One by one, the young men of the army discuss their military training and how they plan to become soldiers. One of them, a "maggot of Shiganshina" district, tells a young man named Jeankirstein that his parents have given him his name because they were "murdered" so that there would be less mouths to feed. The young man, who has come to the army to join the military police, tells the other men that he has come because he wants to become a soldier. When one of the men asks him why he eats potatoes, he replies that the woman has been eating them for five hours in a row. When the young man tells him that he saw a "colossus" on the wall, he says that it looked like it "broke a regular through to titan" . The other men are shocked to hear this, and they begin to tease him about joining the army.