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~from Levi's POV~
"She's somewhere in the park. She was supposed to be with Eren that day, but they got split up in the crowd. When everybody else vanished, we didn't see her, so we assumed she was gone with everyone else. But she wasn't. She was here in the park the whole time." I paused, looking over to the tent where Sasha had died. "Sasha's body was discovered over there, near the tent with all of our food resources. I figure that Mikasa snuck into our camp somehow and attempted to steal food from us, but Sasha saw her. They struggled, and Mikasa took a nearby blunt object and attacked Sasha's phone. A few days later, she was hiding near the border, and Marco came nearby on a walk. Either he saw Mikasa, or she saw him and got nervous, so she killed him. Armin figured it out later and confronted Eren. Maybe he'd taken a picture and seen Mikasa in the corner or something. I don't know. But Eren killed Armin to keep him quiet about it. Eren's also the one who buried (y/n)'s phone, and he's the one who found it later."
"Wait, Eren? Eren killed Armin? But...why..." Jean shook his head. "Eren?"
"They're close siblings. Mikasa probably thought she was protecting Eren, and Eren in turn protected her identity."
"But why didn't Mikasa just come out in the beginning?"
I paused. "Mikasa...because of her past, she has a hard time trusting people. She probably got separated from Eren that day, but when she went to find him, he was with strangers. Either she didn't trust us, or she thought Eren was being kept against his will. Either way, she wouldn't join us. That's part of why she's currently hiding."
Jean was silent for a long moment. "Then which one of them killed Erwin? And who took (y/n)'s phone?"
I hesitated. "I'm not sure. I'd Mikasa thought Erwin and (y/n) were threats, then...she could have done it. But I'm not sure."
"I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, Levi, but if we don't find (y/n)'s phone soon..."
"I know, Jean. I know."
Yelling from the other side of camp caught our attention, and we both started running.
***
Annie was sitting on top of the Ferris wheel, having climbed the metal grillwork all the way up.
Eren and Mikasa stood at the bottom, shouting up at Annie.
Why is Mikasa here? Unless Eren is in danger somehow...
"What's going on?" I asked as I ran up, Jean close behind me.
"She has (y/n)'s phone," Eren said, his face still pale and red around the eyes.
"How the hell did this happen?!"
Jean frowned. "Remember the timeline we talked about earlier? How Annie couldn't have killed Erwin because he wouldn't have frozen within that ten-minute gap when I went to check on (y/n)? What if that's when she took (y/n)'s phone?"
"But when would she have slipped Erwin's phone into the arcade freezer?"
Jean flushed, looking at the ground. "I may have gone out to pee once..."
"And you didn't mention this earlier?"
"I didn't think it was relevant!"
Eren stepped closer. "I can't be sure about this, but I think...I think Annie's the one who caused the barrier. I can't explain it, but..."
"Later, Eren. We'll talk about it later."
That's when Mikasa started climbing up after Annie.
"What's she doing, Eren?!"
"Uh, Annie kind of sort of has my phone too..." he admitted, looking down in shame. "Mikasa saw, and she came out to try to stop Annie..." Eren looked up at Mikasa. "I have to stop her." With that, he began climbing up after Mikasa, leaving only Jean and myself on the ground.
"Why don't any of you people tell me the important facts?!" I exhaled sharply. "We need to-"
Just then, Annie stood up and dropped something. And then another something. And then another something.
Three cell phones were falling toward the ground - (y/n)'s, Eren's, and Annie's.
~from Jean's POV~
I watched as Annie dropped the phones. Three phones, three lives, two people on the ground.
Someone was going to die.
I didn't know which phone was Annie's, but I saw one of them looked a little bit smaller than the others, so I bet on that one. The only problem? It was falling on a path that would land ten feet away from us. There wasn't enough time for me to get there.
I planted my feet and shoved Levi as hard as I could. "Get that phone!"
I didn't listen to his reply as I watched the other two falling. I inhaled briefly, prayed briefly, and made a snap decision to go for the one on the left.
Please, please let this work.
~from Levi's POV~
After being shoved by Jean, I saw the nearest phone falling .
It's still too far.
Gritting my teeth, I timed it out and dove, catching the phone just before I hit the ground, rolling over several times to absorb the momentum. I had tried to shield the phone, but I wasn't see if it had worked.
Slowly, my entire body burning from the scrapes and burns I'd just gotten, I opened my arms to see a cell phone, scratched and battered, sure, but in one pieces. I exhaled in relief. I'd just saved someone's life. But whose?
~from Jean's POV~
I went for the phone and caught it in my arms like a football, falling back.
Then I watched as the third phone hit the ground and shattered.
And then a scream.
A female scream.
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