The woman on the cover is Maria, The MC's mother
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At the top of the mountain behind the mansion, Erwin, Levi, and Hange made their way through the road, the scenery around them was all trees until they reached the top. there they saw something they never thought exist in these walls
A large lake that is surrounded by different kinds of flowers, there is even a small amount of animals like deers who are feeding on the green grass, Swans are swimming on the top of the lake, everything about this place screams Peace, calmness, and beauty
Erwin and Levi looked around to find the mysterious young lord while Hange jumped on the nearest deer to feed her hungry stomach.
Levi who was looking around, felt something calling for him, a voice in his head kept whispering to him to go to the other side of the lake, he felt quite strange and uncomfortable. he looked over the lake and soon he located a young boy leaning on a particular tree at the other side of the lake, he seems to be sleeping in peace with nature. Levi informed Erwin about it and made their way to him.
" Hange, come back and act like your age for once " Levi dragged Hange who was scaring the animals with her predator's eyes
"But Levi, look, it's a deer, we haven't eaten meat in months " Hange argued back but she didn't succeed
They went to the other side of the lake and stopped at Ace's feet, they looked between each other and noded
"Ace-sama, Ace-sama " Erwin shook Ace body to wake him up, soon, Ace's eyes started to twitch as he opened them slowly to adjust to the sun's brightness
" Erwin...Smith" Ace rubbed his eyes, he recognized Erwin, he looked behind him and saw Levi and Hange " Captain Beyblade and.. Frankenstein..." his words made Levi and Hange twitch their eyebrows. Beyblade? Frankenstein? what's that?
" Sorry to disturb your sleep but we have something to talk about, don't you think?" said Erwin
" Yes, it is," said Ace as he stood up " But first, you need to keep in mind that what you will hear or see, is not something normal and may come as a shocker to you"
Erwin noded while Levi just kept on getting annoying " Just tell us what you have already, it can't be that hard of a request, is it?" he said
" Verry well, it may be out of the blue. but I will show you, not tell you" Ace made his way toward the lake, making Erwin and the rest confused
" What are you trying to do?" asked Hange seeing Ace diving deep down the lake
Soon her answer came in in the form of a bright golden light under the water followed with a large and loud explosion of the lake scarring them and the nearby animals who ran away. Water fell down on them like rain, Levi got in front of Hange and Erwin as he sensed danger from that. the water started raising up little by a little while also revealing a tall shape that the three of them recognize very well, something they have encountered for years, something that was their main enemy
Erwin's eyes are wide open with surprise, he can guess where this titan came from. a strange feeling started to form inside him, a feeling he forgot for a long time
After the water came down and revealed Ace's titan form completely, he opened his mouth and said " Hope you didn't get hurt " his voice had some kind of echo to it
"No, just wet, that's all, " said Levi, he was clearly annoyed, Ace chuckled at that, his chuckle was kinda...scary
Ace started to dive again and covering his Titan with the water lake, he then got out of his titan and let Decomposes under the water, he didn't want for the titan smoke to rise up in the sky. that's why he chose to meet them here at the top of the mountain
Ace got out of the lake, soaked wet, as soon as stepped out of the water he was tackled by Hange
" how did you do that? are you a titan? or a human? where did you come from? " Hange was so excited seeing Ace turn into a titan that she lost control of her body, it can be correct to say she was aroused " Can I dissect you? " she said this with a cheerful and shy expression like she was asking him for candy, she started creeping Ace more and more, but luckily she was pulled back by Erwin
" Enough of that Hange," Erwin said with a dead serious expression that snaped Hange from her freaky mode, she coughed and calmed her self down
Levi came forward and looked at Ace with doubtful eyes
" So, is this is your secret? " Levu pulled a knife from his military boots and was ready to take Ace out " give me a reason to not kill you right here and right now "
" Hold back Levi, I don't think we are enemies," said Erwin
Ace was surprised at this, he expected some kind of suspicion and distrust to break between them as shown by Levi but he didn't expect the commander to be this trusting at the beginning
As if knowing what Ace was thinking, Erwin smiled a little and said " I prepared myself days ago for something like this, I didn't expect from you to turn into a titan but I expected something closer, adding what you father said earlier " Erwin was referring to what Roger said when he mentioned about his son's "Power". Erwin was quick on picking that hint up
" then, that will make our talk run smoothly," said Ace as he took his shirt off to dry it up
" We are listening," said Erwin
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Back at the Mansion, Eren, Armin, Mikasa, and Krista are resting after a long training session under C. Laurance. Krista had joined the training 3 days after her marriage with Ace. After knowing that the 4 of them will be joining the military training, she insisted on Maria to let her join their training, Maria refused at first and said that Krista should focus on herself and be a good wife instead of going after death even tho she knows that her family are basically immortals, she couldn't bring herself to let her daughter experience that hell out there , but she agreed after Ace said he will be needing his wife beside him to keep him company and who was she to separate a husband and wife. in the end, she could only give up
" Is it true that the survey corps are here in the mansion? did they arrive already?! " Eren asked Krista with an excited face, Levi was his idol and he was dying to meet him " where are they? I want to meet them "
" After they finish talking with Ace you can do whatever you want, Fanboy," said Krista, ner relationship had improved a lot with Eren, Mikasa and Armin, especially with Mikasa, they became good friends in short amount of time.
" I don't know what you like about that midget?" said Mikasa " whatever he can do, other soldiers can too " she never realized how special Levi was, and never understood why he was called Humanity's strongest weapon. from her point of view, he was just another soldier who is good at fighting, that was all
" You don't understand, let me educate you..." Eren started blabbing about Levi and his past achievements, his titan killing records, and how charismatic he is. Poor boy
" Eren...Enough, please, we heard this speech like 87th time since last week " Armin had it the worst, all day long Erin couldn't stop talking about Levi with the survey corps and how cool they are. but his words didn't even reach Eren's ears and he continued to talk
" KIDS!! FOOD IS READY!" Maria called them from the mansion's balcony, she was wearing her apron and her hair tied in a ponytail
The kids ran inside the house and they were met with Erwin, Ace, Levi, Hange, and Roger sitting on the table. Maria insisted that the survey corps people won't leave until they had shared food with them, Maria couldn't leave her guests to leave without even making food for them
As soon as Eren saw Levi, he dashed at him and expressed his admiration for him, as he stated that he will be joining the survey corps after the military training. Hange teased Levi saying he got himself a fan, only to be ignored by him
After eating food and chatting for a bit, Eren and co decided it was time to leave
Outside of the mansion
Erwin faced Ace and shook his hand
" I can't express my gratitude towards you enough Ace-sama, we will prepare everything when for the next three years. as for that potion you gave us, I will send Levi personally to get it every month" Levi nodded in agreement
" Yes, just remember that my limit is 1 every day, meaning 30 every month," said Ace, he had given Commander Erwin a potion that was made from Mixing his blood with water with the sole purpose of healing grave wounds. he gave this to help the survey corps from losing soldiers every time they left the walls, it won't prevent their deaths but it can help heal the injured soldiers who suffer grave injuries like broken bones and missing limbs.
this was the beginning of the rise of the survey corps.
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Next is...The military training. took a long time, I know.
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I will reveal what Ace and Erwin talked about in the future little by little, as there is enough time during the Military training
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