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Screams of soldiers echoed throughout the battlefield. The monkey-like Titan was surprised and watched them go to their deaths. Green smoke flew from below and soar trough the sky. The Titan began to raise his hand, going to throw boulders.

"In coming! Spread out!" The commander of the Scouts ordered. The soldiers did as they were told.

You jumped from your horse and launched towards the Beast Titan using your ODM gear. As soon as you slashed your hand with your sword, a bright yellow thunder comes crashing down to the ground. Heat then began to consume you.

As soon as you finished transforming, you scratched the Beast Titan's face with your claws. He roared in pain. Then, you spitted your poison-like saliva on his eyes to blind it.

Your Titan was called the Poison Titan. Obviously, your Titan is poisonous. Every liquid inside you is poisonous; if a person or animal just makes contact with it, it can burn and itch them. If taken in into the body, the person or animal dies; they can either die slowly or immediately, depending how much poison was taken in. If it makes contact with a plant, the plant immediately dies.

It went like that a few times, until the Beast Titan grabbed one of your legs and started tearing it off. He then proceeded to tear off your arm, leaving you with an arm and a leg, as blood drips down your arm and leg.

Dammit! I can't fight like this. I have no choice but to get out and somehow escape using ODM gear, you thought to yourself.

As if he had heard you, the monkey-like Titan ripped you out of your Titan. He raised his arm, ready to throw you. To a Titan, ready to devour you.

The Beast Titan swinged his arm; throwing you. You closed your eyes, waiting for the Titan to grab you and devour you.

Is...

this...

how... 

it'll...

end...?

It's finally ending huh...?

I'm finally dying...

I'm sorry...

everyone...

I wasn't able to fulfill my duty...

.

..

...

....

No...

I don't wanna die yet!

God...

If you can hear me...

listen to my prayers...

I still want to live.

I'm want to live with everyone.

So please...

Give me the chance to live again...!

*RUMBLE*

"Huh, I didn't know it was gonna rain," Koro-sensei said as he stopped writing on the board when it began to rain.

Kayano's brows furrowed as she listened to her intuition. "Is it just me or I feel like something is coming?"

Karma shrugged, "Nah you're just imagining thin-"

He was cut off by something crashing against the wall in the back of the classroom, leaving a large hole in the wall.

Everyone's eyes trailed to the cause of the hole; an unconscious girl, soaked in water mixed with her blood from her ripped off arm and leg. Blood began to trickle down her head. Some shrieked at the sight, while others stared in horror.

After a quick examination, everyone noticed the odd outfit she's wearing; a military uniform with a green cloak, with the wings of freedom on it. Everyone's shocked gaze then quickly turned to the gear on her.

Koro-sensei rushed to her side, snapping the students out of their thoughts. "A girl...?" he muttered. "Isogai call Mr. Karasuma and Ms. Irina!" the octopus commanded the class president.

"Y-Yes!"

Isogai ran out of the class informing the P. E. and the English teacher about the sudden incident. Fuwa's eyes then trailed to the steam coming out of you.

"S-sir! Steam is coming out of her!" Fuwa pointed to the girl's missing limbs, making everyone's eyes lock on the steam.

"And it's—" Maehara was cut off by someone suddenly bursting out of the door.

"What happened?!" Karasuma asked with panic. "Missing limbs?! If more blood comes out, she'll die!" Karasuma said as he ran towards the girl.

"Wait," Irina suddenly said. "Her limbs are regenerating..."

"Bitch-sensei now's not the time to joke around!" Nakamura told Irina.

"No really, look!" Nagisa said as he pointed at the girl's regenerating limbs, slowly but surely.

Moments later, her eyes opened, seeing kids that seems to be the same age as her, two adults, and a... what...?

"Brat don't move. Your body's still regena—" Irina was cut off by the girl. "Who are you and where am I?!" The girl asked aggressively, forcing herself to stand up but failed to, since one of her legs is gone.

"That's not how you talk to an adu—"

"And what's this thing? A Titan perhaps? But it's far to different to be a normal Titan or an intelligent" The girl analyzed Koro-sensei out loud.

"Titan? What are you talking about?!"

Everyone was shocked by how unconcerned the girl is of her missing limbs.

"Kid, listen to her. Lay down and wait until I call the ambula—" Karasuma tried to calm her down, but was cut off.

"Not until you tell me where am I and what's this thing!" The wounded girl demanded as she pointed her sword towards Koro-sensei.

"I'm not a thing!" Koro-sensei said as he hid behind Karasuma in fear. 

"Hurry up tell me—" Her vision blurred before darkness consumed her, collapsing.

Karasuma sighed. "I already told you to not move."

"But what should we do with this brat? It looks like she's not gonna wake up anytime soon," Irina complained.

"She was also saying stuff about Titans. The hell's that?" Terasaka asked, expecting no answer.

"For now, we should just wait for her to wake up," Koro-sensei suggested.

"I'll call my superiors and tell them about the situation." Karasuma sighed as he began to dial his superior's number on his phone.

"Let's also take her gear off. She'll probably try to kill us once she wakes up," Karma suggested.

"I think we should tie her up too..." Sugino stated as his classmates nod in agreement.

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Y/N's POV

I remember the monkey ripping of my arm and leg, and throwing me to a Titan...

And then...

.

..

...

Huh...?

I slowly open my eyes to see two adults and the bizarre thing I saw earlier.

"Ah you're finally awake!" someone said.

"Hey, how did you come crashing trough the wall?" another asked.

"How did your body regenerated?"

"Are you somehow related to Koro-sensei?"

"Hey, what's with your uniform?"

The kids began to overwhelm me with questions, as I tried to break free from the rope restraining me from moving. I'm surprised on how tight it is.

Overwhelmed by the large amount of questions, I let out, "Could you all just shut up for a second?!", just like how Eren did in court.

Surprised by my sudden outburst, the whole room became silent.

"Everyone you shouldn't overwhelm her with questions, she just woke up," the yellow thing said to the kids.

"How are you feeling?" a black-haired adult asked. I didn't answer. "Answer me," he demanded.

"Exhausted," I obliged to answer.

"Regenerating takes a lot of stamina, huh?"

I looked up at him in shock. "How do you know about that?"

"It literally happened before our eyes," he said nonchalantly.

I looked down to the ground. Great, they know about that.

"How did you get in the classroom and why were you missing limbs?" he asked again.

"I was fighting with that monkey Titan to—"

Huh?

I felt myself pause as my whole body froze.

Why was I fighting the monkey again?

A sudden tap on my shoulder snapped me back to reality. "What were you saying?"

"Actually, forget I said that," I quickly shrugged, hoping that he'll just let it go.

The man looked at me suspiciously before asking again, "Name?"

Once again, I didn't answer him.

He sighed. "Fine."

He the turned to the group of kids. "Ah, you guys can go home. We'll take care of her," he said. I'm guessing when he said "we" he meant himself, the other adult, and the bizarre thing.

The students, one by one, left the classroom, leaving only me, a blonde woman, a black haired man, and the bizarre thing.

"Hey brat, I've been meaning to ask this," the blond woman began.

I tilt my head in curiosity, gesturing her to ask right away.

"Are you somehow related to that octopus?" she asked as she pointed a finger at the yellow thing.

"Octopus? What the hell is that?"

"Don't tell me you don't know what an octopus is," The blonde said in a mocking tone.

At her mocking tone, I gave her a glare. "No. For your information, I genuinely do not know what an octopus is," I said coldly, annoyed by her mocking.

The yellow thing explained, "An octopus is a marine animal that has eight tentacles. They're also very intelligent and masters of camouflage. They can also match colors and even textures of they're surroundings! If a predator gets to close, they can—"

"Enough with the explanation. She gets it," The man cut him off, causing the so-called "octopus" to sulk in the corner.

"Anyway are you related with the octopus? Since you regenerated like he can," the man asked again.

"No. I am not, any way related to that yellow thing," I answered.

"Would you please stop calling me a thing?! I am clearly not a thing!" the yellow thing complained.

"What am I supposed to call you? Smiling iron mask? Since you kept smiling like an idiot."

"No— Actually, that's quite true..." he tried shot back, but realized what I said was true.

"Okay, enough you two."

I clicked my tongue in annoyance.

"Are you somehow experimented? Are you even human?" the man asked again.

"I was never experimented. I was born and raised as a human. That was until I somehow got these these powers..." I muttered the last part.

"What was that?"

"Nothing."

"Are you hungry?" the yellow thing suddenly asked.

"Huh?" is all I let out, not knowing why the thing would ask a complete stranger that just crashed trough a wall if they're hungry.

"Are you hungry?" he repeated.

"I am quite hungry. I haven't ate anything," I answered honestly.

The yellow thing suddenly disappeared with me not knowing where he went.

"Did... he just... disappeared...?" I asked while still in shock.

"No, he just ran at mach 20," the male said rather casually.

Mach 20?!

"Anyway what was the marks on my face?"

I was hesitant to tell him. If I want to tell him about the marks, I'll need to explain about my powers. But, is that really okay?

"Fine. If you don't want to share our just yet, we can wait," the man said as I looked down at my now-grown-back leg.

"Based on your outfit, are you in the military?"

"...Yes," I answered rather hesitantly.

"Do you even know where you are?"

"No, but I'm quite sure I'm currently outside the Walls."

"Walls? Never mind. Do you know where your home is? We can possibly take you home," he offered.

"I don't exactly have a home, but I do live in the Survey Corps headquarters."

"Survey Corps?" he asked in confusion.

How does he not know about the Survey Corps?

"Where are you from? From your appearances, you looks like a foreigner."

"The Walls, of course. Where else?" I answered, rather annoyed.

His brows furrowed in confusion. "What walls are you talking about?"

My eyes scrunched at him in annoyance. "Hah? Wall Maria, Wall Rose, Wall Sheena, don't you know any of these walls?"

He shook his head as he replied, "No."

Not even the Walls?

I narrowed my eyes at him and my surroundings. "Then... Where am I?"

"Japan."

What... Japan? "What?"

"We're in Japan. Specifically, Tokyo, Kunugigaoka Junior High School," he answered my question in more detail.

Huh...?

My eyes widen as I tried to process what he said. Japan? Tokyo? Kunugigaoka? What the hell are those?

"What... are those?" I asked as I felt my head getting dizzy.

His eyes scrunched up. "Please stop joking around."

"I am not!"

His eyes narrowed at me.

"I genuinely don't know! I swear! I don't even know if this is just some nightmare or not!"

He seemed to sense my genuineness. He sighed and answered my questions, "Japan is a country, Tokyo is a city, while Kunugigaoka Junior High School is a school."

Country? Though I didn't know what a country is, I decided not to ask about it to not make myself sound even more stupid.

"Do you know how to get back to your home?" he asked.

Now that he mentioned it, how did I got here? It was probably because of the monkey, but if you think about it logically, it's impossible.

That's when I realized, I might be in a completely different place. That will explain why he didn't understand anything I said.

"No," I answered, still shaken up by realization.

"Can you train the students?" he suddenly asked.

"Train?" I asked, confused.

"Ah, I haven't explained the situation yet. The whole class in currently in a mission to assassinate the octopus. Yes, I mean the octopus you met earlier," he explained.

"Is he a Titan? Is he an intelligent? Are there even Titans around here?" I asked him a bunch of questions.

"What's this so-called Titan anyway? You've been blabbering it since you've got here!" the blonde woman asked, clearly annoyed.

Ah. Right. I might be in a completely different place. So I should stop asking things like Titans.

"Actually, forget about the Titans. You don't need to know it," I quickly shrug.

The blonde woman furrowed her brows and shouted at me, "Why can't I know it, wall brat?!"

The man interfered, "Anyway, he was responsible for the destroyed moon, and in March, he'll do the same with earth. Unless he is killed. What's most surprising is the fact that he offered to be this class's homeroom teacher. Therefore, the students have the best opportunity to kill him. The government has come to an agreement with the octopus. He'll be allowed to teach while the students carry out assassination attempts, as long he doesn't harm the students."

I nodded at him as my eyes narrowed at him. "So, what do I get for training those kids?"

"All the things you need to survive; food, clothing, and shelter, as well as education."

The offer is tempting. If I accept, all of my needs will be fulfilled. And education is a bonus; it'll allow me to know further about this world. Even though I just graduated.

"The government has agreed to this," he said suddenly.

"Wait a minute," I told him to stop. "You mean, you contacted the government about this?"

"Of course. I'm part of the military, so naturally, I'll contact them."

If the government knows about this, then...

My eyes immediately searched for my ODM gear, only to be unsuccessful to find it. Panic quickly filled me. "Where's my gear?!"

"The government considered it to be suspicious. So they took it away for further inspection."

My hands clenched to a fist in frustration. Shit.

"So, do we have a deal?" He handed out a hand for me to shake.

I stared at the hand, pondering on my decision. "One more thing," I said. "Did you tell the government about my ability?" I asked, referring to my regenerating ability.

He shook his head. "No. I don't have prove to show the government."

Good.

"We have a deal," I agreed as I tried to shake his hand, but restrained to do so. "Um, a little help?"

He nodded his head and helped freeing me from the rope. I then shake his hand, agreeing to the deal.

"I'm back!" The yellow thing said as he entered the classroom while holding some sort of food.

"What's the food for?" the woman asked.

"For the kid of course. She hasn't eat since yesterday," the yellow thing answered.

He handed me the food, "Here take a bite!"

I inspected it closely. On the plate was brown colored balls with some sort of liquid on top and some sort of vegetable that has been cut to small pieces.

"What's this?" I asked.

"It's called takoyaki! Give it a try!" he said cheerfully.

I slowly take a bite out of the "takoyaki" and chewing it slowly, inspecting the taste.

"Well?"

"The taste is odd, but..."

The "octopus" waited nervously for my answer, sweating bullets.

"Delicious. I haven't eaten anything like this."

The octopus sighed in relief. "I'm glad you like it."

"Can't you tell us your name already?" the woman asked.

"Tell me your names first," I said, as I continued to eat the "takoyaki" in delight.

"I'm Irina Jelavic. And don't call me "bitch" like the other brats!" she introduced quite harshly.

Well, she is a bitch.

"Tadaomi Karasuma."

"You can call me Koro-sensei, so please stop calling me a thing."

"Y/N. Just Y/N," I finally introduced.

"Well Y/N, it's nice to meet you," Koro-sensei said offering a hand to shake, well more like a "tentacle" or whatever he said.

"It's a pleasure to meet you too." I shook his "tentacle".

Why can't I remember why I was fighting the monkey Titan?

Fact: Karasuma could've easily prove Y/N's ability of regenerating by injuring her. But he thought Y/N can just stop regenerating in order to not expose herself.

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Karasuma stared at you wide-eyed, shocked at you. He didn't expect you to be this strong.

"Since I defeated you, that means I can stay here, right?" you asked, dusting off the dirt on your pants, as you look down at Karasuma who is on the ground.

FLASHBACK

"Ah, one more thing," Karasuma suddenly said. "The deal will be made if you can defeat me in a fight. I need to test your skills to know if you're a worthy asset for this assassination."

You tilt your head to the side. "Orders from the government?" you asked. He nodded as an answer.

"All right. Let's make it quick."

Karasuma lead you to the back of the school, with Irina and Koro-sensei following behind. You then positioned yourself to a fighting stance, with Karasuma doing the same.

"If I want to secure this deal, I can't underestimate him. Ending the fight quickly is the safest option," you thought.

"Ready, set... go!" Koro-sensei announced.

Immediately, you swept your foot against Karasuma's, making him fall to the ground.

"Yes, you're now officially part of the class. I look forward to work with you."

"I look forward as well."

*ZAP*

"Captain! Give me the serum quickly!"

*ZAP*

"We'll turn Armin into a Titan...! And have him eat Bertholdt!"

*ZAP*

"We're giving the serum to Erwin."

*ZAP*

"Protecting the Trost district by blocking the hole in the wall with a boulder, outsmarting Annie to find out her true identity, advancing during night... All of those were Armin's idea!"

*ZAP*

"The Survey Corps was nearly annihilated! If the commander dies as well... Humanity will not only lose a man, but a symbol! We can't let the flame of hope in the wall be extinguished!"

*ZAP*

"Everyone get out of here!! I'm going to let Erwin eat Bertholdt right in this spot!"

*ZAP*

"Armin?" you said Armin's name quietly as a pain shot trough your head.

What was that...? Did that happened after I was thrown by the monkey? No, that burnt body wasn't Armin's, right...? Also, Bertholdt's gonna get eaten? And they're choosing between Armin and the Commander on who eats him...? And Captain Levi is choosing Commander Erwin? No, Armin can't die yet! He just can't-

"Hey, you alright?" Karasuma asks you with concern in his voice.

You shook your head, dismissing the pain. "Don't worry, I'm perfectly fine. I just... happened to remember something," you lied.

"Oh, right. One more thing," Karasuma said. "The government ordered me to supervise you. So, you'll be staying with me. Is that alright?"

You nodded, seeing no problem with it. Living with him shouldn't be that bad.

"Here, please use this." The yellow octopus gave you simple clothing that the government provided your with. You accepted it and walked away to change.

As you folded your Scouts uniform drenched in your own blood, your fingers wiped the blood across the badge with the wings of freedom on it. A small smile formed on your lips. I'll miss wearing this.

"This is my house," the raven-haired man said as he unlocked the door to his house. You followed behind, carefully looking at his house.

The house was, of course, different to the ones inside the Walls. It looked much more clean than the ones back at the Walls. And the design looked much more modern, making you stare at the house in amazement for a few seconds.

Karasuma lead you to a room as he opened the door. "This will be your room. Feel free to call me for anything," he said as you took a look at the room.

The room was simple; white walls, neutral-colored bedsheets, and plain wooden floors. The only things that decorated the room was the lamp on top of the bedside table, and the simple wooden closets. It was nice, and it perfectly suited you.

Your eyes then traveled to the white machine on the higher part of the wall. Wondering what it is, you asked, "What's that?"

He didn't judge you as he answered, "That's an air conditioner. It provides cold air inside a room."

You nodded at his answer.

"Any more questions?"

You shook your head. "No. At least, for now."

He nodded and shut the door, leaving you inside your room. You sighed before plopping yourself on the bed.

"How did things become this way...?" you asked yourself.

This place is very different than the one you came from. From the people, technology- basically, everything. All of this was giving you a headache. You felt like the dumbest person; constantly questioning about everything.

The ultimate question is; how are you gonna get back? This question was constantly lingering in your head. You had no clue how to do that. So, you thought that learning about this place was the best thing to do first. After understanding this place, you plan to search for clues on how to get back.

You then remembered, Karasuma gave you a thin square-shaped device, called a "phone". Than it hit you; you don't know how to use it. So, you got out of your room, and searched for the man.

"Mr. Karasuma?" you called out, the device in your hand.

"Yes?" he responded. You turned to him, seeing him on the couch with his device called "laptop".

You walked over to him. "I don't know how to use this device called "phone". You said that this is an important device."

"Here, let me teach you."

In that hour, Karasuma taught you how to use the phone. As he taught you, you continued to be amazed at the device, with sparkles in your eyes. To Karasuma, you looked like a child, learning and being fascinated by the simplest things.

"Did you sleep well?" Karasuma asked as you and him made your way to the classroom's door.

"Yes, thank you for asking. The skirt is very short though... It's quite uncomfortable, especially wearing this in front of men." You twitched your eyes at your skirt, expressing your discomfort.

"This is the uniform required to wear at schools in Japan. You can always wear pants underneath it," Karasuma suggested to you.

Reaching the class' door, the man stepped in with you behind him. The yellow octopus announced, "Class, we're having a new student. Please introduce yourself."

"...Y/N," you introduced yourself plainly.

A brown haired student with golden eyes raised his hand asking, "Um, your last name?"

"I do not have a last name," you answered.

Another student with green hair that is put into pigtails asked, "Hey, how old are you?"

"I don't know my exact age, since I was abandoned by my parents when I was young. But I'm told I'm around 14 years of age."

"As you can see, she's the girl who crashed to the classroom's wall. Since she doesn't have anywhere else to go, she'll be under my supervision, orders from the government. In exchange, she'll train you," Karasuma informed the students.

A boy with orange-brown hair said, "But she just said she was 14! Why let a fourteen-year-old train us? I mean, she's practically the same age as us."

"I suggest you to not underestimate her. She literally defeated me in a fight," Karasuma warned the students.

The students looked shocked on what he just said. Was he serious? Were you really stronger than their P. E. teacher?

"Alright, now Y/N, please make your way to your seat next to Karma. Karma please raise your hand," the octopus asked the red-head to raise his hand, which he did.

"Understood," you replied. You made your way to the seat next to the red-head as multiple pairs of eyes were glued to you.

"Yo, the names Karma Akabane. Nice to met'cha," the red-head introduced himself. "Nice to meet you too, I'm pleased to make your acquaintance," you said, with a blank expression. He offered a hand for you to shake, which you accepted.

"Let's begin class, shall we?" Koro-sensei said. The lesson was, well, confusing? You didn't understand the words on the chalkboard nor what they were talking about. Apparently, the first subject was history. You didn't know roughly 1,165 years has passes by since the year 850.

The next subject was math, which you understood since it was basically the same back at the Walls. You also get to learn new formulas that were easier compared to what you were taught.

About four hours have passed, and it was time for lunch break. The students were now forming they're tables into a few large ones for them to share. Since you were new to this kind of stuff, you didn't know what to do. Back at the Scouts HQ, you and your friends gathered at the mess hall and just ate the food that was served. But it seems like that's this school doesn't have a mess hall.

Students seem to bring they're own meals, some were even eating meat. Meat was a luxury since the fall of Wall Maria. Your people lost a lot of land and there was a food shortage. You still couldn't believe that students are eating meat like it was nothing.

"Hey, Y/N! Come join us!" the green-haired girl called you as she pat the empty seat next to her.

Ah, that's the student who asked me about my age.

You sat at the seat the girl called you pat on. "I haven't introduced myself, my name is Kaede Kayano. Nice to meet you!" the girl introduced.

Another student introduced herself, "Rio Nakamura~ It's really nice meetin' ya."

"I'm Yukiko Kanzaki. I hope we can get along."

Students began to introduce themselves to you. It was quite overwhelming for you. Then, the last one introduced.

"I'm Yuma Isogai, welcome to the E class! I hope you can get along with all of us," he said with a bright smile, too bright honestly.

You made returned it with a small smile. "Yes, thank you for the warm welcome."

Nagisa asks, "Hey, I'm sorry if this offends you but why were you missing an arm and a leg? Were you perhaps fighting someone?"

It took a while for you to answer. "Yes... I was..." you responded hesitantly.

"How were you able to regenerate? Are you related to Koro-sensei?" Nakamura asked.

You answered, "No I am not related to the that thing. As for your first question, I suppose you can say it's a power of mines."

"Hey, you didn't bring any food, did you? Would you like to share with mine?" Kanzaki offered as she gave you a closed-eye smile.

"Ah, no need. I'm quite alright," you declined her offer.

Though she was a bit disappointed, she didn't pursue you any further.

It was time for P. E. Which means it's time for you to teach the students. Let's see how this goes.

You went to the girls changing room, holding your P. E. uniform. You were honestly nervous to change in front the other girls. Yes, you have changed clothes in front of other women but those women were your friends. To you, your classmates are still strangers.

You stood at a corner and carefully changed, trying not to show much of your body. Unfortunately, someone noticed you and spoke, "Wow Y/N! Your body is so fit! You must work out a lot, huh?" Apparently it was a short orange-haired girl: Kurahashi.

This took the other girls attention and they began to compliment your body. You felt a deep blush creeping onto your face and covered your face with your shirt, trying to hide it.

"Um, if we don't hurry up we're going to be late," you said, hoping the girls will stop complimenting.

"Right. But that doesn't mean we're gonna stop complimenting your body, am I right girls~?" Toka said as the girls nod, agreeing with her.

You didn't expect that statement and it only made your blush worse. You hummed in agreement as the girls left the locker room. After sighing in relief, you started finishing changing and made your way outside.

Suddenly, Karasuma stopped you, "Y/N, here." He handed you an anti-sensei knife and gun.

"A rubber knife? Are you certain this will work on him?" you asked.

"Yes this works on him. These are harmless to humans so you don't need to worry."

You looked at the gun, "I'm afraid I can't teach my classmates using the gun. I have never seen a gun this small. I apologize for it."

"It's fine. You can learn the gun with the students."

You nodded and left Karasuma in hall.

To be honest, you're ashamed for not knowing how to use the gun. Back at the Walls, gunds that small didn't exist. Who could blame you? Your pride as a soldier was further damaged since failing to defeat the Beast Titan. And it was all because of one single object that existed.

You reached the yard outside with your head slightly low. Some students greeted you with you nodding at them in return.

Karasuma appeared behind you and spoke, "I'm counting on you on teaching the students." You hummed as an answer.

"Y/N-sensei! What are we learning today?" Maehara asked you in a cheerful voice, specifically, the "Y/N-sensei" part.

You answered, "We're learning on how to fight with a knife. All of you, try hitting me with your knifes."

Your classmates looked at you wide-eyed. It's one versus twenty-six- minus Karma. "Are you sure? It's not like we're underestimating you, but twenty-five opponents is a lot, you know?" Nagisa said.

"Don't worry, you only need to hit me with your knifes, and I'll only be dodging and blocking your attacks. I need to see what your lacking in," you answered.

"You may start... now."

The first one that attempted to attack you was Maehara. He swung his knife at you only for you to dodge it easily. Just after you dogged his attack, Okajima attacked you from behind, with you, dodging to the side. This kept going on for about five minutes until your classmates stopped attacking due to exhaustion. However something unexpected happened.

A knife was thrown at you, catching you off guard. You barely dodged it before it dropped to the ground. You stared at the knife before looking up to the person who throw it. Nagisa.

"Aw, that's to bad. I really thought the knife will hit you. That was a pretty bad plan huh?" Nagisa said, seeming to not notice that he caught you off guard.

"No, that was not bad, but it was reckless. You threw it when I'm off guard. I barely just dodged it. You knew you can't hit me by just attacking normally, so you threw it at the most unexpected time," you praised him as a small blush crept on to his face.

You continued to speak, "However, there is no guarantee the knife can hit your opponent before they notice it. And you only have one chance, because if they dodged it, you'll just lose your weapon. So next time, try not to throw it, understand?"

"Y-yes!"

"As for the rest of you... Speed, strength, agility; that's what all of you are lacking in," you said as you held up three fingers.

"First of all, your speed. You guys are too slow. From your running to your attacks. If your attacks are too slow, your opponent will notice you and dodge. So, work on that. Also, if your first attack failed, attack again, but be quick so your opponent can't react to it. Second, your strength. Not only your attacks are slow, but you don't put enough strength in your attacks. I know I said you only need to hit me, but your swings are a bit too lousy. Work on that. Third, your agility. Though not always, if your opponent is more agile, then your chances on winning is quite low. Also, your presence was very noticeable, so try to hide it. Your knife was also constantly beside your body. Keep your body behind the knife as a defensive and offensive tool. I also advise you to have a second weapons, in case you lose it."

The class was stunned by your long lecture. "Ah, I spoke to much, didn't I?"

Kanzaki responded, "No, in fact, it was very useful for us. You pointed out our mistakes and gave us the best advice you can. So thank you very much!" she thanked you as she gave you her signature smile.

The other students began to agree with her which made you quite flustered. "I-it's fine. Anyways let's continue."

You began to teach your classmates, well for now, 'students' some fighting moves. "Hiroto, your supposed to do it like this." you demonstrated the move again to him.

"Um, like this?" he tried to imitate you but failed to do so.

You sighed, "Like this." You moved to Maehara's back and placed your hand on top of his before moving his hands to do the move properly, causing him to blush at your touch.

"Ok, try doing it without me," you instructed.

He finally did the move properly that caused him to smile brightly. "Thanks Y/N-chan! You're really good at teaching!" he complimented you.

"Please, you're exaggerating. I simply taught you how to do it properly."

Soon the bell rang, meaning P. E. was finally over. You walked into the girl's changing room with the girls and began changing. "Y/N! Thank you for training us today! We're so lucky to have you train us!" Kataoka thanked you.

"It's really nothing Megu. I did it so my needs are fulfilled. No need to thank me," you said as you put on your blazer.

Apparently there was a math quiz after P. E., which was unfortunate since the class just finished P. E. Since you were quite good at math, you aced the test.

School was finally over and students began packing their bags to leave. You did the same thing as your classmates before Koro-sensei called you, "Y/N, can you come to the teacher's lounge?" you nodded your head.

You walked to the teacher's lounge following Koro-sensei behind. Your teacher sat at the chair, "Y/N, I suspect that you don't know how to write in Japanese, is that right?"

"...That's correct, sir," you answered.

"If I may ask, what's this language called?" Koro-sensei asked as he held your paper for the math quiz. He pointed your written name that is written in an unknown language.

"From where I came, that was the only language I-we know. So, there's not exactly a name," you said, referring to yourself and the people from the walls. "It's really weird. We're speaking the same language yet we're writing it differently."

"I agree with you." Koro-sensei nodded. "That's why I called you here. Since mid-terms are around the corner, you need to learn how to write in Japanese, as well as English. So starting today, I'm gonna help you learn those languages!"

You gave him a small bow. "Thank you, sir. I really appreciate it."

"Then let's get started!"

For the rest of the day, you learned how to write in Japanese and English with your teacher. Koro-sensei was surprised by how you quickly learned both languages. You admit, writing in Japanese was a bit difficult. There was a ton of characters to memorize. As for English, writing it was not as hard as Japanese, since compared to Japanese it has way less characters, but pronouncing it was quite hard. Some words don't sound like how it was written, and some words are quite long to write.

You bowed to Koro-sensei. "Thank you for teaching me Japanese and English today, Koro-sensei. I'll review it once I get home."

"It's no problem. After all, it is my job as a teacher." He gave you a proud grin.

You bid farewell to your octopus-like teacher before walking out of the teacher's lounge. There was no one in the hallway, they all probably have gone home. Just as you stepped outside, your eyes met with Karasuma. "How is your first day here?"

"It was quite enjoyable. My classmates are very warm and welcoming. They're also obedient when I trained them. Though I admit, they're a bit too cheerful than I anticipated," you answered his question.

"I see, I'm glad. I'm sure the class will have a higher chance of killing that octopus with you teaching them."

"Well then, let's go." You walked out of the campus with Karasuma, walking home.

Staying here a bit longer wouldn't hurt... right?

I can stay here while I try remember what happened, after that, I need to find a way going back home.

"By the way, where's Y/N?" Armin asked.

At Armin's question, no one answered as a tense silence passed by. Judging by his friends' faces, they don't know where Y/N is, nor what happened to her.

"We've been looking for survivors, but didn't find one. Even Y/N," Connie finally spoke up in a hesitant tone, still in disappointment by the results of the search.

"Captain, do you know where she is?" Eren asked Levi hesitantly.

Levi looked down with an unreadable look before saying, "Y/N is..." he paused before continuing, "gone."

The others eyes widen in shock, not believing the statement their Captain just said. A wave of despair then washed over their faces.

Jean choked out, "What do you mean... she's... gone...?"

"That monkey threw her to a Titan, then the Titan devoured her to take her Titan. We used her to defeat the monkey while I take down the other Titans. We were naive. We thought she was far superior than the monkey. We shouldn't underestimated him- no. Erwin knew that Y/N had a high possibility of losing. Because that was her first time using her Titan. So he used her to buy me time to kill those gigantic fucking babies." Levi gritted his teeth, realizing the now deceased commander's true intentions.

"So you're saying, Commander Erwin sent her to her death...?" Connie questioned for confirmation.

"...Yes," Levi answered bluntly, still in disbelief behind your death.

The others stayed silent, processing what Levi just said. The atmosphere was tense. Usually you were the one who breaks the tense atmosphere by changing the topic or make fun of Jean's horse face.

But you weren't there.

Who would've thought the death of one member of Levi squad could change everything.

But at least, that's what they think.

Fact: Surprisingly, Y/N and Jean
bicker quite often. Mainly because
of Y/N's teasing.

Chapter Text

"Thanks, I really appreciate the help," Koro-sensei thanked Isogai and Kataoka.

"Even with all your tentacles you still can't carry everyone's lab equipment all at once!"

"But now it'll be a one-trip job!" Koro-sensei countered.

He continued, "You truly are dependable. It's only natural that you're class officers."

"You could've done it in multiple, Mach-speed trips just as easily, though."

"No, no. Having some helping hands make this all the merrier."

"Tell me, sir."

"Yes?"

"Do you feel at home in our E class now?" Isogai asked the octopus.

"Oh, you're seriously asking him that?"

"Yes. I very much enjoy being your teacher," Koro-sensei answered Isogai's question as he walked out of the room.

"That's weird."

"Is it?"

"Of course it is! A bizarre creature like you, in charge of us? It's just a matter of getting used to it, I guess," Isogai said as he followed Koro-sensei behind.

Kataoka continued the conversation, "You actually teach us. I'd say that makes you borderline okay."

"I guess so."

Koro-sensei opened the door to be greeted by Okajima and Maehara attempting to kill him with their green rubber knifes.

"Even if you're an assassination target." Koro-sensei grabbed the equipment that Isogai and Kataoka were holding and began placing them at the students tables while dodging Maehara, Okajima, and Mimura's attacks.

"That's a vital detail! Be sure not to forget it!"

The boys that were attacking Koro-sensei sat at the floor and lay at each other's backs due to exhaustion.

"He actually finished prepping while dodging three knives at once..." Maehara said between heavy breaths.

"You okay Maehara?"

"Y-yeah..."

"You know a sneak attack that simple isn't going to kill him," you said to them flatly.

"All right! Let's begin our lesson!" Koro-sensei said to the class.

You were sitting across Okuda who seems to be nervous. Her eyebrows were scrunched together, while her lips were pressed together forming a line.

You watched Koro-sensei put liquid over the red string, turning the liquid red as he lifted the string. Some of your classmates watched it unfold with their eyes widening in amazement. "It's bright red..."

"All right! And that concludes our experiment to extract artificial coloring..." The teacher snatched all of your snacks away in high speed, and holding them in his tentacles at the front of the class. "...from snack food! I'll be taking the leftover snacks now!" he said while he disappeared for a moment to hide them somewhere.

"We bought those ourselves!"

"So he used this as an excuse to get snacks..."

"Why is a super organism that can destroy the earth living paycheck to paycheck?"

You sighed and closed your eyes for a moment at your teacher who stole your snacks and your classmates who were protesting, making a fuss. As you open your eyes, you saw an empty seat in front of you. Confused where the person seated there is, you turned your head to Okuda who was making her way to Koro-sensei, hiding viles behind her back.

"Um, sir..." she began.

"Can I help you, Okuda-san?" Koro-sensei asked the student in front of him.

"Um..." She showed him the items in her hands. "This is poison! Please drink it!"

Poison huh? I could just transform and assassinate Koro-sensei with my blood or saliva... you thought. Speaking of assassinating him, I haven't attempted an assassination on him since I got here.

You broke out of your thoughts by the murmurs.

"I guess... that's to much to ask?" Okuda asks softly.

"My, this is certainly an honest assassination attempt, Okuda."

"More like too honest," you remarked.

"W-well, um... I'm not good at surprise attacks and stuff like everyone else... But I am good at chemistry, so I made this with all my heart and soul!" she said.

"Heart and soul?"

"O-Okuda... No one would be dumb enough to drink it just like that," Sugino pointed out.

Why do I have a feeling that the octopus is going to be dumb enough to drink it...? 

"Well, then! I would be delighted to!" Koro-sensei accepted Okuda's poison, took one and drank it.

Oh...! Turns out I was right...

"No way!"

"He drank it!"

"Th- This is...!" Koro-sensei's body was shaking a bit.

Wait—is it actually working?! you asked yourself internally in disbelief. I should've helped Manami make the poison... Then again I probably would just give her my saliva...

"Is it working?!" Isogai asked in disbelief.

"Is this for real?!"

Koro-sensei turned blue, with tiny horns coming out from his head.

...

"He, uh, grew horns."

You and your classmates began to sweatdrop by Koro-sensei's transformation.

"Ah, yes. This tastes like sodium hydroxide. It's poisonous to humans, but not me, I'm afraid."

Me too, probably.

"Oh..." Okuda sighed, disappointed.

"There are two others, correct?" Koro-sensei asked the girl.

"Y-yes!"

"All right, then!" He said while drinking another one of Okuda's poison. He groaned and covered his mouth.

He turned green, with wings and tiny horns.

"This time he grew wings!"

"His face is starting to get pretty fancy!"

You chuckled in amusement at the scene unfolding. You placed your chin at your palm and smirked a little.

"Ah, thallium acetate. Now for the last one!" He drank the last one. This time, his reaction was different from the previous ones. He groaned and wriggled his tentacles.

"What's going to happen?!"

"What's the last one gonna do?!"

Poof.

Blank.

"He's gone straight-faced."

"His changes are too unpredictable!"

"Aqua regia, I see."

"No expression at all!"

"The only affect they have is on my face."

"He's like an emoji!"

Emoji? you wondered.

"Even if you hate me, please don't hate assassination." Koro-sensei suddenly said.

"What brought that on?!"

"Also, Okuda," he started. "I can't overlook a student making poison unsupervised. It's not safe."

"Yes, sir. I apologize."

"If you have time later... Why don't we work together on a poison that will kill me?!"

"O-okay!"

'He's probably gonna use Manami for enhancing his abilities or whatever that is for his own good... Maybe I should prepare something incase I am right.'

"Making poison with the target?" Kayano said.

"I'll ask her about the details later," Nagisa stated.

Your classmates were playing a game. They were hitting a ball with Koro-sensei's face over a net. You heard some of them said:

"All right!"

"Here it comes!"

"Hurry!"

You looked at them from the window in the hallway, with your back leaning against the wall. The sun beautifully shines through the window, shading your H/C hair with tints of orange and yellow.

"I guess it's time."

You walked to the laboratory quietly, trying to not get caught. You leaned to the door and placed your ear on it. You managed to hear Okuda saying something about herself, "But, everything else goes right over my head. It's only natural that I ended up in the E class. Language arts, especially."

"I never know the right way to phrase things or how to express my feelings as a person. But I'm okay with that. Because equations and formulas always have a right answer. They're free of fussy word games and complicated emotions."

"That's true," you heard Koro-sensei agreeing with Okuda.

"In that case, I have a homework assignment for you. Handle it with utmost care!"

All right, it's time to go.

You quietly exit the hallway, hoping nobody noticed you.

You stood next to Kayano, looking at the red liquid in Okuda's hands. "So he told you to bring that poison to class?" the pigtailed girl asked.

"Yeah! He said it should theoretically work the best!" The double braided girl responded cheerfully.

Next to her, Nagisa was looking at a piece of paper. "He even made a manga out of how to store poison correctly. He's always ready to lend a hand."

"A poison that'll kill him? What is he thinking?" Sugino said.

"I'm guessing it's his way of encouraging me! I think he wants me to hone my strengths, even if I'm not good with words!" Okuda spoke out her thoughts.

You asked Okuda, "Excuse me, Manami, could you give this to Koro-sensei in case your poison goes wrong? If it works, you do not need to give it to him." You handed her a bottle with clear light blue liquid, with bits of purple crystals that seems to be glowing.

"What's this?" Kayano asked.

"Its a secret poison from my country," you lied. "I was thought to make it as a soldier. This poison can swollen human skin really bad, till the point they have an urge to scratch their skin till they bleed. And if taken in to the body, it'll burn the inside. If Koro-sensei drinks this poison, the inside of his body might be burned. However, I do not know if this will work on him, since this was never used on a bizarre creature. Tell him that this is a sweet drink that I just happened to buy," you lied again.

Just then, Koro-sensei walked in the classroom. "Okay everyone. Please be seated!" You did as he told and sat to your chair.

"I brought it, sir!" Okuda handed her poison to Koro-sensei. "Oh, well done! Then I'll drink it at once!" he said before drinking the red liquid.

The students waited for the next thing to happen, which was unpleasant for them.

Koro-sensei started laughing as his eyes turned red, "Thank you, Okuda."

"Huh?"

See, I knew it.

"Thanks to you concoction, I can advance to a new level."

"What... do you mean?" The purple-haired girl asked in disbelief.

Koro-sensei suddenly made a burst of hair, that blew your hairs back.

"He... melted?" you asked, shocked.

"I actually had you make a tonic that would stimulate my cells and enhance my fluidity." He jumped to some of your classmates desk, even yours. "As a liquid, I can now fit into the tightest of spaces."

"Um, why are you in there?" you asked.

"What's more, I'm still... as speedy as ever!" he shouted as he bounces to every direction in the room. "Go ahead! Try and off me!"

"What was that poison, Okuda?!"

"Y-you tricked me, Koro-sensei!"

You managed to hold off Koro-sensei in his liquid form, pressing him against the table.

"Y/N! Let me go please! I can't move around like this!" Koro-sensei pleaded to you.

"That's the whole point: restricting you from moving," you remarked.

"Nice job, Y/N!" Maehara praised you.

"Now let's finish him off!" Sugino said.

Koro-sensei panicked, and managed to escape from your grasp, bouncing into a top corner of the classroom. "Having the verbal aptitude to deceive others is a vital point of assassination, Okuda."

"Huh?"

"Verbal aptitude?" Nagisa asked.

Koro-sensei continued, "Even the most potent of poisons is wasted if you offer it in such a naive way that your target can take advantage of you." He came down and began transform back.

"Nagisa. How would you try to poison me?"

"Huh? Hmmm... I'd probably mix it into a sweet drink you like... and then offer it to you as a special drink I made it."

"Yes. To deceive someone, you must understand their feelings and communicate with them creatively," he said as he slid under his outfit and transforms back to normal.

"Language is the key to an effective poisoning. Your scientific talent will someday be useful to everyone. So, to explain things clearly to as many people as possible... I hope you'll continue to develop the language skills to poison someone."

"I-I will!"

Everyone smiled as Karma chuckled, "Yep. Assassination is the least of everyone's worries right now."

"Ah! I almost forgot!" Okuda suddenly said.

Koro-sensei tilt his head in a questioning way.

"Y/N asked me to give this to you. She somehow bought this in a store. Since she doesn't like it, she wants to give it to you!" Okuda lied splendidly to Koro-sensei and handed him the bottle.

Koro-sensei's eyes sparkled, "C-can I really have this?! This looks like an expensive drink!"

"Sure, I don't mind," you allowed him.

"Well then, thanks for the drink!" he thanked you loudly and began to drink the liquid from the bottle.

"Hm? This tastes odd-"

He began to cough hardly and held his throat. The class widen in surprise. "My lungs are burning...!"

"Wait, Y/N, was the drink you gave poison?!" Isogai asked.

"Yes it is. I tricked him into drinking it in case Manami's poison failed. Because I predicted Koro-sensei using Manami into making a drug that allows to enhance his abilities," you answered Isogai's question.

"You said the poison was a secret poison from your country, right?! If so, there's no way Koro-sensei would know this!" Nagisa said with tints of happiness, probably on how Koro-sensei might be killed.

Koro-sensei continued to cough heavily, as the poison burns his lungs.

You began to give an explanation, with tints of lies, "I didn't expect this to work on you, since you're a bizarre creature and all. So I put a few melted BB pellets into it," you paused for a moment before continuing. "One symptom of the poison is the feeling of being burned if taken in to the body. But since you said your lungs are burning, that means the poison worked, even if I didn't add the BB pellets. Making it extremely toxic to you."

The class widen their eyes at you, shocked by the explanation you gave. Some were quite happy of the fact of your poison working on Koro-sensei.

"Anyway, if the poison was really extremely toxic, does that mean Koro-sensei will die?!" Yada asked.

"Don't worry! I-*cough* just realized- *cough* something," Koro-sensei said between heavy coughs. He then disappeared for a moment and came back, looking healthy as ever.

You widen your eyes at Koro-sensei, showing disbelief. Was your poison, well, actually spinal fluid not toxic enough?

"I have found a way to fix my heavy coughs! This way I can continue to teach you guys!" he said rather cheerfully.

"Also, I noticed. Y/N, you said you mixed a few BB bullets right? Yet, I didn't taste any of it. Why is that?" he questioned your lie.

Luckily, you managed to cover it up, "The poison's tastes is strong, hence why you couldn't taste the BB pellets."

He seems to not buy your lie, but just agreed with you, "Oh, I see."

You were now walking down the mountain with your classmates. Well, your classmates were split into groups. Since the other groups were taking to long, you decided to go on your own. You passed a few groups on the way and helped them with the obstacles.

You came across a group, consisting with Mimura, Chiba, and Okajima. They somehow got into the river with Chiba and Mimura who managed to get out. Unfortunately not Okajima.

"Okajima!" Mimura screamed out to him.

You slide down the cliff and grabbed Okajima out of the river.

"Thanks... Y/N... You saved.. my life..." Okajima thanked you with heavy breaths between. You nodded and continued to go to the main campus.

Then, you came across Fuwa, Hara, and Yada, who came across snakes. Luckily, you were there and threw the snakes away just before they bit the girls. "Are you okay?" you asked the trio.

"W-we're fine... Thank you so much Y/N..." Yada thanked you, as she looked at the snakes that are escaping from you.

Hara said, "Y/N, you're shoes are..." she pointed to your shoes, covered in blood.

'Oh... I think I stepped on one of them...'

"Hm? Oh... I'll just wipe it off on a tree or something," you shrugged it off and continued your journey.

As you ran, you saw the pervert of your class running away from bees.

"Hm? Oh, well... Can't do anything about that..." you shrugged.

After a few minutes, you made it at the main campus. You decided to wait for your classmates. Fifteen minutes has passed, and your classmates just made it in time.

"Ah, you guys made it," you greeted them.

"Yeah... somehow," Maehara said.

Isogai called out to everyone, "Come on, guys! Let's hurry and line up!"

The class agreed with some of the students saying, "Okay..." or "Yeah, yeah..."

You and your classmates followed Isogai inside and made two lines, with you at the back. Some students from other classes walked in and noticed you, who looked like a foreigner. Currently, you were the main attention of the school simply for being a foreigner. Some students were whispering about you, like how you're a new student and how pretty you are.

From what you have heard, there's an all-school assembly once a month. Here, the E class gets "special" treatment.

The assembly began, "Essentially, you are the cram of the top... this nation's chosen elite! I, your school dean, can vouch for that! But, if you're not careful... you could end up like certain other good-for-nothings!" The whole school started laughing at the E class, which made the E class students lower their heads in shame.

"Now, now. We must laugh at their expense. I suppose my comment was out of line."

"Next is an address by the student council, please start your preparations, student council."

You saw Karasuma arrive and introduced himself to a teacher. Just like you when you arrived, he's getting positive comments just by his presence. You also heard some whispers of your teacher,

"Who's that teacher?"

"He's so stylish and cool!"

You sighed at their comments just before your English teacher, Irina Jelavic, arrived.

"All right. The student council events are explained on the handouts you've just been given."

"Eh? We haven't got any handouts..." you noticed. "Oh that's right, we are supposed not to get any handouts."

"Oh? You didn't get any? Now that's strange... I'm sorry! It seems we forgot to make some for 3-E! I guess you'll just have to memorize it all before you leave!"

The students then started laughing at you and your classmates. You furrowed you brows in anger at the discrimination towards E class. "In fact, you and your classmates could stand to sharpen you memory anyway!"

Suddenly, a gust of wind surrounded you and you classmates, with a piece of paper in your right hand. Which was a handwritten copy of of the student council's handout. You widen your eyes and searched the culprit who did it. As you scan your eyes to the teachers, you landed your eyes on an odd one. Koro-sensei.

"What is he doing here?! He knows his existence is a secret right?!"

You then heard Isogai said, "Oh, we got our handouts! Please continue!"

The student on the stage looked at him in shock, "What? N-No way! How?! Hey, now! Who killed our fun?!"

Realizing on what he was supposed to do, he continued. "Er, um... Ahem! Let us continue! Let's take a look at the upcoming student council schedule. The student council..."

The assemble was over and you were currently walking out of the hall. As you walk, you noticed a particular blue head. You were about to walked towards the blue head when you noticed two students approached him. After you got a better look of those students, you noticed that they were main campus students, which made you worried.

"Hey. Nagisa. Don't you think you guys are gettin' a bit carried away?" the one with the glasses said, with his hands in his pockets, trying to act cool.

"Huh?"

"Laughin' during the assembly and stuff... You should learn some respect!" the other one said.

"So do you, pigs," is what you wanted to say.

"E class oughta just keep its head down and shut up."

"You got crappy lives weighin' ya down, after all."

I swear to the Walls that I would poison them to death if they say another word, you thought as your blood boils.

"Hey. What's with that dirty look?"

Just as you were about to kick them in the face and beat them up like Levi did in the court, you were stopped by Koro-sensei placing a tentacle on your shoulder. "Calm down, Y/N. None of the students trying to assassinate me... would ever succumb to students of their level." You looked at Koro-sensei before calming down.

"Say something, E Class! You want me to kill you?!" the fat one said as he grabbed Nagisa by the collar.

Kill huh...

Nagisa looked down for a moment, before slightly lifting his head. "As if you've ever tried to kill anyone before," he mocked in a sweet tone, giving him a death glare while smiling. They immediately backed away like the cowards they are, as Nagisa walked away from them.

"See? Your classmates are much more... motivated," Koro-sensei said as you turned towards him. You then turned to where Nagisa was and smirked.

'And here I thought my classmates are weak...'

Shiganshina, Wall Maria.

The Levi Squad, plus Hange and Floch, walked out of Shinganshina to return to Wall Rose, and announce their victory. But to them, it didn't felt like victory at all. Only nine soldiers survived. Plus, they lost their incredible commander and their dear friend, who is one of humanity's strongest weapons.

A certain girl with short black hair, who is riding on a horse, slowly buries her face to her red scarf. Small drops of liquids began to form on her eyes, and slid down her cheeks.

"Y/N..." she muttered. "I miss you much..."

Fact: Y/N is slowly getting attched
to Nagisa, since he reminds her of
Armin.

Chapter Text

"Now then class... Shall we begin?" Koro-sensei asked as he began to move side to side in Mach 20, as he creates multiple clones. He also changes headbands for every clone.

"Begin... what?" your classmates asked.

"Midterm time has rolled around, he began.

"Yes, that's right," he agreed with himself.

"And that's why this period will be spent in a high-speed study session!" Koro-sensei suddenly appeared in front of you, but he disappeared and reappeared again and it went like that multiple times. He did the same with the rest of the class. "My clones can work with you one-on-one to drill you on each of your worst subjects."

The clone in front of you had a headband with "English" written on it.

"Ridiculous. He even switches headbands for each subject," Terasaka said before a clone appeared in front if him. "Hey! Why do i get a Naruto headband?!"

"Naruto? What's that?" you wondered as you tilt your head in a questioning manner.

"Ah, in case your wondering, Naruto is a popular manga series in Japan, Y/N," Koro-sensei answered your question without you ever asking it.

You let out an "oh" and looked around, your eyes trailing you each of your classmates.

"Six Japanese, eight math, three social studies, four science, five English, and one Naruto," you analyzed.

Koro-sensei's head then suddenly dipped to the side, as he let out a "nyeh". "No sneak assassinations now, Karma! Dodging will disrupt my persistence of vision!" Koro-sensei tried to reason with Karma.

"Clever."

"So, do you understand so far, Y/N?" He asked. "Yes, sir," You answered, looking up at him.

———————

You walked out of the classroom and opened the door to see Nagisa moping the floor, and Kayano wiping the windows.

*ZAP*

"You guys..." Eren started as he holded his broom tightly. "Did you clean your shoes properly before coming in?"

"Huh? Of course not. Can't you see what we have our hands full with now? Who cares about that?" Jean asked as he rolled his eyes.

"You still don't understand? Do you think this will satisfy Captain Levi? If I hadn't made your bed for you this morning..."

"Shut up! Are you my mother now!?"

And soon, their bickering began.

You let out a sigh, "Could you stop bickering like children? It's getting quite annoying." You walked in with Mikasa and Historia, carrying woods.

"We're back," Mikasa informed plainly.

"Huh!? You went to chop wood?!" Armin asked her frantically.

"My body's getting dull," Mikasa answered plainly again.

"You're not a wild animal! You shouldn't be moving about like that yet!!" Armin tried to reason with her.

"I've tried to stop her, but she won't listen. She said she's fully recovered. To say nothing of splitting woods, she was doing situps..." Eren said.

"How dare you spy on Mikasa!"

"Huh?!"

*ZAP*

"Y/N! Y/N!" Nagisa called you out worriedly.

Finally, you snapped back to reality. "Huh?"

"You suddenly stopped moving and your eyes went blank for a moment. Are you okay?" Kayano asked in worry.

"Eh...? Did that happen before?" you asked yourself.

You blinked twice, "Ah, I'm fine, thank you for asking. I just... remembered something," you said, still in shock.

"Anyway, I have Japanese lessons with Koro-sensei. Excuse me," you excused yourself from the two and walked away.

On the corner of your eye, you saw Koro-sensei walking inside the faculty room.

You decided to wait for Koro-sensei to let you in and laid your back on the wall. "He says he's the principal of this place," you heard your English teacher said.

"As teachers, he's our boss," Karasuma added.

Koro-sensei panicked and began to serve the principal like a maid. "My, my- you've come all this way!"

"Say, might I receive a little bump in my salary?" he asked. "I have something of a knack for clones, you see, and I'm sure it's in your power to-"

"I must apologize," the principal cut him off. "I'd meant to come pay my respects. The Ministry of Defense and Mr. Karasuma have told me all about you. I can't claim to understand everything, but..." he trailed off.

You turned your face to see inside, but your face met Nagisa instead of the the gap in the door. "Nagisa-" He closes your mouth with his hand and puts his index finger in on his lips. "Shhh!"

You heard the principal continued, "How very sad you are. Looking to become the savior of the world, only to fall into the role of the great villain who would destroy it."

*ZAP*

Cries.

*ZAP*

Screams.

*ZAP*

Loud footsteps.

*ZAP*

Those were the only things you heard.

*ZAP*

Just, what are these things you're hearing?

Nagisa's POV

Now, me and Y/N are listening to the Principal and Koro-sensei's conversation. It felt wrong, but I decided to go along with her.

"How very sad you are. Looking to become the savior of the world, only to fall into the role of the great villain who would destroy it."

Right after that statement, I heard a "zap" from her and she stopped for a moment, just like before. I also saw a spark of yellow electricity coming from her and my eyes widen. The sound "zap" and the electricity was just my imagination, right...?

Her eyes went from blank to terrified and she started breathing heavily. She gripped her head and clenched her hair tightly. It looked like she remembered something bad.

I panicked and placed my hand on her back, trying to calm her down. "Y-Y/N...! Calm down! Take a deep breath, and breath out...!"

Y/N did as I said and released her grip on her hair. She looked at me, "I apologize for making you worry, Nagisa. Lately, I've been remembering random things. If you didn't calmed me down we would've been caught."

"No worries! It's not like you can control it right? You came here not remembering anything."

Y/N nodded as she let out a "hm", before eavesdropping again.

Y/N'S POV

'What did I just remember—'

My thoughts were cut off by someone saying, "You've certainly paid me enough," the principal said to the class's P. E. teacher.

He responded, "That will be helpful."

"Well, aren't you rational! I do like rational man," Ms. Jelavic said. Is she trying to flirt with him?

He placed a hand on where his heart his. "I'm honored. However... As principal, I must consider what's in store next year and beyond, should the Earth survive."

As he spoke, he sat at the window frame. "In other words, if someone does happen to kill you, what is this school's future? Frankly, we need the E Class to remain as it is."

"As it is?" Koro-sensei questioned. "You mean, with rock-bottom grades and treatment, like now?"

"Yes. Are you familiar with the worker any principle?" the principal asked. "In any group, 20 percent will be lazy, 20 percent will work hard, and the remaining 60 percent will be average."

"My goal is a group with 5 percent slackers and 95 percent hard workers," he stated.

'How logical.'

""I don't want to be like the E Class." "I don't want to be in the E Class." With 95 percent of students thus determined, my ideal ratio is attainable."

'Ideal ratio...?'

"I see. How logical. The the 5 percent in the E Class must be kept weak and pitiful," Koro-sensei said.

The principal continued, "I received a complaint from the D Class teacher today; "A student from E Class glared at one of my students and threatened to kill him. And, another student gave him a death glare and was going to join in. But was stopped by a teacher." . The other student must be the first transfer student, right?"

'He knows about me?'

"I'm sure the glare is part and parcel of the whole assassination thing. And that's fine. The problem lies in a student with rock-bottom grades defying a regular one. Under my policies, that cannot stand." He gave a glare to the E Class' teachers.

"Please tell them in no uncertain terms to control themselves," the principal said as he walked out, but stopped in front of the door.

"Oh, and... Koro-sensei?"

"You have second." He tossed what looked liked a circular metal puzzle to Koro-sensei. "Solve this."

"What? Just like that?!" The yellow octopus panicked and tried to solve the circular metal puzzle with his speeds. Unfortunately, he ended up getting one of the hoops around his neck, which only made him solving the puzzle even more difficult.

The principal started, "Your amazing speed lives up to the hype. No doubt you can dodge any attempt on your life."

"But you know, Koro-sensei..." He continued. "There are some problems speed can't solve." He said as he stood in front of my homeroom teacher, looking down on him.

"Now, if you'll excuse me." He walked out of the faculty room and slid the door open. "Hey there!" he smiled at Nagisa. "Looking forward to seeing your midterm results! Good luck!"

'Good luck... huh?'

He turned to me, "You must be the new student! Y/N right? I heard about how you suddenly crashed trough the classroom's wall heavily wounded. The government asked you to train your classmates to assassinate Koro-sensei, since you're formerly a soldier. Good luck on that!" As he said that, it felt like all he said was a lie. That "good luck" felt forced. He wishes for us to fail.

I walked into the faculty room, stopping at Koro-sensei. "Koro-sensei, isn't it time for my Japanese lessons." I kneeled down to remove the metal rings of his tentacles. "I'm surprised. I honestly expected you to solve it calmly," I said bluntly. "But speed does come in handy for other things," you tried to cheer him up.

He looked up at me, did his usual smile and nodded. Koro-sensei stood up and patted my head with one of his tentacles. "Now, shall we begin our lesson?"

I nodded at Koro-sensei as Mr. Karasuma and Ms. Jelavic head out of the faculty room.

———————

Koro-sensei pointed at a poem written in Japanese. "Try translating this poem to English."

I held the book and took a look at the poem before translating it.

Once I'm done, Koro-sensei's face turned into orange with a large red circle. "That was wonderful, Y/N! Your English and Japanese has certainly improved by leaps and bounds!" he praised me, and placed a tentacle on my head, ruffling it.

I didn't stop him and let him continue to ruffle my hair. I didn't know why... but... I miss this feeling. Wait, the word "miss" doesn't work. My hair was never ruffled. And I never felt anything like this. So why did I "miss" it?

Though I don't know why, I gave Koro-sensei a light smile. I was never praised like that.

"Thank you, Koro-sensei."

———————

850

It has now been about a month since the retake of Wall Maria. Though they were victorious, they lost a lot of their comrades.

The first known Titan shifter, Eren Jeager, sat at the bed his fallen comrade and friend used to sleep on. He came to this room to mourn, since there was no grave to mourn at.

Eren tried to act okay, but inside, he wasn't. Dark circles can be seen on his eyes. And the cause was him not getting enough sleep. His time for sleep was spent on mourning on you.

With grief in his eyes, he laid down on the bed. He clutched the pillow in his hands, before tears started to form in his eyes and drop down.

*ZAP*

Soft sobs were heard in the dark bedroom. A young girl with H/C hair, sobbed into the pillow in her arms, wishing to not be heard. She quietly muttered, "Kanon..."

*ZAP*

Eren's body shot back up as he breathed heavily, running his fingers to his hair.

"What... was that... just now...?"

———————

Question: Why do you think Y/N
is getting flashes of memories?

Chapter Text

Y/N's POV

"Good morning, class," Koro-sensei greeted. "Today I've tried to make even more of me!"

Eh..?

"Now, let's begin," Koro-sensei said as he went to each of our desks.

Even the afterimages are getting quite sloppy...

"What's wrong, Koro-sensei? Isn't this a little too gung ho?" Kayano asked.

"Hmm? Not at all!"

The day went by like yesterday, but this time Koro-sensei had much more clones.

My grades have been improving steadily— at least, in my opinion. In Koro-sensei's opinion, my grades are improving by leaps and bounds. Though my grades are already good, It's still not enough. Hence why I'm listening to Koro-sensei carefully.

Armin. The sudden thought of him came to me.

The sight of Armin's burned body kept coming back to the front of my mind. I tried to focus on my studies but the topic about him just couldn't leave my mind.

Once again, I began to listen to Koro-sensei as a distraction for myself. But the more I tried to distract myself, the more times Armin kept flashing to my mind.

"Y/N? Are you listening?" Koro-sensei snapped me back to reality.

I blinked twice before responding, "I apologize for not listening."

Koro-sensei just nodded and proceed to explain the subject.

At the back of the class, I watched Koro-sensei leaned on his table, panting heavily.

"You know, he does look pretty beat."

"Maybe now's our chance!"

"Why's he teaching this hard anyway?"

Koro-sensei let out a chuckle, "All to get your test scores up! If that happens.." His eyes shined and he began to daydream about something. Probably something erotic, considering how much of a pervert he is.

"...And with no fear of being killed, I'll be rolling in good fortune!" he said suddenly as his skin turned pink.

My classmates sweatdropped. "Uh, the whole studying part is fine and all..." Mimura began.

"Yeah, but if we assassinate him, we get the ten billion yen," Yada finished Mimura's statement.

"And with the ten billion yen, you don't need good grades to live the good life!" Nakamura said as she put her arms behind her head.

"I-Is that what you think?!" Koro-sensei freaked out.

"We're the End Class, Koro-sensei."

"Assassination is way more accessible to us than any exam."

The others just agreed to what Okajima and Mimura said.

"Even if it's more accessible, assassination is way worse than an exam," is I wanted to say. I narrowed my eyes at them as I had a flashback of a memory.

FLASHBACK

"No...! Please don't kill me...! I beg you...!"

Then, the sound of a knife slashing filled the air, previously occupied by screams and pleas of a desperate man. Sounds of blood dripping soon replaced the silenced air, followed by a body dropping to the floor.

"Tch," The killer that just killed the man clicked her tounge as she wiped the blood off the knife.

The killer was a nine year old girl, with black clothing covering her body. A black hoodie covered her head, with locks of H/C peeking out. A black mask covered half of her lower face.

She was cleaning her knife until a sound of a wooden floor creaking interrupted the quietness, followed by a gasp.

The killer's head shot towards where the sound came from. Her eyes met with terrified ones; belonging to a boy around five years old.

Without wasting time, she walked up to the boy as he fell back to the floor. The boy tried to escape to the door but the door was closed by the killer. She then locked the door as she looked down at the boy, her knife in her hand.

"You saw that, so you have to die. And... I'm sorry..." the killer apologized before running her knife trough the boy's neck, as crimson blood came running out of his neck.

I dismissed the flashback by shooking my head.

Koro-sensei did his usual smile, but something was off. No it wasn't his usual smile. His usual smile wouldn't give off that kind of aura.

"Ah, I see how it is."

My classmates looked confused and may get the hint he was giving. "How what is?" The mushroom-haired boy asked.

"You still don't have what it takes to be assassins. Out in the schoolyard, all of you!" Koro-sensei said as his yellow face turned into a dark shade of purple, with an X in a darker shade.

Just like the rest of the class, I just obeyed Koro-sensei's order and walked to the schoolyard. In front of me were my classmates, doing the same thing as me. I kept a good amount of distance between me and them. However I noticed one particular classmate was missing in the group. And I felt a presence behind me.

"Akabane." I spoke that particular classmate's name.

"Eh? How did you know it was me?" My classmate pouted as he walked beside me, matching his pace with mine.

"You were nowhere to be found in the group," I explained bluntly.

He frowned. "You're no fun."

I ignored his comment on me. "Were you trying to scare me?"

He turned away from me and rolled his eyes. "Well, duh. Why even am I trying to scare you when I know I'm just gonna get caught?"

He turned to me and said, "Also you can just call me by my first name. No need to be so formal."

I nodded.

"Anyways, what are Titans? You've mentioned something like that when you first got here."

I stopped walking, taken aback by his question. I can feel my eyes slightly widen. Gosh, I can't even feel myself breathing.

Realized I can't stay quiet forever, I tried responding with a lie, "Ah, the Titans? Don't worry about it, I just made it up."

Dammit, that was such a bad lie.

My head started to sweat bullets at the silence. I could feel Karma's eyes piercing trough me. "That was a lie, right?"

My mouth refused to open and I unconsciously bit my lip, so it can't open.

I stayed silent for a couple minutes before Karma walked towards my side, facing the same direction as me. "Don't worry, you don't have to tell me now."

After he said that he walked towards the schoolyard. I just stared at his back, processing his words.

Gosh. Soon, I'll have to tell him about Titans. He'll think I'm ridiculous.

I placed one of my hands on my head, running trough my hair. He sure did got me there.

I walked my way towards the schoolyard and my eyes were greeted by my classmates. I leaned my back towards a wall and waited for Koro-sensei to say something.

"What's the big idea, sendin' us all out into the yard like this?" I hear one of my classmates asked.

"Who knows? A bad mood came over him all of a sudden."

Koro-sensei stood in the middle of the schoolyard, with his head hung low. "One good thing about the E Class system is its built-in remedial process. By scoring in the top 50 of 186 students on periodic exams and receiving permission from their former teacher to return, they can leave this outcast E Class. However, it's to difficult to meet these conditions given their poor grades in this inferior academic environment."

I furrowed my eyebrows at this fact.

"Most E Class students, with their sense of inferiority that remediation is far out of reach, accept this harsh discrimination." He continued as he pushed something.

I noticed Ms. Jelavic and Megu's presence. "What do you mean, hurry up?" Ms. Jelavic asked in a whining tone.

Megu answered her question, "Koro-sensei asked us to bring you."

"Ms. Irina, let me ask you something as a professional assassin," Koro-sensei stated.

"What is all this?" Ms. Jelavic asked in confusion.

Koro-sensei then asked her the question, "When you're on a job, do you have one single plan prepared?"

Of course not.

"No..."

Bingo.

My English teacher explained, "It's not often that my main plan goes as expected. Making more detailed backup plans in preparation for any contingencies is Assassination 101."

"And you, Karasuma-sensei, Y/N." I looked up at my octopus-like teacher.

"When you teach knife skills, is the first strike the only important one?"

Karasuma answered, "The first strike is of course the most important, but your next move matters too."

I continued his answer, "Against a strong opponent, your first blow is likely to be dodged, so the precision with which you can land your second and third blows can decide the fight."

"Look, what are you getting at?" Hiroto asked Koro-sensei.

Out of nowhere, the octopus began to spin around, creating a mini tornado. "As you teachers and classmate have said, having a trusty second step is what makes for a confident assassin. But what about you? "We've got assassination, and that's enough." you think, and down go your academic goals. You're just trying not to face the reason for your inferiority complex."

The tornado began to get larger and larger. Dust began to fly everywhere. I tried to block the dust with my arm and the other one to hold my skirt.

'What's with Japan having small skirts as part of the school uniform?!'

"What if I got away from this classroom? If another killer managed to do me in? Without the assassination you rely on, all you're left with is good ol' E Class inferiority. A word of advice from me to you, as you walk that fine line."

The tornado got a lot bigger and more dust is flying to my eyes, so I closed it.

"Those who can't wield a second blade, aren't qualified to be an assassin!"

I was sure I was gonna be blind after this, but something blocked the wind and dust from me. Curious, I opened my eyes to someone with a black blazer and red hair.

"Karma?"

*ZAP*

"Why are you still here?! You already know I'm gonna inherit the Armored Titan, so why are you still trying, you useless crybaby?!" A boy with short red hair slicked to the side, hazel eyes, and a menacing expression, pushed another boy to the table, making the items on the table fall.

The boy who got pushed had quite long curly light brown hair, not surpassing his neck, and large dark green eyes. His eyes looked so gentle and kind. "Of course I'm still trying..! Because, there's no guarantee that you'll inherit the Armored Titan!" The poor boy countered his bully's insult.

He looked up at his bully, "Besides, there's no harm in trying!"

His bully got irritated, "Why you-" He tried to land a punch on the poor boy, but was stopped by a hand blocking his punch.

"Hey what the hell are you-" The red-head was stopped when he noticed who that person in front of him.

"If you continue this, I'll have to stop you by force and report you the commander. I could reveal you about your parents and who knows what will happen to you. You and your fucking family will turn into mindless gigantic babies and go roam around in that filthy island. Not like I care, but you do right? So if you don't want to be turned into a giant baby, then fuck off."

The person had the deadliest death glare anyone could ever have. It looked like his glare could burn the world to ashes.

Scared, the red-haired bully ran out of the room.

The person offered the innocent boy a hand. "Are you okay?"

The brunette looked at the hand, then at the boy who protected him. The boy had short, straight black hair with some of his bangs covering his right eye, and intimidating E/C eyes. The death glare plastered on his face was replaced with a concern one.

"Arland...?"

"Are you okay?" The raven-haired boy repeated.

The brunette took his hand and nodded, "Yeah I'm okay. Thanks for protecting me. Again..."

"Don't worry about it. You were only stating facts," the protector tried to comfort his friend, though his face showed no expression.

The raven noticed the items scattered on the floor. "Let's clean it up, before the commander gets mad."

His friend nodded and helped him put the items back to its place.

*ZAP*

Karma's POV

The octopus' tornado is getting bigger, meaning more wind and dust coming in our way. Has the octopus even considered that his students might go blind?!

I turned my head towards the H/C-haired girl and saw her struggling keeping the dust and wind out of her face. Pitying her, I blocked the wind and dust from her with my body.

I heard her call my name and right after that was something I thought I would never hear.

FLASHBACK

"Oi! Nagisa! Let's go back together! If you don't hurry up I'll leave you!" I teased my feminine looking friend.

He panicked and ran towards me, "Karma, w-wait!"

Nagisa finally caught up with me. "You really think I would leave you?"

"Well the last time when you called out to me, you left me before I could even catch up to you!"

"Ehhh, that's true."

"So what were you doing with Y/N-chan? Eavesdropping?" I asked my friend out of curiosity.

"E-eh?! How'd you know?!" Nagisa asked my frantically.

"Oh, so it's true?" My neutral face was now plastered with a teasing smirk.

Nagisa looked annoyed, but just sighed. "The principal was here."

"Really?" I asked, quite shocked.

My blue-haired friend nodded. "He wanted to see Koro-sensei for himself. The principal and Koro-sensei had a conversation."

I turned my head towards him. "Did he ask for a pay raise?"

"Unironically, yes."

I chuckled. That octopus seriously needs to learn how to manage money.

Nagisa continued, "Something the Principal said made Y/N to space out. I think right before she spaced out, i heard a "zap" sound, and saw some small sparks of electricity around her."

"Zap"? Electricity sparks?

"That also happened when me and Kayano were on cleaning duty. Kayano also heard it. Except when we eavesdropped, she started panicking. I think what the Principal said triggered some bad memories."

I looked at my friend suspiciously. Was he being serious?

"Ah, but that's probably just my imagination," Nagisa shaked off the topic.

But he said Kayano also heard, so it may not be his imagination.

My eyes widened at what I just heard. At instinct, I quickly turned my head towards Y/N. And there, I saw small electricity sparks. I thought I could confirm Nagisa's statement by making contact with a bit of the electricity. But my body wasn't that close to hers, so I couldn't feel any of it.

Just like what Nagisa said, she spaced out after the "zap" sound. Her eyes went blank, and she seemed to stopped moving. I thought not disturbing her was the best option. And so I did.

Y/N's POV

.

..

...

.....

Who...

Whose memories are these...?

These are certainly not my memories. Who... are those people...? Arland, who is he? Also, why were the two kids fighting over the Armored Titan?

My train of thoughts was stopped by the scenery in front of me. The dust that was flying around slowly died down, revealing Koro-sensei standing in the middle if the yard. I realized Karma wasn't in front of me anymore. "The yard was very uneven and full of weeds," Koro-sensei stated.

"I tidied it up," he added.

As soon all the dust died down, my eyes were met with a clean yard. The schoolyard was now perfect for P. E.

"I am a super-creature capable of wiping out the earth. Flattening this area here is a piece of cake," Koro-sensei said with a dark face.

"If you can't show me that trusty second blade, I'll know there's no assassin in this classroom worth taking me on, and I'll flatten this entire campus before I go."

"A second blade? when?" Nagisa asked.

Our teacher answered him, "Tomorrow, of course."

...Tomorrow?

"I want all of you in the top 50 after tomorrow's midterms."

And with that, everyone was shocked. Including myself.

Koro-sensei stretched his tentacles out. "I've already been developing your second blades. I don't use the doltish teaching methods they do at the main campus. Wield those blades with all confidence! Succeed in your mission and hold your head high, smiling unashamed. You are proud assassins... and proud members of the E Class!"

The sound of wind rustling trough the trees went into my ears. The harsh wind brushing against my skin and hair. I looked up at the sky, and saw the sky darkening every second. A rumbling sound could be hear from above. It was about to rain.

I looked behind me. "You're seriously trying to scare me again?"

"Man, I really thought this time will work."

Karma then walked with me, a comfortable silence filling the air.

"So, what were you thinking?"

Confused, I turned to him and tilted my head in a questioning manner.

"Back when Koro-sensei told us to be in the top 50."

I deadpanned. "That is none of your business." He sighed and continued to walk without questioning any further. Silence filling the air once again.

However, that silence didn't last forever. "Aww, were you thinking about how brave I am to protect you like your knight in shining armor?"

I glared at his teasing. "No."

"Aww, is Y/N-chan embarrassed?" He teased again.

Pissed, I gave him the silent treatment.

"Um, hello?"

He poked my face, making me shove his hand away.

"Hey ignoring is rude, y'know."

I continued to ignore him.

He sighed and apologized, "Jeez, I'm sorry okay?"

I hummed as a sign accepting his apology. Without me realizing, the sky gave up and began to drop small drops of water at us. "Oh, it started raining." I commented.

"Wanna stop by somewhere?"

"...What?"

850, Eren's POV

*ZAP*

"So, where do you wanna stop by?" an unfamiliar voice asked.

'Huh?'

"You're asking me? You're literally the one who invited me."

Wait—who is that boy?! And, it looked like I'm in the body of the one who recently spoke. It looked liked a female's voice. She sounds familiar...

*ZAP*

'Huh?! Where am I now?!'

I realized I was sitting with a circle table and the red-haired boy sitting across me. The person I'm in vision's started to move towards the right. I was greeted with a glass wall with the other side being wet. Beyond the wall was a sidewalk with some sort of shop across the road. I heard the soft sound of the rain echoing trough my ears.

The person began to speak, "This cafe is quite nice."

'Cafe?'

"I know right? I like the coffee here," The boy responded to the person.

Someone came up to us. He looked like a waiter. At first, his face was just anything a waiter would put on. For a second he looked surprised, but his shocked expression was turn into a happy one. "Welcome! What would you like to— Karma! Y/N! What a surprise! I didn't expect you to come here!"

'Y/N...?'

"I heard you work here. Of course I had to come!"

"Thanks for the visit! Are you guys hanging out?"

"We were walking together, but then it started raining."

'Wait, no! T-there's no way Y/N is alive! Captain Levi even said so himself! This must be a dream! Y-yeah! This must be like last time!'

*ZAP*

"AAAAAAHHHH"

My eyes shot wide open as I sit back up at my bed. I started to breath unevenly. I noticed tears streamed down my cheeks and dropping to the blanket.

"No, that was just a dream. Yeah! Just a dream..." I tried to convince myself. Though I said that, I wasn't convince by my own words. Was that a memory? No, that can't be right you can't see others memories without making physical contact with them. But, if not... what was that...?

Question: Why do you think Eren
is seeing Y/N's memories?

Chapter Text

Today's weather was quite nice. The sky was painted with a bright shade of blue and the sun shined brightly in the sky. People might think today will be a bright day. However, your phone said otherwise. It said that today was gonna rain again at around five in the afternoon.

You silently cheered inside. You liked the rain. Just the sound of it soothes you. The water dropping to the ground calmly was peaceful. After the rain, fresh air always comes into your nose. The slightly cold air always touched your skin. You smiled at your phone.

After getting the information you liked, you looked at the time. It was six in the morning. School started at eight, so you had two hours to get ready. And today was mid-terms.

After sighing, you took your uniform and your towel to the bathroom. After placing your uniform and towel, you began to undress yourself. You then walked towards the shower, your foot hitting the cold tiles. Your hand turned on the shower, causing the cold water falling on to you.

You then thought about yesterday. Specifically, when you go to the cafe with Karma. That was the first time you went to a cafe, despite seeing it multiple times downtown in the walls. The place was a lot more modern to you and gave of a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The food was very new to you, even though you had seen something similar before. Seeing Isogai working there was quite a surpise for you. You didn't expect a student of a prestigious school, well except the E Class you suppose, to work in a cafe. After hearing his reason, you felt sorry for him. Even though he was carrying a heavy burden, he's still humble as ever. You liked that charm of him.

Realizing you already finished showering, you got out of the shower, dried yourself and put on your uniform. You opened the door and walked out of the bathroom.

As you walked downstairs, a smell made its way to you, and you like that smell.

Curious on where it is coming from, you followed the smell. Soon, you saw where the smell came; the kitchen.

Unconsciously, you walked to the kitchen and saw Karasuma cooking. With an apron.

"Good morning, Mr. Karasuma," you greeted the man as you walked in.

"Good morning. Take a seat," he greeted you back before telling you to sit on a chair in the dining room. You nodded and did as he said.

As you sat, you stared at the food on the table. Many plates were placed on the table with various food on each of the plate; such as fish, boiled eggs, and tofus. Bowls were also placed on the table, filled with rice and miso soup.

After a few moments passed by, Karasuma sat at the chair across you, without his apron.

"Did you cook all of this?" you asked.

"Yes. I noticed that you often skip breakfast. You should eat breakfast, especially since today is mid-terms," he answered, seemingly unfazed by his unusual behavior.

You stared at him for a good solid five seconds with wide eyes, in shock.

"What's wrong? Try it," Karasuma gestured to eat the breakfast.

Still weirded out, you did as he said. You grabbed a piece of fish with your chopsticks and took a bite. It was good. Really good.

A small smile crept up to your face at the taste of the fish as you chewed the fish in delight. "This is so good!" you complimented Karasuma's food as you continued to eat the food happily.

Karasuma's lips tweaked upwards at your feedback. "I'm glad." He then began to eat as well.

The air was filled with the noises of the cutlery and chewing. Though you both didn't engage in a conversation, it was comfortable.

"Is this what having breakfast with a family feels like...?" you asked to yourself.

Though Karasuma acted a bit weird this morning, you didn't mind. You were too busy eating the delicious food.

Once you were done eating breakfast with your supervisor, you helped him with the dishes.

What's surprising is how fast you clean and how clean the dishes are. You learned this skill from non other than the clean freak- Captain Levi.

After that, you walked to the school with him. Walking to school together was something you never did, since Karasuma had to be there earlier for work.

With the delicious breakfast you just had, you were ready for midterms.

The sound of the D Class teacher tapping his finger on the table echoed throughout the room. Your classmates looked anxious answering the questions of the test.

They were doing the math test. You read the question with full concentration. You admit, the questions were quite hard. So far, you have answered thirteen questions, and it was only getting harder and harder. The question you were trying to solve was complex. There were a lot of numbers, variables, and math symbols.

Suddenly a monster came out of the paper and attempted to attack you, ripping the paper to pieces. Of course, you dodged its attack with ease. The monster then roared as your classmates ran away. "One knife isn't enough to kill! What's with this Question 4?!" Sugino shouted out.

He's still in that question?

The monster then crashed towards you and some of your classmates. Thankfully you were able to dodge in time with your classmates. You turned to them with a worried expression.

Are they gonna be ok?

In the middle of the E Class's yard, stood a yellow octopus, staring at the sky. A yellow butterfly sat at his hat. Suddenly a green knife was thrown at him, making the butterfly to fly away.

"Seriously? You'll really leave if they don't all make the top fifty?" a beautiful blonde woman asked.

"Yes," the yellow octopus answered like he has nothing to worry about.

The woman furrowed her eyebrows. "No way in hell! They've had the worst grades until just recently!"

"I wonder. I don't know about the past, but they're my students now." Koro-sensei answered her as he grabbed the knife with a folded paper. "When you're in a tight spot, protect yourself." The same yellow butterfly came back and rested on the green knife. "That's the weapon I've given them."

You remembered the method Koro-sensei taught you, and you started to use it. After answering that tough question, you noticed your classmates suddenly writing quickly. It looked like they're doing well. You smiled at them.

Looks like I had nothing to worry about. You sighed internally.

The teacher who was on watch looked shocked. However that smile on your face suddenly disappeared. Your classmates suddenly stopped writing and you knew that they were caught of guard by a question. Question 11. That question also took you by surprise, but you managed to answer it thanks to your critical thinking.

The heavy atmosphere filled the air till the corners of the room. Your classmates looked down at their papers that are filled with their test scores. You guessed that their scores weren't satisfying. Well, you could say the same to yourself. Your scores, especially Japanese and English, are not satisfying.

In front of the black-board, stood Koro-sensei. But he wasn't facing his students, he was facing the board. "I take all responsibility. I seem to have underestimated the system at this school. I can't bare to face you."

You noticed Karma stood up and threw an anti-sensei knife at the teacher. Koro-sensei was able to dodge as the knife hit the board, falling to the wooden floor after hitting it.

"You sure? If you can't face us, you can't see me coming to kill you," Karma said confidently. "Karma! I'm very depressed right now, and-" Karma cut his teacher off by placing his test scores on the teacher's table.

Koro-sensei then began to examine each paper, only seeing scores either ninety-eight, ninety-nine, or a hundred.

"Changing the questions didn't matter to us," Karma said.

Your classmates then began to surround the teacher's table and look at Karma's test scores.

"Whoa!"

"A hundred in math? No way!"

Karma began to speak again, "With my grades, you taught... We've come this far, so why not move a little further ahead? So I could handle the questions even if they'd changed their scope. Still, I won't be leaving. Assassination is way more fun than going back to my old class."

"So, what's the plan? You gonna use our not all making it to the top fifty as an excuse to turn away and run? You're just afraid to be killed, that's all," Karma teased his teacher.

An irk appeared on Koro-sensei. Your classmates then teased their teacher. "Oh, is that it? You were afraid!"

"You should have just told us!"

"Right? Like, "I'm so scared and want to run away!""

More irks appeared and his face slowly turned to red. "I am not running away!"

"Oh, then what?" Karma asked in a sarcastic tone.

"We'll get revenge on them in the end-of-term exams!" His students then began to laugh, except you. He panicked and scolded, "This is no laughing matter!"

The heavy atmosphere was turned into a light one. You smiled at them, laughing and teasing the octopus-like teacher. You missed this type of situation, laughing and smiling during a tense situation.

FLASHBACK

"Come on Y/N! Hurry up!" A young girl with short dark brown hair and light blue eyes stopped running and whisper-shouted to her friend.

"W-wait!" Another girl with H/C hair ran towards her with a worried expression. After she stopped her, she began to speak, "Kanon! You know we're not allowed to go outside our dorms at night!"

They were wearing their pajamas. It was a gendrel neutral pajama, which consists of a simple white button-up shirt with long sleeves and long white pants.

Her friend shook it off, "It's fine! We'll never get caught!"

The H/C haired girl sighed. "And how do you know that?"

Kanon began to think for a moment. After a moment of silence, she answered, "Because my instincts said so!"

Her friend just deadpanned and spoke again, "If we get caught, you're taking the blame. Since this was all your idea."

The brown haired girl pouted. "Fine! But you're giving me your potato for lunch if we do get caught!"

Her friend just agreed to it like they've done this multiple times, "Alright alright."

In the end they never got caught.

"Oi. You there?" someone called out.

You blinked twice, "Eh?"

"You've been smiling like an idiot for a few moments. What were you smiling about?" Karma began to tease you as a mocking smile began to grow on his face.

You shook it off, "None of your business."

His mocking smile grew larger. "Eh? Are you embarrassed?"

Your other classmates noticed this, and began to tease you too. Nakamura then rested her arm on your shoulder. "Don't be shy, just say it~"

You were getting annoyed by their teasing and shouted, "I said that's none of your business!" Your classmates just laughed at this as your face began to turn red. At least they're having fun, right?

Fact: Y/N's test scores are between
60-90.

Chapter Text

"Nagisa, you figured out everyone in your group yet?" Kataoka asked the blue haired male. "My group?" He asked, confused.

"When you're all set, tell me... your class president, or Isogai, okay?" With that, she bid farewell to Nagisa.

A green haired girl then approached him with a close-eyed smile. "Have you forgotten? Our class trip is next week!"

"Honestly, who has a class trip this early in year?" someone suddenly said. "I can't say I approve," Koro-sensei said, looking like an apprentice geisha with a red umbrella and a red hand fan.

What... is he wearing...? you asked yourself, sweatdropping.

"You're totally into it!"

"An apprentice geisha?!"

"And it looks good on him!"

Koro-sensei quickly changed back to his usual attire and scratched his face with his tentacle. "Saw right trough me. Yes, in fact, I can hardly wait to go on this trip with you," he said, looking quite embarrassed.

The students sat at the ground wearing their P. E. uniforms, listening to their P. E. teachers. You stood in front off them with Karasuma, with your arms crossed.

"As you know, next week is our two-night school trip to this city called Kyoto," you said. "Also, why are we even going on a trip when we're supposed to assassinate Koro-sensei?"

The raven-haired man turned to you. "Kyoto is far larger and more complex than this school, and you'll be moving in groups that he'll be following. It's an ideal location for snipers. The government has already arranged for sharpshooters to join you." Karasuma continued, "Not to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but you're still on duty."

This government is sure a lot more diligent than back at the walls, You stated to yourself.

"If they succeed, they'll share the ten billion yen based on the degree of their contribution. Be sure to pick assassination-friendly tour routes."

"Yes, sir." With that, the bell rung, meaning that P. E. is over.

In the classroom, the students were spread out, forming their groups. You however, just sat at your seat, looking at the clear blue sky. You didn't care who which group you're in. The only goal in your mind is killing Koro-sensei and going back. You couldn't just leave suddenly.

A hand tapped your shoulder, interrupting your train of thoughts. "Y/N! Wanna be on our group?" Kayano asked with Nagisa, Sugino, Okuda, and Karma behind her.

"Sure," you answered nonchalantly.

"Yay! We only need one more member!"

Sugino chuckled. "I knew this time would come. I asked her a long time ago."

You turned to him. "And who may that person be?"

He introduced that person proudly. "The class idol, Kanzaki!"

Your eyes traveled towards the beautiful girl. "Fine by me. Any objections?"

No one said anything. "Alright, Yukiko's now in our group."

The girl bowed and gave you a smile. "Thank you for having me, Y/N." You just nodded and returned the smile.

"Okay, now to figure out where we're going to go!" Kayano said cheerfully. "Yeah! Where should we start?"

A blonde woman chuckled mockingly. "What children. A school trip is too little, too late for someone like me who's been all over the world," she said as she flipped her hair.

"Then stay here, Ms. Jelavic," You said nonchalantly.

"Keep the garden watered, 'kay?"

The students continued to discuss on their future destinations as their teacher try to process what they said.

Her confused face was turned into a scowl. She then pointed out a golden gun. "What the-?! Don't you leave me out of your exciting plans!"

"Argh! Look, do you want to come or not?" Maehara asks, irritated.

"Shut up! I suppose I have no choice but to go along!"

The class went silence by someone opening the door. Koro-sensei. "One for each of you!" he said as he holded multiple thick red books. "What are they?"

"School trip guidebooks." The octopus then handed out the books in high speed.

"S-so heavy!" Maehara shouted out,

"They're practically dictionaries!"

You raised your hand from the back of the class. "Yes?"

You asked, "Do we really need these? It'll take a lot of space in our bags."

"Of course! This guidebook is filled with every sightseeing spot illustrated, the top 100 souvenirs, and travel self-defense how-to's from square one to practical use! I stayed up all night making them! This first edition comes with a papercraft model of Kinkakuji!" he rambled.

"Just how psyched are you for this?!"

The day continued with the groups discussing where to go. While you're partners kept suggesting where to go, you just went along with what they decided, since you basically don't know anything about Japan. You didn't see any point in doing the assassination out of the school. There's a possibility of Koro-sensei getting exposed, and if that happen, it'll cause a panic.

However, you think this will be a nice change for your classmates. After mid-terms, your classmates surely needed something to refresh, and traveling sounds like a good way.

"Y/N! You're finally here!" Nakamura cheered as she hugged you. You patted her back as a return for the hug.

"Um, how are we going to Kyoto?" you asked.

Maehara came up to you. "We're using a train."

You blinked twice in confusion. "A-a what...?"

He repeated, "A train."

Nakamura looked up at you. "Wait, don't tell me you never went on a train."

You nodded awkwardly.

"You haven't?!" She asked, completly shocked.

"W-What type of vehicle is it?" You asked awkwardly.

The oranged haired boy explained. "So a train is like, super long. There are a bunch of seats inside and the driver is seated at the ends." Maehara then pointed at the rail blocked by a short glass wall. "That's where it will appear."

As if on cue, the train arrived at high speed, creating a gust of wind. "Is that a train?" You asked pointing at it. "Yes! And it also goes super fast!" Maehara continued his explanation.

Nakamura let go of you. "I'm gonna buy some snacks, you guys want anything?"

"No," You and Maehara said in sync.

"Alright then, see ya later!" With that, she bid farewell and went to buy her snacks.

You turned towards Maehara. "Hiroto," His eyes traveled towards your figure. "Yeah?"

"Do you perhaps like trains?" He was taken aback by your question, but answered it nonetheless. "Is it really that obvious? This is honestly kinda embarrassing."

You tilted your head slightly. "Is it? There is nothing to be embarrassed about. I'm sure Armin and Hange will like this too," you muttered the last part out.

Maehara gave you a questioning look. "Who is Armin and Hange?"

Your eyes shot open as your head turned towards him. "E-eh? You heard that?"

He answered, "Yeah, is there something wrong with that?" Your eyes were still wide for a few moments but turned back to its normal size. "A-Armin is my friend... Hange is my superior... But they surprisingly act like a parent."

Maehara gave you a cheeky smile. "Adults that are not related to you but is like a parent is really nice, right? Man, I wish I had one. Bitch-sensei could be one if she was nicer.

You let out a "hm". "Ms. Jelavic is actually quite nice if you just don't piss her off."

"That's because you're her favorite! Also, no need to point out that!"

"That's right! Y/N is my favorite! She's the only one who doesn't call me ''bitch''! You should learn from her!" The woman they were talking about suddenly appeared behind them, hugging you. She was wearing expensive-looking clothes.

"B-Bitch-sensei!"

"Hey! Stop calling me that, you brat!"

Karasuma walked up to the three of you. "You stick out like a sore thumb. Go change. That's not what a teacher chaperone looks like."

The blond woman turned to him. "Don't be so strict, Karasuma! These brats are going on a grown-up trip-"

"Take it off. Now." He demanded.

Irina was intimidated by his glare and just did what he told and sulked in her seat. "Who's chaperoning who?"

"Guess she's a little disconnected from regular people, seeing as she's only ever kill rich guys before."

"Huh? The train's left the station... but where's Koro-sensei?" Sugino realized.

As if on cue, Koro-sensei appeared on the train's window, holding on to it. "Why are you stuck to the window, Koro-sensei?!" Nagisa asked him, still shocked by his sudden appearance.

"Well, I was buying snacks in the station and was late boarding, so I'll tag along like this till the next station."

You furrowed your eyebrows and narrowed your eyes at him. "What if someone saw you?!"

"Oh, don't worry... this camouflage just makes it look like my clothes and luggage are stuck onto the train."

You clicked your tongue in annoyance. "That's not normal in the slightest!"

Koro-sensei was now sitting on the blue chairs of the train, feeling relieved. "It sure is tiring, trying not to stand out while traveling."

You sighed and swung your knife at him. "Then don't bring such an enormous suitcase," the orange fluffy haired girl added in her usual soft voice, "You already stand out enough."

"Isn't it iffy, a state secret being so obvious out in public?" Nakamura asked. "And up close, that disguise won't fool anyone."

"Koro-sensei," Sugaya called him. "Here." He threw a nose he carved. "First we'll fix that droopy nose of yours."

Koro-sensei tried it on and praised it, "Wow! what a fantastic fit!"

"I carved it so it'll for the roundness and spirit of your face. Making stuff like that is a specialty of mine."

You turned to him, and made a small smile. "That's wonderful, Sosuke."

He returned the smile with a grin. "Thanks, Y/N!"

Kayano laughed a bit. "You always see new sides of people when you travel together."

Nagisa nodded. "Yeah, and depending how this trip turns out, who knows what true colors will be revealed?"

"Hey, I'm going on a drink run, who wants what?" Kanzaki asked in a polite tone.

Okuda raised her hand, "Oh, I'll come too!" Kayano stood up. "Me too!"

Kanzaki's gaze then averted towards you. "What about you, Y/N?"

You looked up at her. "Oh, I'll stay here." She nodded and went off with the other girls.

T his trip might actually be quite nice..

The class arrived at the hotel. However, they were in a traditional Japanese hotel, not like the other classes who got to stay in a luxury hotel.

At the red couch, Koro-sensei sat, drained.

"So he gets all sick and groggy on bullet trains and buses?" Nagisa wrote down what his classmate said.

"Are you all right? Why don't you lay down in your room?" Okano asked Koro-sensei as you attempted to kill him with your knife.

"No need to worry. I'll just pop back to Tokyo. I forgot my pillow."

"All that luggage and you still forgot something?!"

You clicked your tounge. "You sure still have some energy to dodge my attacks."

The octopus chuckled. "Of course I have. And your attacks are too predictable-"

*SLASH*

One of his tentacles dropped to the floor, silencing the whole room. Koro-sensei's eye widen as he stared at his now cut off tentacle.

"Well? Are they now predictable?" You stared at him with a poker face, getting ready to attack again.

'S-She sure can be scarry...' Nagisa thought.

"W-Well, Kanzaki? Did you find the itinerary?" Kayano asked the raven-haired female, trying to cut off the heavy air.

"No..." She reponded disappointedly.

Koro-sensei spoke, "You're so earnest, Kanzaki. I admire you putting that itinerary together all by yourself. But never fear, as long you have one of my handmade guidebooks, everything will be fine."

But we wrote up an itinerary because we didn't want to lug those around!' Maehara and Okajima thought the same.

"I know I put it in my bag... Did I drop it somewhere?"

You turned to her with a sympathetic face. "Most likely."

It was now midnight. A black-blueish shade colored the sky. The pale shattered moon shone in the night sky as stars danced around it. A young girl stood on the wooden balcony, her elbows on the rail. She gazed at the bright moon that is now shattered in a million pieces. For her, she liked the shattered moon better. It was an interesting sight. She wondered if the pieces are scattered all over the dark sky, maybe some people might mistaken it with stars.

She took a deep breath, letting the fresh yet fragranced air explore her nostrils. The hotel was surrounded by multiple trees and flowers, so it was no wonder the air had tints of flowers.

She looked down at the trees below her. With multiple trees, it created a mini forest. It reminded her of a pleasant memory.

FLASHBACK

The sound of ODM Gear's wires zipping, echoed throughout the forest. Cadets flying trough the forest with ODM gear like free birds can be seen. A young raven-haired girl with a dull red scarf, was taking the lead. But another girl with H/C hair soon surpassed her.

"Looks like this time I'm getting that spot, Mikasa!" After she said that, she began to go faster.

"Oh, it's on!" And with that, the girls began their competition.

Mikasa and Y/N's rivalry was well known throughout the cadets. Even the superiors know about this. Y/N also has a friend-rivalry friendship with the blond lone wolf-Annie. But Annie's rivalry with Mikasa, is- well, less friendly.

Eren looked ahead, seeing his adopted sister and friend having their little competition. "Shit, how are they going so fast?!"

"Well, they are the ones who always take the top three spots in ODM gear tests," Reiner said  as he matched his pace with Eren's.

A few minutes passed by, and the girls are still at their competition. That is until a certain blonde took the opportunity and flew past them. "If you wanna continue that competition, I might as well take the spot."

Mikasa gritted her teeth and began to fly faster, starting her competiton with Annie.

' 'Did they forgot about me?" Y/N thought.
"Oh well, might as well take  the best of it."

She retracted her wires and stopped taking out more gas. She began to jump from one tree to another. She figured that she'll just run out of gas if she used more if them.

In the end, Y/N won.

At the end if the forest, three females sat at the green grass out of exhaustion. "Damn it. If I just didn't run out of gas..." Mikasa muttered in frustration.

"Y/N, how did you not run out of gas? We pretty much used the same amount of gas," Annie asked her friend.

"I jumped on the tress," Y/N answered bluntly.

"Figured," Annie said.

"You what?!" Mikasa asked in shock.

You nodded at her, unaware of her protectiveness activating.

She grabbed your shoulders and began to scold you, "Y/N! That's reckless! Do you know how dangerous is that?! You could've fall and get hurt!"

"But-"

"No buts!" Mikasa cut you off. "You can't put yourself in danger, got it?!

"Mikasa," Annie called out to Mikasa. "How will she not  put herself in danger if she's gonna fight Titans?" she pointed out.

Mikasa loosen her grip on your shoulders. "Then I'll just protect her," she said with determination.

Her statement took you aback. And Mikasa was taken aback when you wrapped your arms around her, hugging her.

"Thank you, Mikasa," you thanked her quietly as you snuggled your face into her shoulder.

Mikasa blushed a bit and returned the hug, with a smile on her face.

Annie clicked her tongue and joined in the hug. "Same with me."

The girl at the balcony could only smiled bitterly at the memory. Hot liquid began to disrupt her vision and fell down her cheeks. She ignored it and continued to smile bitterly.

If only  Annie...

Fact: Mikasa treats Y/N like how she treats Eren. The only difference is how
Y/N and Eren respond to it.

Chapter Text

Year ???

It was quite an unfortunate day. One of Eldians greatest knights recently died in battle. The knight was always by the Prince's side. He'd protect, serve, even die for his friend. He was from a noble family, the L/N family. The L/N's have a good relationship with the royal family- thus leaving the L/N's being entrusted with the Poison Titan. The knight was supposed to inherent the Titan, but he died, leaving his younger sister, to inherent and take his place as the Prince's knight.

Thick clouds covered the sun that is hanging in the sky, smiling down, as if today was a day to be smiling. There at his grave, a young girl stood in front of it, silently mourning. She held his head down, puffy E/C eyes staring at the gravestone, the knight's name written on it delicately.

Soon, the sky began to cry, dropping cold raindrops to the earth. Her black dress began to soak up the water, as well as the dirt covering the knight's coffin. The water slid down her nicely styled silver hair and her fair skin. She kneeled down, placing her hand on his grave. "Brother..." The girl then made a fist and placed it where her heart is. "You dedicated your heart to the fullest, didn't you?" She smiled, as hot tears kept streaming down her cheeks.

A young man, approximately twenty years old, walked to a certain place in a slow pace. He too is gonna mourn, his dear friend. His sapphire eyes traveled to the now soaked ground. Realizing no one is around, he took of his tight jacket, removing the uncomfortable feeling.

He actually couldn't bare seeing his dear friend's grave. It didn't felt fair. He still breathing, while his friend doesn't. His friend died protecting the him, the prince.

The man simply sighed and continued to walk, his head held down.

After he was near the grave, he noticed the girl, kneeling down. He approached her, "Good afternoon, miss. Are you still mourning him? The ceremony ended a few hours ago."

The girl flinched, not expecting someone to be there. She looked up at him, "Y-Yes... I'm just, still sad about his death..." The man nodded. He then began to analyze her features. His eyes travelled from her silky silver, to her magnificent E/C eyes. Soon, he recognized her. "Are your perhaps, his younger sister?"

She nodded, "Yes I am." The girl stood up and bowed. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Athanasia L/N. It's a pleasure to meet you."

The man bowed too. "I'm Arthur Fritz. It's also a pleasure to meet you too."

Athanasia looked up. "Wait... The prince..?" She quickly placed one knee to the ground, placed a hand to her heart, and held her head down. "I am very sorry for not noticing you sooner, your highness. It was very rude of me."

The man just shrug it off and gave her a warm smile. "There's no need to apologize. It's not like it was intentional."

Athanasia insisted. "Still, it was very rude of me."

Arthur's sapphire eyes widen at her. The act reminded him of someone. He sighed and kneeled down, head low. "You really are like your brother."

The girl's head shot up, her E/C eyes staring at him. "Pardon?" Arthur looked up and locked his eyes with hers. Both of their figures reflected on each other's eyes.

"You're just like him. Even when we're alone, he just kept being polite and all, even though I allowed him to speak to me casually."

Athanasia's eyes slightly widened. Her head then avoided his gaze. "I see."

The man stood up, "Let's head back inside." The girl stood up like he did and went back inside the castle with him.

Smoke filled the room made of hardened blue crystal walls. The crystal walls illuminated a color almost identical to a bright sky. Claps echoed throughout the room as a Titan evaporated in the middle of the room. A man with dark brown hair and sapphire eyes came out of the Titan with marks running down his cheeks. Arthur Fritz.

One of the servants gave him a white shirt with a black jacket for him to wear, which he accepted. He then walked out of the underground room and went to the room above.

He opened the wooden door to the room, revealing a silver-haired girl; Athanasia-sitting on a wooden chair. She held her head down, dropping some of her silver locks, covering a part of her face as she clutched her long snow-white dress.

The man walked to her, placing a hand on her shoulder in an attempt to sooth her. "Are you nervous?" He asked as he kneeled down.

She gave him a glance of her face. "A bit. I just don't like the fact that I have to devour my uncle." Athanasia bit her lip, feeling a wave of guilt washing over her.

"It's fine, you're not the only one who has to do that— past hosts and future ones also have to do that. Of course, I also feel guilty for taking my mother's life in order to gain her powers." Athanasia's head shot lower.

Arthur gave her a sympathetic look and took her hands in his. "But, we need to do this. We need to gain their powers in order to protect our beloved ones— our nation! The fate of our people rests in our shoulders. It's our responsibility to protect them. Your brother did his part wonderfully. Now we, have to avenge him. We can't let your brother's death be in vain. So Athanasia, will you go and inherent the Poison Titan and protect the Eldian people?"

Athanasia's eyes sparkles at his encouragement. She made a fist and placed it where her heart was, saluting. "Of course!"

A few months has passed since the prince and his knight got their Titan powers. Their last attack at Marley was a success, and the prince was making arrangements on their next attack.

The moon illuminated the night sky above the earth. A red bright flame lighted Arthur's work space. The prince sat on a rather fancy chair, coated with gold and red fabric covering the seat. He ran a hand trough his brown hair and rubbed his temple in an exhausted manner. He shut his sapphire eyes for a moment, brows furrowed. His eyes opened again, as he let out a groan.

Arthur wished he could take a break from all this work. In fact, he didn't he liked it. He never.

He was tired from planning attacks, developing weapons, and all that war stuff. If a genie existed, he would wish the world to stop having wars with each other. But unfortunately, genies don't exist.

Arthur sighed for maybe— the hundredth time, stopping from thinking about his little unrealistic dream. His sapphire eyes traveled to the large window, the moon's light shining trough it. He then realised it was already late. Really late.

Once again, he let out a groan; a frustrated one this time. The man completely forgot that he had some important duties in the morning. He knew he wouldn't be able to do it perfectly in a sleepy disposition.

The prince decided he was going to bed. Before that, he quickly finished up the work he has left before dropping to the large bed and go for a deep sleep.

"Your grace, did you perhaps didn't get enough sleep?" The prince's new knight; Athanasia, walked down the grand corridor with the Prince.

The red carpet with golden accents ran trough the white floor. Red, silky curtains were opened, letting the sun shone trough the large windows. Paintings gracefully made was on the high-ceilings. The Ten Titans, users, and the founder Ymir, was on the painting. Ymir was portrayed as a beautiful goddess— her beautiful hair and body painted delicately. People who didn't have any colors other than brown, was seen worshipping her. Ymir was reaching her hand above and a light was on the hand.

The prince let out a groan. "Yeah, I was too focused on my work to even notice the time."

His knight gave him a worried look, "Focusing on your work is good and all, but I think you should take a break."

The brown-haired man didn't take her advice. "No, I can't. I still haven't made the arrangements for our next meeting with Hizuru." Hizuru is a country from Asia that formed an alliance with Eldia.

Athanasia silently sighed. "Right." Silence then continued their conversation. Only the sound of their footsteps filled the corridor.

Once they reached the prince's work space, the silver-haired girl opened the door for him. The prince walked in and immediately sat on his grand seat. Before he even noticed, his knight disappeared, to who knows where she is.

Athanasia stood in front of the large and grand wooden door-the entrance to the prince's work space. She made a delicate fist, almost making contact with the door. She hesitated on whether to do this or not. For the last time, she sighed and did what she hesitated about, hoping not to regret this.

"Come in." The prince's relaxed yet tired voice can be heard across the door, giving consent to whoever is knocking on the door to come in. "Excuse me." His knight opened the door, letting herself in.

A particular light caramelized smell lingered in the room reached the prince's nose, which made his head shot up to the figure in front of him. "Is that coffee I smell?" Athanasia walked to the prince's desk awkwardly, "Yes, your grace."

"I thought that— you'd be tired after all that work, especially when you didn't get enough sleep last night. So I thought, I'd bring you coffee to give you some energy." Athanasia explained with an angelic smile on her face.

Silence filled the room as they stare at each other awkwardly.

"Um, I can dispose the coffee if you like..."

Arthur snapped back to reality. He didn't mean to create an awkward silence between them. He then began to explain, "I-I didn't mean it like that! In fact, I'm truly grateful for it."

Athanasia's disappointed face was quickly replaced with a relief one. "I'm glad! I need to get going now. I have some things to do. Please excuse me!"

With that, the silver-head left the room, leaving the Prince in the room.

Without him noticing, a deep red blush covered his face. He covered his face once he realized it. He didn't expect a smile to be able to make him feel like this.

Chapter Text

"Nagisa, this might be a good assassination spot," Sugino said as he held a map. "Can the snipers see it?"

"This is one weird school trip," Kayano pointed out.

"You bet it is, but it's fun," The blue-head added.

The little green-haired female began to frown. "We're here in Kyoto and all... I want green-tea warabimochi dumplings!"

"May I ask what that is?" You asked innocently, your head turning towards her.

"What?! You don't know what green-tea warabimochi dumplings are?!" Kayano asked in a disbelief and dramatic way.

The mischievous boy; Karma, ruffled her hair in a teasing way. "Calm down, food lover. Y'know she barely knows things that are common knowledge."

All you could do is sigh in embarrassment at Karma's remark.

Okuda proposed an idea, "T-then why don't we put some poison in them?"

"What for?!"

"Koro-sensei has a major sweet tooth."

"Oh, so they're food... That's a nice idea. Might as well use that poison again..." you muttered.

There was a short pause between the group. "Y'know, I wanted to forget about assassination on this trip," Sugino broke the awkward atmosphere as he stretched his arms. "I mean, look at the sights! What does any of this have to do with assassination?"

"You'd be surprised."

You and your classmates then moved to a sidewalk. The others looked at some sort of stone with a name written. You on the other hand, was staring at the vehicles passing by. "Sakamoto Ryoma... You mean..."

"Yeah, this is where Omiya was, the inn where Sakamoto was assassinated in 1867," Karma continued.

I didn't know a lot of time has passed... you thought.

"And walk a little further and you'll be at Honnoji Temple, though it's location shifted a little over time."

"Oh right..." Kayano muttered. "Nobunaga Oda's death was kind of an assassination too."

"In just this one kilometer, some big-name assassinations went down. This city's always been the heart of Japan; well, it's also the mecca of assassinations," Nagisa mentioned.

"I get it. Now that you mentioned it, this is turnin' out to be a real assassination vacation," Sugino spoke out, while you kept on starting the opposite way.

"Y/N, how long are you gonna keep staring at the road? Haven't you seen enough?" Karma asked you in a teasing tone.

"I've never seen these type of vehicles before, so I'm trying to understand how these so called "cars" and "buses" work." You explained, still staring at the vehicles.

He just sighed. "Just how much do you don't know about the world?"

The group then walked out of the place. "Next up is Yasaka Shrine," Okuda said.

"Yep!"

Karma whined. "Oh, c'mon, let's take a break. I want some sugary Kyoto coffee."

Kayano, acting like typical Kayano, agreed. "Yeah, let's have some!"

The seven-membered group walked down to somewhere rather deserted and dark.

"Wow, Gion is practically deserted this far inside."

Kanzaki agreed. "Yeah, with all these places that turn away newcomers, no one much comes here just to wander around, and you don't need a nice unobstructed view. That's why I put it on my ideal course-perfect for assassination."

"That's our Kanzaki! You've really done your homework! This is where we'll do the deed, then!"

An unknown voice then joined the chat. The voice was deep, and threatening, which alarmed you and the others.

""Perfect" is right."

Just then, a bunch of unknown people with uniforms walked to the front of the group. "Why are ya walkin' around somewhere that's perfect for kidnappin'?"

More people walked from behind, trapping the group. A guy from behind smirked as he held some sort of weapons.

"Something tells me your fellows aren't here for sightseeing," Karma spoke out in a completely relaxed tone.

"Well, we ain't here for you. Hand over the girls and get lo-" A guy was cut off by Karma's attack; smashing his head to the floor.

"See, Nagisa? Fighting's no problem at all when there's no witnesses."

Nagisa pointed at something, which made Karma alert.

"I'm gonna stab ya!"

Karma blocked a thug's attack by throwing a cloth from a bike, pushing him to the ground with just one hand. "Stab me? As if," The red-head said in a mocking tone.

Acting on instincts, you kicked one of the guys in the face, knocking him out. The others were too stunned to dodge your attack, resulting a few to be knocked out like their friend.

"No! What the hell!"

"Don't!"

Kayano and Kanzaki's screams signalled you to get the guys hands off from them. You ran up to them and punched the guy who held Kanzaki in the face, and then doing the same with Kayano's with a kick.

"T-This bitch's crazy!" One yelled out in horror.

Their leader quickly gave them orders. "The hell are you doing?! Get her!" His other troops immediately went to you and attacked. This made Karma turn away from his current opponent and turned his head towards you, defending your classmates.

"Get it now?" The leader behind him suddenly appeared and kicked him to the ground, creating a loud thump. Multiple guys started to swarm around the red-head and kick him.

"Karma!" you yelled his name.

"Hey! Knock it off!" Sugino attempted to stop them, but was kicked and sent flying in return, knocking him and Nagisa down to the ground.

Your eyes widen at the next thing the guys are going to do to them; knock them out. "Guys!" But your call was useless. It didn't stop them from knocking your classmates out.

Suddenly, a guy wrapped an arm around your neck and placed a white cloth over your nose. "Y/N!" Your two female friends called out your name in agony. Your head turned towards Karma, Nagisa, and Sugino who are knocked out. Just then, your whole world turned to pitch plack, and a "zap" was heard.

A young girl clenched her H/C hair, feeling dizzy. Her eyes met the bloody white floor and traveled towards a dead body that has been crushed by a large debris, only its hand not crushed. E/C eyes widen as they traveled to the rest of the now ruined room, seeing more dead bodies with limbs unattached to their bodies. It looked like a massacre happened- no, a massacre had happened.

One particular dead body caught her attention. Her light blue eyes were now dull and dead. Her short chocolate brown hair is now smudged with blood. Half of her body was crushed under a debris, blood splattered everywhere. Her expression showed how terrified she was, but her eyes were wet.

Once the H/C-head made out her identity, her eyes widen in pure despair. That body was Kanon's, the only friend she had. "...Kanon?" She muttered her name  in horror.

Her body then moved on its own, running to Kanon's dead body. She shook her friend's body, hoping this was all a lie. But no, it's real. Reality was just too cruel .

Once she can't hear her breath or a heart beat, she finally concluded to the worst conclusion;  dead . Kanon has departed from the world.

She then started crying in agony, as she held her dead body close to hers.

"Y/N! Wake up!" you heard Kayano and Kanzaki's faint voice, waking you up. Your eyes slowly flutter open and met with the two girl's figures. "H-how long was I out?"

"Around half an hour or so." Kayano answered your question. "After a guy placed a cloth which I'm guessing had chloroform, the other guys took out our classmates. We were then shoved into a car and brought here." Kanzaki explained the previous events.

You could only look down in shame, "I'm sorry. If I was just more careful, then you guys wouldn't be here."

Kanzaki shook her head. "That's not true! It's my fault, I'm the one who made us go to a place where we can get easily kidnapped."

The thugs who kidnapped the females went in front of you. "I called up our buddies. Got everything ready for a little commemorative photo shoot, too. Make as much noice as you want, no one'll hear you."

You gave the leader a deadly glare as you looked him in the eye, your eyes full of malice. "You," He pointed at you, then walking over and cupping your cheeks. "Don't touch her!" Kayano shouted, but he simply ignored her. "Never expected a pretty girl like you can fight. But unfortunately, you were too weak." A giant, cocky grin was plastered on his face at the last part, which made you kick his face with your knee.

As a result, he was sent flying across the room. "Y-You bitch! You're gonna regret this!"

You rolled your eyes at his claim. "Haha, very funny."

He was gonna beat you up when another guy stopped him. "Dude, she's not worth it." His leader only clicked his tounge.

"And you," She pointed at Kanzaki. "I though I'd seen you somewhere before. This is you, right? At a Tokyo arcade last summer?" He showed her a picture in his cell phone; a picture of what seems to be Kanzaki in a totally opposite appearance than her usual.

"I told my buddy to let me know if he found me the right girl. Had plans to kidnap you, but then lost sight of you. Who knew you were a student at that famous school? But look, I get it. The higher you are, the deeper you wanna fall. From now until nightfall, the Profesor of Ruin will teach you all about that."

Y/N's POV

About half an hour has passed since me, Kaede and Yukiko have been abducted. Honestly, I can't believe myself for not thinking of the possibility of them putting me to sleep. I was too focused on their safeties to even notice.

My hands are now tied with chains, unlike the girls arms that are only tied with a rope. The thugs were being cautious.

Can't I just set Kaede and Yukiko free and handle the thugs myself? No, if I break the chains, the thugs would notice by the sound and try to restrain me back. They might would hold them as hostages. If I can't do that, then I'll just have to fight them and protect Kaede and Yukiko. But, with the number of them, would I be able to win? Wait, I can win if I just transform to knock them down. I can just bite my lip to draw out blood. But then, there's the possibility of the girls getting hurt.

A sigh escaped my mouth as I looked down to the ground.

It's hopeless...

"That picture, so even our earnest Kanzaki went trough a phase," Kayano pointed out. "I didn't see that coming."

"Yeah..." Kanzaki agreed. "My dad was really strict... always after me to get a good education and a prestigious title. I wanted to get away from all that, so I'd take off my famous school uniform, change my look, and hang out where no one knew me."

"How dumb cant you get? The only title all that playing around ever got me was "End Class". I don't even know where I belong anymore."

I gave Kanzaki a sympathetic look.

The guy that I kicked came up to us and crouched down. "Whyncha hang out with us? We're totally anti-titles here! We trash those elitist bastards. Or maybe just put'em back the way they were, like? Oh, yeah, we done plenty of that kinda-stuff."

I gritted my teeth and gave them a glare. My eyes went towards Kaede and noticed her face getting darker. "You're the worst," she muttered.

Idiot!

The guy got mad and grabbed her by her neck. "You some kind of elitist, lookin' down at us like that?! Huh?!"

I watched as Kaede's legs swinging back and forward, clearly struggling, before I kicked the guy's legs. A crack made its way to my ears before he let the girl go and fall to the dirty floor.

The leader let out a scream, signaling that he was in pain. I stood up and broke the chains, setting myself free.

"Look who's the weak one now," I mocked him.

With that, his troops went to attack me. A guy tried to sent a punch to me, which I dodged with ease. Another tried to tackle me down to the ground, resulting me to dodge and kick him in the back. "Kaede! Yukiko! Run!" I screamed out to them.

"But Y/N-" Yukiko tried to change my decision with a worried and terrified face.

"Don't worry about me!"

Just then, two guys attempted to hold the two girls back, which I prevented it. I knocked the two guys down and stood in front of my female classmates protectively.

A guy snapped his head to the door. "That's them!" The guy said with relief. "Quick! Help us-"

He was cut off by a beat up guy getting thrown into the room. My eyes were glued to the hand who threw him before the hand retracted back, my eyes travelling to the owner.

"School Trip Guidebook, page 1243, "What to Do When a Group Member Has Been Abducted." "If you have no leads on the perpetrator, first use the content of your conversation and any verbal quirks to determine if he/she is from the local area. If not, and if he/she was wearing a school uniform, see page 1334."

The person who read the page of the book stepped out from the shadow with his friends, revealing my classmates. "You may be up against another student on a school trip, stirring up trouble."

"I-It's you! How'd you know we were here?!"

Nagisa continued reading the book, answering his question. "Being unfamiliar with the area, the perp can't go too far after the abduction, but will choose a secluded spot nearby. If this is the case, see page 134 of the appendix."

He showed the book to the guys, continuing to read it. ""My Mach 20 bird's-eye-view map of abductor hideouts may help.""

"That guidebook's amazing! That's the perfect way to foil an abduction!" Sugino commented. "I guess we should take it with us after all!"

"That's no guidebook I ever heard of!" The thugs said in sync.

Karma began to spoke, with his head hung low. "So? What's it going to be, fellows? You've already done so much! You'll be spending the rest of your trip..." He paused before looking up with a darken face.

"...in the hospital."

I could only smirk at him. That was such a Karma thing to do; scaring the shit out of others.

"Hmph! You junior-high brats, actin' all though... Those'll be the buddies I called," a deep voice suddenly interrupted my classmates "grand entrance".

"They're the worst badasses you goody two-shoes have ever-" After he paused his speech, multiple guys were shown behind the door, yellow tentacles holding them.

"T-The worst-what?!"

"No badasses here. I took care of them all." Koro-sensei appeared.

His students called him out in relief with a smile. I could only sigh in relief. "Sorry I'm late, I was letting you handle this while I searched elsewhere with a fine-tooth comb." He apologized.

"And-uh, why are you hiding your face like some stagehand?" I asked.

His eyes closed. "This is an act of violence, and I'm afraid you'll associate this face with me being violent."

"Nagisa, you had the guidebook so I could be alerted right away." He gave Sugino, Karma, and Okuda his guidebooks.

"Th-This is your teacher?! Bullshit! Who's he think he is, lookin' like that?!" The leader said before raising a glass bottle and his troops running towards the teacher, ready to attack.

""Bullshit," you say?"

He punched the thugs who attempted to attack him in high speed. "That's my line."

Koro-sensei's face turned to pitch black, as he let out smoke from his mouth. "Don't be touching my students with your filthy hands," His eyes glowed blood-red, enough to express his anger and disgust. "slow enough for a fly to land on them."

The leader stood up, "So even the teachers are special at elite schools... You're lookin' down on us cause of your rank, aren't you? Makin' fun of me for bein' a stupid high-schooler!" He raised a knife, his troops doing the same and went to attack the yellow octopus.

"We're not elite." Our teacher, once again, knocking them down to the ground. My eyes began to focus on him. "They're students at a famous school, that's true."

Two guys went to attack him. "But they're considered the school outcasts." He grabbed the two thugs and smashed them against each other. "Their class name is the object of discrimination." More guys went to attack him.

"And yet, they take on so many things with a positive attitude." The leader went to attack him, only getting caught by yellow tentacles. "They wouldn't drag others down worth them... not like you." He send him smashing to the dirty floor.

"It has nothing to do with our school or my title. Be they be in a clear stream or a muddy river, the fish who swim forward turn out the finest."

My eyes travelled towards the raven girl's figure, seeing her face brightening. My lips formed a small smile.

"Now then, students, let's take care of them. Well teach them a physical lesson on the fundamentals of school trips." My classmates hit the thugs with the school guidebooks, as I send a kick to the leader's head, knocking the out. A feeling of pleasure runned trough me.

"For a while there, I didn't know what was gonna happen." Sugino let out a sigh of relief.

"If it'd been just me and Y/N, I'm sure it would've worked out."

I rolled my eyes, "You say that but you got knocked out just a few hours ago." I said, receiving a glare from Karma.

The others laughed.

"Thank goodness! You okay, Kanzaki?" Kaede asked Yukiko, who was fixing her uniform. "Yes, I'm fine."

"What happened, Kanzaki?" Koro-sensei asked the female. She let out a confused "eh".

"No one would blame you for being shaken up after that terrible event. But instead, you look like you've shaken off all your hesitation."

She gave him a grateful smile. "That's right, and thank you."

"Not at all." Koro-sensei grinned and let out his signature laugh. "Shall we get on with our school trip, then?"

"Hey, our group never got to try out our assassination attempt." Sugino pointed out.

"Well, we didn't really have the time or place for that." I turned my head towards the dark blue-haired male.

"We'll just kill him tomorrow." Karma said as he swung his knife at the target.

Koro-sensei laughed in a mocking tone. "I do hope you can."

Fact: Y/N was actually about to transform until Nagisa, Karma, Sugino and Okuda
came.

Chapter Text

After that horrible event, you could only feel relieved that it didn't get any worse. You, your classmates and teacher, are walking back to the hotel. You walked at the back with Karma, as the rest of your classmates and teacher engaged in their own conversation at the front. 

Your eyes traveled to the sky. The orange and gold stretches far and wide, as if there is no end. The colors of the sky reflected on you, admiring your features. You could stare at the beautiful sky forever. But soon enough the orange-gold sky was painted with a dark cloudy one. Small drops of water began to fall to you, soaking into your hair and clothes.

"Oh, it's raining again..." you muttered. 

"Again? What do you mean again? It hasn't rain since last month." Karma shot his head towards you with narrowed eyes. 

You turned towards the boy, a look of confusion in your face. It soon was replaced by a realizing one. "Oh, right."

"Something wrong?" he asked with a hint of concern.

A groan escaped your mouth. "No... Actually—yes," you admitted.

"Tell me about it."

You began to explain your concern, "Yesterday, I had a dream. It was about a girl and a boy in a graveyard, raining. The girl was mourning her brother's death-who died in battle. The man then approached her and talked. Turns out, the boy was a prince. The girl's brother was his knight, and she was his replacement."

Karma looked at you in interest as you continued, "Later, the girl brought him coffee, since he was working non-stop. The boy was... what do you call it? Lovestruck— I suppose..."

"Sounds like a sappy love story to me," he commented. "Is that it?"

"Yeah."

He sighed and stopped walking. "What do you think it means?" he suddenly asked.

"Huh?"

"You're dreaming about some people but you're not even in it, how is that normal? Furthermore, it's about some sappy-fantasy love story. All dreams have some sort of meaning. What do you think this means?"

Silence filled the air as a gust of wind blew your hair, framing your face. Your eyes locked to the red-head's figure, his crimson hair blowing to the side. His mercury eyes looked straight into your eyes.

This conversation took to an unexpected turn, and he somehow manages to make this deeper. What does this dream mean? You knew that it was a memory of a past user, but you couldn't possibly tell him. He'll think you're mad, delusional. 

Not knowing how to answer, you simply looked dowm. "I don't know. I have no clue."

He looked at you suspiciously. "I see, that can't be helped."

"Damn! How the hell are you dodging those?!"

A few hours has passed since you arrived at the hotel. After that conversation with Karma, there was an awkward tension between you-even the entire walk was really awkward, resulting in an awkward silence. You only listened to your classmates and Koro-sensei's conversation about the best things to do at Kyoto.

Now, you're here in your yukata, watching Kanzaki playing the arcade game, clicking on the buttons furiously. "This is... a little embarrassing."

"She smiles so sweetly, but she moves like a pro."

You head to the door, suddenly feeling thirsty. "Y/N, where are you going?" Kayano asked. "I'm getting a drink, I'll be back in a moment."

Your hand traced trough the door handle before sliding it open, and walking out of the room.

As soon as you closed the door, a guest of air escaped your lips, sighing. Your mind was still on that conversation. The one with Karma. He's trying to get you to open up. For obvious reasons, you cannot. Worse, he's trying to reveal your secrets. He knew that you're hiding things, and he knew it was something really need to be burried deep into the ground. You knew you needed to get back fast. But the mission is preventing you from doing so. 

Frustrated, you let out a loud groan. "Shit, shit, shit," you let out multiple curses, as you run your hands in your hair. 

Little did you know, a person happened to saw you. "Y/N?" 

Turning your head, you're eyes met with golden ones; Isogai's. 

"Is everything alright?" he asked, concerned. 

"Not really, just had a rough day."

"Oh— right," he realized, remembering the unfortunate event that happened to your group.

"What are you doing in the hallway?" he asked, trying to ease up the tension. "I'm getting a drink. Wanna come?" 

"Sure." 

You and Isogai walked to the vending machine. E/C eyes traveled from one drink to another, examining each drinks. After your eyes landed on a box of orange juice, you decided to get that. However, you didn't know how to get the drink.

"So uh, how do you get drinks?" you asked Isogai in an awkward manner.

He looked at you surprised, but remembered the fact that you're still unknown to the world. "Which one do you want to get one?"

You pointed at the box of orange juice. "You see the price below the box? You just need to put the money here, and press the button for the orange juice."

Nodding, you did as what he explained.

After a few seconds, a box of orange juice dropped to the pick-up box as you let out a yelp. You crouched down and peeked trough the pick-up box, surprised seeing the drink you wanted. "Wow..." you looked at the machine in amazement, as you grab the drink.

"Are you that amazed? It's just a vending machine." 

"Yeah-but, I never see anything like this... All of this is really new to me." 

He just let out a laugh as he walked away. "Are you not coming back?" 

"Oh-right." You stood up from your position and walked back to where your friends are. 

"Figures, Kanzaki is in the top spot." 

The boys gathered at the boy's room, circling a piece of paper, which had simple drawings of the girls and rates beside them. 

"But Y/N is also at the top spot," Maehara said. 

"I mean— we all know why right?" 

Everyone nodded. "Her cluelessness to everything is really cute. And she's so badass!"

"And the face she make once she figured how to take a selfie is also really cute!" Maehara squealed, remembering when he taught you how to use the phone's camera. The way your eyes sparkled was something to remember in his life. 

"What about you, Sugino? Real slick of you to put Kanzaki into your group- even Y/N!" 

"Actually—me and Kayano were the ones who invited Y/N..." Nagisa said. 

Sugino sighed, as he placed both of his hand on the back of his head. "Y'know, with all the crap that went down, there weren't many chances for us to really talk."

"Yeah, you guys had it rough."

"I just want to know who likes who," Mimura said as he grabbed the paper.

"I can't just pick one!" Okajima whined.

"—Other than you, Okajima."

Maehara looked up at Nagisa. "Who do you like, Nagisa?" he asked, which made Nagisa the center of attention. "Huh?"

"I- uh..." he struggled to answer his friend.

Luckily, Sugino saved him from answering. "What about you, Maehara? Anyone?"

Maehara turned to the boy with a playful smirk. "Yeah, but my lips are sealed," he teased as he made a peace sign.

"That pisses me off! And when I think how popular guys like you are, it pisses me off even more!"

"Oooh, looks like fun in here." A red-head walked in, sipping on his lemon juice

"Karma! Great timing! Is there a girl you like?" 

The red-head let out a hum, figuring out an answer. A memory of a E/C-eyed female fighting of thugs flashed towards his mind; you.

"Hmm... Y/N, maybe?" 

"A common choice..." 

"Why though?" 

A devilish smile appeared on his face, as he explained, "Think about it! We could catch a lot of bad guys and teach'em a lesson! Really kick my mischief-making up a notch, y'know?"

"That's one match no one needs to be making." 

Isogai grabbed the paper, as he spoke, "Guys, these ratings are just between us, okay?" 

"Obviously."

"I mean, we don't want this getting out. So do not let the girls or the teachers find out ab-" he paused, catching Koro-sensei spying on them.

"Good evening everyone. Mhm, I see," the teacher muttered as he wrote in his notebook before closing the door gently, running off.

...

"He took notes and split!" 

"Kill him!" 

The yellow octopus ran at high speed as he grinned devilishly. "Nabbing this data is exactly what my ultra-high speed is for!" 

"Huh? What boys we like?" Kataoka asked. 

"Yeah! That's what girls talk on trips like this. It's fun!" 

Like the boys, the girls are discussing which boys they like. The girls sat in their room, forming a circle. 

"Ooh, ooh! I know! Mr. Karasuma!" 

"Yeah, yeah. We all like Mr. Karasuma. I mean someone in our class." Nakamura shrugged off Kurahashi's answer. She continued, "I guess Isogai and Maehara are pretty all right..." 

"Really? You think so?" 

"Sure. Unfortunately, Maehara plays the field." 

You turned to Yada with a confused look. "Plays the field...?" 

"It means that he's a playboy," she answered your question in a cheerful manner. 

"So, doesn't that out put class president Isogai in the lead?" 

"Karma would win on good looks alone." 

"If only he were better behaved." 

"Yeah..." the others agreed.

Okuda let out a frown. "Hmm, he's not that scary though."

"Yeah, he's usually quiet."

"What is he? A wild animal?"

Kayano turned to you. "What about you, Y/N? Do you like anyone?" 

You thought for a second before answering, "I like Karma, Nagisa, and, uh, Hiroto... and... basically everyone else?"

...

The girls deadpanned, unamused of your answer. "We mean romantically, Y/N!" Kayano shouted at you.

A confused look appeared on your face. "I, um...don't understand what liking someone romantically means..."

It's true. You didn't understand what liking someone romantically means, nor how it feels. Whenever you see couples kiss or hold hands or whatever, questions always pop into your mind; Why do they do that? What does it mean to kiss or to intertwine your hands with the person you like? What does liking someone romantically feel like?

"Ugh, how do I explain this?" Nakamura frowned.

Kanzaki began to speak, "Hmm... I guess it means that you like that person more than other people?"

You tilt your head to the side. "Like that person more...?"

"I think when you like someone romantically, you want the best for them. And when you're with them, sometimes your heart pounds faster and you blush with that person. And maybe, you'll feel jealous whenever they're with someone else."

You stayed silent, deep in thought. Multiple people came rushing trough your head, as you analyzed each moment of them and see if they fulfil all of the conditions. A desire to be with them, heart pounding, blush, jealousy... 

*ZAP*

A warm blush spreaded across your face as the person in front of you leaned in, closing their eyes. You did the same as them as you too lean in. Your lips brushed against each other as your face gets warmer. 

Time seemed to stop when your lips pressed against theirs. Their warm and soft lips synced with yours passionately, as you press your body against theirs. 

You could taste your shared breath, feel the thud of their heartbeat as they cupped your cheeks with their hand, deepening the kiss. 

The two of you pulled apart to catch your breath. With your heart pounding fast, you locked eyes with them, sinking into their mesmerizing eyes. They gave you a smile before pecking your lips, making your stomach filled with butterflies. 

Wanting more of their touch, you, once again, pressed your lips to theirs, catching them by surprise. They soon melt into the kiss as their hands caress your face lovingly. 

For the first time ever, your heart felt warmer than ever. 

*ZAP*

Realization coming in, a very hot blush immediately covered your face. 

"Wait! You like someone?!" 

"I actually never thought you'd have a crush!"

"Ooh! What's this? Y/N has a crush?!" your English teacher, Irina, barged into the room, excited at the new information she has got.

"So?! Who's this crush?" Irina asked, walking towards you and shaking your shoulders.

You answered nervously with a hot face. "Um... uh... I-it's not s-someone from this class..."

The others let out and 'oh' as they looked at you excitedly. 

"And?! What is he like?!" Kurahashi asked.

"Um... H-he's someone that's in the military with me... I really admire them... for how passionate they are..." 

The girls grinned at you, obviously liking the tea they're having.

"And, what's this crush's name?" Irina asked mischievously as she put an arm around your shoulder. 

You obliged as your cheeks got warmer. "T-Their name is—" 

Your eyes landed on a round face with a shade of pink covering its skin; Koro-sensei. 

"Hey! What the hell are you doing here?!" you screamed at your teacher, blushing even more. The others turned to him, shock. 

"Don't you just waltz into our girl talk like that! It was getting fun!" 

The octopus grinned, "Awww! Why not? I want to hear about Y/N's crush! Gotta make sure that kid is a good one." 

"You never tell us anything about your private life!" 

"Yeah! Fair's fair!" 

"Don't you have any crushes of your own?!" Okano accused the teacher, pointing at him. 

"You like big boobs... you must at least have a crush on someone!" Nakamura said, as the other girls did what Okano did. 

Koro-sensei stayed silent, and looked down for a moment, before disappearing. 

"He's gone! Let's kill him for interrupting us from knowing Y/N's crush's name!" Irina stood up and commanded the girls to chase after the octopus. 

"There he is!" you heard a faint male's voice. 

"Kill him!" 

"Over here!" you heard one of your female friend's voice. 

"Damn it! Caught in a pincer attack!" Koro-sensei's panick voice echoed to the girl's room. 

Realizing the girls have left you sunk your head to your harms, cheeks heating up. "I'm saved..." 

"Hey, I'm still here you know." You flinched at the blonde's voice. 

She chuckled. "Honestly, why am I surprised by the fact that you have a crush?" 

You looked up her. "Well, I don't even look like the type to have a crush, don't I? I'm so embarrassed..." 

She sat next to you. "There's no need to be embarrassed about it. It's normal for your age." 

Silence fell into the room. You let the words of your English teacher sink into your mind. 

"I've always thought crushes are pathetic. I'll always hear girls talking about their crushes at curfew; how much they like them, how they rejected them, how they go crazy over them, and how they fight over boys. I guess that's when I realize crushes can completely take over your emotions. They can easily make you bad, insecure, pathetic, and all sorts of things. I hated that. Getting your emotions easily waver is just— stupid," you confessed. 

Her head shot towards you, surprised by your sudden confession. 

"Whenever I'm with them, there's this warm feeling inside of me... But whenever he's with someone else, I'll feel... jealous... That's when I thought I might have a crush on them... I felt... somewhat terrified by the thought of it... So I just shrug it off... But now... there's no denying that I have a crush on them... It's just—I feel really stupid." You pulled your knees to your face, hiding it in embarrassment. 

A hand on your shoulder snapped you back from your embarrassment. 

"Hey, it's not pathetic at all. A girl at your age is normal to have a crush. From the emotions you've been feeling because of the kid, you could learn something from it."

Another silence filled the room, untiy you broke it. "Have you... ever have a crush?" 

Her eyes widen at your question, but answered your question nonetheless, "I had one. He was a partner I had for a mission. The mission required us to be together for around two months. In that two months, I grew feelings for him, and it was driving me crazy. But, I kept it too long. After that two months, he got a girlfriend. Sure, I was devastated, but I wouldn't let some guy get a single drop of tear out of my eyes."

You gave her a sympathetic look, a look that you understood her.

"So, hurry up. The longer, the higher the chance someone's gonna steal them. And if you get rejected, just remember that there are a lot of boys that will love to be in his position," she said as she gave you a warm smile. 

You smiled at Irina's encouragement, the embarrassment look on your face, full of shame, fully gone. "Yeah!" 

Fact: A sentence here is gonna

be true. 

Chapter Text

Finally, the school trip is over. You were glad it was over. Unpleasant events happened, and all you need was peace. 

Walking out of the train, you bid your classmates goodbye. "See you next week, Y/N!" Nagisa bid farewell to you. 

"Yeah, see you." 

You ran up to Karasuma, who is standing near a pillar with his bag, waiting for you. By the time he noticed you, you were already near him. 

"Let's go." He took out his car keys and walked out of the train station, with you following behind quietly. 

Once Karasuma unlocked his car, you placed your luggage in the car trunk before you sat at the passenger seat, putting on your seat belt. You somehow got used to riding a car, despite how confused you are on how cars work. 

Karasuma soon sat at the driver's seat before starting the engine. 

The ride was filled with silence as you looked out of the window, watching cars and other vehicles pass by, along with people. You realized how different your home is compared to here. Back home, no such vehicles like cars existed. People would say that it was magic. The incredible technology always made you baffle, but you still find it very fascinating. You also noticed how different the people are. The people back home are more... dull? And maybe more tired and gloomy. At least, that's how the people in the Survey Corps is. The people here are much more lively and happy. Maybe, that's because they have nothing that threatens their existences. Well— there is something that's threatening their existences: Koro-sensei. But they don't know about that. 

"So," Karasuma broke the silence. "How do you feel?" 

You looked at him in confusion. "...What?"

"I mean, after that." He meant the whole kidnapping incident. 

Your eyes continued to stare out the window, with your face facing straight. "Well... I feel okay..." you answered, not knowing how to word it. Yes, you weren't that bothered with the incident. In fact, you barely think about it. But for some reason, you felt like it wasn't the first time. 

"I see," Karasuma said as he continued to drive. 

Minutes later, the car stopped inside the garage, before the man turned off the gas. You opened the door and went to grab your luggage, as Karasuma did the same. 

You soon head to your room and shut the door quietly. After letting a gust of air escape your mouth, you slid down against the door to the floor. 

"Why did I feel like that wasn't the first time...?" you asked yourself, referring to the kidnapping incident. You speculated that you have been kidnapped before, without remembering it. Maybe, it was related to that.

FLASHBACK

You plopped yourself to your mattress as you pulled your blanket to cover you. Just a few hours ago, you were kidnapped. And that event drained you. You were even considering on transforming to save your friends. You were glad that you didn't. Your classmates could've saw you and distrust you. 

Sighing, you layed an arm over your eyes, blocking your view of the ceiling. 

Suddenly, you remembered a memory. 

*ZAP*

Cold. Hungry. Lost. 

That's what you felt in the empty room made of bricks. You stared at the ground as you growled against the gag in your mouth, saliva dropping down your mouth. 

You, once again, struggled to break out of your chains tying your arms and legs. Red marks from the chains were very visible on your skin, as blood flowed out of your skin. 

*ZAP*

Out of shock, you quickly removed the arm covering your eyes as you panted heavily at the memory you just remembered. What... exactly happened? 

You sighed once more before changing into a pair of fresh clothes. After that, you lied on your bed before grabbing your phone to play a game that your friends downloaded for you. 

To your own surprise, you're having fun playing the game. You were never interested in games as you think they are useless. 

A sudden knock on the door stopped your from playing your game as you shot your head towards the door. After placing your phone down, you opened the door, revealing your supervisor; Karasuma.

"Mr. Karasuma?" 

"Y/N, can you buy the groceries? I have some urgent work to do," Karasuma said as he handed you a list of the groceries and money. "You can grab something you like from the supermarket." 

You nodded your head before grabbing your phone and go to the supermarket. 

Finally, you arrived at the supermarket. Tons of people filled the supermarket, from the young to the old. Children running through the aisles, as their mother chased after them, giving them a lecture as she chases them.

You grabbed a cart and went to grab the groceries Karasuma asked you to buy. Although he allowed you to buy something you like, you didn't. 

Once you finished, you headed towards the cashier. The cashier did their job as you quietly looked at the items you bought, the worker holding some sort of machine that flashed a bright red. 

"What is that?" You looked at the machine curiously. Despite your how curious you are, you didn't ask, knowing that the cashier will find it weird. 

"That will be ¥396," The cashier lady said once she finished scanning your groceries. 

You handed her your money before grabbing you bags and leaving. 

"Have a nice day!" 

"You too," you returned the farewell.

Y/N's POV

I walked out of the supermarket with my groceries in hand. A sigh escaped my lips as I looked back on my life here;

How did it turned out this way? I failed defeating an enemy and was gonna get killed, and the next thing I knew was smashing into a classroom's wall and meeting colorful haired people and a giant yellow "octopus". I made a deal with them and ended up going to school and training them to assassinate the octopus for my survival. Why am I even doing this? I should just find a way back. But then again, I don't even know how I ended up in the classroom. Ugh, why is this so hard? 

As I walked, I bumped into a lady, making the items we were carrying drop to the ground. 

"Oh gosh! I'm so sorry!" she quickly apologized and bent down to grab her items scattered on the floor. 

"I'm the one who apologize, I wasn't paying attention," I apologized too as I too bent down and helped the lady pick up her items. 

My fingers grazed upon a silky black box as I wondered what could be inside. The lady quickly grabbed it before I could see what that is. I refrained myself from asking, thinking that it was something important to her. 

Finally, I could examine her features properly after helping her picking up her things. The lady had long light brown locks and the night sky's eyes. She was really beautiful. Her beauty might even rival against Ms. Irina's. 

"Thank you for helping me picking up my things," she thanked me. 

"It's no problem, miss." 

She gave me a warm smile. "If I may know, what is your name?"

Seeing not any problem in giving her my name, I answered her question, "Y/N, miss." 

Her eyes widen, filled with shock. Like she had heard that name before or knew someone by that name. Wait, now that I have examined her features properly, she looked like someone... but who? 

"Um, I have to go now. Thank you for your help!" she thanked me before taking off. I haven't even asked her name. 

I got back a few hours ago and now I'm laying down at my bed, staring at the plain white ceiling. 

My mind was stuck on that lady. She looked really familiar. But where could have I met her? 

The only people I know to have brown hair and blue eyes are Kanon and Arthur from the dream. Arthur couldn't be the lady since he is a male and from a dream. Kanon couldn't be either, since... she's dead... 

Reminded by Kanon's death, my eyes became glossy. My hand wiped a tear off before it could fall. 

Stop thinking about Kanon. She's dead, and that's in the past. Get over the past. Focus on the present, I told myself not so gently. 

Not wanting to get into emotional thoughts, I got up from my bed and walked to the bathroom, grabbing my clothes and towel on the way. 

My fingers grazed on the fabric of my shirt before pulling it off. Same for my bottoms. 

The skin of my foot met with the cold hard tile as I stepped into the shower. I turned on the water, causing multiple drops of warm water colliding into my skin. My shoulders relaxed at the warmness, as my eyes became heavy. 

The sounds of the water dropping into the hard tiles filled the silence in the bathroom. The sound was like music to my ear. No people's chattering, no horrible thoughts, just peace. I rarely got times of peace back at home, prior and after those cadet years. There was always the sound of screams, yells, and blood splattering, which I have growned tired of. Peace back at home seemed impossible. If there was silence, there was always the sounds of my negative thoughts. But here, it seems I could let go of them for a moment. The sound of people here are just normal conversations. No serious conversations. And those screams and yells are not from suffering or agony. Just people having fun. And there was never a sound of blood splattering. It felt like a heaven I've always dreamed of. I'm happy here. 

But a the same time, I want to go back. There are still people I care about. And I want to return to them. 

Do I want to stay here, or go back?

Fact: Y/N didn't buy anything for herself 

because she couldn't read the product 

well enough to know what exactly it is. When buying the groceries, Y/N just matched the letters and their positions with the ones on the product. 

Chapter Text

There at the classroom, you sat at your desk, listening to the girls' chattering. You purposely didn't join their conversation to find information regarding things you knew that your classmates didn't.

You looked at the screen of your phone, searching the app called 'Google'. Once your eyes caught a 'G' with the colors red, yellow, green, and blue, you clicked on it, a bright white covering the screen. You clicked on 'search' and began typing slowly.

Titan

Instead of showing pictures of naked giants, it showed a picture of a moon.

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only known moon or planet other than Earth on which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found. Wikipedia

Radius: 2,574.7 km
Age: 4.003 billion years
Gravity: 1.352 m/s²
Orbital period: 16 days
Discovered: March 25, 1655
Density: 1.88 g/cm³
Discoverer: Christiaan Huygens

Not getting what you wanted, you clicked your tongue and began to type again.

Survey Corps

No results found.

Not getting any results, you typed another keyword.

Eldia

Once again, the screen showed the words No results found.

Frustrated, you clenched your phone with your strong hand as you gritted your teeth.

""No results found" my ass," You cursed in your head.

Little did you know, your female friends looked at you worriedly. Kayano's gaze travelled from you to your phone, cracking trough your strong grip. She shrieked, "Y-Y/N! Your phone's gonna crack if you keep holding it like that!"

You snapped out of your thoughts and looked at your phone, its screen slightly cracked. "Oh... right..."

"Wow, your grip must be really strong for it to crack like that..." Maehara muttered out.

"What's got you to crack your phone like that?" Kataoka asked you worriedly.

"Just, frustrated..." you replied to her, slightly annoyed.

Kayano leaned in to your phone and looked at what you just searched recently. "Eldia...? What's that?"

You ignored her and sighed in annoyance. You got that from your dream. But some parts of the dream was gone in your head, making you forget what 'Eldia' is.

Karma snatched your phone and began to analyse your search history.

"H-hey...!"

" Where did he come from...?! "

You tried to get your phone back, only for him to raise it in the air, using his height to his advantage. You're shorter than the crimson-head, making you at a disadvantage.

"Akabane! Give it back!"

"Not until I see your search history," he teased you as a devilish grin appeared on his face.

"Hm? Your search history is pretty interesting..." Karma muttered out. "Eldia... Survey Corps.... Titan... Marley...? What the hell are these?"

Ticked off, you jumped and snatched your phone back to your hand. "None of your business," you answered to Karma's question coldly, before you shut the door with a loud thump.

"Someone's in a bad mood," Karma remarked.

"Well getting your search history looked at definitely puts you in a bad mood."

Nakamura paused for a moment. "Wait, didn't she say something about Titans?"

"You mean when she crashed to the wall?" Isogai asked as he pointed to the wall, which is now fixed.

"Yeah, she said something about normal and intelligent ones," Nakamura explained.

"She also mentioned something about a monkey..." Fuwa trailed off. "Well, specifically "fighting a monkey Titan"... "

"Don't you think that a Titan is a monkey?" Terasaka suggested.

"Fighting a monkey huh.... Sounds interesting," Takebayashi marked his interest as he pushed up his glasses.

"I don't think a monkey can rip out your arm and leg like that tho..." Okano remarked.

The class fell silent after they couldn't figure out what you meant on 'Titan' and 'monkey Titan'.

"Oh yeah, are we not gonna talk about that box?" Maehara asked, pointing at the large black box at the corner of the classroom.

Just then, the box turned on, revealing a young girl with soft purple hair, blood red eyes, wearing the school uniform. "Good morning," she greeted in monotone voice with a flat expression. "I am the Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artilley who will be joining your class. Nice to meet you," she introduced herself before turning off. The class fell silent, in shock.

"I knew out!" Nagisa let out.

"Awesome!" Sugino cried out.

Soon, it began to shot multiple BB pellets at the target. The class cried out of shock and ducked, you included.

"Wow..." you muttered out in amazement.

At the entrance of the classroom, the human teachers watched the events happen. "Now we'll see what she's made of. She has the capacity to evolve."

"Recalculating trajectory. Correcting angle. Entering auto-evolution phase: 5/28/02," the machine said, preparing for its next attack.

"Tch, tch... Will you ever learn?" he mocked the machine as green stripes appeared on his face, showing arrogance.

Smoke came out of the machine as it take out its weapons, the same ones, as it attacked Koro-sensei again.

"Wait a minute..." you muttered out. "This attack is..."

"identical to the first one," you and Koro-sensei said in sync.

"But wait a minute... Karasuma said that it has the capacity to evolve..." you thought.

" Then there must be...! "

Koro-sensei's tentacle blew off and splattered to the black board. Everyone looked at his chalk, dropping to the wooden floor, snapped, in shock with a mix of amazement.

" A hidden attack...! "

"Left fingertip destroyed. The newly added secondary gun has proven effective. Probability of killing you with the next attack: less than 0.001 percent. Probability of killing you wuth the attack after that: less than 0.003 percent. Probability of killing you before graduation: at least 90 percent."

" This 'Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery' is amazing... "

"Now, then, Koro-sensei: entering attack phase," the machine said as the screen showed a bunch of codes in green before attacking again, with Koro-sensei dodging again.

"Near misses: two. Confirmed hit. To calculate projected estimates, now adding four main guns and resuming attack."

It went like that for the whole day; the machine attacking, stopping, adjusting, and attacking again. It has been a disturbance for you and your fellow classmates.

"So, we have to clean all this up?" Maehara asked sarcastically as he crouched down and grabbed a BB pellet.

"You wouldn't happen come with a vacuum, eh, Miss Fixed Artillery?" Muramatsu teased the machine that didn't responded. "Gah! The cold shoulder..."

"Give it up. What's the point in teasing a machine?"

Karma leaned back on his seat before informing you with a hint of mockery. "Just so you know, a vacuum is a cleaning machine."

"I already know that," you answered him coldly.

"Oh...! So miss crashed-trough-the-wall finally knows something!" he teased you.

"Excuse me?"

"Excused you."

"Tch."

You stood up from your seat and made your way out to the teacher's lounge. You slid the door open and greeted Koro-sensei. "Good afternoon sir, can we start the lesson now?"

He shrieked at your voice and quickly hid something behind his back, sweating nervously. "O-Oh, h-hello Y/N! Y-Yeah- let's start the lesson!"

You looked at him suspiciously. Before he could react, you walked towards him and pulled out the item he was hiding.

Your eyes scrunched in disgust at the item. "What... the....? Seriously?"

"I-It's nothing what you're thinking!" he panicked as a pink blush covered his face.

"How is this not what I am thinking?" you questioned him in a disgusted tone as you holded the item with your fingers pinching at the edge, showing how you're too disgusted to even hold it properly.

The item was a porn magazine.

He let out a high-pitch shriek as he covered his face with his tentacles in embarrassment.

"Koro-sensei, this is very disgusting," you said with your nose scrunched.

"Eek! N-no need to point that out!"

He pointed a tentacle towards you. "B-Besides, haven't you ever see these things?! Or at least, daydream about it?!" he accused you.

"No? Why would I?" you questioned nonchalantly.

"B-Because...! You have a crush...!" he accused you.

A blush painted your face. "No! I don't daydream things like this! This is just purely disgusting, Koro-sensei!" you let out.

Koro-sensei sulked as he plopped himself into his chair. "L-Let's start the lesson."

You nodded with a sigh.

"Yes, after all, history is an interesting subject." He nodded.

"Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery to master," you heard the machine spoke from the classroom.

"Hm? The machine?" you muttered.

"Cannot execute unexpected tasks on day two due to unforseen issues. Probability of correcting problem on my own: zero percent. Probability of assassination by given deadline of graduation may drop considerably."

"Oh, it's asking for help," you said to Koro-sensei, but to find no one sitting on his chair. "He's gone..."

Not bothered by his sudden disappearance, you grabbed your bag and walked out of the teacher's lounge.

As you pass by the classroom, you heard two voices talking; Koro-sensei and Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery.

"Now, now- don't rely on your parents," Koro-sensei spoke to you guessed the machine. "I can't really say the tactics your parents thought up are a good fit for this classroom. Plus, you're a student, and a transfer student at that. First you've got to come up with a good way to get along with everyone."

"Get along?" the machine asked.

"Do you know why the students are interfering with your assassination and I'm not?"

Right, they tied her up with duct tape, You remembered.

"As they see it, you're attacks disrupt class and is you did happen to kill me, the prize money would probably all go to your parents. Your assassination has no upside for them at all."

"Now I understand, Koro-sensei. I had not considered my classmates' interests." Koro-sensei let our his signature laugh, satisfied with her answer. "You are a smart one. Here, I made this for you," he said as he raised a black box with one of his tentacles. You peeked trough the classroom window to get a look.

"Some apps and some extra RAM. All virus free, so please, take it," he informed her as he installed it on the machine.

"What is this?"

"Simulation software for working with your classmates as you attack. You can see how it'd boost your assassination success rate."

"No objections."

"I think you can see now how vital cooperation is to assassination," Koro-sensei pursued the machine as he held the top of the machine.

"Well? Surely you'd like to get along work everyone."

"I do not know how," the machine answered flatly.

Koro-sensei then suddenly dissappear, and came back, with a box filled with tools and somehow a Baguette. "As you can see, I came prepared!"

"What is that?"

He answered her with a large grin, "All the software you need for cooperation, and more RAM. Harming you may be against the rules, but there's nothing wrong in they're about increasing your capabilities!

You deadpanned, considering his actions to be dumb.

"Why are you doing this? These upgrades will only shorten your life."

Same, Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery. I've asked myself the same question.

"I'm your teacher first, your target second. Yesterday was all it took for me to understand that not your ability and desire to learn are extremely high. Your parents have you that gift, and it's my job as your teacher to polish it. Learn to work with your classmates and develop your gifts even further."

You were left speechless at his answer. He was really the best teacher you could ever have.

"Koro-sensei, is this World Sweets Checklist necessary for cooperation?" Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery asked bluntly.

He screeched. "I, uh... thought that you could help me with that..."

You chuckled at his antics. After one last look at the both if them, you turned your heels and walked back to your apartment.

Let's see what she'll be like tomorrow.

The screen of the box was extended till the bottom of the box, showing the girl's full body. The background now was a very bright garden with a field of flowers, a bright blue sky, and butterflies fluttering to her, unlike the plain dark blue background. But most importantly, she was now very bright and cheerful, no monotone voice, no blank expression, and no red-blood eyes.

"What beautiful weather we're having!" she said to her fellow classmates.

Koro-sensei walked up to the A. I. girl. "To foster feelings of closeness, I gave her a full-body LCD display and body- and uniform-modeling software. Made it all myself, for six hundred and six thousand yen."

"I'm so happy to be able to spend such a refreshing day with you all!" she stated as a breeze of wind brushes trough her light-purple locks.

"Rich expressions and cheerful conversations skill, plus the vast amounts of software and memory to run it all, a million, one hundred and three thousand yen!" he exclaimed rather proudly.

You turned your gaze to Koro-sensei with furrowed brows. "Um, then wouldn't you have five yen left?"

"Correct!" he confirmed your question as he showed his not-so-full wallet with only a five yen coin inside.

"Wait! How'd you know how much money I have left?!"

"Well, you sort of left your wallet out open in the table in the teacher's lounge..."

"I think it's wonderful," Takebayashi said as he pushed up his glasses. "2D... A woman's not a woman until she loses that third D."

"Takebayashi! That's your first line?!" Isogai scolded the boy with glasses.

"But don't worry everyone," the machine reassured her classmates as she wiped her tears, the sun shining back in the screen. "Koro-sensei taught me the importance of working together. I'll hold off on my own assassination attempts until I have your consent. That way, you'll come to like me!"

"So please, be nice to her," the octopus asked his students. "Of course... though I may given her certain upgrades, I didn't lay a tentacle on her bloodlust."

"Nope!" she confirmed Koro-sensei's statement as she pulled out her weapons, scaring most of her classmates.

"If you want to kill me, I imagine she'll prove a formidable ally."

"Cool! Now try making flowers!"

"Understood! I will gather flower data!" Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery obeyed with a salute.

You faced the A. I. girl. "If you're gonna make flowers, can you make Campanulas? I love those flowers," you asked her. (A/N: Campanulas are the blue flowers in aot.)

Her face lit up with excitement. "Of course!"

The machine then turned towards your desk. Her lit up face now was serious, a cute serious one as she thinks her hardest on how to defeat you in chess. Her face brightened up when she found a way to win. "Check, Y/N! I finally won!" she cheered at her victory.

You gave her a warm smile. "Good game. You sure learn fast."

"Thank you! But I didn't expect you to be a very skilled player at chess. I even had to lose seventeen matches just to analyze your playing style!"

"The fact that she defeated an A. I. in chess seventeen times..."

"... is really amazing..."

"Ooh! There was this manga where an A. I. controlled the world trough electronic drugs!" Fuwa suddenly told the artificial intelligence.

"Is it the super popular detective manga serialized in a major magazine and is getting an anime adaptation?"

"You know that, but you have no data in flowers..."

You turned to Fuwa. "Manga...?"

"Eeh?! Don't tell me you don't know what manga is?!" she asked you furiously as she gripped your shoulders.

"I-I've heard of it, but didn't get the chance to know what it is..."

Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery grinned excitedly. "According to Wikipedia, manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term manga is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning," she concluded her explanation.

You turned towards the machine. "So, is it like fictional books with drawings that tells the story...?"

She gave you a wink. "That's correct! I can recommend you some mangas if you like!"

Your eyes were now filled with curiosity and interest. "Please do!"

"She's turned out to be really popular!" said Sugino.

"She can do lots of things at once and make whatever she wants!" Kayano praised the machine.

"Rats!" Koro-sensei suddenly said, panicking.

"What's wrong?"

"Her character type is just like mine!" Koro-sensei realized as he lowered his head.

"It's nothing like yours!"

The yellow creature's face became noticeably darker, as he sweats. "Here, I upgraded her, and now she's stealing my popularity!"

"Look, class! I can put on a human face too, y'know!" Koro-sensei tried to get the class' attention. "See! Change my skin color a little..." and a creepy human face appeared on his face.

"Creepy!" Mimura let out.

"Mimura..." Koro-sensei muttered Mimura's name in disappointment as he sulks in the corner.

"Hey, why don't we pick a name for her?" you suggested. "Autonomous Intelligence Fixed Artillery is a mouthful."

"Sure is," Kataoka agreed with you.

"Let's see... maybe take part of that "Autonomous"... [Jiritsu]"

"How about Ritsu?" Fuwa suggested the name.

"Cop-out."

"What? It's cute!"

"Ritsu..." the fixed artillery muttered out her soon-to-be-name.

"Do you like that name?" you asked the girl.

Her face showed a bright smile as she accepted the name gratefully. "Yes! I love it very much! Please, call me Ritsu!"

"This might work out," Nagisa said as he approached Karma.

The crimson-head smirked. "I wonder. It's just like Terasaka said, she's just following Koro-sensei's program. It's not like machines have free will."

No free will... huh...

"Wherever she goes from here, it's up to the guys who built her."

A loud bang came out of her, but no guns came out of her, but flowers. Petals of the flowers came showering the classroom.

"I promised I'd make flowers, and I made Campanulas like you asked me to, Y/N," she said to you as she handed you the blue flowers you loved. The smell of the Campanulas filled your nose as you smiled in pleasure. Back at the Walls, there are many Campanulas that filled the lands, and smelling them for the first time in a long time felt like home.

"Koro-sensei made 985 improvements to me. My master judged most of them irrelevant to assassination and removed them, deleted them, restored my factory defaults. But of what I have learned of the E class, I myself decided that my ability to cooperate was essential to assassination. So before it was deleted, I hid it in a corner of memory inside a related piece of software," she explained.

Koro-sensei cheered. "Wonderful! This must mean..."

"Yes! I have defied my master of my own free will!" Ritsu announced in happiness.

She's now free. You said in your thoughts as you smiled.

"Nice one!" Karma complimented Ritsu.

"Koro-sensei, does this mean I'm in a rebellious phase? Am I a bad girl?" The purple-haired girl asked her teacher shyly.

"Not at all! You're a third-year junior-high student, and a fine one!" Koro-sensei answered Ritsu's question as a red circle appeared on his face, showing his approval.

Now, we have another ally. 28 students trying to kill Koro-sensei.

Chapter Text

A good few days of "normal school days" passed by since the arrival of Ritsu and the beginning of her rebellion against her owners. Her rebellion was a good thing for herself and the class. No more loud sounds of guns shooting in the middle of class, no more cold, blank red eyes, and no more disturbance.

At the back of the class, you silently listened to your English teacher teaching. "Everyday chit-chat is actually quite simple. I'm sure you all know that one person whose conversations mostly consists of" maji great" and "maji bad". "Maji" here can be expressed with the old standby "really.""

She turned towards Kimura. "Kimura, you try," she instructed him sternly.

"R-really..."

Irina made a cross with her fingers, showing disapproval. "Nope, awful. Your L's and R's are a mess. The pronunciation of L and R doesn't jibe well with Japanese people. I understand what you mean, but it stills feels wrong."

"Oh, okay..."

Her eyes then searched around the room, finding someone to test their L's and R's. Unfortunately, your E/C eyes accidentally made contact with her blue ones.

Shit, you cursed to your mistake.

"Y/N! You try it, since you're not Japanese," she instructed you. She was correct. You're not Japanese, but she couldn't be so sure either, nor do you. You didn't exactly know what's inside your blood; the family it belongs, its history, basically-everything.

Before doing as what she instructed, you muttered a curse. "Really." you pronounced it with a hint of sarcasm. You made eye contact her, asking for approval.

"Well, your accent is still a bit off, but you're getting there. Good job," she approved. You accepted it gratefully with a nod.

"Don't run from your incompatibilites, master them! I'll be checking your pronunciation regularly from now on, and if you screw up your L's and R's..."

You averted your gaze from Irina's figure, knowing where this is going.

"I'll punish you with a French kiss in public."

Yeah, no.

The man's eyes widened in shock at your speed. Irina's too, at how you protected her like she was gonna get killed. He clenched his jaw as he attempted to break out of your grip, but was unsuccessful. He couldn't believe how much strength this kid had. Even when he tried to use his full strength, he continued to struggle.

Accidentally, he made eye contact with her E/C eyes, which seems to be glowing. To him, the look on her eyes showed that she was superior to him. "Please refrain yourself from using violence on Ms. Jelavic," you requested the man with a stren yet demanding voice.

He lightly gulped at you. "R-right-"

"Y/N please stop holding Lovro down to the ground, what if he's a germaphobe?" Koro-sense suddenly appeared as his bright red face showed an 'X'. He pulled you away from Lovro as he pulled the man you held down up. "Well, she's right tho."

"What are you doing here, Game Show?" Karasuma asked bluntly.

"What a mean nickname! Just call me "Koro-sensei" already." the octopus whined.

"It's you," Lovro muttered.

"It's true that, as an assassin, she's hardly to be feared. She's crap."

"Who's crap?!" the blond asked irritatably.

"But, as an assassin, she's a good fit for this classroom." Irina was left speechless at this statement.

The yellow creature crossed his tentacles, forming an 'X'. "Let's hold a kill-off, and you'll see who's the better assassin. This will be between you three."

You blinked twice at his recent statement, confused by it. "Isn't it two?"

"Three," he corrected. "That includes you."

You tried to argue back, but soon remembered that he's someone that likes to do things his own way. At this point, changing his mind is difficult.

"The rules are simple! Whoever kills Karasuma first wins!"

"Hey, wait! Why am I the victim?!" he asked irritatably as an irk appeared on his forehead.

"Because nobody can kill me, of course!" he remarked teasingly.

"You have all day tomorrow." Koro-sensei said as he handed the man, the blond, and you rubber knives with a handkerchief, protecting him.

"I see. A sham assassination, eh?" the foreign man asked the octopus, seemingly composed again.

"Fine. Sounds like a fun diversion."

Karasuma scoffed at Koro-sensei. "Suit yourself," he said as he walked away, leaving you with Irina and Koro-sensei.

"Are you trying to stick up for me?" the blonde asked the octopus irritatably. "You must think I'd be much easier to handle than any new assassin Mr. Lovro would bring in! Well, I'll show you! I'll kill Karasuma and you myself!"

"And you!" She turned towards you, causing you to flinch slightly. "I didn't need any protection! Because of you, Lovro might be thinking that I'm weak and lose respect on me!" she concluded as she walks away angrily.

For some reason, that hurted you. You knew that some people are angry at you, but this was the first time someone have ever had expressed their anger in front of you.

"Koro-sensei," you called him quietly with your head hung low. "is... this... my fault...?"

He looked at you, taken aback by your sudden question. For the first time ever, you looked vulnerable to his eyes. He always thought that you're strong, brave, and never bothered by things like this. But deep down, you were sensitive. Any harsh words that came to you can affect you greatly. Especially by someone you valued.

He patted your head in comfort. "No, it's not, Y/N. Irina was just caught up in the heat. That was partially my fault. She didn't mean any of her words," he assured. But you didn't look quite convinced by his words, but just pretended that you were now okay.

"Y/N!" Irina barged in to the classroom and ran towards you who is packing their bag, breathing heavily. Your face shot towards her.

Before you could react, she grabbed your wrist and dragged you out of the classroom. "M-miss Jelavic...! Where are we going...?!" you asked in a panic tone. She didn't answered your question, but instead she continued to drag you until you were both at the large tree in front of the campus.

"Help me practice doing the snare trap...!" she asked, well more demanding, for your help.

"So you finally figured it out, huh? Took you quite a long time."

"Shut up."

"Two days, Ms. Jelavic."

"I said shut up!"

Chapter Text

Just two days ago, the event with Irina and Lovro happened. Now, you were just glad that it was over.

"You seem to be in a good mood, Koro-sensei," you said to your teacher as you walked up to him, who is reading a magazine, luckily not a dirty one.

"Yes, I'm going to Hawaii to see a movie. It's getting an American premiere... I'm looking forward to it," he told you as he dodges a knife you swung at him.

"Hawaii? Isn't that the island that's part of the USA?" you asked for confirmation to your teacher.

He nodded. "Yes, Y/N. Your knowledge on geography is improving." You nodded at his answer and praise.

"Hey! No fair! I wanna see a movie too!" Nakamura complained as Koro-sensei gave her his signature grin. "Mach 20 speed was made for times like this!"

"Sonic Ninja?"

"Oh yeah, that superhero flick," Kataoka joined.

Soon, more students joined and began to discuss this so-called 'movie', while you stood there listening to their discussion, confused and trying to figure out what a 'movie' is.

"Um," you began which made the others look at you, "what is a movie?" you asked innocently.

They blinked twice, reminded by the lack of knowledge you had of the world. "Right..."

Nakamura began to explain, "So a movie is-"

"A movie is a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theater or on television; a motion picture," Ritsu cutted the blond girl off from explaining as she explained the definition of 'movie' to you, reading off from Google.

You blinked twice at her explanation, taken aback. "So, is "Harry Potter", the story that showed up on the TV yesterday that I watched, a 'movie'?" you asked confirmation to Ritsu.

"Yes! That's a movie!" she confirmed gleefully.

"Were you watching "Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban" on XXX?" she asked.

"Yes...? Wait, how do you know that-" the A. I. cut you off, "If you want, I can show you the schedules of all the Harry Potter movies in XXX!" she offered.

Your eyes lit up at this. "Please do!"

Ritsu also lit up as she began to ramble, "For the next movie, it'll be streaming a week from today, 8 at night. Same goes to the rest of the movies; every Wednesday, 20:00. Since you missed the first two movies, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets", I'll download the movies and send it to you. Or, if you want, we can watch it together on me! We can-"

"Ok that's enough Ritsu. Yes, I'd love to watch a movie with you. Next Wednesday here?" you accepted her invitation, which she nodded at furiously.

While the both of them still felt at the pace they're going in amazement, you looked down at the blue ocean in amazement with a mix of shocknes. Your eyes sparkled at the sight.

"This...is...the ocean...?" you muttered out, taken aback by the large amount of crystal clear water.

"Hm? Is this the first time you're seeing the ocean?" Nagisa asked out of curiosity.

"Yeah... I've heard of it... But... I never thought it was real..." you answered him as your eyes continued to sparkle at the salt water that seems to go on forever.

"I overheard a friend talking about it... He said it was a salt lake that goes on forever, even merchants could never deplete it even if they spent their whole lives extracting salt. I was baffled at it. I couldn't believe a word he said. But now, I see it. And I now know what's beyond those walls. Though I'm happy to finally know it, I feel guilty for seeing the ocean first. It should be him. He wanted to know what's beyond the walls his whole life. He even risked his life for just knowing it. He deserved it more than me."

The two were quiet, eyes wide. Even Koro-sensei was quiet, taken aback by your confession. That's when they finally knew how isolated you are from the world. Not knowing the most common things to know; like a car, movie, and the ocean. Because of your confession, they're now even more curious on what kind of life you lead.

"Koro-sensei," you called to your teacher quietly. "After we see the movie, can we go to the ocean?" you requested in somewhat a shy tone.

Leaving out of his shockness, he gave you a grin. "Of course, Y/N."

You looked around your surroundings, your eyes meeting with a gorgeous view; the beautiful sky painted with dark blue with faint white clouds scattering in the sky, and the blue ocean. Lights from the buildings decorated the view, as the sound of the breezy wind collided with the palm trees and your hair, making it dancing in the wind. Your eyes sparkled brightly at the view.

Soon, you went into the theaters along with your classmates and teacher. You winced at the sudden chilly air, "Ah! It's cold!"

"The AC is always on indoors in Hawaii. Bundle up, now," Koro-sensei gestured his three students to sit down at the comfy-looking red chairs.

"Here," he gave Karma a piece of pink fabric with a white heart-shape pattern to make himself warm, which he was slightly embarrassed at. The red-head noticed you shivering at the cold air. You weren't used to cold air. In fact, you never did. You never got used to cold air, even though you experienced it many times.

Feeling sympathetic, he offered you the pink fabric. "Wanna use this?" he asked you quietly, making sure Nagisa couldn't hear him, especially Koro-sensei, since he would tease him to death.

You nodded hesitantly before he wraps the pink fabric on your neck; an unexpected move for a boy like him. "It's... warm..." you mumbled in the warm fabric.

"Glad you are," he said before he finishes wrapping the pink fabric.

Unknown to you and the red-head, Ritsu snapped a photo of you two as she grinned mischievously; planning to use this for blackmail material. "This should be fun. My first time in a theater!" she said from Nagisa's phone with winter clothes in an attempt to not look suspicious.

"But this is America, they won't have Japanese subtitles. Think we can get the gist of it?" Nagisa worried.

"You'll be fine, you both have good English grades. And Y/N's grades have been improving steadily," he reassured his three students. "Plus, if you put my tentacle to your ear, I'll explain any unfamiliar words that pop up. Now, do your best and enjoy the show," he said as the three of his student placed his tentacles on their ears.

"Here, have some soda and popcorn," he offered his students snacks and drinks. You took a popcorn and ate it, making a crunching sound.

Soon, the lights began to fade out, surrounding you with nothing but darkness. The movie began with a sound of a sword, later revealing the person who made that sound on the large screen.

You watched the movie in excitement, liking the story so far. Some people might find the movie to be boring, but to you, it was not in the least boring. It was obvious why, you never saw a movie- well, other than Harry Potter that you watched on TV. But watching a movie on a gigantic screen with sounds around the room just added the excitement.

An hour flew by, and the end of the movie was near.

"You're saying that you would kill me..." A character with a devil-like appearance began as he stood in a midst of chaos, fire everywhere, with the heroine pointing a gun at him. He continued to speak, "even if you knew who I really was?" he asked her as he took of his mask.

The heroine lowered the gun, looking shock. "My brother...?!"

How shocking...! You expressed your shockness in your thoughts.

The man sat at his chair, doing paperwork at his desk. He took a sip at his coffee, using it as a way to reduce the amount of stress he has. It didn't helped, so he continued to stress. Is there something wrong with the coffee? Or is it him.

And maybe, there was something wrong with the coffee. It didn't felt right like before. And maybe he knew why.

FLASHBACK

A knock on the door disturbed the silence in the Special Operation Squad's Captain's office. "Name and business," he told to the person on the other side of the door.

"Y/N. I'm bringing you the coffee you asked me to make."

"Come in," he allowed the girl to enter.

The sound of the door being opened and the sounds of boots stepping on the wooden floor echoed throughout the room. As the cadet walked with a cup of hot coffee, she examined her captain's office carefully.

Like she expected it was very clean and neat. No dust on any angle of the room. Books were neatly placed on the shelf, and the large clean red rug was placed in the middles of the room. Under the rug was the shiny brown wooden floor, no sign of dirt which the Captain always despised. The light in the ceiling was the only thing that lighted the room, decorating the office with its light.

You placed the hot cup of coffee on his desk carefully, making sure that it didn't spill on his scattered paper he's writing on and the paper neatly stacked.

"Is there anymore I can do for you, sir?"

Levi clicked his tounge before slamming the fancy-looking pen on his desk, looking you in the eye. "Brat, I already told you to just call me Levi, just like you used to- when we're alone, of course."

"Right, Levi," you corrected the way you addressed the Captain.

An awkward silence filled the room, as you awkwardly stood in front of his desk while he looked down at the paper he was writing on.

He then picked back up his pen before signing the paper. He gave you another assignment as he gave you the paper, "Hand this to Erwin."

You nodded. "Yes, sir- I mean, Levi," you corrected your mistake before walking away from his desk.

"Brat," he began, which made you stop in your tracks, turning back to him, "thanks for the coffee," he thanked you quietly.

You stood there, quite taken aback, but you quickly snapped out of it. "It's no problem, Levi." With that, you walked out of his office before shutting the wooden door quietly.

The man looked at the coffee quietly, examining it. After a few moments of examining it, he took a sip.

As always, his face showed delight at the coffee you made for him. He then proceeded to drink the well-made coffee.

It was a habit of his to order you to make him coffee, which you didn't mind. Well, it was a habit, until your so-called death.

Since he didn't have anyone to make him the coffee he likes anymore, he tried to make one himself. But it didn't come out as he wished for. The bitterness was different. It wasn't the type of bitter he enjoyed, it was bitter bitter. Like the bitter reality.

The man clicked his tounge before slamming it back to his desk with a loud thump, spilling some of the liquid to the paper he was writing on.

Tch. How did the brat make the coffee so goddamn good?

Chapter Text

"All right, class, time for homeroom. Please take your seats," Koro-sensei announced with an unusual voice in the beginning of a day of school.

Your eyes scrunched at his unusual appearance; his head larger. "That's... big," someone muttered out.

"Koro-sensei, your head is approximately 33% larger," Ritsu analyzed from the back of the class. "Please explain," she requested.

"Ah, it's soaked up all the moisture, thanks to the high humidity," he explained as he soaked more water out of his face, dropping to the bucket of water.

"Now, then..." He began, "Mr. Karasuma told me another transfer student is coming," he announced.

Probably another assassin, you said to yourself.

"I got into a little trouble taking Ritsu too lightly last time. I won't make that mistake again," he admitted as he declared. "In any case, it'll be nice for you to have someone else on your side."

"Ritsu, have you heard anything?" you asked the robotic student.

"Yes, a little," she answered. "Originally," she continued, "he and I were to be introduced together. I would handle long-range attacks, an he, close-range combat. Together, we'd drive Koro-sensei into a corner. But, those orders were canceled for two reasons."

"What were they?" Hara asked.

"One, his adjustment took longer than expected," Ritsu answered. "And two, I lack the capacity to provide him support."

One statement of hers caught your attention; "As an assassin, I am overwhelmingly inferior to him," she stated cooly.

An assassin... superior to her...

Just then, the sound of the wooden door slid open caught everyone's attention, revealing someone dressed in white head to toe, literally. Your attention diverted from the man to Koro-sensei, who looked awfully intimidated.

Don't tell me that's that new kid... You muttered in your head as you scrunched your nose.

He raised his gloved-hand, suddenly a small burst of dust on his hand, a pigeon suddenly on his hand, flapping its wings. Your eyes showed shock, everyone else's too. He chuckled at everyone's reaction. "Sorry about that! Didn't mean to frighten you," he apologized. "I'm not the kid, I'm his guardian. You can call me... Shiro," he introduced himself.

"Some guy in all white comes in doing tricks? That's spook anyone!" Kayano exclaimed.

"Yeah except maybe Koro-sen-" Nagisa was about to agree when he saw his teacher in a corner of the class, in his liquid form.

"You scaredy-cat!" someone exclaimed.

"Your spooked enough to use your liquid for," you said to him enough for everyone to hear.

"W-Well! Ritsu was telling all those scary stories!" the teacher defended himself.

"N-Nice to meet you, Mr. Shiro," he greeted the all-white man nervously as he came down and turned back to his original form. "And, where is our new student?" he asked the man.

"A pleasure, Koro-sensei," Shiro greeted him back. "He's a rather... unique child, in personality and otherwise. I'll introduce him myself."

"He's awfully evasive," he continued as he walked to the front of the classroom before he paused, looking at you. You payed no attention to his stare, instead, you stared at the wet glass, caused by the drops of rain.

He looks suspicious. It's best to not show anything that a normal human can't do, you suggested to yourself.

"Something wrong?" the yellow octopus asked the man, though it's hard to guess if he was being genuine or suspicious.

"Oh just... you've got good kids here," he answered. "I'm sure he'll fit right in."

"Now to introduce him. Hey, Itona! Come on in," he ordered the new student to come in, facing the door.

Suddenly, an explosion came from the wall, causing pieces of the wooden wall to fall out from above. A sharp piece of wood hit from the back of your head, enough to draw out blood from the wound on your neck. You winced at the pain.

Shit. My skin is now gonna regenerate itself, you curses to yourself.

A boy with light blue hair and bright yellow eyes walked out of the broken wall casuall, as he took a seat between Karma and Terasaka. "I won," he muttered to himself. "I proved that in stronger than that classroom wall."

"Use the damn door!" everyone exclaimed.

"That's all that matters... that's all," he continued to mutter to himself.

"Gah, we've got another handful!" Terasaka complained.

Even Koro-sensei doesn't know how to react...

"Koro-sensei's not smiling... not serious..." someone muttered.

"What's with that half-ass expression?!" most of the students exclaimed, referring to the weird expression on Koro-sensei's face; sweating bullets, comical confused eyes, and a half-ass unsure grin.

"Itona Horibe," Shiro said the new student's name. "Please, call him Itona."

While everyone's focused on Itona, you looked down at your desk, covering your wounded neck; in an attempt to hide the steam coming out. You winced at your poisonous blood burning your skin.

"Say, Itona," you heard Karma began. "something's been bugging me..."

Ah, he's asking about that .

"You came in from outside, right? Empty-handed? It's raining buckets out there, yet there's not a drop of rain on you," Karma said his analysis.

Itona stood up, walking up to Karma. "You might be the strongest one in this class," he guessed.

You're wrong at that, you corrected him to yourself.

Itona continued, "but don't fret." He patted Karma's head, which you found quite funny. "You're weaker than me, so I won't kill you. I only want to kill, those who could be stronger than me."

He walked to Koro-sensei, who is eating chocolate. "And in this classroom, Koro-sensei, that's you," he continued as he pointed at him.

"Do you mean strong and weak in terms of fighting, Itona?" Koro-sensei asks the boy with a grin. "If it's a trial of strength, you and I aren't in the same dimension," he continued with a mocking tone.

"Sure, we are," Itona objected his teacher plainly as he reached something in his pockets. "After all," he continued. "we're brothers by blood."

...

"What?!" the class shrieked out in disbelief, while you just stare at the two so-called "brothers" with wide eyes.

"B-B-B-B-B-Brothers?!" the class shrieked out once again as Itona ripped out the wrapping of his chocolate with his mouth.

"The loser dies, big brother," Itona said making Koro-sensei stare at him in silence, processing the information he just received.

"Siblings have no need for cheap tricks," he said as he walked away. "I will kill you and prove my strength. We face off after school. Here, in this classroom," he declared war on the octopus before he slid the door shut, silencing the whole class.

It was disrupted by the students' questions. "Now hang on, sir! What's this "brother" stuff?!"

Ah shit. It's just like when I came here trough the damn wall... You remembered a memory.

"Humans and octopuses are nothing alike!" the questions continued.

"No no no no!" he yelled out. "I haven't the foggiest! I was born and raised an only child!"

Oh...?

"When I asked my folks for a little brother, things got really awkward!"

"You have parents? How lucky..." you muttered out.

"Of course-" he cut himself off, realizing the last part of what you said.

"Wah! I'm really sorry for mentioning about your parents- I hope I didn't relieve some bad memories!" Koro-sensei continued to ramble his apology.

Wall Sina, you typed.

Just like you expected, it showed the words 'no results'. You tried searching the other two walls on the internet, but those words kept appearing on the screen.

You sighed before typing again. Athanasia L/N

You didn't know why you typed that particular person. That person was in your dream, and that dream may be important. You didn't expected for results to show up.

But it did.

Pictures of women with silver hair and E/C eyes covered your phone' s screen like a gallery. All of the pictures were not "photographs", but instead, paintings. Different paintings, but it showed the same woman with those soft E/C orbs. And it seems to be painted by the same painter.

But before you can know who the painter is, the screen suddenly glitched before your phone turned off. You panicked and turned your phone on again. Your fingers typed again the name in the browser, but showed no results.

"What the hell...?"

Before you could do anything, the bell rung, signaling that class is beginning.

You glared daggers at your phone. You've been doing all you can to get some information that can lead you to going home. You've had your chance to prove the dream was important and not some fake-fantasy one. You were so close to it. But the phone glitched and took that away. Just, what's happening? Why did your phone have to glitch now?

You walked out of the bathroom stall, your hand gripping on your phone tightly that it cracked a bit.

Out of frustration, you slammed your phone to the wall, small shards of your phone stabbing on your hand and flying to the floor. "Fuck," you cursed quietly yet coldly.

You stared at the large crack on your phone, before noticing your bleeding hand, blood dripping down to the floor as steam came out of the wounds, regenerating.

You sighed before washing your hands, removing the blood so your classmates wouldn't worry about it.

Just as you were about to exit the bathroom, you heard the wooden floor creak. It was not from your step, it was someone else. That fact made you panic.

You turn your head towards the stalls, trying to find the person who heard you. Your eyes than traveled towards the person's foot, which are trembling nervously.

Not caring about their privacy, you slammed the door of the stall open, causing the person to shriek.

"Manami?"

She looked at you with wide eyes, filled with fear as she continued to tremble. "Y-Y/N! P-Please forgive me! I didn't know you were going into the bathroom! I swear I didn't hear anything!"

You adjusted your height to hers, crouching a bit as you looked at her with a seriously cold expression. "You swear you didn't hear anything?" you asked with a low voice.

She nodded furiously at your question. You sighed before changing back to your blank expression. "I'm sorry for scaring you, Manami. And for invading your privacy," you apologized quietly.

"N-No, it's fine," she reassured you, still stuttering. "I don't know what you're doing. But, if you need help, I'm here to help," she said as she smiled, taking you aback.

You avoided her smile, heating up slightly. "Thanks, Manami."

You stood near the ring, just like everyone else. Your arm supported your other arm with your thumb and finger on your chin, observing every movement of the two in the ring, with furrowed eyebrows.

Karma, who is next to you, asked, "What's with the serious face? The fight hasn't even started yet."

"I know. I'm just interested," you answered without leaving your gaze from the two.

He hummed in response.

"Shall we lay down a rule here?" he suggested. He continued, "How about... stepping a foot out of the ring means death in the spot. What do you think?"

"What the hell? Like the loser's gonna uphold that rule," Sugino said.

"No," you countered him. "Breaking a rule that we were all witness to would hurt our trust in him as a teacher. That kind of restriction works especially well with him," you spoke out your observation.

"Very well, I accept that rule," the octopus agreed. "However Itona hurting the spectators is also a loss."

"Start on my signal," Shiro said as he raised his hand. "Assassination..."

"begin!"

At that moment, something cut off a large piece of Koro-sensei's tentacle, something too fast to see. But you, having skills above the human average, know what caused to cut off Koro-sensei's tentacle; Itona.

Everyone, including the yellow creature, averted their gaze from the cut-off tentacle, to Itona, finally revealing his tentacles.

"Tentacles?!" Koro-sensei exclaimed in shock.

"So that's how he stayed dry empty-handed in that rain," Karma realized as he let out an 'oh'.

"He can bat away the drops with his tentacles," you explained.

"Where..." you heard Koro-sensei said quietly in a deep voice.

"Where did you get... those tentacles?!" he managed to get the question out, his face darkening as veins began to pop out of his head.

"We're not obligated to tell you that, Koro-sensei," Shiro refused to answer his question, unfazed by his hard glare. "But this ought to have convinced you. You have different parents and upbringings, but still, you are brothers," he stopped before speaking again.

"My, what a scary face your making," he said with mockery in his voice. "Did you perhaps remember something unpleasant?"

"It would appears... that you and I will need to have a little talk," Koro-sensei told him with that low voice, as his tentacle growled back.

"But we can't. Because you'll be dead," he claimed as he raised his hand, the sleeve falling down due to gravity as a bright purple light came out of his sleeve. "Exposure to this pressure ray at close range triggers dilatant behavior in your cells," he told Koro-sensei before Itona started attacking again with his tentacles, creating destruction to the classroom.

"You whole body stiffens instantly," Shiro continued. "We know it all... all of your weak points."

You let out a frown. If what he said is true, then Koro-sensei might be getting killed sooner than expected, you analyzed his words, unfazed by the destruction Itona's making.

Koro-sensei managed to dodge Itona's attacks by dangling in the ceiling, sweating bullets as he breathed heavily.

"You've shed your skin. That's right, you had that trick up your sleeve," Shiro spoke out.

You blinked your eyes twice, confused by the current situation. "Um, did I miss something?" you asked to whoever that can answer you.

Maehara, who is next to you, answered, "Oh right... you weren't here when it happened. Apparently, Koro-sensei can shed his skin to use as a shield. But, he can only shed his skin once a month. He did it to protect Nagisa when he triggered a bomb to assassinate him."

"Nagisa attempted suicide?!"

"Well, he did it for the sake of assassinating Koro-sensei, which of course didn't allow."

You sighed before listening to Shiro again. "But, Koro-sensei, we also know there's a weak spot there, too," the white man said before the tentacles-boy attacked his teacher again.

"Molting expands more energy than it would seem. Therfore, the speed you're so proud of drops immediately afterward. And you've grown back that arm that Itona in his first surprise attack. That uses up quite a bit of stamina as well. By my calculations, you should be evenly matched physically about now. Your use of tentacles depends greatly on your mental state. Given the shock of being damaged by an unexpected tentacle, it's plain to see who's in the lead now," he said as Koro-sensei continued to dodge Itona's attacks.

"Furthermore," he continued, "he has the support of his devoted guardian." With that, he flashed the bright purple light at Koro-sensei again, stunning him again as Itona cut off more of his tentacles, dropping him to the ground.

You stood there shocked at Itona's abilities. He's abilities are... amazing... From speed to accuracy, it's can rival against Titans.

"Now you'll have to grow back your legs too. That'll drop your stamina even further, making you easier to kill. What a relief," Shiro said.

Itona walked up to him, looking down. "Brother, I'm stronger than you."

Unlike the rest of the class, you weren't so disappointed of not being able to kill your target. You didn't care who killed him, as long as he's killed and releasing you from your responsibility of being in this class.

"Your legs have regenerated, I see," Shiro said as he looked at Koro-sensei's regenerated legs. "Now, can you withstand the next onslaught?"

"I've never been run so ragged before," Koro-sensei said rather nonchalantly. "At first, this seemed like a straightforward face-off, but it's all so carefully calculated. There's a lot I want to ask, but if I don't win this first, there'll be no more talking from me."

"You still think you can win? Ah, the howling of the losing dog- or octopus."

"Shiro, there's one thing you forgot to take into account," Koro-sensei informed him.

"There is not," Shiro didn't acknowledge. "My methods are impeccable. Kill him," he ordered Itona. He did as he was ordered and stabbed Koro-sensei, shocking everyone. Not at Koro-sensei, but at Itona's melted tentacles. "What's this?"

"I semm to have stepped in something you dropped," Koro-sensei informed the white man, lifting his white handkerchief with his tentacle.

What's with this octopus being so good at stealing things... You said in your thoughts as you looked at the scattered green knives in the floor inside the ring.

Koro-sensei then quickly trapped Itona with his old skin. "If our tentacles are the same, then these anti-me knives will work the same too," he said as he grabbed Itona inside the skin. "And the loss of a tentacle unnerves us both. But I'm a little crafter than you," he said with a large grin as he tosses Itona out of the window, defeating him.

"You should be unharmed, wrapped in my old skin like that," he assured the boy as he looked out of the window. "But your feet are outside the ring. So I win. According to the rules, that means you die. You can't kill me anymore," he told the boy with green stripes on his face, showing arrogance.

"If you want to live, stay and learn with everyone in this class, something that can't be that easily measured by crunching numbers. That would be the experience gap. I've lived a little longer life than you, and come to know a little more. I became a teacher because I wanted to pass that on to you all. If you don't take my experience from me here in this classroom, you'll never be able to defeat me."

"I won't? I..." Itona said trough red eyes from anger. "I'm weak?!"

This kid has some anger issues. Just like someone I know...

"Uh-oh, Itona absolutely despises studying. And lecturing a child who hates to study could unleash genocide," Shiro said as he seemed to be not unfazed at Itona's anger, making him unleashing black tentacles.

"Black tentacles?!"

"Oh, crap! He's gone of the deep end!"

"I'm strong," Itona began. "These tentacles made me stronger than all the rest. All the rest...!" Itona went to attack Koro-sensei again, but he was shot by Shiro, stopping him.

"Apologies, Koro-sensei. It seems this boy wasn't yet mentally prepared for school," he apologized. "I know it's good first day at school and all... but he'll be taking a little break," he said as carried Itona on his shoulder.

"Wait! I can't just let him go... I'm his teacher! I shall look after him until he graduates! And Shiro, I have so much to ask you."

"Yeah, no. We're leaving," Shiro shook off Koro-sensei plead nonchalantly.

"Or would you stop us by force?"

"Of course he wouldn't do that," you muttered to yourself.

Shiro began to walk away, until he stopped at Koro-sensei who tried to touch his shoulder, which endep up with his tentacle exploding.

"Anti-you fibers," Shiro informed Koro-sensei. "You literally can't touch me," he said as he wiped of the remainings from Koro-sensei's tentacles. "Don't worry, he'll be back before long, Koro-sensei. After all, March is just around the corner. I'll take on the task of tutoring him at home." With that, Shiro left without being stopped by anyone.

"Why shouldn't we?" Terasaka asked with bafflenes.

Your heart pounded harder as you tensed. "I don't think he's ready. Whatever he's not telling to us, it may be something big. Maybe too big for him to let out. I get that. So, let's just wait till he's ready."

"Thank you, Y/N," you heard Koro-sensei thank you with his cheerful voice. "But, It's fine. I'll tell you all the truth." Your breath hitched at that.

A tense silence filled the air as the students waited their teacher to speak again.

"And the the truth is..." he began, making everyone's hearts pound faster.

"I'm an artificial life form!"

That's... kinda obvious? Now I regret saying that...

No one seems to be surprised at that. "Well, yeah," someone said.

"And?"

Koro-sensei gasped, "You guys are not reacting the way you're supposed to! Don't you find that a shocking confession?!"

"Well, like, no natural-born octopus can move at Mach 20!" Okajima spoke out.

"And if you're not an alien, that's about the only explanation left," Hara remarked.

"And if Itona said he was your younger brother, he must've been created after you were."

"We want to know what happened after that, Koro-sensei," Nagisa stated. "Why did you get so angry when you saw Itona's tentacles? Why were you created, and what were your thoughts in coming here?"

Koro-sensei stayed silent for a moment, before answering, "Unfortunately, it'd be pointless to tell you about that now. If I destroy the Earth, everything you want to know will be like so much dust in the wind." Everyone gritted their teeth at that.

"On the other hand," he continued, "if you can save the Earth, you'll have plenty of opportunities to learn the truth. If you want to know more, you realize there's only one thing to do: Kill me. Assassin an target. Those are the ties that bind us together. If you're looking for the big answers in me, you can only ask them trough assassination."

The whole class was silenced at that. "If there are no questions, we're done for the day. See you tomorrow."

He was about to walk out, but he stopped and a blush appeared on his face. "Oh, so mortifying... So, so mortifying... I wish I could just disappear!"

Knowing that there's nothing to do in the classroom, you walked out to the tree in front of the building. You leaned back to the tree, as a gust of air escaped your mouth, before you dropped down to the grown, closing your eyes for a minute.

Kill him to know more about him... I don't have time for this. I need to get back as soon as possible. No matter how comfortable I am here, I need to go back.

"Yes, the students are not hurt," you heard Karasuma said, who seems to be talking to someone on the phone. "Please make preparations for repairs."

Ah, the government. He must be talking to his superiors.

"The girl?" Karasuma asked to the person, which left your eyes furrowed.

"Did she tell something... about herself?" the person said from the phone, which only the raven-haired man can hear. He twitched his eyebrows at the question.

"No," he answered bluntly.

"Well, the government has been researching about the girl... But there's no information about her. Absolutely none. She might be a spy. So we want to ask about it directly to her." Karasuma narrowed his eyes at that.

"Sir, I don't think she's ready yet. She's still adjusting to her new environment. She's been stressing about it since she got here, and questioning her about her background will just add the stress. Plus, she hasn't entirely trust the class as well as her teachers," Karasuma protested.

They must be talking about me.

"Heh, if that's what you say then I guess we can just postpone the questioning. But keep an eye on her. She's suspicious." With that the call ended.

You stood up from the ground and approached the man. "Mr. Karasuma."

He looked a bit surprised to see you. "Y/N."

"You're not telling the government about me?"

"No. Knowing the government, they'll do whatever it takes to make you spill out things you don't wanna get out. And if they discover about your regenerating abilities, they'll just experience you to hell."

"Why are you still protecting me? Aren't you gonna get in trouble?"

He sighed. "Just like I said before, you're just a kid. And a kid doesn't have to suffer."

"And if something bad happens because of me, you'll still protect me?" you asked in a lot more serious tone.

"Yes," he answered with confidence.

"Mr. Karasuma! Y/N!" you heard Isogai call him out.

"What brings... so many of you here?" the man asked his students.

"Um, can you teach us more assassination skills?"

You and the raven-haired man stayed silent for a bit. You broke the silence, "More than you already know?"

"We always figured somebody would wind up killing Koro-sensei, like it didn't have to do anything with us," Yada began.

Maehara continued, "Yeah, and when we saw Itona, we realized... We don't want it to be just anyone. We want to kill him ourselves."

"If they bring in another tough assassin, we'll lose track of what all our hard work has been for."

"So in the time we have left, we want to kill Koro-sensei the best we can."

"We want to kill him and find the answers ourselves," Isogai concluded with determination in his tone.

A light smile appeared on your face, as well as Karasuma's.

"Excellent."

"All right," you began, "Those who are interested can stay after class for extra training."

Everyone nodded at your announcement with a smile of determination on their faces, but it faded at the next sentence that came out if your mouth;

"Training. Will. Be. Hell." A sadistic smile on your face. Though you've never felt anything like this before, it felt good. Most likely Karma's sadistic personality rubbing on you.

Everyone flinched at what you said, but agreed to it nonetheless, "R-Right!"

An amused smirk was plastered on your face at your classmates' scared faces.

Karasuma sighed at your behavior before shooking it off. "Let's start with some climbing on our new rope!" he said as he pointed at the tree.

His students were frowning at his instruction. No one began to start before a sound of a loud whistle filled the air filled with frowning; the sound of the whistle coming from you, who magically had a whistle. "Whoever's last is gonna feel hell in the flesh!" you shouted out, making sure everyone can hear your threat.

With that, the students began to climb up the tree in a hurry like a race, not wanting to feel hell from you.

Chapter Text

Sugino let out a sigh of relief as he stretched his arms, simultaneously walking home with you, Karma, and Nagisa. "The rainy season's finally over!" Sugino let out.

Just like he said, the dull clouds that often cry and wet the earth are replaced with bright ones. The smell of the rain was changed into the smell of summer.

Not only the season has changed, your uniforms too. Karma now has rolled up his sleeves. Sugino discarded his black tie. Nagisa's buttoned-up white shirt with rolled sleeves was replaced with one with shorter sleeves with black accents on the edge of each sleeve. You discarded your long grey blazer and white buttoned-up shirt with a grey vest and a shirt identical to Nagisa's. You decided to not to use the uniform's complete set, missing a part of the uniform; the pink bow. You find it to be a hassle tying it up every morning, hence why you didn't include it to your outfit.

"It's starting to get hot," Nagisa said as you agreed, "Yeah."

"The season for outdoor activities. How about we go have fun somewhere outside?" Sugino suggested.

"Like what?" you asked him.

"How about fishing?" Karma suggested.

You tilt your head in a questioning manner. "Fish-ing...?"

"Basically, you catch fish with a fishing rod," Nagisa explained as he showed you a picture of a fishing rod. You let out an 'oh'.

Karma scoffed. "Not that kind of fishing," he said as devil horns began to come out of his head.

"Summer is the season for fresh delinquents. Let's use Nagisa as bait to catch the ones that try to shake him down and fleece them instead."

"Huh, I never knew delinquents were seasonal," you spoke out innocently.

"Because they aren't."

The four of you continued to walk in silence, enjoying the breeze of summer.

That broke until Sugino spoke again, "What should we do?" he repeated the question. "What do you feel like, Nagisa?"

"Let's see..." The blue-haired boy thought about it, until you gave him a suggestion. "How about the beach?"

"Sounds nice!"

You and the boys continued to walk, but Sugino stopped, making you look back at him. "Sugino?" you called out to him as you turned towards him, who is looking at something. Your eyes unconsciously traveled towards the same direction as his.

A male student with a baseball uniform threw a white ball in high speed. "Nice throw, Captain!" someone yelled to his supposed "Captain" as the captain wipes his sweat off.

The captain noticed Sugino who is staring at him. "Hey, Sugino!" he called out to your classmate, which made the other baseball players turn to him. "Long time no see."

"For real?"

"Sugino!"

The boy lowered his head with an uncomfortable expression on his face, but changed out of force to a friendly one. You frowned at him.

"Hey there!" Sugino greeted back his friends as the players gathered in front of the fence across him.

"What gives? You should come say hi once in a while."

"Nah, it'd be kinda awkward," Sugino said.

"You're pitching in next week's ball game tournament, right?" a player asked.

"Oh, I guess it hasn't been decided yet, but I think I'd like to."

You stared at Sugino's friends with tints of surprise. The fact that his friends weren't acting all rude and arrogant with a student from Class 3E was surprising. But you suspected that it was all just fake. You knew how much the school hates the "End Class".

"We'll be looking forward to it!" a player said as he fist pumped Sugino with the metal net between them.

"But man, I envy you, Sugino."

"You're in E Class, so you get to goof off everyday," another said with sarcasm in his voice.

"We've got schoolwork and the club, so we're running on fumes."

"Knock it off. That's not nice," the captain intervened. "Juggling both schoolwork and extracurriculars at a prep school isn't something you have to do unless you're one of the chosen."

"Wow, that's incredible," you stepped in. "You make it sound like you're one of the chosen."

"That's right, I am," he agreed to your statement. "Don't like it? Then I'll show you at the ball game tournament," he said as he lifted up his chin, revealing his arrogance.

"There are those chosen to stand at the top and those who aren't," he began as you began to glare at him and the baseball players with a murderous aura coming out of you. The captain didn't notice, but the others did, hence why they're trembling like scared dogs. "You'll see the huge gap that's already opened between us at our age."

"E Class doesn't get entered into the tournament," Mimura informed his teacher rather casually. "Due to the "splendid reason" that there'd be an odd number of teams. Instead, we have to play in the exhibition game at the end."

"The exhibition game?" you asked, enough for the whole class to hear you.

Mimura began to explain it to you, "Basically, it's just a spectatle. As the entire school looks on, we get pitted against the Baseball Club and the girls the Girls' Basketball Club."

"I see, so it's the same old same old," Koro-sensei expressed his understanding.

"Yep."

The whole class then turned towards the three students: Terasaka, Yoshida, and Muramatsu, who stood up from their seats and ready to head out of the classroom. "We aren't sticking around to be laughingstocks. You guys handle our however your want."

"See ya." With that, Terasaka and his gang left.

"Hey, wait! Terasaka!" Isogai tried to stop to Terasaka, but didn't succeeded. "Geez!"

"If it's baseball, the go-to guy'd be Sugino," Maehara said as he turned to the friend he mentioned. "Got any secrets we can use to win?"

When Maehara asked his question, Sugino looked down. "It's impossible."

He began to explain why, "Our baseball club is pretty strong. Especially Shindo, our current team captain. His powerful fastball has even gotten the attention of prestigious high schools. A star pupil and a star athlete... it's like, unfair."

He paused before continuing, "But you know... I want to win, Koro-sensei. Not just put up a good fight. Win. I don't want to lose at the sport that I love. After getting kicked out of the Baseball Club and coming to E Class, my feelings have actually only grown stronger. I want to team up with these guys and win..."

"So excited! So excited!" Koro-sensei chanted, which caused to break the moment, as he held up a baseball bat, a baseball ball, and various other items that are related to baseball as his head's color turned into the color of a baseball ball.

"R-Right... You want to play baseball, too. I hear you loud and clear," Sugino said as he sweat-dropped.

Koro-sensei chuckled. "I've always wanted to be the fiery coach in a sports drama. I won't smacking kids around or anything, so instead, I'll flip dinner tables," he said as he raised a small Japanese table with various Japanese food, which you wonder how the food is not slipping of the small table.

"You're way too prepared!" Sugino yelled out.

"Lately, you've grown more articulate about the direction you want to go in. "I want to kill." "I want to win." Unwavering, no matter the adversity you face. To reward that spirit, Coach Koro will impart upon you the training and strategy that will allow you to win!"

FLASHBACK

"So... How do you play this so-called sport "Basketball"? I've seen this a few times on TV, but I couldn't grasp the full idea," you asked your fellow female friends, as you hold a basketball, inspecting it curiously.

"In the game, there are two teams. The goal is to put the ball to the ring, most often by throwing, which is called "shoot"," Okano began to explain as she pointed to the ring Koro-sensei set up especially for this upcoming event. "Whoever scores the most wins."

"But in order to move the ball around, the player must dribble the ball." She gestured her hands to ask permission on taking the basketball from you, which you gave to her.

"Like this." She dribbled the ball to make you fully understand as you let out an 'ah'.

The female then gave you the ball, gesturing you to give it a try. You then pushed the ball to the ground. And once it hits the ground, it bounces back to your hand. It went like that several times; meaning you successfully dribbled.

"Nice! Now try shoot the ball into the ring!"

You nodded before throwing the ball with one arm nonchalantly. The ball flew in the air and perfectly went in the ring. The girls stared at the ball falling to the ground in shock, with you showing no sign of surprise on your face.

"W-Wow...!"

"She did it perfectly in one try..."

"I mean, this is Y/N we're talking about."

You ignored those compliments as you asked Okano, "Is it a yes or no?"

She turned to you still in shock, but nonetheless gave her answer. "U-Um... Well... Um... No...?"

You tilt your head at her answer. "Hm? I'm sure the ball went into the ring."

"N-Not that... Yes, the ball went into the ring, but the way you throw the ball... wasn't... right..." Okano said.

You raised your eyebrows a bit at her critic. "Oh? Is there a proper way to throw the ball?" you asked in a tone filled with curiosity.

"Yeah, you're supposed to shoot it with two hands. Throwing it with one hand is a violation to the rules," she explained. (a/n: idk if this is true, i just use whatever i found in google)

Okano's hands the positioned itself to shoot. "Like this." She shoot the ball to the ring, though it failed to went into the ring.

"W-Well... At least you get it right?" You nodded.

Okano continued to explain the rules to you, with you replying with 'oh's', 'ah's', or just nods.

Once you understood how to play, you and the girls changed into your P. E. uniforms and practiced, with you mastering the sport quickly since you had your strength and speed as your advantage.

After a few hours, the girls sat at the ground while they catch their breaths. They soon began to discuss tactics to throw off the Girls Basketball Club, with you being the one often giving suggestions, referencing a few battle strategies that belong to the commander of the Survey Corps — Erwin Smith.

Snapping back to reality, you inspected your opponents. Most look fit, but nothing like your physique. This just boosted your confidence, knowing that your team had the upper hand here.

Beside you, a green-haired classmate trembled; Kayano. You placed a hand on your shoulder as you gave her a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, we'll win. You have me; your strongest weapon."

Her nervous face turned into a determined one as she nodded heavily at your encouragement.

A blew of a whistle silenced the crowd's noises, as both teams tensed up a bit. "Captains of each team! Shake hands!" the referee told to both captains of both teams in a loud voice so everyone could hear it.

The captain of the Girls Basketball Club stepped forward with a smug on her face. The captain of the E Class too, stepped forward.

The captain of the club gave a hand to shake to the H/C-haired captain; you. "Let's have a good game," the female opponent said filled with sarcasm with a fake close-eyed smile.

You too, gave her a fake smile as you accepted the hand she offered. "Yeah," you said in a sweet tone, which honestly surprised your classmates.

Once the captain of the club's eyes opened, she flinched as her skin began to go pale. She didn't know why, but she had the urge to back away from you. Despite your smile, it looked like your face darken in a horror way as your eyes seemed to glow that felt like she was going to die on the spot. Was it perhaps the dark aura coming out of you that totally said "We're gonna crush you till you squash like bugs"? Yeah, definitely that.

She gulped before she quickly removed her hand from the hand shake.

Silence filled the tense air as everyone waited for the referee to blow out the whistle. The members of the Girls Basketball Club began to worry about their captain's pale face. But they were quick to realize why; the aura coming out of you, which caused them to also pale like their captain.

Finally, the long awaited sound, the whistle, rang out trough everyone's ears as the referee threw the basketball into the air. Being quick to notice, you immediately pushed the ball towards your teammates. So far, it was good for the E Class.

"We totally crushed them! And it's all thanks to our beloved Y/N!" Nakamura let out loudly in happiness as she slung an arm around your shoulder, grinning birghtly.

Just like what the blonde girl said, the girls of Class E crushed the Girls Basketball Club, literally. Class E's victory was so victorious that their opponents left the arena immediately after the game ended, with crushed prides. Everyone could see their crumbled faces as they walk away with a few stomps. And it's all thanks to you; Class E's secret weapon. You caught them totally off guard with your strength and speed, plus your cooperation with your teammates.

"Yeah! Thanks Y/N!" Kataoka thanked you as she hugged you.

Eventually, everyone joined in the hug as a thank, including Irina. "I'm so proud of my baby Y/N!" Irina announced.

"G-Guys... I can't breath... Please let go..." you said to your classmates and English teacher. "Besides, we have to see how to boys are doing, right?"

Once you and the girls arrive, you stood somewhere far from the main campus' students, knowing they'll just spat insults and accusations at you guys for "cheating" at the basketball tournament. But you know that they're just mad for the "End Class" to get their victory.

As you scanned trough the players, you spotted the red-head standing at the shades, drinking a water of bottle. Once he noticed you, he winked at you, grinning, as he gave you a thumbs up; signaling that things are going well. You nodded to him as you returned the thumbs up, while mouthing "Good job,".

His playful eyes then turned into a serious one once it traveled towards the principal, who is walking to the Baseball Club. Your eyes followed where his eyes landed.

"A-According to the information I just received," the commentator's voice echoed trough the loud speakers, "Mr. Terai, the coach of the Baseball Club, had been gravely ill since before the match and the players were so worried for their teacher that their hearts were not in the game!"

You frowned at the announcement. "Hah? What a lie," you spoke to yourself.

"The principal couldn't stand by and do nothing, so it seems he will be taking charge immediately!" The crowd cheered for the principal at his action.

"Now, the game resumes!" the commentator announced again.

"How will they..." The commentator was about to comment, but paused in shock. "Wh-What in the world is this?! All players are defending the infield! I have never seen the defense moved in like this!"

You clicked your tounge in annoyance, as you scrunched up your nose. Though you don't know exactly how baseball is played, you knew that what they're doing is pretty much cheating. You knew that the principal will go as far as bending the rules for the sake of Class E's humiliation.

"According to the rules, they're free to defend wherever they want as long as it's in fair territory. It'd be a different story if the umpire made a call against it, but the teacher acting as umpire is on their side."

Shindo immediately threw the ball with full strength, causing the ball to bounce off the bat Maehara is holding and fly into the air.

"He popped it up!" the commentator commented as a player from the Baseball Club catched the ball. "Has the pressure of the infielders gotten to Maehara?! That's one out now!"

You sighed before noticing Koro-sensei going inside the ground as a baseball ball and popping out three times. "One! Two! Three..." Koro-sensei popped out with his yellow tentacles in his face.

"So, there's nothing they can do?" you thought to yourself as your face turned sour.

"And just like that, they got three out! The pitcher, Shindo, is completely back to his usual form!"

Your eyes then noticed the Baseball Club's members crowding in front of the principal. From what you've seen, it looked like the principal was motivating the players with a sinister look on his eyes.

"He's good at remembering people and is exceptional at getting people to get motivated. Similar to Koro-sensei. But, they're so different..." you analyzed the man.

"Batter number one, left fielder, Hashimoto," a monotone female voice spoke from the speakers.

"Play ball!"

"Sugino of Class E, first pitch. And he throws," the commentator commented as Sugino swiftly threw the ball, surprising the batter.

"Nice...!" you praised Sugino trough your thoughts.

"Don't let the get a hit, Sugino," Sugaya warned the boy who just pitched. "I'm not sure any of us can catch the ball, even if it's our comes our way."

Sugino chuckled. "I know, I know."

Suddenly, a sharp pain shot in your head, as the pain became stronger every second. You growled as you massaged your head in an attempt to ease the pain, which wasn't effective.

When the pain started to became unbearable, a "zap" was heard. And a memory came rushing in your head mercilessly.

*ZAP*

The sound of footsteps was the only sound that filled the cold air of the long hallway, as a young raven-head boy; Arland, walked in winter training clothes. He slightly shivered because of the cold.

Once he arrived at his destination, his fingers tucked in black fabric that continued until his wrist, grazed upon the golden door handle, before gripping it firmly and opening the door.

"Emerson?" he called out to his friend. "Training's about to start."

The sound of books dropping to cold wooden floor disturbed the silence. Arland then walked towards the source of the sound, his boots tapping against the floor.

"Emerson, what are you doing here?" he asked his brunette friend, who is sitting on a wooden chair with a pile of books on the table. Some books are open, showing the content of the books.

Arland steals a glance of an old-looking red-covered book, titled "Paradis Island: The Island of Devils". His eyebrows scrunched at the title. "Why are you reading books about Paradis?" he asked.

"I-I'm just...! Curious...!" His friend, Emerson, managed to let out.

The raven-head narrowed his eyes at his nervous-looking friend. "Why? It's already obvious that they're devils."

Emerson looked unsure on what he's about to say, but got the courage and spoke his mind. "But...! How can we be sure that they're still devils if many years has passed without us ever seeing them?"

The stoic boy looked surprise at his friend's statement, but quickly composed himself. "True. But what our ancestors did-"

"Why would what our ancestors did matter?! Sure, they did really bad things to Marley, but that doesn't mean Marley gets to decide them as devils when they're not them! Us too!"

Realizing what the brunette boy just said, he quickly dismissed his stament. "S-Sorry... Just- forget it..."

Emerson was about to leave, but Arland stopped him with his stament, "I... agree with you."

The brunette's head immediately turned towards his stoic friend, staring at him in disbelief. "E-Eh... Really...?!"

Arland nodded in confirmation. "Yeah."

Emerson continued to stare at his friend in disbelief. Arland tilted his head to the side. "Something wrong?"

"Oh no...! I-It's just... You being a L/N and all, and agreeing with what I said... is really... unexpected."

Arland sighed. "Yeah... I just pretended to agree with the Marleyans; us being devils and have to atone for our sins. But, just like you said, they don't get to decide us as devils when we're not our ancestors."

The brunette looked quite happy at what the boy's admitted. His only friend, someone who's very obedient to Marley, agreed with him, someone who disagreed with Marley.

"Come one. If we're late, the commander's gonna punish us."

*ZAP*

"Y/N? Y/N?" a worried voice was heard through your head filled with fog.

You growned as you massaged the bridge of your nose. "...Yeah? What's up?" you replied.

You then turned towards the person who called out to you; Kayano. She gave you a look, "Are you okay? You were rubbing your head... Did you get a headache?"

"No... I just... remembered something..."

"Ah, it's that 'Arland' boy... So the brown-head's name is Emerson, huh?"

Though the green-haired female still looked worried, she didn't push any further, which you were glad at.

You decided to think about the recent memory you just saw later, and focused on the boy's game.

"Batter number eight, left fielder, Akabane," the same monotone voice spoke trough the speakers.

Though he was supposed to get in position, he didn't. Typical Karma. Instead, he just stood where he is, with his helmet hanging on the bat that slung over his shoulder

"What are you doing? Hurry up and get in the batter's box-" A player tried to get him to position, but Karma cut him off.

"Hey! Isn't this playing dirty, Mr. Principal?" he asked the principal.

You narrowed your eyes at the red-head. "Is he trying to provoke the principal?" you asked to yourself.

"They're talking up defensive positions that clutter up the field, and the teacher acting as umpire hasn't given them any warnings." He then turned towards the crowd, "Don't you guys think it's weird, too?"

His playful face quickly turned into a mocking one. "Oh, I get it. You guys are morons, so you don't understand defensive positions and stuff, do you?"

You sighed at his provocation. "Honestly, he should work as a lawyer or a detective. He'd expose the criminal in no time.

"Quit whining about little things, E Class!"

"It's an exhibition game! Quit trying to dispute the defense!"

Karma then put on his helmet, sticking his tounge out.

"Top of the second inning, E Class helplessly gives up three outs!"

Later on, Shindo seems to play more intense than before, influence of the principal. He'd hit the ball with his bat till it'll smack to the fence.

"He hit it! The trajectory's low! It smacked right into the fence! Uh-oh! He couldn't catch it off the bounce! Shindo makes it to second base with room to spare! It's a double!"

The captain then threw the ball with full force, making Sugino unable to bounce it off the bat. "Strike three! Batter out!"

You sighed at how the game is progressing as you pinched the bridge of your nose, not liking how this game is turning out.

"Now, bottom of the third! We've finally come to the end! It's the Baseball Club's turn on offense and that's it!"

It was Sugino's turn to throw the ball. But once he threw the ball, the Baseball Club's batter easily hit it with it's bat; a bunt. "Whoa-oh! A bunt! It's E Class's turn to see their share of hell! E Class, this is how bunting is done!"

By this time, you are beyond pissed at the commentator's commentary humiliating your class. Which made you face towards where the commentator was sitting at and glare daggers at him, as your dark aura quickly spreads trough the crowd. The commentator noticed you and shrieked near the microphone, making everyone hear his shriek trough the speakers. The main campus students were quick to know why the commentator shrieked; your deathly glare and the murderous aura coming out of you. Scared by your glare, some students shrieked like the commentator, some looked away as their skin paled.

Some of the players noticed the situation, as the people who noticed it looked towards the source of the murderous aura; you. Some of the Baseball Club's players gulped and continued to play nervously, as the classmates who noticed you began to worry about the students you've intimidated.

"N-No outs! B-Bases loaded!" the commentator commented in a shaky voice. "And the batter that's up is... o-our school's superstar! Our pride and joy! S-Shindo!"

Shindo walked while stomping as an intense look was on his face. "I'll trample you, Sugino!" you heard Shindo claim with a voice filled with rage.

"Of course there is! How are we supposed to celebrate?" you asked with a scrunched up nose.

He gave you a suggestive grin before answering, "I told you didn't I? Summer is the season of fresh delinquents."

You paused to process his words for a moment. "Wait... Don't tell me you're gonna pick a fight."

Devil horns began to grow out his head, showing his inner devil. "'Course I am! Gotta teach those dumbasses a lesson, y' know!"

"But-" you tried to reason with Karma, but was cut off by a group walking towards the two of you.

They stopped walking when they're just a few meters away from you. Then, they started to examine the two of you, specifically, you.

Crimson blood dripped down from the cut on your hand, as yellow sparks began to appear around you. Titan marks began to form out of the bottom of your eyes, spreading down your cheeks.

Luckily, Karma managed to not get knocked out and hid himself behind a pillar, as he hissed at the burn marks on his face. He then remembered you; remembering that the lighting hit you.

With great worry, he got out of the back of the pillar that was protecting him and searched you. But his eyes didn't do as he wished. Instead, he stared at the large figure as the explosion ended.

"What the hell is that...?" he muttered to himself.

Soon, he managed to get a good look of the large figure. The giant's lower half wasn't present. The giant's features consists of H/C hair, cold E/C eyes, small lips, red-purple-ish marks around its body, and claws with the same color as the marks on its body.

After a few seconds, the giant fell with its face on the ground, creating a very loud thud. Steam then began to come out of the giant, evaporating, as something began to break out of the nape, creating much more steam than the rest of the body. You then came out of the nape, with half-lidded eyes and red-purple-lish Titan marks running down your cheeks.

Out of instinct, Karma immediately ran towards you, ignoring your bizzare state. His arms wrapped around your shoulders and pulled you out of your Titan's nape.

"We... have to get out of here... Quick..." you said in an exhausted voice. Karma nodded without hesitation.

You tried to stand up, but your weak legs refused to and fell down, the result of your transformation; exhaustion.

Thinking quick, Karma quickly positioned himself and gestured you to be carried on his back. "Get on!" Without any other options, you did as he told you to before he quickly ran out of the scene with you on his back. Fortunately, he didn't asked any questions about the bizarre thing that just happened, knowing that you didn't have enough energy to answer his questions.

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"Today, at 15:26, a yellow lighting struck to an alley. 37 injured high-school boys were found there. But strangely, none of them showed any signs of injuries from lighting, but instead, burns. To make this event more bizzare, the police found a large body that belonged to an unidentified creature. Strangely, it had an extremely high temperature, which might be the cause of the burns that belonged to the 37 high-school boys. Unfortunately, the police couldn't examine the unknown creature, as it evaporated, and strangely, along with its bones. The police suspect that-"

That was the first thing you heard when you woke up. Your head then ache as you rub your head with your palm, squeezing your eyes shut. After opening your eyes again, you turned your head to the left. Your blurry eyes met with the turned off TV before looking up, your eyes meeting with a red-headed figure; Karma.

Karma walked up to you with the remote TV in a hand and a glass in the other.

"Oh, you're awake," Karma said, as he handed you the glass filled with water in his hand. You accepted and slowly began to drink the water.

"How long was I out?" you asked in a quiet voice.

"About an hour. Anyway, are you okay?" he asked with tints of worry in his voice.

You nodded at his question. "Yeah. But I'm still dizzy and tired..." you answered as you massaged the bridge of your nose.

Karma 'hm'-ed in response before he plopped himself on the couch, sitting next to you. A deafening silence filled the air as you continued to awkwardly drink the water, looking down at your lap. On the other hand, the red-head, had his head down, staring into nothing in particular.

He bit the inside of his mouth before asking hesitantly, "What... happened back at the alley?"

The question paused you from drinking your water. Your breathing stopped as your eyes widen.

At your reaction, Karma dismissed the question, "It's fine if you don't wanna open up-"

"I'll tell you."

Karma's head shot towards you at your quiet response as his eyes widen. You bit your lips at the decision you're making.

"...What?" he asked in disbelief.

"I'll tell you," you repeated, this time, more confident.

The next day came, as fresh air from the plants around the campus spreaded. The sun shone brightly as it shone down heat to the earth.

"When you first got here, there was blood coming out of your head. Maybe that's the cause of your amnesia."

"Y-Yeah, fine," the student replied as he gave him a thumbs up.

"I'm going easy on them, Karasuma. After all, they're my family," Takaoka said, but was stopped by a red tentacle holding his shoulder. "No."

The voice was revealed to belong to Koro-sensei. "They're not your family... they're my students."

"Koro-sensei!" his students exclaimed in relief.

"Just what have you been up to while my back was turned?" Koro-sensei asked with his voice filled with rage.

"Got a problem, monster? P. E. is my class to run," Takaoka said mockingly. "And these punishments fall well within the bounds of education.
I don't have much time to train up these assassins to kill you. Of course I need to be tough on them."

His face darkens as it turned into a crazy one. "And so what if I am? Just because your views on education differ, is that any reason to attack a man who never did you any harm?"

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Most of them had minor wounds, as the ones with major wounds were laying on carts. The soldiers uniforms were the opposite when they first went out the gate; torn and covered in dirt, with blood stains that belonged to their enemies.

More people, civilians, began to make a crowd, surrounding the soldiers with amazement.

One soldier stood forward with his black horse, getting the civilians attention. Some female civilians began to squeal at the soldier, admiring his appearance despite the clothes he's wearing, his messy red hair, and the bloody eye patch on one of his eyes, which according to them made him more attractive.

He announced, "People of the Eldian Empire! I am glad to make this announcement; the Eldian Empire, once again, have won against Marley!"

The people cheered at his announcement, as they chanted "Live long the Eldian Empire". The red-haired soldier ignored their chants as he led his men out of the crowd. He called one of his men, "Inform the King of our arrival and victory," he ordered his subordinate, before he galloped faster.

Ray answered, "That's... the most effective way... to get away... from them."

Athanasia sighed in annoyance. "Don't you think they'll spread rumors about this?"

The red-head stayed silent at realization. "Uh... Maybe...?"

Athanasia gave him a glare, making Ray reluctant to tell her. "I may or may not think this through..."

An angry expression quickly covered Athanasia's face. "Ray you idiot!" she yelled out as she punched him. "How could you not think this through?!"

Just like what Athanasia expected, rumors began to spread around the country.

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You stood in the hallway as you swept the dirty floor with your broom silently, yet quickly. Today, you're on cleaning duty along with Maehara, Isogai, Hayami, and Kurahashi. Since one student, Ritsu, is unable to clean like the other students, you ended up get cleaning duty twice a week. Though it is quite unfair, you didn't mind. After all, you were taught by the master of cleaning himself, Captain Levi.

Once you were done with one space, you moved to another. You knelt down to take a good look at the floor. Though it looked clean, it didn't in your eyes. Sighing, you once again swept the floor.

After it was clean, you grabbed a cloth dipped in a vegetable broth. You then began wiping every part of the floor, leaving no dirt anywhere.

Finally, you were done with the floor, leaving it sparkling clean. You smiled at the sight. "Captain Levi would be proud."

At the thought of the Captain, your smile slowly crumbled into pursed lips. Why would he be proud? After that, he wouldn't.

Koro-sensei came out of the teacher's lounge, noticing you as he walked out. "Oh! Y/N! What are you-" He was caught speachless at the sparkling clean floor, as his jaw dropped.

You turned to him with a confused look. "What's wrong?"

"T-T-The floor's so c-clean... It even smells good...!" Koro-sensei managed to get out in the midst of shock.

"Thank you, sir," you thanked your teacher. "Now, I need to check on the others," you said before walking to the classroom where your friends are.

You slid the door open, revealing your classmates sitting on the chairs, drinking and chatting.

"Are you guys done?" you asked as you walked over to them.

Maehara nodded. "Yeah, just finished a few minutes ago."

Your eyes unconsciously examined the classroom. "So far the class looks pretty clean," you judged.

You walked over to the windows, before sliding a finger across the glass, as a bit of dust gathered on your finger. Your eyes narrowed as you stared at the dust on your finger.

"U-Um Y/N, are you okay?" Isogai nervously asked as he approached you.

At your lack of response, the air became tense. The air grew tenser when you turned to them with a dark face, as you held up the finger with dust on it. "You guys call this 'clean'?"

Everyone gulped at your glare and your threatening voice. They only grew nervous when you clicked your tounge in annoyance, just like your captain.

Suddenly, you had a wet newspaper in your hand before you started re-cleaning the windows in high speed. "To clean the windows, scrub it throughly with a wet newspaper! The ink will render the glass nice and glossy, and will prevent fogging!"

You then suddenly had a broom in your hand and a cloth covering half of your face before you started re-sweeping the floor in high speed. "Sweep the floor first to remove the dirt!"

A cloth dipped in vegetable broth from home economics class was suddenly in your hands. "Then, wash the floor with a vegetable broth to leave a pleasant smell!"

You then moved to the desks and chairs and started cleaning it with a duster. "Just like the floors, dust the dirt off first! Then, wipe off streaks and stains!"

Everyone could only watch you in silence as you lectured them on how to clean properly.

You sighed as you pulled down the cloth covering half of your face, finished re-cleaning the classroom in five minutes. "Well, did you get any of that?" you asked with a glare.

Everyone gulped as they answered, "Y-Yes."

"Okay," you said as you took off the cloth on your face. "Hiroto, Yuma. You guys clean the lab and the boys' bathroom. Hinano, you clean the rest of the hallway and the girls' bathroom. And Rinka, you clean the lab with me." Everyone nodded in an instant, except Hayami who nodded normally. With that, everyone did their tasks you assigned them.

As you cleaned the lab with Hayami, silence enveloped the room, with the occasional sounds of clinking laboratory equipment.

"Do you like cleaning?" Hayami asked bluntly as she rinsed off the sticky liquid in a bottle. "Mr. Karasuma was complaining on how clean you are. He said you would clean his house everyday even though it was clean. At least- to him."

You stayed silent for a couple seconds before answering her question, "I don't know. But, I do know someone who absolutely loves to clean," you muttered the last part as you reminiscented the moments where Levi bossed you and your comrades around to clean.

"He... He's really strict when it comes hygiene. He'd tell me to clean this, clean that, basically- everything. I guess... I clean like him to make myself feel like he's with me..." you confessed as you suddenly stopped wiping the beaker for a moment.

Hayami stared at your sadden look for a while. "Is he your crush you told us back at Kyoto?"

"No..." You continued to wipe the beaker in your hand. "He's... someone I really admire, I guess."

"I see." Hayami didn't push any further, not wanting to pressure you.

"By the way... you remind me of someone," you said as you placed the beaker you've cleaned on the table.

She stared at your for a moment. "Who?"

"Her name's Mikasa. You both have the same quiet and straightforward personality."

"Is she your friend?" Hayami asked again, looking more interested on the friend you mentioned.

"Yeah. A very close one, actually," you answered as you finished cleaning the last laboratory equipment before placing it in its rightful place. "And... you both are strong. I really admire that aspect of both of you."

The stoic girl grew flustered at your statement before she looked away. "Strong? I'm not strong." Hayami's head lowered as she stared at her hands.

"Back then, I let others use me. I didn't even had the courage to voice out my disapproval. And because of that... I landed into the End Class. I really regret that..." she confessed as her hands started trembling at the memory of her mother scolding her because of her poor grades.

You looked at her with sympathy in your eyes. In an attempt to comfort her, you placed your hands on top of hers, making Hayami flinch slightly. This action is something that Mikasa used to do with you whenever you're sad.

"That's fine. And to be honest... I'm not strong either..." you confessed as a bitter smile appeared on your face.

"You know what makes me not strong? My sensitivity. I'm really sensitive that one thing said about me will affect me for a long time. It makes me really insecure, and made me have a lot of regrets. But... one person taught me to be strong. One way is to have no regrets. Everything you've done led you here, and is being here something you regret?"

Hayami shook her head. "No...! Of course not!"

You gave her a warm smile. "Well, there you have it. Try not to regret things from the past, and instead focus on what you have now."

Everyone soon thanked Koro-sensei before they started munching on their ice creams in delight. You though, were examining the cold food in your hand.

Koro-sensei turned to you in concern. "Y/N? Is something wrong?"

You shook your head. "No... This is just- gonna be my first time eating ice cream. Is this even okay to eat? You shouldn't eat cold food..."

Koro-sensei chuckled a bit at your cautiousness. "Don't worry about it. I assure you it's safe to eat."

Assured by your teacher, you took a small bite out of your ice cream. "Mgh!" you squirmed at the cold sensation in your mouth, especially at your teeth. "I... didn't expect it to be this cold."

The others laughed at you for your child-like action. "She's like a kid..." everyone thought.

"Is it good?" Hayami asked.

You nodded as a small smile and blush crept up to your face. "Yeah...!"

Unknown to you and the others, a raven-haired man was leaning against the wall, listening to the conversation. After knowing you're newfound liking towards ice cream, he makes sure to buy you more ice cream.

"The government is asking for your cooperation. They wish to ask you questions regarding the gear," he informs you, referring to your ODM gear. Your breath hitched at this.

Your eyes narrowed at the man. "And if I refuse, they'll torture me until I give them what they want?"

Surprisingly, Karasuma shook his head. "No. But rather, they'll let you meet someone that we speculated to be from the same place you come from."

Shock quickly filled you at your supervisor's statement. "Someone... from back at the Walls...?"

At this information, you're leaning to cooperate with the government and meet this person. From what Karasuma said, this person is in the military from the Walls and most likely from the same branch as you are; the Survey Corps. Though you may not know this person, you still wanted to meet them.

After pondering for a few moments, you finally came to a decision as you turned to Karasuma with a determined look.

"All right. I'll cooperate with the government."

"Wait. They can detect lies?" you thought in disbelief.

"As we question you, you'll have to answer us truthfully. There will be consequences if we detect a lie," the same voice said as you felt a gun being pressed against your head.

"So I have no choice but to answer truthfully, huh?" you thought as you sighed mentally.

"Well then, shall we begin?"

"Yes."

A man in a suit walked towards the small table in front of you, before placing your ODM gear on it and walking away.

The questioning began. "What is this gear called?"

"It's called omni-directional mobility gear. In short, ODM gear," you answered with no lies.

"No lies detected," another voice said from a corner of the room.

The questioning continued, "What is its purpose?"

"It is used to kill Titans. Though I believe you don't know what Titans are, yes?"

The questioner nodded at your assumption.

"No lies detected."

"How do you use it?"

"The user aim and fire the grapple hooks at a target. Then activate the gas mechanism to reel towards the said target. The user can then disconnect the hook and continue moving forward. Usually however, the user must be able to move around in order to navigate in general. Therefore, they tend to use their momentum in order to swing around targets."

Nobody said anything at your explanation. One person then finally broke the silence, "No lies."

"What is the gas' name?" a voice said with a hint of curiosity.

"Iceburst stone," you answered bluntly.

"And how does this 'Iceburst stone' work with 'ODM gear'?"

"Do they not know Iceburst stone?" you asked to yourself, but nonetheless, you answered, "When exposed to temperatures greater than the freezing temperatures in the caverns where they're found, the stones rapidly vaporize. This creates a small, bursting explosion. They are placed into canisters made from iron bamboo for storage, and when heated they release the gas necessary to make proper use of ODM gear."

No sound was made in the room.

"No lies detected," a voice announced.

You heard some whispers from the people as you waited patiently for them to stop.

The same people who put the lie detector machine on you finally released them, meaning that the questioning was over.

"Thank you for your cooperation," a male's voice thanked you. You nodded.

"Can you demonstrate the use of ODM gear for us?" the voice requested.

Knowing that refusing is pointless, you obliged, "Yes. When will it be?"

"Next week. Three PM."

Before you could stood up from your seat, the voice added, "Also, what kind of place is ideal to use ODM gear?"

Sighing, you answered, "A forest would be ideal."

Karasuma approached your seat. "You can now meet the person."

Eagerly, you stood up from your seat and followed Karasuma, who is leading you to an elevator.

As you stood in the elevator, Karasuma apologized to you, "Sorry for not telling you about the gun. The higher-ups asked me to keep quiet about it."

"It's quite all right. After all, I won't die from just a gunshot," you muttered the last part.

"What was that?"

"Nothing."

The ride to the floor where the person was in was filled with silence.

You were nervous. Questions filled your head as your heart beated rapidly. Your lips pressed against each other as you fiddled with your fingers.

A sudden buzz from Karasuma's pocket interrupted the silence. The man took out his phone. "What's wrong?" he asked the person in the other line.

"What?" Karasuma asked in disbelief. "All right, I'll tell her." With that, Karasuma ended the call.

"What's wrong?" you asked the man, hoping that the person you're going to meet is perfectly fine.

"The person just woke up," Karasuma informed.

Your eyes widen as your heart beated faster than ever at the information he just told you. "Eh...?"

"That means you can talk to him and catch up with him." You nodded slowly at his advice.

The sound of the bell made your heart skip a beat, meaning that you were on the floor where the person you're going to meet is. The door of the elevator opened as Karasuma walked out first, before you followed behind.

The hallway weren't as dark as the room you were questioned in, but it was still intimidating. The sounds of yours and Karasuma's shoes filled the intimidating hallway.

Finally, what seems to be forever, you reached the room where the person resided in. Though you were just in front of the black door, your heart was crashing everywhere inside your body.

Karasuma noticed your nervousness. "Don't worry. The doctors said that he's perfectly fine."

You let out a sigh of relief. "Thank God."

"And they said that he's calm and not panicking. Too calm in their opinion."

The blond man nodded at you. "Ease up, Y/N."

You let your arms fall to your sides as you continued to stare at your commander in disbelief.

Karasuma nodded at the man in the bed. "All right." He then opened the door as he patted your shoulder, before he left the room as the door slammed shut.

You stared at the man before you nervously as the man took a sip of his tea. The fact that he seems to be unfazed is really bothering you.

"Have a seat," Erwin gestured you to take a seat at the chair close to his bed. You nodded and did as he said hesitantly.

You sat at your chair nervously as you fiddled with your fingers, hanging your head low. The commander continued to drink his tea with pleasure.

"The tea here is brilliant. Levi would love this."

Your head shot up towards the man
"Eh—? Y-Yeah. I agree with you..."

The blonde gently placed down his cup on the table beside his bed before turning to you. "How are you?"

"I-I'm fine, sir," you answered, still nervous at the presence of your superior. "If I may ask, w-what happened to you?"

Your superior raised a thick eyebrow at you, thinking that you already knew why he was wounded.

You understood what his questioning gaze meant before you started explaining, "Actually... I crashed through a school's wall and hit my head— that's what they told me. So now, I don't exactly remember what happened."

Erwin' questioning gaze quickly turned to an understanding one. "I see. What do you remember?" he asked.

"I remember fighting that monkey-like Titan, but I don't know why I was fighting him. Other than that, I don't really remember anything else, except for joining the Survey Corps and the events prior to that," you said as you looked down to your lap, remembering the time the commander gave you and your fellow friends a speech at the ceremony choosing a regiment.

You added in a quiet voice, "Just to inform you, people might be listening to this conversation."

Erwin raised an eyebrow as he too responded in a quiet voice. "How will they listen to us if we're in room with barely any place to hide. To add that, the door is completely shut."

You explained to your commander quietly, "Apparently, this place have really advanced technology. They can even listen to something from a far without any difficulties listening to it. From what I've heard from my supervisor, the government here is trying to get information out of me. Just a few minutes ago, they made me answer some questions regarding ODM gear, and later Iceburst stone. They used a lie detecting machine on me so I wouldn't lie— and if I did, I'll be shot. The government said if I cooperate with them, I'd get to meet you."

The commander nodded at you, understanding your intentions for obliging to cooperate with the government and answering their questions truthfully. If they found out you lied, they'll shoot you. But of course, that isn't enough to kill you, since you're a Titans-shifter. But they'll see you regenerating, leading to the possibility of you getting experimented.

"I understand. Then, shall we continue this conversation another time?"

You nodded, understanding what he wanted to say; "Shall we continue this conversation another time, where no one will be hearing us?"

"Yes. Well then, excuse me, Commander." You gave him a salute before walking out of the room.

"You're done?" Karasuma asked as he leaned against the wall.

"Yes," you responded as you nodded.

Karasuma removed his back from the wall. "All right. Let's go home."

You were a little shocked when he said "home". But you could only smile at him as you nodded, "Yeah."

You and your supervisor walked out of the building as the light of the setting sun laid on you. You stared at the mix-colored sky as a bird passed by.

"I'll buy you some ice cream, as an apology for not telling you about that," Karasuma suddenly said, reffering to the government threatening you with a gun.

At his statement, your lips formed a big smile as happiness quickly filled you. "Thanks, Mr. Karasuma!"

Karasuma could only smile warmly at you acting like a child who's excited to eat ice cream. For a moment, you felt like a kid like the kid you're supposed to be. But the cruel reality forced you to grow up quickly and forget about enjoying your youth. But here, you can forget about acting like an adult and enjoy your youth.

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Y/N's POV

It has been two days since the government questioned me regarding the ODM gear and my meeting with my commander, Erwin Smith. The questioning look the Commander gave me when I asked what caused his wound... It felt somewhat intimidating. It felt like I should know what caused it. But unfortunately, I can't remember. My amnesia took away my memories that perhaps shows why the Commander was wounded.

And just like Mr. Karasuma promised, he bought me ice cream, which made me happy.

Rolling my body to the side, I grabbed my phone and checked the time. 02.05

Six hours and five minutes past my bedtime. Yes, I sleep at 8 PM. Mr. Karasuma set that bedtime for me, and I can't do anything but oblige.

Putting back my phone to the bedside table, I sighed as I rested my arm on my face, covering my vision from ceiling.

I can't sleep. I absolutely can't. Why? I don't know. I've been wondering that since 08.20; twenty minutes past my bedtime. Perhaps my never-ending questions on Erwin Smith inside my mind has been keeping me awake;

How did he get here? What happened? What caused his wound?

I know I shouldn't be doing this, but my hand unconsciously reached to my phone and turned it on. Mr. Karasuma will scold me if he finds out. So to make sure that doesn't happen, I got off my bed and locked the door, making sure that Mr. Karasuma doesn't come in. Mr. Karasuma stays up late to finish his never-ending paperwork. Poor guy.

As I scanned through the apps on my phone, I clicked the one with the colorful G; Google. My fingers slowly typed a name; Ray Ackerman. The man who appeared in my dream a few nights ago. That dream must be related to that dream where I first know Athanasia L/N and Arthur Fritz.

"Ackerman, huh?" I muttered, barely making a sound.

"Mikasa Ackerman..." I muttered again as I continued to type slowly. "They have the same last name... How are they related?"

I then began to ponder on how exactly they are related. They could be related by blood, or by marriage. Maybe I should tell the Commander about this, since he's the only one who would not be weirded out by this. But then again, I did told Karma about Titans and Titan-shifters, but he only knows that in general.

Once I finished writing Athanasia L/N's best friend, the results were shown.

Showing results for Ray Akabane
Search instead for Ray Ackerman

My eyes widen at the bold words; Akabane. That's Karma's last name.

Without wasting any time, I clicked on 'images'. Black and white pictures filled my phone like a gallery. In a flash, I clicked a picture; a man with a military uniform.

Before I could take a look at his face, my phone's screen bursts into various neon colors, blinding my eyes from the sudden brightness. Then my phone turned off without my command.

Panicking, I turned it on again. Again? My phone glitched again? Why? I didn't even get a chance to look at Ray Akabane's face.

Once my phone turned on again, I began to search the man's name again. Just like last time in the bathroom, it didn't show any results. Like Ray Akabane never existed.

To my surprise, Ritsu suddenly showed up on my phone with her usual smile. "Y/N, you should go to sleep. It's 02.30. You have school at 08.00."

What-? My eyes widen at the A. I.'s presence in my phone.

If Ritsu can access my phone, then... There's a chance that she's collecting information on me.

I gasped slightly at the realization.

Even though now Ritsu can do things on her own free will, she can still be controlled. Maybe... the government commanded her to collect information on me. Which means... There's a chance that I'm being watched. And the people around me might be watching me.

At the realization, a wave of fear washes over me. Am I overthinking things? Am I being to careless around my classmates and teachers?

My eyes closed shut as I convinced myself, No. I'm not overthinking things, I'm just being cautious. That's right. It's fine not to trust them. I'm doing this because I want to be careful.

At my blank expression, Ritsu grew worried. "Y/N, are you okay?"

Ritsu's voice snapped me back to reality, before I replied, "I'm okay. I'll sleep now."

Once I turned off my phone, I quickly pulled my blanket over my body as I snuggled my face into it.

The only one I can trust now is the Commander. I'll have Mr. Karasuma arrange a meeting for me and Commander Erwin.

Soon, my eyes flutter closed as I drifted off to sleep, letting darkness consume me.

Mgh... I groaned as I felt something underneath my body. I know it's not my bed, because it wasn't soft or silky.

I forced my eyes open to see what's underneath me. My eyes widen slightly at the something I was wondering about: sand.

Where am I?; that's the first question I asked myself.

Shocked, my eyes immediately traveled to above me. Above me wasn't the ceiling of my bedroom, but instead a starry dark blue sky, painted with dazzling lights. It resembled an aurora, something I learned at school. I am so awed by it, that I continued to stare at it without knowing how much time has passed.

After I'm satisfied, I stood up as my eyes followed the lights trailing to the horizon. At the horizon, there's something very bright illuminating it. I wanted to know, so I walked there.

I'm not sure how long I've been walking to that giant light. It felt like I've been walking for years, but it was also all over in an instant.

As soon as my foots stopped walking, my wide eyes met with the giant light, illuminating my eyes and my surroundings. The giant light was like a giant pillar of light that branches out like a tree.

I then noticed a figure in front of the giant pillar of light; a figure of a man, to be exact. I couldn't make out his features due to the light illuminating from his back.

He then started walking. Walking towards me. I froze on the spot in shock, as I clutched the fabric of my pajamas.

At every step he's taking, my heart pounds faster, more cold sweat dripped down my face, and my grip on my pajamas tighten.

My heart pounds faster then ever when the mysterious man is right in front of me. Now that he's in that position, I could make out his features. He had long brown hair, framing his long yet rounded face. He was wearing a grey shirt with a black jacket on top of it, along with pants and shoes of the same color. He stared at me with his emerald-green eyes coldly, yet there was sorrow in his eyes.

Catching me off guard, the man pulled me into an embrace as he whispers into my ear sorrowly, "Y/N... Please know that I'm doing everything for you..."

What- for me...? I asked myself in my thoughts.

His arms around me tighten, as if he's afraid of letting me go. "Please just-live your current life happily... and forget about your past..."

"Forget about my past...?" I muttered in shock, barely making a sound.

The mysterious man hesitantly pulled away from the embrace before he walked back into the large pillar of light. His figure slowly became smaller as the distance between us widens.

Snapping out my shock state, I ran after him desperately. "Wait...! I still have questions!"

The man paused in his tracks before he turned his gaze towards me partly, giving me a side view of his face. I stopped running after him once I'm close enough to him.

Between heavy breaths, I asked, "Who... are you...?"

"All of your questions will be answered," the man answered my first question as he walked towards me.

The man once again pulled me into an embrace, shocking me again.

"As for me... You'll find out."

*ZAP*

Connie gave me a look of curiosity. "Hm? Y/N, why are you inside the Captain's office?"

"Le- I mean, the Captain asked me to help him sort out his documents. He's now... sleeping," I answered Connie, nearly calling my captain 'Levi'. I couldn't let them know that I'm allowed to address my superior so casually. Even Levi asked me to keep quiet about this.

"Anyway, why are you guys here?" I asked.

Sasha and Connie held up a large stack of papers in their hands. "We're delivering documents to the Captain. It's from the Commander."

Exhausted from carrying the heavy stack of papers, the placed them on the Captain's table with a thump. They catched their breaths for a few seconds.

"Um, guys... I think it's best for you to leave," I requested them, keeping my the volume of my voice.

"O-Oh, okay..." Sasha obliged before she and Connie exited the Captain's office. "See you later, Y/N!"

I nodded at them as I too bid farewell.

My eyes then examined the large amount of papers from the bottom to the top, before landing on Levi's face. I then noticed the black ink under his eyes. I don't know if I should wake him up to let him know, or to wipe it out myself.

I heard a groan escape the Captain. "Brat... What are you staring at?" Levi asked, rather annoyed.

"Oh...! Ca- Levi, you're awake?" I, once again, re-addressed my captain.

Levi groaned again. "Those two brats were so loud, that I woke up," he said, reffering to Sasha and Connie.

"Oh..."

"Now, what were you staring at?" he asked his question again.

"Um, Levi... There's black ink under your eyes..." I answered.

"Hah...?" Groaning, Levi rubbed his to clean himself before he goes black to sleep.

"He's not checking the papers...?" I thought to myself, sighing.

I looked out of the window, staring at the drops of rain on it as I listened to the peaceful rain. The rain made the air rather cold. So I decided to grab a blanket and put it over Levi, keeping him warm.

I stared at the large stack of papers before taking my seat across Levi's, sighing. "I guess I have no choice but to do the shorty's work."

For the rest of the day, I went through all the large amount of papers the Commander gave the Captain and sorted them out, all while the one who's supposed to do the work is sleeping.

Before I knew it, I fell asleep on my chair with my arms on the table as my head rested on top of them.

*ZAP*

What was...that...? I asked myself in disbelief, rubbing my head at the scene I saw.

Since when did he ever call me to his office...? He wouldn't do that. Especially since he's still mad at me... I clenched my fists.

With a sour face, I grabbed a blanket and put it over Mr. Karasuma, just like what I did with the Captain in that... Whatever...

Knowing that I won't be getting any sleep, I decided to take a walk in the neighborhood after I took my jacket and put it on. Since Mr. Karasuma shouldn't be awake anytime soon, I should be safe.

As I walked through the neighborhood, I admired the night sky and the moon that Koro-sensei destroyed. Though it is destroyed, it still looked beautiful.

The chilly air hit my skin as I shivered at its touch. I strolled around till I noticed a little playground filled with no people. I walked over and sat at one of the swings, swinging my legs back and forth.

I let out a small sigh as I looked back on the dream I recently had.

"Um, can I sit here?" someone called out to me from behind me, pointing to the swing a few meters from mine. I looked back at a strawberry-blond boy, with a black hoodie along with grey pants. He looked... familiar...

"Sure," I answered plainly, continuing to swing a bit.

He sat at the swing next to me as an awkward silence fell between us.

"Do you go to Kunugigaoka?" he suddenly asked without turning to me.

I nodded hesitantly. "Yeah."

"No wonder you look familiar..." he trailed off.

I turned to him with curiosity. "You go there too?"

He nodded. "Yeah. In fact, I'm the Student Council President."

I stopped breathing for a moment by that. Wait... That means he's the so-called "asshole" Karma told me about: Asano.

I couldn't notice who he is because of the dark. At a few assembles, he represents the Student Council and sometimes takes the job of announcing stuff. Karma has also been telling me how Asano's is such a stick-up asshole. And unfortunately, that's how I know the Student Council President's existence.

"Oh... I see," I replied, not really caring as I swinged lightly on the swing.

"What's your name?" he asked, swinging his swing a bit too.

"Y/N," I answered without knowing how the conversation will change drastically.

"So you're the 'Y/N' everyone has been talking about, huh?"

I turned to him in shock. What does he mean with "everyone has been talking about"?

"What do you mean by that?" I asked with furrowed brows, hoping "everyone has been talking about" meant a good thing.

"You don't know?" He sighed and explained, "During your "debut", people kept talking about you. Mostly about your looks. They then try to scoop some information about you, but only scooped your name. They couldn't find any further infomation about you. Not even your last name."

I nodded at him before staring at the ground below me. "I see."

I could sense him smirking. "I don't usually interact nicely with the End Class, but I'm curious about you. Care to tell me your last name?"

Is this guy serious? Was the first question in my head. "Why would I tell you?"

I heard him let out a questioning 'hm'. "Is there a problem with that?"

Yes, is what I wanted to answer. Considering I don't have a last name, I won't be able to answer his question. Lying about it seems wouldn't work. He could easily ask my classmates, or just simply ask the principal, considering that he's the principal's son. Refusing to tell him will get him suspicious.

I then resorted to my last option: dodging his question. Yes, this will get him a bit suspicious, but it's fine since this is the option with the lowest risk. "Not at all. But why are you curious about me? Aren't you just disgusted talking to someone from the End Class?"

He sighed. "Yes, I'm not liking the fact I'm talking to someone from the E-Class, in 3AM, nonetheless. But why are you dodging the question?"

Oh, so this guy isn't as dumb as those pigs, meaning I can't evade his question, I thought in disappointment.

I faked a scoff. "Me? Dodging? Not at all."

"Then tell me," he said in a demanding voice.

I let out a quiet growl of annoyance, disspointed that I resorted to the option I disliked the most. "Karasuma."

Yes, I used Mr. Karasuma's last name. This guy is so persistent to know my last name, that I have to use my supervisor's last name to cover up the fact that I don't have a last name. Right now, I just want to kick Asano's face, so bad, that I want to see his tooth flying off his mouth.

He let out a 'hm' of satisfaction. "So that's why you wanted to keep your last name a secret. You're the E-Class teacher's daughter."

What -

"That's... right..."

WAIT- WHY DID I AGREE WITH HIM ?!

Wanting to run out of the place badly, I stood up and excused myself, "Well, I should go back. He'll scold me if he found out I'm out of bed." With that, I quickly get out of the small playground, walking in a fast pace as my hands run up to my mouth, before I screamed my heart out into it.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck," I muttered out curses as I walked back to Mr. Karasuma's house.

I've made such a big mistake. And Mr. Karasuma is sure not to like it.

850, two months after the 104th's graduation, Levi's POV

With a groan, I let my eyes open as I rubbed one of them. After Erwin gave me a shit ton of documents to look through, I gave myself the sleep I deserved.

I looked out of the window to see the dark sky. I must have slept till night.

After my vision cleared a bit more, I noticed messy H/C hair on my table. It was Y/N's.

"Why's she still here?" I thought to myself.

My eyes then noticed more fucking papers on my fucking table. To my surprise, it was already sorted out.

I then noticed a piece of paper beside the large stack of papers. I picked it up to see a summary of the documents that Erwin must gave me after I fell asleep.

My eyes moved from the stack of papers to Y/N. That's when I realize that the brat has done my work and gave me a summary of the documents so I didn't have to go through them again.

I then noticed the blanket on me. The brat must've done that for me too. Tch.

Knowing how cold it is currently, I removed the blanket on me and placed it on the brat. My hand then ruffled her hair. "Sleep well, brat."

Chapter Text

A hot day was the last thing you need right now. You groaned at the heat, leaning back on your chair as your classmates too melted under the heat.

"A classroom without air conditioner is hell..." you heard Mimura comment.

"How undisciplined..." Koro-sensei scolded Mimura in a weak voice, obviously melted. "It's a given that summer will be hot! We live in a subtropical climate, so we just have to tolerate it. By the time way, after school, I'll be making a run to the artic."

No fair! everyone thought.

"But the pool opens today, right?" Kurahashi's spirit seemed to lift up. "I'm really looking forward to P. E."

"Nah," Kimura disagreed. "That pool would be hell for us in Class E. The pool's only in the main building anyway, so we'd have to make a 1 KM round trip along the mountain road under the blazing sun. People call it the "Class E Pool Death March". In particular, when we climb back up the mountain after wearing ourselves out at the pool, without any strength, all we can do is become food for the crows."

I still don't know what a pool is... you thought, disappointed.

"Ugh..." Maehara expressed. "C'mon, carry us to the main building, Koro-sensei."

"Geez, guess there's no helping out... Is what I liked to say, but," Koro-sensei's face turned red with an X as he made an X with his tentacles, "You can't rely on your teacher's speed! There are plenty of things that can't be done, even with Mach 20 speed!"

"That's... true..." you agreed with your teacher hesitantly.

"Still, I understand how you feel." The octopus-like teacher sighed. "Oh well, all of you change into your swimsuits. There's a small stream nearby, along the other side of the mountain, right? Let's go there and cool off."

A stream... huh? You thought as you stood up before walking to the changing room along with your classmates.

As you changed into your swimsuit, your female classmates, once again, fan-girled over you. Specifically, your abdomen; which had a six-pack.

After changing, you walked down the mountain with Hayami. Apparently, the advice you gave the girl made the both of you grow closer. Hayami helped you cope from home-sickness, since she's similar to Mikasa, a good friend of yours.

"So the other side of the mountain had a stream, huh?" you started a conversation.

"Sorta. Even if you call it a stream, it's about ankle-deep at best," she responded.

"Well, we'll be able to play around and splash water on each other, so it's better than nothing," Sugino joined. You hummed in agreement

"Hey, Nagisa," you heard Karma called out to your blue-haired friend. "I heard you really did a number the other day. I wish I could've seen that assassination of yours."

"You should have," you joined. "It's all because you skip classes that seem like they'll be a pain."

"Aww, but I didn't like that fatass at all," Karma said, sticking his tongue out.

His statement was followed by silence as you and your classmates walked down the mountain. You then thought of this morning during breakfast.

At breakfast, you told your supervisor the incident at 3AM, ready to get scold. The man's response was completely different from what you had in mind: "That's fine. The government gave me orders to adopt you legally, to prevent suspicion of you not having a last name." He also explained that the government is aware of the students in the main campus getting curious about you. And them finding out about you could lead to Koro-sensei getting exposed.

Karasuma hasn't signed the papers for you to become 'Y/N Karasuma'.

The man also told you another reason why he was given the orders to adopt you. Apparently, the government caught a researcher working for the government spying on them for another country. The researcher happens to be one of those in charge of learning about your ODM gear. The researcher is now prisoned under strict supervision.

If the researcher managed to inform the country he spied for, the country could've steal the ODM gear. And maybe, just maybe, they'll kidnap you to obtain more information. But it's not like the government of Japan is not doing the same. They're also trying to get more information out of you. The only reason your trying to keep in information as much as possible is the possibility of the government of Japan using it against your people. You suspected that more of your people are going to come here, Japan, since the arrival of your commander, Erwin Smith. Right now, you don't know if the government is on your side or not.

"Now then, everyone!" Koro-sensei said, "I said it earlier, right? That there are things you can't do, even with Mach 20 speed."

Koro-sensei grinned. "One such thing is taking all of you to the pool. Unfortunately, it would take an entire day."

"A day? You're exaggerating, Koro-sensei," Isogai said. "It's a 20 minute walk to the main building's pool..."

"Hm?" Koro-sensei humed in a questioning tone. "Who said anything about going to the main building?" he asked, as something sparkled behind the bush behind Koro-sensei. Everyone ran down to see, curious.

As Nagisa and Mimura pulled down the bush to get a better view, a pool was revealed. Now, you know what a pool is.

Your teacher chuckled, "Seeing as I dammed up the small stream... It takes 20 hours for the water to accumulate! The 25 meter-long course is perfectly maintained. If we drain the water out drying the off-season, it'll revert to its previous state, and if we adjust the water level, we'll be able to keep and observe fish here."

"1 day for its creation, 1 minute to get here, and in 1 second, you can jump in." With that, everyone threw their jackets up in the air and jumped into the pool.

"Hazama! Don't just read! Swim! Sugaya! If this were a normal pool, you wouldn't be able to go in with body art!"

The repeating sound of the whistle continued to make way into your ears and your classmates. You rubbed your forehead in annoyance, sighing. He's so fucking fussy, you thought, your eyebrows furrowing.

"And Y/N!" you flinched at Koro-sensei's voice calling out to you. "Don't just sit there all day! Swim!"

"Yep, just what you'd expect from Y/N and 'Ikemegu'," Mimura commented.

"'Ikemegu'?" you asked, tilting your head.

Nagisa nodded. "Yup. Since she's good in both athletics and academics, very helpful, smart and dashing, she gained the nickname 'Ikemegu'?"

"You know, when she jumped in and saved me, she was so cool that I think I might have fallen in love," Kayano stated, blushing as Nagisa sweatdropped.

I wonder why a capable person like her, was dropped into Class E, you thought.

"K-Koro-sensei?!" Kayano shrieked in shock.

"I don't know what she's been entrusted  with, though," Koro-sensei said, grinning mischievously.

We can't let him find out that we're aiming to kill him underwater! you panicked internally.

Fortunately, you were able to distract your teacher. "You sent a fan letter to that actress with a huge chest, right?"

Koro-sensei shrieked. "H-How do you know about that?!"

You averted your gaze from your teacher, trying not to laugh out of amusement. "It was on your desk. You sure spend a lot of time thinking and rewriting, huh."

"Eek! D-Don't tell me you've read all of those?!"

Not being able to contain it, you let your mischievous smirk show as you continued to tease Koro-sensei, "Writing things like "When I look at you, it really perks up my tentacles"... Normally, of she saw that, it would be sexual harassment, y'know? I wonder what would happen if someone found out that a teacher sent it~"

I guess this is what happens if you hang out with Karma too much, Nagisa thought.

"Y/N," Nagisa called out, sweatdropping at your teasing, "you can stop already. He's utterly mortified."

A 'ping' was heard from Kataoka's phone. "Kataoka, you have an email from someone named Tagawa Kokona," Ritsu informed the swimming girl.

"Ah... She's a friend... Sorry, but could you read it to me, Ritsu?" Kataoka requested.

"Sure!" Ritsu accepted before she started reading the email, interpreting on what it would sound like if it was said in real life. "Megumegu, what's up? (^^)v Aaactually, I'd like you to help me with some school stuff again~♡ Let's meet up at the family restaurant in front of Torima Station~ (>.a) Yay~! ☆☆☆"

You blinked twice at bafflenes. "She sounds dumb," you stated bluntly.

"Hey."

Kataoka stayed silent for a moment with a troubled face before she got out of the pool. "...Alright. Reply back with: I'll be right over d(^_^o)"

"Understood."

"I'll see you later. Something came up, so I'll be going out for a bit," Kataoka bid her three friends farewell.

You frowned a bit. That's quite a gloomy expression for someone going to meet up with a friend.

"How about we go take a peek at the situation?" Koro-sensei suggested. "I'm especially worried because she is such a level-headed person. Those who everyone relies on, tend to keep their own hardships to themselves."

You sighed in defeat. "All right. But I'm not hiding with the octopus."

Kataoka read the story on the cardboards and shuddered. You rested your chin on her shoulder, reading the story Koro-sensei made.

"That is what you'd call codependency. You end up becoming dependent on others dependence on you," Koro-sensei explained.

Koro-sensei's face turned more serious. "Kataoka, the way you after her and your sense of responsibility are truly incredible. Even so, at times, you need to nurture the other person's spirit of self-reliance. Someone who thinks "No matter how much I cling to this person, we won't sink" will stop trying to swim under their own power. It's doesn't do her any good either."

Kataoka took a moment to absorb what Koro-sensei said into her head. "...What should I do?"

You frowned, your chin still on her shoulder. "Isn't it obvious? She needs to swim on her own."

Koro-sensei nodded in agreement. "That's right. Please don't endure such a burden alone, and rely on your teacher." He switched into a swimsuit in Mach speed. "This octopus will teach her Mach swimming, which makes even fish blanch in fright."

Your eyes widen at your teacher's last statement in shock. He's going to teach her how to swim?! Then that means he can swim!

You hummed and proceeded to your next question, "Is there someone who have weird abilities like me?"

She finds information on the internet to answer your question. "Other than Koro-sensei, there are people who have superhuman memory, impervious to extreme cold, able to withstand enormous bouts of electricity, able to withstand dangerously sharp objects, etcetera. But none of those are as bizzare as regenerating."

You hummed again in disappointment. You hoped to find someone who is the same as you; suddenly appearing in an unknown world.

"If I may ask, why are you asking these questions, Y/N?" the A. I. asked politely, tilting her head.

"I... want to find someone like me... Maybe with that, I can go home..." you answered with melancholy, as your heart clenched at the thought of never meeting your friends back at the Walls again. But, why do you seek for someone who's from your world? You already have Erwin. But, it doesn't look like your commander knows how to get back. Maybe, just maybe, someone knows the way to go back to the cruel world you came from.

"Do you mind if I ask one more question?" you asked again.

"Not at all!" Ritsu replied cheerfully.

"Is... Is there such thing as going to another world...?"

Why do you suspect yourself to be in another world? The answer is simple. Everything in this place where you are was too different compared to the place you came from. The technologies that seemed to be out of a fantasy book, the variety of hair colors, and the lack of Titan's existence was enough for you to say safely that you're in another world. As baffling as it is, you have to accept that.

Ritsu was taken aback by your question, but nonetheless, she answered it, "Well... There have been theories about it. But, there are no information that proves it to be real. However, your existence here might just prove that."

Not expecting anymore usefel answers from Ritsu, you nodded and thanked her, "Thanks, Ritsu."

"It's no problem!"

With that, you turned off your phone and sat at your desk as you take out your notebook from your bag to work on the homework Koro-sensei gave you.

"How have you been, Commander?" you asked Erwin who is sitting on his bed as you closed the door behind your shut, giving him a firm salute after that.

You gave him a grateful nod in return. "Thank you. Now, we can talk freely without anyone watching or hearing us."

"You can thank me later, Commander, when I find the answer." A humble smile made its way to your face.

Erwin returned the smile, his blue eyes locking with your E/C ones. His eyes then trailed to the orange sky.

"Will you listen to a story about my childhood?" the Commander asked, gazing at the beautiful sunset, as the light gently landed on his features.

You were taken aback from his request, but still accepted our nonetheless, "Of course, Commander."

He began his story, "My father was a teacher. He taught the children in the region I was raised... So I learned in his classroom. One day during his class... something happened that would set the course of the rest of my life."

You listened to his story closely, wondering why he was telling you something personal.

"That day, we learned history. About how humanity ended up cornered inside the Walls. It's something every children learns."

Your arms crossed as your eyes narrow a bit a nowhere. I was also thought that, but only what's general knowledge.

Erwin continued, "There was not single historical record left from before the day humanity escaped to the safety of the Walls. The majority of humanity perished, and we were left with only a tiny bit of land, but we managed to put an end to our constant conflict. My father said that we had gained an ideal world inside the Walls. That's when...a question came to my mind. I asked my father."

The man's expression turned sour before he continued his story, "My father deflected the question, and finished the class as always. But... After we returned home, he answered me. He said the history texts the royal government distributed were full of mysteries and contradictions. Even if there were no documents left about those times, the generation that first entered the Walls should have been able to teach their history to their children. On the contrary, it would have been next to impossible to keep completely quiet and say nothing about the outside world to the next generation. What my father said next was...astonishing, even to a child like myself. But I wasn't smart enough to figure out why he didn't talk about it during class."

His sour expression only grew. "I told the kids in town about what he said...and the next the Military Police asked me about it. My father didn't come home that day. He was in an accident in a far away town and died." Your eyes widened in shock at your Commander's last statment.

Erwin looked down at his hands with a face full of guilt. "Because of my betrayal...the royal government killed my father."

A deafening silence filled the room, as you stared at Erwin with pursed lips.

He continued, "Somewhere along the lines, my father's theory became fact to me. I made it my life's mission to prove his hypothesis. Humans turning into Titans... Titan-shifters... In the world full of miracles... My father doesn't seem so crazy for believing that. 100 years ago, the people who escaped to the Walls, had their memories altered, so the King could control them better."

You were amazed by your Commander's statement. "Ah... Because there would be no way our society could be built inside the Walls?"

Erwin nodded. "Yes. That was my father's theory. And it was true, when the coup happened."

His last statement made you confused. "Now that you mention it, your haven't tell me what happened. So, could you fill me in?"

The blonde man nodded. "Of course."

And so, he filled in the memories you have lost. From the Female Titan incident, the Ragako Village incident, the two traitors, Eren's 'scream', the coup d'etat, to the operation retaking Wall Maria.

You sat at your chair, overwhelmed by the information given by your Commander filled you with. Your breathing was unstable, unable to process the information all at once.

"Annie is the Female Titan...? Reiner and Bertholdt...are the Armored and Colossus Titan...? And they all betrayed us...?" you asked your Commander in disbelief, clenching a fist full of your hair.

Erwin nodded. "Unfortunately, yes."

"But... Why would they...?" you managed to get out, still can't believe the information you just got. Annie was a close friend of yours. And you treasured that friendship deeply. Reiner was like a big brother to you, even if he can be pervert at some times. Although Bertholdt wasn't the one to talk a lot, you found many things you both have in common. And to think that they all betrayed you, was too much for you.

"We still don't know the answer to that yet," Erwin answered your question. "But it seems that they're not doing it by their own will; Bertholdt said: "Do you think we wanted to do this?! Who enjoys killing people?!"."

A frown came out of you. "So... You think that someone— or a group forced them to do what they did? And that someone or group might be from outside the Walls?"

Once again, Erwin nodded. "Yes. What do you think about it?"

You crossed your arms and thought about your answer. "Well... I don't think the people here are responsible. After all, they don't know anything about the Walls and Titans— or at least that's what they want us to think. But if they do know, the government would immediately have me eaten by a Titan of their own and steal my Titan; yet they didn't."

Erwin also informed you the way a Titan-shifter gets their powers; eating the current host alive. You were stunned by this information; because that means you ate a person alive. Your hand unconsciously made its way to your lips as you thought, I not only killed someone, but ate them...?

"I see," Erwin nodded.

"If I may add, I don't think the Walls exist here. There's a technology where it shows you the earth and what's in it. I tried to find the Walls using that, but there wasn't any Walls that's like ours. So, I think that we're really really far from the Walls, to the point that the people here don't even know such things as Titans. My point is, I don't think the people here or in other countries are responsible for the Titans attacking us and every other attack."

The blonde man thought about something before he asked you, "Can you give me the details when you first came here?"

You nodded without hesitation. "Like you said, I was fighting the Beast Titan and got defeated; which resulted me in getting thrown into a Titan. But instead of hitting the Titan, I...hit something else. I don't know what it is, though. After that, I crashed through a classroom's wall. Strangely, I was soaking wet. But I don't remember falling into water."

You decided to leave out the bizzare creature since you aren't sure if you're allowed to tell your commander about Koro-sensei.

"I see," Erwin said as he stared into nowhere, thinking about something.

When he's done thinking about whatever he was thinking, his gaze turned to you. "Before I lost consciousness, I saw your getting thrown. But later, a tree suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and I saw you hitting it. That's when I lost consciousness."

Your eyes widen at the new information you received. "So you're saying...that the tree might brought me here...?"

Erwin gave you a firm nod. "Yes. However, that doesn't explain why you were wet."

You both sat in silence, figuring out why you were wet when you crashed through Class E's wall.

"Maybe—" you were cut off by the door suddenly opening, making you flinch in surprise.

"Y/N, time's up," Karasuma said from the door.

Reluctantly, you sat up from your seat. But before you could even walk away, Erwin said, "Can you give us a minute? I need to tell Y/N something."

Karasuma could only sigh. "Fine. One minute." With that, Karasuma shut the door, leaving.

"Commander?"

Erwin's icy blue eyes locked to yours. "Y/N, from now on, let's tell each other everything. Since we're in this together."

Slightly taken aback, your lips slightly parted. But you answered, nonetheless, "Of course, Commander."

"And one more thing," he stopped your from opening the door. "Erwin. Just call me Erwin. And no need to be formal around me."

Your lips parted at what you just heard, processing it. Finally snapping back to reality, you answered, "Alright, Erwin."

Erwin nodded in satisfaction before you left the room, meeting with Karasuma, who is leaning on the wall waiting for you.

"Mr. Karasuma," you called out to your supervisor, walking up to him. "Can I tell Erwin about Koro-sensei?"

Karasuma raised his eyebrows in surprise at your request, baffled. "You know that you aren't allowed to tell anyone about the octopus, right?"

You nodded, but insisted. "I know. But you aren't allowed because information about Koro-sensei might spill out, right? Erwin can't even go outside his room. Even more, he can't even tell anyone about it. So what's the harm?"

Your supervisor's eyebrows furrowed at your stubbornness. "What makes you think that he won't spill it out? The doctors here don't even know about the octopus."

You frowned internally. "He won't spill it out. I trust him."

At your last sentence, Karasuma was taken aback.

"He's a man of his words. And that's why I, someone who never talked to him properly in the past, trust him."

Karasuma stayed silent, which made you worried.

To assure him, your added with a determined look, "If information about Koro-sensei gets out, I'll be responsible for it by giving you all the information I have, regardless if Erwin spilled it out or not."

What your doing is a huge gamble. You're aware of it, but you still did it.

Karasuma sighed at your stubbornness. "Fine. It's on you."

Your face lit up at your supervisor's agreement. "Thank you, Mr. Karasuma...!"

On the way back home, once again, Karasuma bought you ice cream, much to your pleasure.

One question repeatedly ran through your mind for the rest of the ride: why was I soaked in water?

Chapter Text

The two males received suspicious gazes by the H/C-haired female and the blue-haired male. Noticing this, Terasaka approached the two students, "What the hell are you lookin' at?"

His hand grabbed onto Nagisa's white collar, startling the shorter male. At this, your suspicious gaze turned into a deadly glare. But thankfully to Terasaka, he was too busy to intimidate Nagisa.

At Terasaka's action, the female got her knife ready that was stored inside her pocket-thigh. Yes, she was allowed to bring real a knife to school. Ever since the kidnapping in Kyoto, you're allowed to bring it as self defense. Especially since there was a spy from a country spying the Japan that may result in war. Japan's government believes that the country could be after you; from testimonies, the researcher-in-disguise applied specifically applied for the team assigned to research on the ODM gear.

For some, Y/N is like Mikasa who is protecting her Armin.

"Do you think that we're the culprits or something? Is that it?" Terasaka's grip on Nagisa's collar harden, as the glaring female pulled out her knife out of her pocket-thigh, intimidating some of her other classmates without realizing.

"You're right," Koro-sensei interrupted, as he waltz in casually. "Searching for the culprit wouldn't do any good, so there's no need to do so."

In a flash, the pool was back to how it was supposed to be. Unsurprisingly, Koro-sensei was the one who fixed the ruined pool. Who else could it be? Levi, probably.

"There you go, good as new!" he announced. "Please go on and play as you always do."

The majority of the class cheered, while the three delinquents sweatdropped.

"P-Please don't kill me! I beg you-" a man begged his soon-to-be-killer to not kill him, but his killer ignored his pleas as she slashed her dagger across the man's throat, before the man dropped to the floor of his bedroom, dying of the blood loss.

The man, was a noble. A corrupt noble to be exact. The girl was tasked to kill him to stop him from his criminal activities.

E/C eyes stared at the dead body on the floor with a pool of blood. The eyes then averted to the dagger stained with blood. The girl clicked her tongue and cleaned her dagger with a cloth.

The now-dead noble didn't expect his killer to be a girl; a girl around seven years old with all-black clothing with a hood and a mask of the same color. When the little girl broke into his mansion with a dagger, he thought that he could fight back. Oh, how wrong he was. The little girl defeated him in just a second, like a God of Death.

A sound of the door creaking snapped the girl in all-black clothing out of her focus of cleaning her dagger. Suspicious, she made her way to where the sound came from; the door to the dead man's bedroom.

The girl opened the door, revealing a boy who seems to be around five years old; just a bit younger than her, leaning against the wall as he trembles. His eyes were filled with fear.

Suspicious, the girl asks the boy, "Did you see that?" reffering to her killing the man.

The boy didn't answer. But, he didn't deny it either. The masked girl took his silence as an answer, before she raised her dagger.

"You saw that. So you must die. And... I'm sorry..."

*SLASH*

"Y/N...?" the sound of Nagisa's voice snapped the female teen out of her flashback. Her surprised expression confirms that she's no longer spacing out.

"What were you thinking about this time?" Karma asked. Y/N spacing out and thinking to the point that someone needs to snap her out of it is quite common. Everyone is curious on what she is thinking.

"Nothing. Just... a memory," the girl answered vaguely.

Nagisa wanted to ask her something, but he's worried that his question might be sensitive. Nonetheless, he gathered up the courage and shot his question, "Y/N, you seem to be troubled by something... You're always spacing out and looked to be having deep thoughts. Would you... mind telling us? If it's troubling you, we can help."

Y/N's E/C eyes stared at Nagisa, before narrowing it and staring back to the ground. She was hesitant. Part of her wanted to tell him what's wrong. Nagisa is a good and trustworthy friend. He's similar to Armin. Another part of her didn't want to tell him; the rational part of her. That part of her said that keeping personal things to herself is better. Getting others involved will only cause trouble. She learned it the hard way.

The troubled girl made her decision. "I'm fine. Nothing's troubling me." The rational part of her took over her mind.

With that, she quicken her pace, escaping her friends from prying into her. Disspointed, the three males could only stare at her figure getting smaller and smaller.

"She's not ready to open up, huh?" Sugino said with disappointment.

"Well- It's understandable. She does look like someone who'd have a tragic backstory," Karma commented, trying to defend the girl. He knew a secret of the girl's, but that's just about it. Nothing else. Yet despite that, he defended the girl's wish of people not prying into her past.

Nagisa nodded hesitantly in agreement. "Yeah, I guess. But if that's the case, how tragic is her past...?"

"What the hell, Terasaka?!" Yoshida screamed, furious. "Aren't you gonna apologize?!" Nakamura asked. "You made Koro-sensei who's more a man among men than an adult, cry!"

Terasaka made a fuss by kicking down the D.I.Y motorbike Koro-sensei made for Yoshida, which made the others furious at him. This act just reminded a certain girl of a friend she liked to bicker with.

"You guys are just buzzin' like a bunch of bugs..." Terasaka said, as he grabbed something from his desk.

Y/N's eyebrows furrowed. Where's he going with this? she thought.

"So how about I do some pest control!" Terasaka said before he threw a bottle of bug spray (or at least that's what the label says) to the ground, triggering it to spread its content to the whole classroom. Okay, maybe he's worse than horsface, the girl thought as she covered her face from the gas.

"Terasaka! Even pranks have their limits!" Koro-sensei scolded as he placed a tentacle on the student's shoulder.

"Don't touch me, monster," Terasaka said as he swiped off the tentacle on his shoulder. "It's sickening. Him, and all of you, manipulated into acting all-buddy with that monster."

A silence followed by, before Karma broke it, "So you're that disgusted, huh... If your don't like it, why not just kill him? This class gives us permission to do that."

"What the hell, Karma. You wanna pick a fight with me? Fine, I've had a problem with you from the start..."

Y/N pinched the bridge of her nose, getting deja vu. Holy shit. This is like Eren and Jean all over again.

The girl saw Eren and Jean's fights, to the point that she has lost count of it. Somehow, it became a source of entertainment for people when she and her fellow friends eat in the mess hall back in the Training Corps. Usually, she's the one who stops the fight. Ah, good old times.

Snapping back to reality, the girl saw Karma shutting Terasaka up by slapping hand to his mouth, squeezing it. "Now, now, Terasaka. If you want to fight, actions must come before words."

Terasaka shoved Karma's hand away with a grunt. "Hands off! This is bullshit!" With that, he left the classroom with a loud thud of the door.

"... The heck's with him?"

"I guess he just can't get coexist peacefully with everyone..."

"..." Y/N stayed silent as her gaze averted to her phone, reading theories on travelling through worlds.

Terasaka stayed silent for a while as he stared at the gun in his hand, seemingly deep in thought. After snapping it from whatever he was thinking about, he raised the gun to Koro-sensei. "You ready for this, monster?"

"Of course I am. My nose has even stopped running."

Terasaka scrunched his nose as he gritted his teeth. "I've always hated you-"

A spark of electricity was felt by Y/N, before her mind was taken over.

*ZAP*

"Do you know what I hate most in this world?" a familiar voice said in a cold voice, as Y/N found herself staring at her hands on a table.

The voice continued, "People who aren't free. They're no more than cattle."

"Now, just looking at you piss me off like crazy. And now I finally know why." Y/N felt her hands trembling and her breath shake.

"I can't stand looking at you who has no choice but to be a slave and obey orders without question."

Y/N's eyes began to water with salty tears.

"Even when you wish to do something according to your own free will, you can't. Because that'll just cause more damage." The girl felt the owner of the voice's piercing gaze on her.

"In my eyes, you're the most dangerous person alive. Whatever you do, it will cause danger, especially when you do it according to your own free will. So you have no choice but to be a slave following orders to avoid that."

The trembling girl set her head down, processing everything that the voice was saying.

"Y/N... Ever since I have met you, I've always hated you ."

*ZAP*

*COUGH* *COUGH*

The sound of the unconscious girl's coughs washed relief over the worry Karma, who found her on the sides of the river. The Mach 20 octopus managed to pull her out of the water.

Y/N's body shot upwards as she continued to cough out water. Karma patted her back.

The girl shivered from the cold. She wrapped her arms around her body in an attempt to warm herself up. At the cold, she was reminded of a certain event that happened in the cold; the massacre.

She remembered the splattered blood of the lifeless bodies right in front of her. She remembered the lifeless eyes of Kanon's staring right into hers. She remembered when Kanon's heart stopped beating. All of that was more than enough to make her suffer from it.

Her mind then went back to what the mysterious voice said: "Even when you wish to do something according to your own free will, you can't. Because that'll just cause more damage." Y/N didn't quite understand. But, that was enough to make her already-racing-heart add speed.

Karma noticed Y/N's expression filled with fear and pain. He knew that she didn't like the cold, and drowning must be a terrifying experience for her. But was that enough for her to make that face?

Through the female's face, Karma guessed that she had some sort of trauma from the cold. So, he gave her his black blazer. "Take this," Karma said as he put his blazer on the girl. "It's warm, right?"

Y/N's face relaxed at the warmth of Karma's blazer on her. Her racing heart slowed down. She wasn't trembling as much as before.

Her hands gripped on the blazer as something warm fills her chest. "Yeah... It's warm..."

The male sighed. "Do Titan-shifters catch colds?" Karma asked, trying to ease the trembling female's mind by having a conversation.

Y/N shook her head weakly. "I don't know. But logically, they shouldn't."

"Well, that's too bad. I bet pictures of you sneezing and making weird faces will make good blackmail material," Karma said as a sadistic look came to his face.

The female clicked her tongue. "Damn sadist." Karma shrugged.

Sounds of water splashing and hits caught Y/N's attention. She snapped her head towards the source of the sound. "What's happening there?"

Karma stood up. "Let's take a look." The female nodded and stood up too.

Both of them rushed towards the source of the sound. Their classmates watched something happening from an edge of the cliff.

Y/N's eyes widen in surprise at Koro-sensei who is fighting someone: Itona. Her ears heard a branch cracking, which caused her to snap towards it. She gasped slightly at Hara, who is hanging on tight on a tree branch, which seems to be able to snap at any second.

"By decreasing the number of tentacles, both power and speed are concentrated into those remaining," Shiro's voice made Y/N notice of his presence. "They're so easy to handle that even the simplest of children could do It. On the other hand, your entire body is soaked and your movements have grown increasingly duller. It's only a matter of time until your weak point is destroyed as well."

His weak point?

"Seriously?" Y/N heard Okajima said.

"I see. They're the ones who set this all up," the Titan-shifter concluded.

"Still, I get the feeling that they're overpowering him way too much," Kataoka said. "He can manage with only that much water as a handicap, can't he?"

"It's not just 'cause of the water." Terasaka suddenly appeared.

"Terasaka!"

He continued, "The reason he can't go full power is because he rescued you guys. Take a look above him." He pointed at Hara.

Everyone gasped. "The place he left them is within the tentacles' attack range!"

"Especially Hara, whose chubbiness is her selling point, looks like she'll fall any second!"

Y/N sweatdropped at the comment. Who the hell said that?

"And to protect her and the others, Koro-sensei..." Manami said in panic.

"But she's fat and heavy... This doesn't look good," Terasaka said, not realizing that he just said something that may be offensive. Unfortunately, Hara heard this and was gonna throw hands if it weren't for her current position.

Y/N sweat dropped, Yeah... Doesn't look good to you, horseface.

"We have to help her!"

"But how?!"

"Wait a second..." Isogai glanced at Terasaka. "Don't tell me they manipulated you into all of this."

Terasaka gave Isogai a rather bitter smirk. "Yeah, that's right. Guys with no purpose or vision who act without thinking are doomed to be played by smart guys like them."

Oh? Y/N raised her brows in surprise at Terasaka's sudden change of attitude.

"But y'know, I want to be the one to choose who's gonna pull my strings. I've had enough of those guys. Turns out I don't give a shit about taking the rewards money, either."

He walked up to Y/N and Karma and pointed at them. "So, Karma! Y/N! You guys give it a try. Use those head of yours to come up with something! I'll pull it off perfectly and save those guys!"

What the hell is this? His personality just got less shitty than horseface, Y/N thought in disbelief.

"Sure, but," Karma paused, "can you even a handle a plan of ours?" A sadistic smile was plastered on his face. He glanced at Y/N to see if they had the same plan on their mind. She nodded, indicating that they do.

A dark look made its way to Y/N's stoic face as her E/C eyes seemed to glow. "After all, you might die."

Determination filled Terasaka. "Oh, I'll do it, all right. I'm the perpetrator who gets results."

"Yes, Terasaka? You'll be in danger if you come any closer, you know?" Shiro said rather calmly.

"You tricked me but good!"

"Don't get so upset. We just pulled your classmates into it a little. That shouldn't be an issue for you-"

"Shut up!" Terasaka cut him off. "You bastards are unforgivable!"

Terasaka took off his shirt and faced towards Itona. "Itona! You and me, one-on-one!" Itona looked at him with his chin up, obviously looking down oh him.

"You've endured quite well," Shiro said to Terasaka who is holding onto the tentacle. "All right, Itona, give him another."

Before Itona could give Terasaka another hit, he let out a sneezed, which came out quite cute.

Y/N chuckled. "Terasaka wearing the same shirt yesterday means that it was throughly covered, at point-blank range, with the chemical in that weird spray he let loose in the classroom."

Karma continued, "That's the chemical that caused the octopus' mucus to gush out. That alone wouldn't be enough to take out Itona, though."

Koro-sensei took his opportunity and save Hara from falling to her death.

"Still," Y/N continued, "if we create even the tiniest opening, then Koro-sensei will go ahead and save Hara for us."

"Yoshida! Muramatsu!" Terasaka called out to his two friends. "Give me a real big one!" He said as he splashed some water, signaling them to jump in.

Both of them chuckled lightly. "Seriously?"

"Sheesh."

"His weak points are the same as the octopus," Karma added. "So all we have to do is use the same tricks right back on him."

Y/N snapped her fingers, signaling the others to jump into the water.

Itona now was surrounded by Class E, splashing water on him, as his tentacles swollen up.

"You sure soaked up a lot of water, huh~" Karma sung. "The same water you used on Koro-sensei ended up reducing your handicap."

Shiro growled.

"So what now?" Karma continued. "We don't want to give up on the prize money either."

"Not to mention that your plan nearly killed everyone," Y/N added as she stood beside Karma, who is squatting, "and horseface got all beat up in the process."

"Stop calling me horseface!"

She ignored Terasaka and continued, "If you want to keep going, we're going to need to have a hardcore splash party."

Shiro was quiet for a moment. "We've been outwitted. Our carefully planned strategy, was ruined by the tactics and actions of mere students." He took a step back. "We withdraw."

His back was now turned against the students. "Even if we were to slaughter all these children, who knows how his antimatter organs would run amok."

Y/N's brows met each other. Does he intend to kill us all?

"Let's go, Itona."

The boy didn't answer. Rage was visible on his face, and he was trying to surpress it.

"Well? Wasn't that a fun time with everyone?" Koro-sensei asked in his usual cheerful tone. "Why not join us, for real this time?"

"Itona," Shiro called out to the boy.

Itona paused for a moment, making a decision. Once he made it, he clicked his tone and used his tentacles to go to Shiro and walked away.

"Phew," Sugino sighed and tossed the bucket he was holding away. "We managed to drive 'em off."

"Not bad huh, Koro-sensei?" Okano winked. "Thanks to us, you escaped death."

Koro-sensei let outs his signature laugh. "I'm grateful, of course! I still had some tricks up my sleeve, though."

"That reminds me, Terasaka..." Hara suddenly appeared behind him with a ready to kill look. "You were saying some harsh stuff about me back there."

Oh shit, here it comes. Y/N watched the scene unfold in interest, ready for some drama.

"Like me being a porker and heavy..."

Terasaka flinched. "H-Hold on...! I was just being objective about the situation!" he tried to get himself out of the situation.

"Keep your excuses!" Hara said angrily. "How about I show you the terror of a fatass who can really move!"

Karma snickered. "You really are a blockhead, Terasaka~ No wonder you let people wrap your around their fingers."

"Shut the hell up, Karma! You don't get to just sit up there and talk down at me!" Terasaka shouted before he grabbed Karma by the collar and pulled him into the water. Y/N snorted and contained her laugh.

"The hell?! What the hell's with you turning against your boss like that?!"

"My boss?! Ha! What sort of boss'd make someone take a tentacle hit with his bare chest?! For a world-class slacker, you sure scored a sweet part in all this!"

Takaoka sighed with her arms crossed. "I was just thinking the same thing."

"Why don't we take this chance to give him a taste of this muddy water~"

With that, Nakamura and Maehara charged right at Karma and tackled him as Karma tried to break out of their grasp. "The hell?! Let me go!"

At Y/N's classmates silly antics, she couldn't contain any more of laughter and let it all out. Everyone stopped from whatever they were doing when her laughter reached their ears. This was the first time everyone heard her laugh. And their friend, for the first time, was smiling brightly (if you don't count when Y/N went to the ocean for the first time, which only Karma and Nagisa saw). All of them felt like they have accomplished something big.

Chapter Text

Feeling the intense gazes of people from the government and researchers, Y/N sighs and swiftly puts on her gear. Most of the people are shocked at how swift the girl is putting on the gear, except Karasuma.

Once the girl was done, she grips on the controller grips as she stares at the tall trees before her. At her recommendation, the government had her to demonstrate it in a forest; an ideal spot for using ODM gear.

The girl felt a sense of nostalgia. I miss those days...

Y/N turns toward her supervisor. "I can use it now, right?"

He nodded. "Yeah."

At his confirmation, the excited girl immediately aimed and fired the grapple hooks at a tree before activating the gas mechanism, reeling herself to the tree. She then swung herself to another tree, disconnected the hook, and repeat.

Everyone looked at her in amazement, particularly at the gear. No one would've ever thought that humans can go up in the air and fly like a free bird.

Occasionally, Y/N would've do a few flips and stop using the gear to jump from one tree to another, much to everyone's surprise. However, Karasuma got worried at the girl's dangerous actions. Even more, she was smiling without a care while doing those actions. But, he was glad that the girl seems to be having fun.

"I'm guessing you've been good?" Erwin asked as he poured tea in an empty cup.

"Yes. And you've been the same?" Y/N returned the question as she accepted a cup of tea from the Commander.

"Yes."

The girl took a sip at the tea. Her eyes widen at the taste. "What's this?"

"Green tea. Tastes rather unique, right?" Erwin took a sip at his green tea in delight.

Y/N nodded in agreement. "Yes. It tastes bittersweet, especially in the aftertaste."

"Exactly why it's unique. I'm sure Levi would love this."

At the mention of Levi, Y/N paused. Her lips soon pursed as a sour face appeared on her face. "Y-Yes..."

Erwin arched an eyebrow. He knew what happened between Y/N and Levi. But from what he remembers, their problem was already resolved. Perhaps, Y/N's amnesia caused her to forget that her problem with Levi has already been resolved. And because of that, she's still feeling troubled by it.

"Levi, right?"

Y/N's eyes shot towards the Commander in shock. "H-Huh?"

His gaze landed on the girl. "You're thinking about that, right?" Y/N knew what Erwin was talking about by that.

Y/N nodded hesitantly. "Y-Yeah... I still... can't..." she tried to get out, trembling at the memory of Levi's back turned against her with his voice cold as ice.

FLASHBACK

"Name and business," the Captain's voice said from the inside of his office.

"Y/N. I'm here to drop off some papers you need to sign."

Although Y/N was nervous to see the Captain, she collected courage and twisted open the door knob. She nervously stepped in into the office and walked up to Levi's desk, placing the papers down gently.

Levi's back was against her, as he looked down at the floor below him with his arms crossed. He refused to acknowledge the girl's presence.

With a shaky voice, she called out to him, "Levi..." He didn't answer, still not acknowledging Y/N's presence.

Finally, the man spoke, "Why?"

Y/N swallowed a lump of saliva as Levi asked his vague question more clearly, "Why are you here?"

"I-I... wanted to find you guys..."

A deafening silence filled the room. Y/N's palms began to sweat.

"I told you, didn't I?" Levi said in a cold voice, his back still against the girl. "I told you to not come here, yet you still did."

"I-I..." Y/N felt herself suffocating at the tension.

"Get out."

"W-What-"

"I said get the hell out!"

"Levi just wanted to protect you, you know?" the Commander's voice snapped the girl out of her flashback.

"W-What?" Y/N looked up at the Commander.

Erwin continued, "You may not remember it because of your amnesia, but you and Levi made up." He wanted to say this back at Y/N's last visit, but he had so much to fill in the girl's missing memories that he didn't get the chance to say this.

The girl's eyes widen in disbelief at what the Commander said. "I-I don't understand... Why would he..."

"He still cares about you. More than you think."

"...How do you know about this?"

"Levi told me about it. He didn't mean to shout at you like that. And... He's sorry for hurting you like that."

At Erwin's comforting gaze, Y/N relaxed a bit. "R-Really?"

He nodded. "Really."

Knowing that Levi still cared about her was more than enough to make Y/N happy. After all, he's practically the most important person to her.

After a few moments of light chat, Erwin finally asked the girl what he's been meaning to ask, "Y/N, you have something to tell me, right? You wouldn't visit me unless you have something important to tell me."

Y/N nodded, confirming his deduction. "Yes. You said that we should tell each other everything, since we're in this together. But I wasn't able to tell you about one thing."

Erwin seems to not mind. "And what is that?"

"I wasn't able to tell you this since this is very very confidential. But now, the government allowed me to tell you, since you don't even have anyone to tell to."

The man nodded at the girl to continue.

"Apparently, some sort of giant octopus who practically never stops smiling with Mach 20 speed is going to destroy the world in March."

Too baffled, Erwin spitted out his tea that he was about to gulp down. "What."

Y/N grabbed her phone and began to type something slowly. "For your information, this is what an octopus looks like," she said as she showed her phone to Erwin, which displayed a picture of an octopus.

Erwin blinked twice at the new and bizzare creature he has learned of its existence. "It's an animal that lives in the ocean. And for your information, the ocean is the whole body of salt water that covers nearly three fourths of the earth," the girl explained.

The man placed his cup on the bed side table before wiping off the tea on his chin. "The ocean exists?"

Y/N nodded. "Yes. I saw it myself. And... it is indeed salty." She remembered how she tasted the ocean's water and her shocked face at how salty it was.

Erwin regained his composure and asked, "What does this have to do with you?"

Y/N answered, "Remember what I said about crashing through a class' wall? The octopus teaches that class."

The man's eyebrows met each other. "Why would he teach when he's going to destroy the world?"

The girl shook her head as she sighed. "I don't know either. Anyway, the students are tasked to assassinate him. Since I know the octopus' existence, I'm automatically involved in the assassination."

"I see," the Commander said. "And you're currently living with that man that escorts you here, yes?"

Confirming, Y/N nodded. "Yes. He's my supervisor."

The girl took a sip at her tea. "Oh yeah, the class also saw me regenerating. The octopus and my supervisor, as well as another teacher saw it too."

Erwin let out a frown as his eyebrows met together. "Well, that's a problem."

Agreeing, the girl nodded. "It is. Not for the time being, at least. My supervisor told me that he wouldn't tell the government; in worry for my safety, which I don't really get. The class, the octopus, and the other teacher also doesn't seem to have any intentions of telling the government. But, I could be wrong."

The Commander nodded. "I see. You haven't told anyone about your Titan abilities, yes?"

Y/N tensed at the question, but chose to answer honestly, "Actually, I told someone." She remembered the incident with Karma after the Baseball match before she continued, "At one point, some thugs appeared, so me and him had to fight them off. But, when I was about to shield myself from an attack, one of the thugs managed to cut me with a knife, and I transformed. He saw it happen, so I had to give him an explanation. But I didn't go into the details."

Erwin didn't seem to mind your mistake. "I see. Make sure to not draw blood out of yourself. And, you haven't told anyone else, right?"

"Of course. For all I know, they could be trying to get me to trust them." Y/N's gaze averted from the man to her lap. "But... I feel... bad about suspecting them..."

Not hearing a response from the Commander, Y/N tensed as she felt his gaze on her. But she continued, "They're really great... They taught me so many things...and I got to try many things... I really...had fun with them..."

The girl smiled at one particular memory. "And...they somehow make me laugh... I don't think I have laughed before... So... I'm really grateful for them..."

Still looking down at her lap, Y/N couldn't lift her head. She thought, How is the Commander gonna react? I literally just admitted myself that I'm getting comfortable with people that may be enemies.

A big and warm hand ruffled Y/N's hair, as she flinched at the sudden warmth on her head. Her eyes traced the hand to the owner's: Erwin Smith. To her shock, a warm smile made its way to his face.

"I'm glad that you're comfortable here, even without your friends."

Y/N glanced at the Commander with wide eyes.

"Yes, we're somewhere unknown and don't know how to get back. But you don't need to have your guard up all the time. Relax a little. After all, we're not exactly 'Commander' and 'Soldier' now, or should I say, 'Lieutenant'."

That's right, 'Lieutenant'. Y/N isn't just a soldier, she's also the lieutenant of the Special Operations Squad, or famously known as Squad Levi; an elite squad of the Survey Corps hand-picked by Captain Levi Ackerman himself. She got her promotion quite quick for a soldier who just entered the Survey Corps. But with her exceptional skills and position as the 104th's strongest, she did it.

Flinching a bit at what Erwin called her, Y/N remembered him told that she's the lieutenant for Levi's squad. Unfortunately, the girl didn't remember anything about getting a promotion.

Though still a bit confused at her new title, she returned Erwin's warm smile and nodded, "All right."

After that, they told each other stories from their lifes. From the sad ones, to the happy ones. Y/N also told Erwin a few events she experienced at her new environment: Class E, occasionally comparing her classmates and teachers with her fellow comrades. Erwin will tell her some stories of his childhood and his cadet days.

That day, two people who often isolate themselves from people, opened up to each other. Now, they have someone to let down their guard and relax with.

Both of them are lost in this unknown world. But, at least they have a shoulder to lean on.

"Nurufufufu," Koro-sensei's signature laugh was heard in the forest as his students studied intently, sitting under the trees. The yellow octopus used his Mach 20 speed to help his students with the subjects they were struggling with.

"You got the basics down cold in the first semester. At this rate, you can expect your finals scores to shoot right up."

"Koro-sensei, do you want us all to make the top fifty this time, too?" Nagisa asked.

"No. I was too focused on your total scores for midterms. I've come to believe that each student should have a goal suited to him or herself. And that's why I've come up with the perfect target for our assassination classroom!"

Koro-sensei suddenly stopped his Mach 20 speed and rushed towards Terasaka. "Don't worry, Terasaka! You've got a shot for reaching out, too!" Y/N sweatdropped.

"Now then," Koro-sensei began as he held an anti-sensei gun, "as Shiro previously mentioned, whe I lose a tentacle, I lose speed." He then shot a tentacle, surprising everyone. "Even if they're only decreased by one, it has a clear effect."

That's true, Y/N thought. His clones are getting sloppier.

"See? I can't keep up the quality of my clones, and now there's a few child clones mixed in."

His clones could actually shrink like that?!

"Lose one more," Koro-sensei shot another tentacle. "and you get more child clones with the parent clones fretting about how to make ends meet.

Well, this has taken a tragic turn...

"Lose yet another," the octopus shot another tentacle, "and now the father clone has vanished, leaving the mother clone to raise her children on her own."

Brutal! Y/N then pondered on why losing a tentacle would make a story more tragic.

Koro-sensei then stopped with his mach 20 speed. "Each tentacle lost is a ten percent reduction in my movement. And that brings us back to your tests."

Y/N's eyebrows furrowed. Where's he going with this?

"Last time, you were assessed by your composite scores, but...this time, you will all be evaluated by your strongest subject as well. On the return of your exam papers, I will allow you to destroy one tentacle for each subject where you score the top in your grade."

This boosted everyone's motivation to kill Koro-sensei.

Koro-sensei continued, "This is the final exam for our assassination classroom. Can you get any closer to that ten-billion-yen prize? That, students, is up to you."

Determined smirks made its way to everyone's face. This teacher...really knows how to get us motivated.

Okuda offered, "If you're having trouble with science, I'm here to help!"

Y/N gave the girl a grateful nod and a smile. "Thanks, Manami."

"The only other thing to worry about...is the Principal interfering."

"With that wording he chose...there must be more to it," Irina said as she and her colleague walked through the main campus' hallway. "Student autonomy and all that."

"Yes, well," Karasuma responded. "At least he won't resort to barely-legal petty tricks this time."

"What happened to English?!" Karasuma shoved Irina from his arm.

Pouting, Irina changed the topic, "By the way, Y/N's now a Karasuma, huh?"

The mentioned girl's supervisor nodded. "Yeah. She's my adopted daughter to prevent suspicion of her not having a last name."

Irina groaned. "I was actually thinking of adopting her when she first came. But YOU just had to get in my way!"

Karasuma clicked his tongue. "That was the government's orders."

The blonde female huffed before pondering out loud, "Y/N Jelavic... Doesn't sound bad..."

"Yeah... Hell of a game," Shindo said from Sugino's phone. "I said I'd have my payback in high school, but now I'm worried you won't make it there."

Wow. Y/N deadpanned.

Sugino laughed it off awkwardly, even though an irk appeared on his head. "You're just as high and mighty as ever."

Y/N stepped closer to Sugino in interest of what Shindo has to say. Sugino's face heated up at the small distance between him and the female.

"Our 3 years of classes are divided by rank, from you guys, Class E, to the middleground of classes, D, C, and B, to the specially ranked Class A, made up of students with the absolute best grades in the school."

Shindo paused before continuing, "The entirety of Class A is gathered in one place and is about to start a massive independent study session. It's the first time I've seen something like this. The ones taking the lead are known as the Big Five; a group of geniuses who are the pride of our school."

Then, he began introducing them one by one with an over-dramatic voice, "Coming in at second place on midterms! The socially aware mass-media hopeful who crushes the competition, Media Club president, Araki Teppei!"

Y/N deadpanned at the unnecessary way of Shindo introducing them. Why does he have to introduce them like this?

"And in third place! Dominator of competitions in the humanities, the perspicacious poet and student council secretary, Ren Sakakibara!"

The Titan-shifter pinched the bridge of her nose in annoyance. Shindo, get over the introductions, is what she wanted to say.

"In fifth place! The memorization monster burning with a grudge against Akabane, Biology Club president, Natsuhiko Koyama!"

You're wasting a ton of fucking time! Y/N shouted in her heart.

"And in sixth place! The man whose sharp tongue and LA-honed language skills are light-years beyond the rest, the student assembly chair, Seo Tomoya!"

"Erm... Hold on a second, Shindo," Sugino interrupted his former teammate. "Are you actually narrating all of these?"

Y/N sighed. "Who else would've do those, Sugino?"

"Y-Yeah, um..." Shindo confirmed embarrassingly. "I've always wanted to try doing that sort of thing..."

He let out a fake cough before continuing, "And finally... The one who ranked 1st in both our midterms and the national mock exam, the top in our year who rules over the student body, the man with leadership in his genes, student council president, Gakushu Asano!"

Ah, asshole.

Yes, Y/N uses "asshole" as a nickname for Asano, since he really is an asshole. After the encounter at 3 AM, unfortunately to her, she encountered him a few other times. Usually in stores, sidewalks, or in the park in the middle of the night. It then became a normal thing for her to meet the Principal's son. Through their countless meetings, Asano gained some respect for the Class E, as well as respect for the girl. The same applies to the Y/N. She regained some respect to Class A and refrained herself from calling them pigs or assholes, at least, in front of Asano.

"Gakushu Asano," Shindo stated the student council president's name. "He's very popular and his grades are top-class. His natural charisma is capable of drawing together the ever-prideful Class A. Add to that his own leadership skills, and... When they're together, they're way more competent than some mess of a teacher. Class A's grades are normally excellent, and now they'll improve even more."

Shindo looked out of the window of the conference room that Class A is using. "If this keeps up, Class A's gonna monopolize almost all top 50 spots. Sugino, these guys don't plan to let any of you in Class E return to the main building."

"Thanks for the heads up, Shindo," Sugino thanked. Even with the badmouthing, you're still worried about me. But it's all right. Our goal right now isn't to get out of Class E. Still, to meet our goal, we need to take top spots and beat Class A. Watch us, okay? We'll put up a real fight?"

A chuckle was heard from Sugino's phone. "Knock yourself out. The E Class' fight isn't my problem."

A silence passed by as Y/N let the breeze of summer brush through her hair. E/C eyes stared at nowhere as the girl saw the resemblence of her classmates with her friends back at the Walls.

"You know, you guys really remind me of my friends back at home," Y/N broke the silence as she stared at her classmates one by one.

"Really?" Isogai raised his eyebrows.

Y/N nodded. "Yeah."

Her eyes trailed to Kayano, who looked at her curiously. "Kaede... You're really like Kris—" she then remembered that 'Krista Lenz' was a fake name, "I mean, Historia."

Filled with curiosity, Kayano asked, "What's Historia like?"

To be honest, Y/N thought that Kayano's seemingly cheerful aura that's suspicious is the same as Historia's. But she couldn't just say that. "...You both are cheerful and...cute..."

Kayano felt something struck to her heart as she blushed. She called me cute!

Y/N turned to Isogai, "Yuma... you're like Marco."

"What's he like?" Isogai questioned curiously.

Remembering Marco, Y/N also remembered his body found only half. The gruesome sight never left her memory.

Calming herself down, Y/N answered Isogai's question with her voice trembling slightly, "He's exactly like you— in personality. Like, literally. Your voice even sounds the same as him..."

Fun fact! Marco and Isogai have the same voice actors: Ryota Osaka

Y/N turned to Nagisa, reminded of a certain someone. "And Nagisa... You and Armin are similar."

Nagisa tilted his head in curiosity. "How are we similar?"

Without sugar-coating it, the girl answered nonchalantly, "Both of you can be mistaken as girls."

"That's how we're similar?!"

The girl nodded without hesitation. "I mean, yeah. Me and my comrades once disguised Armin as a girl for an operation."

Kayano showed interest, "What kind of operation is that?"

At first, Y/N hesitated to answer. Her classmates might be spies. But she realized, how will the information she might give benefit them?

Making her decision, she decided to not go into detail. "Well, someone was trying to kidnap Historia," and Eren, she added internally. "So, we used Armin as a decoy while we get Historia to somewhere safe." She didn't mention that the operation failed.

"I feel bad for Armin," Nagisa said.

Interested, Isogai asked, "Why did they want to kidnap Historia?"

Because she has royal blood, is what Y/N would like to answer. But it course, she couldn't do that. With a huff, she said, "Well, let's just say that she's someone important."

Although it wasn't spoken out loud, Y/N's classmates understood that she didn't want to discuss this topic any further. With that, they continued to walk down the mountain.

A hand on Y/N's shoulder paused her from walking any further. The girl looked up to the hand's owner: Isogai.

"Hey, Y/N. If you're not ready to open up, it's fine. But, please know that whatever you are facing, we'll face it together, okay?"

Taken aback, the girl's eyes widen as she was reminded by someone: Marco Bodt. She and the boy only got closer when graduation was near.

FLASHBACK

"Good grief. Will Suicidal Maniac and Horse face ever get along ?" A H/C-haired girl sigh in annoyance as she carried an unconscious brunette back to his dorm.

Due to Eren and Jean's usual fighting that annoys her, she knocked them out. Although Y/N can carry the two unconscious teenagers simultaneously, Marco decided to lend her a hand, being the kind person he is.

Marco chuckled lightly as he carried Jean on his back. "I don't think so. But I hope they do in the future."

A 'tch' escaped Y/N. "I doubt that. Next thing you'll know is Eren and Jean gambling and fighting over it."

The male laughed it off. "Well, If Jean wants to join the MP's, he shouldn't be gambling. He'll be breaking the law."

"True," the girl responded.

Finally, the two cadets arrived at the boy's dorm. The female kicked the door open since both of her hands are holding Eren's legs, much to Marco's shock.

Y/N grunted as she placed (more like dropped) Eren on his bed. " Fight ..." she heard the boy mutter in his sleep.

" I'll kill you..." Jean muttered too in his sleep.

The female's eyebrows furrow. "What the hell are they dreaming about?"

Marco could only laugh it off lightly. "Who knows? Eren is probably dreaming about fighting those Titans. While Jean...might probably dream about killing Eren. I hope he doesn't, though."

Both of them then quietly exited the boy's dorm. They walked side-by-side through the dim hallway, enjoying the silence between them accompanied by their footsteps.

When Marco was about to enter the mess hall, he stopped himself from opening the door, seeing as Y/N continued to walk down the hallway. "Y/N, you're not gonna continue to eat?"

The female turned her head back to face the male. "No. I'm already full."

Marco didn't protest and simply nodded before entering the mess hall, joining in his friends' table. Once he disappeared from the hallway, Y/N continued to walk towards a certain place.

Even though it's already curfew, the girl went out of the barracks secretly. She walked through the large forest filled with giant trees, enjoying the fresh air. After some time of walking, her nose caught the scent of the lake. She then quickly ran down to the lake and entered the land with no trees surrounding the lake. Her "friends" soon greeted the girl as they embraced her with their majestic wings.

Y/N stroked their delicate and soft feathers as a warm smile made its way to her face. "Hey guys. Haven't see you guys in a while." They nod, as if they understood what the girl said.

Her so-called "friends" are the swans at the lake.

A particular female swan that's on the other side of the lake quickly swam its way to the opposite side, wanting to meet the girl surrounded by her friends. She then flew to the girl's lap and embraced her.

"Eve!" Y/N exclaimed as she returned the swan's embrace, much to Eve's delight.

On o ne night, Y/N happened to encounter an injured swan near the lake: Eve. Though the swan was hostile at first, she eventually realized the "human"'s pure intentions. The other swans saw the girl's pure actions, which made them immediately love her. The girl then named the injured swan 'Eve', because she met the swan at evening.

The sound of footsteps snapped Y/N's head to the back. Her eyes then met a familiar figure.

"Huh? Y/N?"

The girl blinked twice to convince herself who's the person that found her in the forest. "Marco...?"

Marco walked to her side and sat beside her on the grass. "You play with the swans too?" he asked as a few swans circled him as he stroke their feathers.

"...Yeah," the girl nodded. "Do you often come here too?"

Confirming, the boy nodded, "Yeah. I like to come here to take my mind off things."

Y/N averted her gaze from Marco to the lake's crystal clear water. "Yeah, me too. I like to just stare at the water, and forget about everything else."

A sigh escaped her lips as her hand that was stroking Eve's feathers stops moving. "I don't know why, but... I feel like I've been here before..."

Marco took interest. "How so?"

Y/N shook her head. "I don't even know. I couldn't even go to the surface—"

Realizing what she said, the girl quickly covered her mouth as her breath became unsteady. Marco's eyes widen at the girl's last statement. He pondered on what she meant by "couldn't even go to the surface".

Once he realized what Y/N meant, his eyes grew wider. Swallowing a lump of saliva, Marco hesitantly asked, "Y/N... By any chance, are you from the Underground...?"

Marco didn't receive an answer, as Y/N's whole body still froze. Ugly memories began to run back to the girl's mind. If she can, she would erase all those memories. The boy knew that the girl's silence means yes.

Wanting to comfort her, the male reached an arm to the female to give her a hug, but soon retracted it, not wanting to make her uncomfortable. So, he simply placed a hand on her shoulder.

Marco pursed his lips. "Y/N... I don't know what you're facing. What you're facing may be...hard and...scary..."

The girl glanced at the boy with her slightly puffy eyes.

Marco continued, "You know, I've always thought that you're hiding something from us. You always refuse to share your past."

The hand on Y/N's shoulder squeezed comfortably.

"But, if you need someone to talk to, I'm here. We can face it together."

Y/N purses her parted lips before she nodded. Isogai really was like Marco. "Mhm, all right."

Chapter Text

Y/N recently had a dream; one that reveals a big truth that she didn't know.

So, to keep her dreams, thoughts, discoveries, and now-remembered memories in order, Y/N decided to write a journal. Of course, in the language that is used back at the Walls, to prevent anyone to know the journal's contents.

Entry #1

I honestly don't know how to start a journal. So, I'll start with what I learned from my recent dream of Arland L/N's memories.

Approximately a hundred years ago, the Eldian race rule the world with the power of the Titans. Between the appearance of the Founder Ymir, and the present day, Titans have stolen lives of so many people that the present population of the world could die thrice over and still not compare. Because of the Titans, an extraordinary number of races, and the cultures histories thereof, have been stolen from the world. That slaughter has defined human history and the history of the Eldian Empire.

When the Eldian Empire ran out of enemies, it turned to the killing of its own kind. Thus, began the Great Titan War. Houses holding nine Titans shed blood in combat among themselves.

In those desperate times, one Marleyan saw a path to victory. He was the hero, Helos. By artfully waging an information war, he led the Eldian Empire's biggest threat to turn against and kill one another. He then joined hands with the Tybur family, who held the Warhammer Titan.

Over the course of the war, the Marleyans succeed in gaining the power of six more of the Ten Titans possessed by Eldia: the Colossus Titan, the Armored Titan, the Female Titan, the Beast Titan, the Cart Titan, and the Jaw Titan.

Later, a new Poison Titan was created; far stronger than before, and it was inherited by a mere child. This gave the Marleyans a chance to gain one more Titan.

Helos, along with the Tybur family, successfully drove King Fritz, for whom victory was now out of reach, to Paradis Island.

But even exiled to the island, the king still held power. Tens of millions of Titans capable of crushing the world flat still slumber on that island. That must be where the Walls are.

That is the history that Arland L/N learned. Moving onto Arland himself.

Arland L/N is a user of the Poison Titan, as well as a "Warrior candidate" for "Marley".

Side note. Marley is a country. Warriors are a special unit of the Marleyan Armed and its members are the Subjects of Ymir under Marleyan control who are given the power to transform into one of the Nine Titans.

Arland had a friend named 'Emerson', who is also a Warrior candidate for the Armored Titan, Reiner's Titan. Reiner used to mutter things about being a warrior, so I assume that he's also a Warrior for Marley.

Emerson is quiet, shy, and a bit timid. He lacks physical strength, which is a great disadvantage in a Warrior. But, he makes up for it with his intelligence.

There was also another candidate for the Armored Titan, Ludwig. He has a harsh and bully-like personality, and he's especially harsh towards Emerson. Despite that, he has high grades, making no one doubt that he's going to inherit the Armored Titan. But, his parents are Eldian Restorationists. Arland knows that, and uses it to blackmail Ludwig on multiple occasions to protect Emerson.

Back to Arland. Particularly, his family.

The L/N clan, Arland's family, is a special Eldian family that has the Poison Titan. The family is related to the Eldian royal family, so they have royal blood running through their veins.

As a result of an affair, a new Poison Titan was created; one which had more powers than before. Though, I don't know anything about the affair.

One new power is the ability to inherit the Titan without devouring the current host. After the current host dies, the Titan is passed on to the host's oldest child. If they do not have a child, then the oldest child of their sibling who's the closes to the host in age. If not, the next sibling's oldest child. If not, the host's cousin's oldest child. If not- I don't even know. It's endless. But, because of this, only the L/N's can inherit the Titan, as they have the blood to withstand the Poison Titan's poison.

Which means, I am a L/N, as I am able to withstand the poison. This also means that Arland is a relative of mine.

It is still possible to inherit it without waiting for the host to die; by devouring the current host. But, if the person devouring the current host is not a L/N, then the person immediately dies by the poison.

After a couple of years since the child of the new Poison Titan was born and the mother's death, the Marleyans kidnapped the child. They used the child to gain control over the continent and produce children to pass on the Poison Titan.

Moving onto my dreams of Athanasia L/N.

Athanasia must also be related to me, as she has L/N as her last name and able to withstand the poison. According to my dreams, or rather, her memories, she's a knight of the Eldian Empire. In her time, the Eldian Empire hasn't fall. She's the crown prince's knight, after the death of her brother. She then inherited the Poison Titan, the Titan her brother was supposed to inherit.

Arthur Fritz is the crown prince. He was the host of the Founding Titan. He seems to have romantic feelings towards Athanasia— at least, that's how it seems to me. Athanasia doesn't seem to notice it.

Ray Ackerman, best friend of Athanasia. He and Athanasia met in the Training Corps. As an Ackerman, he quickly got promoted into a high-ranking officer. His family and the Akabanes, a noble family from "Hizuru", have a tense a relationship, and Ray's the cause of it. I don't know what he did, though.

I still don't know how "Akabane" was mentioned in my dream. That's Karma's last name. Are their last names just a coincidence, or no? Something doesn't feel right. I have to learn more about that.

That's pretty much about it of what I learned from Athanasia. I'll move onto what I've learned since I...crashed through a wall.

From what I remember, I was fighting the Beast Titan, got defeated, and thrown. And somehow, I got into Class E, soaking wet. But from what Erwin saw, I hit a tree. That doesn't explain why I was soaked, though. And... Hitting a tree doesn't explain why I crashed through a classroom's wall. Can the tree be able to...I don't know, teleport? No, that's ridiculous.

Well, Erwin's appearance here is also ridiculous. So I guess teleportation seems possible.

Speaking of Erwin, he also appeared here on the verge of death. Could it be a factor of our sudden arrival here? Well, I don't know about that.

From him, I was able to get back a lot of my memories. From the 57th expedition, to the operation of Retaking Wall Maria. It seems like I can trigger memories, not just by touch, but also words and events unfolding. But, I still have missing memories, according to Erwin. He wasn't able to tell about them due to the time limit of my visit. Actually...no. We got sidetracked and endep up telling each other stories and discussing about t ea. How the hell did Erwin got sidetrack too? Maybe years of being commander, using all his brain cells for planning expeditions and keeping Hange in check exhausted him.

Next, that dream.

I had a dream of being in a place where there were pure white sand and a sky like the aurora borealis. There was a beam of light that's like a tree with its branches expanding like it never ends.

There, I found a man with long brown hair and emerald eyes. He looked like Eren, but at the same time, he didn't. The man I found there looked cold and lifeless, nothing like the Eren I know. He said that he's doing everything for me, live my current life happily, and...forget about my past. I said that I still have so many questions and asked who he was. But, he only said that all of my questions will be answered, and that I'll find out who he was. Until now, none of my answers have been answered. I only got new questions.

Moving onto my weirdest dreams.

Sometimes, I dream about back at the Walls. I was eating at the mess hall, training in the forest, and...doing experiments...? Well, it was all from Eren's perspective, so it makes sense. I'm probably seeing Eren's memories. But, how? You can't see others memories unless you make physical contact. And I can't even touch Eren. I'll need to learn more about this too.

I think that's about it from what I've learned so far. I still have a lot of questions. But at least, I now know my last name, L/N.