[Attack on Titan] The Gate of Hakogawa

? "...Alan?"

Levi spoke in a trance-like tone almost muttering to himself, he stared blankly at the young man walking towards him, and put the tray in his hand on the platform of the chest of drawers on the left.

"Yes, it's me, what's wrong?"

Alan didn't seem to notice Levi's weird tone, and he replied in his usual gentle and sweet voice, which seemed to calm people's hearts.

"No...you're not..." Levi felt that his tongue was tied in his mouth, and he didn't know what words to say or how to organize sentences.

The originally empty heart seemed to be filled with all kinds of ups and downs and mixed flavors. He wanted to show the usual sneering sneer, but found that his teeth were clenched tightly.

Is this some kind of nasty joke?Or is he hallucinating?

Under Alan's suspicious eyes, he fell silent, and fixedly looked at the young man's vague face.

"Alan, do you exist?"

After a long silence, he asked in a serious tone.

Allen seemed to be frightened, showing a subtle wry smile, but if you look closely, you can find that the young man didn't take this sentence to heart.

"It's too much, Levi, the first thing he said when he woke up was to ask me this."

"Answer me seriously, Alan."

Levi's voice was deep and stern, as if issuing a military order, and this time Allen finally realized the other party's unusual attitude.

It seemed to be the same as usual, but Allen could keenly hear the trembling that was suppressed in Levi's seemingly calm tone.

"What if I say no?" Allen asked in a joking tone, and at that moment, Levi's expression darkened instantly.

"Oh, I'm just kidding, do you need to feel it, am I real?" Alan bent slightly, his lowered head was facing Levi, when there were only a few centimeters left of their faces , he stopped the tendency to bend down, and his blue eyes looked at Levi intently.

Silently looking at those emerald-like eyes, next to the ears, the heartbeats of the two are clearly beating in the quiet space, and the rhythms of different frequencies gradually merge into one.

Suddenly, Levi reached out and grabbed Alan's collar and pulled it down forcefully. Alan, who was unprepared, was pulled staggeringly, and his head hit Levi hard.

"Oh, it hurts!"

Allen yelled, raised his head back, and opened the distance between him and Levi. He covered his forehead with his painful hands, and looked at the perpetrator with accusing eyes as if he was about to cry.

The strength is obviously not well controlled, and Levi himself frowned because of this rare collision, but in that short, one-thousandth of a second touch, he felt, warm, warm Yes, the feeling of being alive.

Allen is real.

Not an imagination, not a dream, he really exists at this moment.

Allen, who was rubbing his forehead, noticed that the originally stiff and stern lines on Levi's face gradually softened, and the tense atmosphere between the two began to relax.

Infected by such an atmosphere, the corners of Allen's mouth curled up unconsciously.

"This is the punishment for the brat who gets carried away."

The soft expression only existed for a while, and the owner of the voice quickly raised his face again.

"Ah...I'm so sorry because Levi seemed overly happy when he woke up." Allen scratched the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly.

Levi felt as if his heart had missed a beat, and he decided to ignore the indescribable throbbing, and he just turned his head away from looking at Alan.

"How long have I been asleep?" Levi asked calmly as his heartbeat seemed to return to normal.

Allen tilted his head slightly, as if thinking, and he even raised his fingers to count.

"It's been ten days. I haven't slept for such a long time before. It makes me very worried."

... ten days?He actually slept for so long...

"Why didn't you wake me up?" Levi frowned, and all of a sudden, his expression returned to the strongest inherent human expression.

However, Alan showed a panicked expression which was rare, and he waved his arms in a big motion, "No, you can't be woken up. Miss Han Ji also explained that you must sleep until you wake up naturally."

Miss Hanji?What a disgusting name.

"I said... Levi, do you want to drink some water or eat something? You have only had glucose drips before. I'm afraid you will be malnourished." Allen turned around and took the water glass on the table Take it down and hand it to Levi.

His throat was indeed sticky and dry, and Levi rarely accepted the water glass obediently, but at this moment he heard the long-lost clacking sound, and a cold touch came from his wrist.

Under Alan's gaze, Levi slowly drank the water in the cup. When Alan took the cup away, Levi raised his wrist, shook it twice deliberately, and there was a clattering sound.

"Explain what's going on here?" he asked in a flat tone.

"Ah, I'm really sorry, because Levi didn't mention it all the time, so I ignored it. This is definitely not a strange habit, because you don't know why you have self-harm in your sleep..." Allen waved his left hand The action of clenching a fist and tapping on the right arm "I temporarily tied it up because I was afraid that you might get hurt. The key is outside, and I will untie it for you later."

After listening to Allen's explanation, Levi probably understood the reason. It should be influenced by the dream, and he reproduced the behavior in the dream in reality.

That was indeed a dream, until this moment, Levi was really relieved.

"Then Levi, I'll get you something to eat, and bring you the keys." After that, Alan was about to get up with the cup, but he paused because of Levi's words.

"Alan, aside from our private relationship, you should still call me Captain in front of outsiders, at least you should add an honorific title, no matter what, I am your boss..." I thought this was extremely common At least Levi didn't mean anything else, but Allen slowly turned his head to look at him with a speed like a rusty gear.

The expression on the face of the young man holding the cup kept changing, from a dumbfounded disbelief to a hurt expression, and finally his expression stopped on a bitter and lonely smile.

"Ah...hah...I thought...so it was like this...is it still like this..." He muttered to himself at a volume that only he could hear.

"Hey, Alan, what are you talking about?" Sensing something wrong with the young man, Levi asked in an uncertain tone.

Alan reacted quickly, as if he didn't want to worry Levi, he forced the corners of his mouth to bend a little more, forming a flawless smile.

"No, it's okay, I just... didn't react for a while, so please wait a moment, I'll be back soon."

As if trying to pull himself together, with that strange expression of wanting to cry but not laughing, this kind of clumsy acting naturally cannot hide from Levi's observation, obviously, Alan has something to hide from him.

The young man moved quickly, and he had already reached the door after a while, and was about to turn the doorknob, but at this moment, Levi, who had been staring at Ellen silently, spoke.

"Call Han Ji, I want to ask him about the current situation of the corps."

The young man froze when he opened the door. He nodded silently without looking back. When the door opened again, a dazzling white light entered the room. closed.