Chapter 8: Chapter Eight : Fear and Uncertainty

"She can clearly fight those monsters, so why did she sit back and do nothing?!" A middle aged woman sobbed in grief, but Elsa didn't react at all.

If they knew that she kept the number to the original amount on purpose due to a purely logical standpoint, it was uncertain as to what they would say.

"Who is she? I've never seen clothes like that?" A merchant asked but no one answered. For all, she appeared out of nowhere like a ghost, with strength beyond even the fearsome titans.

Aside from being really pretty, she appeared normal. She stared up at the orange sky, and then back at the direction of the Shiganshina District and held out a hand silently.

With her ability, something made by her was always under her control. She wasn't certain about the range, but even after thirty minutes of travel, she could still feel the ice she blocked the inner gate with.

Reiner could scale the wall, but she doubted he would. After being sent back out without being able to resist, he was intelligent enough to be wary.

"Can't you leave it up?" Armin approached and asked with pleading eyes, but she raised an eyebrow and looked at him, then shook her head.

"If I do and they breach another district, you will be vulnerable from two locations. Shiganshina has already been lost, should another district fall as well?" Elsa asked with a calm voice.

"It's you! You could have saved us! You could have blocked the gate like you did that one!" A grieving man yelled, but remembering how easy she sent a fifteen meter tall titan flying over sixty meters into the air, he dared not approach.

"Yeah! If you stepped in, you could have prevented so many deaths! My son is dead because of you!" The middle aged woman spoke again and the crowd grew braver.

"If you just helped us, would we be so miserable?" Some people grinded their teeth together in anger. If they had such abilities, they would save their fellow people!

"Then you could have, with your flesh and blood, sacrificed yourself when the gate was breached. Why didn't any of you righteous heroes stand up and charge at the titans before? Maybe you could have filled their stomachs and slowed them a bit so your loved ones could escape?" Elsa said with a cold voice and all voices were cut off.

"I am not in any way responsible for you, that is your own responsibility. I helped, but I can't do so without regard. So what I saved everyone? If you die the next day, would it matter?"

"You can be angry or upset, I understand. But if you keep yelling, you'll just tire yourself out." She ended and turned to look at the setting sun again.

"Can I ask what you meant?" Armin asked, a man in a hat in the crowd Elsa realized was his grandfather. She looked at the ever curious blonde boy and her lips curled upwards slightly.

"You can guess Armin. You're very intelligent." Armin originally thought she wouldn't bother with him, but seeing her smile at him encouragingly, he thought about it.

"You said we'd die if you saved all of us, but if you did, why would anyone die?!" A certain hothead interjected but was pulled back by Carla.

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"Unless something else happens and we wouldn't be able to face it?" Armin said with a frown and saw Elsa smile warmly at him. Even Erwin acknowledged Armin's genius in the original work.

"You'll find out when it's time. For now, just try to survive." Elsa's words were cryptic, but only when Armin reached the interior of Wall Rose did they understand what she meant.

The panicked refugees of Wall Maria were abundant, and the guards present struggled to maintain order, some going as far as beating civilians to shock them into submission.

"Titans have breached Wall Maria! We're all doomed!" A man cackled and several people shivered in fear. In the hours since the news sounded that Shiganshina District was breached, all those in the Districts of Wall Maria and in the inner territory rushed to Wall Rose for safety.

"It's so hectic..." Armin muttered and looked to the side and saw Elsa standing silently, the crowd and chaos not coming within five feet of her, as if she belonged to a different world than them.

"You!" A group of soldiers approached Elsa, armed with rifles instead of the titan slaying gear she had seen thus far. She looked at them with curiosity and waited for them to continue.

"It's said that you repelled a strange new titan by yourself using unknown means!? What is your objective?!" Looking at the unicorns on their shoulders, Elsa sighed and wondered what these good for nothings wanted.

"I simply helped where I could." Elsa said but the military police squad commander frowned and wanted to send someone to cuff her when Armin slipped between them.

"Sir, she really did help repel a titan and sent it flying over the wall, arresting her is a bi-" A military policeman used the rifle butt to knock Armin aside while the others aimed at Elsa with fierce expressions.

"I don't get it. Instead of being thankful, you want to label me a bad person? If the unknown is what you fear, you may as well just retire and go farm in the country side." Elsa said with a shake of her head, her thick platinum blonde hair swaying in the breeze.

"This is why I sometimes feel that intervening is too much of a hassle. Hm?" She turned her head and looked at the wall and then back at the military policemen.

"Nevermind that. If you want to arrest me, that isn't possible." She ignored the guns and turned, but the commander yelled in an annoyingly stern voice.

"We have reason to believe you colluded with titans to harm our people! As a human, what do you have to say for yourself?!" When she looked at the man, she got the same feel as when she watched the anime where Eren had just emerged from his titan form and was 'greeted' by a cannonball.

"I can tell you two things with absolute truth. One, I did not collude with titans." Her voice was calm, but the temperature dropped drastically until snow began to fall as dark clouds covered the skies.

"And two, I am not human. I have no reason to harm you, so stop trying to stick something to me, okay?" With her light tone, the clouds receded enough and the air gradually warmed.

"You should find new weapons as well. The mechanisms are frozen." She glanced at the military policemen one last time and shook her head. Truly the most useless group in this world.

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