"Commander Doto Pixis!"
The soldiers of the Garrison Regiment all snapped to attention and saluted, as though they had seen their savior.
Commander Pixis ignored those formalities. He simply stepped forward and took from Armin Arlert the plan he had just devised to seal the gate with a boulder.
After listening to Armin Arlert's somewhat nervous but clearly organized explanation, a wild glint of a gambler's daring flashed through the wise, slightly drunken eyes of this old fox who commanded the entire southern Garrison Regiment!
He chose to trust Eren Yeager!
"All troops, listen up!"
Commander Pixis stood at the highest point of the wall and announced the upcoming gate-sealing operation to the soldiers below, who had completely lost their will to fight!
To reassure the troops, he even claimed that Eren Yeager was a biological weapon secretly developed by the government to fight the Titans!
But-
"Are you kidding me?!"
"You want us to stake humanity's future on a monster that could lose control at any moment?!"
The soldiers did not believe him at all!
Their morale had hit rock bottom!
Many had even begun secretly preparing to leave, return to their hometowns, and die alongside their families.
Pixis looked at the despairing faces below. He felt neither anger nor disappointment.
He took a deep breath, then delivered an extraordinary speech that rivaled even those of Erwin, commander of the Survey Corps!
"Anyone who wants to leave may go."
His voice was quiet, yet it reached every soldier's ears clearly.
"Let your parents, your brothers, and those you love share in those insurmountable fears and those humiliating memories of being ruled by the Titans!"
"And then..."
"You can hold the people you want to protect in your arms and go to hell together, amid endless terror!"
"But!!!"
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