"Get out of the way!"
"Run! Get out of here!"
"Save me!"
...
The appearance of the Colossal Titan plunged the soldiers on the wall into hell. The Colossal Titan's sixty-meter-tall body was terrifying just standing there.
Many members of the Survey Corps who faced the Colossal Titan head-on suddenly had a question arise in their hearts: could humanity really defeat such a terrifying enemy?
"Don't panic! Organize your formation, prepare to counterattack!" Ness, wearing a headscarf, broke out in a cold sweat as he did his utmost to maintain order.
An enormous amount of steam continuously poured off the Colossal Titan's body. This form looked like a giant stripped of its skin, red muscles exposed to the air.
The slowly raised arm moved very slowly, yet the oppressive force it brought was terrifying beyond measure.
The Colossal Titan's objective was very clear—it directly targeted the fixed cannons on Wall Rose.
"Dodge! Dodge now!" The Survey Corps members operating the fixed cannons immediately turned pale, fleeing in panic.
In the Colossal Titan's hands, the ferocious fixed cannons were more fragile than biscuits. A simple horizontal sweep turned almost all of them into piles of scrap, and quite a few Survey Corps members were killed or injured when they couldn't evade in time.
But the Colossal Titan's speed was its weakness.
"Target the Colossal Titan's nape! All units, attack!" Squad Leader Ness had already used the moment when the Colossal Titan was destroying the fixed cannons to lead more than a dozen Survey Corps members around behind it.
The Colossal Titan's massive head turned slightly, its eyes seeming to glance at the Survey Corps members behind it, but at the Colossal Titan's speed there was no time to protect its nape or counterattack.
"We've got it!" Noticing the Colossal Titan's sluggish speed, Ness felt a surge of joy. He drew his dual blades and charged straight at the Colossal Titan's nape.
However, a sudden change occurred. From every part of the Colossal Titan's body—every muscle, every crevice—vast amounts of white steam erupted. Before Ness and the others could react, their bodies collided with the steam.
Piercing pain, terrifying heat—the steam was like boiling water. The surging steam enveloped more than a dozen Survey Corps members, and wails immediately rang out from within.
"Watch out for the steam! Retreat!" Ness endured the intense pain and barely gave the order.
Out of more than a dozen Survey Corps members, only five followed Ness out of the steam. The rest were likely doomed—such horrifying heat was nothing short of purgatory.
All of Ness's exposed skin was scalded bright red, the pain unbearable.
"Damn it!" Ness gritted his teeth hard.
"So it can spray high-temperature steam for defense? It looks like close-range attacks on the Colossal Titan will be difficult. I wonder if the artillery might have a chance." Hange stood beside Erwin, her expression grave—something rarely seen on her face.
"Commander! Over there!" A Survey Corps member suddenly cried out.
Erwin looked over to see a quadrupedal Titan suddenly charge toward the Armored Titan.
"The enemy is tougher than we imagined!" Erwin took a deep breath, his gaze suddenly firm. With a clang he drew his blade.
"Soldiers! The enemy is right before us—charge!"
At once, the Survey Corps members followed their commander and rushed toward the Armored Titan.
The Armored Titan, meanwhile, had already lost its fighting capability under several rounds of relentless heavy artillery bombardment.
...
Five minutes earlier:
Elsewhere, while everyone's attention was drawn to the Armored Titan, a figure wearing the Survey Corps uniform quietly arrived at the Attack Titan's nape.
With a double slash of blades, Eren's figure burst out. Ignoring the sinews still connected to his face, Eren gasped for air.
"Hello there." A strange voice sounded beside his ear. Eren turned his head in shock, and what met his eyes was a black-haired female Survey Corps member he had never seen before.
"Who are you?" Eren was just about to ask when another figure suddenly sprang out beside the female Survey Corps member.
"Miss Pieck, I think you should put the knife down."
A cold blade rested against her neck. Pieck's body stiffened slightly, but she obediently dropped the small knife in her right hand.
Yago behind Pieck continued, "Now, Miss Pieck, please raise your hands."
Pieck complied obediently, while Eren—half his body still inside the Titan's nape—looked utterly confused, clearly not having grasped the situation yet.
"Yago? You—this—what's going on?"
Yago shrugged slightly.
"Eren! Yago?!" Mikasa, worried about Eren, had rushed over without bothering with the Armored Titan. As soon as she arrived, she saw Yago pointing a blade at a Survey Corps member, while Eren was still buried in the Titan's nape.
At this moment, another group arrived as well, led by Armin. Seeing the Colossal Titan appear, he had sensed something was wrong, so he brought the other recruits to support Eren.
"Yago? You're still alive?" Jean was pleasantly surprised, as were the other recruits—they had always thought Yago had already been killed.
Only Armin and Ymir had odd expressions. Armin knew Yago's identity as a Titan as well, and Ymir's expression had been strange ever since learning that Reiner and Bertholdt were Titans.
Seeing so many companions at once, Yago was momentarily flustered. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end couldn't say anything at all—some matters were simply too complicated.
But in the instant Yago was distracted, Pieck suddenly shrank her body and reached out to grab Yago's blade. The sharp edge instantly cut open Pieck's hand, blood dripping down along the blade, while yellow arcs of electricity surged over Pieck's body.
Yago's pupils contracted. He immediately activated his Vertical Maneuvering Equipment, rapidly pulling away from Pieck. "Everyone, get back!"
Flesh and blood appeared out of thin air, enveloping Pieck. In just a short moment, a Titan with deformed limbs appeared before everyone—an ugly, flat head, an exaggeratedly large mouth, very much like an abnormal Titan. The Cart Titan joined the fray.
After transforming into the Cart Titan, Pieck immediately took note of both sides. A choice lay before her: on the left was Eren, half his body still exposed, and on the right was the Armored Titan already surrounded by the Survey Corps.
After only a brief hesitation, the Cart Titan suddenly charged to the right.
The Cart Titan was extremely fast, sprinting across the ground on all fours. The Survey Corps members in its path were either frightened into dodging away or knocked flying.
Levi's eyes sharpened as he leapt up to meet the Cart Titan. His blades spun through the air with his rotation, terrifying flashes of steel slashing toward the Cart Titan.
Levi easily slipped to the Cart Titan's nape. Without the slightest hesitation, the spinning blades cut down—rip—the flesh of the nape was severed, revealing the back of someone wearing a Survey Corps uniform. A deep gash was carved across Pieck's back.
Turning her head, Pieck's face came into Levi's view.
"It's you?" Levi immediately recognized her as the person he had seen once before outside the tent where the traitors were being held.
"You've got guts, don't you?" Levi's tone was icy. But Pieck suddenly showed a faint smile, and yellow arcs of electricity appeared on her body once again.
"What?" Levi was startled. He instantly sprang away from the Cart Titan's nape.
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