death do us part

I want you only

"So you finally figured out who the good guys are, huh?"

Jean looks at the Marley Chief, his eyes filled with hatred.

The Scouts and the Marley Chief along with Reiner, Annie and the Cart Titan were in a circle, glaring at each other as Hange cooked.

"Are you kidding me? You seriously think you're in the right? You're crazy. You people spent years trying to murder us all and we're the bad guys cause we didn't roll over and die? Screw that!"

"We learned to fight like hell because the only other option we had was to let your titans eat us alive!" Jean pointed his finger at him, as if he wanted to drive his point home.

"You people are exactly what we always thought you were. We let you fester for too long on Paradis. The world's about to pay for that mistake. You finally won your freedom and we can all see what you're doing with it. What'd I miss?"

Jean was furious. How could he still claim they were in the right even after everything they'd done to his people?

"Plenty. Not a word about your shock troops destroying Eren's home and making him watch his mother get eaten alive! That's what started this! If you wanna know why this is happening go look in a mirror!" Jean shouted back, refusing to back down. The Eldians weren't the bad guys in this story.

"Right. Everything was fine till your buddy lost his mom. I guess all those centuries of Marley's people getting ground under Eldia's heel don't count for anything in your mind."

How could he be so heartless?

"Now you're gonna play the victim over something that happened 2,000 years ago?"

"It's like talking to a child. It started 2,000 years ago. Compared to the sum of the carnage and misery wrought by Eldia. Your islands suffering is a joke."

Jean scoffed, "Excuse me?"

Jean couldn't help but move closer to Magath, and now his body language was completely different. He was no longer trying to have a civil conversation. He was now trying to make a point.

Hange quickly interrupted, "Okay. That's enough. If we're gonna be at each other's throats let's stick to arguing about stuff we lived through ourselves. Look Jean. Our friend, Magath is having a hard time understanding why we're not acting like the devils we are. Giving up our Paradise to save a world that wants us dead? What devil in their right mind would do a ridiculous thing like that?"

Jean didn't pay attention to Hange.

He was now fixated on Magath. He was angry at the way the man disregarded the life of the Eldian people so easily. He had a point, and yet Jean didn't care. Hange was right though. Magath didn't understand why Jean and his friends decided to fight for the world that wanted them dead.

He just couldn't help himself.

"What he doesn't know is we Scouts spent a few months living in that world so we can never go back into being the ignorant island devils we were." Hange continued.

Jean scoffed, turning away from Magath so he wouldn't see his face, putting his hands on his hips. He was thinking about what Hange had said.

She was right. He, and a few of his fellow scouts spent time outside of the walls and understood the better than he had before. He had hated a lot of the things those people had done but he understood their perspective.

"Tell me. Can you honestly bring yourself to kill him?" Are you truly ready to kill Eren?" Annie said stepping up in front of Mikasa.

"I don't think that's our only option. We can find another way." Mikasa responded.