Chapter 9
Early Graduation
Oluo Bozado, there was no better word to describe, was pissed. He was extremely, utterly, humanely impossibly, pissed. Even that was an understatement.
Why?
It was because of the package of bitchiness that was called as 'Hange Zoe'.
The first day in the military, she had threatened to dissect him and he refuse to admit that he was scared beyond measure. Then because of some… things Oluo refuse to remember, most of the 90th Trainee Squad members had started calling him 'Pervert Oluo' or just 'Pervert'.
And since then he had decided that Hange Zoe is the most detestable person in the world.
Despite him being older and larger, Hange Zoe had always find a way to ridicule him verbally clever that he didn't know how to retort back without the use of violence.
Then there are also her tendencies to talk cryptically that he didn't understand a word she said. Like that time…
"Your eye brows looked a lot like Levi's."
"Huh?" he dumbly asked as he looked at Hange. Where does this topic come from?
"And if your skin is smoother and if you look more handsome, I would've dragged you around the way I did to Levi…" Hange trailed off.
"Huh!"
"But Levi is Levi," Hange stated, "It won't be the same."
Despite not understanding what she was rambling about, Oluo tried to retort back, but right before he opened his mouth, Hange continued again.
"But then, you are faithful to Levi, and I always have Levi with me," then she smirked, "Good then, I can use him against you."
Then as Oluo process her statement, Hange walks away.
"Hey! What the hell do you mean by that?"
Then another thing that irked him the most is that she seems to beat him in every subject and trainings effortlessly. She even managed to gain the interest of the Second Commander of the Scouting Legion!
Now that the Second Commander was watching them spar, he was going to show him that this little brat is nothing against him!
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"I'd like Hange Zoe to graduate early and be a member of the Scouting Legion."
Erwin know that the seemingly normal, innocent, and young looking Hange Zoe is very, very special. It was not because of her knowledge or her skills. Not because she was a talented young soldier, but because of the hint of… oldness in her eyes.
When he talked to her under that tree, he knew she was telling the truth, but she was still hiding something. But he was sure that whatever she was hiding, she is loyal to her own cause, and therefore, in extent, the human race.
Erwin also notices that she always rubs her chest. Not the oh-my-I'm-sorry-I didn't-mean-it shy type of rub, but the rub that war veterans usually do to ease the itch of a scar. It was the I-can't-believe-I-actually-live type of rub.
So he would like her to graduate faster, so that he could keep watch on her as she serves under the Scouting Legion.
"Oh?" Sir Johnson asked, "She hasn't even finished her first year here."
"There's no need. She is skilled and knowledgeable enough."
Lastly, she have knowledge of things people of this world does not know of. When he read through her notes, he notices one odd sentence.
'A sword that has the properties of a buzz-saw.'
He was sure he never heard of any tool called 'buzz-saw', and yet she used it casually in her sketches, like it was a common tool.
"Fine, when do you want her to graduate?"
"Today."
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The light spar between us has turned into an all out fight, with me dodging and my opponent sending hits. Oluo Bozado blindly sends punches and kicks to my direction, his anger apparent in his face.
I grabbed his hand and send an uppercut to his jaw.
"Hange Zoe! Come here!" Sir Johnson called.
So I left Oluo on the ground and approached both Instructor and Second Commander.
"Trainee Hange Zoe, from now on you are a soldier serving under the Scouting Legion!"
"Ah?" Silence, as I process what Sir Johnson just said, then…
"Yahooo! I can finally see Titans face to face!" I shouted in excitement as I danced the victory dance. But the 'dance' was disturbed when someone cleared his throat and I was back to attention.
I saluted to the two superiors in front of me and shouted clearly, "Sir, yes, sir! It is an honor!"
"You're dismissed. Immediately pack your things and meet me back here before the sun sets!"
"Yes, sir!"
And I skipped back to the dorms happily.