Mike stood on the roof of a building, watching the Titans remaining around him. Titan corpses that had evaporated down to their skeletons lay scattered on the ground. To cover the others' safe retreat, he had stayed behind alone to draw the pursuing Titans' attention.
He looked at the two Titans leaning against a nearby building and peeking at him, the Titan lying on the ground as though resting while its eyes stayed fixed on him, and another Titan with a short body but an abnormally large head.
Most importantly, there was the Titan pacing back and forth not far away, the one Mike feared most. It was different from the Titans he usually saw.
That Titan stood seventeen meters tall, its entire body covered in beastlike hair.
Once Mike judged that he had bought enough time for Nanaba to evacuate with the recruits, he stopped lingering to fight and whistled to summon his horse. While he waited for it to arrive,
the more Mike watched the Beast Titan, the more something seemed wrong.
For some reason, he kept feeling that the Titan was glancing at him, whether deliberately or not.
At Mike's call, his horse galloped toward him. Seeing his mount approach, Mike sighed in relief. All he needed to do now was get on his horse, and he could leave safely.
But then something unexpected happened.
The Beast Titan suddenly grabbed Mike's horse. Shock spread across Mike's face as he watched his horse being lifted. After all, their investigations had found that Titans generally had no interest in anything other than humans. While Mike was still reeling,
the Beast Titan suddenly swung its long arm and hurled Mike's horse straight at him like a projectile.
"Oh no!" Mike immediately sensed trouble, but by the time he tried to