"I'll do anything to get that life back."
WHAT IS THE COST OF ATONEMENT?
When two highschool volleyball players from Miyagi prefecture go missing, nobody knows what truly happened to them.
Somewhere in another world, the Scout Regiment makes one of...
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POV: SHOYO HINATA.
"Alright. Before we continue anything else, I have a few things I would like for you lot to know..."
I'm shaking.
We're finally at the Cadet Corps. The Cadets Corps, that we've been training for the last three weeks. The Cadet Corps, that we'll be spending the next six- Seven- Worst case scenario, a whole year at.
"...First things first;"
If I could, I'd really rather not be here. Maybe we could've stayed with the Scouts instead of coming here- I'd really like that. They could train us (and I bet much better than any other instructor could, heck we have first-hand Titan experience), and we wouldn't have to worry about rankings and superiors and competitors and stuff like that. All we'll be doing is killing Titans, and finding a way back home. That's all any of us want to do in the first place.
The idea of being put into this training program didn't seem so bad at first, but now that I'm standing here on a platform above what looked like more than a few hundred people, adults and teens, men and women alike, I think to myself, why the heck do we even have to be here?
"...I don't trust any of you."
We could've just stayed back.
"If you're all truly where you say you're from, then why?"
We could've been taught back at the base, we could've been kept a secret.
"Why do you six feel the need to fight for a Humanity..."
I look at all the people in the gathering below me, and feel a twist in my gut.
"...That isn't even your own?"
There's already so many of them... Do they even need us?
It looks like this Keith Shadis guy is thinking the exact same way.
But for some reason... For some stupid reason, the weight of feeling the need to fight through this stupid training camp, outweighed my gut instinct to stay back at the Scouts with the likes of Captain Levi.
Keith Shadis looked at all six of us in the eyes, and I felt like choking under his gaze. It was harsh. It was unwelcome. Yet- it was sincere.
