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Chapter 5

Levi won't care too much about those so-called mundane things. All he needs is to make a choice and stick to it until the end.

During the days when Allen became smaller, he also had more time to devote to thinking about this kid.Because of this, many fragments in his past memories that he had ignored also emerged clearly.

After an unprecedented and dangerous investigation outside the wall, the boy couldn't help hugging himself.

Like at the investigation corps reception, the young man was slightly drunk, staring blankly at himself with hesitant eyes.

Like myself, passing through the basement during the night patrol, unconsciously slowing down my pace.

"Captain, it's great to see you again."

—Hmph, yes.

After thinking about it, the memories between myself and Allen are not all that bad, no, it should be said, they are still warm.Except for the initial pain and the final coldness, Levi thought, everything is still worth remembering.Even if the ending is bad, it is still a good life.

So already, captured yet.He raised his hand and looked at the bracelet against the warm yellow light in the room.

"Oh, not bad." He chuckled.

Wings of Liberty shouldn't be bound by anything. Before meeting the boy, he had always believed so.But now, after all, he couldn't resist the eccentricity of the world and the surprise contained in that child.

"Soldier, are you alright?"

During an investigation outside the wall, Alan was in the same group as himself, and accidentally got separated from most of the members. He happened to meet a few 15-meter-level giants at the junction of the forest and the wilderness, and his physical strength was exhausted.

"Ah," he responded lightly, lay flat on the ground without thinking too much, then he felt the withered grass under him tremble, and the young man sat next to him, his fiery eyes wandering over his face, "What?"

"N-nothing! Just...just take a rest."

The "dirty, stay away" that had already reached the edge of his mouth swallowed it back after noticing the red pinnae of the other party, and even with a smile that he didn't notice, he touched the boy in a proper manner. Hands on knees, say something hard.

Allen seemed to be panicked by the sudden touch, but Levi didn't care, but instead looked intently at the sky.

The intoxicating paleness.He couldn't help but imagine how wonderful it would be if there were no giants and disgusting creatures in this world.Considering that the surrounding air was still filled with the stench of giants, Levi decided to stand up from the grass in five seconds, no, seven seconds.

— But he was really tired.

"Hey, Ellen."

"Yes? Captain? What's wrong?"

"Give me five seconds."

As for what happened later, I don't know, but I vaguely remember that someone picked me up on my back, and the other person's back was a little painful because of the thinness, but that was not important.

"So, that kid carried me back?"

"Yes~" Han Ji had an incomprehensible smile on his face, "Allen tried very hard to stay calm and not wake you up, Captain Levi~ Obviously I'm already very tired..."

"…whispering sound."

Erwin also said, Levi, you are too slow in some ways.He just smiled indifferently, so what, in such a cruel world, what he needs most is the power to cut down giants, and the will to support himself and his companions to go on.Other than that, I don't seem to be able to think about it.It is often just a thought that flashes through my mind, and before I can catch it, it disappears.

It's like throwing a pebble into a lake, and after being stirred up a ripple, it returns to calm again.

— only now it's different.

This is a world without giants, don't worry about whether the heart will jump in the next second

As Petra said, a world without giants should be a little more romantic.

"Romantic...?"

He suddenly missed the boy's green eyes very much.

The kid hasn't been in a good state since he came back from the amusement park, he's listless, and Levi can almost see the floppy bunny ears on his head.

"Mr. Levi...I...I don't want to eat." The child stood in front of the dining table with a worried look on his face.

"Where does it hurt?"

"A little sleepy..." Alan yawned long after speaking, looking at Levi with wet eyes.

—something is wrong, Levi's intuition tells him.

The truth is, the child has slept more than 12 hours today.What a joke, no matter how tired a child of this age is, he shouldn't be like this.

"Han Ji, explain." With a dark face, he carried the former team leader to the door of Alan's room.

"...Side effects?" Han Ji frowned rarely, "Theoretically, this shouldn't happen... It's been two weeks, if it's a side effect, it's too—"

"Get to the point." Levi lowered his voice for fear of waking the kids.

"Besides lethargy, is there anything else?"

"He said the body would hurt—" Levi paused suddenly, "Could it be that the bones are slowly recovering?"

"Maybe, but we still need to observe, after all, this is the first batch of experimental products—" After seeing Levi's face getting darker and darker, Han Ji stopped the conversation in time, "It's best to keep an eye on him , Levi."

He nodded, only feeling that he was really anxious, but there was no way to talk about this emotion.

After simply tidying up the room, Levi took the cushion and leaned against the child's bed.There was only a small floor lamp turned on in the room, so he could only vaguely see the sleeping face of the child.

——It was very quiet, and even Alan's even breathing could be heard clearly.

The physique inherited from his previous life allowed him to stay awake for a long time even if he didn't sleep all night, and this night didn't let Levi relax for too long. When he recalled how tricky the proprietress of the bar in the underground street was, the child on the bed let out Sad whimper.

"Don't...uh...Mom..."

He got up to look at Allen, only to see that the child seemed to have seen some terrible scene in his sleep, his little face was wrinkled, and tears were sliding down the corners of his eyes.

Levi frowned, wiped them away, and placed his palm on the kid's forehead.

"Alan..."

Allen subconsciously leaned against a warm place, but he didn't wake up, he was still sobbing in his dream, and not long after, the child suddenly began to struggle violently.

"Don't! Don't eat my mom!!! Mom!!!"

Levi finally realized that it was not a nightmare, but a memory that really existed in the depths of Allen's mind. Assuming that the bones are slowly recovering, then the memory will gradually recover along with it.

"Alan! Wake up!" He patted the child's cheek for a while, and Alan finally woke up with tears in his eyes.

As if he hadn't recovered from the dream, he stared blankly at Levi.

"Alan?" He tentatively called the other person's name.

"Mr. Levi..." the child cried out again after waking up, he threw himself into Levi's arms and sobbed violently, "I, I dreamed of my mother...she, she was eaten...it was terrible ..."

Tears were all on the front of his pajamas, but he didn't care too much at this time, he patted the child's back and comforted him in a low voice.

"It's okay Ellen, it's just a dream."

"Hmm..." The child's spirit gradually stabilized, he leaned on Levi's chest, and hiccupped a few times from time to time, which made him a little bit laugh--as expected, he was still a kid.

"Better?"

"Yeah..." he replied sullenly, squeezing into Levi's arms again, and Mister Humanity chuckled in response.

"Little devil." He watched the child pick up the teddy bear and crawl back under the quilt, "Go to sleep, I'm here."