[Comprehensive] Light and Shadow

After returning from patrol, Allen looked at Leo sitting on the clock tower, and forgot to look away for a moment.

The man's skin looked ruddy under the setting sun, his facial features were soft, and his purple hair was slightly long and flowing in the wind, making him look like he was in another world. When the man looked up at the sky, the whole sky It seems that they are all trapped in the world of men, and there is nothing else.

I don't know if he sensed something, the man lowered his head, smiled and looked at Allen who was standing on the flat ground.

A paper airplane was thrown down, and Allen was stunned for a moment, then stepped out and chased after it.

Open the paper airplane, it is still made of torn-off book pages, and on the paper is a picture, on which is a stick figure mermaid sitting on a reef, with a large ocean behind her.

The sea.

Allen suddenly felt a little suffocated in his chest. He had seen this word from Amin's mouth with longing eyes, but now, when he heard this word again, he felt a different feeling in his heart.

Leo, do you really like the sea?

Before he could think about it for a few seconds, Allen was surprised to see Leo standing on the clock tower stand up, then turned his back to him, stepped back slowly, and stepped on the roof with both feet , It seems that if you take a step back, you will immediately fall down.

Allen's eyes widened in surprise. Knowing that the man on the clock tower was an elite of the Survey Corps, his heart was still gripped tightly, and he even thought in fear that if the man fell, he would die immediately.

The purple-haired man stood quietly, the sun cast a heavy shadow on the man, his body wrapped in uniform was tall and powerful.

As if tempted by a trajectory, the man slowly raised his hands from both sides, then closed his eyes, leaned his body back, and just let his body fall weightlessly.

——Like a bird that has lost its wings, it fell to the ground and was smashed to pieces.

"Leo!" Allen yelled in a panic, threw away the paper in his hand in a hurry, and hurried towards the falling figure.

Two sounds of "swish" cut through the air, and the fixer on Leo's waist was fixed on the building, and then his body rotated perfectly in the air for two weeks, and finally landed smoothly, standing precisely in front of Allen .

Allen looked at Leo who suddenly landed in front of him. He didn't know whether to panic or feel more at ease, but he felt a little sullen with a rapid heartbeat, and his legs were so weak that he almost staggered and fell.

"What were you doing just now?" Alan's brows and eyes were full of anger. Obviously, this was different from the tone and attitude he used to talk to members of the survey team, but whether Leo jumped down on purpose to scare himself or something else, it didn't matter. Make Allen feel angry.

"Yo? Angry?" Leo narrowed his eyes, with a bit of teasing in his purple eyes, and then stretched out his hand to stroke Allen's hair deliberately.

"If Mr. Leo has this time to jump off the roof, he might as well go on patrol with Captain Levi." Allen stepped back a little angrily, his tone became alienated, and he stared straight at Rio.

Obviously the plan this time is a matter of the entire special operations squad, but Leo's attendance is indeed reluctant. I don't know how to make the commander adopt the laissez-faire principle, but he can see Leo during the ten-day patrol It's only a day or two.

"Young man, life is about having fun in time. If you don't secretly take advantage of this time to go to the city to play, it will be too late to regret after you die." Leo raised his eyebrows at Alan, with a somewhat excited look from his waist. The bag was taken out, "Come on, Allen, I'll give you candy."

"I'm not a child anymore." Allen frowned, sugar or something, isn't it for children?

"Ah." Leo raised the corner of his mouth with a smile in his eyes.

Allen didn't react for a while, he opened his mouth, and a round hard candy rolled into his mouth, sweet and relishing.

"A kid should look like a kid. He's only 15 years old. Every day he thinks that he'll get dementia if he kills all the giants." Leo stuffed the whole bag of candy into Alan's hand, and took some sugar from it. He threw one into his mouth.

Allen frowned, looked at the bag in his hand, and didn't know whether to accept it or reject it, but looking at the man in front of him crunching and biting hard candy, he suddenly felt that there was no need to refuse his kindness.

"Leo, what do you think of the plan this time?"

Allen thought about it for a while, and then asked slowly. The feeling that he couldn't tell was just that he had extra trust in this man.Although every time he made a patrol, he found various excuses to shirk it, but Allen still felt that this man seemed to see much more clearly than him.

For this combat operation, the special combat squad is waiting in the center of the rear row, which is the safest position in the formation. This time the plan is only to send myself to the Xiganxina District for a test drive, so it is just a policy of going back and forth.

However, no matter how you look at such a plan, there are many incomprehensible places.

The purpose of the battle is obviously not as simple as the regiment leader said.

"Just listen to Levi." Leo said without hesitation.

"..." Allen was silent, this was too concise.

"This is the policy I've followed for many years, boy, learn with humility." Leo pretended to be Levi, with a gloomy face, and deliberately narrowed his eyes to reveal a fierce and cold look.

"Captain Levi." Allen suddenly saw something, nervously put his left hand holding the sugar bag behind him, his right hand clenched his fist close to his chest, his dark green pupils were flustered.

"Hey, don't try to scare me, how many times has Tepera used this trick on me." Leo smiled lazily, and patted the boy's shoulder, "Levi is only fooling around at this time... ...Aww!"

Standing behind the purple-haired man, Levi had a cold and cruel murderous look in his black eyes. Just by looking at him, he felt a bone-chilling coldness in the depths of his mind. Levi stretched out his legs and kicked the man's calf vigorously. Leo immediately He fell to the ground in pain.It's just that before the painful howl came out, Levi stepped on his head and pressed the ground tightly. The strength on his feet made the man unable to open his mouth, and even the annoying voice could only be swallowed.

Cold sweat broke out on Allen's forehead, and he felt that this scene seemed familiar.

"Ann, it seems that the discipline I gave you is still too light." Levi squinted his eyes dangerously, his cold voice was like a knife blade wandering along the nerves, and a single deviation was enough to shatter the whole world.The man's right leg exerted more strength, and the head of the purple-haired man sunk into the ground again.

Leo was struggling, his head was tightly suppressed and he couldn't move, and his hands kept beating the ground.

Alan stood there, feeling uncomfortable, and wanted to intercede, but seeing Levi's gloomy face, he didn't dare to say a word.Suddenly, I remembered what Tepela once said——

If the captain thinks Leo's howling is too noisy, there are generally only two ways to do it.

One, the captain beat Leo so badly that he couldn't howl.

Second, the captain beat Leo until he passed out.

In fact... there is no difference between the two in essence.

Wait, the captain didn't seem to be called by the name Leo just now?

Before Allen could think about it, Levi removed the foot that was stepping on the man's head, and Leo immediately raised his head and coughed violently, and then took a big breath, but before he took a few breaths, he was caught again Levi kicked up, with clean and agile movements, each time he seemed to attack the designated sore spot on his body, but every time Leo yelled out in pain, he attacked the next place, without any pause in the whole process. Ao could only shrink his body to hide, but he really couldn't howl out a word.

How to say this?

Even such a melee attack is as tacit as if it has been trained thousands of times.

Come to think of it, both Leo and Captain Levi are already very familiar with such painful discipline.

Allen looked at Leo who was rolling all over the ground with complicated eyes, and he wouldn't die if he didn't die.

"Soldier, Captain!" Allen finally couldn't help but speak.

Levi stopped attacking, raised his eyelids and looked at Allen.

"Continue to fight like this, this time, Mr. Leo..." I am afraid that he died of serious injuries, and became the first member of the survey team to be buried on the spot before leaving the wall.

Levi glanced at Allen, then at Leo who was curled up on the ground panting, turned and left expressionlessly.

After taking a step, he felt someone grab his ankle, and Levi looked down.

The man lying on the ground stretched out his hand and grabbed his military boots. The man's head was slowly raised, his purple pupils were full of familiar enthusiasm, and the tip of his warm tongue deliberately licked his upper lip. Evoked a flamboyant arc.But then the man stretched his hand back and lay down on the ground pretending to be a dead body.

Levi paused, his eyes darkened, and he left without saying a word.It's just that the man's expression at that moment involuntarily reminded Levi of the same movement and expression when he saw this man for the first time in the underground street.

This guy really hasn't changed.

The naivety has never changed.

"Leo." Allen looked at Leo who was lying lifeless on the ground, and immediately ran over in a panic, reaching out his hand to help the man up from the ground, but the sugar bag accidentally fell off from the palm of his hand, round Beads of sugar granules rolled to the ground.

This is still a rare time that someone sends me something.Allen looked at the scattered candies on the ground and immediately felt guilty and distressed. He didn't know if Leo would be angry, but thinking of this, Allen froze there for a while, not knowing whether he wanted to help Leo first, or put him in front of him. Sugar pick up.

"Hey, are you waiting for me to help you up?" Leo, who waited for a long time before Alan pulled him up, turned his head viciously, and looked at Alan who was still in a daze with a bad expression .

"No, no, sorry." Allen reacted immediately, stretched out his hand and grabbed Leo's hand and arm, trying to help the man up, but shouldn't it be a weak voice after being beaten like this?Why is it like this—full of air and triumphant.

Leo, who was lifted up confidently, put most of his body weight on Allen, while the black-haired boy staggered a little, but still frowned slightly and continued to support Leo in a muffled voice, "Do you want to go back to the room now? ?”

"The candy I gave you—" Leo glanced at the candy scattered on the ground.

"Well, okay, then I'll take you back to your room now." Allen stiffened his body, and then immediately helped the ashen-faced Leo to speed up his pace a little.

"..." Leo wanted to say, is this lame ability to talk to himself a common problem of the special combat squad?

"Leo, do you think this plan will be successful?" Allen supported Leo to the stairs, carefully looked at the man's side face, and then asked again.

"Do you think I'm too amiable, or too knowledgeable?" Leo glared at Allen, and Allen shrank his head, but Leo's muscles were involved in the pause of his movements, and he felt his whole body suddenly The pain started, and the man howled a few times in pain, mixed with a few curses at Levi by the way.

"I'm just...asking." Allen pretended not to hear Leo's curse, and then said it softly.In fact, he shouldn't ask more about the plan, but he always feels a little uneasy, and it feels a little uncomfortable to be kept in the dark. As for this question, he dare not ask other people, but he feels that there should be nothing wrong with asking Leo relation.

"Don't worry so much." Leo turned his head to look at the boy's side face, showing an expression of indifference as always, then reached out and patted the back of the boy's head, "Anyway..."

Allen looked down at the dark concrete floor, stepping on the shadow of his body step by step, but listening carefully to the man's words.

In fact, it's really not a good idea to ask a man this question.

Because so far, the man's answer to himself is either negative or the kind of view that is extremely indifferent to life and death.

So, the answer I heard this time——

It will probably be [Everyone is going to die anyway, and it is only a matter of time when he dies. 】

Maybe it's a [plan or something, but it's just to escape after plunging into the giant's mouth, the key is to see how fast you escape. 】

It may be [Even if it succeeds this time, so what?It's not even a start now. 】

For the first time, Allen discovered that he still had the ability to guess his mind, and every sentence sounded like Leo's tone.Allen sighed, and suddenly realized that Leo's eyes seemed to stay on his face.Allen felt a little embarrassed for a moment, obviously he was asking the question, but his mind wandered for so long.

It's just that the purple-haired man's smile was a little understanding, and he seemed to have completely understood what he was thinking. Allen lowered his head, and then supported the man's pace a little faster.

"Ellen."

"Ah."

"I really like the sea."

Allen raised his head in surprise. He didn't know why the man said this sentence suddenly. The inconsistency made people a little confused, but when he saw the man's purple eyes, he was indeed a little stunned.

It doesn't matter what color this world is, as long as it is in the eyes of this man, it seems to be able to see a large area of ​​blue, people can't help but indulge in it, and die greedily after being embraced by the cold sea water.

"I will try to live until I walk out of this wall. This is not for the freedom of human beings, not for this plan, not for other people's expectations, but for my own wishes. Therefore, I am very selfish and don't care about the battlefield. Bad, hesitant and confused, I will not stop moving forward."

The shattered hair covered the man's expression, and Leo's light-colored lips seemed to be drawn up slowly.That calm and hoarse voice seemed to be deeply engraved in my mind, and could never be erased.

"So, as my selfish teammate, you just need to think about how to survive."

"Then just move forward without looking back."