HOTREDD

I went straight into the lucid dream this time since I knew I’d sleep way less this night. Spawning in the home where I left off, I treated it as if a day passed in the world despite leaving off on the couch rather than somewhere better like the bed. Guess in the attack on titan world I’m the type of guy to sleep on the couch. I remembered the goal of completing a mission for the survey corps, so I left my house to search for their office building. I headed in the direction I expected the headquarters to be in, and right as I was about to ask for directions someone came up to me already seeing how frantically I was looking around. The passerby walked with me towards the building and as it came into view they commented on how casually I was dressed for someone that had business with the survey corps. After thanking them for their help, I went into an alleyway to get out of sight and teleported back home to get the clothes I bought last night. Teleporting back, I walked straight into the building and found it to be very busy with employees and soldiers there.

Among the soldiers was the man I met last time, and he came up to introduce me to the other soldiers who were around him. Although he was being a bit rough which was fitting for our past relationship and his personality, he was being very welcoming. The man was the captain of his squad, and I got to know his name along with the names of the three other members. The captain was named Vertin, one of the members was the participant Hukif, one was named Gareth, and I honestly forgot the last one’s name. Although he was able to get me past all the paperwork and time usually needed for new recruits, I had to prove my abilities officially. We went over to their barracks in a simple carriage and on the way the other soldiers told stories of how dangerous it was out of the walls and seemed to be testing my knowledge and will to fight.

At the barracks they had rigs to test out my ability with the maneuver gear and the captain had a lot of confidence after having seen my fighting ability in the last lucid. It was fun to try out the rigs for both balance and swinging around a stand representing a titan. There were also regular exercises and I easily passed through those. The rest of the team watched through some of the tests but were sent to train as I took the regular exercises. After confirming my ability the captain was allowed to send me out with the team to their next mission. Our mission was to clear out whichever titans may be on the other side of the walls closest to the city that got attacked in the last dream. On the way there I had to try some of the food from the barracks and they were laughing and joking a bit as I tried to choke down the dry rations.

Once we reached the walls there was a gate big enough for the carriage to pass, but it looked small considering the wall it was for. We had to wait for soldiers on the wall to confirm there were no titans near the gate before we passed through. The captain told us we were headed for a small town to check for titans and survivors, but on the way there we should keep an eye out for titans and possible breaches to the wall. As we were getting close to the town there were two titans among some trees and the new members decided they would like to see how I handle real combat. I walked up to the two and they noticed me, with the taller of the two running ahead. As they ran at me they got to a hill where there was nothing high to aim at with my gear, so I shot at the ground higher up the hill to shoot myself at them. Once past the point where the gear pierced, I continued running at the same extreme speed and pulled out one sword to amputate a leg from the closest titan. I ran into the chest of the titan behind it and was able to stab the sword straight through their neck. The other one struggled to get up with its missing leg and was easy to finish with its head still near the ground.

I headed back to the carriage and although one of the members acted like a sore loser the rest were happy to have a competent new team member. It was later brought up that they bet on how well I would handle the titans. Once we got to the town we surprisingly found no titans. Some of the people came to greet us and we were taken to the village leader’s home to have a meal as thanks for taking down the nearby titans. The meal they gave was much better than the rations from earlier, but I ended up thirsty and went out to a bar nearby. The owner ran up to the door right as I came in and asked if something went wrong at the leader’s home and I saw that the only other people there were Sensei and Establish. Recognizing them, I quickly understood there was something behind the village keeping us from meeting. I agreed to go back to the house and on entering I told the leader that we should leave quickly since the people were strangely persistent on us not seeing anything other than this house in the village. This time all of the members complained as we left the building, and we headed back. I was beginning to wake up on the trip back into the walls, and the dream ended right as new tensions were rising.