The ominous red sun hung high in the black sky, dark clouds carrying destruction, silently weeping.
The blood drops fell on the cracked land below.
Surrounded by the murky haze, Eren cautiously moves through the complex maze of the buildings.
Thap
Thap
His boots splashing on the wet floor, a frown appeared on his face.
Alone with no one present there, a hint of uneasiness starts to beat in his dead heart.
Glancing through the haze, his eyes landed on the sky; there are no colossal walls.
Finding the absence of the cage that had once tormented him, no joy flashed on his face; instead, the feelings of loss and uneasiness intensified.
Suddenly, an abrupt shift seems to happen in front of him.
The haze, which had heavily settled on the floor and was making it difficult to traverse, suddenly started to increase.
Now, even looking at arm's length becomes difficult; the rain, which should have reduced the haze, gets devoured by the rapidly expanding smog.
The smell of sulfur started to spread through the area. Feeling the abrupt changes, Eren became more cautious; silently and slowly, he started to move, intending to enter any building to find some semblance of safety, but the next second—
A red glow appears in front of him; a pair of colossal blood-red eyes landed on him.
Causing dread to grip his heart.
Swiss
Tearing through the air and haze, a giant hand clamped at him.
Suddenly, like a broken mirror, the scene started to break down, and another set of memories started to play in Eren's mind.
Riding a horse, Eren moves towards Shiganshina.
With the future in the shadows, Eren ignores the constant memories that appear in his mind and instead starts to think about how and when things started to go down.
Reading through his memories, the final answer all points at the single figure—the strange titan, the source of his nightmares, and the only titan, which constantly appears in his mind.
One thing is clear to Eren: that the strange titan will not stop at anything, and no matter what Eren tries to do, the strange titan will always oppose him.
So, Eren steels his heart and, without any hesitation, plunges towards the inevitable.
....
Travelling as fast as he can, Eren finally sees the wall in the distance.
Quickly arriving near them, he abandons his horse and, firing the ODM gear, starts to scale the wall.
His figure swiftly moves upward, and with a final push from the ODM gear, Eren crosses the wall.
The intense light from the sun blinds him for a moment, but the next second surprise flashes in his eyes.
The wall in front of him, the front section, which divides the border of Shiganshina district from the outer world, lay crumbled, but it was not this that sent a shockwave in Eren's heart; instead, it was the colossal bodies of the titans that lay there.
The decomposing steam rises from their bodies, making Eren lose the confidence he had in his colossal titan.
The scene is different from the memories he had seen, but all memories regarding the strange titan remain unclear, as it seems that he is unable to perceive him.
Even then, this scene clearly surprises him.
Kevin, who was seated above the dead body of a colossal titan, suddenly looks at the figure of Eren, who stood atop the wall, likely anticipating his arrival.
Similarly, Eren also spotted him.
At the same time, both of their eyes flashed with fierce lights of green and red.
Gritting his teeth, the powerful voice of Eren sounded in the whole of Shiganshina.
"Where is Mikasa?"
His voice clearly reaches Kevin, who lets out a silent snort. "You are lucky that you arrived just in time; I was getting bored of eating these colossal titans."
Saying that, Kevin started to stand up, his dark raven hair shining with captivating luster.
Standing at the height of above two meters, his ruby-like red eyes landed on Eren.
"Come on, Eren." His high-pitched voice echoed, "What are you waiting for?" Letting out a full grin, Kevin said with excitement in his eyes, "Only one of us will survive. It is the game of death; the one who will win will devour the other and get all the powers."
Spreading out his hand, madness reeks from him. "So, let's find out who will have the last laugh of freedom."
Looking at Kevin, who radiates an intense aura, Eren chooses to forget about everything and only focuses on the present. The person in front of him is clearly dangerous, a very dangerous being, and he knows fully well that this is going to be the hardest battle he will ever have.
With his most powerful ability, the Attack Titan, not working properly, and no way to access the Founding Titan's powers, Eren has to fight with the Colossal Titan, which should have given him confidence, but looking at Kevin, he has a feeling that the Colossal Titan will not be enough to face this guy.
But since the situation has already deteriorated enough, and with no other option, he has to do it.
Still, one thing troubles him.
And noticing the frown on his face, Kevin understood.
"Hey, why are you still standing there and not rushing at me like a mad hound?"
"Oh! I understand," letting out an expression of understanding, Kevin dramatically said to Eren, "Don't worry, I know what you are worried about."
Swoosh
Kevin lets out a loud whistle.
Instantly, a titan of ten meters emerges from behind the broken wall.
"James, why don't you show our friend his girl? He is very worried to see her."
Looking at the pure titan, Kevin calls out to him; his eyes shine brightly. In response to that, the titan named James opens his hand, revealing the figure of an unconscious girl—Mikasa Ackerman.
"See, you should hurry now; otherwise, I can't guarantee that James will not misbehave and take a small bite of her." Kevin lets out a small snicker, mischievousness flashing in his eyes.
Anger boils inside Eren's mind.
Letting out a roar of rage, he instantly fires the ODM gear, pushing out the gas in full force; Eren soars in the sky, his figure rapidly approaching Kevin.
"That's it." Kevin lets loose his muscles, feeling the infinite power coursing through his being; he relishes for a moment, but thinking about the possible power-up he will get after devouring Eren, the founder's titan, he opens his eyes.
And started to slowly walk forward; the distance between them continued to shorten. Eren, who is in the sky, suddenly brings his hand to his mouth and fiercely sinks his teeth into his flesh. With the flash of golden lighting, blood, muscles, bones, veins, and organs started to form around him.
A shadow started to cast upon Kevin, looking above at the sky, he saw the transformation of Eren, clearly capturing every movement, Kevin lets out an intensifying wide smile, and with that, golden and purple lightning started to discharge out of his body, next second— tendrils of flesh digs out of his body, his rib cage tears through the skin, and started to grow, and in just a few moments two behemoth takes shape, manifesting out of thin air, one in the sky, covered with red crystal armor, its menacing green eyes shines whith rage and destruction, and the other on the ground, stood like an amalgamation of beast, thick hide and shell armors covers the vulnerable part of his body, with sharp claws and fangs, it's red eyes lits with fire, spewing out hot steam from his mouth, both of them look at each other.
The next second—
Boom
The sound of destruction spread throughout the destroyed Shiganshina.
Two suns seem to manifest into reality, flattening the ruins of Shiganshina.
Like demons descended into the mortal world, both Eren and Kevin, transformed into the Colossal Titans, start to fight each other; every strike from them tears the air and shakes the earth.
Their seventy-meter height reaches the sky, and the intense smoke and heat and destruction that follow them make the place look like a scene from hell.
The red crystal armor of Eren's titan form easily takes the lethal strike from Kevin, who has the Jaw Titan ability.
One has the strongest defense, while the other has the strongest offense; both of them continue to land strike after strike on each other.
For a moment the situation got in a stalemate as Kevin wasn't able to break the defense of Eren, while Eren, who has the ability of hardening, did land some solid hits on Kevin, but that didn't do anything to him, and soon with the monstrous durability and stamina, Kevin started to overpower Eren.
Slowly but surely Eren was losing to Kevin, who doesn't slow down but instead, with every strike, continues to become more ferocious. Without caring about his defense, Kevin lets loose one attack after another on Eren.
Boom
With another powerful strike from the sharp claws of Kevin, the jaw of Eren's titan form breaks.
Inside the nape of his Titan form, Eren feels the loss of strength in his body; the intense heat charred his skin black, but still gritting his teeth, Eren continues to fight.
"Is that it, Eren?" The demonic voice of Kevin echoed in his ear.
Kevin looks at Eren, who seems to reach his limit; disappointment flashes in his eyes.
"I think you aren't motivated enough." Said Kevin.
Hearing that, Eren suddenly has a terrible premonition.
"James!!" The cold utterances by Kevin trigger a change.
"NOO!!" Eren cries out, the hoarse voice sounding from his colossal titan form.
Crunch
Looking at the scene that dreads his soul, Eren feels the shattering of his reality.
No amount of pain feels similar to the feeling he is having now.
The dreams, the nightmares, the darkness consume him.
The future he desperately tried to protect continued to shatter in front of him.
And with that, the last bit of rationality, humanity, he has completely lost.
A sudden change happened in the red crystal armored colossal titan.
The blood crystal armor suddenly turns into magma, the red muscles catch the fire—and the titan starts to burn.
Kevin, who is standing in front of Eren, feeling the rising intense heat, lets out an excited roar.
Surprisingly, changes also started to happen in Kevin's titan form; like a demonic beast, his form becomes more animalistic.
The claws sharpened, the armored and thick hide grew more vigorously, the size of his limbs became abnormally large, and the most stunning—two protrusions appeared on his forehead, from where horns started to slowly grow.
The red eyes spewing out fire look at the green eyes that devour the death.
The next moment—
The demons collide like beasts.
Eren, having gone berserk, pounced at Kevin, who in retaliation tries to counter, but the newfound strength of Eren overpowers Kevin.
Pushing Kevin to the ground, Eren rides him and madly throws punch after punch at him.
Anger and despair cloud his vision, with the only thought of finishing the being in front of him.
The heavy crystallized punches landed on Kevin's titan form; within just a few punches, the skull caved in and the powerful bones started to shatter.
Sensing no response from Kevin, Eren, who has already lost his mind, started to bring his mouth close to Kevin's titan nape, like a beast after catching his prey; he tries to break the neck of his helpless prey.
Just as Eren was about to sink his teeth into the flesh, sudden lightning struck behind him, and a powerful explosion occurred. From the intense heat, a new colossal titan started to rise, who quickly attacked Eren, who didn't expect someone to attack from behind.
Kevin, who was overpowered by Eren, quickly leaves his titan body through his leg and again triggers the transformation.
With the unexpected move by Kevin, the situation changes.
Eren tries to fight back, but having lost his rationality, and with the sudden attack, Kevin overpowers him.
And in just a few moments, Eren got completely suppressed; the power-up he got started to lose, and instead the energy it cost started to settle in Eren. With the loss of power in his body, Eren started to regain the clarity, but before he could do anything, Kevin ripped apart the nape of the colossal titan and exposed Eren.
Looking at the red fired eyes, unwillingness rises in Eren's heart, and not intending to back down, he bites at his hand, but the transformation fails; the transformation into the colossal titan and then the berserk state already consumed his power.
Not intending to lose, Eren repeatedly bites at his hand, even ripping off his finger, but the transformation doesn't occur as darkness starts to consume his vision.
The next moment, Kevin finds that Eren has lost all of his means and quickly pulls Eren out from the nape of the colossal titan and, without even stopping for a second, directly crushes Eren into his teeth. Suddenly, memories start to pour into his mind with the sudden influx of power that courses through his every fiber.
The feel of power intoxicated him, but the revelation of memories surprised him, the future, the throne of the multiverse, the lord of the multiverse, he saw the lord seated upon the throne whose non-existent eyes suddenly gaze at him.
Realization dawned upon Kevin.
'That is me.'