Chapter 41: Two are left
Hanji waits until she is sure that no one in the room is crying before she knocks at the door to enter. He had heard their voices and decided to give them a few minutes alone. These few minutes are over now.
"So how is my favourite titan?" She couldn't help but smile as she sees them both. Eren looks still like death himself, with all the blood and pale skin but he was no longer locked inside a crystal. Progress she would call it. The pieces of the crystal lay around them and as Hanji walks over to get a better look on Eren she makes sure not to step in the pieces. Levi tries to hide his exhaustion, emotional and physical. He had been sitting on Eren´s bedside since two days without sleeping or eating anything. As soon as she is done here she will order both of them to rest (and eat in Levi´s case). Eren would get his energy as soon as the sun rises. After a good sunbathing seasion he will be fine, she can tell.
"I´m fine." Eren answers dutifully as she feels for his pules, checks his temperature and his eyes for a reaction.
"Looks good to me. After a good night's sleep and a bit of sun you will be perfectly fine." Hanji looks over to Levi. "You on the other hand are in the bad book young man. I told you to eat something. You didn't touch your food." She pointed at the now cold soup that is standing on the table behind him.
"I´m older than you." Levi protested but doesn't say a thing about the food. "And I am not hungry." Eren rolls his eyes as Levi´s stomach uses this moment to make his unhappiness about this situation clear. "Fine." Without another word Levi takes the cold soup and eats it. Hanji wants to comment on it but keeps her mouth shut.
"I think I will go get cleaned up, I feel dirty." Without difficulties Eren gets up to enter the bathroom. It´s amazing how fast the titan-shifter regenerates his body.
"You are dirty." Levi comments but doesn't follow and continues eating. "What did Erwin say about the other two?"
Hanji sighs. "We will not follow them, first we need to train the new recruits. He doesn't want our mortality rate to go up again. Something Eren will support, you know how he hates it when humans get hurt. The recruits wait for their first training. We should start with that as soon as possible. I guess tomorrow afternoon is a good time. That gives Eren time to get his footing back and you can think of what kind of training you want to give them." Levi listens to her without interrupting. He isn't happy about it. She sees that but searching for two titan-shifter in such a huge area is impossible with their numbers. Especially when one of them is the colossal. They still don't have an idea how to fight him. "You have also the great pleasure to tell them about your undercover work and Eren. The whole shifter thing was already covered. We couldn't let them go without explaining a few things."
Levi nods and places the empty bowl next to him. "Are they suspisous about Eren?"
"No." Hanji smiles. Even if Levi´s mind is making great plans for hunting and killing the two shifters his first concern is with Eren. "Mikasa and Armin defused the situation before it even started. They told them that Eren saved them. That he is on humanities site." Another nod.
"So he still has his friends. Good." Eren choses this moment to enter the room again. Wearing an old pyjama that is definitive a few sizes to small.
"I told you to stop growing, brat." Levi grumbles.
"I think I need new clothes. The old one doesn't fit anymore." After three years away from the castle that is no wonder but Hanji doesn't say a thing about the clothes.
"Good. I will leave you alone for the night. Eren you are in charge of making sure Levi sleeps." She ruffles Eren´s hairs and closes the door behind them. Now she has to tell Erwin that Eren is awake and that training starts tomorrow.