Armin's grandfather smiled and took off his hat in greeting. Armin waved with a smile and came over. Chen Si took a bite and passed it to Mikasa, who took a bite too. They shared it bite by bite, a heartwarming sight.
They were on the boat now, and it had only been underway for a short while. Chen Si watched people on the bank keep scrambling aboard, with several even falling into the river.
Reiner was about to make his entrance... Chen Si clenched his fists, then relaxed them. This world was too cruel. This was war: every side was mired in it, and everyone was a victim.
I need to kill a Titan soon. Passing out after using my ability just once is way too dangerous. Chen Si was frantic. Mrs. Ackerman's death had left him feeling utterly powerless.
Boom! The gate to the Inner City shattered with a thunderous crash. Chen Si looked toward it and saw a Titan with close-cropped hair, covered in golden plate armor, appear before vanishing into the smoke.
Whoosh! Something unidentified suddenly flew through the air. As it fell, the people on the boat abruptly widened their eyes. It was a severed arm. Judging by the uniform on it, it belonged to a Garrison soldier. Under everyone's gaze, the arm plunged straight into the lake.
A child burst into tears at the gruesome sight. The child's mother regretted not covering her child's eyes, and an oppressive atmosphere settled over the boat.
"We're doomed! The Titans are going to eat all of humanity!"
"Is humanity going to go extinct?"
Cries of despair rose one after another across the boat.
Although Eren had not suffered the loss of his mother, he still gritted his teeth as he stared at the distant walls. He slammed his hand against the boat's railing.
"I'll drive every last one of them out! I'll take back our home," Eren said through clenched teeth.
Watching Eren say the same words as in the original story, but without their original emotional force, Chen Si suddenly felt as though he understood why Eren had made Dina Fritz eat his own mother.
He wondered whether Eren would still want to destroy the world later on. Somehow, it still felt hard to say.
Oh, right. What reason did the ending give for Eren making Dina Fritz eat Carla again? Chen Si propped his chin on his hand and began to think.
What was it again?
The Colossal Titan breached the wall...
It was Bertolt! Don't tell me Dina has already eaten Bertolt...
At the breach in Wall Maria, amid the dust and smoke, Bertolt stared wide-eyed as a blond, smiling Abnormal Titan approached him step by step. Oh no! Why is it an Abnormal Titan? I haven't gotten inside yet. What do I do?
Sweat kept streaming down Bertolt's face. He had just undone his transformation and could no longer transform again. Annie and Reiner had slipped inside amid the chaos the moment the wall broke. He had never imagined an Abnormal Titan would turn up at a time like this. Now he was trapped, with Titans outside clamoring to surge in.
Watching Dina Fritz reach out toward him, Bertolt closed his eyes. Is this how it ends? I can't accept this. I haven't even met up with Annie yet, he thought in grief and anger.
Suddenly, Dina's hand froze in midair. Bertolt vanished into thin air before her eyes. In her Titan form, Dina tilted her head, withdrew her hand, then turned and headed back inside the wall.
After waiting a long time without feeling the Titan grab him, Bertolt opened his eyes and found a dark-skinned child with black hair in a bowl cut standing beside him. Who was this?
"Stop standing there. Hurry inside. I can't keep this up for long." The bowl-cut boy pushed up the glasses on his nose. In fact, Dina Fritz, who had only gone a few dozen steps, was already about to turn back.
Bertolt was a fully trained Marley warrior, after all, and he quickly caught up with the bowl-cut boy's swift pace.