Great Descendant || Attack on Titan x Reader

26 || Sensibilities

Everyone scooted closer to Captain Levi, wanting to see what it was all about. The Survey Corps had been disbanded, and the rest of the soldiers who were still missing were hunted down. Now all of you were considered a criminal, accusing how the Survey Corps killed civilians. You gritted your teeth at that, not liking how the table had turned.

Then again, you knew Commander Erwin had a concrete plan. He was someone who would think out of the box, gambling on everything with a slight chance of winning. But if he did, it would be the biggest achievement of the century. You faced Sasha, who now had her eyebrows creased, and you immediately understood something even before she opened up her lips.

"Someone's coming, Sasha?"

"No, I think two." Connie looked at you both with bewilderment in his eyes. "From that way." The brunette pointed at the south, and each one of you stood up since she missed nothing with her senses. Either the smallest sound from the distance or a shadowy figure in the dark. She was gifted with that ability despite being a normal human.

It didn't take long for Captain Levi to give an order. Armin was going to play decoy while you and Jean attacked them from on top of the tree. You considered this an effortless task, especially since the two soldiers were Military Police, not the First Interior Squad. They were quite chatty, and you were interested in the man's perspective. Wondering how someone with an idealistic point of view decided to stay within the inner wall.

"Let's see." Captain Levi spoke up. "Stohess District Military Police." He read the identification card that Jean gave him before, out loud, since he wanted the two to hear them. You were standing behind the captives. The man with black bowl-cut hair was called Marlowe Freudenberg, and the other who kept looking down was Hitch Dreyse. "What should we do to you two?"

"It's your fault that more than a hundred people from Stohess District got killed!"

"Hey, Hitch!"

"Maybe you think you are saving humanity, but you send those victims straight to hell!" You wanted to shut her mouth now. She kept trying to remind the sin that everyone had, how the Survey Corps became the reason ‌there were so many deaths within the walls. But you just sealed your lips, for now, lifting the black fabric that wrapped around your neck to cover half of your face.

You knew too well about the victims of Stohess District. Even now, you still could feel how cold and rigid her hand was when you interlaced it with yours. The sky turned dark as the rain slowly erased the crimson hue from the road and building. Maybe the blood and corpses were now gone, but you knew the story would never be forgotten. "And you guys were in the Southern Cadet Corps, right? Just like Annie Leonhart!"

Your pupils dilated at the mention of the petite blonde, making you purse your lips since she kept on talking as if she knew everything. "Were you friends with her?! Nah, I don't think so. I doubt someone as distant and abrasive as she made any friends. I didn't even get to know her, and she's gone! Bet the reason ‌we never found her is because those titans pulverised her until there was nothing left!" And you were reaching your limit the second she screamed the last sentence at your face.

"She's my best friend." Her eyes, which were filled with rage before, slightly toned down. "You are right about her. Not making any friends because she often looked like a scared child around crowds." Despite the warm intonation, you looked at her with a harsh stare. "But the reason ‌you couldn't find her is that Annie was the undercover titan who we needed to fight back then."

A glimpse of Annie's crystal suddenly appeared in your mind, stopping you from saying another word. You pressed your temple at that, feeling an intense throb before you decided to leave the scene, of course, after telling your captain beforehand. Ever since yesterday, you always got a headache every time the warrior member appeared in your mind. And it irked you how clueless you were about the cause of it.