[Attack on Titan] The Gate of Hakogawa

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Levi, who left the basement and returned to the ground, walked towards Erwin's office without hesitation. The heavy rain outside the window was still pattering, and there was a faint tendency to grow into a torrential rain.

The heavy rain hits the window, and the waterfall-like water washes over the glass surface. Through the refraction of the rain, the world outside the window presents a distorted scene reflected in Levi's eyes.

It was just a few minutes between entering the basement and coming out, the sky became darker, and the dark clouds were gloomy, and the air was filled with the unique coolness of rainy days, and there was a bleak and decadent atmosphere in the castle. lingering in the middle.

It's no surprise that thunder can strike anytime, Levi thinks as he walks.

Speaking of which, that kid is very afraid of thunder. As long as it is a stormy weather, he will show a frightened expression, but he likes to be brave. Every time he is found shivering under the covers, he has said many times, rely on yourself more It's also okay, everyone has weaknesses that they don't want to be known to others, but if you are a lover, you can rely on it with confidence...

That kid?

Levi stopped suddenly.

Who did he just say?Whose memory is that?No, it's not Alan, Alan is not afraid of thunder, it would be better to say that every time he turned into a giant, he would appear with thunder.

So why does he have such a memory, and that memory is so warm, just thinking about it can make his heart swell and overflow.

Why is there a memory that does not belong to him in his mind? Levi covered his face and lowered his head in confusion. When he wanted to try a deeper memory, it seemed that there was a fence in the middle of the road. No matter what They can't even cross over, peeping through the gaps in the fence, you can only see a bottomless darkness.

Has his memory been tampered with?There is no other explanation.

Whether it's this familiar yet unfamiliar space, the smell in the air, the lost dagger, the brand new uniform, the rusty body, Petola's deceit or Jean's lies, what are they trying to cover up, what can't be known to him the truth.

Levi raised his head and looked out of the window, he twitched the corners of his mouth, the rain all over the sky was like a natural cage trapping him to death in this ancient castle.

What a coincidence that the rain fell, cleverly speculated on people's hearts, and used the heavy rain to prevent him from going out of the castle to seek the truth himself.

Ahhh, even he has become suspicious. It's just raining, but he feels very uncomfortable. Using this method, one or two of them will treat mental patients cautiously.

Although the memory is very chaotic, like a ball of knotted wool stuffed in tangled cotton wool, he is not even sure which memories are real and which are dreams, but if it is about Alan's death...he has already been mentally prepared Yes, or he felt that he had already experienced it.

That kind of heart-wrenching to the extreme, the feeling of remorse that I can't wait to dig out my heart and throw it away.

But he couldn't bear it, he didn't want to forget the relationship he had with him, if it was easier to forget, he would rather keep the pain to the limit.

He won't give up, he's not that fragile, even if he wants to give up, it's according to his own will, being manipulated by others, even if it's good intentions, he will never accept it.

It would be better to deny the existence of Alan than to let him remember the fact that Alan died. Who is the person who draws such an upside-down conclusion and even implements it?

Will this kind of practice be allowed, will Erwin come back as he lives?

Levi's stagnant pace moved forward again.

In fact, there is nothing to be afraid of. In that life-long dream, he already experienced the pain of having nothing, so the current situation is already very lucky.

It's just... I don't understand, what is he hiding from him, what time is it now, his memory is completely occupied by that dream, and the things before that dream can't be recalled no matter what, just like himself My memory starts from the dream, and the things before it will naturally not exist because they never happened.

Although Petra's explanation is very reasonable, and it can also explain the reason why the three-dimensional mobile device is not by his side, but intuitively, he just thinks something is wrong, and there is a sense of disobedience everywhere.

Years of fighting with giants made Levi trust his intuition very much. Those momentary anomalies in the air that could not be explained by words, only captured by his body, this momentary intuition has saved him countless times.

So it's not just Allen, what happened before this, before he fell into a deep sleep, and what was the reason for hiding him.

Petra and the others looked a few years older than what they remembered or dreamed before they died. Even the facial features on Kirchstein's face were not what a teenager would have. He is more mature and familiar, basically the same as the 20-year-old he saw before waking up from the dream.

But this scene made him feel in a trance that he had returned to the time when he just took over Allen five years ago, and lived in this castle in order to make Allen more familiar with his abilities and master the method of freely transforming into a giant.

Those incongruities that seem to be familiar but not true have dulled his senses, and he can't use his own observations and other people's words to reason about the current situation.

The only thing that is clear is that everything is wrong.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone in the special operations team was still alive and didn't die in the battle of the Giant Wood Forest, he would even suspect that there were no dreams at all, and that the so-called dreams were reality.

Unknowingly, he had already walked to Erwin's office, Levi had no intention of knocking on the door at all, and in a bad mood, he turned the doorknob without hesitation, and pushed the door open.

"Erwin."

The person sitting behind the desk didn't seem surprised by Levi's arrival, he put his hands on the table casually, and looked at Levi with a smile on his face.

"I'm glad you're awake, but it's really not something you would do if you were injured and passed out during the three-dimensional maneuver training. How do you feel now? Do you need to go to the medical class again?" Erwin teased lightly. .

However, Levi didn't intend to dance with him, but just stared at him coldly.

"Have you finished talking nonsense? What are you planning? Let it be a giant? Stop joking! Command them to tell such lies, what are you thinking!"

Hearing Levi's words, Erwin was taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't expect the other party to be so straightforward, but the smile on his face just froze for a moment because of this, and after that, his smile became deeper, and the smile on his face His expression became more and more unpredictable.

"What time does Levi think it is?" Erwin suddenly threw out an irrelevant question.

"...What do you want to do?" Levi still kept staring at him.

"There is no rush to answer first. I will answer your question well, but you have to answer my question first before I know where to start."

Levi was very upset by the other party's unhurried, steady tone, but he was at a disadvantage because he was asking for others. If Erwin didn't want to say it, he couldn't pry his mouth open.

With great reluctance, he answered.

"...855."

"Oh—do you really know this number, or did you guess it?" Mingming's expression was smiling, but his manner gave off an aggressive feeling.

"I've already answered your question, now it's your turn, tell me, what are you planning on doing."

Levi was not shaken by Erwin's words, but he calmed down because of it. Erwin's intention to avoid it by provoking him was too obvious.

"...Why are you asking, isn't it good to maintain the status quo?"

Erwin sighed deeply suddenly, those fake smiles were peeled off, his face looked tired and helpless.

"Since you want to forget, forget it completely. You don't know this kind of up and down state. How worried we are. We have been forgotten, and even our existence has been erased, but we are still there. Work hard, sometimes I really feel a little resentful."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Levi looked at Erwin in astonishment, he could understand the words spoken by the other party, but the words organized into sentences were completely incomprehensible. Understood.

"I'm complaining, you worrying guy" Erwin stood up suddenly and walked over to Levi, with a wry smile on his sideways face "If you want to know anyway, just go Go through that door, and the truth you want is in there."

Following Erwin's gestures, Levi saw the wooden door opened in the corner, and he didn't notice the existence of this door until this moment. There was no decoration on the door, not even paint, It seems that the wood boards found here and there have been stapled to the wall without any treatment at all.

It is so simple and casual that it becomes an eye-catching existence. Once you notice it, it is difficult to ignore it.

Was there this door in Erwin's office before?

However, before he could think about it, Erwin suddenly put his hand on his shoulder, with a serious and cautious tone.

"It's hard for me to express my feelings, but we all have expectations for you, but you have to be mentally prepared, where everything you know will be subverted, don't be defeated."

Erwin patted him on the shoulder and walked out, leaving him alone to face the extremely simple but abnormal door.