[KRUGER] Each of the Nine Titans has a name to describe it,
and that includes the one you're about to inherit from me.
[KRUGER] Throughout history,
this Titan's marched in the vanguard.
It has ever pushed forward, seeking freedom.
And for freedom's sake, it fights.
Therefore...
...it's called the Attack Titan.
[HANGE] Eren has commanded Pure Titans once in the past,
to escape from a dire situation.
[EREN] If someone with royal blood is turned into a Titan,
then it might be possible for me to use
the Founding Titan's powers while touching them.
But if the military knew it was a possibility,
what would they do to Historia?
[KRUGER] Build a family.
[GRISHA] Huh?
[KRUGER] Be it your wife, your child, or even a stranger.
Love someone in those walls.
If you can't do that, it'll only repeat itself.
This cruel history.
These foolish mistakes.
They'll repeat.
You have to see this through.
Complete your mission and save Mikasa and Armin.
Mikasa? Armin? Who are they?
I-I don't know.
They aren't from my memories.
♪ Opening Song ♪
[BRASS 59C] Our foe is the world.
[BRASS 59A] That information should stay in this room.
If it became public knowledge, there'd be chaos.
Yes, I concur.
Regrettably, we can't let this get out
till we fully grasp the situation.
Shall we deceive the people once more?
That's what you're suggesting, right?
That we keep our citizens complacent and blind,
as the late King did?
If we do that,
then by what ideals did we oppose King Reiss?
What right did we have to seize his crown?
Then let's announce it.
[COURT gasps]
It's only fair.
This is information that the people once knew,
before my predecessor stole it from them.
As the people of the walls, all of us will share the same fate.
Which is why we must now unite as one and work together.
[PEAURE] The monstrous Titans that have menaced us so,
are in fact, human.
They're known as Subjects of Ymir, or Eldians,
and we share a common ancestry.
When our King erected these walls 100 years ago,
he altered our memories using Titan powers,
so as to make us think that beyond the walls,
humanity had gone extinct.
In truth, there are countless people beyond the walls.
But when it comes to us Subjects of Ymir,
they believe that we are a race of devils.
[PEAURE] In the near future,
the enemy will invade our lands
in order to obtain the resources beneath us.
Their plans began five years ago,
when they used the Colossal Titan to breach Shiganshina.
I know the article's already published,
but is all of this as credible as you claim?
[HANGE] At the very least,
it addresses most of the doubts and questions
that we've had this whole time.
I know it's not the truth we would hope for,
but it's what we have.
'Preciate it.
[HANGE] So how are people taking the news?
It's a mixed bag.
Some just accept it.
Some laugh it off.
Some lash out at the military
and insist it's all a great conspiracy.
Just as you feared,
things have become somewhat chaotic.
Makes sense, but there's really no helping that.
It's our job to explore and report our findings.
The taxpayers can treat that information as they will.
That's something we've improved since the King was deposed.
I couldn't be prouder of the work you've done.
[HANGE] Huh?
Not only as a citizen of the walls, but...
...one working stiff to another.
Uh--thank you.
Uh-huh. Then why don't you fluff us up a bit
in the next article you write?
I have to ask, what happens to us now?
[ROY] We've looked at the Titans with fear, with hate,
with the wish in our hearts that they would disappear forever.
And now we've learned that this is
how the people of the world look at us.
We're not human to them.
We're monsters.
[ROY] They'll attack us, just as they did before.
Why wouldn't they?
[ROY] This hell will repeat itself
until the last of us are dead.
[COURT chattering]
[HITCH] Well, if it isn't the brave heroes of the walls.
[JEAN] Hitch. Surprised you came.
[HITCH] I just wanted to watch you guys get your medals.
I see.
Marlo was...
[JEAN] ...very brave, right to the end.
I know.
Isn't that right, Floch?
You should tell her.
Yeah, sure.
I rode right beside Marlo.
Just like me, he joined as an urgent recruit.
But unlike me, he was brave, and a natural leader.
Our situation was hopeless.
It seemed to us that the Scouts were on the verge of ruin.
Just as our fear was giving way to panic and despair,
he stepped in and inspired us to push on.
Yeah?
[FLOCH] He was an amazing person.
I know. And that's why...
Well, it's probably why he never listened to me.
But in the end,
I'm sure he wished that he'd never volunteered.
[gasps]
Thanks for that.
I'll laugh if you guys screw up the ceremony.
Hey! Why did you tell her that?
Because.
Somebody has to speak the truth around here.
Listen.
I heard about what you did, Floch--
how hard you fought to ensure that Erwin would be revived.
That's right.
You should be dead,
and Erwin should stand in your place.
I'm not alone in thinking that.
All of us do.
Everyone who read that report had the same thought.
Why wasn't Erwin the one that was saved?
What do you know about Armin to justify saying that?
Not a damn thing!
Yeah, you're right.
I'm not a childhood friend of his.
Hell, I'm not his friend at all.
But I can still tell you why he's the one standing here now.
It's 'cause you two got emotional
and Captain Levi did the same.
You made an irrational choice.
You treated that syringe like it was yours and wasted it!
He's alive because you think your friends are
more important than the rest of us.
[gasps]
All right. I think it's time you shut your mouth.
Eren.
I bet even at your core,
you're always completely certain that you're in the right.
That's why you wouldn't give up.
You're like a little kid who won't listen to reason.
Eren. Just leave him be, all right?
At least Mikasa acted like an adult out there.
I saw her give up in the end.
[MIKASA gasps]
[JEAN] Jeez! What the hell's wrong with you two?
Hey, Floch. Let's not do this
during a memorial for our fallen comrades.
What's done is done,
so there's no sense in dredging it up again.
As for you two.
You might not have acted against your superiors,
but you didn't try to stop Eren and Mikasa either.
You didn't do anything but watch.
[JEAN, CONNY gasp]
[FLOCH] Medals? For what?
A memorial for who?
When you guys start rebuilding the Survey Corps,
you'd better tell your recruits the truth,
or else you'll just end up with cowards like me in the ranks.
What the hell are we supposed to do
now that we've lost Erwin?
I know that I'm just fodder.
I understand that my life is expendable, but still.
I should get to call it like I see it...
...and to decide if this cause is worth dying for.
[gasps]
I think Floch is right.
[EREN, MIKASA gasp]
Commander Erwin's the one who should've been saved.
Maybe he could've turned this situation around.
I can't though.
[EREN] How can you be so sure of that?
I don't know what choice was right,
so I won't pretend to.
None of us know what the future might hold.
I mean, we can barely imagine.
Think about it.
If we rode straight from Wall Maria, what would we find?
The sea.
Yeah, that's right. We'd find the sea.
A place we've only dreamed about.
Water that glows like fire, fields of ice,
giant rocks that take days to climb!
How can we be sure of anything
when there's so much we haven't seen yet?
On the other side of the wall,
freedom is--
[LEVI] All right, you brats.
It's time. Line up.
[EREN] What did we find in that cellar?
[EREN] Was it hope?
[EREN] Or was it just despair?
Our enemy is tremendously powerful.
If nothing changes for the better soon,
that calamity will only repeat itself.
I'd give up my life in a heartbeat
if I was certain that in doing so,
I could make a difference.
[EREN] But...
...I'm not about to sacrifice Historia's.
[EREN] I can't tell anyone about this, so what should I do?
[GRISHA panting]
[GRISHA] I'm an Eldian who came from beyond the walls!
[GRISHA panting]
[GRISHA] I'm a Subject of Ymir just like all of you!
King of the walls! I beg you!
Kill the Titans attacking Wall Maria.
Please, before my wife and children are--
before thousands of your people are eaten alive!
Eren?
[NARRATOR] Hange's "executioner from hell,"
which had been crushing Titans day and night,
went silent just as the snow began to stick.
[NARRATOR] Months later, when the snow started melting,
the military formally announced that Wall Maria
had been cleansed of Titans at last.
[NARRATOR] By the time the elevators on Trost's walls
were freed for use,
and work had begun on paving the main road,
there were flowers in bloom,
and butterflies dancing between them.
[NARRATOR] Maria's refugees were finally permitted to
return to their homes
roughly a year after what had been called
"humanity's first victory" in Trost.
[NARRATOR] And so, six years after
the Colossal Titan's first devastating attack...
[NARRATOR] ...the Scouts resumed their expeditions,
exploring the world beyond the walls once again.
[LEVI] It's just as you thought, Hange.
Most of the Titans had already gone inside Wall Maria.
We've all but wiped them out,
and it only took us a single year.
Then let's push straight forward,
exactly as we'd planned.
[birds chirping]
[gasps]
A Titan!
So one actually showed up? Let's take a look!
It's over there.
[JEAN] Huh?
[CONNY] Doesn't look like it can move much.
Even with those limbs,
it still tried to drag itself to the wall, bit by bit.
[FLOCH] Hey! Careful!
It was shipped to paradise,
which means it's a fellow patriot.
[gasps]
[EREN] Let's go.
We're close.
Just hang on.
Is it okay to leave this here?
Shouldn't somebody kill it?
Shit!
[EREN] I'm sure of it.
This is the place where they'd turn the Eldians Titan.
[EREN] Which means, just up there...
[gasps]
--[CONNY yells] --[SASHA] Ow!
--[CONNY laughs] --My eyes! They burn!
[JEAN gasps] That's salty!
Woo, hoo, hoo!
Wow. Is this actually full of salt water?
Huh? What could that be?
Hey, Hange!
You shouldn't touch it, it might be poisonous.
[MIKASA gasping]
[ARMIN] You see, Eren?
It's just like I told you.
[ARMIN] A body of water so big
that merchants could spend their whole lives
and still not get all the salt out.
That's what I said we'd find,
and now it looks like I was right.
[EREN] Yeah.
The sea.
It's so damn big.
Yeah.
Hey. It's like you said, too!
On the other side of the wall--
[EREN] There's a sea.
And just across that sea,
freedom's waiting.
[EREN] That's what I always believed, at least.
[EREN] But I was wrong.
I know what's waiting across this sea now.
It's our enemies.
[EREN] Everything we've seen
has been exactly as it was in my father's memories.
[EREN] Hey.
If we did cross the sea, and we killed our enemies...
After that, would we finally be free?
♪ Ending Song ♪