A Special Fire Festival Night! (Bonus Chapter for Book-Reading Nobody's Alliance Leader, 60)

Special Fire Festival Night! (Bonus Chapter for Book-Reading Nobody's Alliance Leader, 60)

Historia watched Mikasa, who was so nervous she seemed almost unable to breathe.

She immediately saw through the little thoughts in her heart.

She could not help but laugh softly.

Then she reached out and pinched Mikasa's somewhat stiff cheeks.

"Don't worry. Eren is still single," she said gently but firmly.

Hearing that, Mikasa's tense body immediately relaxed.

She let out a long breath.

Historia's smile faded as she continued, "Enma told me that, as far as she knows, Eren rejected every marriage proposal and every advance from women in the Underworld."

"He has always told others that there is only one person in his heart."

"Do you understand, Mikasa? He intends to keep waiting for you in the Underworld~"

"To wait until you have lived out your full life here, until the day you die of old age."

"He will welcome you in the Underworld and see you again."

"Eren."

Scalding tears finally broke free from her eyes.

They streamed unchecked down Mikasa's cheeks.

They dripped onto her red scarf, spreading into dark wet stains.

Eren was waiting for her too.

Even across the boundary between life and death, even in the Underworld of the dead.

He was still silently guarding that love.

That profound affection struck Mikasa's heart like a heavy hammer.

She was moved beyond words.

At the same time, an incredibly extreme and intense impulse.

Spread wildly through Mikasa's heart like a prairie fire.

Since Eren was in the Underworld, since he was waiting for me.

Why should I continue suffering in this world without him?

Decades were too long, so long that they were painful.

If I died now, if I ended my life now.

Would my soul be able to fly straight