one day it will overlap

Before the age of 15, Mia lived so contentedly.

100 years ago, the natural enemy of human beings, giants, appeared.

The living domain of human beings is fixed in three main ranges by three walls as high as 50 meters. At least, Mia does not know how the three walls were formed, and how these man-eating giants were produced.

Yes, all of these have nothing to do with Miyako.

Miyake, his parents, and a tribe of dozens of hut families are located in the wall of Maria, which is far away from the waterway and the four outer urns, that is, too far away from the bustling area.

Miyake also knew that their small village was located halfway up the highland behind the deep woods, almost cutting off all contact with the outside world.

But this is not enough to be a problem for them. From the appearance of the giants to the present, her ancestors have lived in this way, growing vegetables on the flat land, raising poultry, and going to the woods from time to time to catch small wild animals with bows and arrows.

All of this is already all about Miyako.

All she loves.

A piece of feather slowly floated down from the cracks in the leaves above the head, just in front of the forehead of Mi Yake, who was squatting on the ground to pick mushrooms.

"..."

Mia stared blankly at it from appearing in her sight to watching it fall to the ground, almost no sound of nostalgia was caught by her.

Standing up from the ground uncontrollably, Miya looked up and saw the sun shining through the gaps in the broken leaves, leaving mottled light and shadows on her face.

Surprisingly comfortable.

The moment she raised her head, the exquisite yellowed straw hat on Mi Yake's head fell straight to the ground with her movements, leaving a crisp but weak sound on the leaves.Afterwards, her short ponytail tied at the back of her head for ease of labor was exposed, and her gray-black hair was slightly yellowed in the sun.

The amber eyes were dappled with sunlight, and Miya suddenly felt sleepy.

The squirrel, startled by the sound of the straw hat falling, was suddenly in her line of sight as she looked up at the treetops, jumped from tree to tree, and disappeared.

Miyake looked down at the mushrooms in the straw basket, then turned around and picked up the straw hat, patted it on, put it back on his head, carried the basket, and started walking towards the village outside the woods.

A soft cloud slowly drifted across the sky, and she walked towards the village. Although it was not far away, the 14 years of idle life made her develop a character of always doing things in a leisurely manner.

Mi Yake looked up at the blue sky and white clouds in the distance and moved forward, pressing the straw hat with her right hand to prevent it from falling off, holding the basket in her left hand, and the beige dress swayed with her movements.

Really, feel good about it all from the bottom of my heart.

Stepping onto the dirt road that the carriage passed by, the simple fences on both sides are full of poultry raised by the village name.

Occasionally, she walked by a few villagers and greeted her, and she, who was quiet and introverted by nature, also smiled at them.

When he arrived at the familiar wooden door of his house, he gently pushed the door and entered.

"Miya is back?"

"Ah."

The familiar mother's voice, the familiar smell of mother's lunch.

"Where's father?"

Mia looked around but didn't see her father.

"He's feeding the horses at the racecourse, come and sit down and wait for him, dinner is ready."

She obediently put the basket aside, walked to the wooden table and sat down.

lovely father.

In fact, there are only two horses in the so-called racecourse. The wild horses domesticated at home when Mi Yake was young gave birth to two cubs, and now they are well taken care of at home. Her father can accompany them in the racecourse. all day.

844, a quiet and harmonious year, was at least no different from the 13 years she spent before, and the 14th year was the same.

But one morning, while she was still in bed, she heard the loud sound of horseshoes outside.

Not just one.

Obviously it was the sound of horses, the sound of horseshoes from far to near.

Miya got up curiously from the bed, put on her straw sandals, and pushed open the door.

As soon as the door was opened, the large herd of horses galloped past the flat dirt road in front of her house.

A large group of people wearing green cloaks sat on the horse, but Mi Yake could only glance at them, and they quickly raised dust and disappeared in her eyes.

Only the dust is still gradually subsiding.

Mia just stared blankly, maybe this was the first time she saw these people.

Later, I learned from the adults that this is the Survey Corps, a group of soldiers who are prepared to die and face the real giants outside the wall. They call them "real soldiers".

At that time, Miyako never understood why the survey corps came to this remote place.

"It's just a routine patrol. It's the first time they've come to this place when you grow up."

Mother handed over a piece of bread and said softly.

So, Miya didn't ask any more questions, because for her who was content with the status quo, she didn't feel the threat of giants or the threat of survival.

845

Miyako cleaned in the basement storage room in the middle of the room as usual.There are dried sweet potatoes, corn, and some dried animal skins that can be stored for a long time.And her daily job is to clean up moldy items and keep this basement dry.

Miyake was so focused on cleaning and tidying that she couldn't hear the outside sound at all.

She didn't know how her life would change this year, and it was even more impossible to know that she might lose all the things that supported her survival.

The sudden appearance of super-large giants and armored giants destroyed the Siganshina area of ​​the urn city south of Maria's Wall and the connected gate of Maria's Wall, and it was too far away from well-informed areas such as waterways and main roads. The village where Miyako and the others lived didn't know the real fear until the moment the giant arrived.

A fear that hasn't been visited in 100 years.

Miyake sat in the basement looking at the fruits of her labor with satisfaction, not bad.

A strange muffled sound was heard in the basement, and she, who was always careful, pricked up her ears in the next second.

what happened?

It seemed that he could still hear howling and shouting faintly from outside, but it was not clear.

Miyake's first reaction was that someone's horse and sheep had lost their reins or ran out of the fence.

She put down the broom and climbed up the wooden ladder under the door connecting the basement to the house. The moment she was about to push it up, her mother's scream came from above through a baffle, followed by a deafening crash.

Mia can think that the roof of her house has collapsed, maybe the fact is that her roof has collapsed, but why?

Anxiously, he pushed the baffle up sharply, but it was firmly blocked, and he couldn't push it away at all.

Too anxious, shouting to mother, but no one responded.

"Miyako, don't come out!"

Is this my father's voice?

"Why don't you come out?!"

At this moment, her anxiety was understandable, but her father was above her, yelling at her not to come out through a screen.

What answered her from above was a strange growling sound, which she had never heard before, and Mia could tell that it was not the sound of a beast—or some creature—that you are familiar with.

But at this moment, Mia could push the upper baffle with her body without a point of strength. The baffle only moved slightly upwards when she pushed it with the greatest strength, but it couldn't be opened, because the things pressed on it were too heavy.

"—"

Mia suffocated her strength and planned to push open a crack with all her strength. Her mood was extremely complicated at this moment, and she just wanted to know what happened outside.

So she got her wish.

At that slit, Mia could see that the whole world was collapsing, the world she loved the most.

The giant is separated from her by a wooden baffle.

Watching helplessly her father was swallowed in one gulp, but never let out a wail, she knew that it was for not causing more fear to her who was still underground.

But she had seen it with her own eyes.

Giants have invaded.

The baffle closed again, and no more light leaked in. Miya felt that her world was suddenly so dark.

The author has something to say: I feel so sad when I write this paragraph.