After dinner, Zoe, who had originally planned to stay the night, seemed inexplicably weighed down and no longer wanted to remain there.
Zoe tried to give Uncle Drew some money, but he firmly refused, insisting that he could not accept such a large sum. So she tucked a thousand Marley Coins into a kitchen cupboard and gave the little child a small electric fan from the car.
Before leaving, Chen Si discovered that Uncle Drew had an underlying illness and casually cured him. Even he did not know why he had done it. He would personally bring devastating destruction to Marley, leaving countless people displaced. Perhaps he only wanted a little comfort for his conscience.
Chen Si knew full well that there was no possibility of reconciliation between Paradis Island and Marley.
The Marley Government had instilled a thousand years of hatred in the Marleyans, driving it deep into their bones. Marley would never leave Paradis Island alone.
Even if not for Paradis Island, Chen Si had to destroy Marley for Eren's sake, to make him abandon the path of the Rumbling-a path that would leave him abandoned by everyone he knew.
There was another reason. Though Chen Si did not want to admit it, if he were to unleash the Rumbling now and flatten everything beyond the island, he truly would find it hard to bear.
He knew there were far too many innocent people on the Marley Continent. Yet perhaps they were not entirely innocent either. Still, they did not deserve to die. Chen Si believed that colonizing Marley would be enough.
As long as Eren never used the Rumbling to commit genocide, the scene in his memories of Eren being beheaded could never happen. Even now, Chen Si still did not understand who had cut off Eren's