Dinner is served as Ban has prepared a filling feast for every cadet in the headquarters. Rika was with King as Diane is joining the others in the body shape of a human being. Merlin was the one who made the medicine to give Diane the temporary human-size body but still has her powers. Alexandra tried her best to have fun and relax. But after knowing of Annie's memories and of the objective, she wonders if she made a mistake along the way. Cecelia came out wearing a strapless black dress of which the skirt is long and flowing. She even wears a pair of black stockings and a pair of formal slip-on shoes of the same color. This night after dinner is going to be the funeral for the death of Eld in the hands of Annie who is labeled as the traitor for mankind due to the evidence that she's the Female Titan. Cecelia steps into the church of which every cadet that knows and cares about him are silently grieving in their given seats. Levi was silent as Petra couldn't help but cry. Annie is held in custody and Merlin used this spell called Power Containment. This prohibits Annie from transforming into the Female Titan, but this only gives little victory. Cecelia walks up to the altar as some if not all of the cadets have something to say for Eld. She spoke through the silence in the church: "Ladies and gentlemen...children of all ages...I have seen many that have fallen for the greater good when growing up. But remember this by heart. One loved one may be gone from this world, but it doesn't mean that the same person is lost forever. It means that the ones that have fallen and departed in whatever form are in a better place. So please don't despair. And for those of you that are losing hope...do not let your hearts be troubled. Things may seem to be dire and in disarray. And I have even seen those of you losing hope. I can understand that because I would feel that way as well. And this is why...I often sing this song...for I know that we as the outcasts will live to tell a tale and to brighten our future together as one..." As soon as she said those words, she walked up to the church piano and sat down in front of it. With her fingers playing the keys, she looked up at Levi and the others before these words would come out of her mouth:
I don't know if you can hear me
Or if you're even there
I don't know if you will listen to a humble prayer
Yes, I know I am just an outcast
I shouldn't speak to you
Still, I see your face and wonder:
"Were you once an outcast too?"
Levi was stoic in his facial expression, but his heart felt as if the chains of his inner guilt is lifting up from his shoulders. Cecelia continued with the song as her fingers danced to the piano keys:
God help the outcasts
Hungry from birth
Show them the mercy they don't find on Earth
God help the outcasts
They look to You still
God help the outcasts or nobody will
I ask for nothing
I can get by
But I know so many less lucky than I
God help the outcasts
The poor and downdrod
God help the outcasts
The children of God...
Bertholdt Hoover was sitting next to Alexandra and allowed her to move a bit closer to him. He knows of how much this is internally affecting her as if she might be blaming herself for what had happened to Eld even now. Bertholdt has his mind and heart being troubled after hearing that Annie is captured and labeled as the traitor for mankind. If things get worse, he will have to make a choice that will change forever. Some of the citizens were on their knees to pray out their hearts as Cecelia continued to sing her own heart out with her fingers dancing on the piano keys still yet:
I don't know if there's a reason
Why some are blessed, some not
Why the few You seem to favor?
They fear us, flee us
Trying not to see us...!
Levi remembered of how his mother was an "escort" in the Underground District. It was her only way to provide for the both of them at the time. He would even hear her pray this whenever she goes to bed: that he will find happiness, freedom, and love even if she's no longer living. He suddenly felt something wet from his cheek and touched it with his fingertip. He realized that those are tears and he didn't think that he would shed any tears until now:
God help the outcasts
The tattered and torn
Seeking an answer to why they were born
Winds of misfortune have blown them about
You made the outcasts
Don't cast them out...
The poor and unlucky
The weak and the odd
God help the outcasts
The children of God...!
Cecelia could feel those tears that she failed to hold back when singing the last part of the song as the moonlight shined above from the church window. She struggled from the inside as she was convinced that her parents were murdered because she has the power to "help the outcasts" by reforming the Titans with her magic into human beings to give even the lost souls redemption. Levi walked over to her and placed his hand on her right shoulder. To everyone's surprise, he pulled her up and embraced her in his arms before saying this: "Your parents would be proud of you. So don't blame yourself for their deaths..." Reiner Braun could see what's going on and started to think: Cecelia just might be Levi's weakness for what he, Bertholdt, and Annie are ordered to do. If things go as planned, their mission will grant them passage to go back home. But even Cecelia will have to see what the next challenge will bring.
