So Bai Yu could only ask them for some cleaning clothes with a helpless look on his face. Beside him, Petra perked up when she saw that he had come to help and handed him her broom.
Bai Yu was responsible for cleaning the rooms on the second floor. As soon as he pushed open the door, he saw Eren, who was also helping clean the place.
Looking at Eren standing before him without a scratch, Bai Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, confusion in his eyes.
"Eren, did you... turn into a Titan yesterday?"
Eren merely shook his head gently.
"Bai Yu? Me? No. I didn't turn into a Titan, but I felt that ability to control how my body healed."
At that, Eren's voice grew a little subdued.
"Honestly, Bai Yu, I still can't quite believe any of this. Humans turning into Titans, everything that's happened to me... it all feels like a dream..."
Bai Yu gave him a knock on the head.
"Why think so much about it? Anyway, the power of the Titans lets you turn into a Titan and heal your body. That's some serious power."
But Eren shook his head slightly, looking at his hand with mixed feelings.
"But if what Dad wrote in his book is true, then I only have... less than thirteen years left to live... I don't really know how to feel about that."
Bai Yu fell silent too. That was true: inheritors of the Titans could only live for thirteen years, though it wasn't impossible to break that curse.
But breaking it required all the power of the Titans in the world to disappear completely. In other words, they would first have to let Ymir witness some bizarre romance between Mikasa and Eren, then have Mikasa kill Eren with a