Chapter 9: Potato?!

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Standing in the "Parade Rest" position, like you always saw in the military.

Vincent is now standing with the rest of the group of trainees, just like him, registered to enter the military training.

Vincent looks ahead of him Seeing a bald man who is saying a bunch of "mean" words that would make the weak hearted Trainees drop and leave the military training even without experiencing it.

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Standing in front of the hundreds of trainees the bald man then began to introduce himself.

"Unfortunately to all of you, I, Keith Shardis, will be in charge of your training..."

"All of you are now merely livestock, waiting to be eaten by the Titans."

"I'm not here to give you all a warm welcome."

"Like I said before, all of you are now merely livestock, waiting to be eaten by the Titans, No! You are all even worse than livestock!"

"That's why, for the next three years, I will train you, you all useless sh*ts."

"I'll teach you how to fight, and beat Titans!"

"And when you face a Titan in the future, in the next three years will you still be just a food?"

"Or will you become a glorious soldier that protects these walls?"

"Or a mighty champion of mankind who will destroy the Titans?"

"The choice lies in your hand"

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Then the Bald Instructor got down from the platform and approached the trainees.

He then approaches a blond hair kid, who had a small frame, large hazel eyes and a small pointed nose.

"Who the hell are you?!"

The Bald Instructor said that... look deeply at the blond hair kid.

"I'm Armin Arlet from Shiganshina, sir!"

The blond hair kid, named Armin Arlet answered the bald Instructor and swung his right hand into his left chest where the heart located at this is like a salutation of this world.

This posture is the basic and the first thing the military trains them to do.

"That so? A name fit for a retard! Your parents named you that?"

While still in the salutation position, Armin Arlet answered the bald Instructor loudly...

"It was my grandfather, sir!"

The bald Instructor then walks closely and leans towards the blond kid, Armin Arlet and asks.

"Arlet, why are you here?"

"To contribute to humanity's victory, sir!"

"How very admirable. You should make first-rate Titan feed."

The bald Instructor raised his hand to the kid, and forcefully turned the kid around while saying.

"Third squad! About face!"

Then the bald Instructor started to walk to another Trainee target he saw and ask the same question as he did towards the blond hair kid.

"And... who the hell are you?"

"I'm Thomas Wagner from Trost, sir!"

Thomas saluted as he loudly said but the bald Instructor was unsatisfied as he said to Thomas.

"I can't hear you!"

"I'm Thomas Wagner-"

"I told you to speak up! Go practice sounding off properly in the barracks!"

"Next! Who are you?!"

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Vincent was bored and just observed the faces of everyone in here.

Some are scared sh*tless wanting to quit the military training, but that was what the Bald Instructor wanted to happen.

Scaring the weak willed people so that in the end they will not be eaten and killed easily by the Titans.

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"Mina Carolina, from Trost, sir!"

"Wrong! You were born in pigsty, Inferior even to swine!"

"Yes! I'm Inferior to a swine, sir!"

Mina Carolina, answered as she closed her eyes and her face couldn't help but be covered in sweat.

"Wrong! I tell you what you are and what you aren't!"

"Yes!"

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Vincent saw that the Bald Instructor uses some words like swine etc... to replace their prior identities and forcibly discarded it.

This method is usually used in the Army, leaving only blank slates from which true soldiers can be produced.

It also and usually used in Cult, using psychological pressure to make someone give in and be open to themselves and lastly it was used to create slaves.

*****

Vincent also saw that the Bald Instructor passed by some people like him.

Like him, who had already faced Titans two years ago. Lose they're loved ones and yet have the guts to be a soldier and are determined to be one.

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"Who the hell are you?!"

"I'm Jean Kirstein from Trost, sir!"

"What are you here for?!"

"To join the Military Police Brigade and reside in the Inner District, sir!"

Vincent looked at the one that said Jean Kirstein and marked him as an Honest Idiot.

"I see. So you wanna live in the Inner District?"

"Yes, sir"

Jean Kirstein, answered the Bald Instructor with a smile on his face then.

*BANG*

"Who gave you permission to sit?!"

The bald Instructor then headbutts Jean Kirstein making him kneel on his knees.

"If you can't even handle that, you'll never make it into the Military Police Brigade!"

The Bald Instructor then walks to another guy and asks as usual.

"Who the hell are you? And what did you come here for?!"

"I'm Marco Bott from Jinae, in Wall Rose's Southern District, sir!"

"I came to join the Military Police Brigade and pledge myself to the King!"

Vincent then look towards the guy who wanted himself to pledge to the "Idiot, and Incompetent King", marking him with "a usual citizen who were brain-dead to pledge to the King"

"A Noble Objective, but remember "The King doesn't want you."

The Bald Instructor said that and walked towards another target.

"Who the hell are you?!"

"I'm Connie Springer from Ragako, in Wall Rose's Southern District, sir!"

Maybe due to his nervousness, Connie Springer saluted with his left hand on his chest.

The Bald Instructor saw this and proceeded to pick Connie in his head raising him through the air as he said.

"Listen up, Connie Springer. This was one of the first things you were taught; That salute means you're offering your heart to the King!"

"Is your heart on your right side, SH*THEAD?!"

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Looking up at the sky in boredom Vincent felt that it was a little quiet, since there's no one speaking.

He then looks left and right seeing that they're all looking at particular someone.

Vincent looked at it and saw that particular someone, someone who had the guts to eat.

POTATO?! NANI!