Bai Yu drove leisurely down the road. It was a fairly long trip from the Survey Corps to the New Recruit Training Base where Xiate was stationed.
Walking would have taken ages, so he had simply driven instead. He was driving Kali's car, using the keys he had taken off her.
About ten minutes later, he parked some distance from the New Recruit Training Base.
He got out and walked to the entrance, showed his identification to the soldier on guard, and was allowed through. The base had been rebuilt on the original site of the Training Corps headquarters from the Titan era. Traces of the old place still lingered, but all the buildings had been reconstructed.
Neither the place nor the people were the same anymore.
Bai Yu gazed down at the recruits training below, momentarily lost in thought, as though something had come back to him. But then he gave his head a gentle shake, and that slightly weary look returned to his face.
He really was tired. Even now, after the downfall of Marley and the Continental Nations, he did not seem to have improved. He had always been like this. In his own words, it was a lingering consequence of overtaxing himself mentally in the Training Ground back then.
The recruits seemed to be running laps around the training field. A young woman stood calmly on a nearby slope with her arms folded, silently watching them.
Below her, an instructor kept blowing his whistle, its shrill blasts punctuated by loud reprimands.
The woman on the rise seemed to notice something. She lifted her eyes slightly, looked to one side, and spoke coolly.
"Can I help you?"
She turned her head slightly to look at Bai Yu. Her gaze seemed as detached as ever, but a closer