Levi had read how those anime characters casually shrugged off a punch to the guts, a sword strike, or even a cut limb.
Yet here he was, ready to quit because of a single, small pebble. The grinding pain as the stone slammed into his bone was unlike any pain he had ever received.
After a short period, the pain lessened just enough for him to think. He could still sense the massive tiger nearby— a valuable threat he could have used.
'If I had known'. He thought bitterly. 'I would have used the tiger's invisibility to follow the group from afar and escape the forest'.
But in his desperate genius, he had left the powerful predator behind and foolishly gone alone.
Raising his upper body from the shallow water, the pain from his ankle surging as he stared at the embedded pebble.
