"Has he gone crazy?" Atticus gasped as he watched Alex destroy the entire building with terrifying ease. The ground trembled under each strike, the air thick with dust and heat. "But such power… Hey, what happened to him?" he turned and asked Mikasa, his voice trembling in disbelief.
'I can't tell him about the bloodline—it could be dangerous,' Mikasa thought, her eyes narrowing as she tried to form a reasonable lie. "Well, I don't know precisely," she finally said after a long pause, "but it started right after his school was destroyed."
"Hmmm, strange," Atticus mumbled, frowning deeply.
"What is?" she asked, feigning curiosity though she already knew where he was heading.
"The transformation," he replied, watching Alex closely. "It was sudden. He's become a lot stronger than before… perhaps something more happened to him."
