"Armin! You two!" Mikasa blushed and stepped back twice, disbelief written across her face.
"No, no! I didn't do anything last night!" Armin protested desperately, his face bright red.
"Nothing really happened last night!" Mina shook her head repeatedly, blushing.
Bang!
Jean brought his fist down on Armin's head.
"Ow!" Armin clutched his aching head and turned around, only to find Jean staring at him with tears streaming down his face.
"Jean?" Armin asked, utterly bewildered.
"Even you've become a bastard, Armin... boohoo..." Jean said, full of grief and indignation. Was there going to be anyone single left in the Survey Corps?
"Did those two really...?" Chen Si leaned toward Chris to ask, finding it hard to believe himself.
Chris rolled her eyes. "Of course not. Neither of them had stayed in a hotel before, so they were jumping at everything. Mina cried out when the hot water scalded her, and Armin rushed straight in. Mina was naked, so that was what happened. It was all pretty innocent, anyway. Armin's much better behaved than you!"
"What? That's no fun at all." Chen Si gave a dead-eyed stare at the news. How boring-there was no juicy gossip after all.
"Chris." Mike walked up to her just then.
"Hm?"
Chris's response was lukewarm. Her relationship with Mike had always felt like something kept going because of a momentary impulse, as though she were simply completing her "daily girlfriend quests." But Mike had saved her life, after all, so she had never rejected him and was trying to grow to like him. She just needed time.
Mike took a glasses case from inside his jacket, then said, looking shy and a little embarrassed:
"When you were sunbathing out near the Survey Corps' old headquarters, you said you wished you had a pair of