Armin left, going down to his room. He shut the door and went in to take a shower.

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Eren looked at her. "Where will I be sleeping, by the way?" he asked, his head tilted in curiosity.

"Oh, that. C'mon, I'm pretty sure there's an extra room for you," Kaika said as she got up from the computer seat and went up the stairs to the second floor of the house.

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"Hm...I wonder what I could do for now...." Takahisa mumbled, thinking htat he could at least do something before going to get ready for sleeping.

Eren followed her quietly.

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A few minutes later, Armin stepped out of the shower, dried off, and got dressed in normal clothes. He walked out into the hall. Now where is he?

Kaika lead him to a basic bedroom that was there in case they had other people over. "So this is going to be your room for the week, depending if they can make a new warp gem in that much time," Kaika said once she had opened the door.

---

Takahisa was outside, reading from a written journal while sitting under a tree.

Armin leaned out of the hall window, smiling as he saw him under the tree. "Hey, there you are..." he said, climbing out of the window.

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Eren nodded. "Thanks...I don't mean to be a bother here.."

"Oh, hi Armin. I'm just...reading," Takahisa said as he waved to him, closing the journal he was reading from as if it were something that was really close to him.

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"Don't worry, I'm pretty sure that it shouldn't be a problem. Well, gonna sleep now, so see you in the morning," Kaika said before heading to her room in the household.

Armin walked over to him and plopped down on the grass,. He was dressed in a loose black shirt abd his brown uniform pants. "Whatcha reading?" he adked, smoothing out his slightly fluffy hair.

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Eren nodded. "Goodnight...."

"This is my older brother's journal...it's what I was left with after his death, I never really knew that my brother loved to write this much about everyday life," Takahisa said as he opened the journal up to the page he last left off on.

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Once Eren would fall asleep, he would enter a strange "dream" world.

(Apparently when his soul is linked to Kaika's, he also experiences the "dreams" that Kaika has all of the time, and boy I have a feeling that Eren wouldn't like sleeping much after this... xD)

Armin laid back on the grass, watching the darkening sky. "I lost my own brother when the titans invaded St.Matia..." he murmured. "You're lucky you have something to remember him by..."

---

Eren looked around. "What?"

(oh boy...)

"...I managed to hear my brother's last words before he really died...I was there when it happened...he told me to be strong for him...and then I was passed down his power..." Takahisa said, somewhat mentioning why he has a cold hatred towards Ayimu, the demon responsible for his brother's death.

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For a bit, Eren would see that Kaika was in this "dream" world, but she was unconscious and encased in a clear crystal, and he would see that some blue energy cord was connected to him and Kaika as if they were really linked together. Then, Eren would get brief flashes showing Kaika being stabbed by a dark shadow that many times that her body was like human swiss cheese, and so far as that Kaika's body was almost unrecognizable. Then...it all stopped.

Just like that, Eren would then find himself in a town almost resembling the settlement in Wall Maria, and that he was with his gear too. Yet...it was certainly not the place he was born into and knew for a long time....

Eren looked round. "What? Wall Maria...? But it was destroyed!"

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Armin looked over at him. "I'm sorry...."

Maybe this next part would definitely make this place certainly different than the settlement in Wall Maria, with the fact that there was no walls in sight either.

"Assassino! Assassino!" yells could be heard not too far away from Eren, as there was commotion in the plaza area of the town. Rushing right past him just enough to accidentally push Eren to the ground, a white-hooded figure rushes by, and for a moment, the figure glances at Eren, and that face was exactly like Kaika's. Yet, she didn't recognize him as she continued to flee the area, shortly as several armored guards were chasing after her.

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"It still hurts to think about it...but I'm still going to keep that promise in mind, to stay strong for him. Even now...I feel like I kinda have his soul bound to mine, that he hasn't completely left me yet...." Takahisa said as he held his hand close to his chest.

Eren fell to the ground and watched the people go by. "W--what?"

---

Armin sat up and reached over, bringing the boy onto his lap, burying his face in his hair, holding him to his chest. "And as long as you are here..." he leaned back, reaching into his shirt and pulling out Takahisa's soul crystal, which was in a small glass tube connected to a lanyard. "...I won't let you feel any different.... You can trust me, can't you?"

From where Eren was, he could see that the hooded girl was scaling up the wall as fast as she could, to which the guards had to resort with crossbows in attempts to shoot her down. Yet, she managed to get up onto the rooftop in time and she successfully fled the scene, leaving the guards unable to do anything to pursue the chase for her. Eren could hear the townspeople start to chatter about the strange assassin, as if she were really hard to capture and apprehend from whatever she's done as an assassin.

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"I can trust you...and I'm not lying about it either," Takahisa said.

Eren got up and began to walk into town, silently listening to the people.

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Armin smiled. "And I trust you as well..." he said, returning the crystal to the lanyard. "Now, you should go get cleaned up..." he pulled Takahisa's knees up, which were covered in dirt and grass from sitting in it. "You're filthy..." he laughed.

The chatter kept on going from the townspeople about the latest incident with this assassin, such as calling this girl a "runt" for being with the assassins in the first place and that she would face death sentence for sure from all of the things she was involved with. Of course, most of these townspeople didn't know what the assassins were really doing, that their work is for the better.

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"Oh, that's no problem," Takahisa said with a light chuckle, only realizing now that he was somewhat dirty from being out here for quite awhile.

Eren walked quietly through the streets, listening intently. He walked up to one of the townspeople. "Excuse me... I am a little confused for I have just arrived here... What happened here? Who was that?"

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Armin chuckled. "Plus, it's getting late, and I'm a little scared at what shenanigans Sasha has planned for me tom orrow..."

"That was one of the assassins that's been causing a lot of trouble here. We don't know the identity of this certain assassin, so we called this one the "Violet Assassin" since the only thing that was recognizable of this assassin was her violet attire. While she and another assassin named Ezio Auditore is greatly wanted for their crimes, the Roman guards swore to eliminate the assassins in this area," a man tells the majority of the information that would inform Eren of what's going on. It was noticeable that this female assassin was called the "Violet Assassin," the same alias that Kaika first introduced herself as towards Eren before revealing her real name.

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"At least that's something to look out for tomorrow," Takahisa joked a bit, starting to imagine what Sasha really did have in store for Armin tomorrow.

Eren looked to the direction Kaika had gone. "Violet assassin,.. Huh..." he turned to tge man. "Thank you..." abd with that, he jogged off to where Kaika had gone. "Just need to find her now..."

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Armin laughed. "Yeah, I guess..." he looked down at the boy. "Didn't you say you had something planned as well?" he asked, smiling. "You and Sasha both have me worried..."

After awhile, he would briefly see a figure that looked exactly like that female assassin from earlier, and she had headed into a dark alleyway away from the unsuspecting townspeople. It was like she had just disappeared from the public eye of the town.

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"Just a lot for you to look out for then," Takahisa said casually.