Chapter 16: Attack On Titans, Part 5

A year passed after inheriting the Attack and Founding Titans from Grisha, and the year 846 arrived.

We enlisted as trainees, just as we had promised.

Currently, we were undergoing the initiation ceremony, standing at attention in the training grounds.

“Why are you here?!”

“To join the Military Police and dedicate my heart to the King!”

“A worthy goal. But the King has no need for your body.”

Such questions were not directed at us, who stood out even in our expressions.

Finally, Sasha, who was eating a potato, caught the attention of Instructor Shadis.

“What are you doing?!”

“Sasha Braus, from Dauper Village in the southern district of Wall Rose.”

“What is that in your right hand?!”

“A boiled potato. I found it in the kitchen, and I…”

“Did you steal it? Why?!”

Shadis asked with a terrifying expression.

Sasha’s answer was spectacular.

“It would be nothing once it cooled, so I decided it was best to eat it while it was still warm.”

Crazy girl.

“I still don’t understand. Why did you eat the potato?”

The crazy girl replied, “Is that a question about why humans eat potatoes?”

With that, the already tense atmosphere became even more tense.

And I was on the verge of bursting into laughter. Fortunately, Mikasa, who was next to me, elbowed me in the side, and I was barely able to regain my composure.

As I was regaining my composure, the crazy girl did something even crazier.

“Tch.”

Sasha, who clicked her tongue, split the potato she was eating in half and held it out to Shadis.

“Have half. I’m giving this to you with tears in my eyes. I don’t even share food with my family, but I’m making a special exception this time.”

Truly a crazy girl.

“Haa… haa…”

For five hours, the potato girl was running around the open space.

Amazing. That can’t be done with ordinary mental strength. It seems that crazy people have better mental strength than ordinary people.

Oh, not a crazy guy, but a crazy girl? Well, that’s not important.

“Eren, let’s go inside. It’s getting cold.”

Mikasa wrapped a muffler around my neck.

Since I had no intention of watching any more anyway, I nodded quietly at Mikasa’s words.

After entering the building, I received my meal and sat down with Mikasa and Armin.

Tonight’s dinner consisted of a piece of bread, a potato, and soup.

It was a poor meal for someone who had lived in the modern world, but the others ate it quite deliciously.

It must be because the food situation is serious now.

Having lost Wall Maria, the outermost and largest of the three districts, this was a natural consequence.

As we were eating while talking with Mikasa and Armin, other trainees slowly approached us.

One of the trainees who approached asked me a question.

“You guys are from Wall Maria, right? Then you must have seen the Colossal Titan and the Armored Titan! What were they like?”

What were they like? Of course, I wanted to beat them up. My mother, Carla, almost died.

Hmm. It would be better to tell them the truth. Even if I tell them the truth, it will be difficult for them to feel fear unless they actually encounter a Titan.

“Many people died because of them. People crushed by rocks, people eaten whole by Titans, and many more. Well, if you’re curious, I can tell you more. Do you want to hear more?”

No one answered my question. Or rather, they couldn’t.

As we were in silence, someone broke the silence.

“Tch. You could have said it nicely, but did you really have to say it like that?”

‘Could this voice be!’

I turned my head to where the voice was coming from, and there was Jean.

Yes, that’s the guy. The guy who made a child with Mikasa instead of Eren, who died at the end. F*ck, they had a lot of kids.

Of course, I know he’s a good guy. He’s not mentally mature like this now, but he will go through many things in the future and become a strong companion.

But anyway, that’s that, and this is this. I have to release the resentment that I felt after seeing the last ending now.

“There’s always a guy like you who can’t read the mood…”

“Clench your teeth.”

“Huh?”

The guy who was grabbed by the collar looked at me with a puzzled expression, and at that moment, my fist was already embedded in his face.

“Ack!”

I hit him indiscriminately in the stomach, liver, and face. Of course, I controlled my strength. I had no intention of killing him.

But I did hit him with a little bit of force.

Maybe it’s because I became Eren, but I still had that dirty feeling of having my woman stolen.

It made me feel bad even though it wasn’t me who was stolen.

If Eren had returned to the past with all his memories, he would have hit him even harder than this.

In that sense, I can be considered quite gentlemanly.

“S-Stop hitting me! I’m sorry, I talked without thinking!”

“Oh, you know how to reflect on your mistakes?”

“Of course!”

“Then, since you’ve reflected, let’s have 100 more hits.”

“Uwaaaah.”

Jean, who lost his human language at my words.

But I didn’t go easy on him and hit him hard. My anger hadn’t subsided yet.

It was summer.

Two weeks later, it was time for combat training.

For the past two weeks, combat training had been a break time for the trainees.

That’s because the scores were quite stingy.

The scores you received here didn’t really affect your grades.

That’s how harsh the scoring was in combat training.

But I took it seriously.

A master never lets his guard down.

From that perspective, I could be considered a master.

I never let my guard down, no matter how weak the enemy was.

The sparring partner for today was decided.

“C-Can you go easy on me?”

In front of me was Bertolt, the inheritor of the Colossal Titan.

I didn’t answer, just smiled.

“You’ll go easy on me, right?”

I approached him without answering. He stumbled back in fright, but of course, he couldn’t escape from me.

I beat him up indiscriminately as well.

“Ugh… ugh…”

I dusted off my hands while looking at the guy who had fallen to the ground.

As I was dusting off my hands, Annie came up to me.

“Let’s have a match too.”

“Oh, are you perhaps his boyfriend?”

“W-What do you mean?”

“Just kidding. I thought you were his boyfriend since you challenged me to a fight as soon as he fell.”

Well, if you think about it, Bertolt is also a pitiful guy. He liked Annie, but she ended up with Armin after he was eaten.

Moreover, the previous inheritors share their memories in the coordinate. I know there was a setting like that.

So, like Eren, he also faced an NTR ending. In the original work, Eren at least didn’t have to see Mikasa with another man because he was dead.

But Bertolt could see it because the Nine Titans live on in the memories of their current inheritors even after being eaten. He could see the woman he liked blush at another man.

Hmm, but come to think of it, do I really need to pity that guy? He killed our mother in the original work.

Well, of course, that was all planned by the future Eren. If he hadn’t broken down the wall and invaded in the first place, none of this would have happened.

I decided to stop thinking about it.

Since Annie had taken her stance.

I also took a serious stance, and without a word from anyone, the fight began at some point.

Mikasa thought. Eren wouldn’t lose to Annie, but he wouldn’t win either.

“Eren can’t hit girls…”

“What? Is that true, Mikasa?”

At Armin’s question, Mikasa nodded.

“Yes. When we were training in martial arts, he never hit me even when he had the chance. I’m worried… Eren needs to learn how to hit girls too.”

“Um… Mikasa.”

“Yes, tell me.”

“Maybe he just didn’t hit you because it was you? Not because you’re a girl, but because you’re Mikasa.”

“Eh…?”

At that moment, Eren’s fist struck Annie’s stomach.

“Cough!”

Oh, I don’t care if it’s a girl. So stand up. Show some spirit so I can hit you more.

If you, Annie, had beaten Reiner and Bertolt well, they wouldn’t have been able to crawl into the walls. So why did you beat them up so moderately?

That’s why you’re getting hit.

For a while, Annie’s screams echoed through the training ground.

It was summer.