Chapter 39: A long day

A certain tall girl found herself in a very weird situation.

She had been kidnapped while in the middle of the road and when she came back into consciousness she found herself tied by her ankles upside down.

Normally that would be a problem, but in this situation she found her arms not tied anywhere, so she was more than free to just untie her ankles on her own, she even found a pair of scissors dangling on another rope right next to her.

Tied together with the scissors was a note that Ymir read right after untying herself without the use of the scissors because of one simple reason.

They were blunt and the rope was thick.

Those scissors literally couldn't even help in untying herself.

"Either this kidnapper is really dumb or they're doing this just to mess with me" she thought to herself out loud, but at least one of the things that she had said was right, they were indeed messing with her.

She then opened the note that was a left to her, presumably by her kidnapper.

'Greetings Ymir, it is I, the Great Klemens Ackerman, the one who kidnapped you, you may be asking yourself, why would that tall and handsome hunk who everyone was the hots for kidnap this lowly me?

The answer is ready here, I wanted to and there is nothing more to it, now if you please, tie yourself up again in a more comfortable position and we shall begin our little play, if I don't come back in a while, know that I'm probably in the bathroom'

"What the fuck is this" she asked to nobody in particular, this went against everything she knew about the man.

'Ps: it wasn't me and Lie, if you're readying this, fuck you.

"This makes more sense" muttered the kidnapped girl, who had freed herself and proceeded to walk in the direction of the exit.

There was no need to play along with their stupid play after all.

She had known about Liesl Stark's weirdness and penchant for kidnapping people to play pranks on them, but enjoyed her weirdness only as long as it was not pointed in her direction.

Just as Ymir was about to find the exit she heard stepping sounds coming from in front of her until finally, lo and behold, the black sheep of the scouts and and the lunatic herself, Liesl Stark.

"Oh come ooon, Ymir, why didn't you play along there, this is going to be boring" said the red haired girl with a menacing grin on her face.

"Stark, I don't care about your stupid pranks, I have things to do so don't mind if I leave here" said the brown haired freckled girl.

"Oh, we can't have this, now be a good girl and get knocked out again" said the lunatic as Ymir lost consciousness once again.

The man who had just knocked out the same person for the second time in the timespan of barely half an hour had now a weird expression on his face.

"Was this really necessary?" he asked.

"We all have different hobbies, you climb things and I kidnap people, to each their own" she had finally found something that could bring enjoyment to her life and even if it was on a titan shifter she could swear that she'd do the most of any chance she gets.

"I mean, two times? Really? Doesn't it get repetitive at a point?"

"Does climbing the same mountain over and over not get repetitive?"

"Touché" he replied and shut himself up, he really couldn't argue with that.

"This will be the last one anyway, she's boring, maybe I'll take Krista later, she seemed like a fun one"

"When you finally get arrested I'll be there to laugh at you and I'll testify against you"

"Jokes on you, I'll do the same about the two you participated in"

"I'm arresting dangerous criminals, you attain a twisted enjoyment from others fears, we are not the same"

"Yeah sure, keep telling yourself that" she teased with a grin.

"And what does that mean?" he asked while arching his right eyebrow, she said it now and he had to get to the bottom of this.

"Don't think that I haven't seen your grinning expression when I was writing that message, you even helped me setting all of that up"

"I didn't, you're imagining it" he replied, but the cold sweat on his forehead told a different story.

"Sure I did"

"I didn't enjoy that"

"I believe you" she replied, once again with a small grin that told a different story from her own words.

"I mean it, I don't like kidnapping people"

"You can stop, I said I believe you"

'That damned smile' thought Klemens to himself.

"I... I didn't... You know what, fuck it, I'll bring this victim of your abuse in back and tie her up, see you"

"Have fun"

"I won't!"

After he left her behind, she started laughing so much that she lost her bearings and almost started rolling on the ground while holding her stomach.

'Oh, how I love my favorite victim'

Had he heard her thoughts, he would have probably attempted to stab the girl only to regret it immediately after, so all in all, it was fortunate for both that he didn't.

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'I swear, this is the weirdest situation I've ever found myself into' thought Ymir.

She was kidnapped, only to be free to free herself and then kidnapped again by the same people.

At least when she came to this second time she was properly tied to a chair instead of on the ceiling.

"Hello Ymir, how are you?" asked the happy voice that had been the last thing she head before getting knocked out both times.

"Is this really necessary?" asked the kidnapped girl.

"Yes" replied the girl kidnapper "Now shush, because we actually have some serious questions and aren't here only to play around"

"It was about time, moron" came a male voice, but this time she saw the owner instead of him just instantly being knocked out.

"You don't understand my art, idiot"

"Nobody does, but let's get over this and start with the questioning"

"Sure, but we'll get back to this later, don't even think that I'll let this go, I'm very good at holding grudges, do you remember that time you stole a bit of my dessert ten years ago?"

"We were six Lie, I don't remember what I ate for breakfast today" he rolled his eyes and pointed his attention away from the lunatic "Now, Ymir, for the reason that you're here"

"It was about time, spare me your theatrics between lovers next time you kidnap me" her voice oozed with sarcasm, but Liesl appositely ignored the true meaning of her words and replied with a "Will do"

"Are we done?" said Klemens before looking between the two girls and confirmed that the two stopped talking.

"Good, now Ymir, we know that you're a titan shifter like Reiner and Bertholdt"

At those words Ymir froze, literally.

"Look at that, first you give her a false sense of security and then shatter her completely, I'd say you're even more sadistic than me" chuckled Liesl while completely amused at the situation.

"How do you know?" asked Ymir after being awoken from her trance from Liesl's ramblings.

"Doesn't really matter does it? What really matters is that we want to know your intentions, we don't mind having you on the loose as long as we are sure you aren't a threat to the citizens and our people, but leaving an unknown shifter this free without making sure of her intentions would be too irresponsible even for us" interrupted Liesl.

"Yeah... I guess... so what now? Do you kill me or cut my flesh study my powers?" she asked with a dead look in her eyes.

Liesl lightly blinked and then scratched her head in confusion, she then looked at her companion and asked "Did she hear anything I said at all?"

"I think that she was a little overwhelmed, you should repeat that"

"Maybe you're right, I said that we want to know your intentions, not kill you, much less study you, moron" she repeated, much less politely this time.

"Really?" asked Ymir, she really couldn't believe her ears.

And she was right in not doing so, hadn't it been that the two already knew about the fact that she wasn't with the titans from Marley from Annie's interrogation she would have probably been taken down by them already and given to the army to extract information.

Fortunately for her, the two already had more info than needed, they even had a semi clear idea of which titan Ymir was, the jaw titan that came from Marley and had been eaten on the way.

"Yes, I thought you were a smart one" mocked Liesl.

Ymir finally snapped back to reality and replied "I don't know what I want, for the moment I just want to have an easy life in the scout corps"

"You're lying, I advise you to not do that or I'll see through you no matter what, so if you want to keep your head attached to your body, spill the truth and nothing else, I'll ask you again, what do you want to do inside the walls"

"I wasn't lying! At least not entirely..." shouted Ymir back, after seeing the cold look in Liesl's eyes she realized just in what kind of situation she found herself into, Liesl was known among the recruits as an infallible human lie detector and every thought of escaping, even by using her titan form, evaporated once she remembered that day at Trost.

The day she realized that even if she had a titan's power, there will always be some beings that she could do nothing against, and the two in front of her where two such beings.

She lost sight of how Klemens moved and the next time she could see him he was already someplace else while Liesl was chaotic incarnated, she couldn't even think of a way to take her by surprise and Ymir knew that any attempt at a frontal attack would be futile-

"I was telling the truth when I said that I want an easy life, what I lied about was not knowing what I really wanted, my desire is to keep Krista safe"

"Is she telling the truth?" asked Klemens after hearing the girl talk moving his line of sight to his companion.

"Yeah, one more question, do you desire to kill innocent people inside the walls?"

"Not really, no"

"Good enough, you're free to go" said the blue eyed girl, releasing the taller girl from her bindings.

Ymir was momentarily stunned, but she asked "That's all?"

"Yeah, what? Do you want us to kill you or have you done something that would deserve that we do?"

"Not at all"

"Then be free Ymir, maybe take Krista and leave the army if you want, just remember that when you die your corpse should be burned, we don't want that power to be passed down to anyone, it's too dangerous and there are too many greedy people in this world"

"Well said"

"So... I can go?"

"We've already said so, yes, go free as the wind and have some fun, you seem awfully tense for someone so young" replied Klemens.

"It seems like you groped her good when she was unconscious" teased Liesl while a sneer appeared on Klemens' face.

"As if, if I wanted to touch a girl I could do so any night when you're wrapped around me and rubbing your body all over mine"

"Don't talk about it like you don't enjoy it!" counterattacked Liesl with a fake hurt expression.

But her attack was stopped and served back with a "I'd enjoy it if there was anything to enjoy, you're all bony and muscly, you're just like the armored titan, nothing soft anywhere"

The moment Klemens said anywhere he was pressing his hands on his own chest and made a mocking grin facing his best friend since birth, something snapped inside of Liesl.

"Oh yeah? You want to see soft? I'll show you soft"

Ymir took that as her cue to leave the room stepping out of the door and leaving the fighting couple to their own alone time.

It had been a long day for her and she needed a little alone time with Krista.