A fallen mentor

Under Torch torchlight, and with everyone watching, Eren inserted the key his father had left him into the somewhat rusty lock.

Just as everyone was holding their breath waiting for Eren to open the basement, an embarrassing thing happened: Eren tried to turn the key, but found that it wouldn't budge.

"What's going on? Why can't I open it?" Eren was somewhat taken aback, with an incredulous expression, and then he twisted the key even harder.

As a result, with a crisp snapping sound, the key broke in two.

Eren's eyes widened as he gripped the broken half of the key. "Broken? It's broken?"

Levi couldn't stand it anymore. He released his arms, which he had been holding onto, and pulled the somewhat distraught Eren away. "Get out of the way, you're such a nuisance." With that, Levi raised his foot and kicked the wooden door hard.

When Eren came to his senses, he saw Levi kicking the wooden door. Suddenly remembering something, Eren immediately shouted anxiously, "Captain! Wait, no! There's something behind the door..." But Eren hadn't finished speaking.

Bang!! Wood chips flew everywhere as Levi kicked the wooden door apart, revealing what was behind it...

"... It's a metal plate," Eren said weakly.

Levi silently withdrew his leg, his eyes colder than ever before, and turned to look at Eren.

Eren felt a little uneasy under Levi's gaze and quickly explained, "Captain, it's because Yago came to my house to play when we were little. He accidentally broke our wooden door, so my dad added an extra layer of iron to all the doors in the house."

After saying that, Eren looked at Mikasa and Armin, as if he wanted Mikasa to confirm Armin. The two nodded in agreement, because Yago had indeed done it.

Yago, who was slacking off at the back of the group, was dumbfounded. How did this end up on me? But the next moment, Yago felt the death stare from Captain Levi.

Left with no other choice, Yago coughed strategically, walked to the wooden—no, iron—gate, raised his hand, his fingernails scratching his palm, and a Yellow Lightning instantly enveloped Yago's right hand.

"Get out of the way!" Yago roared, then slammed his fist down hard on the iron gate.

Suddenly, the passageway in front of the basement was enveloped in steam. "Boom!!" A heavy impact followed, followed by a teeth-grinding metallic clang.

When the steam dissipated, everyone saw the iron gate, now smashed and deformed, wide open, and the Titan's arm evaporating at Yago's feet.

Yago pulled his arm out of the mass of flesh and blood, and turned around to find everyone staring at him.

"Why are you all looking at me? The door is open..." Yago asked, puzzled.

Eren was somewhat surprised that Yago could use the Titan Power so precisely.

Historia, who was being held by Ymir's neck, was also somewhat surprised. Since gaining the Titan Power, Historia had also understood that controlling such a powerful force was extremely difficult.

Levi: "You brat, you actually turned into Titan so hastily?"

Yago: "Don't worry, Captain, I'm confident. Wasn't this a great success?"

Hange ran to Yago's Titan arm and excitedly touched it, exclaiming, "Wow, it's completely different from Eren's! It's not particularly hot, but it feels quite substantial!"

Seeing that Hange was practically treating that arm like a piece of premium pork, Erwin finally spoke up, reminding her, "Hange, business comes first!"

"Okay~" Hange said with some regret, then excitedly said to Yago, "Yago, when we get back, you must cooperate with me to test the new experiment!"

Yago: "..."

The group quickly followed Eren into the basement. Levi turned back and glared at Yago one last time, though his gait was slightly odd.

Seeing everyone enter the basement, Yago remained standing still. Annie stopped too, turned around, walked to Yago's side, tugged at Yago clothes, and stared at Yago with her light blue eyes, asking, "What are you standing there for?"

Yago frowned, as if he had thought of something, and said to Annie, "Annie, I suddenly remembered something very important. Do you want to come with me?"

Annie, of course, wouldn't refuse and nodded. Yago hurriedly ran to the basement and gave Erwin a report. In the dimly lit basement, Eren was holding a book, lost in thought. To be precise, he was staring at a photograph in the book, because the photograph showed his father, a strange woman, and a child.

Yago knows what Eren saw and what secrets Eren's father, Dr. Grisha, left behind. Eren should also confront everything his father left him.

Yago brought Annie to the Logistics Squad, urgently calling out Yago 'Scott name, "Uncle Scott! Where is he? Help! We're out of Gas!"

Yago called out to Scott, but Yago didn't notice the gloom on the faces of the Logistics Squad Soldiers. Just then, a Soldiers with reddish-brown hair walked up to Yago and his men carrying a gas canister.

"You are... Floch?" Yago recognized the Soldiers in front of him. Floch looked up, seemingly surprised that Yago knew him, but soon Floch coldly refilled Yago and Annie's Gas.

Yago watched as Floch replenished the Gas, looking left and right but not seeing Scott anywhere. So he smiled and asked Floch, "Where's your Squad Leader Scott? Did he go sneak off to eat something delicious?"

Floch's hand, which was pressing the gas valve, froze, and some Gas sprayed out. After a long silence, Floch said in a low voice, "Squad Leader Scott is dead."

Yago's smile froze. "You, what did you say? Uncle Scott, he, he sacrificed himself?"

Floch tightened the valve with trembling hands, answering with immense self-reproach, "Yes, the Squad Leader sacrificed himself. He was captured by the Titan while trying to save me. It's all my fault... I'm so useless."

"How could this be? Uncle Scott, how could he have died? Didn't he say he was going to invite me to his Wedding? How could he have died?" Yago murmured.

Scott was arguably one of the earliest seniors Yago knew. When the Survey Corps found Iago outside the walls, it was Scott who took care of him. Even after Yago joined the Training Corps, Yago hitched a ride in Scott's carriage to enter Wall Sina.

After joining the Survey Corps, Yago became even closer to Scott. Before the battle to retake Wall Maria, Scott even said that Yago would definitely attend his wedding. In Yago's heart, Scott was already like a mentor to him.

Yago clenched his fists tightly, a glint of red light appearing in his pupils, "Zeke!!"

"Yago, calm down." Annie saw traces of blood seeping from Yago's clenched fist and was very worried. She quickly covered Yago's fist with both hands.

(Happy Lantern Festival, everyone! ٩( 'ω' )و )