As he spoke, Bai Yu handed the note to Hange in front of him.
After reading the writing on it, Hange crumpled it into a ball and put it in her pocket.
"I never expected your judgment to be completely right, Bai Yu."
As she spoke, she fired another shot into the air. A green signal flare soared into the sky, as though conveying a message to someone.
As time slowly passed, Bai Yu watched the civilians still evacuating below through a gap. Soon. Soon.
Bai Yu slowly began loading a signal flare into his flare gun. It was the exclusive signal of his Support Squad. Now he just had to choose the right moment. His gaze remained calm.
The Titans in the distance had already begun pouring into the town of Trost District. The Garrison Regiment's frontline troops had been utterly defeated and had fallen back to meet the Training Corps and the Garrison Regiment's Support Squad, originally assigned to provide support in the Central Guard.
Bai Yu did not look into the distance. He continued watching the people evacuating below.
When the distant Pure Titans saw the civilians gathered at the gate, they all began running toward them. One Titan broke through the Elite Squad's defensive line.
Its enormous figure sent the people desperately scrambling toward the gate, heedless of anything else. Fortunately, all the civilians made it inside the wall at that moment. The gate slowly lowered, and at the last instant, the Titan crashed into it and fell to the ground.
The moment the gate closed, a Red Signal Flare streaked into the sky, flecked with brilliant gold.
Elsewhere, Bertholdt, Annie, and Reiner stood on a secluded rooftop. Watching the signal flares in the sky, they could not help feeling puzzled.
"What are those