protect Those who live comfortably in the capital."

Allen's body shook, his pupils widened instantly and he looked at Leo. The countless declarations of freedom he had shouted angrily suddenly seemed to be forced to be covered with a layer of painful coldness.

Under the luxurious and magnificent capital, there are extremely dark slums.

In the brightest place, the shadows are darker, and once the dazzling and gorgeous shell is peeled off, the scars all over the body are so unsightly.

"But those are really beyond the scope of our thinking." Leo said so, and his mocking smile gradually softened. "We just need to think about how to survive."

Allen nodded with difficulty, feeling a little stiff all over, only to realize that the atmosphere just now seemed so depressing that he almost forgot to breathe, "If that's the case, why did you join the Survey Corps in the first place?"

If you think the underground shopping mall is free, if you don’t want to die for the human beings who live comfortably in the royal capital, if you feel even more scared when you leave the underground shopping mall, why do you want to leave?

"Because I want to see the sea."

Allen was stunned for a moment, and looked at Leo in surprise.

"Just kidding, how could I come out because of this." Leo looked at Alan's surprised expression, laughed, and looked at Alan with a playful look in his eyes.

Allen froze for a moment, looking at the meaning of "how can this brat be so easy to deceive" conveyed in Leo's eyes, his cheeks were a little red and he turned his face away.

A group of people suddenly walked past the stables, Alan's eyes widened, and Leo looked curiously at the moment of joy.

Allen felt someone push his back and turned his head.

"Don't you know each other? Let's talk." Leo gestured to the recruit who had just passed by with his eyes.

"Yeah!" Allen nodded with a smile, and then rushed out immediately.

Seeing Allen happily communicating with the recruits, especially when he was held by a beautiful girl, Leo looked at him with admiration, so that young people have lovers, and I don’t know that old people like me Will you be envious and jealous?

After being envious, jealous, and hated, he must give the young couple a sweet space. Thinking of this, Leo naturally forgot what the captain said that someone must monitor and follow Allen, and walked to the headquarters on his own.

"Mr. Leo."

"...recruit?"

Hearing someone calling his name, Leo saw the familiar face of the young man standing in front of him, with a thin face, tall figure, and light brown hair that looked a little gloomy in the sunlight, but those eyes were similar to Allen also brought a shining appeal.

Jean looked at the bow on Leo's head in a daze, and forgot to speak for a while.And Leo also felt a little embarrassed, and quickly removed the bow on the top of his head, and the corners of his mouth curled up in a perfect arc.

"I am the new recruit of the Survey Corps, Jean Gilchstein."

Jean paused, and returned to his original state, with admiration in his eyes, looking at the elite who had assisted him in killing two giants in the headquarters, the young man clenched his hands unconsciously, the slashing and ruthless manner of this man With the back view and the sonorous words, the blood in the whole body seems to be boiling involuntarily, and even makes people involuntarily want to follow in this man's footsteps.

Every time he fell asleep, the dark purple hair seemed to flash past his eyes, strongly oppressing the nerves. The more he tried to smooth out this brand, the deeper it became.

"Jean." Leo looked at Jean and nodded to show that he remembered the name.

"Mr. Leo!" Looking at Leo who was about to leave, Jean called the man's name, looked at the man's gaze, but couldn't think of anything to talk about for a moment, so he could only stand there awkwardly.

"... Work hard, this is for you." Leo rarely encountered such admiring eyes, so he patted Rang's shoulder silently, tried his best to put on an expression of a kind senior, and the corners of his mouth slowly hooked. Picked up, and then stuffed the bow in Jean's hand.

Seeing the expression of the recruit looking at the bow tie blankly after being high-spirited, Leo smiled and nodded.

Alas, Levi, I've helped you recruit recruits, so it shouldn't be too much to roll the sheets now.

But this time Leo's trickery failed, after opening the door——

Leo: "Would you believe me when I said I accidentally opened the door?"

Levi: "Get out."

Leo raised his eyebrows, Levi is usually fooling around outside at this time.

Levi took his eyes back from Leo and looked at the plan map on the stage seriously. The man suddenly realized something, frowned slightly and turned around, "Where's Alan?"

"I'm showing affection with my little lover, I couldn't see it, so I came to seek comfort." Leo closed the door with a smile, as if he couldn't see Levi's increasingly gloomy face at all.

It's true, every day brings a different reason to seek comfort.

"Levi." Leo walked in, walked straight to Levi's side and sat down on the concrete floor, leaning against the man's feet like that, the purple-haired man raised his head, as if being trapped Like an abandoned child begging to be attached to a human body.

"Take a chair and sit." Levi looked down at the man sitting on the concrete floor. He was clearly past the age of a teenager. This man seemed to have never changed, and he just choked his outburst with this humble gesture. point.

Leo got up with a smile, hummed a little tune and sat next to Levi with a chair.

After meeting Levi's murderous eyes, Leo immediately fell silent and sat down politely.

Even if there was one more person in the room, Levi didn't react too much. He regarded Leo as if he was air, looked at the base map on the table seriously, held a pen in his right hand, and seriously thought about the large-scale extra-wall investigation next month plan of.

There was silence in the room, only the sound of the pen nib rubbing on the paper could be heard. Leo was a little bored, yawned, and lay down on the table idly, but his eyes were not on the map but on Leo. Will's face.

The black hair hangs down, and the pair of jet-black pupils are far away from all the bloody killings in the sun, rippling with a kind of reassuring beauty.The elegant browbones, the powerful side face, and the firm lines seemed to be blurred in the breeze.

The slender, white fingers gripped the pen tightly, and some couldn't imagine how such hands held the blade, how they swung the blade coldly and cruelly, how they killed giants with complete indifference, and how they supported the hope of mankind.

"Do you remember what you said to me in the underground mall?" Leo lowered his eyes, and his eyes fell on Levi's left hand.

"You said that everyone is born free, and no one has the right to take it away."

"Are we free?"

Levi paused, his left hand was warmed up, and he saw Leo's fingers slowly inserting between his own fingers, he closed them slightly, and then let them go, and the purple-haired man closed his eyes, As if asleep.

And the words just now seemed to be just hallucinations.

Levi didn't speak.

Leo didn't want to hear the answer.

The purple-haired man's hand rested quietly on the back of Levi's hand. Levi's eyes slid across Leo's face, then his stiff left hand slowly relaxed, and his eyes fell on the map again. The back of his hand was steady Gently tugged on Leo's palm.

Like a tacit understanding, the hands of the two did not separate.