They didn't say anything for the rest of the run. When they reached the university, he quickly went to the cafeteria for a sandwich since Eren hadn't eaten anything for breakfast. He then rushed to the auditorium through the top entrance, where all the students of all archeology class were seated in order of class to get their case studies. He slid opened the door loud enough for everyone to notice. He entered the room panting. All eyes were on him

The department in-charge on the stage Erwin Smith noticed him and said

"Eren Yeager. You're late."

"Sorry sensei I..uh…woke up late."

Erwin scanned him up and down and then stared at his legs and then said

"Um…I…I see. T-Take your seat."

He heard some giggles among the audience. He then went and got seated in his place, next to Jean Kirstein

Eren rolled his eyes and muttered

"Great, out of all people in the class I had to be seated next to the biggest pain in the ass."

Erwin then continued with his details on the case studies and their details.

Jean gave a slight evil grin as he looked at him. The students next to him also giggled while looking at him

"Cute fashion statement Yeager."' Jean said teasingly

"What is?" Eren asked in slight confusion

"Look down you idiot."

He looked down to see he was wearing pick bunny themed home slippers

"Gahhh!" he screamed to which everyone in the room laughed wildly (Except Mikasa, who simply sighed)

"Silence!" Erwin screamed

The room quieted down in a second.

Then Jean continued to tease him

"You know Yeager, I never really pegged you for a kawaii lover, but still, I'm not surprised since it suits perfectly for the wimp you are."

Eren then screamed in defense as he stood up "I AM NOT A WIMP! BESIDES, THEY'RE MIKASA'S!"

Jean's eyes then widened

"WHAT?!"

Erwin then said "Silence!" which both of the boys didn't seem to care about

He then got up and held Eren by the collar

"YOU BASTARD! WHAT THE HELL WERE MIKASA'S HOME SLIPPERS DOING IN YOUR FLAT?!"

"Huh? Wha… What are you talking about?" Eren asked confusedly.

"DON'T PRETEND TO BE OBLIVIOUS! THE TWO OF YOU CAME LATE AT THE SAME TIME! AND YOU OVERSLEPT!"

"Silence…" Erwin said with his teeth gritted

At this point everyone in the room got an idea of what Jean was implying (except Eren). Gasps and whispers littered the whole room

"No way! They possibly couldn't have-!"

"Yeager and Ackermann?! That's unexpected…"

"How the hell did that idiot manage to sleep with one of the most desired and beautiful woman in the entire university?!"

"Well I'm not surprised though…I mean Eren is pretty handsome and Mikasa has been like obsessed with him from as far as we can remember…"

"I doubt Jean's implications cuz I mean…look at Eren's face! He clearly has no idea of what's going on…"

Erwin was getting really mad at this disturbance. He turned the microphone to high volume and screamed on it

"I. SAID. SILENCE!"

All of the students quieted down at once. Everyone were scared shitless on looking at how mad their sensei was. Eren and Jean straightened up and sat down in their places.

Erwin continued

"You're Archeology undergraduates for god's sake! Not toddlers! A few months down the line you're supposed to enter the world as civilized humans not animals! I can't believe I'm saying this but one more word from anyone and they will be sent out of the auditorium!"

Everyone in the room gulped

Mikasa then raised her hand among the crowd

"Yes, Miss Ackermann?"

"Just to be clear, we were playing video games last night."

She then turned to the audience and said in a threatening tone "Just a video game. Am I Clear?"

Everyone's heads had a similar thought through their minds

"She definitely did it with him."

Erwin then continued

"Um…uh…thank you Miss Ackermann. I hope that clears the misunderstandings here. Anyway, Eren Yeager and Jean Kirstein, you two will report to my office after the assembly is over with."

Eren and Jean looked at each other like it was the other's fault.

"To continue, as you're aware we'll be assigning you into teams of current archeological excavations for experience. The folders given to you contain briefings on the details of the excavations. However, there is one excavation site that has been discovered a month ago and so we do not have much in the folder of the same. It is a new site but there are numerous places to be excavated so the excavation team requested the help of students from university. I was not informed about the details but they say it's unlike anything we've ever excavated so far."

Annie then raised his hand to ask

"Yes Miss Leonhart?"

"What's the name of this site?"

"We don't know for now so we call it by the place we found these sites…in the island nation of Yeld, off the Marley coast."

While all of this was going on, different selfish thoughts went through the heads of the students

Eren thought " I don't care about this new site or whatever. All I care about is going to the excavation sight in Scarmed where Berthlot-san is . I've always wanted to work under him."

Mikasa thought "I want to go wherever Eren is."

Armin thought "I hope I get placed wherever Annie is. It'll be a good chance for me to ask her out."

Jean thought "I am not giving up yet! I hope it's just me and Mikasa without Yeager in between us so that I can show her who's boss among the two of us."

Sasha thought "I hope…that I'm with him for this. I've already stalled things for so long. At any cost, I must confess to him by the end of this."

Few minutes pass and all the students are handed out folders on their topics. Some of them were thrilled at the place they got, while some depressed.

"Damn it I seriously hoped on getting the Scarmed site! Why did I have to get the Marley site!" Eren Yeager said in disappointment

"I get you Eren. Even I wanted to go to Scarmed. Looks like we're together on this one."

"It's fine Eren. Like Armin said, the three of us are together in this. I'm sure this could also prove to be a good experience." Said Mikasa, who was secretly happy that she and Eren are going to be together for the project.

Jean's face was totally blank. He began muttering to himself

"I have no idea how I should feel about this. I mean I'm super happy that Mikasa and I are in the same team, but why must Yeager tag along? "

Sasha was thrilled "Yes! I got the Yeld site, just like him! But…even she's in this group so…"

Not all of them were happy, but they took their assigned projects without a word.