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"Why can't I drink with them?" Y/N pouted sadly at Levi as she then looked at her fellow scouts and her squad drinking happily with the brought wine.

"You just puked a few days ago... I don't trust your system drinking wine in a mission." Levi answered sternly as he stared at the bonfire which was the only light source through the deep dark forest of giant trees.

"B-but... It was just a few days ago..." Y/N pouted more as she turned to the only thing she can do. She gave Levi the puppy eyes which she rarely does.

"That won't work..." Levi said knowing that Y/N was giving him the puppy eyes despite staring at the bonfire heating a metal container above it.

"Waah. So mean~~ Levi~" Y/N whined and gave up.

Her eyes then diverted to Zeke who was reading a book with intent. Y/N felt that Zeke was oddly sceptical. If Zeke were to read a book, he would look calm and relaxed but he wasn't. His gaze on the book looks like something is bothering him and doesn't look like reading the book at all. Zeke's gaze looked like he was up to something.

But before Y/N could point out her brother's odd demeanour, she began to feel mass fatigue coming into her body as to then she leaned on Levi's shoulder and slumbered into the dream world.

Y/N felt the sandy texture on her back as she opened her eyes. She was back at the emitting white tree and was greeted by the starry night sky and the texture of the pure white sand.

It was a while since she last came here. Probably a month or so. Y/N looked around to see the surroundings if anything changed at all but of course, it hasn't. The tree was still glowing brightly like before. Staring at the brightness made Y/N turn around and rub her eyes.

The more she rubbed her eyes, the more lost and chaotic her eyesight is. The feeling of being transferred to an alternative dimension. Once Y/N's eyes cleared themselves as she blinked, her surroundings changed.

She wasn't in the paths where the bright tree, snow-white sand and the starry night sky reside but she was in the crystal cavern. Y/N could recognise the crystal cavern in the underground of Rod Reiss or Fritz's church.

"Is this another memory or?-" Y/N cut her question as she gave attention to the sound of a titan evaporating.

Turning around as she saw a titan that looks approximately 13 m tall. They had light, shoulder-length hair, that hung loosely around her face. The titan had noticeably large eyes with dark loops within them; as well as a somewhat skeletal nose. Its torso had a defined muscle lining and had a definite feminine form much like Annie's titan. A small figure approached the titan. It was Rod himself alive in the flesh.

"Yup... This is a memory..." Y/N confirmed as neither the titan nor Rod took notice of her at all.

As the titan evaporated near Rod, a young woman entered out of the titan which surprised Y/N. The young woman had middle length silky black hair as her skin was pale. The titan transformation marks were visible as her eyes were the same colour as both Y/N's and Zeke's. They had the same eye colour though the young woman had a blank depth to her pupils but had such glowing and luminous iris.

"How is it??" The young woman asked Rod.

"I've got it successfully..." Rod answered as he showed the woman a small plate that contained a small bone on it. "It might take a while for the heat to melt this..."

The young woman came off the titan as she landed right next to Rod staring intently at the bone on the plate and then looking at him with intent.

"How many trials do we have to do this to get the perfect results?" The young woman asked Rod as the two walked at a table that was filled to the brim with test tubes, weighing scales, a microscope and a heater.

"There will be no perfect results, Frieda - Only God can do that." Y/N's eyes widened as her mouth gaped wide hearing Rod saying the young woman's identity. "Cloning the power of the Founding Titan is a million miles away from the grasp of us, mortals."

Frieda. Y/N still remembers. When Historia was telling her story about the war between the Survey Corps and the Royal government, she remembered Historia's older sister and the past holder of the Founding Titan, Frieda.

"So... This is Frieda," Y/N said to herself as she continued to watch.

"I understand... All of the experiments from 000 to 006 were complete failures." Frieda explained...

"We'll one day achieve success on cloning some of the Founding's powers - the 13-year curse would remain..." Rod spoke as he placed the bone on the small heating beaker slowly dissolving in the liquid. "We could only hope for the best... If we somehow achieve this impossibility then it's a discovery no one should know..."

"I hope it falls to the right holder." Slowly as Frieda's head turned right straight to Y/N. It caught her off guard as Frieda was staring at her with a smile. Y/N's body tensed as Frieda's blank pupils penetrate through her.

"W-what?-" Y/N muttered. Rod did not notice Y/N at all but why Frieda? She's completely looking right at her. Could it be the Founding's power? Surely it should.

"Experiment 007 is a success, unlike the others..." Frieda began to walk up to Y/N which caused her to back up. Rod didn't seem to notice at all that her daughter was moving away. "We call it a success because experiment 007 is the only one that stably worked on people..."

Y/N internally panicked for some reason as Frieda came up to her and still Rod didn't even notice Frieda saying anything - continuing what he was doing with no problem or ruckus.

"Might I say you were the only compatible subject with the experiment? We have tried with other Eldians but simply they died or committed insanity... But you... You are still standing to this day..." Frieda smiled which made Y/N catch off. Frieda then frowned and sighed. "I guess it's almost time... It was nice meeting you."

"H-huh?" Y/N told out still confused about what was happening.

"Tell Historia that I said hello and-" Frieda stopped then patted Y/N's tummy looking up at her with a kind smile. "Congrats..."

Those were Frieda's last words as suddenly Y/N felt the world spin - making her head feel like it was being pierced with a million needles. When she opened her eyes, she was sleeping on Levi's lap. Y/N got to her senses as she sat up.

"Levi???" Y/N asked looking around as some of the Survey Corps were sleeping on the branches of the massive trees and some were awake patrolling and watching. The campfire was out and Zeke was not in his usual sitting place. "Is it bedtime already?"

Levi answered with a hum as he stood up. "I guess you're tired. I'll patrol for the night."

"Ah- don't... I've slept enough. You go." Y/N reassured her lover with a smile.

"Are you sure?"

Y/N responded with an energetic hum which Levi found cute thinking she was a child for a second. Well, Levi thinks everything Y/N does is cute even killing. There was one time when Levi even passed out for 5 seconds because Y/N wore his boxers thinking it was shorts.

"Well then... Good night, love." Levi kissed Y/N as he departed back into a separated tent from Zeke.

Y/N's demeanour changes into seriousness as she took a piece of paper as began to write something. After a while, she stopped and then placed it into an envelope and sealed it.

"Clementia..." Y/N called out the small girl as Clementia zipped in front of her captain. Handing out the envelope containing Y/N's letter to Clementia, Y/N looked at her. "Go with Luke and tell him to deliver this to 'Historia Reiss' - he'll know where to go..."

"Yes, Captain," Clementia answered as zipped away...

Alone but not so really, Y/N stood up and zipped to one of the large tree branches looking at the camp.

"Secrets. Secrets." Y/N hummed as she sat down on the tree branch starting to put her guard up for once. "Why even exist??"

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Y/N felt bloated for some reason. Her frequent peeing kept bothering her. Everything felt very tiring to her. Her period didn't come as planned. As ignorant as she was as always, she ignored the constant things that had happened to her body. She excused to the inner self that it was a coincidence.

Y/N came out of the tent as the reek of alcohol reached up to her nose. Covering her nose with an irritated irk mark, she came up to Ludwig who was beside her tent lacking around. She was Irritated that Ludwig was just slacking around rather than helping the rest of her squad.

"Why are you slacking around and why do you reek of alcohol?!" Y/N's under eyes twitch as she quickly covered her nose in disgust.

"Alcohol? Captain... I just took a bath an hour ago and I didn't drink today. Though last night I did drink..." Ludwig smelled himself. "Plus I smell fine..."

"Right..." Y/N rolled her eyes not believing her squadmate as she still pinches her nose together. "Go back and do whatever to contribute... Clean around or something..."

"Yes, captain..." Ludwig grunted as he zipped away.

Y/N's attention turned to Zeke who had come out of his tent and sat on the same seat reading the same book once again. It irritated Y/N for some reason. She felt like she wanted to smack the life out of him but no she had to keep it in.

"They called it a gas weapon. The gas contained my spinal fluid. Any subject of Ymir who inhaled even a small bit of the gas will be frozen in place. They will lose control of their body and fall unconscious." Zeke explained. "All I have to do is to give an order. Through the Path, I send the power of titans to those coordinates. That's why the Titans from that village move according to my will."

"You must know that a village has a name, you idiotic monkey brained bearded old man. It's Ragako, dumbass." Y/N spotted getting irritated at each second pass by. "That village is full of people you simply gazed on and slaughtered"

"Remember that you bearded shit," Levi added with the matching venomous tone as Y/N's.

"Yeah, I wish I didn't have to do it too... But if I didn't they would've learned that I'm aligned with Eldian restoration. Thus making it impossible for me to bring hope to this island." Zeke said defending himself. "... Didn't I already tell you all this when I first landed? Why do you keep asking me that?"

"Because I can tell that you don't even feel a speck of guilt. Not that I know whether you want to save Eldia or not, but human lives certainly mean nothing to you." Levi snapped as Y/N smirked.

'That's my man right there.' Y/N thought as she was proud of Levi.

"I bet you're not popular with Y/N's true self... Y/N must've liked you because of your looks. Don't act as if you know about someone's feelings." Zeke snapped back. Y/N stood up wanting to lash out and scratch the hell out of him but was stopped by Levi who dragged her back to her seat.

"Wrong... Though... I'm popular enough." Levi said.

"Levi please can I kill him now" Y/N whispered as she took a dagger out of nowhere Levi took it and hid it instantly saying no.

"Oh is that so?" Zeke boasted. "Anyways when can I meet Eren and begin the experiment?"

"I'm not the one to decide. Neither Y/N. We're waiting for the order from HQ." Levi answered.

"Tell them if they think they have time to wait, they're gravely mistaken," Zeke added glaring at Levi.

"I can agree with you on that." Levi glared back.

"I think you're just bitter and afraid about coming close to being dead and wanting to let your beard go white," Y/N added as she gave Zeke a 'don't-glare-at-my-lover-you-bearded-shit-'.

"Captain Levi! Captain Y/N!" A soldier came up and whispered to the two short captains.

"What? Is that true?" Levi asked once again in surprise as Y/N was just there with the same expression.

Both Y/N and Levi came up to a tree branch with two more soldiers for more privacy of what has happened.

"Zachary was killed?" Levi questioned.

"Yes," the soldier answered as Y/N's eyebrows furrow deeper. "The Yeagerist practically have control over everything within the walls. It is believed that all the chaos is being caused by Zeke, through Eren and Yelena."

"And then?"

"Eren will be brought to Zeke, following the Yeagerist's demand." The soldier answered

Y/N suddenly remembered the time she was in Eren's cell. He once asked her to join him. Y/N covered her face in regret.

'If only I was ignorant... If only I told Levi before that I felt like Eren was about to do something... Could I have been able to stop this? Or somehow prevent the Yeagerist to strike?' Y/N thought regretting.

"Is Pixis really going to obediently roll with it?" Y/N asked.

"As you say, the commander remains steadfast." The other soldier answered.

"The military plans to have someone eat Eren, right? By our hands." Levi reassured.

"That is right..." The soldier answered.

Levi tched as his face darkened thinking to himself.

'I've saved Eren's life over and over. Many of my comrades died each time. I did it because I believed it was the best hope for humanity's survival... And he was her brother...' Levi then glanced to Y/N who was looking down with a face full of disturbance. Levi took her hand as Y/N cupped his face knowing he was going to have a headache. 'And this is where that belief has gotten me... It's like an awful joke. He even forced her to join him... What kind of narcissistic brother is he? Forcing his sister to join him and taking advantage of his powers... His sister is the only decent family he has... Does all that hardship lead to this farce?'

"You gotta be joking... This got to be a joke... If it's about feeding someone to a Titan, there's a better option..." Levi grunted as Y/N hugged him. The small male captain continued to grunt in Y/N's chest.

"Eh?" The soldier questioned.

'Eren... Why?' Y/N thought she tightened the hug. The small female captain was feeling not okay not mentally and physically - she wanted to rest but not at this time. She needed to be strong especially when Eren is trying to overthrow the efforts of the Survey Corps.

Y/N sighed as she looked down onto Zeke who didn't partly mind his book but somewhere he shouldn't. Her brows furrow seeing her brother eavesdropping. Her blood began to boil at the sight. 'If the choice of eating one of my brothers for the sake of the world... Even for the bad people out there... I wouldn't mind...'

Levi separated away from Y/N's hug though not meeting anyone's eyes. "It's not even funny... There's another shithead we should have eaten." Y/N sighed tiredly of this shit.

"What do you mean?" The soldier questioned.

"Levi-" Y/N was about to volunteer to take the Beast Titan but was stopped by Levi who covered her mouth with a frown.

"We'll give the Beast to someone else. We'll make one of the Yeagerist into a titan and have them eat Zeke." Levi's angry gazed lied on Zeke supposedly reading his book. "I can't tell if he's manipulating Eren, but their party's over if they lose Zeke. Go tell that to Pixis, got it?"

"You're serious, Captain?" The soldier once again questioned.

"When has Levi ever joked?" Y/N snickered. "The bald old man will come around once he chops Zeke's limbs off. Tell that to him"

With that, the two short captains zipped away and landed in front of Zeke.

"Enjoying your book?" Levi asked.

"I am, for one I've read seven times," Zeke answered.

"Right... If you were reading it you've already told us the whole story rather than eavesdropping like you were back then..." Y/N said.

"Can you blame me when I've read it this much? By the way, is there any wine left?" Zeke asked as his younger sister's nose scrunched.

"Not a single drop left. We've been here a month." Levi answered.

"Even though it's already empty I could still smell the motherfucking reek of it," Y/N argued. "And it reeks shit.

"Good grief. You sure know how to torture someone." Zeke whined as Levi had enough of his existence and turned around.

"Just read your book," Levi said as he stopped and then looked at Y/N. "Aren't you gonna come?"

"I feel a bit... Not okay." Y/N muttered as Levi hummed kissing her on the cheek and left.

As Levi then left, Y/N gazed at Zeke who kept looking at the book in his hands. The short female captain clutched her chest feeling very uneasy - it added worse when fatigue came through her system. Y/N glanced at Zeke as her gut feeling says that he is a motherfucker planning something.

'Even if Zeke tries to escape, there'll be over 30 soldiers Along my squad waiting up above the trees. That asshole looks like he's enjoying this...' Y/N thought gritting her teeth as Zeke yawned very loudly with ease which angered her. Precisely everything that Zeke does loosely makes her angry.

Y/N's ears perked up as she looked to her right seeing that Zeke's book was placed on a barrel box. Zeke was running away. Levi took notice of it as well.

But before the two could move, Zeke immediately screamed. Y/N's eyes widened as she grits her teeth deeper. She knew what that scream was but what was the point of it? There aren't any titans on the whole Paradis Island anymore.

The two short captains gaped wide as they saw their comrades paralyzed and slowly fell off their spots along with Y/N's squad. Lightning erupted from each soldier brightening the giant forest. The Titans once their comrades were now falling unto them.

"Y/N!" Levi shouted catching her attention. Though the two captain's sight was blocked by their comrade titan between them.

'Fuck you, Zeke...' Y/N grit her teeth together finally figuring out what was reeking inside the wine.

"Wine? Why bring wine on a mission?" Levi asked the comrade soldiers around them. Everyone gathered around when they saw a crate filled with bottles of wine.

"Captains! This is the rare Marleyan stuff only MPs get to drink!" Saoirse exclaimed in delight. "Don't we deserve some?"

"We've got tea." Levi strictly answered.

"Captains!!" The whole soldiers argued as Y/N simply laughed.