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INBOX for Consignment

braun.reiner@cdc.org
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you saw it?

you saw him die?

Yes. Together with Eren.

[Eren. The one that should have died instead of Bertolt. He resists the urge to scream, to hit something--to do whatever he can to express the pain he's feeling in that moment.]

he wasn't your comrade

he wasn't your best friend

my entire unit was wiped out right in front of my eyes before i came here. three hundred men and women. dead. my home. destroyed. so don't act like youre the only one in pain here. bertolt and sasha were as much my comrades as they were yours. the same goes for annie. the same goes for you.

would you be my comrade if you know what i've done

what i am

bertolt and annie

they're the only ones who understood

is that so hard to believe?

i wouldn't want to be my comrade

i'm the bad guy

so am i. it's all relative, reiner. our enemies are always relative. todays good might be tomorrows evil, and vice versa. whatever you did, you did it for a reason.

[There's silence for a long, long while.]

thousands and thousands of people are dead because of me

[It's not a competition. He's just... never really outright told someone this information before.]

so?

they were innocent

i had to do it

but that doesn't feel like a good enough reason sometimes

it doesnt matter to me, reiner. if you say you had to do it, then i believe you. i know too little about your world and the circumstances to judge.

[He believes him? Just like that? Reiner doesn't know how to respond. It's a little strange.]

i'm a traitor. like annie.

we work together. no one knew.