The Titan approached step by step; it had already caught the scent of human flesh.
"Hurry and run! If this keeps up, all three of us will... Hannes!" The mother, pinned under the ruins, was streaming with tears. More than her own death, she cared about the lives of her two children.
*At least someone has to survive!*
A middle-aged soldier rushed over hurriedly. He obviously knew the two children. A soldier belonging to the Garrison Regiment, even if he was usually a dead-drunk alcoholic, would choose to step up at a time like this.
"Hurry and take the kids to safety! Don't worry about me!" Her body was crushed by a heavy beam; even if they managed to pull her out now, she would only be a burden.
Hannes had short blond hair, and though his face already showed the aging signs of a middle-aged man, he still flashed a reliable smile in this moment.
"Don't underestimate me too much, Carla. I'll be the one to take this Titan down."
With that said, he ignored the shouts behind him. Using the ODM gear unique to this world at his waist, he connected the blades to the hilts and sprinted toward the Mom-Eating Titan.
This was to repay a debt. Eren's father had cured Hannes's gravely ill wife. He had always kept this favor in his heart, and now he finally had the chance to return it.
The Titan drew closer and closer. The sunlight cast the Titan's shadow over Hannes. The massive difference in size, the hideous face, the drool dripping from its mouth...
The instant Hannes locked eyes with the Titan, an overwhelming terror spread endlessly from the depths of his heart, instantly shattering the courage he had just mustered.
*I can't win. This isn't an enemy I can defeat. I have to take the kids and run!*
"Are you going to run away? Perhaps that is the correct choice, but are you truly willing to accept that?"
Just a moment before he turned to flee, an unfamiliar voice abruptly echoed in his mind. "Who... who's talking?!"
"The anthem of humanity is the anthem of courage. Go and fight. You can do this. You can save even more people."
The voice didn't answer him, but in that moment, he felt as if something extra had appeared in his jacket. Hannes reached inside and pulled it out—it was a pair of red glasses without temples.
There was a line of small text engraved on the bottom of the glasses. Before he could understand what it meant, a surge of information was transmitted to him through the glasses.
By putting on the Ultra Eye, he could become Ultraseven and gain the power to defeat the Titans.
"Can I do it? Can I really do it, with this body that's already rotten to the core?"
The Titan was getting closer and closer. There was no time left to think. *If this is a miracle bestowed upon me by the heavens, then I will use this miracle to protect what I want to protect!*
"JIO——!"
Light—a warm, red light. A body interwoven with red and silver, beautiful silver armor on the shoulders and chest, and eyes emitting a soft yellow halo. Ultraseven stood tall upon the earth in this very moment!
Due to the state of his human host and his subconscious control when facing the enemy, the Ultraseven that Hannes transformed into was only fifteen meters tall, putting him on par with the mainstream intelligent Titans of this world.
It was surging up! His strength, speed, durability, and jumping power had all received a massive boost in this moment. Setting aside this powerful body, he also had the mighty weapon known as the Eye Slugger, along with three types of beam skills.
A straight punch. With just a single, ordinary straight punch, the Mom-Eating Titan was sent flying far away, crushing a large swath of buildings.
"Northeast! An Abnormal has appeared in the northeast!"
The humans of this world didn't know what an Ultraman was. In their eyes, Ultraseven, who looked distinctly different from the ordinary Pure Titans, was simply an Abnormal.
Hannes no longer cared what anyone else said. He was going to do what he had to do: kill every Titan in sight and protect the civilians in the city!
Without giving the Mom-Eating Titan a chance to stand up, he placed his clenched left fist at his waist and raised his right arm horizontally across his chest. The beam lamp on his forehead fired a dazzling green ray, instantly blasting the Titan into a scatter of fragments on the ground.
*Emerium Beam!*
Who said you absolutely had to slice the nape of a Titan's neck to kill it? Blasting them into pieces worked just as well!
Not a single Titan along the way could withstand even one exchange with him. In just two short minutes, he had already slaughtered over twenty of them.
But at this moment, he hadn't yet noticed that the beam lamp on his head had started blinking. An Ultraman's power could only last for three minutes within a planet's atmosphere, after which the transformation would undo itself due to a lack of energy.
Serie used cloning and invisibility magic to teleport people all over the place, while her main body arrived beside Zenith, watching the Ultraseven-transformed Hannes go on an absolute massacre.
"I haven't seen you use this power before. Is it a newly acquired ability?"
Zenith tilted his head and looked at her. "How do you know it's a new ability? Couldn't it just be that I never felt like bringing it out before?"
"Knowing your personality, if you had it before, you definitely would have tossed those glasses into some dungeon."
*Tch, she knows me pretty well.* Zenith raised an eyebrow and continued watching Hannes's performance.
The Armored Titan hadn't appeared yet. By the time he showed up, Seven's transformation time would likely have long passed, meaning the gate of Wall Maria still couldn't be saved.
In the Attack on Titan world, there were a total of Nine Titans. The Titan powers Eren possessed were the Founding Titan and the Attack Titan.
Among them, the Founding Titan required royal blood to unleash its power. In the early stages—or rather, right up until near the ending—the power Eren actually used was that of the Attack Titan.
Unlike other strength- or combat-oriented Titans, the Attack Titan possessed a certain degree of timeline observation ability. They could converse with past and future hosts of the Attack Titan. Theoretically speaking, the future Eren should be able to see Zenith's interference.
Maybe he couldn't see Zenith, but he could definitely see the Ultraseven that Hannes had transformed into. Because of this, he would definitely have a countermeasure—just like in the original story, where he controlled the Mom-Eating Titan to eat his own biological mother.
His goal was to solidify his past self's resolve to fight the Titans, but judging by his actions, he was an absolute bastard of a son.
No matter what kind of future you saw or what destiny you bore, using your own mother's death as the driving force to push yourself forward was simply unacceptable in Zenith's eyes.
Regardless of what the future Eren had planned, as long as the present Eren's mom didn't die, he wouldn't have a reason to fight. He could just live a completely ordinary life; this world would keep spinning just fine without him.
"I'm going to lend a hand. I'll let them handle the Titan issue themselves; I just need to make sure no extra people interfere."
At this moment, Reiner, who was preparing to interfere, was hesitating in a deserted ruin. His mission was to destroy Wall Maria and cause the entire district to completely fall.
But that red Titan that popped out of nowhere was seriously a bit too strong—so strong that it completely defied the laws of Titans. Judging from its behavioral logic, it was obviously an intelligent Titan too, but what kind of intelligent Titan could shoot lasers from its hands?!
At the end of the day, he was still only twelve years old. Even as a special agent sent by the Marleyan Empire, he was just a kid. The tragic state of the city right now was already pushing past the threshold of what he could endure.
"If I were you, I wouldn't do anything stupid right now."
Zenith had appeared behind him at some unknown point, smiling as he reached out and clamped a hand down on his shoulder.
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