Boom, boom, boom.
The Armored Titan quickly ran, gradually distancing itself from the wall.
Su Xiao stood on the sowhat bumpy shoulder of the Armored Titan, his eyes fixed on the steam-covered top of the wall.
"Reiner, sothing’s coming, be on guard."
A silhouette charged out from within the steam, clearly a Giant about seven ters tall.
Bertholdt stared blankly at the Giant erging from the steam, his gaze complex.
"Is it Marcel? No, Marcel was already consud by a Mindless Titan, could it be...?"
Bertholdt recognized the Giant’s identity; it was the power held by their deceased comrade, the Jaw Titan.
They were now far from the wall, so Su Xiao wasn’t worried about the Survey Corps catching up.
There were no horses outside the wall, so the Survey Corps would need at least a few hours to hoist horses from inside the wall to the outside, making it impossible to catch up with Su Xiao and the others on foot.
"The Jaw Titan, huh? Let’s not bother with it for now and keep going."
Transford into the Armored Titan, Reiner hesitated for a while but eventually nodded to continue onward.
The Armored Titan ran ahead, with Su Xiao and Bertholdt standing on its shoulders, and the Jaw Titan chased behind.
The Jaw Titan was about 7 ters in size, with a fierce appearance, short arms and legs, running on all fours like a beast, its most striking feature being the snow-white fangs, whose biting force must not be underestimated.
The location where Su Xiao and the others were situated was within Wall Maria, which had already fallen. The area of Wall Maria was vast, requiring a long journey to cross straight through.
The Armored Titan Reiner lacked the endurance for long periods of running and needed to find a place to rest halfway.
"Reiner, let’s head to the Giant Forest."
Bertholdt suggested.
The Giant Forest was a dense, sprawling woodland located within Wall Maria, where the diater of the trees was generally several ters, allowing the group to rest on those tall trees, avoiding attacks from Mindless Titans.
"We can’t go to the Giant Forest."
Su Xiao refused outright.
"Why not?"
Bertholdt looked at Su Xiao in bewildernt, imdiately indecisive after Su Xiao rejected the idea.
"The target is too obvious. Once the Survey Corps finishes hoisting the horses, they’ll think of the Giant Forest first."
Su Xiao tried hard to recall the terrain within Wall Maria.
"Do you still rember Eren’s hotown?"
Su Xiao looked toward Bertholdt.
"I vaguely rember so of it. Leaving Wall Maria as quickly as possible is our best route."
"Let’s regroup with Ani first and then head straight there. If Reiner can’t run anymore, let Ani carry us. We mustn’t go to the Giant Forest."
Su Xiao, familiar with the original story, knew that Reiner and the others were found by the Survey Corps while resting in the Giant Forest, and Eren was taken away afterward.
He would never make such a mistake.
The Titanified Reiner nodded in agreent with Su Xiao’s suggestion, and the indecisive Bertholdt quickly concurred.
Roar!
The Armored Titan suddenly let out a roar, which puzzled Su Xiao, but his doubts were soon dispelled when he saw the Female Titan running from afar.
The Female Titan ran to the vicinity of the Armored Titan and imdiately de-transform, Ani used the Three-Dinsional Maneuver Gear to jump onto the Armored Titan’s shoulder.
Ani remained aloof, instinctively keeping her distance from Su Xiao.
"Can this person really be trusted?"
Ani’s appearance made Bertholdt very excited, as Bertholdt had always had a crush on Ani but was too timid to show it.
"Very... very trustworthy. Ani... how have you been lately?"
Bertholdt stamred slightly, and Ani just nodded.
Sitting on the Armored Titan’s shoulder, smoking, Su Xiao glanced at Bertholdt and then at Ani.
With decent emotional intelligence, Su Xiao quickly noticed Bertholdt’s affection for Ani, but he felt the young man had no chance; Ani probably only saw him as a companion.
Pursuing a woman with the ntality of chasing a goddess is never going to succeed.
"How long is it going to run with us?"
Ani raised her fair chin, looking at the Jaw Titan behind them.
"The current location isn’t safe enough. Reiner, proceed for another ten minutes and then talk to her? I sense there’s no hostility."
Su Xiao wasn’t ordering Reiner in a commanding tone. They were, at most, partners in cri without any hierarchical relationship.
Blindly considering oneself superior could cause others’ resentnt, and it didn’t align with Su Xiao’s subsequent plans. If he wanted to head to the Marley Empire, his assud identity would be easily exposed once there.
After contemplating for a while, Reiner nodded. Among the three undercover mbers, Reiner was the leader.
After moving forward for ten minutes, a village gradually appeared in the distance, a village that had been attacked by Giants, with many houses collapsed and overgrown with weeds.
The Armored Titan stopped in front of the village, with the Jaw Titan quickly catching up from behind.
The Jaw Titan wasn’t adept at long-distance running, collapsing to the ground as soon as it stopped, lying flat like a wolf after a mad dash.
To be safe, Reiner did not de-transform, while Su Xiao went to negotiate as the representative, with Bertholdt lacking in resolve and Ani not skilled in communication.
Su Xiao jumped down from the Armored Titan’s shoulder, wielding Dragon Slash as he approached the Jaw Titan.
The reason he dared to cooperate with Reiner and the others was that he had no fear facing any of the Giants alone. Even if Reiner and the others tead up, he could find an opportunity to escape.
If Su Xiao didn’t have his current strength, Reiner and the others wouldn’t agree to collaborate easily since no one would want to carry a burden.
"De-transform from the Giant.
Su Xiao stood with his sword at the Jaw Titan, observing that the other party seemingly had no hostile intent.
"Peh~."
The Jaw Titan first spat out a blonde woman from its mouth, and from the muscle opening at the back of its neck, a woman dressed in Training Squad attire erged from the Jaw Titan’s body, which quickly vaporized into steam.
The woman stood around 1.7 ters tall, with tanned skin and a black ponytail.
"Ymir?"
Ani also jumped down from the Armored Titan’s shoulder.
"Ani, Reiner, Bertholdt, so it really is you three."
Ymir scanned Su Xiao and the others, as she was also a mber of the Training Squad in Eren’s cohort.
Upon hearing Ymir’s na, Su Xiao was taken aback, but after a brief recollection, he rembered who the woman standing before him was.
The Ymir here was an ’imposter,’ not the Ymir of the progenitor Titan. This woman’s background was complex yet not dangerous.
Talking about Ymir takes us back seventy years.
Seventy years ago, Ymir didn’t have a na. She was then a wandering little girl in the Marley Empire’s ’Eldian Camp,’ struggling for re subsistence, like a small stray wildcat.
However, she had one unique trait: she was an Eldian.
A local Cult Organization noticed this and took the wandering Ymir in, naming her Ymir under the pretense that she was the Progenitor Titan, deceiving the believers.
Ymir grew up being worshipped by the cult followers. By her teens, the cult’s stronghold was discovered by the Marley Governnt, and Ymir, along with many believers, was captured.
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