THE VALKYRIE TITAN • ATTACK ON TITAN X OC •

XIII.LAVENDER AND PLUM

(Year 845)

Months later, Aera (Vivienne Reiss) became the most wanted person in the Walls. Many hunters and soldiers volunteered to hunt her down, only to be killed afterward. Bards and Poets have written songs about her, describing her with big details. They assumed that Aera (Vivienne Reiss) smell like Lavender and Plum, has straight ashen hair and golden eyes, and also assumed that she roams around the woods in Wall Rose and Wall Sina. Kenny decided to find her but doesn't have clue where she might have been.

He decided to visit the bar in Mitras, Many volunteers, that desired to hunt the duchess also were there, traumatized and wounded.

Kenny made his way to the bar only to see a lot of soldiers and peasants inside. The tables were all full, peasants chattering and drunken soldiers. Most people who came here were peasants who saw Aera in action while the soldier were survivors. He decided to ask them, he first approached a group of peasants.

"Hey, mind if I sit with ya?" Kenny asked with a slight scoff.

"Aye..." The ginger-haired answered as the Ackerman sits with his legs rested on the table.

"Looking for a woman..... Ashen-haired, blue eyes and smell like Lavender and Plum. Seen her?" He asked the soldiers.

"Of course, we had seen her. She road through my village, galloping so fast while the Military Police were on her tail."

"Which way did the kid go?" Kenny questioned them.

"I do not know...." One of them sighed.

"She had killed a lot of our men during that night, slitting their throats like it was nothing..." the soldier made a distraught face as Kenny made a slight smirk on his face.

"She could have gone somewhere. We rookies will be going to Wall Rose tomorrow to hunt her down. We all know the casualties will be more worst than last month." said he, resting his elbows on the table.

"Killed over 60% of our men...it's almost worst as the casualties of the Survey Corps." One of them scoffs.

"Didn't you hear that the Royal Council said that the Duchess is a threat to humanity than the Titans?" The soldier said as Kenny made a stern look.

"Maybe, there were many rumors about her that she came from beyond the walls. Crazy right..." A brunette soldier chuckles as he gestures to the bartender to get some more whiskey.

"How she controlled those animals on the woods with her golden eyes. She's a witch, I think." He widens his eyes.

"The question is.....Why the Royal government wants her?" One of the soldiers said in a curious tone.

"I mean she only killed a noble family...her family....and that's that."

"They are suspicious, maybe the duchess is absconding something or hiding something that the government wants, while the King just sat in his comfy throne, doing nothing."

"The King doing nothing is understandable but sending us all to hunt a murderer is just......I- I mean I know it's our job to arrest criminals but can't they just send fewer men to capture her." The soldier exhaled.

"Vivienne Reiss is no average murderer, she has butchered soldiers, who came in her way." One soldier tapped the table.

"No one knows, maybe someday she'll turn out to be someone who plots to do something dangerous."

"Oi, oi.....stop the chattering. The duchess is just a criminal nothing else...." Kenny made a weird grin, taking off his hat as he rises from his seat to leave the table.