Step 6

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°•○● - Step 6 /T

Months have passed since Nihan died and Eren formed a close friendship with Sophie. Life was mostly the same in this period. Eren was eating-drinking, sitting in the park, and watching the sky.

Looking far away, it was easy to think about the difficulties the world was causing. And it became a habit for Eren. He was constantly asking questions to himself, then seeking answers while smoking.

Today he remembered something he thought when he came to this world nine months ago. He thought that his phone was overly valuable and didn't tell anyone about its existence (A normal smartphone). But now, he knew that his tamsung model phone was a low-tech product here.

As he entered John's Tech Store, Eren wondered if the owner of the store was really John. There was just an old man inside. But he didn't look like a John with that poor red hair.

[Is your name John, dude?]

Eren left his phone, which is far behind the technology of this planet, on the counter.

"Can you transfer the information in this device to my comm?"

The middle-aged man played with the phone a little as if he saw an old toy. He hadn't seen this kind of thing in a long...really long time. This old-school thing had no charge but he still loved studying it.

"This tech level is from a long time ago. It looks poor because it was made with cheap materials. Oh, I think it's out of mass production right? Do you still use them in the world you come from?"

Eren was not surprised by what this man said because everyone knew the story of him in town. He nodded his head to John. He didn't like to talk unless it was necessary.

"It may have a strategic value. I think after transferring the data, we should wrap it in gelatin nicely. It shouldn't be affected by water or something. You may go to a larger human city in the future and sell it. Even the software inside can give information about the world you come from. Its name was Earth right? Your planet's name."

Eren nodded his head again. He brought closer the old model Comm-3 Model watch on his left wrist and made a small payment.

Before he left the shop, his eyes were still on electric skates and skateboards. He loved the power and freedom of these tools but it was impossible to buy them yet.

..

He sat in the square with his cigarette in his hand and waited while looking at the park and the playground in it. As the work hour approached, he saw that sometimes small children ran, occasionally the elderly walk hand in hand in thick clothes or some lovers kiss. Even in this tiny town, people were living with their own families of loved ones. There was a unique culture in this apocalyptic town.

An there were many other interesting things about this world. For example, there were a lot of old people in this town. He recalled that Tris had said that in different locations of town there were simple jobs for the elders. And Eren found it logical.

These old people couldn't contribute to the fighting power outside. While many of them had spent their entire lives facing death, it would be unfair to send them now to death, just because they were experienced.

Eren wondered at that moment why Nihan was involved in a conflict outside the wall. He was also benefiting from his senior quota. He never needed to go anywhere near a wall or use a weapon except in the worst cases. He had money and a place to stay.

Eren tried to remember his conversations with Nihan. Then he smiled a little bit and shed a tear or two when he recalled the silly conversation they had spoken about women in Town. He began to look down at his feet as the cigarette smoke came out of his nose.

He didn't notice that at that moment three people were sitting on the other side of the square and watching him. Eren was busy thinking of Nihan's words in his head, trying to understand why he went to a life-threatening place. As he ran out of cigarette in his hand, he lit a new one with matches. Sometimes he looked at the clock on his comm and checked the work time.

Across the square, those watching him disappeared, along with normal folk who went to their homes in the evening. But one of them stayed behind, entered an alley on the other side of the playground, and sat in a secluded spot. With the headphones, she wore in her ear and a small listening device in her hand, if Eren spoke, she was ready to listen like an agent.

She watched Eren fall in thoughts without moving for hours. And observed him stand still like a statue, cut it off just for smoking, make love with a young girl and drink beer while on duty.

Looking from the outside, Eren was acting the same as everyone in town.

The observer watched and listened to Eren's every move until the morning. But she did nothing else. Then she followed Eren to his house and watched him go next door after a while. She wrote down his immoral relationship with a young blond neighbor but it wasn't important.

Eren's gaze, speech, and plans were what mattered. But she had a hard time analyzing personality on someone so quiet.

After a minute when she was on her way to report the night to her boss, Eren pulled the curtain from the window with his sexy neighbor Townsen in his arms. After stared from behind the spy-woman Eren took the blonde and kissed her strongly. He didn't even close the curtains when he lies down onto the blonde and starts biting her neck.

..

Tris, Sophie, and Eren were on the inside of the wall. They were in the group of twenty people. Among the people who gathered, Sophie and Eren were getting special training from Tris. The soldiers were also accustomed to this routine that has lasted for two months.

Eren did some warm-up moves before lifting weights. He stretched his body to degrees he could never have done before. When his body temperature seemed to rise slightly, he made sit-ups and push-ups and jumped rope for a few minutes. When everything was over, he looked at his muscular body and smiled.

"In my old world, I went to an expensive gym for a year. I behaved and did right everything correctly. All my daily routine and what I ate were suitable for that sportive life. I worked with special supplements and even with a coach. But somehow my body wasn't getting in shape. Then I asked a professional doctor who is interested in sports, about my body. He said that my body-type was very resistant to change. My luck was I wasn't fatty or I could never lose weight.

Two years passed and I never thought my body would change so quickly on another planet."

Eren became proud after looked at his muscles that were getting more and more muscular and didn't return to their former shape after work-out.

His old body wasn't getting into shape no matter how hard he tried, but now it was resistant to reverting to his former body after being muscled with the gene vaccine. Every muscle that came out of Eren's while he was working-out, remained at its best shape and never disappeared when his body cooled down. It was a strange situation. Yet, thanks to this weirdness, Eren had a body that he should have in a year in the time of two months.

"Gene vaccines can't find and destroy your defective genes or just find and improve your beneficial genes. It an all-around upgrade. So your muscles have improved in every way.

This means that a bad feature in your muscles has begun to work for your benefit. You're lucky. Usually, bad traits tend to disappear or stop working because of other dominant genes.

Tris was a little delusional while Sophie was talking about genes. She was looking at Eren's body and his happy expression. There was a heart shape in her eyes. But she woke up with the end of Sophie's explanation.

Tris threw her rifle to Eren's head. They watched the unprepared teenager fall to the ground with the gun. She felt embarrassed for some reason. Her feelings for Eren were now more than friends with benefits would have.

"Always be prepared. In combat moments, your friends will throw weapons or ammunition at you. Or you have to be prepared for various unexploded bombs dropped by your enemies!"

Eren closed the safety of the long rifle and made it ready to fire.

Now, he knew how to use various guns. He pressed the button of the optics that helped him auto-aim. He didn't open it, on the contrary, he closed the automatic aim.

During the training, he couldn't get help from technology. The main purpose of the training wasn't these high-tech weapons, but to specialize in older model weapons with no shortage of bullets. For a town in this size, the production of high-tech bullets was a troublesome issue.

But it still seemed strange to him that these weapons had features that weren't in his old world. Auto-aim was a dream for Earth and its wars. Yes, it was using too much energy from batteries on the guns, but still, it was worth the cost.

He raised his gun and took the position.

Two months ago, he didn't even have as much experience as a regular citizen of the town. But now he could take a perfect position with his rifle, looking like a police officer or a soldier.

"Fire at will!"

With Tris's voice, both Eren and Sophie started shooting at metal targets in the training area at the same time.

Eren wasn't very successful in hitting his targets at first days. Sophie was much better than him. After two months, he could see the improvements. Almost every shot now hit the big target. But It was still very difficult to get the bullet where he wanted. And a perfect precise shot was impossible to him.

He smiled when he remembered the people who shot everything perfectly in the movies. Movies from Earth were deceptive in many ways.

..

Eren did target practice by taking short breaks for half an hour.

When the training was over, he was walking to the showers in the facility. But he saw Sophie wink at him. It would feel so good to take a shower with this naughty young girl.

"Eren YILDIZ!"

Eren hadn't heard of his last-name for a long time. He quickly turned around. He saw Lara flying up from outside of the facility to the inside of the wall.

"La-". Right now they were friends, so he was going to say Lara's name when he saw that others were walking towards him. As Lara descended from the air, a senior commander accompanied by a few soldiers approached them.

Eren was relieved to see Sophie waiting by the door and watching them. At worst, Sophie would call Tris for help. But nothing bad happened.

"Commander Lara has recommended you personally. You wanted the real experience of danger and volunteered to witness outside. Right?"

Eren stepped forward and gave a strange salute unique to the soldiers of this planet. He answered in a formal voice. "I cannot understand the dangers I am prepared for without seeing the outside, sir. I believe that I should see outside."

He felt that the commander was a strict man in his neat military clothing, but not as tough as Lara. Because the black-haired old commander was smiling.

"I heard your story. We have a night mission if you want to participate. It doesn't involve any conflict. We will just go on a routine trip and update the map, and the rest is guarding your post."

Before Eren could say anything, he noticed that Sophie, who appeared behind him, was also greeting. The duo was simultaneously involved in this task and joined the group. Minutes after Lara whispered a few things to Eren's ear, he had a shower alone and wore high-tech military clothes.

He felt there was something electronic in his jet-black clothes, which were said to be camouflage. Eren wanted to press the small keys on his wrist and see the changes on the suit. But he didn't dare because the dress looked very expensive. These clothes were the town's private property.

When it got dark, Eren and Sophie joined the traveling group of seven people. The old smiling commander gave a good lecture to them, but he wasn't participating in this mission. Among the seven soldiers, they had a middle-aged superior. Eren and Sophie, on the other hand, would do nothing, just accompany them without any problems and listen to their superiors.

The group came out of a small tunnel through an underground gate that Lara personally opened. Passing on the other side of a dusty cover, Eren saw outside of the town where he was teleported almost a year ago. His eyes searched for the spot where he first teleported, but that place was in a different direction.

Before the group took their first steps, Eren turned to the foreign soldier next to him to asked the most important question in his mind.

"Can we smoke?"

The whole group, including Sophie, strangely looked at Eren. Eren sighed and started walking as he got his reply. He wasn't happy with the answer.

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