[ Eren has dragged Mikasa into all sorts of trouble, hasn't he? She joined the military to keep him safe. He doesn't like admitting how often he needed that. Would he be alive without her? Even he isn't sure, though he knows now that he absolutely could not die until he did what he set out to do.

Ironic that she has kept him alive at great cost, considering how this all ends in some other world, in Eren's terrible future. ]

They still hated the Scouts after Wall Maria. We could never do enough for them. Nothing was ever good enough because they just wanted their blind little lives in the walls.

[ His hands tighten a little on the cloak he's holding. He shuts his mouth before he lets it run away further than that. Levi knows Eren's views on the people in the walls. He used to shout about saving humanity, but it was never really about that. It was always a selfish desire, revenge for his mother, a need to never lose anyone like that ever again.

The other people on the island, sure, he'll save (many of) them. He's vaguely aware that he will crush them, too, though. When the walls come down, there isn't time to clear out. Marley and their own military didn't give them time, and the price is the same as it always is in Eren's war: innocent lives that he barely registers. ]

Thank you. For letting me be one of you.

[ Then. Now. Whenever. ]