After taking out the diary again, everyone sat around the table.
Hange opened the diary. There was a photograph on the first page.
The photograph showed Dr. Grisha, a woman with short blond hair, and a child.
"Is this... a family photo?" Arthur asked, somewhat puzzled.
Eren also stared at the photograph in surprise.
"There's writing on the back." Hange turned the photograph over. A line of text was written on its back.
Hange read the words aloud.
"I came from outside the walls, where humanity lives in elegance. Humanity has not perished. I hope the first person to find this diary is one of my compatriots."
According to the diary, everything had to begin with Grisha.
Grisha had grown up in a country called Marley. One day, he secretly took his little sister out to see an airship.
Unfortunately, two guards who were slacking off discovered the siblings. Under Marleyan law, people who shared their blood were regarded by the Marleyans as descendants of the devil.
The descendants of the devil were the lowliest of all, which meant they had no right to enter that area.
One of the guards gave Grisha a vicious beating, then took his sister away.
But the next day, Grisha's sister was a corpse. She had actually died from abuse, and her body was even covered in bite marks.
Clearly, that vicious guard had set dogs on Grisha's sister and let them maul her to death. Afterward, the guard was never brought to justice.
Instead, he got off without any trouble, while Grisha's family was blamed for failing to keep their children under control.
That experience also left Grisha with severe psychological scars.
The diary also answered why Grisha and the others were called descendants of the devil.
Grisha had recorded what his father