After leaving the church, the three of them walked south along a dirt road and about forty minutes later, they came across an old farm, that was almost swallowed by weeds at the end of their vision.
Calling it a farm was flattering it!
This was clearly a dilapidated house that had been abandoned for who knows how many years!
The weeds in the yard were half a person high, and they could barely find a place to put their feet down and although the main house had a red brick and wooden roof structure, most of the outer wall peeling had fallen off, and the roof was missing several wooden boards.
“…Can people really live here?”
Reiner said, dumbfounded.
This room…
it felt like it could collapse at any moment!
Was there really no problem living here?!
“Be content, Reiner.”
Ellie pulled down the bag of bread from the horse’s back and then said:
“At least there’s a place for you to sleep here, and the patrolling Military Police wont drag you out of your blanket in the middle of the night.”
Reiner turned to look at the rickety warehouse door and said speechlessly
“I think it might not last until night…”
Annie walked up to the door and reached out to push the door frame.
“Although the farm looks dilapidated, the main structure is quite sturdy, and there are no holes in the roof leaking light.
With a slight repair, it can at least keep out the wind and rain.”
“Look, even Annie says it’s fine.”
Ellie chuckled and patted the dust off her hands.
“Let’s go, go inside and divide the rooms!”
Saying that, she pulled the two of them into the room, after pushing open the dusty wooden door, the layout inside was clear at a glance.
There was a small living room, and only two bedrooms in total inside the house.
One was on the smaller side, containing only a single wooden plank bed so narrow that one might fall off just by turning over while the other was much wider, with a large double bed covered with a hay mat placed near the window.
The three of them stood in the corridor, their gazes shifting back and forth between the two rooms.
“Ahem.”
Ellie cleared her throat.
“Given that men and women are different, Reiner, that single room belongs to you.”
Reiner poked his head in to take a look at the narrow bed, showing a troubled expression.
“This…
I won’t even be able to turn over if I sleep on it, right?”
“Oh, one must suffer through the hardest of hardships to rise above others!”
Ellie patted his shoulder and said sincerely:
“For me and Annie, please overcome it, Comrade Reiner.”
“…Fine.”
Reiner sighed and honestly carried his package into the single room.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the corridor, Annie’s body trembled imperceptibly, she stood at the door of the large room, her gaze falling on the large bed in the center that was big enough for two people to sleep on, looking somewhat troubled.
Reiner moved into the single room, so wouldn’t the remaining room be…
Shared by Annie and Ellie?
She…
She,
Was she going to sleep in the same room and on the same bed with Ellie?!
Realizing this, the roots of Annie’s ears suddenly became a bit hot.
In Marley’s warrior training camp, although everyone was in a dormitory, everyone had an independent small iron bunk bed.
Everyone slept in their own beds, and no one touched anyone, even in the same room, she didn’t need to worry about someone rolling over and touching her in the middle of the night. This chapter is updated first at novelping . com.
After all, sleep meant letting down one’s guard…
Annie had long been used to being alone; even when living with other warrior candidates, she would try her best to keep a distance from everyone but now…
She actually had to share a bed with this unknown, nonsense-spouting blonde girl?
Should she just go sleep on the floor instead…
No, wait!
It was just sharing a bed, what was there to be nervous about?
She could easily take down adult soldiers, would she be afraid of a ten-year-old girl who looked completely harmless?
“What’s wrong, Annie?
Why are you standing there like a fool, come give me a hand!”
Ellie had already run into the room completely unguarded, dug a rag out of her personal baggage, rolled up her sleeves, and prepared to clean.
“…”
Annie immediately and quickly hid the trace of panic in her eyes.
When she stepped into the room, her face had returned to its usual iceberg state.
“It’s nothing, let’s clean together.”
With Annie joining, Ellie quickly divided the tasks among the three of them and over the next two hours, the entire abandoned farm became completely lively.
When the afterglow of the setting sun shined into the room through the wiped-clean window glass, the originally lifeless old house finally gained a touch of human warmth.
“Phew—I’m exhausted!”
Ellie was lying sprawled out on the bed, rolling around hugging the pillow stuffed with hay.
“So soft…
I’m saved…”
Having tossed and turned all day, she now felt she could sleep straight through until dawn!
Annie stopped by the bed, looking at the blonde girl who occupied almost the entire bed, and fell silent.
“…Ellie.”
“Hmm?
What’s wrong?
Are the bedding quilts dried?”
Ellie rolled over, propping her chin with her hands, looking eagerly at Annie.
“They’re dried.” Annie replied expressionlessly, “But you get off the bed first.”
“Why?”
“Because you are pressing on the sheet, and I can’t make the bed.”
“Oh…”
Ellie climbed out of the bed reluctantly and obediently squatted to the side.
Only then did Annie smooth out the bedding and carefully brush away every wrinkle on it.
When everything was neat and tidy, she sat down on the edge of the bed and drew a straight line from the head of the bed to the end of the bed.
“Let’s make this clear first, using this line as the standard, you sleep on the left, and I sleep on the right.
This line in the middle is the boundary between us, and no one is allowed to cross it.”
Annie said with a straight face, but the roots of her ears blushed with a faint pink.
Ellie was stunned, and then chuckled.
“Annie, how old are you this year?
Do you still need to build a Great Wall just to sleep?”
“I am serious!”
Annie turned her head away and said fiercely:
You better not mess around…
and you aren’t allowed to grab my blanket!”
“Alright, alright, your orders!”
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Ellie raised her hand in surrender, then curiously leaned a little closer.
“By the way, Annie, do you kick people when you sleep?”
Annie gave her a cold sidelong glance.
“If you cross the line, I will kick you down without hesitation.”
“Tsk, so fierce.” Ellie curled her lips.
However, this girl who looked like an iceberg that hadn’t melted for ten thousand years on the surface, but in her bones, she was actually still a shy little girl.
After all, Annie at this time was only 11 years old, which in her past life would just be an elementary school student!
For elementary school students, being shy is very normal!
Moreover, she hadn’t turned into that cruel Female Titan who liked to play human yoyo in the future!
Since she had already transmigrated into this world, she should try to change something!
Looking at the gradually darkening sky outside the window, the smile in Ellie’s eyes gradually converged a bit.
Who would have thought?
Just a few days ago, she had personally killed Bertholdt on the city wall and stolen the power of the Colossal Titan and now, she was sharing the same bed with Bertholdt’s closest companion.
What a wonderful feeling…
“Before going to sleep, let’s go count the supplies in the kitchen!
We need to see if we can eat something hot tomorrow night.”
Now, the problem of the residence was considered solved, but, the things sent by the church were not much.
If the three of them really wanted to live here for a long time, every little thing like firewood, rice, oil, and salt had to be carefully calculated.
So Ellie ran into the kitchen and began to search through all the cabinets and cloth bags.
The black bread and flour were barely enough for a few days, and there was a small bag of potatoes in the corner.
The lamp oil for lighting was already bottoming out, the firewood was pitifully scarce, and not even a single thick piece of clothing to fend off the cold could be found in the entire house.
“As expected, just these few things won’t last long at all.”
Ellie counted on her fingers and quickly remembered the old priest’s instructions before leaving.
Right, there was still a batch of old bed sheets and lamp oil in the warehouse, she could go to the back door to collect them after settling down!
So, she put on her cloak, tightening the straps at the neckline, and shouted to Reiner in the yard
“You guys wait here first.
I’ll go to the church and be back soon.”
Reiner stopped chopping wood and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuff.
“It’s getting dark, how about I go with you?”
“No need, you stay and help Annie reinforce the warehouse roof.”
Ellie waved her hand and refused with a smile.
“Rest assured, I walk fast.”
Reiner thought about it and felt it made sense, so he exhorted:
“Then be careful on the road, try to get back before dark.”
“Okay!”
Ellie waved her hand and quickly left the farm.
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Just them getting used to their new environment :/ if you’re waiting for the training corps it’ll around chapter 50~
have a good one :]
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