This is...
...Dad's memory?
He sure looks like he's enjoying his life.
For someone who pushed his friends and his previous family into hell
and left them down there.
Just what are you trying to do?
I will show you until you understand.
Just how Grisha Yeager brainwashed his son
and planted those seeds of nationalism in you.
For as many times as it takes.
Good for you, Grisha.
You get to completely forget about your first family
and have a happy life while no one's here to blame you for it.
Even if you've completely forgotten that you had a son before.
Let's go.
Next.
Look, Eren.
This is what he really is.
He used his position as a doctor to get close to those with power.
All to pin down the King of the Walls and steal the Founding Titan.
Of course, if he slips up, his wife and son will be in danger.
But he continues to take that risk regardless.
Do you know why?
Because this shitty old man was a piece of crap who would throw his family
into a pile of shit to restore Eldia.
I see now.
I was wrong.
I shouldn't have been born.
I'm free from my brainwashing now.
We have all the time we need.
No need to rush.
No way...
I can't believe he found it so quickly.
What's this place?
The King of the Walls' base.
It can't be.
Grisha should be stealing the Founding on the day the walls were destroyed.
It's still years away.
I see.
It seems he did love his second son.
Enough to put his mission as a restorationist aside.
Nothing like he did with me.
I guess he has learned from his past failure.
But as a matter of fact, you do exactly as he wanted.
You're no longer your true self.
You will know eventually.
I'm sorry...
...Zeke.
Zeke?
Zeke?!
Are you there?
Don't be ridiculous.
How could that bearded old man be Zeke?
It's just a dream.
This is...
Next.
We're going to the next memory.
Zeke.
♫ Rumbling, Rumbling, it's coming ♫
♫ Rumbling, Rumbling ♫
♫ Beware ♫
♫ Coming for you ♫
♫ All I ever wanted to do was do right things ♫
♫ I've never wanted to be the king, I swear ♫
♫ All I ever wanted to do was save your life ♫
♫ I've never wanted to grab a knife, I swear ♫
♫ Tearless, fearless, burning, burning ♫
♫ You tell me what have I missed ♫
♫ Still wandering in the deep mist ♫
♫ If I lose it all, slip and fall ♫
♫ I will never look away ♫
♫ If I lose it all, lose it all, lose it all ♫
♫ If I lose it all outside the wall ♫
♫ Live to die another day ♫
♫ I don't want anything ♫
♫ I'm just here to... ♫
♫ Beware ♫
Memories of the Future
You're nine now.
Grisha has loved you and raised you freely.
So you weren't brainwashed by our father.
That's why I told you it's useless.
We never had to wander in his memories for years.
If so, then why did you betray me?
Without being told anything,
he passed his Titan down to you and you kept fighting as he wished.
Eren.
Why do you refuse to end this conflict?
What were you planning to do with the power of the Founding?
I...
Since the moment I was born...
I've always been myself.
It appears that you thought I'm the same as you,
but you're wrong.
If someone tries to steal my freedom away,
I won't hesitate to take theirs.
It's not because the old man told me to.
I've always been like this since I was born.
Since you were born?
The pitiful younger brother you're looking for doesn't exist.
Neither does the younger brother who shares the same wound as you.
What I see here...
...is a man who doesn't know any other way to define himself
beside continuing to deny his father's wish to restore Eldia.
A pathetic man still haunted by his dead father.
If so, this man is grateful to his father.
For his act opened his son's eyes,
ultimately saving the world from the danger Eldia poses.
In a sense, this father is the man who saved the world.
Ironic, isn't it?
Eren.
It's warm...
Listen, Eren.
The power of the Founding Titan is within my hand.
I can carry on the euthanasia plan whenever I want.
But...
I will never abandon you.
Just like what Mr. Ksaver did for me.
Before I save the world...
...I want to save you.
"The humanity..."
"has not perished," huh.
What grand words he left behind.
I'm home.
Welcome back.
Ah, Eren. It's pretty rare for you to work that hard.
Y-Yeah.
What is it!
Your ears were red. That's the proof that you're lying.
You made Mikasa help, didn't you?
Eh? Are you going out, dad?
Is it work?
Yeah. Treatment in the inner wall.
It'll take around 2 or 3 days.
Eren said he wanted to get into Survey Corps.
Mikasa! I told you not to say...
Eren!
What are you thinking?
Do you understand how many people that left the walls have died?
I understand!
Then why?!
Eren.
Why do you want to go outside?
I want to know.
About the world beyond the walls!
I don't want to spend my whole life inside the walls without knowing anything!
Moreover.
If there's no one carrying it out,
the lives of those perished will become meaningless!
I see.
The ship will sail soon. I'm going now.
Wait, Dear! Please persuade Eren!
Carla.
Human curiosity is not something that can be suppressed by words.
Eren.
When I come back,
I'll show you the basement I've been keeping a secret about.
Really?
Have a safe trip!
I'm an Eldian from outside the wall!
Just like you...
I'm a Subject of Ymir!
King of the Wall!
Please kill the Titans who are coming to destroy the wall!
Before my wife and children...
and all other people of the wall get eaten!
We must not run away from our sin.
The time has come for us Subjects of Ymir to face judgment.
Man is far too weak in the face of such massive power.
The tragedy of the Titan War opened my eyes...
That the power of Titan must be protected from the hand of people.
If the power of the Founding were to again fall into the hands of the weak...
the world would be turned to hell once again.
In order to protect the world, we must accept our sins.
Our only choice is to perish.
I feel I could get along with that lady.
But this family will soon be slaughtered by Grisha.
You said you've seen this memory before, right?
And that made you lose all hope in our father...
Was that also a lie--
My house is right near the broken wall,
and that's where my wife, son, and daughter live!
No one within the wall knows about the sin our ancestor has committed!
Because you took away their memories!
Is having them eaten by Titan without knowing anything what you call atonement?
No.
No matter how hard we reflect on ourselves now,
we cannot give back the lives we Eldians have taken away.
However...
We can make sure never to take another life outside the wall again.
So long as we remain ignorant and accept the world's rage...
We Eldians will be the only ones who have to die.
There's no point in trying to convince me.
And...
Even if you take the power of the Founding Titan from me,
You won't--
I know.
That I can't use the power of the Founding.
Eh?
The Nine Titan each has their own characteristic.
Including the one within me, the Attacking Titan!
From long ago, the inheritor of the Attacking Titan never obeyed others.
And I know why.
It's all been to resist the self-righteousness of the king!
Yes...
We've all been led to this memory for this one moment.
The Attacking Titan can see the memories of its future inheritors.
In other words...
it is capable of knowing the future.
The future?!
What does that mean, Eren?
The Attacking Titan's characteristic...
I've never heard of it.
I also know that you're not aware of it.
Because even if you're part of the royal family, the vow to renounce the war...
...keeps you from using the Founder's full power as well!
I will eat the Founding...
...and end the royal bloodline right here and now!
That is the future already set for us!
Run!
I can't do it.
I...
I could never kill children...
I am...
a doctor who saves life.
Impossible...
Grisha certainly took the Founding and killed the entire royal family!
It has to!
The past... can't be... changed...
What are you doing, Frieda?!
Hurry up and kill that man!
The Founding is invincible!
Kill that man!
We must not let that man alive!
Kill him now, Sis!
He will destroy our paradise!
Frieda! Protect everyone!
- Sis! - Frieda!
What are you doing?
Stand up, Dad.
Did you forget?
The reason why you're here.
Isn't it to get revenge for your little sister who was eaten by dogs?
For your fellow restorationist, for Dina, for Kruger...
You have to avenge them.
And keep going forward.
Even if you die, and even after you die.
This is...
the story...
...that you started, isn't it?
I killed them!
I even crushed the little children!
With my own hands!
Eren!
I killed the Reiss family!
All but their father!
Are you happy now?!
Is this what you wanted?!
Will Eldia really be saved with this?!
Why won't you show me everything?
The walls being destroyed...
The day it happens...
Calra's safety...
Was this really the only way?
You're there, aren't you?
Zeke.
From here on, you won't get what you wanted.
The one who will is Eren...
What... are you saying--
I saw... Eren's memory of what happens next.
But I never thought it would be something so terrible...
Zeke!
Is that you?
You've really grown!
I'm sorry!
I was a really terrible father!
I've put you through so much suffering...
Zeke!
I love you!
I should've spent more time with you!
Dad...
Zeke!
Stop Eren.
♫ The iron bullet is the proof of justice ♫
♫ If it pierces through, I'll be closer to being a hero ♫
♫ But when I close my eyes and touch ♫
♫ I notice that the devil was no different from me ♫
♫ Why am I not good, but he's okay? ♫
♫ The only thing that separates us was the wall ♫
♫ Don't lament on the fate that we're born ♫
♫ Because we're all free ♫
♫ If only I have wings like birds ♫
♫ I can go anywhere I want ♫
♫ But if I don't have a place to return to ♫
♫ I'm sure I can't go anywhere ♫
♫ I don't want to just live ♫
♫ The world is cruel, but I still love you ♫
♫ I will sacrifice anything to protect you ♫
♫ Even if it's a mistake to do so, I'll not doubt my actions ♫
♫ Because the right thing is to firmly believe in yourself ♫
The story of those who struggle, fight, and continue to move forward.
Just who started this story?
Next time, "From you, 2,000 years ago."