I Wanna Be Yours (Jean Kirstein x Fem! Reader)

Fourteen (14) - The Right Person

{Long Chapter Ahead - 7,325 words}

"After all the training we did...endurance runs...horseback riding...unarmed combat...lectures on strategy...technical skills...vertical maneuever gearing...we worked so hard...we did...so much...was it all for nothing?" Connie asked.

The bald boy is sitting in front of a tall fire which is currently burning the dead bodies they all collected.

The bald-looking boy is tearing up and holding his head out of his distress.

Sasha is standing beside Connie, behind the brunette-girl is Bertolt, Reiner, Annie, Ymir and Krista.

While Jean is also sitting on the ground and staring at his hand full of ashes that he picked up from the ground. Jean let the ash fall on the ground, though he kept his stare on his hand. We all regret it. If we'd known we were going to be dropped into hell like this, we wouldn't have chosen to become soldiers. Right now, when we're exhausted and can't go on...that's the only thing in our heads.

Hey...Marco...I don't even know...which bones are yours....if I hadn't become a soldier...if I hadn't met yoy guys...I wouldn't have to worry about who's next.

"Do you really wanna be titan food so bad...that you're gonna give up working on ways to fight them?"

I don't need you to tell me that, asshole. I know I have to fight.

But I'm bot gonna turn into an idiot like you...not everybody...is strong like you.

"Don't get mad when you hear this...but Jean...you're not a strong person...so you can really understand how weak people feel."

"...What the hell?"

"But you're also good at recognizing what's going on at any given moment. You know exactly what needs to be done. I mean...most humans are weak, including me...but if I got an order from someond who saw things like I do...no matter how tought it was, I'd do my damnedest to carry it out."

Jean clenched his fists and stared at the tall fire in front of him. "What...should I...do now?" Jean asked himself. Or rathee he asked Marco.

Jean gritted his teeth and stood up.

He walked towards his friends, his left fist that held the ashes a still clenched.

"Hey...you guys..." Jean spoke.

Connie, Sasha, Reiner, Annie, Bertolt, Ymir and Krista looked at Jean.

"Have you decided which branch of the military...you're gonna apply to?" Jean asked.

No one answered.

"I've decided...I..." Jean's left hand trembled. He gritted his teeth even more and held his hand to stop it from trembling. "I'm...I'm gonna join the survey corps." Jean said.

Silence filled them.

The only thing they can hear is the sound of the fire, the sound of the crickets and the gentle night wind.

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It took a full day to mop up the remaining tatans who'd been sealed uo inside Trost district. All day, the cannons fixed on the wall never stopped firing. Most of the titans swarming around the wall were killed with hugh-explosives projectiles.

Those left after that were eliminated by the survey corps. And the last two titans were successfully captured alive.

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