After leaving Reiss Estate, Ellie made her way along the road by herself for several days.
Riding all the way like this, she felt as if her bones were almost shaken apart by the horse’s back!
Although Instructor Traute’s basic training was extremely solid, making a ten-year-old little girl ride a horse for days on end was still torture!
Fortunately, over these four years, Ellie had long since memorized the trade route map of the southern kingdom.
Along the way, she tried her best to move forward along the main roads frequented by caravans, and finally reached her destination without any mishap.
When that fifty-meter-high wall, towering into the clouds and resembling a divine miracle, appeared in her field of vision, Ellie couldn’t help but stretch lazily on horseback.
“I’ve finally arrived, Shiganshina District…”
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Next, as long as she sneaked into the city and found Bertholdt according to the plan, it would be fine!
Ellie perked up again, and began leading her horse and joining the queue to enter the city.
At the checkpoint of the city gate, the Garrison soldier responsible for inspection who saw that the newcomer was just a little blond girl, and his originally stern expression suddenly softened a lot.
“Little sister, why are you all by yourself?”
“What is your name?
What are you doing in Shiganshina District?”
“Hello, Uncle Officer, my name is Ellie Lanz.”
In order not to cause trouble outside, Ellie concealed her Reiss surname and used her mother’s surname, Lanz, instead.
She raised her head and pulled out a token of the Church of the Walls she had swiped from Rod Reiss’s study, along with a few silver coins.
“My father asked me to deliver an important letter to the church here, and I hope the Officer can let me in.”
Seeing the exquisitely crafted token, the guard’s expression suddenly became respectful, they were people from the Church of the Walls!
Within the walls, the Church of the Walls was an existence that even the Military Police Brigade had to give some respect!
Furthermore, this little girl was so “sensible” that she knew to send him a little something, in that case, the guard was also happy to give her some face!
“So you are a child of the church, go on in, and be careful on the road.”
The guard quietly accepted the silver coins and readily let her pass.
“Thank you, Officer!”
Leading her horse and walking on the crowded and lively streets of Shiganshina District, Ellie looked around curiously.
On both sides of the street, vendors were shouting vigorously to sell fresh vegetables and meat and a few barefoot half-grown children were pushing wooden wheels as they ran past her with giggles.
The noisy sounds of adults clinking glasses and bragging loudly came from the tavern…
Everything seemed so peaceful.
Who would have thought that soon after, this vibrant land would turn into a living hell?
They probably never doubted that the tall wall above their heads, which had protected mankind for hundreds of years, would actually be kicked open by someone!
“Forget it.”
“Since matters have come to this, let’s find a place to stay first!”
Ellie led her horse and walked straight towards a small church near the edge of the wall.
Relying on the weighty church token in her hand, Ellie didn’t need to spend much time to make the priest in charge here believe her identity.
Not only did the other party clear out an idle attic for her to live in, but they didn’t even charge her rent!
After settling her horse and luggage, Ellie didn’t even care to drink a sip of water before going out again, after going out, she realized that the actual situation was really vastly different compared to her simulations!
“Damn it, the situation here is completely different now!”
For example, a straight avenue marked on the map, when seen in reality, was actually squeezed by the stalls of a few vendors to only half its width and once the titans broke through the wall and a stampede occurred in the crowd, this road definitely wouldn’t be able to be used normally.
Take the material elevator leading to the top of the wall for another example; at this moment, it was also unattended she knew this because she was hidden behind a wooden box and speechlessly watching a few Garrison soldiers drinking and playing cards next to the elevator.
“These guys are actually aren’t on duty 24/7?!”
“No wonder when the Colossal Titan suddenly popped up in the original work, the elevator couldn’t operate in time at all!”
“They are actually all drinking!
To slack off to this extent is truly something else!”
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She memorized the blind spots of several elevators and a few narrow alleys that nobody usually walked through but could be used to escape at critical moments.
Unwittingly, she had followed the shadow of the wall, strolled out of the urban area all the way, and came to a patch of grass in the suburbs.
Not far away, a huge tree rose from the ground with lush branches and leaves.
Huh?
Ellie’s footsteps came to an abrupt halt.
Under the big tree, a dark-haired boy wearing a loose shirt was lying sprawlingly on the grass but suddenly, the boy woke up with a start, sat up abruptly, looked blankly ahead with dull eyes, and then stretched out his hand in a daze to touch the corner of his eye. This chapter was taken from novelping.com without permission.
As it turned out, crystal tears were hanging in the corners of his eyes, the boy seemed to have had a long dream and couldn’t recover his senses for a long time…
Just at this moment, a dark-haired girl carrying a small bundle of firewood and wrapped in a red scarf around her neck slowly walked over from the grassy slope in the distance.
“Eren, why are you crying?” the girl asked with concern.
“Mikasa…”
The boy rubbed his eyes, his voice somewhat hoarse.
“I seem to have… had a very, very long dream, but I can’t remember it no matter what.”
Holy crap!
The moment she saw the appearances of those two people, Ellie, who was hiding not far behind the tree, opened her mouth wide in surprise.
The children under the tree turned out to be Eren and Mikasa!
Although she had known long ago that she had time-traveled into the world of Attack Titan.
When the protagonists in the anime stood in front of her in the image of two ten-year-old children, Ellie still had a sense of surprise.
These were Eren and Mikasa!
“It’s this inconspicuous little boy who will inherit the Attack Titan and the Founding Titan in the future…”
“Forget it, it’s useless to think about these now… Let’s get the Power of the Titans into my own hands first!”
Ellie took a deep breath, suppressing the surging thoughts in her heart.
Sticking to the shadows of the bushes, she turned and slipped away silently but not long after she left, Eren under the tree turned his head and looked quizzically at the patch of bushes where Ellie had just been hiding.
“What’s wrong, Eren?”
Mikasa looked along his line of sight; there was nothing there except a breeze rustling the leaves.
“Mikasa, was there a girl over there just now?”
Eren frowned and scratched the back of his head.
“It seemed to be a golden-haired girl who kept hiding behind the tree and peeking at us, how strange.”
Mikasa looked expressionlessly at the patch of bushes, then turned her head and said mercilessly.
“You overslept, Eren.
Let’s go, if we go back late, Aunt Carla will be angry again.”
“Hey!
I didn’t oversleep!”