Chapter 63: Getting him back (63)
As the scout gained on the retreating armor titan, Armin's mind went back to Ymir's words...the words about titan power being something that you have to do something to get.
The knowledge that the girl had given the scouts, practically proved that Titans....were human...and the reason why the Titans were attracted to humans to begin with was because it was an instinct ingrained in the titan cell.
This meant that Eren.....probably at some point in his life turned into a titan.
Armin brain rattled a bit in his mind trying to ponder who could Eren have devoured to gain his power, it couldn't be his mom, his mom was turning into a Kit Kat bar in front of him and Mikasa so that was a no.
Couldnt be Hanse....as the man was still alive.
Thinking further on it, he realized that Eren was last scene with his father, yeah if he remembers correctly Eren was dragged to the woods with his dad but only Eren returned with his dad semi broken glass.
This clicked in his mind....so if taken into context...that would mean that Eren had eaten his dad.
Armin did not know how to feel with that info, especially with the info about titan shifter usually having 13 years to live after inheriting a titan power.
If Eren per se had gained the power when the wall fell, he would be around 10, considering Eren was currently 15, that means 5 years had passed.
So Eren had roughly 8 years left give or take.
So that means his friend would die at 23.....Armin did not like the sound of that.
This did make why the obsession with Akira seem a bit more plausible if you were a leader of a nation and you had the choice between 2 warriors.
On the right, you have someone who can turn into a titan, has very good healing and can deal good damage, can transform about 2 times an hour,r and stays in the form for roughly 15 minutes give or take.
He was estimating here, Well to be fair, Ymir was giving the info for the group to hear, and she did say quite a lot, she probably would be questioned once they got back from the mission for more info.
Anyway, back to his hypothesis, the titan shifter will need to change every 13 years, no iff nor buts about it.
Then on the second, you have someone, who can spot someone even if there is an obstacle...can see about 500 meters in all directions and like 1.5 kilometers in one direction, and he can shut down someone's pressure point and make them unable to move.
He does not need to get close and can do it from quite a distance away.... alongside other stuff like helping people heal faster, giving someone a photographic memory for a bit, the ability to strengthen someone, and so on....and to top it all, he has a regular human lifespan.
So in his lifetime, he can probably see a lot of shifters...
Let's say, he starts at age,15, 5 shifter later, he would be 80.....yeah that fit...Armin was arguing that even as an old person a Hyuga probably would be stronger than an average person...
His point was simple....he just looked at the gap currently between Mikasa and Akira.....Mind you Mikasa could probably fold him into a lawnchair...not probably, she could, and yet she lost to Akira, the gap between Mikasa and everyone else in the newly graduated cadet was quite large.
She even surpassed some elites....one look at his friend's face...
Yep, Mikasa was determined beyond what was humanly possible, she would be getting Eren back.
"I will get you back.....no matter what" Mikasa swore, her eyes glaring at the armored titan.
The second she was within range, she used her ODM gear to grapple unto the armor titan nape...
*FWOOSH*
Without a moment of hesitation, she was next to the titan's nape, gracefully hitting the nape she rushed toward Berthold.
Every single vein in her body worked in unison, she was angry, she was furious even.
Using all the might her body could give her, she dashed off toward Berthold's position aiming to kill the man with on single blow to the head.
"Reiner protect us!" Berthold managed to let out, Reiner's hand moved quickly, blocking the strike that was aimed to cut Berthold's head off.
However something unexpected had happened, Some of the Armor titan armor.....had been...sliced..off...some of the armor titan armor....cracked...
Mikasa's blade shattered but that did not stop her from giving Berthold a dead glare, her eyes radiating nothing but killing intent.
Inside her body, weird energy could be seen flowing through her vein, a bluish energy could be seen reinforcing every single cell in her body, her bone density increased slightly, alongside her muscle density, if before she had the strength of a 15-meter titan in human flesh, now she had the strength of 30-meter titan in human flesh.
She was not playing around, As Reiner attempted to swat her away, the jaw titan appeared, The jaw titan jumped onto Reiner and bit his arm.
The titan was able to bite a hole in Reiner's armor... Reiner could easily try and swat her away, after all, Eren and Akira were in his hand and he did not want any harm to befall them.
Gritting his teeth, he just attempted to push her away, Krista who was currently holding onto Ymir's hair, searched for an opportunity, her blue eyes seemingly seemed to glisten a bit more.
She knew he was in there, she would get him back no matter the cost.