Chapter 41 - Sealing The Wall 2

" Hmm, humanity's strongest, Levi Ackerman, I presume," asked Titan Asriel in a deep and strong voice. Steam gushing out of his helmet as he spoke, with his eyes burning brightly under his helmet.

Levi was surprised that the titan could speak and what's more, it could speak fluently, he scrunched up his brows when he heard the titan mentioning his name. He got into a defensive position, ready to pounce at the sight of danger. His squadmates arrived later on and assembled behind him, they were the first to scale the walls and reach inside. They were already frightened when they saw this huge titan wearing something dark and sinister but beautiful crystalline armor with a crown on its head.

But what frightens them more was that it is sentient and they had seen the rainbow crystal wall that it conjured out of seemingly nowhere and perfectly sealed up the hole that even water wouldn't be able to seep out.

" Kancho (Captain)!" shouted Petra, her voice shaking slightly from fright. (AN - tell me if you want to keep it as Kancho or Captain)

" Oi, oi, you've got to be kiddin me, how are we supposed to fight that thing?" asked Oluo, his face was pale and his expression was distorted like he was kicked in the nuts.

"....." Gunther didn't say anything but by looking at his face one could tell that he was focusing immensely with sweat rolling down his face. Eld was left behind with Erwin and Hange to oversee the other members who are subjugating titans outside the wall.

A deep and powerful chuckle came out from T.Asriel and said, " You guys need not worry, I mean no harm," while looking down at them. " If I had wanted to kill you all, it would be as easy as swatting flies and crushing bugs under my feet. I've sealed the hole for you, take it as a gift from me," said Asriel, standing menacingly with the light from the evening sun reflecting off of his armor making it shine gently and beautifully. The darkness was more pronounced and the red linings shone brighter. The light also made the spikes of the crown on his head shone with beautiful mixed rainbow colors like the Crystal-Bridge Bifrost.

People were awed with the view but hearing what the titan said Levi as well as his squad frowned, Oluo screamed out " Don't look down on us you giant hunk of glass!" in a spur of the moment, only to start regretting later. His teammates looked at him for a moment with shocked expressions but then turned back and started to grip on to their swords with more force. Other soldiers who were near were cursing at him inside their heads. [If you want to die go die alone, don't involve us with you.] [F.u.c.k! We are all gonna die because of his stupid mouth!] and the likes.

" Mmm, well this giant 'hunk of glass', just saved you the trouble of sealing the hole which, by the way, if left alone, would let more titans come inside. Anyway, the only thing you need to know is that I'm on your side, or, would you like to test your luck?" replied T.Asriel with a hint of humor as one of his hands started to form into a great sword and another hand into a huge morning star. Seeing his weapons, Levi squad and all the other soldiers were immediately scared out of their wits. They wanted to strangle Oluo if it was the last thing they do.

Seeing their reactions, T.Asriel reformed his hands back into normal and nodded " Good, now don't do anything stupid that might cost your lives," he said.

After saying that, his body started to evaporate as is with all titans, except that T.Asriel was slowly turning into ash like somebody did a snap with a big ass yellow gauntlet with glittering gems in it. Of course, it wasn't because he ran out of energy or that he suddenly died, he discontinued his form as he felt that it was time for him to exit the stage.

" Wait! How do we know that you are not working with the ones who blasted a hole in the wall in the first place!?" screamed Armin in a moment of curiosity.

" Hmm? *chuckles* I do not care if you trust me or not, as I've said, you only need to know that I'm on your side. My revelation is for the preparation of the future. You will find out in due time as we will surely meet again. Farewell for now," as he finished his sentence, his body immediately turned into ash, afterwards, his ash also slowly disappeared leaving nothing.

Everyone who was looking at T.Asriel was shocked and forgot that there were still titans inside the district. Fortunately for them, all the titans had stopped whatever they were doing when T.Asriel appeared, it was as if time stopped for all the titans. Only a few minutes after T.Asriel disappeared that they resumed autonomy. The soldiers were also drawn out of their trance by the movements of the titans and they started to fight back.

" Tsk...Oluo, Petra, Gunther, take a few members and go clean up the north, east, and west of the district. Kill any titans you've come across," ordered Levi when he couldn't see anything else from the spot that T.Asriel disappeared. He then turned towards Armin who was trying to pull out Eren from the titan's carcass. When T.Asriel appeared, Eren was also frozen like the rest of the titans but he was able to turn since he wasn't restricted that much like the rest of the titans. He was also rooted in his spot which was about a few meters away from the hole in the wall that he was supposed to seal.

He stood there and watched as a titan twice his size with beautiful dark and red armor took the stone, crushed it, and then closed the wall with some kind of crystal wall. He only ran out of juice after T.Asriel disappeared.

" Oi, brat, tell me what the hell is going on?" asked Levi with a frown on his face.

" Ugh, I'll, OOF, tell you afterwards, we need to get Eren to safety first, gahhh, why is it so hard to get him outtttt!!!" replied Armin as he tried his best to get Eren out of the titan carcass but with his pitiful strength he wasn't able to successfully pull out Eren. Levi seeing that he was struggling decided to help him first and then ask questions later. Eren was successfully extracted after Levi joined.

" You, and you, get these two brats to safety," ordered Levi towards two Survey Corps members who stayed behind to help out Levi in case he needs anything. After seeing that the two brats have been escorted towards safety he started to head out and subjugate all the titans in his sight. On his way, he saw someone who was also slaughtering titans left and right, with such speed and precision that even he was amazed. Behind that person, there were also two people working together to defeat any titans that the other person let through.

As he got closer he saw their attire and was again amazed that these three people were still cadets. He decided to call out to them since there were no more titans in the immediate area.

" Oi, you three, which corps and which division are you from?" asked Levi as he landed on the roof right next to them.

Asriel had already noticed Levi while he was on a titan killing spree so he wasn't that surprised when Levi came to talk to them. On the other hand, Mikasa and Christa were mildly surprised by the appearance of the second strongest human, second because no man is greater than their man/crush.

" 104th Cadets Corps, Southern Division, Asriel, these two are Mikasa Ackerman and Christa Lenz," replied Asriel with a standard salute. The other two seeing Asriel salute also follow suit and saluted.

" At ease, what's the current situation?" asked Levi.

" All civilians have been evacuated and we are now in the process of eliminating any titans we see on our way towards the hole in the wall. We saw that there was a 30m tall abnormal titan in the direction of the wall and was quite surprised and worried about the others, we were even more surprised when it suddenly disappeared. Is the wall sealed already? Was the plan successful?" replied Asriel feigning ignorance.

" The wall has indeed been sealed..." replied Levi as he remembered the titan that sealed the wall.

" Levi Kancho, are you alright?" asked Asriel.

" Hmm? Yes, I was just thinking about something, what do you mean by the plan?" asked Levi.

" Well, the gist of it is that one of our friends from 104th cadet corps was able to turn into a titan and he somehow indirectly helped us with our retreat when the frontline collapsed. He didn't seem to remember about the time he was a titan though. As he was facing death from the Garrison Corps after our retreat, since they thought that he was too dangerous, another friend of ours from the cadet corps pointed out that we could use his titan shifting powers to seal the wall with a boulder that was near the wall. Commander Pixis approved of the plan and dispatched a small team of elites to protect him. Everything was going well but the Armored Titan appeared and there was a delay but we managed to defeat the titan. Eren, the one who could shift, managed to grab the boulder and was on his way towards the seal."

" We three were separated after an influx of titans on our position. We managed to defeat them and are now on our way there when we met you," replied Asriel.

" I see, alright, you three come with me, there is still a lot of them to kill," said Levi and took off towards a direction. The other three also followed suit as the sun slowly sets.