When Ren and the others found Instructor Keith, he was lecturing a group of new recruits and almost made them bloody.
Familiar accents, familiar vocabulary, but some people, Thomas, Mina, and Marco, will never come back.
Keith invited Hanji, Levi and a group of new recruits into his office and asked everyone to sit down. Of course, Sasha just stood aside out of habit.
She was called to the office by Keith, and was scolded so hard that she couldn't even raise her head. She was asked to eat during the first day's joining ceremony, and Keith remembered it.
Instructor Keith began to tell his story. It was the story of a bystander, and it was also the story of a man who thought he was special and the "protagonist".
With the additions by Ren and others, the story becomes more complete.
Grisha Yeager has the power of a giant, possibly from Marais. He fights his way under the city wall, turns back into a human, pretends to be a drunk fool who accidentally ran out of the wall, and follows Keith from the Survey Corps into the wall. .
Moreover, he pretended to be dumbfounded, and after Keith introduced the hospital, he returned to his old business, and even encouraged Keith, saying that the Survey Corps were heroes and special.
After hearing this, Keith happily went to participate in the investigation outside the wall. He was full of energy. He is the "pride" of mankind. He is the protagonist in the legend. He will turn disaster into good luck and disaster into good fortune, and achieve the understanding of those mortals who only know how to eat, drink and shit. An unattainable feat.
Grisha himself captured the barmaid (Karla) whom Keith had long admired. Through his role as a savior during a plague, he established a foothold in Shiganshina District.
He also gave birth to a child to carry on his career and named him Allen.
However, Keith on the other side ran into a wall and suffered a bloody head. When he turned around and found that his sweetheart had married someone else, he was greatly stimulated and worked harder to commit suicide. He successfully committed suicide for many people.
He was lucky enough to survive. With his qualifications and good record, he got into the position of leader of the regiment and the leader of those seeking death.
He had a strong style and would charge when he encountered a giant. Every time, a large number of his men would die. Later, when he saw that the detachment suffered very small losses under the leadership of Erwin and Levi, he finally became disheartened and admitted that he of mediocrity, taking a back seat.
He gave up the position of leader of the Survey Corps to Erwin and became an instructor in the Training Corps.
Five years ago, the gate had just been breached. After Grisha destroyed the Reis family, he returned with the power of the two giants, Attack and Ancestor, to find his son, and forcibly passed the power to him.
Because the original basement was occupied by giants, he gave the key to his son and told him to go back to the basement.
Allen muddleheadedly inherited the power of the two giants of wisdom, but for some reason he forgot all about these things, thinking that his father had disappeared in the chaos.
Did Keith know that Grisha had looked for Allen after that, and that he had taken Allen into the woods and then "disappeared", or that Keith had brought Allen back.
In fact, Keith might know that Grisha had an extraordinary origin, but he didn't say it.
"In other words, you didn't quit because you couldn't produce results. You just realized that you were not special, so you gave up everything to become an instructor. How inferior and ridiculous you are. Regardless of whether this information is useful or not ..." Han Ji was angry, she couldn't believe that the other party was so ridiculous.
"Stop talking." Levi tried to stop him.
"Is this what you call giving your heart for humanity?" Hanji asked loudly.
Keith's face turned gloomy: "It's ridiculous, right? I just..."
Ren interrupted him: "It's not funny! It's not funny at all!"
Everyone was stunned and looked at him in surprise, and Ren stood up: "When I was a child, I dreamed of becoming a great person, but no one ever thought that I was unique and different.
When they grow up, their edges have been smoothed away, their passion has been drained away, and they are running around for a living, and people no longer want to think of the innocent and childish dreams they once had. "
He pointed at himself: "Instructor Keith, you are not the only one who thinks this way. I also thought that I was the protagonist of the world (Karen period), that I could lead the times! I could change everything! I could become a legend!
I think I have special powers or experiences, I take my time, I may encounter life-threatening danger, but I will definitely not die! All setbacks are just tests within a "category".
To this day, I have trained hard, fought hard, and thought hard, but our situation is still so bad. Even now, I have to admit that I am mediocre. "
Everyone was silent after hearing this, and Ren sat down again. He was embarrassed by his identity and failed to change everything.
"I also feel that I am ordinary. I am just the son of a special person." Allen broke the silence.
"Your mother also told me so, she..." Keith looked at Allen and said softly.
In this world, most people are just ordinary people, with ordinary backgrounds, ordinary strength and wisdom. Sometimes, even if they sacrifice everything and work hard, they still achieve nothing in the end.
That's what Instructor Keith is like. Renn doesn't think he's ridiculous. He has no system, no old man, no golden finger, etc. He also doesn't have the aura of a protagonist or the aura of wisdom. He's not gifted with extraordinary talent, and his wisdom is close to that of a demon...
Ordinary people, they don't have that.
Not to mention Instructor Keith, even the protagonists among those, without these, who can dare to say that they can reach the top and create glory, and a few dare to say that they rely on hard work and sweat, not anything else.
Ren and Allen bid farewell to Instructor Keith and left here on horseback. Hanji did not hold him accountable for not reporting what he knew. After all, he was just a poor man trapped by the times. Keith, who thought he was mediocre, watched They left, maybe, he was just a bystander.
Amin looked at Ren with an indifferent expression and said with a smile: "Ren, do you think the lives of those people you don't know, people you may not be able to name, are important?"
Ren, whose thoughts were a little wandering, came back to his senses and was a little surprised: "Of course it is important. Whose life is not life? Life is very cheap and very precious."
"You actually did a good job. Because of you, many people died. Whether it was the recapture battle or the 57th extra-wall investigation, you snatched Allen from Reiner's hands. Your quick reactions and actions made everyone proud. Our sacrifices have become less, and we have saved many people directly and indirectly. Although you may not know them, they all have names! They have relatives and friends!
I don’t want to comfort you, I just want to remind you that your ideas are very extreme and you seem to be eager to make some earth-shaking changes. In fact, we still have time. Change is not just about changing the situation and destiny of the people around you! "A Ming said seriously.
"Really?" Ren looked at the clouds on the horizon and sighed. He felt a little tired.
Allen suddenly interjected: "Extreme make our present and destroy our future."
"What?" Ren was confused and looked at Allen in surprise: "How could you say such a thing?"
Allen was stunned and scratched his head: "It's nothing, I just suddenly felt something."
With a frown, Ren found that everything lately had become a bit weird and unnatural, and he couldn't figure out why for the moment.
After waving goodbye to everyone, Renne and Sasha rushed to Dow Jones Spa Village, along with Connie, who was going to Lagago Village to visit his mother who had turned into an Unsullied Titan.
Connie recalled the time spent with his family and sighed: "I don't understand why Reiner and the others came to destroy our home, just to steal the power of the Intelligent Titan?"
"Maybe what they want to grab is not the Attack on Titan, but the Ancestral Titan, the power that can control brainless giants. Just imagine how terrifying it would be if you could command thousands of giants." Ren replied, this It was also the speculation of the group leader and others.
"Then do you think that if Allen can exert the power of the ancestor giant, can he change my mother back?" Connie asked emotionally, he was a little desperate now.
"I don't know. All I can do is make those who ruined all this pay the price."
All tribes have disappeared,
All the spears were broken.
it's here,
We used to drink dew and eat flowers.
And you,
But a piece of gravel was thrown down!
