A/N: Thanks to Orithyea, Lil' Chrome-chan, Nazo, Silentux131, Dere-chan, Shirayuki0917, IsyPerolla, Kim20, Wanxerz, animeloverforeverjapan, and Kemeyeoz for the reviews and/or follows~ XD
And regarding the question about pairings, the pairing is going to be Rivaille/Mikasa and Eren/Mikasa. I'm sorry if I've misled you in some ways. *bows*
Eren's POV
After lying down on the bed for a while and thinking gloomily, I decided to wander around the HQ. I felt so depressed and unconsciously, I began to regret my decision. I even tried to forget what just happened to convince myself that I'd made the right choice.
I know very well that it's not wrong to go out with someone without Mikasa's permission, she's only a sister to my anyways, but her expression bothers me so much. 'A usual sister would never even bother to know who their brother are dating... So, what am I to her?' kept on replaying inside my mind like a broken tape.
After walking for God-knows-how-long, I found myself in face to face with the door to the meeting room. I was wondering about how I ended up in front of this room until I suddenly remembered, as if struck by lightning. They told me to come here after cleaning up the rooms upstairs. Why did I forget? Panicking I almost ripped a handful of hair out of their places, worried that I might really get killed by the other squad members or possibly the Corporal instead, which didn't mean it would be any better.
When I finally composed myself, I walked into the room to find that only one person's present. That person has her hair tied up in a messy ponytail not to mention, she's what people would call a Titan-maniac, Squad Leader Hanji. "Where's everyone?" I finally decided to ask after staring at her for a long time.
"I don't know. When I started talking about my experiments, they exit the door consecutively." She replied with an almost innocent tone and that makes me facepalm mentally. I can't help but ask myself about how such an oblivious person can survive from the expedition outside the walls.
"Th-" I almost told her what I was thinking when I thought the better of it and just stayed quiet. "Then, would you mind telling me about the experiments that you've done? I need to know what the experiment's about before I'm used as an experiment material, don't I?" I said trying to stay calm while thinking of how horrifying it is if I were to be one.
"So~ where do I start with?" She started to think as if contemplating what to say.
"What about their general similarities?" I suggested to her unsurely.
"Okay, they have several similarities, which I found out just yesterday..." She started explaining. I tried to listen intently, but after a few minutes my mind began wondering elsewhere to the day where all started...
"What are you doing?" The girl with short stature and blonde hair stated outright whilst glaring at me and Reiner.
"No-nothing at all." I stuttered out but then I got slapped on the back by Reiner.
"Aren't we supposed to be telling her to not run away from the combat training?" Reiner retorted.
"This class is pointless. What's important is your maneuvering skill. Your combat training won't help you to run away from the Titans." She showed no emotion at all.
"But still, aren't you supposed to get your hands on what you can? Or is it that you're scared of losing, huh?" Reiner said tauntingly.
"Oh? What's this? Are you challenging me?" she smirked ominously. If you think that her blank face is scary enough, you wouldn't want to see her smirking or anything that shows her bare fangs. (Seriously, I'm not joking about that.)
Unable to read the atmosphere, Reiner replied with an instant and loud "Yeah!", whilst I regretted stopping her and asking her about anything at all.
"Okay. You asked for it. Challenge accepted." Annie said with no sign of any emotion that could be associated with fear. After that being said, both Reiner and I prepared ourselves for a one-on-one with Annie. Each of us was holding a wooden replica of a knife on our hand as we were supposed to be the attacker and Annie's supposed to be on defense.
"Okay! Here I go!" Reiner shouted energically and charged towards Annie. I'm impressed at how Annie managed to look very disinterested and impassive that it seemed like she's ready to fight with anything, even a lion bare-handed. What surprises me the most was the fact that less than 10 seconds later, Reiner's already disarmed and kissing the dirt. Seriously? How did she do it? Reiner's like twice her size, or is it thrice?! It's still amazing either way!
"Your turn, I suppose?" Annie asked nonchalantly while looking at me as if she's not interested at all.
"Um... I think so..." after the short exchange of word, I began to launch an attack at her which she easily defended against leaving me in a dumbfounded way until I was introduced to the cold hard training ground. She even left right after she flipped me over!
Groaning in pain, I tried to get up without anyone's help. "Hey, Annie, why are you so good at combat when you said that it's useless?" I asked her while trying to keep up my pace with hers.
"My father taught me when I was little, I had no choice but to learn it." She replied monotonously.
"Why do you say that it's useless?" I asked in curiosity.
"Tell me one reason why it is not." She sighed and answered my question with another.
"Well, I don't know.. But that technique is great! Will you teach it to me someday?" I said like an excited puppy.
"No." She shot my request down instantly after the last word glided out of my mouth.
But in the end, she accepted it though... Is it because-
"Waaaah!" I screamed aloud as a face suddenly found it's place in front of mine.
"Did you even pay attention to what I said?" Hanji asked while pouting at my direction looking a bit annoyed.
My cheeks were tainted with red as embarrassment filled me and I looked away while scratching my head. "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying any attention.. Would you mind repeating what you said just now?" I said, feeling awkward that I've been caught.
"Okay. I'll repeat what I said.. So as I was saying, the Titans have senses of pain with them, although it's different from each other." She explained yet again, "I've tried stabbing the experimental Titans and they looked so pained. It hurts me so much to do such a thing to them." she said melancholically. And so, the conversation continued until dawn came. Just when we decided to have a rest, an alerting news is spread to us.
A/N:Sorry for the long wait. I hoped that this is worth the wait though... By now, you should've known who Eren is seeing though... Please forgive me for any errors and most importantly, thanks for reading~ X3