Annie Leonhart (Lost Girls)

Annie Leonhart (アニ・レオンハート) is a Military Police Brigade soldier who lives in Stohess District.

Wall Sheena, Goodbye arc
Sometime before the Survey Corps' 57th expedition beyond the Walls, a superior officer briefs Hitch, Marlowe, and Annie on an illegal drug known as Coderoin. She is informed that the drug has only recently been introduced to Stohess District. Hitch is interested to learn that any soldier that confiscates enough of it will receive a special bonus.

On the morning before the Survey Corps' 57th expedition beyond the Walls, Annie wakes up in her room in the Military Police Brigade Quarters barracks.Thinking back on the battle in Trost District and the aftermath, she wonders how many lives she will need to take in order to capture Eren Yeager. She steels herself, believing that nothing must stop her from completing her mission.

As Annie puts on her hoodie, Hitch mocks the lack of variety in the cloths that Annie wears, suggesting that Annie should dress up for a change. Annie asks Hitch to report her sick during the next day's district patrol, so that she can take care of some minor business. Thinking to herself, Annie notes that she will not need an excuse if she succeeds tomorrow, but if she fails she will need an excuse for her absence. While Annie considers her options, Hitch hands her a sketch of a young woman who was reported missing, Carly Stratmann. Hitch tells her that if Annie takes care of this case for her, it would return the favor for Hitch reporting Annie sick. Hitch asks Annie who the guy she is meeting up with tomorrow, to which Annie with a 15-meter Titan. Hitch tells Annie to work on her sense of humor.

While eating her breakfast in the barracks mess hall, Annie evaluates if it is worth the effort to start a missing person's case in a single day. Seeing Marlowe in his usual professional state working on his day off, Annie decides that it would be best for her to keep her mind busy and play soldier for one more day.

Annie reads over the case file on Carly as she rides in a cartridge on the way to the mansion of the Stratmann family, to talk with Carly's father and head of Marleen Company, Elliot Gurnberg Stratmann. Upon her arrival to the mansion, Elliot butler welcomes her and leads her to Elliot. Annie asks Elliot about the circumstances to Carly's disappearance, to which Elliot seems unsurprised that his daughter is still missing even after ten days of him reporting it to the Military Police. When Elliot asks Annie if the Military Police is incompetent, she replies that he is free to think that. Elliot calls Annie a liar, hypothesizing that Annie was too lazy to search for Carly. Annie tells the man that he is correct, yet Elliot claims once again that she is lying because if Annie were truly lazy she would have never come to ask him questions. Impressed with the man's intuition, Annie informs him that she is the first person to follow up on the report after it had gone through two other policemen.

Elliot asks her how long she has been in the Military Police, and is bitterly amused when Annie informs him that she has been in the MPs for only a month. Annie asks Elliot why he has not hired private professionals to find his daughter. He tells Annie that private professionals can only be trusted to separate him and his money, but his eyes tell them that he can trust Annie to find his daughter.

As Elliot explains the circumstances surrounding Carly's disappearance, Annie jots down notes in her notebook. Elliot explains that Carly did not show up to dinner twelve days prior, despite it being a rule to always have dinner together, regardless of their busy schedules. Annie further questions Elliot about Carly, but Elliot responds to each of her questions telling her that he knows little about his daughter and only cares that she shows up to dinner everyday. Elliot informs her that Carly graduated from Einrich college three years ago, majoring in chemistry. Annie asks Elliot if Carly's disappearance could be because Elliot is a rich and powerful man, to which he responds no due to the lack of an ransom demands. Annie asks him if there is a possibility that Carly might have run away, but Elliot is unsure since they have cooperated in living together since her mother's death.

Their conversation is interrupted due to a loud knocking at Elliot's door. As Elliot sends his butler to answer the door, Annie notices a man leaving the estate and jumping the fence outside. When Annie asks Elliot to clarify what he meant by "cooperated," he restates that he and his daughter only interacted at dinner. Annie thinks to herself that Elliot is acting odd and suspects that he is hiding something.

Annie goes back to the Military Police Brigade Quarter materials storeroom, Annie asks for information about the Stratmann family and the Marleen Company. She learns that the Marleen Company mainly traded with merchants from Wall Maria until Shiganshina District fell in the year 845. After the fall, Marleen Company went into a large downsizing, reduced to only a carriage service. Annie is skeptical of how Elliot can remain so financially stable with only a transport service. Furthermore, she is also curious of why Carly Stratmann is unemployed despite having graduated from Einrich College with a major in chemistry, three years ago. Annie wonders about the relationship between Elliot and Carly, finding it strange how neither is involved in each others' life. She thinks back to her relationship with her own father, who subjected her to restless training from morning to night with no room for disobedience. Annie returns her thoughts to the Stratmanns, finding it odd that Elliot spoke about Carly as if she was independent of his finances despite her seemingly needing to rely on him for money.

Annie asks for any interrogation records relating to the Stratmann family, and she discovers that Carly was interrogated once after being found in a drunken state in front of a bar in Stohess, the Pit Lidors. She heads to the Pit Lidors without any delay.

Annie walks into the bar and sets the sketch of Carly on the counter, asking the bartender if he knows her. The man denies knowing her, and Annie turns to ask a patron standing at the bar, who also denies knowing her. Annie orders a limeade, amusing a table of patrons. She approaches the table of patrons and questions them about Carly, and after a moment of silence they continue to tease her. The largest patron tries to grab at Annie but she grabs the man's arm instead. The group of patrons try to fight her but she makes quick work of the patrons, sending them flying across the room and destroying a chair brandished at her with her signature high kick. She pins the biggest patron against the table, dislocating his shoulder. She takes a pouch from him, spilling its contents on the table revealing coderoin.

Using the coderoin as blackmail to get answers, Annie asks them again about Carly. She promises that if she is given answers, she will overlook their drug use. One patron tells her that Carly frequently visited the Pit Lidors to buy beers for the patrons and dance with them, becoming loved by all the regulars for her generosity. They say that she disappeared ten days ago, noting that she had become angry on the day before her appearance when she noticed a patron using coderoin. The patrons tell Annie that strangely, Carly showed no such anger when other drugs were being used by the patrons. They tell Annie that they suspect that Carly may be involved in some illegal activity, which would explain her financial independence despite being unemployed. The patrons also note that a strange man with a red glass eye visited the tavern asking about Carly's whereabouts. Annie prods them for information about the man, and the bartender tells her that they honestly know nothing more on the subject. The bartender tells Annie that Wayne Eisner, Carly's boyfriend, may know more about the matter, and he tells her about his home in South Aachen Avenue. As Annie leaves, she puts the large patron's shoulder back into its place. She asks the bartender how he knows about Carly and Wayne, to which he responds that bartenders pick up such bits of information over time even if they are not wanted.

Annie asks a carriage driver to bring her to South Aachen Avenue, who at first refuses, but then accepts once she offers double the money. She asks the driver if Marleen services any carriages in the area and the driver tells her that he has not seen them around lately. On the way there Annie reflects on the fact that the Military Police does not even bother to put South Aachen on their patrol routes. Once they get there Annie offers the driver triple the price of the way back if he waits for her, half up front and half when she gets back. The driver agrees giving her an hour.

A group of thugs approach her as she enters the neighborhood and begin to taunt her. She quickly defeats the group and they give her Wayne's address. When she comes to his home, she tries knocking on the door only to find out that the door is unlocked. She enters the apartment to find out that nobody is home. She notices that there are two glasses of drinks left on the table and suspects that the drinks might belong to Carly and Wayne. She considers waiting for them to come home but decides that the wait would not be worth it if Wayne came back alone. She decides to search the apartment for ten minutes to see if she can find clues. At the end of her search she comes across a drawer full of boxes of coderoin beneath Wayne's bed. Annie wonders if Wayne is a coderoin dealer and if Carly earned her money helping him but gets stumped when she remembers that Carly got mad when she saw coderoin.

As Annie thinks about why the man with the glass eye was looking for Carley, she suddenly gets unnerved by the feeling of someone watching her. Searching further beneath his bed, she finds a man behind the boxes. She stumbles back in shock and knocks over some glasses of liquor. Annie asks herself if the man is a deceased Wayne Eisner. Annie hears one of Wayne's neighbors in another apartment, yelling at her to keep it down. As the neighbor start to threaten to confront her, Annie realizes that she did not lock the door.