End of the curse

In a repurposed housing district, the Colossal and Armored Titan shifters sleep.

A tall man entered the room without any trouble whatsoever.

...There are some extra people here. I need to make sure they won't wake up, just in case something happens.

I went to each of their beds and made them completely unconscious with the Ripple.

-... Reiner? Are you awake? Said a dark-haired boy getting up from bed.

-...Go to sleep Bertholdt.

-I am sure I heard something.

Reiner sat on the bed and looked around.

-There is nothing here man. Go to sleep before any of them wake up and force you to clean the toilet like last time.

-...

And they went to sleep, just like that.

What a friendship.

I went to Reiner first, since he was the most dangerous. Unless Bertholdt decides to transform…

He is the Colossal Titan.

With a finger I touched Reiner's spine, I wanted to test something too.

The moment I was going to put him to sleep. Reiner suddenly leaped from his bed delivering a quick kick into my head.

I grabbed his feet with my other hand and paralyzed his body with the wave since from behind me Bertholdt was swinging down a wooden "club" into my head.

I blocked the club with my left hand and channeled a wave through it, incapacitating him.

I placed him on the bed before anyone came to check on the noise.

-What is happening here? Said a voice opening the door.

-Hello?

-... They are sleeping like a rock huh. I guess they are tired after this operation and the questioning.

-Let them sleep, Drake. Said a voice from behind.

-Yeah. He closed the door and left.

Reiner was still awake, but couldn't move because of his paralyzed body. He was soon sent to dreamland together with the others by a strange energy.

That was too close for comfort. Let's see if my theory was right, but first, let's collect their blood.

I picked up a syringe from the medical facility before coming here. I need to collect the blood in the spine right? But how much?

Let's go with a small vial for now.

…

Okay… Is this it? Open mission tab.

[...

Blood of Reiner, the Armored Titan collected.]

I think I did it then.

The process was repeated with the other guy.

Now let's do it. I injected a small stream of Hamon into his spine.

3 seconds…

7…

15…

27…

Finally after a full minute. A very small white tendril appeared on his spine.

-What is this? A part of the source? Or its offspring?

Can I collect it?

I picked a large jar and charged using the same principle I did previously.

The white "snake" entered the jar and stayed there.

Just like this? But I imagine it will leave if I stop supplying it with energy.

After picking the other "snake" I went to look for the remaining two Titans. The jaw titan and the Female Titan.

In the girl's section of the dormitories, a blond girl was sleeping soundlessly. This was Annie Leonhart.

The holder of the female Titan. Surprisingly, she was alone in this room. It was rather small but having any sort of privacy is already incredible. It must be temporary.

One thing that I noticed while checking the rooms is that the girls usually have "more" room than the boys.

What I want to say is that, if a room has space for 5 boys, they will only put 4 girls in that room. Sometimes only 3. I guess this is due to the lack of girls in the Military.

This makes my job easier.

I went to Annie ready to zap her. I wasn't taking any chances.

/Zapp./

Her body contracted for a second before relaxing again. Success.

I proceeded to collect her blood and the parasite.

One more to go.

Within the same building, I found Ymir talking to another blond-haired girl. This was Historia Reiss. The last member of the Reiss royal family, currently going by the name of Krista Lenz. She is currently in military service as a way for the nobles to get rid of her without suspicion.

She will eventually reclaim her true name but… Who cares?

I just watched the two of them talking as a novelty. Seeing Iconic characters talking like this is kinda strange after all.

But they talked, and talked… And talked… Talked…

It was already late into the night and they kept talking while staying in bed.

Holy shit…

After ten more minutes, they finally stopped talking. Bless the heavens.

The usual process was repeated once more. And now I can take a rest.

I found an abandoned building that was still relatively intact and made it my temporary home.

Next morning.

The sun shone right into my face as if it was making fun of me.

Should I go take a bite? Nah. Let's just finish this already and go home. There is not much for me to do in this shithole of a world in a short time anyway.

What am I going to do? Fight Marley or something? The only thing of worth here is these strange creatures. There might be more hidden underwater. Or under the earth. Or wherever they may be.

I stretched my body and put on my clothes, time to meet the MC.

Talking about him I wonder. Who is the "Hero", not that it matters but…

Eren was sitting on the roof of a building looking around as if looking for something.

-Looking for me?

-PFF! You scared me!

-Did you even get any sleep? Look at your face.

-How could I sleep when you told me all of those things. I… thought a lot about it but I still can't believe what you said.

-It's fine, let me show you some things then, you can make your choice then.

I placed my hand on his forehead and started a technique I never really used before.

Hamon can be used to mess with people's bodies, a more acute control would be the brain.

What I am going to do is to pass some images from the original show into his head. Of course, with some alterations.

-Ahhh!

Oops. I forgot it might have hurt a little.

-...This should be enough. I will be here in case you want to ask something.

For the next hour afterward, Eren just kept asking questions. He looked devastated at the end though.

-Was it all… In vain. We didn't change anything at all.I just caused more unnecessary deaths! How could I…

-You tried to act against something you could barely understand, and expectedly, you obtained a very superficial victory.

-But that's only a possible future, with me here, we are going to change things.

-I will do it. He said calmly.

It seems some of the memories affected his current personality. A good thing to know.

-First I will collect some of your blood for a sample. I am sorry for this but I am a very curious man.

-It's the minimum I guess.

…

-Okay. Ready? I am going to repeat what we did yesterday…

-Eren? Are you here?

A feminine voice came from behind.

It was Mikasa looking around.

-Hoho. Look at you kid! Already having a girlfriend?

-No… It's not like that…

-She's quite cute though… Make sure to not fuck things up in this life.

-... I will.

Really now. The memories indeed changed his mind. Could it be the memories of the Titans? I didn't put that many memories into his mind. So his change came from somewhere. I can only think of the link… that's too magical to think about.

After a while, Mikasa left to look in another place. She really is dedicated, not gonna lie.

-It's time. I hope everything goes alright.

-That isn't comforting,

-Did I say that out loud?

Eren laughed a little but soon got focused.

I nodded at him and placed my hand in his nape. And just like last time a white creature started to appear from his skin.

Eren had a mirror so that he could see what was going on. And he had an angry expression on his face.

This is it. The fucker who made all of this happen… I can't really blame it, since it's just a mindless creature. But! Its power is too great, even higher than misters. In fact, just how strong is it? It can appear and disappear from places as if he was a … What was the name… Ghost?

…

Finally, most of the creature's body had been removed. But there was still a small part of it attached to Eren.

If I can't remove that, then I will have to kill it with the item…

-Eren.

-Eren? You there?

He seemed lost, looking into the horizon. That's probably something to do with his Titan power.

(I don't know much about specific things of the lore. Just think he just went to have a chat with Ymir.)

I will wait a bit.

The seconds turned into a minute.

I could barely hold it anymore.

Eren finally woke up and placed his hands hastily into the final line of the creature, he pulled it up with strength, and with a satisfying "pop" the creature unplugged itself from him. I then directed it to the jar and sealed it again.

-Is it over?

-Yup. I don't know what happened to your power, but the other Titans should disappear as soon as I cut their energy line.

(That will happen when he gives the creature to the patron)

Eren thought for a while before saying:

-It's over… YES!...

Eren started to cry and shout if anyone could hear him. They might have thought he had gone nuts.

I wonder where this confidence came from…

-It's time for me to go. Let me give you some advice. Don't tell anyone about any of this. Perhaps years in the future you can tell your friends. I will go now.

-Where are you going. You didn't even tell me who you really are!

-Me? I am a traveler, nothing more. And you have better things to do now. Soon enough a war will start. And you don't have the Titans to "help" you anymore. Goodbye Eren, it was fun meeting you.

As I said that I jumped really high in the sky using the air around me to boost myself further into the air.

It's not flight, just long-distance jumping.

-Wait!. But this time, some people heard him.

Embarrassed, he walked down from the rooftop meeting with Mikasa on the way.

What he did from there was a story for another time.

…

On a river outside of the wall.

-Can I consider this a completed mission?

[Processing… Main objectives achieved. Mission completed. Requesting permission to leave the world...]

I summoned the boat and entered it, getting comfortable.

My fastest adventure to date. I would've liked to fight against the Colossal Ti…

Wait. Will the walls fall down without the Titans inside of them?

Shiiit… Not my problem…

With the crow's flight. I disappeared from this world.