𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘞𝘖𝘙𝘛𝘏.

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            FIVE  YEARS  LATER
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"And lastly, Eren Yeager!" An older male shouted after reading the letter in his hand, folding it after. "Thas it! When yer name was called, follow Sir Levi and he shall take you all to the Kingdom of L/N!"

A short-heightened male clicked his tongue, darting his dull grey orbs around eight males who volunteered to be knights for the sake of the protection of the castle.

His gape was caught by a pair of fierce green orbs with blazing determination. Which gave Levi an unexpected impression, 'That brat... seems really want to go there.'

Sir Levi then turned around, placing his hand on his unsheathed sword handle hanging around his waist, 'Whatever, he's gonna get injured, cry, and want to go home one day.' and exited a big shack with young lads following after him.

The young brown-haired lad looked around, seeing three carriages getting ready for them.

The teenage boy stepped inside one of the carriages, settling himself down after as more came in until the carriage was full.

Eren furrowed his brows in confidence, 'Okay! This is it! I'm going to be a knight for the Kingdom of L/N!'

The young Yeager sat near the window and opposite the seat of Sir Levi Ackerman, next to Eren was a young man with blonde shoulder-length hair.

But right now, Eren couldn't care less about it, he wanted to reach his goal as a knight.

'I am going to cut these fools in pieces who dare to attack my village and families! I will let no one stand in my way!' The green-eyed boy stared out of the window, the view passing the trees while thinking about such violent things towards his awaited enemy.

'I'll become the strongest knight of the Kingdom! I'll be able to protect people and my family!' With more determination were swirling around his mind, the noises in the background fell deaf to his ears.

Son Yeager soon grasped on his reality, hearing out to others that he had neglected.

"Uh... hey."

Eren glanced towards the source of the voice, it was that shoulder-lengthed-haired guy, sitting next to him.

Yeager noticed the guy was fiddling his fingers with his hem of rag clothing, displaying his anxiousness, "Yeah?"

A small awkward smile formed on the lips' of that guy as he spoke, "I'm... I'm Armin. And what's your name?"

The lad named Armin introduced himself nervously before asking the other male.

The short-haired boy traced his gaze on Armin after responding, "Eren Yeager."

Since Eren was uptight on meeting new faces, he didn't really have a lot of friends but he supposed that he might get used to it if he had one.

'... maybe having one or two friends won't be bad.' Yeager thought to himself, feeling relieved that he would have company instead of being alone there for years.

"Ah...! So... why did you volunteer for a such position?" Arlert inquired tensely with interest, leaving up to Yeager glancing shortly at Sir Levi.

Sir Levi appeared to be uninterested in their conversation, sewing a hand embroidery with a sewing needle and a red thread attaching to it.

The needle plucking in and out, stitching it calmly despite there were some annoying rocks on the path that the carriage had to cross and end up shaking.

Eren's gape then retraced back to a familiar face.

"It's because I want to protect my family," Eren reasoned, crinkling his temple as his hand slowly shaped into a fist. "and exterminate these enemies!"

Arlert widened his oceanic blue at Yeager's response.

'This kid...' Sir Levi thought to himself, clicking his tongue as he sewed another line on the embroidery after peeking at a young boy.

"Prepare the arrival!" A yell was heard from outside of the carriage in the bright of the morning.

Lads in the carriage felt an abrupt halt after going on even night, awakening from the sleep.

Some of them even groaned out in tiredness, some were still awake even during the night.

"Wake up, brats. Time to get out and meet the Royal Family L/N." Sir Levi's harsh tone was enough to awaken boys from their sleeping slumber and escort them out of the carriage.

Yeager opened his eyes in instant, feeling ecstatic and motivated to get on his first day there.

Eren was the Last lad to step out of a carriage he was in, seeing a magnificent castle in front of him, servants were on the line and dressed up properly, their posture appeared to be stern and sharp.

The brown-haired boy left his jaw to hang in amazement to see that he would be around that Kingdom for some time.

As more boys came out of other carriages, coming forward and seeing the view as well.

"That is a pretty castle..." Commented a shorter male, Armin, next to Eren in awe.

An older male stood before the castle in front of boys, blocking their view of the castle.

"We will head in the castle, whom belongs to our King, our Queen, and her Royal Highness, you all shall not misbehave. One to misbehave will have to face the greater consequence." Sir Levi spoke up in a stern tone, glaring at each lad with no hint of untruth to his words.

Yeager and others bowed in understatement as Sir Levi sent them a look of approval then clicked his tongue, turning around.

"We are going. Do better to stay quiet." Ackerman demanded, strolling away from a group of eight anxious young men, that followed after him in instant.

After walking inside an entrance, young lads couldn't believe in their eyes how luxurious the indoor castle was.

There were so much to see—

"Let's get moving already." Sir Levi impatiently snapped them out of it instead of wasting their time gawking at the things that they've never seen in their life despite their status weren't known to be high or rich.

That was why low-classes volunteering for taking the dangerous positions weren't rare since it was known to reward good payment, only if you do your work well and have been working there longer nobly.

The salary might increase if one would have to supervise the child of a royal pair disregarding the age, as long as the guard was doing his duty without slacking off.

"Bow before them." An order got into boys' heads before realizing that they were in front of a King, a Queen, and a Princess.

Yeager instantly kneeled one of his knees and putting his hand on his heart, showing his deep honor to a royal family standing before him.

"Introduce yourselves." A top-expert Knight muttered behind boys kneeling before three respectable persons, who were peeking at them with full of attention.

"Eren... Eren Yeager, Your Majesty." Eren addressed King L/N, moving his head up to connect his green eyes with L/N's, showing his confidence.

"I pledge my loyalty and protection to Your Majesty and the Kingdom of L/N!"