Ymir's eyes remained vacant as she gazed at the desert world before her. There was no telling what she was thinking.
But Bai Yu, beside her, seemed to know. He muttered under his breath.
"Death belongs to the capitalist class, not the working class. There are no slaves in this world."
But Ymir acted as though she had not heard him.
"Huh?"
"Nothing."
He did not even believe it himself. (This refers to the outcome.)
Scene after scene began to play out, showing an era two thousand years in the past.
A slave girl belonging to King Fritz had been framed and hunted by the king's soldiers. At the brink of death, she came into contact with a power far beyond that era: the Spinal Worm, which could turn people into Titans.
Yet after gaining that power, the girl returned to the king's side, helping him wage war across the land, building bridges high in the mountains and carving roads through winding terrain.
The power in her hands crushed every formidable enemy. In the end, the king granted her the honor of bearing his children. After she gave birth, someone from an enemy nation feigned surrender and tried to seize the chance to assassinate the king, but she took the fatal blow for him.
Even after her death, the king still needed her power. He made the children she had borne consume her corpse and inherit the power of the Titans, continuing to wage war far and wide for the Eldians.
Because the king needed her, she went after death to "Paths," the source of all Eldians. There, she continued making Titans and sending them out through "Paths."
Ymir "told" those memories one passage at a time.
She and Bai Yu watched quietly from the side. This time, he did