Chapter 23

He wasn't in that land of sand this time. Nor was he looking out on some stranger world, filled with beasts to fight.

Instead, he was in a storm.

No, he was in The Storm.

A cyclone of clouds and rain spiraled around him, within the very eye of event.

But he wasn't...standing in it. It was like he was flying yet not. Without being able to see the ground below or the sky above, he had no idea if he was moving or just hovering in place.

Despite it all, he found it hard to care, even as thunder rumbled all about.

[[[[What do you want?]]]]

His voices, three as one, echoed out into a spinning storm wall. Because he knew, somehow he knew, just What and Who was there with him, in this storm.

Lightning flashed brightly, illuminating a figure. Its shape was like Eren's own shadow. But one far more massive.

And, most importantly, with wings.

{{{{I am The Storm.}}}}

[[[[I know...I know.]]]]

Eren wasn't sure what he knew, just that he knew it. And what he knew was that this form, this power...it belonged to someone else. Something else.

And The Storm was that owner.

{{{{We must slaughter the maggots.}}}}

Maggots. Titans. Yes, that was what they were to him, Him, the both of them. Yet...

[[[[Why?]]]]

For what offense could maggots pay The Storm?

Eren flinched back as a thousand, a million thunderbolts echoed all at once. Loud enough to shake the very earth to its core and raddle its interior.

And above that was a more terrible noise.

The roar of The Storm.

{{{{Too long have have feasted so greedily.}}}}

Eren couldn't agree more.

{{{{We will kill them all.}}}}

They wanted the same thing, him and The Storm.

And yet still...

The winds calmed ever so slightly and Eren could feel this...entity drawing closer.

Shadows and clouds blew before him, taking on the misty likeness of a human standing before a large, two-legged creature.

'You mean that Eren's father could turn into this creature too?' Hange's echoed in the winds.

'Yeah. He was the only one that could,' Grice's answer came faintly.

Eren glared at The Storm.

[[[[What Happened To My Father?]]]]

There was a low rumble at his demanded question and Eren didn't know what it meant. Disappointment? Interest? He had no idea. Just that The Storm knew exactly what he was talking about.

The mist dispersed and reformed to take the very defined appearance of Frieda Riess.

{{{{The Maggot Queen.}}}}

Meanwhile

Eren's eyes snapped open, a cold chill up the spines of his neck.

He was on the ground, he could feel it beneath his scales. He wasn't fighting, nothing was attacking him, and there wasn't any pain. There was no wall of clouds, no strange voice, and no thunder.

Everything was fine. For now at least.

"Eren?"

He turned to see Mikasa, who was waking from her own nap on Eins's head. Said head wasn't exactly pleased, but he was not angry about that fact.

That didn't mean he approved though.

[Idiot! That's no place to sleep!]

[[That couldn't have been comfortable.]]

[[[Why that head?]]]

Zwei gave Drei a pointed look while Eins made every effort not to move with Mikasa sitting on him.

"Sorry," Mikasa said, covering a small yawn as she looked up at the two heads. "They wanted me to show you where to go when you woke up. I wasn't sure how long you'd be."

Eren was unanimously sure that Mikasa demanded that task. Still, his eyes drifted around, trying to spot any of the other cadets.

"Everyone is fine," Mikasa promised as she leaped off the head, landing on the stone road and giving him a reassuring smile. "Thanks to you."

Eren wasn't sure if he agreed with that as he looked around, eyes lingering on the large crater formed by Bertholdt's transformation, and the cracks in the wall where the Colossal Titan had collapsed.

He could still taste it in his tongues. It looked like Lightning and it felt like Power, but the taste of it was not something Eren had a word for. He didn't think there was a word for it.

"We have Bertholdt," Mikasa said with a frown. "I don't know where, but..."

Eren nodded, fully understanding her. Hopefully, the traitor was secured, locked up somewhere, and unable to transform.

Without another word, he rose to his feet once more. He could hear everyone reacting to that, mainly just calls of "Look, he's awake!" or something to that effect.

"Did he get bigger?"

He glanced down quizzically at Mikasa, who suddenly realized she said that out loud.

"Follow me," Mikasa said, hoping he hadn't heard her, and took off on her ODM gear to land on a nearby roof.

They walked in relative silence as Eren shrugged off the aches in his limbs. He wasn't sure if it was the fighting in general or regrowing his heads, but he had some terrible stiffness in his necks now.

Regrowing his heads...how did he do that? Titans could do that sure, but judging by Ymir and the traitors, there wasn't actually anything like a brain in the heads. He knew he had brains in each skull, especially after Annie had stabbed one of his through the eyes.

And the brain was both important and delicate. With a doctor for a father, that wasn't hard to pick up on. He was sure he should have some memory loss, but if he did, it wasn't obvious. He remembered everything of note since the Battle of Trost, and everything before that. If anything was missing, he couldn't notice anything obvious. His mother, his father, Hannes, everybody from training...

...Everyone in his team that died, beside Armin and himself.

"We're here."

Her voice brought him out of his thoughts. Mikasa led him to what looked like a fairly normal house, minus the large hole in the roof, revealing an attic of sorts. The rubble had been cleared away for an impromptu meeting.

"There's our beautiful bastard," Hange greeted, and Eren was almost thankful to hear her strange terms of endearment.

"Eren," Erwin greeted. Eren was almost surprised by them not using "Trips" but supposed an alias was largely worthless now. "It's good of you to join us."

Us was a very interesting group. There were the commanders, Erwin and Pixis, of course. With them were Anka, Hange, and Levi. The short captain was staring daggers at an older man Eren didn't know, wearing a hat and leaning against the wall with a blond woman standing next to him.

Nearest to where Eren loomed over was Krista, standing next to the hole with Ymir nearby. Ymir looked a bit uneasy but tried to keep a cool smirk on her face. Krista didn't look afraid per se, but she did seem a bit more concerned by his arrival than he would have liked.

Mikasa stepped down to join next to them, standing with Armin. Who, to Eren's relief, still looked completely unafraid of the large creature his friend had become, despite his close near encounter with his teeth.

"About time," the blonde woman said bluntly.

Eins flared his nostril and Drei cocked his head, but Zwei was entirely unphased by the bold complaint. He wasn't sure if he appreciated how little she cared that he was a giant monster or if he found it concerning.

"Easy, Caven," the older man said in a disarming manner that Eren didn't quite believe. "We all have a lot to tell, I'm sure."

Eren eyed him with suspicion. There was something about this man, his aura that was like Mikasa and Levi. Given what those two had in common, that could be trouble.

"It's okay," Krista said, drawing his attention down. "I trust Kenny."

"You probably shouldn't," Levi warned coolly.

"Can't say the runt isn't wrong," Kenny remarked in amusement.

Krista sighed at that, and Eren decided to leave the matter alone for now.

Everyone's attention turned to Krista, as Eren made various growls, grunts, and hisses as Krista listened intently.

With a nod, she turned to the group. "Eren wanted to ask a few things before we start," Krista stated.

"Hmm? And what would that be?" Erwin asked, half suspecting the questions already.

"First, do we have Bertholdt secured?" Krista relayed.

"Obviously we aren't just going to go blurt out where he is exactly," Caven pointed out.

"But yeah, the tall fuck is locked up," Kenny confirmed with a smirk. "And thanks to Frieda, his powers shouldn't be working for a bit."

It wasn't lost on Eren that these two answered instead of the Commanders. Zwei privately concluded that they likely had Bertholdt rather than the Scouts or garrison.

"Just how did she manage that, exactly?" Erwin asked with interest on his stoic face.

"Hell if I know," Kenny answered with a shrug. "I don't know how she can do this stuff, just that she can."

And Frieda wasn't here. Which Eren took to mean she was still out cold after...whatever she did to Bertholdt.

He grunted to prompt Krista. "The second question," Krista started, her face turning grave. "...What did it cost us?"

Everyone turned solemn at that, even the normally dramatic Hange. It was Anka who cleared her throat and answered. "The current numbers are twenty-three deaths from the battle, three times that many wounded. Most from the blast of the Colossal Titan's transformation, and his attack on the wall."

Those numbers were low, compared to normal casualties humanity faced against the Titans. But still, no one missed the pained, angered, and disappointed looks in the six eyes on Eren as he took those numbers as a silent wound.

Finally, a long breath escaped his mouths, and he made his last question.

"Has...Grice shown back up?" Krista answered, leaning toward Ymir. "That's the new one, right?" she asked in a whisper, getting a nod.

"No, the slithering bastard is still out hunting," Levi answered. "We've seen him in the distance, chewing on the Titans, so he hasn't run off."

Eren grunted, realizing he had been asleep for even less time than he thought.

[[[[So...who first?]]]]

Krista repeated the question, prompting her and the group to turn to Ymir.

"I think we've waited long enough for answers from you," Levi murmured.

Ymir sighed. "Okay, where to begin...?"

She told them everything. Everything she knew, at least; The Reign of the Eldian Empire, the legend of Helios, and the terrible truth about their giant foes.

They could only listen on in absolute silence, the words from her mouth rattling in their mind.

"...The Titans are humans," Erwin repeated solemnly.

That news was quite sobering, to say the least.

Everyone turned in alarm as Eren stumbled back a single step before catching himself, his heads hanging low.

"Eren?!" Armin called out in alarm as he peered over the side, Mikasa frowning in concern.

Eren didn't respond, just looking down at the ground with incomprehension. The divides between Eins, Zwei, and Drei were entirely and fully overshadowed by their shared struggle to understand this information. The Titans, the Maggots, their enemies, were...humans? Humans trapped in ways they couldn't control, but still. But...were they really human, the Titans? Or were they simply prisons for the humans that became them, forced to go along with their mindless desires?

He didn't know. He just knew that he still felt the same rage in his heart as he had for years.

"He's okay," Krista said sympathetically. "He's just in shock I think. He's...trying not to cause a scene."

"Strange thing to see, a big fella like that so rattled," Kenny remarked.

"You knew all of this?" Levi asked with a furrowed brow.

"Nah, at least not when you were a smaller punk," Kenny mused. "I got into the loop when the blue bloods recruited me."

"To answer the question? Yeah, they always have been humans," Ymir continued, glancing off to the side as she leaned on the wall. "But the Nine are the only ones that can change back and keep their minds. Why, no one can really say. The other Titans? They're just mindlessly trying to eat any people they find. And if they eat one of us, they get that shifter's power."

"So, that's how you and...the others became like this," Armin said with some discomfort as he stared at Ymir.

Ymir nodded curtly. "They were sneaking onto the island and my Titan happened to catch them by surprise before they could transform. I think I almost ate Reiner, but the...old Jaw Titan got in the way."

Eren was eerily silent as he took all that in, but then again, so were most of them.

Hange was quiet for a moment, hands together as she rested her head against them in contemplation. "Abnormals?"

Ymir sighed and continued on. "No idea, really. Regular titans always look kind of like they did as humans. Some of them just keep a bit more I guess."

"Muscle memory, or something similar," Hange theorized to herself. "And when we cut the neck...where Shifters are. I suppose they're in there as well."

Ymir nodded absently, the scientist running through several things in her head.

"So, all this time..." Levi said with a distant look on his frowning face. "We've been killing people?"

Erwin eyes the captain with a sympathetic gaze but said nothing otherwise.

"More like putting them out of their misery," Ymir said firmly. "It's like a nightmare you can barely recall, but it never stops."

If Levi took some comfort in that, he didn't show it.

"Don't go getting yourself tied in a knot about it," Kenny said with a frown. "If ya can't save someone, sometimes it's better to put them down."

Levi definitely didn't take any comfort in that.

"You're certain that there is still life beyond the walls and this...island you say we are on?" Pixis inquired with a chin stroke.

Ymir paused, looking up. "I mean, it might be possible that Marley fucked up and the world has been taken over by Titans since last I was around? But Skullface? Grice? He seems to be...younger than me in terms of birth years," Ymir said uncertainly, not sure how to word that better. "Between him and the shifters, I'm assuming humanity is still as fine as it always was."

No one commented on that double meaning.

"Then they came here for the Founding Titan," Erwin deduced.

"They had to have. They wouldn't have risked kicking in the walls otherwise," Ymir stated, getting curious looks. "As far as the rest of the world knows, you're still the Eldian Empire here. They don't know you've all lost your memories, or that you can't take control of the Titans anytime you want."

"About that," Hange said with a furrowed brow. "How does Marley control the Titans without the Founder?"

"A lot like how you heard sheep with dogs," Ymir answered flatly.

Levi looked at her for a moment before realization came to his eyes. "They just unleash them and let things unfold."

"While using their shifters to deal with them afterward," Erwin summarized. "And they use the Eldians in their own lands as cannon fodder."

"I doubt that's changed much," Ymir murmured knowingly.

Everyone paused as Eren trembled with rage, his wrath an escape from his shock.

"He's not saying anything," Krista informed as Eren's tails twitched dangerously. "He's just mad."

"That's putting it lightly," Hange remarked, hand on her hip.

"Eren, calm down, please," Mikasa requested, not wanting Eren to lash out and cause a scene.

Each head inhaled and exhaled in sync before nodding sharply for them all to continue.

"That's...about all I have to say. We used to rule the world, we tore ourselves apart and the king fucked off to this island while letting the world go fuck the rest of us over," Ymir summarized.

"I feel there's more to that story, but I believe you've told us most of what you knew," Erwin mused in acceptance.

"What about the Warhammer? Is it really strong enough to take down the others?" Pixis asked contemplatively.

"I was being serious before: All I heard about it is that no one actually knows what it does," Ymir reminded. "But considering the Tyburs are treated like saviors while they call the rest of us devils, well..."

"And...you think Frieda is the Founder?" Erwin asked carefully as he eyed Kenny and Caven, who didn't react to the topic.

"It's the only thing that makes a little bit of sense," Ymir answered with a troubled look of her own. "Though I really don't get why the royal family hasn't done anything until now, or why she's crawled out of the shadows, unless it's because of Eren."

Kenny grunted. "I "know" why, but I damn well don't know how to explain it. Family had some damn curse on it best as I can say. Until Frieda, none of them could use the Founder as they wanted."

"...Wait, WHAT?!" Ymir exclaimed in shock. "What do you mean by that? Do you mean the whole destroying the world thing was a bluff from the start?!"

"Ymir, calm down," Krista said with a frown. "And what do you mean, destroy the world?"

Ymir hesitated, biting her tongue as she looked at Kenny and Caven uncertainly. She had left that little detail out.

"Anyone shoots me in the eye, and I'm whacking them off this wall with my tail!"

The loud voice was faint, but it brought the conversation to a hall and pulled even Eren's attention as he looked off to the side, Krista poking her head out of the hole with the other cadets.

Up on the wall, they could see the unusual form of Grice pulling over the top, the Crawler glancing around before easily spotting the giant golden figure.

"Well, guess the loudmouth is back," Ymir mused, glad for the distraction.

Without warning, Grice scaled down the walls, using his digits to slide down most of the way. Once at the bottom, he quickly scaled over the buildings, coming towards the building.

"Yeag-...Eren," Grice greeted, glancing up at the hole. "We having a meeting here?"

Eren felt as awkward as Grice did, he was sure.

[[[[Yeah, Ymir just got done telling us about...Marley, Eldia, everything. What she knows, I mean.]]]]

"Well, everyone brace yourselves, I'm coming up," Grice said as he went to the side of the building and climbed onto it.

Everyone uneasily steadied themselves as the large creature could be seen looming over one side of the whole.

"Was that necessary?" Anka asked, listening to the creaking wood under Grice's weight.

"You all picked a building that was just tall enough that I can't just lean my head up and peak into it," Grice argued. "Why are we here instead of by the boulder or...anywhere outside?"

"Well, if we're going to be working with big beautiful beasts like you two, we thought we should try to do it closer to eye level," Hange answered with a smile.

"...I have very mixed feelings about you," Grice said slowly.

"Don't worry, you'll come around, Handsome," Hange said with a wink, leaving the Crawler tongue-tied. Almost literally.

[[[[Are you going to give us your story now?]]]]

Grice shook his head clear before looking at an impatient Eren. "Not just yet. I want to hear what the She-King has to say."

[[She-King?]]

[[[You mean queen?]]]

[The hell?]

"Still weird," Grice murmured, glancing between the three heads as he turned to face the humans. "Eren says that "Ymir" filled you in on the outside world?"

"She did," Erwin answered calmly. "But what do you know of things within the walls?"

"An ally of ours told us some of what went on in here. You all forgot about the outside world because of the first King of the Walls turned craven," Grice summarized.

"About that," Armin commented. "You mistook Eren for his father, right?"

"Yes, and who the hell are you kids?" Grice asked with a head tilt.

[[[[My friends, and fellow soldiers.]]]]

Grice nodded absently as Mikasa stepped forward. "Mister Yeager has been missing for five years. But if you can't change back, I don't think he would have a chance to meet you."

"Ahhh. You're wondering where I have been," Grice realized, shifting uncomfortably. "Honestly, I went into a deep sleep. Hibernation I suppose. I had to; it was the only way to stave off my starvation while trying to get control of this form."

[[[[Control?]]]]

Grice snorted. "I don't know if it's that form or something about you Yeagers, but I didn't have an easy time getting used to this body. Some part of it fights me, and that part is always hungry."

"Sounds like hell," Levi said with some sympathy.

"Only at first," Grice said with a head shake. "Grisha was supposed to wake me back up. And I thought he did when Eren here kept putting out a call."

[What?]

[[A call?]]

[[[When did we do that?]]]

"That roar of yours. You know the one, you did it more than once," Grice reminded with some annoyance.

"The one that stunned Titans?" Armin supplied.

"It did what now?" Grice asked, his long snout whipping to Armin in an instant. "It does that? We can do that?"

"Umm...Eren's can?" Armin answered carefully.

"I feel increasingly cheated in terms of what creatures me and Grisha became," Grice said in envy before making very notable licks at the air. "She's here."

Levi tensed as Kenny tilted his head to the door. It opened and they were all far less surprised to see Frieda than they probably should be. "Well, I hope I'm not too late for the meeting," she greeted with a smile.

"Lady Frieda," Erwin greeted neutrally. "Or should I say, queen?"

"My, you've already gotten that far?" Frieda asked rhetorically as she strolled across the room, glancing up at the hole. "I see our large friends are all here."

"I'm friends to my fellow Eldians on Paradis," Grice said pointedly. "You? I'm not sure whose side you're on, Fritz."

Frieda allowed her smile to drop a bit. "That's fair. I suppose I should be happy that you haven't tried to eat me. And it's Reiss now."

"You helped captured the Colossal, so obviously the Vow has either been destroyed or loosened," Grice remarked.

"The vow?" Mikasa asked with her brows knitted together.

Frieda looked at her and cocked her head. "Mikasa Ackerman."

Kenny jolted, and it was not easily overlooked. Still, Mikasa kept her attention on the noble. "You know who I am?"

"I made it a point to keep an eye on everyone connected to Grisha Yeager."

That might not have been the best thing to say as Grice leaned forwards menacing with a growl, and Eren's eyes glared at her with suspicion.

To many people's surprise and frustration, she ignored the two threatening monsters, looking at one person and one person only: Krista. "It's been a while. I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to talk at the trial before everything happened."

"..." Krista blinked owlishly. "I'm sorry, but do I...know you?"

Frieda blinked before smiling. "Oh, I'm sorry. I was hoping you might remember me by now: My name is Frieda Reiss. I'm your half-sister."

"Obviously," Levi remarked, getting looks. "They have the same face."

"He's not wrong," Armin privately admitted.

"My half-sister?" Krista asked in surprise. "Wait, so were you...?"

"We'll talk later," Frieda assured, glancing up at Eren and Grice.

"If Krista Lenz is your half-sister," Erwin remarked. "Why exactly was she hidden in the military?"

"Officially, the reason she knows: to cover up and hide my father's illegitimate child," Frieda answered before looking to Krista in apology. "In truth, I was trying to protect you. After Wall Maria fell, things were...difficult for me."

"Difficult, how?" Grice asked, eyeing her pointedly.

Frieda met Eren's eyes for an instant.

Eren blinked as he felt something in the back of his head and it wasn't The Storm. Some half-forgotten memory, lost in a dream. Shining halls, filled with screams and blood, and the faint feeling of power on his tongues.

Frieda shook her head as she faced the group. "Yes, whatever you've heard so far is true. I am the Queen of the Walls and the current holder of the Founding Titan," she explained solemnly as she glanced at Grice. "I'm sure you want to know why we abandoned the mainland," she said, looking up to Pixis and Erwin. "Why haven't we used the Founder to help against the Pure Titans," she said, eyes turning to Armin and Mikasa. "Why we allowed things to get this terrible?"

Both cadets gave her hard stares. They, like Eren, knew well the horrors unleashed by the Fall of Maria. And even Armin fully emphasized with Eren's immense capacity for rage, staring at someone who perhaps was responsible for it all in a large way. Annie, Reiner, and Bertholdt had done the deed, but by all they had been told, the Founding Titan was able to actually control titans. That kind of power could have stopped it all at any time.

Armin balled his fist. "A lot of people have died, Ma'am, and it sounds like you had every chance to save them."

Frieda bowed her head at that before her eyes steeled. "The Founder has the power to control all Titans and everyone with the blood of our shared ancestor, Ymir."

Several heads looked to Ymir at that, who bristled. "I'm not THAT old you fucks!"

Frieda smiled at that, the mood lightened if only a little. "So, how do you think one of the nine could have rebelled like that?"

"...Can the Warhammer resist the Founder?" Hange suggested.

Frieda laughed at that. "No, no, that's the Attack Titan. But it is the only true exception."

"That...explains a few things," Grice said in a strange tone. "But it doesn't answer the question. Some just thought that Karl was too weak of will to control the nine. Or, by Marley's account, Helios found a way to muffle the control of the Founder."

"He didn't," Frieda answered with a headshake.

"...Oh, shit," Levi said with a frown as something clicked. "That King a hundred years ago, he didn't really just run to this island because he had to, did he?"

Frieda shook her head. "The End of the Eldian Empire was orchestrated by its 145th king, Karl Fritz."

There was silence. Most didn't have the context or understanding to grasp the depth of that revelation. But the idea that they had been led here and betrayed by the very king meant to lead them, sentenced to this hell was something that didn't sit well with any of them. But it was not Eren who took it the worst, shocked though he was.

"...Why?" Grice breathed, his voice dangerous, his body trembling. He knew that the 145th king had turned craven, but to go that far mad with self-hatred? The Owl had either not known that or spared them of that information.

Frieda gave him a sympathetic look. "The holders of the Nine can receive memories from the past hosts. The Founder can do this even more so. Over a thousand years of using the Titans as weapons of mass destruction, it pulled at Karl Fritz's heart in a way it hadn't affected his predecessors. I think it drove him insane with grief. So, he used the Tyburs to turn his subjects on each other, to let Marley take over and lead our ancestors here... knowing the world would one day come to finish us off, and welcoming them to do so. To that end he placed a vow on the Founding Titan: Anyone of the ruling family, the only ones who can use the Founder's full potential, would succumb to his ideology, and his beliefs. Because he thought we were all condemned for the horrors Eldia unleashed in the past and that the world would be...better off without us. Because without us, he believed the Power of the Titans would be gone as well."

For once, Armin identified completely with the snarling rage he could hear emitting from Eren.

But it was nothing to the long and loud screech of Grice. It was a terrible, shrilling noise that caused Eren to watch the Crawler carefully.

Without a single word, Grice leapt onto the building across the street and began to slam his fists into the ceiling and slam his tail into the wall beneath him.

Eren eyed the display with understanding, his leftmost head glancing about to make sure no one was getting close and that the cannons weren't moving.

"THAT RAT OF A WHORE! HE LEFT ALL OF US TO DIE! HE BETRAYED US TO MARLEY! TO EVERYONE! OUR FRIENDS, OUR FAMILIES, OUR PEOPLE WERE TREATED LIKES VERMIN AND FED TO DOGS BECAUSE HE WAS TOO WEAK AND COWARDLY TO DO ANYTHING! ANYTHING ELSE! HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE WILL TO DO THE DEED HIMSELF!"

On and on Grice raged, the walls and floors splintering under his wrath. No one said anything, knowing it would be drowned out in the yells and roars.

His fists became slower and sluggish, prompting Eren to approach Grice carefully.

"We came here, looking for something I don't think existed in the first place," Grice whispered in a lost voice, glancing up at the three heads. "Grisha's dead, my comrades are gone, and whatever family I have left are either facing a fate worse than death or have become dogs of Marley. What am I even supposed to do now?"

With more care than perhaps Eren thought himself capable of, his tails slowly moved over to the Crawler, keeping the thorns pressed down in "club form" as they gently pushed Grice back to his feet.

Grice met Eren's gaze, taking in the solemn but barely contained wrath just behind the empathic emerald eyes.

[[[[We do the only thing we can do.]]]]

[[[Just keep moving forward...]]]]

[[Until our enemies...]]

[Are destroyed.]

{[[[All Of Them.]]]}

No one noticed Krista shiver.

No one noticed Frieda close her eyes.

End of Chapter

Well, the main cast is finally caught up on the stateo f the world. Even Grice learned some things that he didn't know. Eren, meanwhile, had a mental meaeting with "The Storm."

Not much else to say. Next chapter, however, is where we geti nto AU lore- Grice will tell his story and Frieda will explain her personal story some.

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