~Chapter 6 - Squad Barracks~
Fragon opened a wooden door and went inside. Levi, Me, Isabel and Farlan followed him.
"This is the squad barracks." Fragon explained and walked to the end of the room.
Simple wooden double-decker beds where lined neatly against the wall. But the room itself was nothing near the word neat. Shirts and pants where hanging from the beds, cologne and aftershave bottles where trashing down the room and paper pieces where everywhere. The beds weren't made and just made the room look even trashier.
Levi was not pleased.
"Does that mean we live together?" Isabel asked ebulliently.
"Women live in the room down the hall to the right." Fragon said.
"Eeehh? But I'm fine here!" Isabel exclaimed.
"Don't argue Isabel." I said trying to calm her down. "I'm a woman too, so you won't be alone."
If she didn't get everything the way she wanted, she would have a breakdown and sing her heart out until she pass out.
"You are not a women just yet, (f/n), you're still a girl." Farlen said and chuckled.
"Ha ha, Farlen." I said sarcastically and rolled my eyes.
"You will sleep here." Farlan said and pointed at a double decker bed the corner.
The sheets had a thick layer of dust and the wood was old and had splinters sticking out of it from everywhere.
Levi walked to the bed and put his hand on the wood. As he slowly rubbed his hand against the pale wood, sticks and splinters fluttered down to the floor. Levi's eyes darkened.
"You lived in the underground sewers so much that you're probably used to the dirt, and here you are having cleanliness orders." Fragon said mockingly as he crossed his arms and leaned against the bed nearby.
"What did you say?" Levi turned his head around to face Fragon. He strode to him and stopped once their faces were just an inch apart from each other. "You bastard, what the fuck did you say?"
"What? Don't you dare talk to an outranking officer that way, you filthy piece of trash." Fragon intimidated and made him look bigger than he was.
Before a fight could break out, Farlen dragged Levi back and stood between them.
"Aaah! Don't worry Captain! We'll keep the place clean! Yes?" Farlan looked at Levi who didn't answer him.
Farlan bumped his fist against his chest as to imitate a salute. Fragon tch-ed at his failure to make a proper salute and turned around.
"Once you finish unpacking, go to the training grounds. We'll start by teaching Church the correct way to salute."
I covered Isabel's mouth when I saw laughter bubbling up inside of her, tears where formed in her eyes when she couldn't release the laughter.
As soon as the door slammed shut, I let go of my hand and Isabel fell onto her knees laughing. Farlan's fake smile disappeared and he turned around to Levi.
"Levi!" Farlan said in a strict voice. "I told you not to fight!"
Levi walked to the bed and pulled the blanket off of the bed while making sure none of the dust would fall down. He walked to the window and shook the blanket outside to get the dust away.
"Did you not hear what he called us?"
Isabel and I were standing a few meters away from them. We were exchanging wacky faces and imitating Fragon with exaggerating faces.
"And they call this cleaning? What the hell is wrong with them?" Levi said as he returned and made his bed. "I treated him like he was with me, and if he continues to behave that way he will not receive a salute from me."
Levi walked to a wardrobe and opened it. Inside were many different kinds of cleaning appliances, brooms, mops, rags, buckets, everything you can imagine.
"First things first, we will clean until not a single speck of dust is present."
Isabel and I fell silent. Levi was at the window and the light from outside made Levi look like a cleaning god. He had already tied a clean, but old handkerchief around his head to keep most of his raven black hair away from his face.
"Right now?" Isabel asked.
"You said you didn't want any conflicts."