1 Cameraman Rule #1

[Leader in position. Do everyone copy?]

[Alpha tracking Eren Jaeger and Mikasa Ackermann]

[Beta tracking Armin Arlelt]

[B1 and C1 tracking Hannes]

[B2 and C2 tracking…]

[B11 and C11 tracking Carla Jaeger]

"Kekuew! The Leader is hogging the scene that would kickstart the entire series!" A man in his early twenties whistled while standing on the roof of a house, gazing at the figure of a middle-aged man wearing circular glasses, a brown suit with a white cravat, and a white shirt with ruffled sleeves.

"Eren, behave while I'm gone, and I'll let you in on what I've been doing in the cellar…agreed?" The man wearing the brown suit flashed a key before beginning to walk away.

"Yes, sir. You got it!" The boy addressed as Eren waved his hand at the man's back, "Have a good trip!"

"It's beginning." The man in his twenties said, nodding at two people dressed similar to him, "Do a good job at tracking Grisha Jaeger, got it?"

"Yes, Alpha!" Two people nodded before skipping on the buildings as they trailed after the man wearing the brown suit, Grisha Jaeger.

They were dressed in fluorescent green tight-fitting clothes, their steps nimble while not even a trace of their existence was felt by the people of this world.

And hovering beside them were tiny spheres, pulsing with a faint blue light as they faced Grisha Yeager, recording his actions through the conical lenses embedded on their front.

"Alpha, do you know what is about to happen next?" A white-haired youth asked in concern, feeling like something was brewing in the background as he could feel a sense of uneasiness.

"Just do your damn job, B11. Record everything. You're not at a rank to be privy of such details." The man in his twenties, the one addressed as Alpha said coldly, noticing the figure of Eren Yeager running away.

He sent a pulsing orb behind the boy while focusing the second orb on Mikasa Ackermann.

"Mikasa, the boy needs to be protected from himself. Promise me, whatever happens, I can count on you to have his back."

"Mm-hm." Mikasa Ackermann nodded in response before chasing after Eren Yaeger.

"If the quality of any scene falls short, I'll hold you accountable, B11." Alpha snorted before flying away as he followed Mikasa.

"This guy is a real asshole." The youth with white hair, B11 grunted in exhaustion.

"Bro, you said joining the camera crew for this world would net us immense profits. But how can we work alongside such arrogant jerks?" An angry voice complained.

B11 gazed at the source of the voice, a boy around 14 years old, too young to be in this field, left with no other choice but to do this for a living now. Sporting magenta hair and a pair of magenta eyes, he stood out like a sore thumb.

Hovering beside him was a spherical mike, which was his only role—to record sounds. He performed the auditory recording while B11 did the visual recording.

Upon gazing at the child, B11 sighed, "Chihuahua, irrespective of the crew's attitude, the Predictor predicted an insane number of views for this series. So, we'll have to put up with the crew's crap."

"Bro, don't use my name while on the job. Call me C11." The boy snorted, complaining, "Still, why was I named Chihuahua? That's so not cool."

"A cameraman doesn't require an identity. And this assigned code name is only for ease of address." B11 replied, "Besides, I've been named Pomeranian. It's not like my situation is any better than yours."

"Anyway, Carla Jaeger is our target. So, we'll have to record her actions perfectly…"

Boom!

Goudou! Goudou!

The ground rumbled all of a sudden, following the sound blast resulting from a lightning strike, cutting off Pomeranian's words as they almost lost balance as a result.

"W-What the heck is up with that?" Chihuahua shouted in alarm, noticing boulders of all sizes flying everywhere, followed by powerful gales.

"Kyaa!" Carla Jaeger had been cleaning dishes in the house when a massive boulder slammed into it, caving into the house, trapping her within.

"She's in danger!" Chihuahua shouted in shock, hurriedly entering the house to see Carla trapped behind some broken logs. "Thankfully, she's only suffered minor bruises."

"What the hell are you doing?" Pomeranian grabbed hold of his arm, shouting, "Remember our rules. Don't come into contact with her! She'll come to know of our existence if you touch her."

"What's up with you? Do you seriously wish for me to stand aside and watch her die…?" Chihuahua trailed off mid-sentence, almost forgetting to breathe, hearing powerful echoes of heavy footsteps stomping all around him, "W-wha…what's up with this world?"

"This isn't freaking Fairy Tail. I know at least that much. People die here, alright!" Pomeranian said, "We only have to do our job!"

"Screw this!" Chihuahua waved his hand, trembling in fear as he noticed massive creatures in the distance, horrifying monstrosities that were more terrifying than the dragons that he had seen before in the world of Fairy Tail.

Titans!

Anatomy-wise, they resembled a human, but had such warped proportions that they triggered his fear strings, causing him to grit his teeth as he shouted, "I'll take responsibility for my action."

"Idiot, don't!" Pomeranian shouted when Chihuahua escaped his hold, running towards one side of the broken house.

"We'll record her from when she escapes the house. She's just trapped, after all." Chihuahua shouted as he slammed a punch into the cracked walls of the wooden house, breaking right behind the location where Carla was trapped, "We'll just blame the crew for not informing us of the dangers involved in this scene. It's not our fault if we were caught up in the aftermath of this massive boulder that crashed right into us, right?"

"Hah…" Pomeranian sighed, stating, "Hurry, we can't lag behind for more than a few seconds."

"I know." Chihuahua said as he patted Carla's shoulder, causing her to flinch before noticing him, "Aunty, come out through this way!"

The moment he touched her shoulder, his fluorescent green clothes vanished, immediately causing a pair of clothes similar to the people around him to appear on his body, making him seem like someone from this world.

His hair and eyes were still odd but Carla didn't have the time to mind this, hurriedly moving out of the house through the broken gap, "T-Thank you."

"Aunty, I'll have to go look for my family. Please be safe." Chihuahua said, lying to vanish from her eyes and turn invisible to her senses once again. But right as he turned around, all he could see were the soles of a boot flying at his face.

Bam!

"Koff!" Chihuahua's nose began to bleed as the impact sent him crashing into the ground.

"What the heck are you doing?" Carla shouted in alarm, hurrying to his rescue when Alpha grabbed her by the scruff of her neck. He was the one that had kicked Chihuahua.

"I was feeling something was amiss when Carla Jaeger wasn't trapped within her house. So, you were the reason." Alpha kicked Chihuahua in the stomach, "You violated our law to never interact with the characters of this world."

"Wait for your punishment, B11." He then glared at Pomeranian before setting his eyes on Carla, gazing at her struggling figure before activating an ability, causing her to fall unconscious.

He looked at the crumbled house, focusing on the area Chihuahua had broken through, scowling in response, "If this messes up our views, you'll pay for it big time."

He then grunted, slightly lifting the collapsed framework of the house, placing Carla there, with half her figure peeking out of the rubble, "Damn, it might look odd that the house's collapse caused half her body to peek out perfectly. The viewers might catch onto it."

"Shit, if only that idiot C11 hadn't broken that section of the wall, I could have still managed to trap her inside." He slowly lowered the wooden framework, hearing a mild grunt from the unconscious Carla, thinking, 'She's only suffered minor bruises. Hmm, that won't work if I base it on the Predictor's predictions. Seems there's only one way to go about it.'

He slowly leaned forward and placed his hand on Carla's head, causing it to shine with a mysterious light, "Remember, your legs have been crushed by the rubble. Even if you're rescued, you won't be able to run."

He then glared at Pomeranian, "Make that idiot invisible once again and take off to the roof. Do his part of the work until she dies."

"Y-Yes!" Pomeranian nodded, causing the fluorescent green clothes to appear on Chihuahua's body as he picked him up and jumped onto a nearby roof, taking control of Chihuahua's mike as he made it hover next to Carla. He clenched his hand into a fist, gritting his teeth at what Alpha was doing, clearly unwilling to see someone's death right from the get-go like this.

"They're here…" Alpha said, noticing the figures of Eren and Mikasa running towards Carla, followed by two pulsating orbs that trailed after them without their awareness.

"Mooooommmmm!" Eren screamed in despair upon seeing the top half of Carla's body peeking out while the rest seemed to be trapped under their house's rubble.

[Cameraman Rule #1: A Cameraman's presence must remain unknown]

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