LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 33: Another Perspective
Eren was laying himself down on four chairs. One for his head, one for his feet one for his
torso and one for the upper half of his legs. But, the problem was the arms were getting in the way so he melted the arms off the chairs so he could properly lay down and relax as he took a jelly bean from its bag and threw it at Blake for him to catch with his mouth.
"I'm so bored…" Eren groaned before he lazily threw a blue jelly bean at Blake but Annie caught it with her hand and ate it.
"Hey, that was mine!" Blake complained.
"Deal with it."
Eren turned to see Krista, a couple of rows down, watching the screen attentively. She was not even taking a glance away from it, and she was even muttering under her breath, but he could barely make out what she was saying.
'Why is she so focused for? It's not like watching the previous test is going to help us in any way.'
Eren took out another jelly bean, looked at the yellow bean, glanced at Krista and threw it in her direction. The bean bounced off her head and she groaned miserably.
"What. The hell. Do you want?" Krista said, irritated as she turned to Eren's direction.
"I don't understand-"
"Which is not a surprise," Krista commented.
Eren chuckled dryly before he continued. "Funny. But seriously, why bother paying attention? This doesn't help you besides keeping you entertained."
Krista turned her attention back to the screen. "That's because you're looking at it through one perspective."
"What?" Eren said, a bit puzzled. "What do you mean by that?"
"It's because you are using the television for entertainment. I'm using it for analysis. Seeing the other examinee's abilities and how they examine them might be critical if a future event requires us to fight amongst each other."
Eren slowly nodded."Hmm… but what's the point if it might not be useful?"
"I don't know if it will be useful but it would be a waste to not utilize this opportunity to analyse their fighting style," Krista said.
'There's no way that she can actually analyse everyone that went so far…let's see…if I'm correct, Armin's team is the eleventh one…' Eren looked at the screen that Krista was looking at. 'And there's four people per team…so that would be…'
"Are you saying you were analysing 40 examinees?!" Eren realised.
"No, only 36,"
"36?"
"Yes, Yeager. Did you not know that Ackerman's team went a while ago? I already have a mental summary of their strengths and weaknesses."
Blake leaned back, surprised. "Woah, did you actually keep track of 40 people's abilities and fighting style? That's crazy."
Krista turned her head, revealing a confident smirk. "Well, it's no hard task, especially for someone of my calibre."
"Blake, try not to feed her ego," Eren told the male blonde.
Krista's smirk went to a frown. "Oh, quiet, Yeager. If you have attempted this method of analysis, you will already be sleeping barely halfway through one test."
"Whatever, at least you're using your big eyes for something," Eren muttered but loud enough to make sure that she heard it.
Krista stood up from her chair and immediately stormed towards Eren. Her fair-skinned fists were clenched. Eren was still lying down, looking at the 4 remaining jelly beans he had in his bag.
'Ugh, I only got the black ones left,' Eren thought.
A shadow was cast over him. When he looked aside, he noticed that Krista was standing there, looking down at him. He shrugged and put his focus back on the jelly beans.
"Yo, Blake, Do you like the black jelly beans?"
"Meh. I don't mind eating the licorice ones but if there was another flavour, I would rather eat those in an instant."
Eren took out a jelly bean and cupped it in his hand. "Well, I only got the black ones left, so do you want me to get another bag?"
"They ran out, actually," Blake said. "So I'll take them."
Eren lifted his torso to see that one of the examinees had taken the last bag out of the bowl. He laid back down before he softly put the jelly bean between his right thumb and index finger.
"Okay, well, catch!" Eren threw the jelly bean but Krista caught the jelly bean, snatched the bag out of Eren's hand and threw the jelly bean on the ground.
"What the fuck?!"
"What did you say about my eyes?" Krista asked coldly.
"I didn't say anything! Is your hearing okay?"
"Don't try to trick me! You said that my eyes were big!" Krista protested.
Eren covered his mouth with his left hand and began to chuckle but he coughed to clear his throat shortly after.
"I mean it's not a big thing to have big eyes…" he turned his gaze to Blake. "Right, Blake?"
"True, it's not a bad thing, it makes you look younger like…uh…like a cute child!"
Annie tried to mute her snickering while Eren slapped the palm of his left hand to his forehand.
'Really, Blake?Like a child?' Eren thought as he groaned.
"Hmph. At least I'm using my eyes properly unlike someone with their brain," Krista placed her right index finger on Eren's forehead.
"Get your finger off of me," Eren told the big-eyed blonde.
"Or what? You're gonna fight me?" She poked his head again.
Eren gave a deep chuckle. "You love pissing me off, don't you?"
"Right back at you."
Krista poked his head again and again and again. Eren started to quietly growl under his teeth as he sat in his chair. He knew that Krista wanted him to put his hands on her but he wasn't going to let her have it.
"Give me back the jelly beans."
"Why should I? Clearly, you can't put a jelly bean in your mouth without throwing a few of them, so it would be unwise to hand them back to you," Krista explained.
A large group of cracks and booms came from the televisions, Eren and Krista turned their attention to one of them and saw that the monster was lying on top of trees. A small commotion started with a few of the examinees complimenting that one of the testers caused the monster to end up this way.
"Holy shit, that guy somehow lifted that Ossiboros!" A female examinee said.
"Wish he was on my team…" A male examinee said with a defeated tone.
"What's wrong with me on your team?!" Another male examinee said, a bit angry.
"He managed to throw a brute wyvern," Krista said. "Not bad but not a good idea. "
The Ossiboros slowly rolled on its side, leaving pieces before digging underground and making a temporary escape but there looked to be no point in escaping since it left a big lumpy dirt trail behind. Eren noticed that Reiner had to make a few deep breaths, standing mostly upright but he had to keep his breath in check.
'Is that dumbass is trying to tire himself out?' Eren thought.
"Damn, he's strong," Blake complimented Reiner.
"Strong but stupid," Eren added. "He shouldn't have done that. He's lucky he has good stamina."
"Why is it stupid?" Blake asked. "He even broke some shards off its body."
"I mean, yeah he did, but he could've just…"Eren began.
"Why didn't he just..." Krista started.
"Keep hitting the limbs," The two said in unison.
Eren and Krista looked at each other in shock as both Blake and Annie chuckled in their unison.
"Aww so cute! You two are finishing each other sentences," Blake's chuckle turned into laughter.
Eren's turned into anger. "It's not funny, Blake!"
Blake rocked in his chair. "Yes, it is! You two are always going at each other's throats but you guys think the same."
"Ha! You think me and this fool over here think the same? The reason why he's thinking so analytically is because I basically told him to," Krista said in a confident yet irritated tone.
"You didn't tell me shit!" Eren shouted at her. He got up and approached Blake who began chanting, "Eren and Krista sitting in a tree,k-i-s-s-"
He yanked Blake by the collar of his shirt. "Finish that sentence and see what happens."
"Okay, okay, okay! I'll stop!" Blake raised his hands. "The last thing I want to lose teeth."
Blake moved his head to the right and squinted his eyes. "Hey, what's that dude up to?"
Blake pointed at the screen and Eren looked up at a screen to see Armin kneeling and holding a shard that came from the Ossiboros. He seemed to be analysing it, rotating the shard with his right hand. Eren smiled seeing Armin go to work.
"It seems that Armin is doing his signature...coming up with a plan."