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HANGE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF TALKING TO THE GIRL WHEN THE DOOR OPENED. It was one of the cadets from Hange's squad.

"Section Commander! The commander requested the girl to the Mess Hall," he said with a salute.

Hange groaned. "Just as we were about to get good," she muttered.

"It was requested by the c-"

"Yeah, yeah. You don't need to repeat it again," she said, dismissing the cadet.

With another salute, he left the room. Hange turned to the girl.

"Now, let's go see what Erwin wants," she said, lending the girl a hand whilst wrapping an arm around her waist to prevent her from falling.

They slowly reached the Mess Hall. Hange kicked the door open, not being able to use her hand. This caught the attention of the other cadets and she walked in.

The woman sat the girl down on the wooden seat with Levi and Erwin opposite them.

A cadet came to them and settled a tray of food in front of the girl. She stared at the cadet as she walked back to her group of friends.

F/n blinked, looking back at the tray of food that consisted of steamed potato, bread and a cup of water.

She stared silently at it, not making any move. She looked up at Hange and saw the way she ate the potato as she and Erwin talked.

She stared at her for a moment before looking back at the steamed potato. She tilted her head, making it look vertical.

She positioned her head correctly before raising her hand and poking at the potato. A newly steamed potato.

She yelped at the unexpected warmth and jumped from her seat towards the nearest wall.

Her breathing became rapid as a coward on the ground, using her left hand to grab her right with her pointer finger pointed upwards.

Hange and Erwin turned to her.

"What's wrong?" Hange asked frantically. She became like a sister to her after sharing multiple conversations.

She knelt down beside her, searching for any sort of injury. Levi, who had been observing her since the beginning, got up and took the girl's hand, quite roughly at that.

Erwin kept telling him to be careful with her, considering that her fragile body would not work well with him as he was entitled as 'Humanity's Strongest'.

Levi sat the girl beside him and took the steamed potato from her tray, making her move away from him slightly.

"Levi, what are you doing?" Erwin cautiously asked but was ignored. The captain moved his hand, taking the potato in front of her mouth.

She looked at him as if he grew two heads. He gestured towards the potato he was holding and she shifted her gaze towards it.

After more staring at it, she looked at Levi for some sort of confirmation before opening her mouth and taking a small bite out of it.

Levi continued holding the potato as she munched down on it. By that time, Erwin had his eyebrows raised higher than ever and Hange had her mouth agape with eyes widened in disbelief.

She didn't recognize her friend any longer. Levi was known to be strong and most definitely not for patience. He was never patient with anyone.

But as they say, people change, like the tides in the ocean-

With the potato eaten, he took the bread and gestured for her to hold it. She looked at him with an unreadable expression before his bottom eye twitched impatiently, taking her hand and letting her hold the bread.

Levi dropped his hand and the girl stared at it before taking a bite. F/n watched as Levi walked back to his seat, having the eyes of everyone in the room at him.

"WHAT?!" Hange screamed at the top of her lungs, her voice accompanied by the murmurs from the cadets, "Who are you?! And what did you do to our shorty?!"

He clicked his tongue in response. "Shut up, four eyes," he said, casually sipping on his tea.

"You've changed, Levi," Erwin said jokingly as his fellow friend continued spitting out nonsense at the captain.

F/n watched the commotion in silence, munching on the bread that she grew a liking.

𐄁𐄙𐄁𐄙𐄁𐄙𐄁𐄙𐄁𐄙𐄁𐄙𐄁𐄙𐄁𐄙𐄁𐄙𐄁

"Can we ask you some questions, F/n?" Erwin asked and the girl nodded. The three adults she had met earlier were now accompanied by one other, Mike Zacharius.

"What's your real name? Like the name you've been given by your caretaker" Hange asked, holding up a quill to get ready and write it down on the paper.

F/n scanned the look on Hange's face, blinking emotionlessly as if waiting for her to say something else.

"You don't know?" the dark brown-haired woman asked and the h/c haired one slowly nodded in confirmation.

Hange looked at her sceptically before jolting down the information on the piece of paper. They needed as much information as they could gather from her.

Well, that is until she was capable of being alone.

"How old are you?" Erwin asked.

F/n stared at him, blinking twice before looking down at her hands. She just stared at it for a moment, confusing the adults in the room.

"Does she not know how old she is either?" Hange wondered.

"Do you know how old you are, F/n?" the blonde man asked and the girl nodded.

The silence held the confusion within them as they thought of ideas to how she could tell them.

"Oh!" Hange gasped, excitedly lending F/n her quill and another piece of paper for her to write on, "Here. Write down whatever you need to write."

She observed the quill, touching the soft feather and letting a small smile appear on her lips. Hange held back a squeal when Erwin shook his head, telling her to stay silent.

She hovered the quill over the paper, moving her hand down to create a small dot. Hange adjusted her hand to show her how to correctly hold the quill. She then traced a line and then another and another.

The four soldiers watched as she did so, creating ten lines before moving on to the next row. She started with the third and Levi's eyebrows furrowed in concentration.

"Twenty-five?" Hange counted the lines, "You're twenty-five years old?!"

The woman just nodded, staring at Hange's wide eyes and tilted glasses.

"How do you look so much younger?!" she shrieked, causing the commander to shake his head in disappointment, "Why are you so short?! You're shorter than shorty! Impossible!"

Levi clicked his tongue in annoyance, pushing himself off of the brick wall and walking toward the group.

"Where are you from?" he asked in a cold tone and F/n just nervously shifted on her seat, shrugging her shoulders slightly.

Erwin and Mike exchanged glances before the blonde turned his gaze back to the interrogated woman.

"You don't know where you're from? Like wall Sina or..." he trailed when she looked down on her lap, almost guiltily.

The three glanced at Mike while F/n cowered to the side a little when the man went up to her and sniffed her. He nodded, standing up straight once again.

She was telling the truth.

It was silent yet again and the four other adults were deep in their thoughts, making up theories on how on Earth she lacked common knowledge while now knowing where she was from.

It was strange, for sure, considering how there were only three walls for humans to live in.

But Hange was determined to find out, having to be the person who is probably the worst at being patient for not having an answer for her curiosity.

She said she was going to find out. And she will. Take her word for that.

But for now, what they could do was to train her. To become a soldier.

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