"Thank goodness! They're safe!" Petra cheered, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"Whew..." Jean let out a deep breath and stumbled.
"Officer Kirstein, didn't you say we should trust our teammates? Why were you so scared?" Dennis asked, looking at Jean in puzzlement.
"No matter how much you trust them, you still worry about your comrades' safety," Jean said slowly.
Dennis said nothing, a light flickering in his eyes.
The anxiety in Levi's dead-fish eyes finally eased, and he released the sword hilt he had crushed in his grip.
"We really took one hell of a gamble this time. If Erwin had been any later, the blast wouldn't have caught all the Titans. But if he'd been any earlier, Chen Si and the others wouldn't have had time to evacuate. That was far too dangerous. We were literally gambling with their lives," Hange said with a sigh of relief.
"Erwin and Chen Si agreed on this tactic beforehand. We had no way of knowing when the War Hammer Titan would appear. Chen Si seems unable to detect every enemy hiding nearby the way he used to. It looks like the enemy has some new tricks as well," Levi said flatly.
On the rooftop of a distant high-rise, Sasha also breathed a sigh of relief and put away the Survey Corps' only elite sniper rifle. Suddenly, a reflected glint flashed across her eyes. She immediately dropped flat, pressed her eye to the scope, and began scanning her surroundings, but she could not find a target.
Where? Where was it? Did Marley have a sniper lying in ambush, or was I imagining things? Cold sweat broke out on Sasha's skin as she nervously kept aiming at the rooftops in the distance.
Chen Si opened his cupped Titan hands, revealing