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It's inspection day so Erwin takes his Personal Electronic Tablet (provided by Titan Mobile of course) and heads off to the Survey Corps HQ.
Hanji is the one who opens the door, bright and chipper as usual. "Commander! Good morning!" she says. Behind her, Moblit flips through pages on a clipboard, most likely committing things to memory that Hanji will forget.
"Good morning, Hanji," Erwin replies, walking through the door.
"Ooh!" Hanji exclaims. "You have a Titan PET!"
Erwin can't help grimacing. It really is a strange name for such a device, combined with the name of the company.
"Yes I do," he says.
"They're so handy aren't they?" Hanji leads Erwin through the hallway. "I use mine for practically everything." She looks at Moblit, who has been following close behind. "I don't know why you still carry that thing around. It uses so much paper, and so inefficient."
She grabs the clipboard from her assistant and throws it behind her shoulder, as poor Moblit runs after it was a faint: "But Squad Leader!"
Hanji takes Erwin to a large room with a sofa at one end and a large blackboard behind it.
"Levi is beating the kids into shape for you. It seems they didn't clean up to his expectations, so it might take a little bit for them to show up," Hanji explains.
"I don't mind waiting," Erwin replies, sitting down on the sofa.
"I'll let them know you're here. Oh and by the way, it's really fun to look up your name and see what comes up." And with that, she's gone.
Curious, Erwin opens up his tablet and types in: Erwin Smith.
The first thing that comes up is: Commander Erwin Smith (aka Commander Handsome, according to members of the 104th Trainees Squad).
Erwin can't help it - he laughs out loud.
"I didn't know they thought that about me," he says to himself. "Interesting."
Moblit knocks on the door and brings in a glass of water, and then not long afterwards, the recruits file in. Levi is right behind them.
"Commander Erwin, sir!" They all salute.
"At ease," Erwin says. "So, Levi, how is their training going?"
"They still haven't learned respect, that's for sure," Levi growls, plopping down on the couch.
"It doesn't seem like that at all," Erwin says, getting up and walking down the line, examining the trainees closely.
"So, I hear that some of you like to call me Commander Handsome," Erwin says.
Somewhere down the line, someone squeaks. Erwin sees that it's a girl with brown hair pulled into a ponytail.
"Braus, what did I say?" Levi snarls, zeroing in on the noise. Clearly, he is in an extremely good mood. Erwin considers patting him on the head just to see what would happen but refrains.
"Sasha Braus?" Erwin questions. The girl looks up. "Step forward."
She swallows, but steps forward and raises her arms in a salute. "Yes, sir!"
"Is it true that you and your comrades refer to me as 'Commander Handsome'?" Erwin asks, raising one (stupendous) eyebrow.
Sasha didn't know what to say. If she told the truth it would be completely embarrassing, but if she didn't she might offend the commander. On the other hand, she might face the wrath of her companions if she told the truth...
"No sir," she says, voice quavering a little.
Erwin doesn't know what to think about that, but it's amusing anyway. And it's not like he doesn't like the nickname.
After asking a few more general questions he dismisses them. He'll be around for the rest of the day, observing their training and how they function as a whole.
He uses his PET to video their training. Levi is a slave driver but it's clear that they all have improved. Especially Mikasa Ackerman. It's funny how she and Levi are so similar yet despise each other.
Although it is hilarious that she makes fun of his height. Everyone does it, but Mikasa comes up with... interesting nicknames. Evil Midget. Devil Dwarf. And Erwin's personal favorite: Pygmy Titan.
He learns all this through the online database, because he decides that he'd like to know more about the future soldiers of humanity, particularly the ones of interest.
He reads one that causes him to, once again, raise one (fabulous) eyebrow. "Is Armin Arlert Commander Erwin's son? Or is Commander Erwin really Armin from...THE FUTURE?"
It's lunchtime when Erwin reads this, seated at one of the tables at the left of the dining hall. He doesn't know if he should feel honored. After all, Armin is one of the most brilliant strategists he's seen.
Everyone is nervous that he is watching them even as they eat. At first, they think that since he has his PET with him, he won't really pay that much attention to them. And mostly, Erwin is just typing up reports and looking things up.
Suddenly, his finger slips and accidentally clicks on a link. Too late, he realizes that it is a video, and he doesn't have his volume turned down.
"LET'S MAKE THE MOST OF THE NIGHT LIKE WE'RE GONNA DIE YOUNG!"
Everyone stares. Erwin clears his throat, pauses the video, and makes his escape (what he was looking at that made that link show up…?).
The recruits look at each other in confusion and then shrug. That's not the weirdest thing that's happened to them. Then they start to get really confused when Erwin starts staring, at a couple of people in particular, during his rounds of inspection.
He spends a very long time trying to decide whether or not Jean Kirschtein really does have a horse face.
"Do you know why Commander Erwin keeps looking at me?" Jean mutters, focusing his attention of saddling his horse.
"Beats me," Reiner shrugs.
"Maybe you're in trouble." Connie grins. "You didn't do so well in training this morning. He's probably just waiting to see you fall off your horse."
"Shove off!" Jean wants to actually shove Connie off the bench but figures that wouldn't leave a very good impression.
Eren gets up to grab some more bread, and notices that Erwin is looking at him extremely strangely.
Because you see... Erwin has discovered Ereri. Poor, poor, poor, Erwin.
If it weren't so disturbing, it would be absolutely hilarious.
"So, Levi, what do you think of the Jaeger boy?" Erwin asks at the end of the day.
"The brat could be taken down a notch or two," Levi grumbles.
"So what is this 'Ereri' situation I learned about?"
Levi almost falls out of his chair at the mention of the E-word. "How do you know about that?"
"I read about it on my PET," Erwin explains.
In his mind, Levi shatters Erwin's tablet into dust. The aura he emits could probably kill a million titans.
It is quite intimidating but all Erwin can think about are all the Levi and cleaning jokes. Levi would make a fine princess; spending the day cleaning and talking with animals (because he hates people). And yanking Levi out of his comfort zone is quite amusing.
Erwin makes a mental note to thank Hanji for telling him to look people up. Titan PETs are more useful than he thought.
But then Hanji takes his gratitude as a reason to tell him even more.
"So basically, with this game, you control this little person who swings between the pillars on 3DMG. You're trying not to hit the pillars on top and bottom," Hanji says, demonstrating.
"That's dumb," Levi drawls from his seat on the couch.
"Why don't you try it and see?" Hanji shoves the tablet into Levi's face. Annoyed, Levi gives it a try. The game is simple in design, easy to understand, and extremely addicting.
It takes Erwin too many tries to pry the tablet away.
He also never stops bugging Levi about the "Ereri" thing, mostly because it annoys the heck out of him.
Let's just skip over thinking about how they charge all their electronic devices.
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