Bertholdt landed on a distant rooftop. As he looked toward the breach in the wall, conflict and pain still lingered on his face, but they soon faded.
Reiner and Annie stood beside him.
"How did it go?"
Bertholdt nodded slightly.
"No one noticed. The wall has been breached now. Hopefully, this will draw out the Coordinate."
Before long, all the cadets of the 104th Cadet Corps had assembled at the Garrison Regiment headquarters. Hange took out a flare gun and fired through the window into the sky.
A yellow smoke flare shot upward.
Most of the soldiers inside headquarters failed to notice it, and even those who did had no idea what the signal meant.
But figures in Garrison Regiment uniforms emerged from houses all over the area. No one knew when they had gotten there, but hardly anyone paid attention. Everyone was focused on the gate, desperate to escape as quickly as possible.
The Garrison soldiers who emerged quickly began organizing civilians throughout the area to speed up the evacuation.
At Garrison Regiment headquarters, a somewhat older, heavily bearded soldier looked at the cadets of the 104th Cadet Corps before him and spoke loudly.
"You've all undergone three years of training. I expect you to perform well in this operation!
The vanguard will consist of Garrison Regiment soldiers. The middle guard will consist of the Training Corps, led by the Garrison Regiment's Support Squad. The rear guard will be handled by the Garrison Regiment's elite squads!
Also, according to reports from the front, the advance squad has been completely wiped out. The outer gate has been breached, allowing Titans to enter. It would be no surprise if the Armored Titan appeared again at any moment and destroyed the inner gate."
The officer's words brought alarm and barely