Attack on Titan x The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Out there Part 4

Armin woke up the following day feeling a bit groggy...but he also heard talking.

He eventually remembered what Quasimodo had told him yesterday. He told him to not move or make a sound. If he did, his Master Frollo, might notice him in hiding and that….could be VERY bad.

Armin tried listening closer to the voices. It sounded like Quasimodo talking to someone…

The one he was talking to sounded like a man...could it be Quasimodo’s Master?

As Armin tried listening more closely he could comprehend some of the words being spoken a lot better.

Quasimodo seemed very polite from his way of speech and words. It had to be Frollo.

And after a while….

“Your free to move and speak!” Quasimodo peeked his head out above Armin from above his hiding place.

“Thank you. Its very kind and nice of you to be doing this. But...why would you do this for a stranger like me?” Armin asked.

“Well….you don’t seem bad. But you are also in need. I don’t mind helping you out.”

“I see….thank you.”

After this, Quasimodo took Armin to a table and took out a basket of food. It looked to be bread but also some fruit. Strawberries, grapes and cut up apples too.

“I-Is this for me?”

“Yes, I managed to save some for you.”

So Armin ate up and after that he decided to take a course of action…

“Quasimodo….what your doing for me is nice and all, but….I can’t stay here forever. I need to leave and find my friends. I also need to find out where my friends are.”

“I see….your free to leave if you want. But please always remember that this is a place to where you can return to if you have no other place to go.”

With that, Armin and Quasimodo bid each other farwell and Armin left to outside and he pulled on his scouting cloak and pulled his hood.

People were still staring...he wasn't very sneaky or stealthy.

Oh right. People around here haven't seen such clothes before.

Armin ran into an alleyway and later he hurried back inside the Bell tower.

“Quasimodo, can you please do me a favor?”

“Sure, what is it? You weren't gone for long.”

“Well...is there a small bag or basket I can use to place some of my clothes? I need to dress like everyone else here so I don’t catch anyone's eyes or suspension.”

“Sure, use this.” Quasimodo managed to find a medium sized bag for his friend.

Armin placed his cloak, jacket, skirt and maneuvering equipment inside and thanked Quasimodo before heading back out.

Simply wearing a white long sleeve shirt with white pants and brown boots should help from him looking too different from everyone else...hopefully.

It worked a bit better at the very least this time.

Armin searched and searched throughout the city and couldn’t find Eren or Mikasa. They must have not been here.

He then noticed aways away was the city gate and leading out there was outside. There were some horses over there as well.

He could probably hurry over and swiftly take a horse and make a run for it and hope to find his friends or home…

But the only problem, stealing really isn’t Armin’s favorite thing. Just thinking about it causes him to become nervous and give a freaky smile on the face while sweating.

But he quickly had to think about something else afterwards because people started to stare at him like he was some kind of messed up freak or something.

Armin didn’t have much of an choice, and he decided to dart over to the gate, take a horse and dart outside.

Guards chased after him however. They were also on horseback. But the horse he picked out to help aid him in his escape, seemed to greatly dislike him riding upon it, so the horse stood up with a cry, waving around its hooves and Armin yelped before finding himself colliding hard onto the ground.

Everything went black….