Dust-covered memories (end)

"Coris, go and throw away the trash in the warehouse. Remember, don't open the bags. If I smell that damn garbage, you'll be cleaning toilets for two months!"

"Yes, Captain!" the young man in the Marley Soldiers's uniform answered loudly. His face still had a hint of immaturity, clearly New Recruits had just joined the army. Because he was New Recruits, the Marley Soldiers on the ship inevitably bullied him.

Coris threw down the mop he was holding and hurriedly opened a hatch. In the dimly lit cabin, there were many tightly tied burlap sacks piled up, faintly emitting a foul stench.

Coris suppressed his nausea and laboriously began to drag the sacks to the side of the boat, then toss them into the sea. At that time, humans had little environmental awareness.

Wiping the sweat from his brow, Coris glanced at the last sack remaining and, with a burst of energy, prepared to lift it up.

Suddenly, something inside the sack began to twist and turn strangely.

"Ah!!" Coris was immediately startled and instinctively dropped the sack on the ground, sitting down heavily. Coris stared at the wriggling sack with suspicion.

After a while, the bag was still slowly wriggling, as if something was trying to crawl out of it.

Looking at the sack, Coris made a decision he would never have dared to make before. He slowly approached the sack, carefully untied the Rope at the top, and then quickly retreated to the doorway, peeking out with half his head.

Suddenly! Coris's eyes widened as a human hand reached out from the sack.

One day later.

In the dimly lit cabin, Coris watched with concern as the child wolfed down his food.

It's incredible. Who would have thought that the sack would contain a bunch of foam and a child? The child's slightly torn Armband on his shoulder indicates that the child is an Eldians.

Logically, upon discovering an Eldia child of unknown origin, Coris should have reported it to the captain. However, considering their purpose for this trip and the group of desperate Eldians imprisoned at the bottom of the ship, Coris struggled for a long time before ultimately concealing the matter.

"Yago, do you really remember nothing?" Coris asked.

The little boy with Black Hair looked a bit dazed, but he still shook his head. "I don't remember."

Coris sighed and told Yago not to leave the cabin. It was rarely used, dirty and messy, and had no other purpose than occasionally being used to store garbage.

"Coris, what are you doing here?" Captain Moses, squinting, walked up to Coris.

"Report, Captain! I, I, I just wanted to have a smoke!" Coris said somewhat flustered.

Coris knew all too well how cruel this captain was to the Eldians.

"Oh? You have cigarettes? Give me one too." The captain smiled and took one of Coris's cigarettes, then sauntered away.

Coris watched his captain's departing figure and breathed a sigh of relief. After hesitating for a moment, he threw the wad of cloth in his hand into the sea. The sea breeze blew the light brown cloth, and the symbol representing the Eldians could be faintly seen on it.

"Are those sacks also full of children? Then I..." Coris's heart trembled slightly. Unlike other Marleyan, Coris had always been very kind since childhood, and he only joined the army for national reasons.

In the Marley Empire's unbridled wars of colonial expansion, the Eldia Forces used as cannon fodder were no longer sufficient. As a result, the Marley Empire called on a large number of young Marley to join the army. Fortunately, he had a father who had made meritorious contributions in the army in his early years and managed to get assigned to the Marley Navy, which was almost risk-free.

Coris looked at the exiled Eldians, wondering why they were called descendants of demons.

"Quickly! Bring all these damned demon descendants up here!" Captain Moses stood atop a high platform, arrogantly directing his men to drag ashen-faced Eldians, both men and women, from the ships docked at the pier.

Coris followed behind, Rifle slung over his shoulder, watching. He knew these Eldians were members of the so-called Eldia Restorationists, an organization with negligible power but eager to change the status of the Eldians.

But the Eldians' faces were also filled with fear at the prospect of being exiled and turned into mindless Titan.

Looking up, Coris saw Paradis Island, the legendary Paradise where demons were exiled.

More than twenty Eldians, their hands bound, were led to the platform, where Captain Moses wore a terrifying smile.

"Demons! Look, this is your hell! Hahahaha." Below the platform stretched an endless desert.

Almost every Marley Soldiers had an Eldians kneeling before him.

Captain Moses laughed and kicked the Eldians in front of him, Eldians screamed and rolled down the sand dune.

"Hey! Run! Otherwise you'll be eaten by the Titan!" Captain Moses shouted at the Eldians had stood up. The strong will to survive made the Eldians stand up and run away frantically.

"Hahaha, do it!" At the command, one Marley Soldiers after another plunged their syringes into the back of the necks of the Eldians in front of them without hesitation, and then kicked them down.

Blinding Yellow Lightning accompanied the Eldians' screams, followed by ear-piercing crackling sounds and the deafening roar of electric arcs from below. Coris's eyes widened as the Eldians who had tumbled down the sand dune struggled violently in mid-air and on the ground, their bodies suddenly swelling up.

"Roar! Roar! Howl!" Terrifying roars echoed from the rising steam as bizarrely shaped Titan of varying heights twisted their bodies and chased after the Eldians had fled.

Curry felt a little short of breath. Those terrifying Titan seemed to make Coris understand why the Eldians were called demons.

"See that? These Eldians are demons! They deserve to go to hell!" Captain Moses said fiercely to his Soldiers.

"Captain! We've found a child!" A Soldiers's voice suddenly snapped Coris out of his daze. He couldn't believe it and turned to see the Black Hair Yago being held down by a Marley Soldiers.

Coris's lips moved a few times, but he didn't say anything.

All I saw was Captain Moses walk up to Yago, point to an Armband and say something. Then, Captain Moses, with a smile, went to Coris and handed him a syringe.

"Coris, you're really lucky. On your first visit here, you get to personally exile a demon's descendant. Here, this Eldia brat is yours!"

Yago's small, thin body was pushed down in front of Coris.

"No, I, Captain..." Coris stammered, looking at the syringe in his hand.

Captain Moses's face suddenly darkened. He said, "What are you hesitating for? The Eldians are all demons, what are you afraid of? Don't be a coward! Hurry up!"

The surrounding Marley Soldiers gathered around, jeering, "Hurry up! Coris, are you sure you can do it?" "What a coward!" "Haha, from now on we'll call you Coward Coris!"

Finally, with trembling hands, Coris aimed the syringe at Yago's nape. Suddenly, Yago turned his head, his dark eyes meeting Coris's. "Thank you for the bread, Brother Coris."

Coris's breath hitched, but his hand was gripped by another, which forcefully pressed down on the syringe, injecting the clear liquid into Yago's thin body.

Captain Moses, without batting an eye, kicked Yago off the platform.

Boom!! Yellow Lightning flashed, and a towering Black Hair Titan, at least fifteen meters tall, appeared before everyone.

"Wow, I didn't expect a brat to grow so tall," Captain Moses exclaimed.

Coris stared blankly at the Titan below. "Roar," the Titan shook its head, let out a deep roar, and ran off into the distance.