Chapter 22: The Truth

                                    

                                          
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"Utgard castle have been destroyed!" One of our comrades said. 
                          
My eyes widened when I saw a lot of titans surrounding the crashed castle. Mikasa and I made our horse go faster and when we saw a clear view of the situation we both hooked our wires into the titans and started slicing their napes. 
                          
I saw Christa staring at a titan who's nearing her. I gritted my teeth and hooked my wires onto the titan's back and sliced it's nape. I landed on the rocks and everyone looked surprised to see me. 
                          
"Y/N?!" 
                          
"It's you...why you are?!" 
                          
I looked back at them. "Get back, Krista. Everyone else, too. Leave this to us." I said and made my way to kill more titans. 
                          
I saw Eren flying in the air and sliced a titan's nape. He looks so happy that he already made his first kill but because he's stupid he fell on the ground. 
                          
"HEY! EREN!" Connie called Eren. 
                          
I looked at Connie and saw Reiner and Bertholdt behind him. Reiner has a bandage on his arm tied on his neck. I looked away and made my way to Christa who's holding Ymir on her arms. The others went to us too. 
                          
Ymir is a titan shifter too. Tsk. How many more of our friends are titan shifters?
                          
"Ymir...My name is Historia." Christa said while tearing up.
                          
Ymir's eyes slight-opened. She smiled a bit upon hearing Christa's real name.
                          
We all made our way up to the wall. 
                          
I am beside Eren and looking down. 
I saw Reiner going up. 
                          
"Ymir had no idea what shape she's in. Her right arm and right leg were bitten off. And they say her organs are like scrambled eggs. It's enough to kill a normal person."
                          
Normal, huh?
                          
Reiner grabbed on the wall. I stared at him and he stared back at me. Eren bent down and offered his hand at Reiner. 
                          
"Reiner, grab on." Eren said. 
                          
Reiner held Eren's hand. 
                          
"Thanks." Reiner said when he finally got up in the wall. 
                          
Reiner sighed and massaged his temples. Armin arrived next and Eren helped him.
                          
"We came here to seal up a wall." Eren said. 
                          
I looked at Reiner who sat down. "Oww..." Reiner whined because of his injured arm. 
                          
"Are you okay, Reiner?" Eren asked. 
                          
Reiner facepalmed. "No! A titan chewed through my arm! What do I do? I might be done. So even someone as strong as you can get like that. Right, Armin?" Reiner said. 
                          
"Huh?" Armin asked in confusion. 
                          
I looked at Bertholdt who's behind Reiner. He looks bothered.
                          
"What're you talking about? This is the second time this has happened to me. I was stuck inside a titan's hand before." Reiner said looking so stressed. 
                          
"Oh that time..." Armin said.
                          
"I've already had two near-death experiences. I'm not going to be around for much longer at this pace. 
I know I chose this path for myself, but it seems like being a soldier wears down your mind before your body. Well I guess there's no time to whine when we still have a hole to plug." 
He said and massaged his temples.