[Attack on Titan] The Gate of Hakogawa

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"...Alan?"

Tonight's moon is clear and bright, and the night is bright and clear. The boy in the lake who is smirking at him is within reach. Everything is so real, and I can't even lie to myself that it's just an illusion.

He should question it, or take a defensive posture. His rationality told him that it might be a conspiracy, but his emotions had already made a decision.

Ah, that's Allen, and it can only be Allen.

The heart that had been closed was suddenly suspended, as if tightly pinched by an invisible big palm, he couldn't tell what it felt like, it was full of mixed flavors, as if the seasoning had been overturned.

It wasn't until this moment that Levi realized that he had never given up. He had been holding on to a tiny hope that he didn't even notice. He believed that Alan was still alive somewhere in this world, and he just couldn't find it. .

Numerous similar and contradictory emotions were conceived, intertwined and then quickly faded away at that moment. In the end, only two distinct and contradictory thoughts were left in my heart. One was the ecstasy of regaining the loss, and the other was the fear of losing it again. fear.

"Why... are you here...?"

Only Levi knew how much effort it took him to suppress the trembling in his words, he wanted to show that he didn't care as usual, but found that it was extremely difficult for him at this time.

However, the blue-eyed boy was taken aback for a moment, his original timid and awkward expression turned into hesitation, and then silently looked Levi up and down with those clear eyes.

Levi was quite uncomfortable with such a straightforward and sexual gaze. He felt uneasy about the boy's thoughtfulness at the moment, but he temporarily calmed down, intending to see the other party's reaction, but saw the boy's hesitant face. Open your mouth.

"Captain...you...don't know?"

The boy's tone was cautiously probing, Levi couldn't figure out what the other person was thinking, he just felt surprised, when did the boy who was always frank and impulsive change, although his eyes were still clear, but he could no longer see Never had any reservations about him.

Levi is very dissatisfied with the current passive situation, even if the kid opposite is a little strange, he should let him know his identity, Levi narrowed his eyes thinking of this.

"Oh? Should I know? Why don't you explain this situation to me?"

Upon receiving such an answer, the young man tilted his head slightly. He lowered his eyes, crossed his arms, and pinched his chin with his fingers unconsciously, obviously thinking.

The silence continued, Levi didn't urge him, but just looked at this young man who felt like he had been separated for a long time but was still familiar.

The wet hair was pressed against the young man's face, and the tip of the hair was still dripping with water. There was only the sound of water dripping on the surface of the water in the air.

There is a weird sense of peace lingering in Levi's heart. In fact, he noticed it when they first met, but was ignored by the surprise of meeting again. Now when he finally calms down and observes each other, that way can be said to be The intuitive thing jumped out again.

How should I put it... It feels like the Alan in front of him is much younger than the Alan he is familiar with... It's like... It's back to the immature look when the two first met.

"Sir, do you know where this is?"

The sudden sound interrupted Levi's contemplation, and the boy in the lake had finished thinking, and he looked at him with an incomprehensible look in Levi's eyes.

However, before Levi could answer, the boy continued to speak.

"Do you think this is the world outside the wall?"

Levi remained silent, he didn't want to answer, he could see that there was an answer in the boy's eyes, and such a rhetorical question was meaningless.

"Are you really ignorant? Why don't you look into your own heart?"

The boy showed a sad expression, and amidst Levi's increasingly gloomy face, he stepped back slowly and said softly.

"Captain, do you remember what you once said to me?"

"Every word and sentence you said is engraved in my heart, guiding me in the direction I should follow."

Levi felt his heart sinking step by step as the boy stepped back towards the center of the lake. He didn't want to hear the boy continue to talk nonsense at all, but the soles of his feet seemed to be rooted and he couldn't move.

"You said..." The boy lowered his eyes.

"No one can take away your right to live, and no one can stop you from dying."

The moment the words just fell, the boy suddenly fell backwards, and the lake immediately surged up from all directions, swallowing the boy's body in an instant.

In fact, before Levi could react at all, his body moved, and he jumped into the lake without hesitation. The cold water soaked his clothes and body, but the coldness of the lake was not as cold as the freezing in his heart. His ears There was a roar in the middle, and his mind went blank. He looked around anxiously, like a headless chicken, he had never lost his composure before.

Finally, Levi found the sinking figure of the boy in the water far away from him. He stretched out his arms and stroked the water quickly, but the resistance of the water was very high. He felt that this was harder than killing a giant. The distance is longer than he imagined.

Finally, he hooked the corner of the boy's clothes and pulled him into his arms. The boy's body was as cold as a dead man, his eyes were closed tightly, and his face was so pale that it seemed that he would disappear at any time.

Levi tightened his arms and quickly swam towards the surface of the water. When the two surfaced, he felt a movement in his arms almost immediately.

The young man's slender eyelashes moved slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes, showing a confused expression, but the blurred and scattered eyes regained clarity when he noticed Levi.

"...you should move forward instead of running away...soldier...don't get deeper and deeper......"

The boy's voice was hoarse, and he whispered Wuruo murmured to himself.

"Alan, come back with me obediently, and I'll treat you as if you were talking in your sleep."

Sometimes when the anger is too much, it will calm down. Levi knows that he is in this state now. He doesn't know and doesn't want to know what Alan is talking about. He just wants to take him back.

However, the boy's reaction was always beyond his expectations. The lost boy suddenly raised his head, staring at him with burning eyes, and he said each word slowly, heavily and clearly.

"...Who are you talking about? Who is the Allen you are talking about?"

Levi's arm around the boy froze, and then he caught a flash of cool light in the corner of his eyes, and when he touched the corners of the thing, he held his breath unconsciously.

It shouldn't be here, it should have been given to the black-haired girl... The clues are gradually reassembled like a broken puzzle, revealing its shadowy outline.

Looking at Levi's trance-like eyes, the young man slightly raised the corners of his mouth. He suddenly turned around and grabbed Levi and pushed him down to the surface of the water. The water flowed into his nasal cavity in an instant, and the defenseless Levi sank into the water before he could react. The lake water overflowed his sight, and the boy's figure became blurred and distorted in his vision.

"I am the shadow, and the commander is the light. Please don't let him be swallowed by the shadow."

The distant voice came intermittently, the sentence was divided into fragmented words, the voice in the ear was chaotic and continuous, Levi couldn't understand the meaning of that sentence, the heavy water pressure made him breathless, he tried to resist But he found that he was powerless, and the feeling of powerlessness spread from his chest to the four legs, as if he had returned to the afternoon when he drank the potion.

His brain was dizzy due to lack of oxygen, and his thoughts were like rusted gears. He tried to run but was suffocated. He didn't understand why Allen did this, but he didn't have the energy to think deeply. There was always a feeling on his chest. He guessed that it was Alan's hand, and finally he gave up struggling, staring blankly at the bubbles rising from his nose, thinking, this ending is okay.

The darkness eroded his vision, and the boy on the water seemed to be saying something with his lips open and closed. He gathered what little energy he had left to try to identify it, but his drowsy consciousness could no longer support him, and he slowly closed his eyes.

The young man looked at the unconscious man in the water. His jet-black hair was flowing on his cheeks, his cold pupils were hidden behind the curtains, and he was as docile and obedient as a child.

He stretched out his hand to touch it, but suddenly froze, that hand stopped in the air at a loss, and was finally taken back by him.

In the end, he just stared at him quietly.

"Good night, Captain."