The Eldian Devil Of Paradis (AoT x Male Reader)

Chapter 8

Y/n and Armin got back into the barracks dorm or whatever, and they asked their friends for "tips" on the balance training.

Connie glances away, smiling.

Connie: Tips? Sorry, buddy. But I'm just a natural. All I can say is, "feel it."

Y/n: What a great help, Connie. Shouldn't have asked.

He and Armin approached Jean.

Y/n: Got any tips?

Jean: Hey, why don't you tell me?

Y/n: Tell you what?

Jean: Tell me the secret to keeping your sanity after disgracing yourself in public like that!

Y/n: Everyone here acts like all almighty just because I asked for help and they managed to balance themselves. You two are such great friends, I would not bother relying on you.

He walks away, but Marco calls out to him.

Marco: Okay, okay... Forget Connie and Jean. Those two guys over there also got high marks. I think their names are...

He looks at Reiner and Bertholdt.

Y/n sighed, and he and Armin climbed up their bed to ask for any tips.

Y/n: Bertholdt and Reiner, was it? Do you have any tips?

Reiner: Sorry... But I don't think you need a trick to just dangle there. I don't think I have the words of wisdom you're looking for...

Y/n sighed.

Armin: You'll just have to bet on tomorrow...

Bertholdt: You two are from Shiganshina District, right?

Armin: Um, yeah... That's right...

Bertholdt: Then you probably know how scary the titans are. So I don't get why you wanna be soldiers.

Y/n: ...

Armin: It's not that I experienced the titan memace directly. Or even that I was left at a settlement... But whenever I think about monarchy ramming through that suicidal wall recapture operation, I can't sit still... I have no confidence in my own physical strength... I don't even know if there's anything I can do... But I can't just keep quiet and watch... What's happening.

Bertholdt: I-I see...

Y/n: Titans aren't scary to me. It's the destruction that they caused on that day that what caused fear in my heart, and when my mother got eaten that day... That fear was replaced by anger. And it never went away.

Armin: Can I ask... Where you guys are from?

Bertholdt: ...Reiner and I... Are from a village deep in the mountains of Wall Maria.

Armin: What?! That's...

Bertholdt: Yeah... Unlike the thriving towns along the river, we didn't get word right away that the wall was broken. In fact, we first learned about it when the titans came. It was dawn... The livestock were making a huge racket. I'd never heard the ground rumble like that before, and it kept getting louder... Realizing it was footsteps, I hurried to the window and opened it... After that... Um, I don't really remember. Everybody was panicking. But we got on horses and escaped to Wall Sina. Next, we probably ernt through the same thing.

Y/n: Two years of settlement work, the you came here, right?

Reiner: Jeez... What did you have to talk about that for?

Bertholdt: S-Sorry... Um... My point was... You guys are different from them.

Y/n: Well, yeah. That was pretty obvious, wasn't it?