“For some reason, I can't help but think: That old man, I think what he wanted…was to be judged by someone.”

That is what Bertholdt thought of the old man that he, Annie, and Reiner saw kill himself in the village all those years ago, and it is the chief thought on Reiner's mind when he confronts Eren in the basement that lies within earshot of Willy Tybur's call to arms. When Falco realizes that this is not the reunion of old friends that Mr. Kruger promised him it would be, he tries to take his leave, but Reiner, at Eren's insistence, bids him to stay. He wants Falco to see this through to the end, too.

Outside, as Marley's allies, citizens, and subjugated Eldian soldiers watch in rapt attention, Willy puts on a show to be remembered. He begins by detailing the history of the Eldians, the Great Titan War, and the victory of Helos that they all know so well, and the macabre propaganda plays like gangbusters. The basement brims with an almost unbearable amount of tension; Eren sits, stoic and almost dead-eyed, while Reiner is obviously cracking under the pressure of reliving all of his greatest traumas and regrets. Willy decries the Eldian race and their savagery as “the darkest blot on humanity's history.” Eren asks, with traces of biting venom and genuine empathy brimming in his voice: “You hear that, Reiner? Isn't that why you destroyed the wall?”

Then, when Willy finishes his recounting of the history that everyone knows, he goes on to share what the world doesn't know about Marley and the Eldians, and that is that there wasn't ever any Helos, nor a paradigm-shifting victory hard-won by the Marleyan people. According to Willy, when his family inherited the memories of the Hammer Titan, they discovered that it was King Fritz and the Tyburs who sought to end the infighting and destructive ways of their own people. Fritz acknowledged the weight of the Eldian Empire's crimes, used his Titan powers to pass on a vow of nonviolence along through his bloodline, and then sought to seek peace and atonement in exile on Paradis Island. The longstanding sham of a peace-secured Marleyan rule came to an end, however, when the power of the Founding Titan was stolen. And thus, this new war on Paradis must be fought, Willy argues, in order to stave off the apocalyptic threat of Eren Yeager, who is sitting now in this basement with his leg mending nicely, close enough to hear every word of this speech, while his allies make their moves on the nearby Titan soldiers, and Reiner has to sit and stew in Eren's devastatingly simple question.

9anime.city is the best new version of 9anime website. This is the place to watch anime online for free, can be downloaded for free with the highest quality, every video is updated daily, all videos are English subbed + dubbed.

+ Website: https://9anime.city/

+ Address: 48 Logan Irvine, CA, United Statse

+ Email: 9animecityus@gmail.com

+ Phone: +1 (213) 628-3447

+ Social: 

- https://twitter.com/animecityus

- https://about.me/animecityus

- https://www.pinterest.com/animecityus/

+ Hagtag: #anime #watchanime #anime9 #9animeCity #9animeoffical #kissanime