After the battle of Heaven and Earth, Eren Yeager met his end. He replaced Founder Ymir and spent his days in the paths. After spending endless amount of time there he found a way to travel back in time. So, he took this opportunity to forge a new d...
Now as an instructor, Keith Shadis looked over the rows of kids who joined the cadet corps.
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He went over to Armin and yelled - "Hey, kid !"
"Who the hell are you?"
Armin tensed at the imposing figure of Instructor Shadis gave the official salute and said " I'm Armin Arlert from Shinganshina, sir !"
"That so? Fit name for a retard! Your parents named you that?"
"It was my grandfather, sir". Armin corrected.
Ignoring said correction, Shadis asked, "Arlert, why are you here?"
"To contribute to humanity's victory, sir!" Armin shouted whilst squinting his eyes in fear.
"How admirable, you should make first-rate titan feed." Keith stated mockingly.
Following the essentially 'insult session' Armin was subjected to, Instructor Shadis moved onto another poor victim - someone else to unleash his wrath upon.
Grabbing Armin's head, who was still terrified, and turning him backwards, Keith commanded, "Third squad! About face!"
Another trainee, who like Armin, had blonde hair, but unlike Armin seemed to be of average height and muscular build, was approached by Shadis.
He repeated the same question which he had asked Armin previously, "And who the hell are you?"
"Sir! I'm Thomas Wagner from Trost, sir!"
Following another verbal beatdown, Shadis moved onto the next trainee, "Next! Who are you?"
"Mina Carolina, from Trost, sir!"
"Wrong! You were born in a pigsty, inferior even to swine!"
"Yes! I'm inferior to swine, sir!"
"Wrong! I tell you what you are and what you aren't!"
Whilst Shadis was practically traumatising his Cadets, Eren looked around him, specifically at his comrades, and even more specifically, at a certain trio.
Reiner. Annie. Bertholdt.
For a long time, Eren absolutely despised them all - he perceived them as traitors who he spent his 3 years with viewing them as one of his close friends after Armin and Mikasa. But after spending a few months in Liberio, where he masqueraded as a wounded soldier, his former assumptions were challenged.
He cannot fault them. Like Reiner told him in the cellar, they thought they were doing the right thing, they were just brainwashed kids who didn't know about the reality and were just used as living weapons of mass destruction. He doesn't hate them, he very much sympathises with them. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean that he will just let them continue their assigned mission. If he can, he'll try to persuade them to his side, but if it doesn't work and still without contact with Zeke then, he would need to kill them .
