𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗫𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 ➵ 𝗁𝗈𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗇𝖺 𝗌𝗈𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗋𝗈

06.

The new recruits keep progressing even further. Exceeding the expectations that you've set for them far greater than you thought. Seeing how they have this friendly rivalry and competition between all of them. With the rivalry with the recruits, they had motivation to keep moving forward to surpass one another and to go stronger as a whole unit.

Day and night, each soldier tried their best and keeps on training. Always getting exhausted after the end of the day, spending hours and hours in the shower room, mostly the guy recruits would talk randomly, be it about Captain Ashiro, the training, making fun of Hibino or they would sometimes talk about you.

It was kinda awkward hearing them, knowing that their conversation are all recorded.

You've just gotten out of the shower, skin feeling hot from your hot shower a few minutes ago. With a towel around your shoulder, you dried your hair as you stared at the mirror in the locker room. There were few bruises here and there, it was from the extensive training you've been doing and from the time-to-time sparring you had with Hoshina.

"You do take after your grandmother." That's what your mother always says to you when she was still alive, combing your hair every night before you go to bed, singing you a lullaby and often read you some bed time stories that you really liked.

It actually relieves you to think that you look more like your grandma than your father. Despite sharing the same hair color and eyes as him, there's something comforting about recognizing your grandmother's features in yourself. Your mother often talks about how different your eyes are from your father's. She always points out that while his eyes are a striking emerald green, yours are more of a soothing jade green.

As you stare intently at your reflection now, you can't help but agree with her. Normally, you don't spend much time looking in the mirror. Your practice sessions leave you with countless wounds and injuries, and the bruises covering your arms and legs often make it hard to focus on anything else. But today, you find yourself drawn to your own reflection.

You notice the distinct differences that your mother always mentions. Your eyes, with their jade green hue, seem to hold a gentle quality that contrasts with the sharpness of your father's emerald eyes.

After a few minutes sitting there alone, you decide to stand up and walk back to your quarters. The day had been long and exhausting, and all you wanted now was the comfort of a hot shower followed by the embrace of your bed. The thought of the soft mattress lulling you to sleep, making it impossible to get up, was incredibly appealing.

"Oh?" You couldn't help but to let out a noise of surprise left your lips, staring as the door of the library was still opened and a figure was leaning on the doorway, looking at the inside of the room and seem like talking to another person.

As you move closer to see who it was, you got a clear vision of the back of the head of the person. And to your surprise, it was none other than Vice Captain Hoshina and he was talking to Hibino Kafka. You always seem to be bumping into Hoshina a lot lately, the two of you always being stick together and overseeing the training of the soldiers. Not leaving each other's side.

Not like you're complaining. But kinda off.

But there's something a bit off about the situation. It's almost as if fate keeps pushing the two of you together, and you can't quite figure out why. You stand there for a moment, watching the interaction between Hoshina and Hibino. And it was a matter of time that Hoshina noticed your presence near him, he looked at you and he gave you a toothy smile.

"You're still up, I see." He stated as he leaned his body off the door frame and take a step outside of the library. "Kafka's working hard too, see?" He pointed his index finger inside the library and when you arrived at the library, you saw a compilation of books on the table, few pencils and pens scattered around the surface. And an open laptop, he was reading a news about Kaiju.