(Hachiman's POV)
I managed to get Carla Yeager to the boat as people crammed into this wooden vessel without leaving space.
Everyone here, including myself, could hear something happening behind the wall. The soldiers and my brothers are fighting there, buying me time.
"Where's your father? Do you know where he is?"
I ask the kid with short hair, and he shakes his head.
"Father went somewhere. He said he was checking on his patients again today, but I don't know where he went."
Right now, Carla Yeager's condition is not good.
I'm doing what I can to treat her wounds.
However, I'm worried because the boat has not left yet. If she doesn't receive better treatment, she might die at any moment.
This hard situation…
It seems I have to change my perspective again about this second life.
Without sacrifice, I'll never achieve anything.
I thought, when I was reincarnated, I would be special. No, I am special. It's just that I thought I could have anything I wanted with just a small effort.
'Status.'
[Identity]
Name: Hikigaya Hachiman
Age: 15
Race: Human
Class: None
Level: 1
MP: -
Fatigue: 18
[Stats]
Strength: -
Health: -
Agility: -
Sense: -
Intelligence: -
[Passive Skills]
None
[Active Skills]
None
I chuckle. What am I thinking? It's not like seeing my status now will help me.
After the system put us in this situation, I was the first one devoured by weakness and fear.
I don't know how the system works, maybe because of it, I'm the only one who didn't awaken a skill. If I join my brother now, I think I could awaken it. But they trust her to me.
"Huft! Huft! Huft!"
Carla's breathing is fast.
I place my palm on her forehead; she has a fever.
"Shit."
As I curse, the bridge to the boat is lifted, and the boat begins to move.
"Brother, the boat is moving! We can't just leave them there!"
Eren Yeager screams at me.
I stay silent, tch! I know, dammit! I don't want to leave my brother there! I want to fight too, but I can't leave her if something bad happens.
But if she dies, this tutorial floor will be messed up.
Crap... If this were the modern era, she might have a better chance, and I could treat her much better.
But this is the world of attack on titan, it doesn't have such conveniences.
Come on, think. I know I would have become a good surgeon if I hadn't died before.
Wait.
That's it...
This is a tutorial floor.
I wondered why I was thinking of solving this matter with my basic medical knowledge, but I'm reincarnated in a world with magic.
Yeah, I shouldn't be thinking with common sense.
I recalled back then when we all hiding in that building.
"How did you manage to get a skill?"
I asked the idiot, Rudy. I purposely asked him because he'd tell me honestly how he pulled that off.
"I dunno. I just believed that I could fight the titan."
This reminds me of the silver-haired dude with 100% confidence in his ability.
But I learned that they must believe that they could fight the titan.
I just need confidence and to change my objective.
I look at Carla again and place my right palm on her forehead to check her condition. I look at her lost leg, and I can even hear her fast breathing as if she's enduring the pain without painkillers.
With a huff, I let out a long breath as I calm myself and thought that I didn't have to fight the titan.
I just need to heal her.
"Huh?"
I mumble.
Suddenly, my right palm starts glowing, then a green light envelops Carla.
I can hear murmurs going wild on this boat, but I'm too focused on the scene before me.
Carla's facial expression turns calm, but then I notice the light also coming from her lost leg.
After some time, the lights formed a leg-like form.
As the lights stop.
I restore Carla's health and even her lost leg.
[Active skill: Heal has been awakened!]
[A skill that can heal any kind of wound.]
[You'll be able to use active skills without mana and cooldowns on the tutorial floor.]
"Holy…"
A blue screen appears, notifying me that I've awakened a skill!
"Uh… where... where am I?"
I snap back as I look at Carla.
Her eyes are now open, cluelessly. But her condition is as good as new.
"MOM!"
"Aunty! Are you okay?"
Eren and the girl Mikasa come closer to her.
"Brother, thank you so much!"
I smile a bit at this and give them some space.
Hold up.
I glance around and meet people's gazes.
"The god who made the wall has descended from the sky to save us all!"
"My lord! Please help us!"
"Help us to kill all the titans and save humanity!"
"The titan killed my family there. I beg you, please revive them back to life! I'll do whatever you want! I'll become your slave!"
What the hell?
People here start to bow and worship me.
"Wait, I'm not Jesus."
I try to push them away from me, but they keep bowing.
I feel like a sinner here.
Well, this world is normal without magic, and I just restored Carla's leg with light coming from my palm. So technically, I do look like a god to them, but I'm not.
[Player Shirogane Miyuki is bleeding! The player's HP will go down slowly!]
"What? Huh?"
My heartbeat quickens as a blue screen appears again.
What the hell happened to Chris?
Come to think of it, the system might give us something to fight with, but it doesn't make us invincible.
That means…
"Get away from me!"
The people are scared shitless after hearing my scream and make some space.
I walk away to create some distance as I look ahead because I'll jump from this boat.
"Sir, where are you going?"
The question comes from Carla.
She's fine now, and I don't have to worry about her again.
I glance at Eren and nod at him; he nods back as I look ahead again.
I run as fast as I can, then step on the edge for a big jump.
Thud!
"Shit!"
That fucking hurt.
I manage to land, but I think I broke my ankle.
Well, no worries.
[Active skill: Heal has been activated]
[A skill that can heal any kind of wound.]
[You'll be able to use active skills without mana and cooldowns on the tutorial floor]
I use the skill on myself.
After that, I start to run back to the gate.
[00:08:10]
There are still 8 minutes left, and the boat has already sailed quite far from Shingashina.
[Player Shirogane Miyuki's fatigue has reached 100! Player's HP will reduce by 1 every second.]
[Player Ishigami Yu is bleeding! The player's HP will go down slowly!]
[Player Zaimokuza Yoshiteru is bleeding! The player's HP will go down slowly!]
[Player Zaimokuza Yoshiteru's fatigue has reached 100! Player's HP will reduce by 1 every second.]
"Shit!"
The boys are in danger!
[00:07:21]
I keep running as one-minute passes. I can see that the gate is there; I get closer and closer, but I need to be faster.
[Active skill: Haste has been awakened!]
[A buff skill that gives 5% to Agility. The buff will last for 5 minutes.]
[You'll be able to use active skills without mana and cooldowns on the tutorial floor]
In this dire situation, I manage to get another skill.
Suddenly, another light appears around my body and my speed increases. I arrive at the gate and I pass through it.
[00:06:46]
This place is quiet.
Where are the titans?
[Player Zaimokuza Yoshiteru's HP has reached below 10%! His life is in great danger!]
"Shit!"
I run further. I arrive at the town square and see a pile of titan bodies, but I don't find my brothers here.
Following this straight road, I see more titan bodies along the way, meaning the fight is ongoing.
Later, I find not just dead titans but also dead people and soldiers.
[Player Shirogane Miyuki's HP has reached below 10%! His life is in great danger!]
"FUCK! CHRIS! NICO! RUDY! WHERE ARE YOU?!"
At that moment, I see a lot of dead titans in one place, and then I hear someone coughing.
"BOYS!"
Miyuki's left hand is gone, blood coming out of his mouth as he leans his back against a titan's body.
Yoshiteru is covered in blood, having lost both arms as he lies on the ground.
Yu seems better than them, but he might not be.
I don't waste a single moment when I see them.
I arrive beside Yoshiteru and extend my palm to him. My palm emits a green light.
Shit, but what about the two of them?
I focus my skill on my left hand, and then two green lights shoot from my palm, reaching Miyuki and Yu.
[Active skill: Heal has been activated]
[A skill that can heal any kind of wound.]
[You'll be able to use active skills without mana and cooldowns on the tutorial floor]
"This looks like a skill from a game..."
So, I can heal them without worrying about the distance, huh?
[00:05:46]
After one minute, their condition becomes better, but they are still unconscious.
[00:02:39]
It seems because their condition is far worse than Carla's, my skill requires a lot of time to heal them.
I haven't even managed to restore Miyuki and Yoshiteru's arms.
"COUGH! COUGH!"
I hear someone coughing again.
"Is someone there?"
This sound…
When I find the person, my hunch is right.
"Mr. Hannes!"
In the middle of the road, I see Hannes leaning against the wall, missing his right arm. He then slightly opens his left eye to look at me.
"Cough! Kid… run."
I cancel the healing spell on my right hand and use it again.
Two green lights shoot at Yoshiteru and Hannes.
I sigh with relief, grateful my skill doesn't require mana.
"What?"
Hannes mumbles.
While my skill heals him, I can read his condition as if I have an MRI.
Hannes' condition is better compared to my brothers.
After a while, Hannes gives a look exactly like the people when they saw this green light.
"What just happened?"
Hannes asks as the green light stops shooting at him.
I don't answer him and focus on these three.
[00:00:35]
The boys haven't awakened yet.
Just a little bit more—
BANG!
That sound, isn't that light?
"Oh, come on!"
Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!
From afar, the sound of giants walking slowly.
The ground trembles as I look back and pale.
Its eyes light up in this direction. No… I think it's looking at me, giving me a judgmental look.
There is a titan around 10 to 15 meters tall, but it's not a normal one. The titan is clad in armor-like segments.
The Armored Titan!
I'm terrified as that thing starts to run.
Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!
Suddenly, the part of its mouth opens, and steam comes out.
"KID, DON'T JUST SIT THERE, RUN!"
Hannes shouts at me.
Ain't running, I just kneel there as I keep healing the boys.
As the Armored Titan closes in on me, I can no longer see its face; all I can see are the feet running this way.
"FUCK!"
I grit my teeth and shut my eyes.
[Stage Clear!]
[Tutorial floor has been completed!]
[Players have met the objective to complete the tutorial floor!]
[Initiating the analysis of the players' battles…]
An artificial woman's voice.
But I don't care.
I open my eyes again, but then, I arrive at what looks like paradise, thinking I died real fucking quick.
That's what I thought, but this scene is familiar to me.
"Ughh…"
Someone groans beside me.
"Did we all die?"
"Fuck, my back hurts."
When I confirm the voice, I glance to my side.
Yu sits down, his eyes half-open lazily.
As he asks, Miyuki picks his nose with his left hand.
Yoshiteru grumbles.
When I see them as good as new, except for their clothes, I know that we survived the Armored Titan.