The Pain Made Me Strong ~ Levi x Reader

Chapter 8

Y/n’s POV- 

     I walked up to get my food in the mess hall and noticed the portions were slightly smaller and the food didn’t look as good, but that was to be expected, and it wasn’t too big of a deal given I was used to not eating very much.

     I looked around and found an empty table, granted it was pretty early so many people hadn’t gotten here yet, but at least I would get a few moments to myself. I sat at the table and began to eat a small piece of bread. Within a minute or so I heard a bit of a ruckus begin to get closer to me. 

     I sighed and turned around to face a group of cadets headed towards my table, they saw me looking at them with my uninterested eyes and began to whisper to each other. In the end they continued to head towards my table and sat down next to me.

      I was at the edge of the table and a boy with a blonde bowl cut sat next to me. Next to him was a girl with black hair in pigtails, and across from her was a guy with short, messy, blonde hair and sideburns. Next to the guy was a girl with black, silky hair and a cold expression similar to that of Levi’s. Lastly, right across from me was a boy with brown hair and bright teal eyes. 

     “Hello, Y/n I believe? It’s alright if we sit here right?” the boy next to me asked.

     I simply nodded and he smiled, “Great! I’m Armin, by the way, and this is Mina, Thomas, Mikasa, and Eren.”

     They all waved at me and the boy with the teal eyes, Eren, looked extremely determined, as if he needed to tell me something. “Well, Eren, you going to keep staring at me, or are you going to ask me whatever it is that’s causing you to look at me like that?”

     Eren coughed a little, thrown off by my sudden notice that there was something on his mind. Armin turned to me apologetically and said, “Sorry about him, I think what he’s wanting to ask is that you said you were from right outside of Shiganshina, correct? So you were there when the colossal titan showed up.”

     “Yeah, I didn’t see the colossal titan though, I just saw as the armoured titan broke through the gate connecting Shiganshina to Wall Maria, after that I helped my village evacuate,” I answered.

     By this point in the conversation other tables surrounding us had begun to quiet down to listen to our conversation. 

     “Oh, so you didn’t have to see the actual titans that had made it into the wall then? You all made it here safely?” Armin asked.

     “Now I never said that, we did all make it here in one piece, but-” I was trying to answer before Eren finally decided to speak up.

     “What did Shadis mean when he said you were the one who fought in Shiganshina? And is it really true that the Commander of the Scouts is the reason you are here?” 

     “Um... I…” I began to say before the girl, Mikasa slapped Eren in the back of the head.

     “You don’t need to answer that question, Eren doesn’t know how to keep his mouth shut. The reason we were wondering about you being near Shiganshina is because we lived there and witnessed the horrors within the city,” she said calmly.

     I took a deep breath and tried to soften my expression, knowing these guys had to be who I was with for the next three years, I might as well explain a little bit about why I’m here, “Uh, no, it’s fine. I’m sure I’d be confused too, if I had heard what Shadis said in your guy’s place. I was in Shiganshina during evacuation after evacuating my village trying to help evacuate the district. The Scouts ended up finding me and taking me back to their HQ, from there the Commander told me I had to join the Training Corps before joining the Survey Corps.”