Ayanokouji's POV:
Usually, a titan delivers a fatal crunch, having been swallowed by the titan whole, I hadn't sustained any major injuries as I feel inside it. Considering the titan doesn't have digestive organs, I have about 15 seconds to escape. After that, the liquid inside will crystallise me and suffocate me in the process or I simply get cooked to death in the heat inside the titan.
If my hypothesis is correct, the nape is the weak point as it connects the spinal cord and the human brain.....proving not just that titans are human mutations but also, survivability inside one.
I shot my ODM to the upper teeth and hung onto it, then I wrapped the other line of the ODM to the sword and threw it at the nape from the inside. While I could have attacked it directly, it would have been blocked by the vertebrae crevicale V, so a thin blade should pass between the bones.
It went inside and out of the titan's neck spraying blood like a fountain making the titan start falling onto the ground with me pulling onto my ODM and jumping out of the mouth which started opening up, barely before it crashed.
Thinking to myself, I completed a part of my research, which was risky .....but a calculated one.
Coming out of it dishevelled and hanging onto the roof ledge to meet a grief-stricken Armin and Eren.
"Are you both keep staring?"
This was enough to get Eren out of his shock and hoist me up. I had exhausted myself quite a bit in this endeavour.
"K-Kiyotaka....are you okay?.....Why did you save me?"
Should I tell him the truth or should I lie?.....
Telling him the truth will not help me further my goal...hence the lie will be appropriate.
"Mikasa asked me to."
His eyes showed extreme rage and hatred for a moment as he screamed
"God fu*king dammit Mikasa......you slave" He whispered something quite interesting at the very end.
That scream also led Armin's shock to recede as he hurried up to my care as he shook me violently and shouted, though this was in relief
"What were you thinking......BOTH OF YOU?"
He was angry, very unlike him...Their bond must be quite strong....I wonder what
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That pain...while is quite excruciating has a pattern.
"Kiyotaka how did you escape?"
This time Eren pointed at the elephant in the room.
"I would discuss that, after we fend off the titans."
This should distract them while I come up with a convincing answer.
"Ya, Kiyotaka is right, Eren let's go.....Kiyotaka, please don't move from here until we come back."
"I don't plan to."
Armin was shaking while loading up his ODM, if this continues it will be a problem
"Are you scared Armin?"
Eren turned in curiosity at me, for asking such a question to Armin who nervously replied
"W-What d-do you mean....I-I am not scared....no-no....I can't"
"Why can't you? What's the wrong with being scared?"
Both looked at me in wide disbelief and Eren cut us off by saying
"What are you saying Kiyotaka? Being scared will stop us from doing our best...it's a curse on the battlefield."
"Don't we say, Shinzou wo Sasageyo.....or....Dedicate our hearts, our hearts....have courage and fear, so won't letting go of one of them, weaken our hearts."
I calmly explained as they heard with bated breath.
"Our fear of Titans, makes us fight....embrace this fear, Armin...Give your heart to this, give your fear into this...Being scared makes you even stronger when you overcome it."
This should be enough ted talk to knock some sense into them.
Armin nodded violently as his shivering but willing fingers once that held a pen, now held onto a sword slashed through the napes of the Titans with ruthlessness.
Eren watched this and proclaimed in a grave tone as if he was accusing me," Are you really average.....because then...I am nothing, neither a good soldier nor a good friend."
He went off before letting me say anything. After a while, a second group came to visit
"Kiyotaka are you alright, where are the others"
I got up and patted my red coat, which I had maintained as a memory of my previous world
"I am just fine Historia, the others have gone to fight and as for me, I was too weak to keep up with them so I decided to catch my breath for a minute."
Telling them that I saw the inside of a titan wouldn't be the best thing to discuss at the moment.
"Alright, whatever your sloth, come on....let's get moving."
We followed Ymir quietly as Historia whispered," Don't take her words to heart."
As if I have one
"I won't"
Shooting my ODM faster and swinging I dragged my feet on the tiles of the house near to which Mikasa and the others were grouped up.
"WHAT WERE YOU ALL DOING?"
She was shouting at the cadets while I stayed behind to avoid her wrath.
John spoke up, "It's all those because of those 3. They didn't follow the strategy."
Ymir supported his statement," He is right, Kiyotaka said it himself that he was too tired to follow them and took a break...Just pathetic."
They tried to ostracise me to escape the blame which I was unsure of.
Mikasa was relieved to see Eren and Armin, okay but she started scolding me
"What about you? Coward!"
She swung up to me and grabbed my collar pinning me to the wall
"Didn't I tell you PROTECT ERENNNNN!"
"He is alright though, I don't see the reason for you to be so angry."
"WHAT if he got hurt huh? WHAT THEN? HE IS BLEEDING."
"B-but...Kiyotaka-"
Historia's pleas went to deaf ears.
Her shouts got louder....
"USELESS FREAK"
and louder....
"EREN WAS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY"
until
SLAP
Followed by a tight slap
CRASH
A kick on Mikasa's shin by Annie herself.
"Why don't we let his comrades speak their part....before passing judgement."
Her stoic voice spoke volumes but it seems Mikasa was going deaf
"B-BUT HE DIDN'T PROTECT ERE-"
"Mikasa just shut up for one second, will you! Do you have any f*cking idea what Kiyotaka did for us? He lied about being tired...
HE WAS EATEN BY A TITAN!! BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T TRUST ME."
The silence in the cadets upon hearing contrasted with the ongoing titan rampage going around us.
Mikasa questioned..though this time with shock unlike the previous accusatory voice
"B-But...then how is he alive."
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT."
Eren pulled her out of Annie's hold as he glared at her with a ferocious gaze making Mikasa cower slightly.
"He almost got killed because YOU told him to do so, he saved us at the risk of his own life...How dare you blame him for being If he hadn't survived today...I would have never forgiven you....NEVER."
I thought Armin would have tried to stop him but....he didn't do anything except turning around and jumping off the roof.
Almost everyone was disgusted at Mikasa's actions left one by one but not before giving a scornful look at her, who was quite hurt by this...though her expressions remained stoic
Annie gave her one last kick on her arm which she didn't block and said
"Keep your idiocracy to yourself......else there won't be the next time."
We were the last ones there and as I loaded my ODM she asked one last thing
"Y-you set this up......why?"
"What makes you think that Mikasa?"
"You tricked the others by lying to them and acting humble, then you didn't try clarifying the matter once, causing me to get enraged and then letting me get even angrier....and destroying my 3 years' worth of reputation in front of my comrades. especially Eren...why did you do this?"
She was right, I could have immediately clarified and stopped any form of confrontation...but I didn't. When Eren called her a slave, I realised that he harboured some form of resentment toward her. I used it to my advantage and caused her extreme pain by getting utterly humiliated by someone she cared deeply for, breaking her morale completely.
Why I did so...Why was I so cruel....?
It's quite simple
"To give you a warning.....
Don't be an obstacle.
Else don't be shocked when you get eliminated.
Not by titans
But
B Y M E
I have to break the bonds between these three...I need control over each of them....
Divide and Rule
---------------------AUTHOR'S NOTE---------------
Dear Readers,
In this story.....the mind will play a major role, while fights will be there but less....but considering Eren didn't get titan powers....things will be much different lesser titan fighting, from the AOT theme of pure action.
But ya....the fights which do happen at a major scale...will be interesting....maybe
Why?
Because Ayanokouji......well that's it. Also remember that while Ayanokouji may lie in his mind....there are hints on his true purpose :)
and if you really really want to see him go crazy and beat everyone up and be too op for anyone else to handle in the 1st 5 chapters.......it ain't that hard to make a fanfic urself :)
Thank you