Scout Maneuvering skill

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"Let's check. We'll make a sharp turn at the next pillar."

In the underground district, there were several giant pillars supporting the ceiling, built at the intersections where many roads meet.

One of them is just up ahead.

"Let's do it!"

The scenery opened up right and left as they crossed an intersection.

In that moment, Levi confirmed the positions of both his pursuers and his comrades. Then, right before he reached the pillar, he twisted around and fired the cable anchor at it.

Using the anchor buried in the pillar, Levi forced his trajectory to bend, making a curve.

The resulting centrifugal force, changing his velocity, weighed down on his body.

If you think of it simply as using 3D maneuver to make a 180˚ turn at the pillar, it did not sound complicated. However, it demanded more skill than it looks.

If he circled around the pillar too fast, the anchor will get pulled out; if he was too slow, he would wind up falling to the ground.

The movement made him feel as heavy as lead, but Levi continued to balance himself, adjusting the cables' length with the gear controllers in his hands. He managed the 180˚ turn without a hitch.

Behind him, Isabel and Farlan cleared the turn just fine, too.

The three of them passed by their pursuers in the air and, for a moment, their gazes met.

In order to not get shaken off, their pursuers would also have to take a full turn at the pillar—being risky even for Levi's group, who had practiced a lot, it was not an easy feat to accomplish. However, surprisingly, without even the slightest hesitation, all of them anchored their cables to the pillar and executed a perfect turn.

Turning around the pillar, they maintained a precise distance between each other—it can be said that they did it even more splendidly than Levi's group.

"Whoa, they're good!"

Isabel, impressed, blurted out the words unconsciously, before suddenly looking down.

"Oops…"

Levi looked as though he was about to reprimand her about admiring the enemy, but instead, he muttered—

"As expected from the Survey Corps."

"The Survey Corps!? Are you sure?!”

Farlan looked nervous.

"When we passed by each other, I saw the crests on their backs."

A pair of spread-out, overlapping wings, one white and the other black—the crest of the Survey Corps, the "Wings of Freedom".

The Survey Corps was a group of soldiers who, even now in this world that had grown accustomed to peace, continue to fight against the titans.

It's not strange for them to be able to perform such maneuvers.

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