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"Geez... The room smells like wine and heavy expensive perfume." Y/N sighed as she fixed her tie and then gazed at the noble people talking and drinking.

"This is amazing," Udo said watching the nobles and famous people in the grand room.

"I've seen these people in the newspaper," Falco added

"There's no time for chit chat. We didn't practice serving them just to stand around." Gabi said then pointed at a table. "Look I see some empty glasses. Get to it!"

And they did the four kids with their agility and speed, continued to clean the table, take away empty plates and refill wine for the guests. Y/N was quite dumbfounded seeing them so passionately serving while she stood there calmly.

"My hands weren't trained to serve but I guess I'll do my best," Y/N muttered to herself as she did the same thing that the 4 warrior candidates but was calmer rather than pacing around.

"Look at that. They've got filth blooded urchins carrying the plates" A noble trash said as he noticed Udo carrying the empty plates.

"So that's where the stink on my food came from." Another arrogant bastard added covering its nose. Udo was about to look like he was going to punch the pigs but accidentally bumped into someone, spilling their kimono.

When seeing the person that Udo spilt wine, Y/N heavily sighed in relief knowing that the person will somehow help. On the other hand, Udo looked petrified.

"I-I'm terribly sorry!" Udo exclaimed horridly but was calmed down by Kiyomi placing an arm around his shoulder to quiet him.

"Don't make a scene," Kiyomi said quietly.

"B-but your beautiful clothes..."

"Is something the matter, ma'am?" A man asked as Kiyomi quickly took the glass from Udo and pretended to act.

"Oh, how embarrassing. This young man was helping me wipe up some wine I spilt on my kimono." Kiyomi smiled then turned to Udo. "Thank you, dear."

"I see. That's unfortunate." The man said then turned around suggesting to follow him. "Please this way..."

"Wh-why..." Udo muttered

"Who knows what they'd do to you?" Kiyomi whispered back then left Udo.

As Kiyomi was following the man, she gave Y/N a small nod and then faced away. Even though she hardly despised nor liked Kiyomi, she still felt thankful. Y/N sighed and continued with what she was supposed to do.

Some time passed as Willy Tybur arrived. Many people looked at the man with admiration and respect as people greeted him with friendly tones and smiles.

'So this is the man... The man who could conceivably hold the Warhammer.' Y/N thought.

Y/N has heard the Tyburs frequently in newspapers when she once lived in Marley though she didn't pay much attention to them.

Suddenly, A man taps a wine glass with a small spoon. The sound vibrated throughout the room catching everyone's attention.

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for joining us on this night. Until just the other day, we waged an unsightly war in the pursuit of natural resources. But yesterday's enemy is today's enemy!" The man with a smug smile caught everyone off guard with his last sentence. "Oh, excuse me. Yesterday's enemy is today's friend! Let us flush the past down the toilet along with our wine and raise a toast to the future!"

'Well, shit no fuck... This man is trying to wage another war on their supposed 'friends'.' Y/N thought sipping wine on a glass she took while she snickered seeing foreign people looking agitated and a bit upset by the speech.

"Now to a long-lasting peace!" The man raised his glass as silence went after the speech. The only sound heard was Willy clapping as he approached the man.

"Thank you for that speech, Minister. I must say, your joke was quite a cerebral one. But it appears your diction didn't quite connect with them," Willy excused with a pleasing smile. He took the glass from the minister's hands and his dignity as he directed the man to excuse himself. "So please allow me to take it from here."

As the minister left the centre stage, applauds for Willy arose. The whole difference of respect the foreign visitors give to Willy is very wide comparing it to the minister a while ago.

"Tomorrow I will be inviting you all to the Liberio internment zone. It is home to the people who once slaughtered countless countries people whose blood runs in my veins. The demons are known as Eldians." Willy explained placing his palm on his chest. "Marley, the country most oppressed by those demons, has now used them to oppress other countries in turn, leading to tragedy after tragedy.

I sympathise greatly with your desire for the eradication of Eldians. And I have brought you a single solution to this nursing problem... Tomorrow I will reveal this solution onstage in a performance like none the world has seen before."

Willy raised the glass full of wine in his hands for a toast.

"To a great playwright and the witnesses of history!" The rest followed the toast raising their glasses.

"It'll be a great playwright tomorrow..." Y/N snickered to herself.

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"It's been a while since I've witnessed or been to a festival..." Y/N's eyes widened as she closed the door of her's and Zeke's house.

The different coloured patterns of triangular flags are raised on houses as different kinds of stalls gather through the streets, selling a variety of foods, things and trinkets. It was truly lively like none other.

Indeed Y/N looked like an excited puppy seeing new things. Despite that, Y/N felt a bit agitated about the sooner plans. Wanting to take her mind off of it, she began to walk through the streets, looking and prying eyes on the food stalls, especially a new ice cream stall.

The girl was intrigued due to the ice cream flavours compared to the normal sellers around Liberio. Y/N was impressed a went up to the ice cream stall.

'Willy Tybur outdid himself on this...' Y/N thought.

"What would you like miss?" The vendor asked.

"Hmm... One strawberry flavour, please." Y/N answered as the vendor nodded and began to scoop out the ice cream.

When Y/N reached up to her pocket to get money, a hand reached up faster to the vendor to pay her for the ice cream.

"Colt?" Y/N was startled seeing Colt beside her with a smile, especially him paying for her ice cream. Colt took the ready-made ice cream from the vendor's grasp and gave it to Y/N.

"You forgot I told you it's gonna be my treat." Colt smiled. "I never knew the one and only Ms Y/N Yeager could forget a treat from a friend."

"You idiot I just forgot" Y/N chuckled as the two started walking. "Let's go find the kids."

"You know... Falco nor the rest of the kids haven't experienced a festival before." Colt admitted. "Even me..."

"You're already experiencing a festival, you idiot. The lively hood and beauty of it make it a festival." Y/N explained joyfully licking her ice cream.

Despite the friendly aura around the two, Colt still felt feelings for her. Even admiring her was hard for him not to blush but he tried his best. The rejection he received from her didn't stop his feelings from overgrowing.

"Oh! There they are!" Y/N exclaimed as the two dashed up to the Warriors except for Zeke and the kids.

They were at a food stall and the kids looked at their wallets to see it was already empty from the constant food binge buying. They turned around to Reiner with constant puppy eyes on them. Reiner felt the emotions. Y/N snickered and did the same which made Reiner more sympathetic.

And well what happens next just consists of Reiner's wallet dying because of filling different kinds of food for his colleagues and the kids. It was quite a brutal scene, especially for me, the author, cause I'm broke and I felt the constant buying of many things in my heart.

While paying for another stall, Reiner looked back and saw the rest of the kids alongside Y/N smiling, which caused him to slightly give a smile seeing he was able to make them happy.

The sun was falling to a set as Y/N and Colt waved goodbye to the warriors and the kids since Y/N's house was in the opposite direction to their's plus Colt wanted to walk her back.

"Ahhhh my stomach is filled with Reiner's money" Y/N buried loudly causing Colt to giggle. The two started walking to Y/N's house.

"It hurts seeing his wallet slowly losing all of its money..."

"It does..." Y/N smiled for a second then slowly her face gloomed dark. Though despite that Colt didn't see her gloomy face as his attention was directed in front.

"You know... I have a feeling something really big will happen soon." Colt admitted as Y/N tried to bite her lip feeling the regret she was about to do soon. Y/N stopped walking causing him to stop as well...

"You know, Colt... I can walk myself back on my own." Colt was dumbfounded hearing this not though he gulped and as the gentleman, he is he agreed to stop her here.

"Thank you, Colt." Y/N smiled in a very off kind of demeanour and walked away as Colt just stood there watching Y/N with total confusion.

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It was the night of the performance and Y/N arrived with Peick, Porco, Zophia and Udo.

"Why are wearing very long clothes, Y/N?" Peick questioned. Y/N wore a long-sleeved coat paired with very wide but thin long pants.

"I don't like the cold at night. It's too cold for my hotness." Y/N whipped her hair with massive confidence as Peick chuckled while Porco snorted as the pig he is. (A hot pig, might I say)

"Did you guys have fun?" Zeke asked when everyone came up to him with Colt beside him.

"Huh? Where's Falco?" Colt asked.

"He said he recognised someone and ran off to greet them," Udo answered.

"Really? Is he gonna be back in time?" Colt asked worryingly as Porco placed an arm around him.

"Come on, today's a celebration. Relax a little." Porco reassured the blonde.

"Don't worry, Colt. I have a feeling Falco is in good hands." Y/N added.

"Look at all these people..." Zophia muttered as people began to occupy their seats.

"Huh? He's back." Pick looked around and saw Falco going up to Reiner.

"Officer Braun!" Falco seemed to be in a hurry as he panted.

"Where have you been?" Gabi asked but Falco ignored her.

"Can you come with me?" Falco asked as he pointed in a direction.

"Right now?"

"Should be fine," Zeke answered as Y/N leaned on him. "We still have time before the curtain rises."

And with that, Falco ran off with Reiner to who knows where they're going. Y/N could only smirk in the dark.

"You gotta be ready, rusty old bearded blonde monkey brother," Y/N whispered to her brother as he elbowed her very hard to silence her. "You motherfuck that hurts..."

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'What a drag...' Y/N sighed to herself.

One by one the seats were filled. Mostly they were famous interviewers, Captains, Higher-ups, Parents of warriors, and many more.

"Wow, even Marshal Calvi is here."

"I never thought I'd see the heart of the Marleyan army here in the internment zone."

"And there are ambassadors and famous families from all over the world."

"Not to mention reporters from all the biggest newspapers."

"Feels like we're at the centre of the world, doesn't it?" Peick said as she jokingly shook Zophia's shoulders.

"The Tybur family's influence is something else," Colt spoke.

"Even though they're Eldians too..." Y/N added.

'Blood will always be thicker than water... Nothing will change that.' Y/N thought.

Suddenly, trumpets, trombones and tubas began to play on the stage, catching everyone's attention. Y/N patted Zophia's head when she was startled by the noise and covered her ears.

"It's starting..." Gabi said.

"I wonder what's taking Falco and Mr Braun so long," Udo questioned.

With that, a random soldier arrived beside them...

"Marleyan warriors and Miss Y/N. Captain Magath has summoned you." The soldier said sternly.

The flashing of cameras and their lights lit through the stage on which Willy Tybur stood. The applauds and claps arose as he bowed in front.

"Allow me to tell you a story... Approximately one hundred years ago, the Eldian race ruled the world with the power of the Titans. Between the appearance of the Founder, Ymir, and the present day, Titans have stolen the lives of so many people that the present population of the world could die thrice over and still not compare." Two silhouettes of titans were displayed on the large white cloth as Willy stopped and the silhouettes were gone replacing a bunch of people acting like the dead with blood spread around them. "Because of the Titans, an extraordinary number of races and the cultures and histories thereof, have been stolen from the world.

That slaughter has defined human history and the history of the Eldian Empire. And when the Eldian Empire ran out of enemies, it turned to the killing of its kind. Thus began the Great Titan War."

Everyone's attention diverted to actors portraying The Great Titan War on stage.

"Houses holding eight titans shed blood in combat among themselves. In these desperate times, one Marleyan saw a path to victory. He was our hero, Helos."

A man dressed up as a soldier was given the spotlight to share with Willy.

"By artfully waging an information war, he led the Eldian Empire's biggest threats to turn against and kill one another. He then joined hands with the Tybur family and successfully drove King Fritz for whom victory was now out of reach, to Paradis Island."

The actors played what Willy foretold as the crowd began to applaud.

"But even exiled to the island, the king still held power. Tens of millions of titans capable of crushing the world flat still slumber on that island. The fact that our world still exists undisturbed to this day is pure luck. That is the only explanation our Titan experts can muster up."

With that sentence, Y/N couldn't manage to keep a smug smirk on her face hearing it.

"My fatherland, Marley, decided to take the initiative against the island. And sent four titans to neutralise the threat, but that plan failed and only the Armoured titan returned. In other words, the Eldian Empire scourge of human history is alive and well."

'Alive and well? Tch... What an understatement that is... I bet I was well when I saw my mother eat my mother...' Y/N snickered.

"Both Yeager, proceed directly to the front gate." The soldier said.

"Yeah yeah..." Zeke said.

"Bye-bye, Porky and Peick," Y/N said as she catches up to Zeke.

Y/N looked back and saw the soldier aka Yelena going in the opposite direction with Porco and Peick.

"They're far away from us..." Y/N spoke.

"You understand the mission right?" Zeke asked looking at his younger sister. "Or do I need to explain it to you once again even in a time like this?"

"Geez worry-wat. You don't need to be so agitated I know the plan. You've never seen me in action except for the time I sliced your arm with my one and only Levi." Y/N snorted as Zeke rolled his eyes.

"Shut your mouth and go to the place. It's ready-made for you there." Zeke said.

"Yeah yeah... I'll see you soon, dear brother." Y/N waved goodbye to her brother and went her own way.

While walking through the streets to go to her destination, she noticed there wasn't even a single person on the street. Mostly all of the people were watching the show and knowing that, made Y/N sigh heavily.

It was quiet but the sound of the crowd and Willy still echoes through though it reminded her back when the night she graduated from the training corps.

Once her eyes landed on a specific abandoned building, she immediately dashed to it and went inside. There wasn't anything much of the building but just piles of dust that I'm sure Levi would be very upset about and wooden chairs and tables.

Her eyes set to a small wooden chest in the corner of the room and approached it. Crouching down and opening the wooden chest, her eyes widened seeing the new uniform and upgraded gear of the Survey Corps.

Y/N did know that Hange was working on new uniforms and upgraded gears but she didn't know it would be used today. The girl couldn't help but smile seeing a piece of paper next to her uniform.

It wrote:

"Enjoy your new gear - Hange;)"

"I'll kill you when I see you - Levi"

Y/N laughed seeing Levi's one sentence though she was also grateful for Hange. Indeed she felt homesick without Levi. Levi is her home. She knows it sounded cheesy but it's the truth. At least she didn't deny it.

After a few hardships in putting on the full-body uniform and gears, Y/N was ready as she held her two newly made blades.

'It's been a while since I've held these babies.' Y/N thought with a smirk. Noticing her long-sleeved coat, she picked it up and wore it, buttoning up the buttons. 'I do hope it can at least hide my gear.'

With that, she exited the abandoned building as she tried to avoid at least anyone around. Y/N reached a street where there weren't any people around and that was close to the event.

Y/N's eyes widened when she felt someone behind her and looked behind. It was none other than Ymir Fritz herself standing the same as in the old days.

"You... Out of all the moments, you can appear, you think this is the best time, huh?" Y/N snickered as she brushed her hair backwards.

Ymir stood silent before she disappeared in the blink of an eye by Y/N.

"Well fuck that... If the founder appears, it means something about to happen sooner than we thought." Y/N said as she held her coat waiting for the right time to take it off.

"The threat posed by Paradis Island is the attack of this army of Colossal Titans: The Rumbling. As I explained earlier, the royal bloodline is bound by the pledge renouncing war, and cannot utilise the power of the Founding Titan." Willy continued to explain. "But Eren Yeager, who now holds the Founding Titan, is not bound by any promise. If he begins the Rumbling, there will be nothing we can do."