Closer To Fate

Observation haki is a mouthful so I'll only say (senses) from now on. Armament haki will henceforth be dubbed as just (haki).

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The white blindfold was taken off after a short while but instead of being in front of the warm Ackerman house, I was in a dark alley.

"Hey Margus, got to hurry up, wouldn't want to keep our clients waiting now do we?" The man with the crazy afro spoke out in a whisper.

"You worry too much. He is just a slave, the police are well aware of the slum activities at this point, they just don't bother to intervene. I'll deliver them to the Ackermans right after I have my way with this frail kid."

"Oh I forgot to inform you, we won't be delivering him anymore. They have 'lost' interest in him.

'Well, this is disturbing.' Eren thought after listening to the two gag characters.

He was well aware of the crimes being committed in their town, but just never had the motivation to take action.

'I don't want to face this cliché thing.' Thinking so, he simply tore through the ropes binding him and got up.

The two men were shocked to see the slave suddenly get up but didn't feel that threatened after remembering that they were up against a kid.

Their intelligence clouded by arrogance made them forget the fact that the 'weak' slave had just torn through the ropes which they would have never been able to do without a blade of some sort.

"Don't try struggling kid, you'll just make things harder for yourself."

"Uh huh sure, then I won't move anymore. Is that okay for you?" Eren replied, looking dead straight into Magus's eye.

Although a bit weirded out by his sudden submissive behavior, he didn't let those thoughts linger in his head for too long after looking at the slave in front of him.

Reaching his hand out he grabbed Eren's leg and pulled him inside the carriage…or at least he tried to.

Eren's body simply didn't budge.

Confusion marred his face, then was replaced by anger. This time he pulled harder but it yielded the same result.

His face turned red, seeing the mocking gaze of the young boy. So with all his strength, he pulled, only to fall after slipping.

"W-what is wrong with you!" Margus now unable to comprehend this situation cried out drawing the attention of his friend wearing the huge afro.

"What's wrong?" The afro guy asked with a slightly annoyed face. "Just beat him up if he resists."

"T-this freak won---- His words refused to come out as Margus noticed his throat feeling unusually cold. Panic took over him as he scratched at his neck to let a bit of air in but the cold thing in him just grew bigger until a crunching noise was heard and he saw a small fragment of ice coming out from his neck before closing his eyes.

The afro guy just stood in place with a pale face. He had tried to run away the moment he saw Margus's throat swelling, but an unseen force seemed to be holding him in place. Even at this moment, he kept struggling, instinctively he knew the boy in front of him was the one responsible for his partner's death.

He didn't even question anything, as all, he prioritized right now, was his own life.

"So the Ackerman family no longer want me to be their slave. Is that what's happening?" Eren asked the afro guy.

The question though quickly brought him out of his stupor. He knew he was going to die today. The bitter feeling of inevitable death so close to him was eating him away but he also did not wish to be the only one suffering. This he spoke with a loud voice.

"You're too late. My buddies have already taken th—before he could even register, his vision shifted 180 degrees. The twisted head split off from the body, unable to withstand the built-up tension.

"….Fuck." That was all eren said as he pulled himself up to the sky.

Holding out his palm, he coated his hand in haki and grabbed the fabric of space to teleport to the Ackerman household.

The sinking feeling in his stomach grew when he saw the broken door with bloodstains on it. After getting in, he witnessed the corpse of Mikasa's father stabbed through his skull and a lot of broken furniture.

It seemed much of the action took place in the living room as the kitchen and bedrooms were left mostly untouched, except for the main bedroom closets which were probably holding the family savings.

'Looks like Mikasa is alive.'

A sense of relief washed over him when he concluded after seeing the absence of any more corpses.

'Well, let's not waste time anymore.'

Thinking so, his face hardened as he flared up his senses to the utmost limit.

'This isn't working.'

The annoyance in him grew as he realized he cannot distinguish someone from another, that and his senses could not yet cover the entire town.

'Enel was a sunfish. Just eat a super strong devil fruit and gain strong enough senses to monitor the entirety of skypea 24/7 without being exhausted.'

'Come to think of it, why was IM using similar powers as enel? While Enel's attacks were supposed to affect someone physically, IM's lightning seemed to be able to block one's haki. In simple words, enel had powers the equivalent of a seastone, except, it would affect both devil fruit and haki.'

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒄𝒌!

'Not the time to be distracted' Getting back to his task, Eren now conjured a few shadow clones and had them teleport to the edges of his sensory range.

'This better work.'

The clones immediately flared up their senses and took in all the details of their surroundings as best as they could. With this method he managed to solve the first problem of range, as more clones slowly teleported to the regions out of range for the previous clones, quickly covering the entire town.

However, Eren still could not distinguish them from one another.

'What would a girl with dead parents feel?'