ᴛᴏɢᴇᴛʜᴇʀ ʇou ꜰᴏʀᴇᴠᴇʀ

10

"I'm sorry, Armin." Mina cried as she clutched her shirt.

Armin shook his head and stood up. "Don't apologize." he muttered and walked away.

"Sorry for being a burden. I'll go join the rear guard." Armin told Connie as he passed by him.

"H-hey... Armin!" Connie called out for him but Armin used his maneuver gear to swing away.

"This is hell. Wait, that's nothing new. I just wasn't aware of it until now. This world has always been hell." Armin thought as flashbacks of his childhood coming back to him.

Young Armin getting beaten up by three kids around his age. 

"They strong prey on the weak. It's so mercifully simple."

Young Eren, (Y/n), and Mikasa ran towards them as the other kid kept kicking Young Armin.

"But... my friends..."

Young Eren punched one of the kids in the face, Young Mikasa flipped the other kid towards the wall and Young (Y/n) kicked the last kid hard on the temple.

"..sought the strength to live in this world."

Young Armin helplessly watched Young Eren getting gang up by two kids as Young (Y/n) help him.

"They saved a weakling like me."

Young Eren offered a hand to Young Armin who looked up at his friends.

"I couldn't bear that."

Young Eren's brows were furrowed, Young (Y/n) sat next to her brother with a worried gaze and Young Mikasa frown with a small pout.

"To them, I'm just someone who needs protection. I want to be strong like them, so I could stand as their equal and survive in this world."

Armin's hook didn't dig through the wall, making him stumble and hit the wall and landed on the ground with his bum.

He whimpered and cried on the side as he hold his legs close to his chest.

"And this is all my feelings amounted to. Because of me, Eren was... If I didn't leave (Y/n)'s side... she wouldn't have..."

Armin's eyes widened when he heard grunts. He looked behind him and saw Hannah giving CPR to Franz.

He slowly walked up to her. "Hannah, what are you..." Armin muttered and Hannah looked up at him.

"Armin, help me! Franz isn't breathing!" Hannah cried as she continued to compress Franz's chest.

"I've been trying to resuscitate him over and over again, but Franz isn't..." Hannah continued to cry out.

"Hannah, it's dangerous here, so let's just-" Armin got cut off by her and flinched.

"I can't just leave Franz like this!" Hannah yelled at him.

"No, Hannah... Franz is..." Armin mutters as tears flow down in his blue eyes. Franz's lower body is gone assuming that he's already dead.

Armin looked at the scene in horror and covered one of his eyes. "Please... just stop." Armin pleaded but Hannah didn't listened.

"There's nothing... that can be done for him."

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Mina on the other hand, still shaken up at the events that happened, she couldn't concentrate at all.

Milieus is on her side, giving her comfort as much as he could. He was mad at himself that he wasn't strong enough to defend himself and kill that Titan.