Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

'If you don't wake up soon, your superior will yell at you!'

Looking at the darkening sky, Isaac knew that the time had finally come.

It's about time to wake up from this dream.

He smiled and said, "I'll tell you what I know when I have the chance. Although we've only known each other for a short time, I know you're a person very similar to me."

"You look a lot like me?"

“That’s right, we’re both the kind of people who will stop at nothing to achieve our goals,” Isaac said with a smile. “I’ll be leaving now, I don’t know when I’ll be back…”

Before he could finish speaking, Isaac lost consciousness, and Allen's body collapsed to the ground.

"Hey! Are you alright?"

Erwin lifted Allen's body and shook him, but found no sign of waking up. However, his breathing was steady, so he must have just fallen asleep.

Without hesitation, Erwin carried him back to the shelter.

The people who were in the shelter saw Erwin return and went up to him. When they saw Eren, who was unconscious, being held by him, Mikasa immediately wanted to rush over.

What did you do to him?!

"Mikasa, calm down!" Armin quickly grabbed Mikasa, but his frail body couldn't stop her.

Levi also asked, "Erwin, what exactly happened?"

Irwin explained, "I didn't do anything, he just suddenly passed out while we were chatting."

"I see."

Armin calmed down and carefully recalled that Isaac's 'second personality' had gone through a similar process from appearance to disappearance. First, Allen fell into a coma, then Isaac appeared when he woke up, then fell into a coma again, and then Allen returned.

The current situation is roughly that Isaac has disappeared, and Eren, the 'main personality,' has once again taken over the body.

At that moment, Eren slowly woke up. He quickly looked around: "Where are the Titans! Where are those bastards? Is Mom alright!?"

Suddenly he realized he was being held.

“You’re awake, Allen,” Erwin asked with a smile, but his eyes were carefully observing the changes in Allen’s expression.

"Who are you? Why do you know my name?" Allen asked, but at the same time he noticed the green cloak on Allen's shoulder, equipment that only the Survey Corps would be issued.

"You're the Survey Corps?" Eren asked, his eyes filled with admiration.

Levi frowned slightly: "What's wrong with this kid?"

The difference in the feeling it gives before and after is quite significant.

"I'll explain in a bit." After saying this, Erwin looked at Allen. "Allen, do you remember what happened after you fell unconscious?"

"After I lost consciousness... I didn't feel anything, just a constant headache and a feeling of nausea." Allen seemed unwilling to recall that feeling. "More importantly, did you save me? Where's my mother? Where is she?"

"Your mother..."

"Allen, I'm here!" Carla, who was sitting next to Allen, waved to him.

"mom!"

Upon seeing that his mother was still alive, Allen quickly jumped down from Erwin's side and ran to his mother's side, exclaiming, "Thank goodness! Mom, you're alive!"

"Hmm..." Carla breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her son return to normal.

Eren then asked, "By the way, did the Survey Corps rescue us?"

In his view, it was the two Survey Corps soldiers, one tall and one short, who had just saved them from the Titans.

"Allen, don't you remember what happened?"

"I don't remember... I just remember Uncle Hennessy pulling Mikasa and me away, while Mom was still trapped under the rubble." Eren said, but then suddenly realized something, "Why does my hand feel a little sore since just now?"

He opened his hands and was shocked to find two transmutation circles engraved on his palms.

"What is this thing?! Who carved it?!"

Allen and his mother had a lot to talk about, while Erwin, in the distance, whispered to Revel, "That child might be our breakthrough to discover what's beyond the walls."

"You still want that kid to join the Survey Corps?"

“No.” Erwin shook his head. “If my guess is correct, then protecting him with all our might is the best option. It’s best not to let him go to any dangerous environment.”

What did you see?

"It's just speculation now, we can't say for sure, we need further verification."

"Tch, always so secretive."

As Levi and Erwin were talking, a voice rang in their ears.

"Erwin, there's a mission at the city gate. We need you to take some men there." A slightly fierce-looking man, who was also from the Survey Corps, approached the two.

Beside him was a middle-aged man wearing glasses, who was Allen's father, Grisha Yeager.

"Yes, Commander Shadis, I'll take Levi there right away," Erwin replied, glancing in Eren's direction.

Although I care about the child, I should prioritize the mission for now, since there's no danger in the refuge area anyway.

Chapter 383: Some alcoholic beverages should not be drunk indiscriminately

"Carla! Allen!"

Grisha searched anxiously in the refugee camp, and upon seeing that the mother and child were safe, he excitedly ran over and hugged them.

"Thank goodness you are all safe and sound."

“Honey, you’re finally back,” Carla said, crying.

She is overjoyed that her family of three is reunited after the disaster.

Grisha released the two of them and, noticing the blood seeping from Allen's sleeve, asked, "Allen, is your hand injured?"

“Oh, I don’t know either. After I woke up from my coma, I found strange things carved on my hands,” Allen said.

The pattern carved on my hand didn't look like something I'd accidentally gotten; it must have been carved by someone while I was asleep.

“Let me see, I happen to have some disinfectant here,” Grisha said, taking a bottle of medicinal wine and a piece of gauze from his bag.

"Ah."

Allen did not refuse and extended his hands.

Grisha looked over, and what he saw made his eyes shrink to two dots in an instant.

"This...this is..." Grisha stumbled and fell to the ground, "A...a refining array!?"

Others may not know what this is, but he does!

"Huh? Dad, what are you saying?"

Grisha looked at Eren with disbelief in his eyes. He suddenly remembered Eren saying something like "I was unconscious before..." and immediately grabbed Eren's shoulders and asked seriously, "Eren! Answer me, were you unconscious for a period of time before?"

"Huh? Yes."

Grisha fell silent after receiving the answer.

When the Ackerman family was murdered, his son Alan seemed like a completely different person for a while. Afterwards, he said he was in a coma and didn't know what had happened...

"Honey, is something wrong with Allen?" Carla asked worriedly.

"Carla... has Allen ever done anything strange or said anything strange before?"

“Yes, there is.” Carla looked around and, seeing no one was paying attention, whispered, “I was originally trapped under the house. Hannes took him and Mikasa and escaped, but he suddenly came back halfway and made a giant hand grow from the ground. Then he turned the surrounding ruins into spears and fought the Titans…”

At this point, Carla quickly asked, "Alan really does have some kind of illness, right!"

"This……"

Actually, before this, 'Allen' had some suspicions when he killed the human trafficker. It was strange that his son would kill someone, but what was even stranger was his behavior after the killing.

Knowing Allen as he did, and given his impulsive nature, he should have loudly defended himself or angrily denounced the scumbags' behavior. But none of that happened; nothing at all.

In the end, Grisha reached the same conclusion as Armin: Allen might have a split personality.

However, this situation did not occur under his nose afterward, so he did not pay attention to it, only providing some psychological counseling periodically.

But today it seems things are not as simple as they appeared.

"Did Allen say anything strange?" Grisha asked Carla.

“Yes, he also said something before… Amestoris, and Brix or something, I didn’t understand,” Carla recalled.

But her words shocked Grisha even more.

“Amestoris…Bricks…Why does he know all this…” Grisha felt his mind was in a mess.

He knew Amestris, an extremely powerful nation with a rare and wondrous technology—alchemy. He had also heard of Brix; Amestris's elite troops almost all came from there. The soldiers there were renowned for their bravery and skill in battle, the very heart of the nation's elite.

But why would Allen say these things?

At least those inside the wall would never know these things.

Grisha had a secret he had never told anyone, not even his son Alan or his wife Carla.

He was someone who came in from outside the wall.

Having lived inside the walls for so long, married and had children, he gradually came to understand the information inside—everyone firmly believed that they were survivors driven here by the giants, and that the outside of the walls had been occupied by the giants.

He looked at Allen's hand again; there was no doubt that it was a transmutation circle.

Why did it end up in Eren's hands? What secrets does Eren's personality shift after losing consciousness hold?

"Dad, Mom, what are you talking about?" Eren asked, puzzled by his parents' conversation. "I fought a Titan? How is that possible?"

“Allen, listen carefully.” Grisha’s eyes were fixed on Allen. “Don’t tell anyone about my conversation with your mother today.”

"Huh? Why?"

Promise me!

"Oh... okay." Seeing his father's serious expression, Allen had no choice but to agree.

After treating Allen's hand wound, Grisha stood up, looked at the still-smoking city wall, and said softly, "It seems that now is not the time."

……

Inside Brix Fortress.

"Hey! Isaac, wake up!" Bakania shook the boy who was still fast asleep in bed.