Civil War Arc Part VI (Arc Finale): Undoing
"Christopher Holt!" Hitch and Marlowe called,
"Not my real name." Alto admitted, "It's Alto, actually. Alto Burke."
"Alto Burke…" Marlowe pieced it together, "Alto Burke, the youngest grandson of Dante Burke?!"
"Yep." Alto nodded, "In the flesh."
"Why are you doing this?!" Marco asked, "Don't you realize that-"
"People will die? Yes, I understand. The Marleyans could be plotting their invasion of Paradis as we speak, but thats why I have to do this. The Government will never allow us to take the war to them, all they are are destructive pacifists."
"What's a 'Marley'?"
Alto shook his head, "I'm not here to debate philosophy with you. I just wanted to make sure you hadn't been harmed."
"Other than emotionally traumatized from seeing Boris blown apart by one of your cannons. Yeah, I'm fine." Hitch sneered,
Alto's face fell, "Boris is…-"
"Dead, by your artillery." Marco said disdainfully, "Couldn't you have gone for a more peaceful-"
"Tell that to my dead siblings!" Alto slammed his fist against the wall. "Don't talk to me about peace and morality. You know as well as I do that the Government needed to go up in flames."
"So that justifies you killing your friends?! Do you even care that Annie has been missing while you've been gone? Probably a bloodstain in Stohess." Hitch retorted
Alto slumped, "You don't know."
"Know what?" Hitch asked,
"Anything. About me, about Annie, about the Titans and this damn Island." Alto told them,
"Alto….what are you hiding?" Marco asked,
"Annie was the Female Titan, Bertholdt was the Colossal Titan, and Reiner was the Armored Titan. They worked for a nation beyond the Walls called Marley that hates our guts."
Hitch reeled, "Annie? No, no, no. You're lying!"
"Believe me, or don't. I don't care." Alto turned to leave, "Listen…I'm going to keep you guys here for the rest of the War, after that…do what you want."
He turned and left, not once giving them a glance back.
"Move!" A man ran through the F.L.A soldiers in Ehrmich, and burst into the former military HQ, now the Headquarters for 1st Korps.
Ehrmich provided vital replenishment for the FLA. New amounts of gas and ODM gear replenished their - admittedly - depleted supply of these items. They also managed to recover much of the ammunition the MPs and Garrison Corps intended to use.
"Herr Alto! You need to know about this!" The man caught up to him,
"Slow down." Alto said to him,
"It's Stohess sir, the Marleyans attacked!"
A meeting between the Scouts and FLA was hastily called.
"It's been confirmed, the Beast Titan threw the Colossal Titan and it detonated within the city, wiping out most of its population. Then the Armored and Warhammer appeared and killed the remaining Garrison forces."
"They're after Annie undoubtedly," Alto said,
"We have to stop them!" Eren demanded.
"I agree." Alto nodded, "Annie being recovered helps no one." He turned to Kallen, "I'm going to take the 36th Kavallerie and stop them."
"But what about-"
"You can handle the push to Mitras," Alto replied, "This is about humanity." He shrugged on an overcoat.
"I…see." Kallen nodded, "Godspeed sir,"
Alto saluted, and turned to leave. "We'll go via the wall. It's fastest. We'll be there within a few hours."
'Hours? It'll be too late…'
Several hours earlier…Stohess District
Thunder struck down outside the city, the Beast Titan rose from the smoke cloud created by it.
Picking up a barrel, Zeke picked it up, and pitched it over the Wall.
Bertholdt looked out from holes punched in the barrel, waiting for the moment he spotted the Headquarters,
'Annie…I'm coming.' He thought, then, he saw it.
Pushing the lid off, he jumped out of the barrel and bit his hand.
And everything turned white for the people below him.
Garrison members watched with horror as the Colossal Titan materialized from thin air, wiping out almost the entire city.
Suddenly, they were crushed from behind as the Armored and Warhammer Titans clambered over the wall.
"It seems everything has gone according to plan." Evangelica noted, and Reiner nodded. The Colossal Titan lay down as Bertholdt emerged onto the ground.
"Let's find Annie before the Scouts arrive."
Several hours later
The Marleyan Warriors began to realize one major fault in their plan, and that was that they never accounted for the debris their plan would create.
The headquarters had completely collapsed, burying Annie under meters of sheer rubble. It'd been hours since they'd finished mopping up the city, and even with the efforts of most of the Marleyan titans working together, it was still taking a long time…
Suddenly Pieck came up to them, "We took too long, the Scouts are using the wall to assault us,"
"Damn it." Zeke swore,
Erwin was escorted by a group of bitter looking MPs, he was clearly beaten for information, but he gave them nothing. However, no nails we're torn, even the MPs weren't willing to make that much of a martyr out of him.
He was roughly shoved into the chamber of the Royal Assembly,
"Erwin Smith." Aurile stood, "You stand here today guilty of violating Clauses Six and Seven of the Charter of Humanity, Clause 6 - One shall not prioritize one's own gain over the longevity of humanity, and Clause 7 - Furthermore, one shall not purposely incite conflict between humanity. Do you have a defense for yourself?"
"Yes." Erwin said, "Not for myself, but for the Scouts."
Gwendal rose, "The Survey Corps are traitors, over 200 of your number have sided with the F.L.A-"
"Out of a population of nearly 800. A fourth, we can sacrifice them-" Erwin hated the words coming out of his own mouth "-what we can't sacrifice is Humanity's Spear. The true enemy is both inside and beyond the walls. Hiding amongst our own people, while simultaneously building up their strength for an invasion of this island." Erwin explained,
"And the Survey Korps will…defend us from this mysterious threat?" Gerald asked,
"Not just defend us from Marley-" The entire council winced at the mention of the nation beyond the Walls. Erwin was onto them a lot more than they anticipated, "-but to strike first."
"Say, that theoretically, this nation did exist, you would bring us to war with them?"
"We are already at war. Wall Rose could be breached at any moment, and when that happens, Humanity will retreat behind Wall Sina, but supplies will quickly reach their limit, and when that happens…"
"Or say that Wall Rose isn't breached again, the shortage in Wall Rose remains. The war that is occuring is not another game of noble-intrigue. This is a manifestation of the underlying tension between Wall Rose and Wall Sina."
"We aren't here to discuss the fate of Humanity, but your own treason." Rod Reiss said dismissively, "You refused to hand Eren Jäger over to us multiple times, and now your own men rebel against us!"
"But Eren is vital for reclaiming Wall Maria!"
"That isn't for you to decide!" Aurille countered,
"Speaking of - Pyxis." Gerald turned to Commander Pyxis, "How do we know you aren't aligned with Erwin?"
"I am deeply disturbed you think I would align myself with them-"
Suddenly, a Garrison Soldier burst into the room. "Commander Pyxis!" Anna ran to him, she whispered something in his ear, and his eyes widened.
"Gentlemen, I just received word that Stohess is presently under Marleyan attack, and the F.L.A has moved to counter them."
"Historia." Alto rode up to her as they travelled along the wall. "Have you decided?"
"Yes. I won't run, I'm tired of running. I'll become Kaiserin, for all of us."
"I see." Alto nodded, "Then-"
"I know what you'll say next. And no."
"I want you to be Kaiserin, not a martyr!"
"I'm going to live." Historia looked at him, eyes flashing. "But, we need a story the people can rally around. To that, I'll need to have you hang back for a while. I need to lead the charge against Evangelica, Reiner, and the Marleyans."
"I…see." Alto wanted to argue, but he knew she was right. He was too well-loved, and Historia was just a girl they knew was related to him. That didn't give her the right to be Kaiserin.
"Alright."
Alexander picked up a rifle, and fired at the approaching first Scout, however, several FLA soldiers set up position in the remaining rooftops, and began returning fire at the Panzer Unit.
One of his men slid to him, holding an MG-840 in his hands.
"Captain! I got a machine gun!" He shouted, as Bertholdt joined the other Marleyans in holding off the FLA and Scouts.
"Good!" Alexander helped him set up the tripod, and shoved a belt of ammunition into it.
"Eat this islanders!" Alexander shouted, pulling back on the MGs trigger.
An F.L.A soldier who wasn't quick enough was brutally ripped apart by MG fire,
"Watch out!" Hanji ducked back behind the roof of a house, taking her rifle, she fired back at the machine gun, only to be met with more gunfire.
The F.L.A took positions on the rooftop, and it turned from a close-range ODM battle to a firefight in the ruins of Stohess.
The machine gun was positioned behind some fallen rocks with the other Marleyans. The Scouts - in turn - positioned themselves in the rooftops overlooking it, and traded shots with the Marleyan troops.
"Incoming!" Ambros shouted as a grenade was thrown at them. An FLA soldier picked it up, but it detonated in his hand, killing him and leaving nothing but a body missing everything above the abdomen.
Suddenly, three bolts of lightning struck as the Attack, Flare, and Jaw titans arrived to counter the Armored, Warhammer, and Beast Titans.
"Charge!" Historia shouted at them, pointing her blade at the Marleyans, "That is our true enemy, right there! The Marleyan Empire!"
The F.L.A and Scouts looked at each other, and slowly burst into a single warcry.
"Sieg Eldia!"
With Historia leading them and renewed vigor, the FLA and Scouts remounted the offensive. Swarming the Marleyan titans and soldiers,
Historia dodged bullets, then landed on Evangelica's face, stabbing her through her eye before flipping backwards onto a house, the Warhammer roared with pain.
Alto tried to take the brief distraction as an opportunity, but Evangelica immediately created a spire of hardening. Piercing him through the chest and leaving him helpless as Zeke threw a shower of rocks at him, shredding his body and leaving nothing but a mangled corpse Alto emerged from before jumping and transforming once again.
Levi then suddenly appeared behind the Beast Titan, only for him to harden just in time as he slashed his nape.
"Warchief!" Evangelica cried in panic, only to sigh in relief as Levi's blades broke and he retreated.
Zeke ignored Evangelica, 'I didn't even notice him…if I was a second slower…'
Zeke continued excavating the rubble, and tossed it at the assembled forces, eliminating several rows of houses.
"Annie…please, I beg you, come back alive!" Her fathers voice echoed, the man who'd pushed her into becoming everything she was now.
"Father?" Annie looked around in darkness, "Where are you?!"
"...you'll definitely be a bad person." Armin's words came back to her, that little golden haired nerd who always knew what to do. The boy who'd led her to caring about this damn island alot more than she'd ever admit.
"Annie!" Evangelica called out to her. The two girls had always felt like they we're two of a kind, pushed by a society who didn't care about them beyond their worth as soldiers, and their fathers who we're only just beginning to realize their mistakes.
It wouldn't be an understatement to call her her best friend.
"We're friends aren't we?" Alto whispered to her, the mysterious boy from training who'd taken a chance with her, despite the fact he knew she was hiding something.
All these people…what did she have to show for them?
Only pain.
But still, she didn't want to leave them yet either…
"I will always be on your side!" Her fathers words came back to her,
'That's right…I still have him.'
Annie's eyes slowly opened as suddenly, the rubble exploded in the faces of the Marleyan Warriors, revealing the Female Titan.
It shook the dust and rocks off it's back.
"Annie!" Bertholdt cried out in relief, the Female Titan nodded,
"Good to see you Annie." Evangelica said to her,
The Female Titan looked at her, then turned to the Scouts.
"No." Zeke came up to her, "We are done here." Picking up a full hand of rubble in both hands, he spread it in a scattershot fashion, designed to raise up dust more than anything.
"Shit!" Levi launched at the smoke, and cut into the Beast Titan.
But there was no roar of frustration, the body had already been abandoned, and when the smoke cleared, all that was left was bodies and a rapidly retreating Cart Titan.
"We failed." Alto hung his head, "All these people…died for nothing."
Eren looked at him, and realized something. Alto wasn't the monster he was externally, he did feel guilt and at the end of the day, cared about humanity's fate.
It was amazing how one moment could change someone's entire perspective.
"What?!" Gwendal said in shock.
"That's right." Pyxis nodded, "I suggest we open Wall Sina to refugees in case they decide to assault Nedlay next-"
"No!" Aurille shouted, "Absolutely not! Erwin may be a criminal, but he's right, Civil War will ensue if we allow those from Wall Rose to enter!"
Nile shifted, for the first time in the trial, he looked genuinely disturbed.
"Commander Dawk, you have your orders!"
Nile looked around, Pyxis was stoic, his face an expressionless mask.
Erwin's lips curved up into a small, knowing grin, as if he expected this.
Anna looked saddened and betrayed.
Then, he made his choice.
"I apologize. But this is one order I can not accept!" Nile shouted,
The assembly was silent. Then- "You dare refuse us?!" Aurile raged,
"You do realize…" Rod stood up slowly, he hadn't spoken for most of the trial, content to watch with Kenny. "...this is treason?"
"Yes sir." Nile replied, "But…I'm from Wall Rose myself. And I can't condemn my own people to such horror."
"I see." Rod Reiss sighed, "It's a shame." He motioned to Kenny, but before he could move, a group of Garrison Regiment soldiers stormed in with rifles.
"Well, well. How the tables have turned." Zachary clapped in a silent room,
"Zachary you son of a-!" Aurile started, but a shot next to his foot silenced him.
"Hm. I hoped it'd hit your foot, but too bad." Zachary said, the soldier returned to position. "Anyway…where was I, yes! You are all traitors. Guilty of one of the charges you we're about to accuse Erwin of, violation of Clause 6 Thou shalt not place one's own gain over the longevity of humanity."
Aurille sputtered, words forming and then dying on his lips in a matter of seconds.
Rod Reiss watched them impassively, then said- "You're not the only ones who have a plan."
Kenny then proceeded to whistle, and beside King Fritz's throne, two APS squad members burst through the windows, sending glass and debris and startling the sleeping old man awake.
They proceeded to gun down two of the Soldiers, and then grabbed Rod Reiss and Gwendal before escaping.
The Stationary Guard fired potshots after them, but it was too late. Kenny, Gwendal, and Rod Reiss - the center of it all - had escaped.
"Rod!" Aurille pleaded, "Wait for me Rod!" He ran to the window, but to no avail. No other APS members came to snatch him away or the others.
Zachary raised himself from his prone position, "It seems-" He said confidently, "-you've been abandoned."
"With Pyxis and Nile no longer on our side, what are our forces looking like?" Rod Reiss asked
"Not much, the APS Squad numbers twenty, and we have maybe 100 loyalists." Kenny shrugged, "Imma be honest, I'm a rat, I know a sinking ship when I see one. We fucked up."
"If you're a rat then why are you still here?" Reiss asked
"Let's just say I'm on the bottom of the ship. I have nowhere to go." Kenny shrugged, "I could try for the underground, but I'll be ratted out faster than we lost."
"I see." Rod was somewhat grateful, although Kenny was openly admitting that he was only here because he had nowhere else to go.
He scoffed, "It looks like I won't get my dream fulfilled after all."
"I suppose I have no reason to lie to you anymore." Rod sighed, "It was never possible."
"What?" Kenny asked,
"The Founding Titan can only be fully utilized by someone of Royal Blood. In your hands, it would just be another Attack Titan, without it's foreseeing abilities."
"So…you've been stringing me on…this whole damn time?!"
"It was necessary. Besides, who else could've gotten you this far?"
"Uri! Dante!" Kenny shouted, "My two best friends, one died because of this stupid power, and the other died for you! I murdered my best friends family for fucks sake! For what?!"
Rod couldn't answer,
"Know what." Kenny said, "I'm done!" Pulling out his shotgun, he shot Rod Reiss in the stomach.
Rod coughed as the shells impacted his chest, "You…" Rod looked at Kenny with anger and condescension, "are nothing without me!" He bellowed with the last of his strength.
"Yeah…well I was nothing before, and I can be nothing again." Kenny shrugged,
"Captain!" Caven came up to him and saw Rod's dying body.
"I see." Caven nodded, "The Scouts sir, they've come back to Mitras from Stohess."
"So this is the end." Kenny sighed, "You don't need to stay."
"Where would I go sir?" Caven asked, she approached Kenny. "I only have you."
"Caven…" Kenny leaned down, and kissed the blonde on the forehead
"That was quick, it's only been a day." Kallen said to them,
"Exactly, what happened?"
"Military coup. Pyxis, Erwin and Zachary deposed the Assembly and took control of Wall Sina. They came to me and sued for peace."
"I see," Alto nodded, "So it's just about over then?"
"Yes, we've been waiting for your orders."
Alto looked over the small building where the last of the Reiss Faction was hiding, and said two words.
"Commence bombardment."
"Incoming!" An APS member shouted as the first of the cannon shells landed.
One cannon shell took an APS member in the stomach and detonated, sending a mix of shrapnel and bloody remains through the room.
Another exploded, taking out another three APS.
"Damn it!" Kenny swore, "Caven, get down!"
They ducked right as a cannonshell penetrated the room and detonated in the one behind them.
"Captain!" Caven looked over, and saw Kenny lying, a large cut appeared on his check, and the fabric of his torso was stained red with blood.
"Move in!" Alto ordered, the F.L.A let out a cry of Sieg Eldia before storming the building. An F.L.A soldier ran a man through with his ODM blade. Another ran a loyalist through with a bayonet.
Levi burst in through a second story window, a whirl of blades and blood. He cut down five APS members in an instant, and proceeded into the next room.
Historia bayoneted a remaining Loyalist. The Military Headquarters was just about clear of the remnants of the Reiss Faction.
'Rod Reiss…' she thought. The man responsible for not just her own, but the suffering of so many others over the course of the past…god knows how long.
She kicked down the door to another room, only to be greeted by a bullet. She ducked, and the bullet pierced through her cape.
"You!" Rod Reiss shouted at her,
She rolled to the side, "Hello father!"
"You were meant to be the next one!" He cried, "The one who would bring hope to the walls!"
"Hope? You wanted me to be a slave! A slave to a man one hundred years dead and an equally obsolete way of thinking!"
"Your sister, Frieda made the sacrifice! You are allying yourself with her murderer!"
"Frieda?" Suddenly, memories surged through her.
A raven-haired girl was reading with the young Historia.
The next memory, they were joined by a boy she knew to be Alto. They were laughing on the back of the horse and enjoying themselves.
The scene shifted once again. "Frieda?" Historia asked,
"Yes Historia?"
"When can I come live with you and Alto?"
"Soon, I promise…" With that Frieda kissed her on the forehead, before proceeding to do the same to Alto, both of their memories wiped, but their hearts never forgot, and rejoiced at their reunion in the Corps.
Alto gasped from another room, the memories filled him as well.
Frieda was always rather enigmatic to him, as the oldest of the Reiss's, he never knew her as well as he did Dirk or Abel.
At least, he thought so. Now, he realized that he knew her best of all. The Frieda who wasn't oppressed by Karl Fritz's will. A Frieda who managed to push past the chains.
The chains Rod Reiss and Karl Fritz created.
The chains Marley helped tighten.
The chains his father sought to undo.
Through the Paths, he felt Rod Reiss and Historia in the room next door, and he prepared to join them.
Levi stepped over dead bodies, the rooms were mostly clear of enemies. He entered one final room,
He heard a click, and prepared to dodge as he opened the door. Only to be met with a teary-eyed Caven.
And Kenny lying in his own blood.
"Heya brat." Kenny wheezed, "Come here to laugh one last time?"
"Nice seeing you too Kenny. God, you look like shit."
"Being hit by shrapnel does wonders, you should try it." He coughed out sarcastically.
They fell silent,
"Why?" Levi asked, there were a lot of 'whys' he wanted to ask Kenny. Why'd he abandon him in the Underground. Why'd he even take him in? Why was he where he was now?
He started none of those, "You knew my mother, how?"
"I thought you would've figured that out by now." He wheezed, "I hope you got no grand fantasies about me being your father. I'm just her brother, your uncle."
Now, for a harder question. "Why'd you abandon me?"
He fell silent for a moment, then scoffed, "Look at me. A piece of garbage like me wasn't fit to be anybody's father."
"Captain-"
"Stay out of this for a moment Caven." Kenny asked, "Please."
"I see." Levi looked between them,
"Yeah," Kenny said, "Supposed to be the end of this, we were going to retire somewhere nice and peaceful."
"Retire? That's it? After all the people you killed?" Levi wasn't angry, just…disappointed? Confused? Kenny the Ripper wanted to live the rest of his life out in the countryside.
"Yep. Not exactly fitting for Kenny the Ripper. It's not normally how the story goes, it usually ends with us going down in a blaze of glory, one last hurrah. And unfortunately, it seems that's where I'm headed."
"Rod Reiss!" Alto burst into the room, where Rod was at the mercy of Historia.
"You!" His eyes flashed with rage, "You caused all this!"
"No, this was your doing." Alto replied with a calm rage. "You would've doomed us all."
"You don't understand! Only those with memories of the world could-"
"I have those memories." Alto spat, "I know the crimes, of the terror the Eldian Empire wreaked. But what right does Karl Fritz - or anyone else - have to condemn us?!"
Rod spat in response, and Alto drew his ODM blade, slicing off a finger in one deft movement.
Rod screamed in pain.
"Oh shut up." Alto kicked him, "You know how to heal yourself with your own blood. It's nothing permanent."
"Speaking of - now that it's over. What do we do with you?"
"You won't get away with this!" Rod yelled at him.
That's when Alto snapped.
"Know what, I'm sick of you!" Alto bashed Rod in the face with his foot. "You're a disease!" Alto picked the man up and threw him into the wall, causing him to spit up blood.
"A womanizing piece of shit!" Alto kicked him in the stomach. Hardening his fists, he pounded Rod's face.
"You sit in luxury thinking everyone is under your control! You don't care about anyone! Only yourself!" His hands began to burn as he grabbed Rod's face, and he screamed as he was burned.
"Alto!" Historia pulled him off her father,
"Let me go! This bastard needs to die!"
"No!" Historia slapped him, and gasped as she realized Alto's eyes had changed color from a blue to a deep gold. Like that time with the bandit all those years ago.
He panted, his eyes turned back to blue. And he began to calm,
"This is only a taste." Alto panted, he picked Rod up, "I'll give you a show trial, and they'll sentence you to life in prison. A life of back-to-back torture sessions and poor living conditions." Alto dropped him roughly,
"Please!" Rod begged, "Alto please! I'm sorry, I'll give anything-"
Alto ignored him, "Congratulations, you brought Rod Reiss to justice." Alto turned to Historia, "Present him to the FLA, and after that, you know what to do."
"I thought you'd…"
"No, that's too easy on him." Alto said, Alto turned and walked away, there was one last loose end, and one last person to confront.
Levi turned as Alto entered the room. His hands and clothes soaked with the blood of Rod Reiss.
"Wow, what a reunion." Kenny said, "Come to finish the job? Ol' Roddy boy dead yet?"
"Rod Reiss will be tried and likely sentenced to torture." Alto replied, "Hell on earth."
"No less than what he and I deserve no doubt." Kenny said,
"Why?" Alto asked at last, "My grandfather was your best friend along with Uri. Why did you do it?"
"Because…" Kenny began, "of my dream, I wanted the Founding Titan…not for it's power…but for the change it seemed to inspire within people. I wanted to be a good person, even if it was only for a second."
Alto looked at him,
And laughed.
"I know." Kenny nodded, "Hilarious excuse."
"I'm not laughing at the fact you wanted to become a good person." Alto wiped tears of laughter from his face, "I'm laughing at the fact you thought you needed the Founding to do it."
"I'm surprised, you're not violently beating me up already." Kenny said, "Then again, I taught you that as well."
"You know, if this happened some months earlier, I probably would be doing that right now." Alto said,
Alto kneeled, and Levi retreated, he had no more place in this conversation. "I used to believe that for you. But now, I somehow doubt it."
Kenny raised his head, "What do you plan to do with me?"
Alto shrugged, "Rod, I may not particularly want to kill him, but I do want him to suffer for the rest of his days. You, I will let you die in peace." It wasn't said in a hateful way, It was simply a cold hard fact.
Kenny sighed, "Why?"
"Because, while you did betray me and my family, you also genuinely trained me. A kindness with thorns, and so I repay the favor. A kindness with thorns."
Kenny nodded, "I'm proud - of both of you." Kenny whispered to Levi and Alto, before closing his eyes for the last time.
Excerpt from the c.910 book "The Eldian Civil War In Detail"
The remnants of the Anti-Personnel Squad and Reiss Loyalists soon surrendered after the respective capture and death of their leaders.
Lasting a mere 2 months, the Eldian Civil War led to a series of major changes for the Island. Rod Reiss was tried and sentenced to prison. Where he would live out the rest of his days under intense torture and poor living conditions.
The Military would once again be reunited, as the F.L.A was disbanded following the conflict. The Paradis Government would officially become the Eldian Kaiserreich about two days following the war.
Now a hero for both leading Eldian forces in a charge in what would become the 'First Battle against Marley' and capturing Rod Reiss, Historia Reiss would be selected to be coronated as the 1st Kaiserin of the Eldian Kaiserreich, beginning her reign as Historia the History-Maker.
Alto Burke would officially take up the rank of Generalfeldmarshall of Eldia, and would set to work on reforming the Eldian Army and with Historia and the Scout Regiment - now restored to honor - would begin planning the final battle of the First Paradis Operation, the Return to Shiganshina, which would become the bloodiest battle of the entire conflict…
A/N: Finally finished the Civil War Arc! It was...underwhelming for me to write. As it began to drag on, with me writing like - a 10-14 page google doc for each chapter when it's usuallly more along the lines of 5 - 8, it began to get boring and tedious. But, it's finally over, I hope you enjoyed it. There'll be like - 2 or 3 chapters (likely 2) - of transitional chapters before we get into the Return to Shiganshina (RtoS) Arc. I plan to release as many chapters of the Arc as I've completed on January 19th - the 1 year Anniversary of the Flare Titan! So look forward to that!
