E40 - Old Story

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    "Old Story"
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    I was born on a small farm in
    the northern region of Wall Rose.
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    It was on land owned by
    the noble family of Reiss.
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    As far back as I can remember,
    I was helping around the farm.
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    But, my mother was always reading books
    and not once did I see her doing housework.
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    She was a beautiful woman...
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    At night, someone would
    come for her in a wagon...
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    ...and she'd go off to
    the city wearing fancy clothes.
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    For me, that was just life as I knew it.
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    After I learned to read and write,
    I picked up a book to imitate my mother.
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    Only then did I know how alone I was.
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    In all the books, parents cared
    about their children.
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    They talked, hugged, fought...
    or so the stories went.
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    I had never experienced any of those things.
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    One day, out of curiosity,
    I decided to try hugging my mother.
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    I just wanted to see what
    kind of face she would make.
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    Mother!
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    She ended up shoving me away, but that was
    the first thing my mother ever did to me.
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    That's why it made me so happy.
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    If only I had the courage...
    to kill the girl...
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    Those were... the first words
    my mother said to me.
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    After that, she left the house
    and began living somewhere else.
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    And then, five years ago...
    One night just days after Wall Maria fell...
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    For the very first time, I met my father.
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    Nice to meet you, Historia.
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    My name is Rod Reiss... I'm your father.
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    That man... He was the lord
    ruling the land we lived on.
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    My mother I hadn't seen in years
    looked terribly frightened.
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    Historia... You'll be living with me now.
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    This is a problem, Lord Reiss.
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    Let's avoid acting rashly now.
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    Did the fall of Wall Maria
    make you a little scared?
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    Mother!
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    No! I am not the mother of that girl!
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    She has nothing to do with me!
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    Oh? Is that true, Lord Reiss?
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    Do you really have nothing to do
    with this woman or child?
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    So be it...
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    These two here have nothing to do with me.
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    I thought that might be the case.
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    What?! What are you...?
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    You never existed.
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    You never worked at the estate either.
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    Nobody knows who you are.
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    That's not... Master!
    Please tell them that's not true!
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    Mother...
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    If only...
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    If only I never had you!
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    Those were my mother's last words.
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    Wait.
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    Moments before I was to be killed,
    my father proposed an idea.
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    That if I were to be sent far
    away and live out a quiet life,
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    perhaps they could spare me.
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    Your name will be Christa Lenz.
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    Please forgive me for everything.
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    In order to protect you,
    I had no other choice.
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    F-Father...
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    I was always thinking about you.
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    I've always dreamed of the day
    I could hold you like this.
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    You're special... Royal
    blood runs through you.
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    It... does?
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    That's right, Historia.
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    Our Reiss family is the true royal line.
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    And because you're special, you're the one
    and only person who can save all of humanity.
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    Now, let us go, Historia.
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    To the place it all began...
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    Sannes!
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    Are you... all right?!
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    Hey, don't tell me...
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    You didn't tell them anything, right?
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    Our loyalty to the King is more--
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    Sannes!
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    I can't stand to hear your voice anymore!
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    You've betrayed me since the very beginning!
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    To think how I trusted you!
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    Sannes! He never told us anything.
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    In fact, we never questioned him.
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    We threatened Ralph with a knife and
    forced him to read this script that I wrote.
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    That's all.
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    Then...
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    I...
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    I betrayed the King?
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    Y-You devils!
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    I'm not trying to deny it, but... I'm sure
    Nick thought the same thing about you.
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    That's why I said what I did.
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    That I was beginning to feel sorry for you.
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    Look at how pathetic you are!
    Grown-ass men wailing and crying!
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    It serves you right, morons!
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    See how you like spending the rest
    of your life shitting in a tiny cell!
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    See you.
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    Next in line...
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    This role of ours... There's an order to it.
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    When one's role is done,
    another steps in to start the act again.
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    And thus, the world can never be rid of it.
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    Good luck, Hange.
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    Section Commander?
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    Sorry... I made a mess.
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    There was a cockroach.
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    I see... Just one kick of yours
    should've blasted it to bits.
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    It's about time you fill them in.
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    Oh... Yeah, I should.
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    Eren will be eaten?!
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    Yeah.
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    Eren remembered a conversation
    that went like this...
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    Do you resent me for it?
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    I'm not sure...
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    I... don't know.
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    You probably didn't want
    to eat a human either...
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    Speculating based on that, Ymir was a
    Titan wandering alone outside the wall.
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    Bertholdt, Reiner, and Annie
    had a comrade that she ate.
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    When a Titan eats someone,
    they don't change back into a human.
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    But, what if a Titan ate
    one of Reiner's comrades?
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    They're humans who can transform into Titans.
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    In other words, if a Titan eats someone with
    that power, they revert back into a human.
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    Furthermore, they obtain
    the power of those they eat.
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    In the other day's battle, Reiner was
    throwing Titans at Eren, who had escaped.
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    Eren has the power to
    control Titans with his scream.
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    He was trying to snatch
    that power with those Titans.
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    In that case, Eren is just a vessel
    who is bound to be replaced.
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    Basically, if the government has a Titan
    of their own, they'll be the one to eat Eren.
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    Calm down.
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    Even if you go on a rampage,
    they're not going to give Eren back to us.
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    Anyways, we head for
    the lands of this Rod Reiss.
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    Get ready to leave at once.
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    Yes, sir!
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    I'll go tell Erwin what we learned
    about the Reiss family.
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    I'm sure he's waiting to hear from us.
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    Right.
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    We can meet up on Reiss' land.
    Hear from me at the usual spot.
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    Excuse me. Commander Erwin,
    Pyxis is here for you.
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    The commander?
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    Yes, he wants to see you.
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    Let him in.
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    Sir!
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    Sorry about the late visit.
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    I just couldn't stand still, you see.
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    I finished reading your letter.
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    I came with some thoughts of my own.
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    But, first I need to ask... Are you serious?
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    Yes.
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    In order to retake Wall Maria,
    we'll overthrow the government.
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    I knew this would happen one day.
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    This cramped world can only
    hold people for so long
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    before they begin to lash out.
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    And when that time came, I'd have to
    point my gun at the King as well.
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    If my guess proves correct, this plan will not
    require military forces to take action.
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    Nor should it be necessary for anyone to die.
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    Oh? Do tell me then.
    Is such a method possible?
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    However, the groundwork for this
    to happen is not quite ready.
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    And if everything is not in order, me and
    everyone else will be hanged, no doubt.
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    Oh, that's all?
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    In other words, it's another huge gamble.
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    It seems I may be a betting man.
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    The news should come shortly.
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    Until it arrives, I'd like you to hear
    a story regarding my childhood.
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    Hmm?
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    My father... He was a teacher.
SIGN    "Information Available for Public Disclosure" "Intelligent Titans (with power to transform)" "An Intelligent Titan is conceived when a Pure Titan lacking intelligence consumes some other Intelligent Titan. By consuming an Intelligent Titan, it gains consciousness as well as the consumed Titan's powers."
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    What in the world?
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    Section Commander, that was--
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    Yeah, I know.
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    Excuse me!
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    Erwin...
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    I thought as much.
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    My gamble was right after all, Commander.
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    One of the First Interior Squad confessed.
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    The current royal family is a fraud.
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    Reiss is the true royal family.
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    My word!
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    Right now, Squad Levi is underway
    rescuing Eren and Historia.
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    Once they're recovered, we'll have
    Historia Reiss enthroned as Queen.
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    As one possessing the true royal blood.
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    And you'll force the makeshift
    King to relinquish the crown?
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    To the true Queen...
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    Without spilling any blood,
    we will overthrow the government.
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    And in front of the people, we'll reveal that
    the system as they know it has all been a lie.
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    Very well. I'll back your plan.
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    However, whether or not it should be
    carried out is not for us to decide.
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    You understand that, don't you, Erwin?
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    Of course, Commander.
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    Did anything come of the Reiss investigation?
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    I found out as much as I could.
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    From all that I learned,
    one curious incident stuck out.
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    Incident?
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    Commander Erwin! The Interior Squad
    demands you turn yourself in!
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    They're making a scene in the middle of
    the city that you organized a murder!
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    It seems the enemy's been
    making plans of their own.
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    Hange, get far from here.
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    Huh?! What are you planning to do?
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    I need to be the face of the Scout Regiment.
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    You should act at your own discretion.
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    Furthermore, the next commander
    of the Scout Regiment...
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    Hange Zoë, it's you.
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    The Scouts are in your hands.
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    Hey, he's here.
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    It's Erwin.
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    I take it you know who this is, Erwin?
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    The boss of Reeves Company.
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    Mr. Dimo Reeves.
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    Yesterday, and in this very place,
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    Eren Jaeger was abducted
    by underlings of Reeves.
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    However... that was all a mere scheme
    between the Scouts and Reeves Company
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    in order to evade handing over
    Eren Jaeger to the government.
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    And then... when Reeves was no longer needed,
    they killed the man to keep him from talking.
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    The murderer is still at large
    and must be holed up with Eren.
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    What a convenient story that is.
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    What you scoundrels are doing...
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    It's the same as monopolizing
    Eren's power for yourself.
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    And that act violates clause six
    of the Humanity Charter.
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    You know which that one is, don't you?
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    To prioritize one's own gain over the safety
    and longevity of humanity, yes?
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    That's right.
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    Therefore, in acknowledgment of violating
    said law, all Scouts are to be apprehended!
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    Old man...
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    You think the fat cats
    will finally be satisfied?
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    I bet Reeves would be glad to know
    he proved useful in the end.
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    There's still Levi to deal with...
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    I told you, he'll show up on his own.
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    We'll crush him when the time comes.
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    What do we do now?!
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    May I have a moment?
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    Hmm?
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    Get away from my husband, you lowlife!
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    In the battle of Trost District,
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    Mr. Reeves delayed the evacuation
    by trying to take along his wealth.
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    So what?! Are you saying he deserved to die?!
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    However... given the current situation
    with Trost on the verge of collapse...
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    He planted his feet in the city,
    and using any means possible...
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    ...he aided those with no place to go
    while striving to revive the city.
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    Except, by somebody's hands
    that dream was extinguished.
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    I promise you... I will avenge him.
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    My father... He was a teacher.
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    One day, we were learning history.
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    To protect themselves from the Titans,
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    humanity took refuge within the walls
    and realized 100 years of peace.
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    In doing so, any records of our
    earlier past were lost for all of time.
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    That's what we're all taught.
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    However, I... having doubts of my own,
    asked my father a question.
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    My father evaded answering the question
    and ended class as normal.
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    But...
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    After we got home,
    my father answered my question.
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    He said the history books
    given by the government
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    were full of contradictions and mysteries.
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    My father continued to tell me more,
    and even as I child, I was astounded.
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    There's a reason he didn't tell
    that story to the entire class,
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    but I wasn't smart enough to know.
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    I'd been telling the other
    kids my father's story,
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    and one day, the Military Police
    came to question me.
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    My father didn't come home that day...
    He died in some accident in a faraway town.
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    Based on what I knew,
    my father was killed by the government.
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    One hundred and seven years ago...
    Humanity that fled into these walls...
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    The King had altered their memories
    to make them easy to rule.
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    That was my father's theory.
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    Oh? Because if they hadn't done that,
    civilization within the walls could never succeed?
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    Yes.
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    Ever since I was a child,
    I've been thinking...
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    Why did my father have to die for
    nothing more than getting close to the truth?
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    Even those in the government would
    believe what they're doing is just.
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    However, I realized one thing about them...
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    What they're trying to protect is not humanity,
    but their gardens, houses, and lands.
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    Rather, if anyone dares
    threaten their authority,
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    they'll be extinguished, whoever they are.
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    In the end, there was nothing
    to justify my father's death.
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    My father was killed by human greed...
    And by the foolishness of his own son.
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    Before I knew it, my father's theory
    became truth inside my heart.
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    Now, my mission in life... It's to prove
    my father's theory once and for all.
[20:54] ---
    The Scout Regiment murdered a civilian!
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    Some of them have fled capture!
    They're still on the loose!
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    If you spot any of these persons,
    report it immediately!
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    Told you, didn't I?
[21:07] ---
    They're the ones who had that Titan battle here
    and destroyed practically everything!
[21:12] ---
    I bet they're planning to use that
    Eren monster to wipe us out!
[21:19] ---
    Captain, we bought the supplies.
[21:22] ---
    The Military Police were handing out these.
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    If this is true, the
    Scouts will be disbanded.
[21:30] ---
    I heard they'll be hunting for us tonight.
[21:33] ---
    They're also putting guards
    on all the vital roads,
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    and it's impossible to get
    through without a pass.
[21:39] ---
    Captain, what now?
[21:41] ---
    If we don't hurry, Eren...
[21:43] ---
    Calm down.
[21:44] ---
    They're using a wagon.
[21:47] ---
    It'll take at least a day
    to reach Reiss' territory.
[21:51] ---
    We'll have to use that time
    to come up with a plan.
[21:54] ---
    Captain, I hear footsteps.
[21:58] ---
    They're coming this way.
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    Those who throw away their life...
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    Those who believe in justice...
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    Those who protect the city...
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    Courage which swells up from memories
    gives people the courage to fight.
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    Next episode: "Trust."
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    "Trust"
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