บท 30: Who will win this fight?

"That fucker, I'm going to kill him with my bare hands." Bertholdt muttered in a crazed voice as he watched her attack Annie.

"Calm down, Bertholdt." Reiner held Bertholdt's arm tightly and pointed, "This time, you'll get your chance later, but you don't want to be seen with that expression on your face so calm down."

"I'm... I'm so sorry, I have to get out of here." Bertholdt said with a sad expression. He looked confused, his gaze was fixed on Takashi the whole time.

"Don't do anything stupid." Reiner said in a low voice.

Ymir looked towards Bertholdt and said, "What, is it so hard for him to see his love being brought down like that?"

Reiner flashed a nervous smile and said, "He feels bad, he has always been very respectful to women and it angers him that a man would fight so aggressively with a woman."

"Well, next time he can fight him instead of Annie, what an idiotic thing to be angry about." Ymir ignored Reiner and looked at Takashi with a smile.

"Cough! Cough!"

Annie coughed a couple of times, lay on the ground for a while and then slowly got up. Takashi was not completely lacking in emotional intelligence, so he stepped forward to help her up. At this moment, both of their training uniforms were dusty.

"Where did you learn this unreasonable boxing technique, was that your real strength?" Annie could feel that this set of movements belonged to a system and was quite irritable.

The collision at this moment almost made her turn away, and she secretly scolded Takashi for being a reckless man who didn't know how to love women, but at the same time she was a little curious.

Takashi smiled and said a few words superficially, "That was all my strength, the fighting technique is one that combines very fast footwork and lethal combinations, from what I saw your fighting style has disadvantage in that aspect."

Do I have to tell her that I was watching her for a while?

Annie was surprised, "Very convenient, the speed and combinations you were doing I couldn't stop them without taking direct hits."

Takashi was stunned for a moment, he knew that the boxing was very fast and his combinations could become some of the most effective against Muay Thai masters

"Yeah, I can't say I could beat you if I didn't use all my strength, you are someone with incredible fighting skills." Takashi said with a smile

Annie lowered her head and suddenly felt somewhat out of place. Why did she suddenly point out that she couldn't stop Takashi's combinations? She felt weird and at the same time different.

When he looked at the dust on Annie's body and some messy hair, Takashi couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

He reached out and smoothed Annie's messy blonde hair, which was a bit of an intimate move.

Annie was surprised for a moment and took a little while to react, she patted Takashi's hand and took a step back, her expression could be defined as unnatural.

Takashi was speechless, he really didn't think much of it at the moment, but then he felt it was a bit bold and regretted it, it seemed he had misunderstood.

There was an explosion of boos from the audience, and Bertholdt's face was even paler in the distance, he slowly returned to normal after seeing Annie take Takashi's hand away.

With a teasing expression on her face, Ymir said directly, "See, that's the result of trying to flirt after hitting a woman! Right, Sasha?"

"Huh?" Sasha was surprised when Ymir mentioned her name.

"Are you just going to stand there when your man is being taken away from you?" Ymir put her arm around Sasha's neck.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Takashi and I are just friends." Sasha said with a nervous smile.

"Really? You have to be smart, many others might get their claws on what can be yours in the future." Ymir let go of Sasha and patted her shoulder.

Sasha felt uncomfortable with Ymir's words, she was only looking at Takashi as a friend....

Hearing Ymir's sharp comments, Takashi didn't know how to respond, but fortunately, instructor Keith helped him when he approached the scene.

"Clap clap clap clap clap!"

Don't misunderstand the scene, these are just claps.

A burst of applause suddenly sounded from behind, and everyone looked back in bewilderment, only to find that Instructor Keith and several combat class instructors slowly approached.

Instructor Keith nodded his head to Takashi and Annie, then looked at everyone, "Did you look at it? People who were lazy in melee training made such an impressive display, aren't you ashamed? Melee training doesn't add up to points, but so many of you trained so hard. In the end all that time is not a waste for you. Now I ask you, for those of you who didn't take these classes seriously, can you do anything against people with those fighting skills?"

"You must remember that these are not just titans you must face in the future and you will not always have a weapon in your hands. Remember, practice rigorously and don't be lazy in the future."

Instructor Keith paused, pointed at Takashi and Annie and said, "If you have this level of combat, from now on I can pretend I don't see their laziness!"

Of course he knew Takashi and Annie were being lazy in training, but he didn't care because they didn't need to, he knew they had certain skills to take this training lightly, no matter how good the capes could be at hiding,nothing could escape under her hair.

Instructor Keith continued as he looked at the crowd with a serious expression, "We have taught you the basics of martial arts. Watch your fists, your elbows must be close to your chest. The instructors will teach you basic moves and nifty skills, ask for tips and practice harder. And as a result, you won't be beaten by thieves once you become a military policeman."

Instructor Keith left after speaking and many people bowed their heads. It is true that many people in this class are slacking off, and at least almost half of them have not trained seriously during all this time.

After that, the class became a little livelier. Eren and Armin switched to their opponents. Eren started asking Annie for advice. Of course, he also invited Takashi from time to time.

Although he learned alone, Takashi showed no mercy and almost taught him everything he knew.

Then, Eren's partner, Reiner, faced again and was surprised to find out that he gradually couldn't beat Eren.

One day at the training camp, Eren grabbed the wooden knife and stabbed straight at Annie at full speed, but Annie dodged with flexibility.

"Burst!"

Eren tripped over Annie's foot and fell to the ground.

"Cough! Annie, your punches are still fierce." Eren got up from the ground slowly.

"You're showing no mercy in your attacks, you're always rushing with all your might to hurt me, shouldn't you be nice to girls?" Annie's expression was slightly weak.

Eren disagreed, "I think Takashi is right. You shouldn't be merciful just because your opponent is a woman. Do your best to respect your opponent."

Annie's expression was a bit helpless, "Don't listen to his fallacies and heresies, did you learn this from him?"

"Takashi's boxing method is too difficult. I don't understand it very well, so I have to ask his advice all the time."

"You mean mine is easier to learn?" Annie asked with a cold expression, hearing no answer she remarked, "Really? Then you should study hard!"

Annie lunged at Eren and smashed her left fist into Eren's face. Eren's expression changed and he raised his hand to block. Annie suddenly changed her movements and bent down. She lowered her head, slipped her left arm under Eren's left arm, and used her other arm to hold Eren's neck tightly. Then he threw him to the ground with all his might, "By the way, I meant to tell you yesterday, learn to talk properly to women!"

Eren fell to the ground firmly and his face was reddened from being strangled hard.

"I want to learn this trick too, teach me how to do it!" At some point, Mikasa approached with a murderous look on her face.

Annie let go of Eren and turned her head to look at Mikasa, they looked at each other and their eyes were a bit cold.

Both of them are one of the best female soldiers in the whole class. In fact, they had noticed each other before, but they didn't communicate much.

Annie looked at the expressionless Mikasa, "Forget it, you don't look like you need to learn this, these moves are only useful for weak people."

Mikasa didn't speak, just looked at Annie blankly.

Eren has been learning martial arts from Annie recently, and has gotten a bit closer to her because of the demonstration fight she did with Takashi.

Although Eren often learns from Takashi, that nasty boy is a man, and Anne is different. She is not only powerful, but also a beautiful woman. So now she was very upset.

Annie adopted a fighting stance, "But I'm also curious if this will work on the beasts."

Mikasa was unmoved and looked at Annie coldly. Obviously, now there was about to be a fight of beauties... cough, of female soldiers.

Eren stood up, looked at Mikasa and Annie and muttered to himself, "Are they going to face each other?"

With a strong desire to survive, he unconsciously took two steps back, then felt that he had bumped into someone, he turned his head to look and discovered that a crowd of people watching the fun had gathered from some time ago.

Reiner looked at Mikasa and Annie who were facing each other, "Who do you think will win, Eren?"

The last time he went to challenge Mikasa, he was beaten badly. Unfortunately, he was also defeated by Annie in turn. He tried his best both times, but the results were less than ideal!

"Annie..." Marco said.

Marco's best friend Jean jumped up excitedly and said, "Mikasa, it must be Mikasa, I can bet my dinner tonight!"

Connie reached out and nudged Takashi, who was standing next to her, "Who do you think will win?"

Takashi had fought Annie and beaten her, but these results were not entirely clear to the audience.

Takashi pretended to be very calm and said, "Annie has technique, fighting experience and battle perception. However, Mikasa is strong, fast and overall is much stronger than Annie."

"If I'm honest I don't know, any result would generate controversy to this question."

In the anime and manga, this fight never happened, the author of the same work is said to have pointed out that the battle was stopped by an instructor shortly before it was to happen, so Takashi wasn't quite sure what was about to happen.

He looked at his empty hands and felt a little regretful, it would be nice to have something to eat.

Ignoring everyone's discussion, Mikasa slowly walked towards Annie. If she can beat Annie she will do it with all her abilities, her strength won't be able to hold back like Takashi did.