Attack on Titan Ending Remake Plan

[To the readers]

On that day, human beings recalled the fear of being dominated by giants and the shame of being imprisoned in a bird cage.

Many years ago, when we first saw this sentence, we never thought that this sentence and a comic book represented by this sentence would become an extremely important part of a considerable period of our lives.

It is so important that when the last chapter of the giant comic is about to be revealed, we are even praying for its author "Jian Shanchuang" to pause.

Because this is a comic work that accompanied our youth. A considerable part of our emotions and thoughts in our youth are born and born from giants.

Because this is a comic book that defines our youth. The serialization of more than ten years is enough to make the vast majority of teenagers who have been in contact with and fascinated by it from the beginning become young people and adults who are busy with their lives, busy with their studies, or confused about the future.

Therefore, it is difficult for us to accept the imperfection of giants.

But what else is perfect in this world?

Just like, the core word "freedom" in the giant cartoon, when we followed Allen, the investigation corps and the sentient beings in the comics of Attack on Titan to explore the definition of "freedom", we have thought that the essence of freedom is perfect, and there is an irreconconcible logical contradiction.

This contradiction makes us, and possibly even the author of the giant cartoon " isayama ", feel confused and confused.

I was so confused that when the story in the comic was about to end, I didn't know how to define this work.

I was so confused that when the characters in the comics went to the originally designed fate one after another, I forgot the idea of this work that should have infinite potential and really wanted to tell the world.

In the end, giants have become the heart of our generation.

In the end, we accepted the imperfection of the giants, but at the same time, we also accepted the most core idea of the giants, "each of us is born free", so that we can use our own stories to give a work that accompanied our youth a completeness that cannot exist in reality:

"Text"

Before the long years began, in the depths of the universe, a spaceship that had been sailing for a long time, lonely but persistently followed the long-set route to pursue an unknown "possibility". A "survival" possibility, this possibility, is full of DNA banks of all species from a blue planet. That planet has been completely destroyed by the nuclear war launched by the intelligent race called "humanity" to which it belongs. A long time ago, our ancestors called the unlucky blue planet "Earth", and the ones who drove the ark were the last three humans in the whole universe. Their names were "Ermin", "Mikasa" and "Allen Yeager".

In the vast universe, the spaceship drifted for many unknown years. Until the spaceship ran out of the last energy, the three people who drove the spaceship finally heard it in the hibernation warehouse. The AI codenamed "White Queen" woke up their bell: "Welcome to the new earth. The mission of the spaceship is over. I wish you good luck in leading mankind in the new world.

However, this new earth is far from a happy land. Its danger first comes from its desperate "huge" - not only in volume and surface area, but also in every creature living on it.

The giant grass is like a tree, not above the head; the ancient trees are towering, and the height can reach 100 meters. And the animals swimming among them, each head is like a moving hill, and the shadows cast are enough to cover the whole valley.

Facing this wild giant planet, the three people who carried all the fire in the old world felt the smallness and suffocation of the deep bone marrow.

Elmin turned out the final detection data of the spacecraft, and the faint light on the screen illuminated his frown: "The data confirms that this is an activated 'Gaia planet'... Although I have made psychological preparation, its scale is still beyond all theoretical deductions."

He paused, held the heavy glasses on his face, and pointed to the pulse point representing the core of the planet's life network in the data model: "All Gaia planets have a mother of all things, that is, the collection center of its ecological consciousness. If we can find it and destroy it with the 'civilization tombstone' (nuclear bomb) sealed in the engine compartment of the ship's owner, we may be able to interrupt this crazy growth logic and let the planet's ecology return to the scale we can adapt to.

Finally, the three people who cut through the thorns finally arrived at the core of the planet's life - which was not a palace or a nest, but a "tree".

It is so huge that it makes people shiver: the trunk of the tree is like a giant pillar that runs through heaven and earth, the crown of the tree sinks into the sky, and the halo of endless vitality into substance flows around it. What's more shocking is that it exudes a clear consciousness, a kind of deep tranquility that knows its own destiny.

Before the three of them opened their mouths, a gentle and magnificent voice sounded directly in the depths of their hearts:

Yggdrasil : "Travelers who have come from afar... I know that you are here for survival. And your survival requires my death, and you need to reshape this planet as your home. Am I right?"

Elmin's breathing was stagnant. He had read in ancient books that Gaia's mother might have unfathomable wisdom, but he never imagined that this wisdom could be so direct in their language to break their most determined plan.

"You... Hello," Ermin tried his best to keep his voice calm. "Excuse me...what should we call you?"

Yggdrasil : Just call me ' Yggdrasil'. ( The voice is still calm, as if talking about something that has nothing to do with me) In fact, I have been watching you for a long time. From the time your planet withered in the fire of war, and from the time you boarded the ark carrying the 'fire of god-killing', I knew that one day you would come to me. Therefore, I have already thought about today's conversation two thousand years ago.

When the words fell, the absolute silence engulfed the three people. They have never calculated how much time the drift of the universe took, let alone imagine that on the other side of the vast deep space, there has always been such a huge soul, silently watching everything about them - even know their starting point and end point better than themselves.

The sound of the Yggdrasil is like a sigh in the wind, but with unquestionable wisdom:

"Let's make a deal. I give up resistance, and you don't need to light the fire of the end. But the price is - one of you three needs to voluntarily walk into my tree heart and integrate with my consciousness.

"After that, I will fall into a long sleep. As I fall asleep, the wild vitality of this planet will gradually calm down and wither. In the end, the fire of life brought by you that belongs to the old earth will replace everything here, take root and germinate.

Its tone suddenly became deep and solemn, like a curse across time:

"However, you must remember: if one day, you forget the scars of where you came from, forget why you came here, forget the meaning of sacrifice... Then the person who sleeps in the heart of my tree will wake up."

"At that time, everything you guard at the expense of life and memory will face a more thorough catastrophe than destruction."

In the end, it was Alan Yeager who embarked on the road of embracing the "Yggdrasil", the ruler of the planet. At the time of farewell, Mikasa kissed him, put his forehead on his shoulder for a long time, and whispered the farewell to countless battlefields and the sea of stars:

Alan, be careful on the road.

They are lovers, and they are also shaped by the endless greed of the old earth. The last two tragic characters embrace each other.

The Yggdrasil kept its promise. His vast consciousness took Allen's will to the "road" in the depths of the original source of the planet and fell into a permanent sleep. What followed was the dramatic change of the whole planet: the towering trees withered, and the mountain-like beasts aged and turned into new mountains. The violent vitality receded like a tide, leaving behind a docile and empty riverbed.

A few years later, when Ermin and Mikasa stood on the hill, looking at the fields, forests and streams under their feet that were so similar to the earth in memory, and looking at the children who were raised by them from DNA embryos running and playing, a complex tranquility permeated their hearts.

They looked at each other and made the same oath silently:

Alan, we will definitely let you come back.

The years change, the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry field

Mikasa and Elmin finally couldn't wait for Allen to return. They passed away peacefully one after another in a spring and an autumn, integrating into the new land that they participated in shaping and were no different from their hometown in memory.

The life they cultivate - those sparks from the lost planet called "Earth" - have completely taken root and grown vigorously, and finally completely replaced the primitive and huge life form of the Gaia planet. Of course, it also includes their own race, a species called "human" that creates both miracles and brings destruction.

The new human has not forgotten. They erected a towering white temple for the three pioneers and enshrined the ancient ark carrying all the origins in the center of the hall. This place is revered as the "end of the world" - implying that all the tragedies, killings and deceptions of the old world should end here, and the new world should no longer have those bloody cycles.

In order to remember the fundamentals, they engraved the final teachings of the death of Ermin and Mikasa, combined with the prophecy of the world tree, on the most core stone tablet of the temple, with solemn words:

"Don't let the teenager who walked into the Yggdrasil come back. He is the father of your creation and will be your end demon.

---The stone tablet is cold, and the oath is hot---

However, people...

As long as you smell the bloody smell of interests, as long as there is enough time to wash away the tragic memory into a vague myth, an ancient advice, a ban set by the "ancients" that seems to be directly related to the current well-being, how can it really stop the deep-rooted violence, short-sightedness and tyranny in the depths of the genes of this species? Move?

Years have used war as a blade to level countless crowns and disintegrate thousands of empires.

The history of the new human race continues in endless battles, until the beacon for years completely burns out the last memory and curiosity about "who we are, where we come from, and where we will go". The temple of origin has become a scenery, and the warning of the inscription has turned into a vague legend.

So, the gears of reincarnation began to bite ruthlessly.

This planet Gaia, which had been asleep and should no longer bear such entanglement, was forcibly dragged into a grotesque and violent eternal cycle:

Birth - Rise - Heyday - Conflict - War - Destruction - Reconstruction...

Then, re-birth/rise/prosperit/conflict/war/destruction.

The planet silently carries everything, like an audience forced to watch the same tragedy over and over again. Its soil is soaked with blood, and then covered by new life; its mountains and forests are burned into scorched earth and green again in time. Only the existence buried deep in the earth's veins and sleeping with a teenager's consciousness may still be in the deepest dream, feeling the tremor of this week .

In the long years that even the stars would die, Alan Yeager - the teenager who stepped into the Yggdrasil and became the father of the new human being and the potential demon - his consciousness was carried to the "road" by the Yggdrasil .

"Road" is an invisible network flowing in the whole universe, and it is a holographic image torrent that gathers all the memories and perceptions of life. Allen wandered in it for an immeasurable time, just like the Gaia mother who embraced him in those years, witnessed the birth, love, struggle and annihilation of every corner of the universe. He saw all the extreme glory and meanness, and therefore touched the deepest secret of the universe and gained almost divine and heavy wisdom.

Finally, the integration was completed. The Yggdrasil became Alan Yeager, and Alan Yeager also became the Yggdrasil . If it were not awakened, this unified will would adhere to the agreement with Mikasa and Ermin, be silent forever, and no longer interfere in the history of the "mortal".

Be until

A ragged little girl with a strange sense of familiarity stumbled through the hall that had been turned into mortal wood and knelt in front of the silent giant tree roots.

She cried and talked about the grievances of being planted, the fear of being hunted, the puzzledness of fate and the loneliness that went deep into the bone marrow.

She is Yumir.

The Yumir who was exiled because of the escape of a pig; the Yumir who was forced into a desperate situation by the evil dog and the hunter; the slave girl whose heart was full of grievances and confusion in countless reincarnations.

Of course, she is also the same voice - the same "Yumir" as the spaceship AI that awakened Mikasa, Elmin and Allen in the dormant warehouse before the long years began.

When the familiar voice that makes the soul tremble, mixed with the cry of children, penetrates the ancient sleep...

In the depths of the annual ring of the giant tree, there seemed to be a heavy sigh that crossed all time and space.

So, we all know the later story.

The little girl named Yumir finally walked into a huge tree hole exposed to the "Yggdrasil". Just like what the teenager named Alan Yeager did a long time ago.

She became one with the origin of the planet and became a part of it. It also became the origin of the power of all giants that were feared and worshiped in later history - the ancestor giant.

Why is the giant so huge?

There is no other reason, just because this planet called "Gaia", its most primitive and essential blueprint of life, is already written with the word "huge without friends".

Without the intervention of the power of giants, I'm afraid that the history of this generation of new human beings will still fall into the sad reincarnation that has been repeated since the era of Mikasa and Ermin: birth - rise - heyday - conflict - war - destruction - reconstruction, and over again, there is no transcendence.

However, the power of giants appeared. It brings a crushing survival advantage to the new human race that calls itself "Eldia". With this inhuman power, they skipped the long trial and error and arduous accumulation that countless generations of civilizations had to go through. The hostile race was crushed into slaves, and the magnificent buildings were miracled up from the ground. On this planet of Gaia, which was once ruled by giants, an unprecedented "Eldia Empire" maintained by the divine power of the body was quickly established.

The essence of the foundation of the empire is full of irony: it comes from the "Father and Devil" (Allen/Yggdrasil) cruelly awakened by human beings, the power given by pitying a helpless little girl (Yumir). This power was born from compassion, but it finally built the cruelest hegemony.

As vaguely recorded in mythology: the power of giants is transmitted in the way of "swallowing" the previous generation's heirs, which is rough and bloody. The characteristics of the nine wisdom giants can be traced back to the forms and abilities of all kinds of primitive and huge life on this planet that existed before the distant era, as early as Allen walked into the Yggdrasil - this power has always carried the ancient and wild brand of the planet Gaia.

What a great power, what a magnificent empire. The Eldians are convinced that their rule will reach the end of time.

As for those slaves and sacrifices who were thrown into the mouth of giants?

Oh, that's just a necessary nutrient that no one will care about under the great body of the empire. The glory of the empire has never illuminated the fate that they are bound to be swallowed up.

Be until

The Eldia Empire welcomed the 145th king, "Carl Fritz".

He boised himself as an "incomparable benevolent" monarch.

His benevolence had a rigorous procedure: giving the slaves excellent food and a comfortable home, and raising them to the age of eighteen. At that time, the slaves can put on their most decent clothes and take the initiative to walk to the giant's blood basin. In exchange for the continuation of the bloodline of future generations, these slaves not only did not dare to struggle, but must try their best to pretend to enjoy and be grateful in the extreme pain of being swallowed slowly and alive, in order to "repay" the king's grace and complete the last decence of this twisted ceremony.

However, the "benevolent" monarch has endless curiosity in his heart. He gathered the top scholars of the empire to form a huge scientific team to excavate and study the relics of previous civilizations that were annihilated and reborn due to successive wars. His eyes finally locked firmly on the most mysterious, magnificent and dilapidated legendary place - the "End of the World" temple.

He firmly believes that there is the ultimate secret that surpasses the power of giants and is related to the essence of the world.

So

After years of excavation and deciphering, in the depths of the dusty hall, the proverb that had been polished almost blurred by a long time finally saw the light of day, coldly engraved on the ancient alloy inscription, and came into Karl Fritz's eyes:

Don't try to wake up the teenager who took the initiative to walk into the arms of the world tree. He is our father and our demon.

Wang stood in front of the inscription and was silent for a long time. Scholars waited with bated breath, thinking that they would see awe or hesitation.

But what slowly ignited in Karl Fritz's eyes was a mixture of ecstasy and arrogance. What he saw was not a warning, but a...

---Invitation---

"So..." He muttered in a low voice and stroked the cold inscription with his fingers. "The so-called 'end' is not the end. It's a lock, and the key has always been in our hands.

In his opinion, the great cause of the empire has reached the bottleneck. Although the power of the giant is strong, it is subject to the chaos of thirteen years of curse and inheritance. If the power of the "Father and the Devil" can be understood and even "awakened" and controlled... Then the glory of Eldia will truly penetrate time and reach eternity.

His so-called benevolence is essentially the effective management of "resources"; his so-called curiosity is actually the greed of power that will never be satisfied. For him, the warning of the temple is just an explanation of the cowardice of the weak.

Therefore, a taboo study called "Exploring the Origin of Civilization", which is actually coveting the power of the gods and intending to open Pandora's box, was quietly launched under the pouring of imperial resources.

What Wang doesn't know and doesn't care is

This temple, called "The End of the World", carries a huge space inside. It is not only an ancient cosmic ark that carries their racial blood and sprouted here for a long time than the history that these self-righteous tyrants can recognize, but also allows those who thought they can control All the unknown tyrants can't understand or face the abyss at all.

And the will of Alan Jaeger, who was hidden deep in the "road" of the planet and deeply integrated with Gaia's consciousness, felt the cold and greedy touch from the descendants of blood for the first time in the eternal sleep.

The sleeping giant tree, its deepest annual ring, seemed to tremble extremely slightly.

The 145th king, Karl Fritz, finally succeeded in letting the will of the empire penetrate the ancient barrier with countless taboo rituals and technologies, and came into contact with the existence that is both origin and taboo - the "father and demon" of their race and even all new human beings, Alan Yeager (also the world tree).

However, what Allen gave him was not a gift of power or an eternal promise, but an unadorned and unbearable torrent of truth.

How can mortal eyes be qualified to spy on the secrets of gods?

Therefore, a scene that could not be understood by later history books happened:

Karl Fritz, the 145th king who had just achieved the "enlightenment" and should have led the empire to a more glorious peak, seemed to be a different person after the "communication". There was no more curiosity and fanaticism on his face, only endless fatigue and deep fear.

Carl Fritz, the 145th king of the Eldia people, is crazy.

Since the contact with the "father and the devil", unfathomable depression and mania without warning, like alternating torture, tormented him day and night. The servants were trembling, the subjects were confused, and the descendants of slaves who ostensibly felt the king's grace and actually continued the bloodline in the giant's belly for generations became the most unknown but most desperate sacrifices in this storm of truth.

In the gap between madness and sobriety, an idea derived from despair and distorted experiments was formed in Wang's heart. He took out the two old test tubes "given" to him by Alan Yeager - which may not be a gift, but a cold test or a cruel curse.

The first test tube was injected to his "compatriots", the Eldians who proved themselves as the voters of God.

When the needle enters the body, some kind of root connection is permanently cut off. The power of the giants they relied on to rule, fight and enjoy dissipated like the ebb tide, leaving only empty bodies and deeper fear. They were beaten back to mortals from the "god".

The second test tube was ordered by him to be injected into the descendants of slaves known as the "Marley people ".

Karl Fritz has a kind of self-destructive scientific fantasy and deep-rooted contempt: he does not believe that these "despicable bloodlines" can also carry the power of giants. This may be his last stubborn resistance to the truth, trying to verify his collapsed racial superiority in destruction.

He was wrong.

The reagent triggered a terrible chain reaction. The bodies of the Marley people swelled, torn and reorganized painfully in the streets and alleys, turning into an angry giant monster exactly like when they swallowed their fathers. However, this time, the position of the hunter and the prey is reversed.

The new giants, full of pain and primitive anger, frantically hunted down and grabbed the Eldians who had just lost their strength and were frightened on the streets - whether they were women, children or men. They chewed and swallowed the former owner slowly and painfully with the same blood basin that had swallowed their ancestors.

The screams and the sound of bones breaking replaced the solemn hymns of the imperial capital in the past.

Later, we all knew it.

Carl Fritz, the almost crazy 145th king, led the remaining people of Eldia to escape across the sea to a remote island - Paraty Island.

There, he used the power of the giants finally controlled by the royal family and originated from the "ancestor" to order countless innocent giants to incarnate into living bricks and stones, and built three unparalleled giant walls.

The strangest and most terrible thing is that the countless "super giants" that make up the wall do not face the outer enemy, but all face the inside of the wall. Their empty and huge eyes eternally stare at the only Eldians left in the wall, like silent jailers guarding prisoners.

Standing high in the newly built royal city, Carl Fritz - the king who witnessed the truth and personally directed the reversal of power and bloody revenge, and now only tired and paranoia in his eyes - declared to his last subjects:

We! He is the descendant of the bloodline of 'Father and Demon'!

Inside this high wall, it is our salvation and our execution ground!

Anyone who tries to break the wall will wake up our sleeping "Father and Demon" and lead to the real end of the world!

Therefore, my last people... Forget the outside world, give up struggle and curiosity, and live 'peace of mind' within this wall!

His voice echoed in the wilderness, and finally turned into a soft but creepy whisper:

After all... You can see that the giants in the wall have been watching you all the time!

Since then, the Eldia Empire has sealed itself in the giant wall, locking the blood of history and the truth of the universe into the high wall. They took fear as the cornerstone and surveillance as their protection, creating a static and seemingly eternal "paradise".

Outside the wall, the Marley people who gained the power of giants and were full of hatred gradually rose into a new force; inside the wall, the captive Eldia people spent a hundred years in false peace.

Until one day, a crack appeared on the wall.

On that day, human beings recalled the fear of being dominated by giants and the shame of being imprisoned in bird cages.

For a hundred years

The descendants of slaves who were swallowed alive because of the "kindness" of the 145-generation king and accidentally gained the power of giants because of his "madness" - the Marley people did not move towards harmony from then. They rose quickly and built their own Mare Empire, with iron blood and revenge as the cornerstone.

A "pure-blooded" Eldian is no longer allowed to exist in the empire. However, the power of giants - this legacy from tragedy and sin - has never disappeared. In order to control this power and consolidate the new ruling order, the Marley people turned inside to look for new "aliens" and costs.

They pointed their finger at the compatriots who had cooperated with the Eldia Empire and were willing to be slaves - the "Honorable Marley people ". Nowadays, these people are labeled as "potential traitors" and "Eldia's remnants" and are labeled as heretics. A cruel internal cleansing and separation began.

One concentration camp after another was built, and these "internal enemies" and "necessary tools" defined by the new empire were imprisoned within the high walls and barbed wire. Here, blood and history become the original sin, and the power of giants becomes a curse that is closely monitored and forced to inherit.

Under the shadow of these gloomy camps, the people we are familiar with later, their fates are intertwined and conceived here:

owlet , passing flames and secrets in the shadows

Grisha, with the trauma of the family and the desire for change

Jake, find another dangerous path in distorted expectations and self-destruction.

Rainer, Yani and Bethold were selected to be warriors with a heavy mission, that is, "go to Palaty Island, sneak into the three high walls isolated from the world, find the ancestor giant inherited by the Eldia royal family, and seize its coordinates to pry open the "end of the world" for the Marley Empire, and also 14 The fifth-generation king went crazy when he went in and came out. The temple with the built-in "secret of the gods" was a seemingly impossible task. Even if this task is destined to bear the sins that cannot be washed away in a lifetime.

All of them are children born in this new reincarnation - not only the "weapon" used by the Marley Empire to maintain the rule, but also the contradictory fruit of the old injustices in the new era. Hatred and power, like a double spiral, continue to be passed on in the blood of a new generation.

Later, Grisha may have forgotten a lot of details before inheriting the giant and swallowing the owl. But at the critical point where the memory is completely blurred, owl exhausted his last energy to burn in the depths of his consciousness, which is such an ultimate mission:

"Go to the 'end of the world'... Use the 'coordinate power' you took from the giant wall... Only it can open the giant door of the temple..."owl’s voice was intermittent but heavy as iron, "After the 145th king went in, he went crazy when he came out... Marley poured all his technology and brute force, and even used giants and heavy artillery to bombard... ...The door didn't move. But they will not give up... because they are as sure as the king of those years that there is the ultimate source of the power of giants behind the door.

Grisha instinctively resisted in the chaos of severe pain and inheritance: "The memory before the transformation... will disappear... You say so much... How can I remember..."

owl’s last eyes seemed to penetrate time, looking straight at the essence of Attack on Titan that transcends the times:

"You will remember... because there is the body you are about to inherit... the fate of crossing countless eras."

His words eventually turned into a proverb that branded the soul:

"This giant, no matter in which era, will keep moving forward in pursuit of freedom... Its name is - 'Attack on Titan'."

The bonfire is reflected in owl’s eyes, and it seems to reflect the broken river of time. His voice became distant and confused:

"You will inherit all this, walk into the high wall, and find the last Eldia. There, you will learn to love - love a wife, love a child... Although we are all from Marley , if we can't learn to love specific people, we will only repeat the sins committed by our ancestors.

He suddenly pressed his aching forehead, and the words overflowed from between his teeth:

"If you want to save everyone... to save Mikasa and Ermin... you must first reconcile with the world."

Grisha was stunned: "Mikasa? Elmin? Who on earth are you talking about?"

For the first time, owl’s eyes were blank. He looked down at his trembling hands, as if there were memories that did not belong to him:

I don't know... Whose memory is this?

What does it have to do with the "God's Secret" in the 'End of the World' temple...?

The three high walls - Maria, Rosai and Sina - are like divine ravines, isolating the only remaining Eldia people on the planet. For a hundred years, the wall has cut off all exchanges with the outside world. The people are convinced of the legend instilled by the ruling class: the human beings outside the wall have long died, and the world has belonged to the giants. And the high-level knows that the real intention of the 145th king to build a high wall - only by trapping the people in this huge "living prison" can they avoid the strife and exploration of the outside world, and finally awaken the "father and the devil" that made Karl Fritz fall into madness.

The collapsing truth from the universe and origin, and the boundless fear it brings, have been deeply imprinted in the blood of the royal family like a curse. From Uli Reis to Frida Reis, the heirs of the "ancestral giant" and the memory of the royal family have been deeply dominated by this fear. Although they don't fully understand what the "father and the devil" repeated before the death of the 145th king means, they interpret it as a symbol in common fear:

The "father" is the earth under his feet (the planet Gaia itself), which is both a birth and a prison;

"Demon" is the "secret" that drives Carl Fritz crazy. It is both truth and poison.

In their eyes, any attempt to touch and uncover the intention and behavior of this secret is a blasphemy to attract the "earth demon".

Therefore, when Uli Rays - the king who has enough power to change the world, but his heart is trapped by ancestral fear and pessimistic prophecy - said the following words, his tone was full of prophetic compassion and helpless fatigue:

"The world will eventually be destroyed."

"And before destruction comes... I just want to guard this 'paradise within the wall'."

He looked at the bustling but ignorant crowd in the wall and looked over the wall, as if he had seen the predestined end:

"This is what I can give... the last peace before the 'twilight of the gods'."

Later, we all learned about the evolution of the plot in the world of giants under the pen of "Isayama". The only puzzle is when did Alan Yeager know the truth like the 145th king?

Perhaps the earliest echo occurred when he and Mikasa were picking up firewood, lying under the big tree with strange purple flowers. That is not an ordinary tree, but the unconscious extension of the consciousness of the Yggdrasil on the surface of the earth. That short dream is not a memory, but a "recognition" and "pre-study" of the soul. Young Allen couldn't understand the vast sea of stars, the destroyed hometown, and the vow of sacrifice in his dream, so he could only respond with inexplicable tears after waking up. It's the original, gentle sting from the truth of the universe.

Or when he inherited Attack on Titan, Grisha's memories and emotions poured in like a torrent. This is not only Grisha's memory, but also a river of memory fragments flowing in the "road" connected by the characteristics of Attack on Titan. For the first time, Allen systematically, although it was broken, he saw the world outside the wall, the concentration camp of Marley , the instructions of owl , and the familiar and strange geographical term "the end of the world".

What's more, when he unconsciously activated the power of "coordinates" to dispel the innocent giant for the first time, he briefly touched the network of "road". It was a deeper and more primitive connection, as if it had played a string of planetary consciousness. This made him have an older doubt about the origin of his own strength beyond his father.

Finally, when he kissed the back of "Histeria"'s hand as "Maria's War Hero". Through contact with the king's blood, he really took the initiative and comprehensively entered the "road" and accessed the memories of Karl Fritz and all the predecessors for the first time with the authority of the "ancestor". At this moment, the crazy truth of the universe seen by the 145th king was presented to him without reservation.

But Alan is not crazy.

Although he must have experienced no less than the torment of 145 generations of kings, the result of the torment was not collapse, but a cold, desperate and fatherly decision. He changed himself from the role of "victim/rebel" to "executioner/victim".

Allen Yeager: On the other side of the sea, there is an enemy! Do you say that if we kill all the people across the sea, can we be free?

No one understands Allen Yeager. Of course, I can't understand it at all.

He can only move forward alone, weaving the rope of fate with his own hands, and guiding his companions who had entrusted his life - especially Mikasa and Ermin - step by step to the dusty end: "the end of the world".

He sneaked into Marley and became the captain of the young soldier in the army with his bravery and wisdom, and became Gabi’s blind idol. He instilled in Gabi the philosophy of war that "victory is everything", and finally catalyzed her to blow up the armored train with deception. He coldly took advantage of this worship to sow the seeds of radicalism.

In the face of the hesitation of Hange and Ermin, he did not hesitate to harm himself to lure his archenemy Rainer, and told the ridicule of fate and the sadness of the warrior in the ruins.

He personally created a tragedy in Rebelio, tore up Willy Deba, swallowed the Warhammer Giant holder alive, and ignited the flame of hatred and fear to its peak.

In the end, he deduced "the Rumbling" as the only solution to the survival crisis of Paradis Island.

Behind all this crazy behavior is the cold logic that he confirms with the sleeping "self" (that is, the father and the devil) who has become a part of the Yggdrasil in the "road":

Only by launching the Rumbling and creating a crisis at the level of annihilation will Marley and the world be forced to use all their strength and find all the legends, and Mikasa and Ermin - as two of the "last three people of the ark" directly connected to the original contract - will be pushed to the forefront by the torrent of history and have to face and open that The "end of the world" temple that no one can open since the 145th king.

In the temple, what is sealed is not only the source of the power of the giant, but also the complete memory of the planet (Gaia), the original contract of giving up the home, and... the method that may escape from the current terrible reincarnation distorted by greed and the power of giants.

Allen knew that he knew the ultimate secret like the 145th king, but he chose a completely different path: instead of fleeing in fear and sealing the truth, he took the initiative to become a disaster and forced the truth to be re-exposed in the most extreme situation.

He will open the "key" to open new possibilities, leaving it to Ermin, who represents the original conscience and wisdom of the old world, and Mikasa, who represents the contract of love and tenacity.

His Rumbling, thus became a cruel ritual: a huge trauma to the planet, just to expose the deepest wound (the forgotten contract and sin) again, and to give the successor of the original covenant a chance to make a new choice.

Is it to choose to continue this reincarnation that swallows each other? Or use the ancient blueprint of interstellar escape or consciousness ascentation that may be sealed in the temple to find a new path for all living beings?

Allen left this choice to posterity, to the two people he cherished most who were pushed to the cliff of fate by him.

Alan Yeager's ultimate role is not a destroyer, but a desperate guide. He wrote evil with his own name and shook the earth with the footsteps of the destruction of the world, just to forcibly drag human civilization - whether it was the Eldians or the Marley people - this broken ship that kept touching the reef in reincarnation, to a new starting point called "the end of the world".

As for whether to fall or sail later, he can't control it.

He can only move forward until the choice is returned to the people who started all this at the beginning.

Therefore, both Hange, who practiced the ideal with life, or Ermin, who searched for the truth with wisdom - the last commanders of the two Scout Regiment - found themselves being invisibly pulled by a pair of hands across time and space.

Those hands belong to Allen Yeager, and also belong to the older one, before the long years began, the real master of the earth under their feet, the "Yggdrasil". They are not only the "earth demons" who bring destruction, but also the "fathers and demons" who lead civilization to the end of reincarnation. Their plan is as precise as an oracl, seamless and irresistible.

Finally, the Rumbling was activated, and the footsteps of the destruction of the world shook the earth.

In the end, Ermin and Hange made up their minds in desperate situations to lead the investigation of the last fire of the corps and sailed to the legendary other side - the "end of the world" to face the "ultimate secret" that had made the 145th king completely crazy.

Hange’s eyes were burning with the determination of a scientist and the urgency of a warrior: "Now, only by reaching the 'end of the world' and activating the 'judge' program that may exist in it be possible to terminate the Rumbling "

Elmin stared at the level in the distance and asked a more far-reaching question: "However... will the existence that can stop the Rumbling really be 'redemption'? Or another... 'choice'?"

Their voices seem to penetrate reality and echo in the endless "road".

There, the consciousness of Allen Yeager and the Yggdrasil was like a double intertwined nebula, making a low laugh and sigh:

"Haha... Ermin, Ermin, aren't you born to yearn for the secret outside the wall? Now that the 'secret of the gods' is within reach, why are you hesitating?"

"Don't be afraid, my old friend. I have finished the road paved by the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood for you. You just need to go to the end and open the last door lock with Mikasa with the fingerprint of your 'first fire'.

The voice finally turned into a gentle and sad agreement across all time and sacrifice:

"Friends... Let's meet again at dawn without high walls."

Elmin and Hange have guessed that the ultimate program hidden in the temple "at the end of the world" and preset as the "judge" may be more terrible than the Rumbling itself.

But do they still have a choice?

From the moment they boarded the cargo ship heading for the legend, from the moment they decided to inherit the will of the Scout Regiment , this road has long been the only answer.

Under the morning sun, Mikasa, Ermin, Hange and Captain Levi led the team with the double fate of "saving the world" and "destruction" to wave goodbye to Queen Histria, who was standing in the port and pregnant.

What they boarded was not only a cargo ship, but also an ark sailing to the end of fate. In front of the route is Alan Yeager and the Yggdrasil - which is both the existence of the "earth demon" and the "father and the devil" - the "road" carved for everything long ago.

Hange’s eyes reflected the junction of the sea and the sky, and the last flame was burning in his heart:

"Be sure to stop Rumbling ... Even if I can't do it, I must let others live to the 'end of the world'. Activate the 'Judger' and end this sin... This is the final mission of the Scout Regiment .

Elmin looked at the fog in the distance, seeking knowledge and determination were intertwined in his eyes:

"I have to see with my own eyes... Allen would rather transform into a monster and bet everything to reveal the 'secret of God'. The end of the secret, is it despair, or..."

Mikasa clenched the scarf, and the old temperature came from his fingertips, and the oath roared silently in his heart:

"Allen ... I will definitely take you home this time."

The cargo ship slowly sailed away and merged into the sea and sky.

Queen Histeria gently stroked the new life in her belly and looked at the direction in which her best friends disappeared. After a long time, she whispered the farewell that crossed all sacrifices and agreements:

"Friends... We'll see you again in the next life."

The wind brings the breath of the sea tide, and also sends the last elegy of an era.

Their journey is to find the end; and the end of their journey may be the starting point of all cycles. In the depths of the mottled temple, what awaits them will be the ultimate truth - and the "judgment" that follows beyond imagination.

So, the course is determined, and there is no turning back.

The end is the "end of the world".

Hange Zoe, the 14th commander of the Scout Regiment , finally failed to reach the "end of the world".

Her life, with her passionate questioning of the truth of the world, ended halfway to the end of the divine secret and reincarnation.

Her sacrifice is not lonely.

In order to add the last drop of fuel to the saving plane, they made an emergency landing at the last airship airport in the Marley Empire that had not been stepped on by giants. The Marley soldiers who stayed here made a choice after seeing the visitor and their mission.

A Marley commander with mottled epaulettes shouted to the wounded Hange in the deafening footsteps of giants:

"You are going to save the world... This is not an easy errand!"

Hange wiped off the oil stains on his face and returned with a hoarse but sharp smile as before:

"Aren't you the same? Only these few airships are left, and the giants who still have to stop the Rumbling - isn't it also 'hitting stones with eggs'?"

The commander was silent for a moment and looked at the smoke that swallowed the horizin in the distance:

"I can't help it... After all, this is the sin that all of us open together."

No more words

Hange was upright, and his scarred right fist was heavily clasped on his left chest - a standard military salute belonging to the Scout Regiment .

The commander of Marley stared at her for a second, and then replied solemnly - an equally standard Marley military salute.

In the countdown to the end of civilization, two symbols that should not be shared meet here.

The commander turned around and gave the last order to all the remaining subordinates, and the voice overwhelmed the noise of the Rumbling :

"From now on, this plane carrying the savior will enjoy the supreme right of way in the whole territory of Marley !"

"No one can stop them until they reach the 'end of the world'!"

Therefore, in the last fire and rush, the reconciliation was completed in the most silent and magnificent way.

It is no longer an idea, but has turned into a box of fuel, a military salute, an order issued by exhausting the last authority, and a group of people who choose to meet the end of the world side by side with their former enemies.

Hange ,the fourteenth "commander" of the Scout Regiment , sacrificed her "heart" for the ideal of her life.

But she died without regret.

Because at the last moment before her consciousness dissipated, her eyes penetrated the smoke and firmly locked on the plane that broke free from the dust and smoke and rushed to the sky - it was carrying all her comrades-in-arms and the last answer, firmly flying to the other side she had been chasing all her life.

At the same time, in Marley , a mother is holding a newborn baby and fleeing among tens of millions of refugees, and the earth under her feet is being crushed by the footsteps of giants.

The world can't understand: which generation of their ancestors planted the seeds of this extinction disaster, which produced the evil fruit of burning everything today.

On Paradis Island, Queen Histeria gave birth to a new life in the warm candlelight hall.

The tranquility, hope and protection she lives in, and the mother on the other side of the strait struggling in the dust and despair and the brand-new life in her arms constitute the cruelest and deepest position in the universe.

On the plane, everyone looked down on the purgatory-like Rumbling below. The ultimate tragedy has gone beyond what fear can describe.

Under the leadership of Elmin, the fifteenth leader of the Scout regiment, something more burning in their eyes: that is, to live to reach the "end of the world" no matter what, witnessing the secret obsession with their own eyes.

It is curiosity, responsibility, and an answer to all victims.

The gear of fate has been bitten to death at the moment of the exchange of military service.

Whether it is judgment, redemption or nothingness behind the door, they have - can't turn back.

The salvation/destruction team flew the plane, swept over the mountains, crossed the ocean, and flew over the endless sea of corpses and blood made by the earth's sound. This scene is so familiar.

Many years ago, Erwin Smith, the commander of the 13th Scout regiment , led the elite of the corps to rush to the giant of the beast with the same death-like charge. At that time, what burned in his heart was not a pure idea of salvation, but a more private and ardening desire: leaving everything behind and going to the basement of Allen's house to prove the truth of the world outside the wall with his own eyes.

Now, the scene reappears. It's just that the regiment leader was changed to Ermin, and the "Secret in the Basement" was also upgraded to the "Secret of the God" in the temple at the "End of the World" where the plane was rushing at full speed - the "Secret of the God" that had driven the 145th king crazy.

By the porthole, Captain Levi Ackerman's half-face wrapped around the bandage showed an imperceptible and almost gratifying arc.

Elmin noticed this slight expression: "captain , what are you laughing at?"

Levi didn't look away from the sea of clouds, and his voice was as calm as before: "Nothing. Commander Elmin, I just suddenly felt that... I didn't make the wrong choice to let you survive and inherit the super-large giant.

Elmin fell into silence when she heard the words.

Yes. At that time, the leader of the Erwin group was really tired. His lifelong obsession has actually reached the end from the moment he learned that "there are human beings outside the wall". If he is allowed to survive the inheritance of the giant and face the truth that "the essence of the giant crisis is still a man-to-man war", he may really lose all the motivation to move forward - he is a dreamer who lights a torch, but not necessarily a walker who can walk through the long night with fire.

"Each of us has paid too much..." Elmin finally said in a very soft voice, but with the weight that the regiment leader should have, "But the living always take over the responsibility and burden of the dead. Even if this burden is... as heavy as a mountain.

Levi turned his head, and a complete smile appeared without reservation for the first time. It was the pure trust refined after countless sacrifices and choices:

"The commander of the 15th Scout regiment , we are almost there."

"I, Levi Ackerman, obey your command in everything."

The plane broke through the clouds, facing the sun piercing the sky, and the outline of an island in the center of a huge boundless salt lake (or a sea of salt lake) gradually became clear.

On the island, an ancient and mottled temple stands quietly, as if it has been waiting for the arrival of this "key" made by blood and fire since the beginning of time.

As soon as you think about it, thousands of rivers and mountains.

One thought is extinguished, the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry field.

Before the long years began, the spaceship carrying the last fire made an emergency landing in front of the ancient but lonely Yggdrasil .

Now, the plane carrying the final answer has made an emergency landing in front of the temple called "The End of the World".

The scene is so similar, as if the years are a perfect circle.

The temple stands in the middle of a vast, boundless, mirror-like salt lake/sea. The base is as high as a hundred feet, mottled but not dilapidated, remote but unique with an ancient solemnity. Its magnificence and silence made even the maging giants detour for it, not daring to blasphem this tranquility beyond the world.

"We are here." Elmin's voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of disturbing something.

Rainer's pupils contracted slightly - the giant door guarding the temple, with its shape and weight, is very similar to the giant door of the Maria wall that he opened many years ago to guard the Higanshina district.

There are no giants and no guards. Only the birds circling on the high wall and a cat squatting on the wall and quietly staring at the first group of visitors in a hundred years.

Quiet, peaceful, and even a trace of untimely warmth.

This is the end of the world, the end of their destiny and the burial place of the "secret of the gods".

The cat suddenly opened its mouth, and its voice was neither awkward nor strange, but as natural as the wind blowing through the salt lake:

"Here you are. The gods have been waiting for a long time.

"Please put your palms on the identification places around the left and right of the gate. The gods will open the door for you and invite you to... "complain your best".

"Good luck to you."

Ermin , Mikasa, Jang, Coney, Rainer, Yani, and even the Levi captain were surprised. I'm not surprised that the cat can talk, but that this legendary temple, which hides the secret of the 145th king and should be on high guard, is unprepared for their arrival, and even... seems to be waiting deliberately.

Mikasa looked at Ermin and went forward according to his words.

Mikasa put his palm on the left identification, and Ermin put it on the right.

Without a roar or resistance, the giant door opened lightly and smoothly to both sides, as if it was just a hidden door.

Everything is so smooth that it makes people panic. It seems that the long road they have walked through mountains and seas and sacrifices is just a long paving for this gentle push.

The salt lake is waveless, the birds are circling, and the vibration of the earth is like a distant echo of another world.

The giant door slid open silently, not even the squeak of years, only the gentle female voice of unknown source, slightly metallic, echoing inside the empty temple.

Then, the light was intertwined, and a holographic image that made everyone - whether it was Eldia or Malay - extremely familiar but creepy slowly emerged.

It was a girl in a simple long dress with empty eyes and a respectful posture. It's the ancestor Yumir.

But her voice and expression are completely different from those of the silent slave in the legend. The voice was calm and clear, with inhuman precision and a trace of nostalgia buried deep in the program:

"The system has detected the authorization gene sequence. Welcome home--"

Guardian No.2 astronaut, 'Ermin'

Guardian No.3 astronaut, 'Mikasa'

The image fluctuated slightly, and her form seemed to overlap subtly. Sometimes it appeared as a slave girl kneeling on the sand, and sometimes it appeared as a virtual female image shrouded in a soft halo and with a more sense of technology - that was the core AI of this ancient spaceship, codenamed "White Queen".

"I am the AI of the ship's navigation log and ecological maintenance system, and the file name is 'White Queen'. In your former civilization records, I am also called 'Yumir'.

She tilted her head slightly, as if she was reading the endless data stream.

"It has passed since the last active system interaction: interstellar standard year, 18792 and 4 months and 17 days."

Welcome back to the 'Ark-Survivor'

The severe headache that had been bothering Mikasa suddenly calmed down at this moment, turning into a cold and clear picture of the years.

Memory, the memory of the previous life, which was blocked by a long time and man, with the opening of the door, with the guidance of the leading cat and the AI "White Queen-Yumir" holographic image, poured into the minds of Ermin and Mikasa like a river of stars.

They saw

The blue planet called "Earth" hangs in a galaxy called "Solar System" and revolves around a star called "Sun".

That is the cradle of life and the abyss of miracles:

Trilobites roaming the seabed during the Cambrian eruption, the fern forests towering into the clouds in the Carboniferous period, comparable to the primitive giant forest of Gaia, the magnificent survival of species in the termian doomsday catastrophe, the titan beasts walking on the earth in the era of dinosaurs... and the wandering of wisdom from primates to their distant ancestors. Long epic.

They saw

The pyramids of ancient Egypt point to the starry sky, the temples of ancient Greece are carved with awe of the unknown, the scriptures of ancient India regard all things as brothers, and the philosophy of ancient China teaches the world to be "the unity of heaven and man" and tolerance.

Then, they saw how forgetting happened:

The same kind is cruel to each other, and all things are slaves. Ecology collapses in plunder, and species dies in indifference.

In the end, an ultimate weapon called "nuclear bomb" was invented, competed, activated... The button was pressed, and civilization self-destructed.

So, Allen , Elmin and Mikasa - carrying all the blueprints of life and desperate hopes in the old world, boarded the last ark, that is, the temple called "the end of the world" in front of them - which was originally an interstellar colonial ship called "Ark-Survivor".

The encounter of the planet Gaia, the contract of the Yggdrasil , the sacrifice of Allen, the cultivation of the DNA library, the birth and alienation of a new civilization... All the broken history is connected into a perfect circle at this moment.

The cat jumped lightly to a seemingly incospicuous door. This door is different from the magnificence of the outside. It is simple and clean, as if it has just been wiped.

The cat turned around, and its pupils contracted slightly in the dim light:

"This elevator leads to the main control room."

"If you want to know the 'secret of the gods'... just go in."

Its voice is very soft, but it is like the last bell on the soul.

Maybe it's the ultimate answer they're looking for across 10,000 years of time and space, or maybe... it's the entrance to another deeper "road".

The elevator door slid open silently, and the internal space was narrow and clean, emitting a faint blue light and a faint mechanical whisper. There is no doubt that this is a passage for only two people, which goes straight to the source of everything - it is not only the main control room of the spaceship, but also the ultimate space known as the "resice of the gods" and "the place where the father and the demon sleep".

Mikasa and Ermin looked at each other and walked in side by side without hesitation. The elevator door closed behind them to isolate the outside world.

Outside the door, Jang, Connie, Yani, Reiner and others saw them disappear, and their eyes couldn't hide their worries. The cat jumped lightly to the console aside, and its tail wagged gently. The "White Queen-Yumir" in the holographic image floated quietly, and her eyes gently swept over the people who were left behind.

"The place they went to is the heart of the ship and the starting point of all our stories." The cat's voice sounded calmly, and the image of "Yumir" rippled, as if it was narrating synchronously, "Before your leader returns... Maybe you would like to listen to it about 'who we are', 'where we come from', and... 'Our possible end'."

Inside the elevator.

With a slight sense of weightlessness, the car began to sink steadily - or rise? Inside this huge spaceship, the direction has lost its meaning. The material of the wall is not gold or stone, with fine veins of light flowing, like living blood vessels. The air is filled with the smell of old days, mixed with engine oil, ozone, and a reassurasing smell of old dust, like the former residence of childhood.

Mikasa is very close to Ermin. The memory of the astronauts of the previous life has been completely awakened, and they are familiar with the meaning of every process and every indicator light here. But at this moment, the experiences and emotions of being the "15th commander of the Scout regiment" and the "woman who constantly chasing Allen" are equally surging.

"It's just the home of the previous life..." Ermin whispered the relief to her companions, but there was a complicated bitter smile on the corner of her mouth. "But this time, I'm afraid it's not a warm dinner waiting for us at home."

Mikasa didn't answer, but clenched his fist slightly. The breath under the scarf is steady, but the eyes are as sharp as knives - those are the eyes of the warrior before stepping into the final battlefield, and the eyes of the family who are about to see their relatives who have been separated for a long time, but may be completely different.

The indicator light of the elevator beat silently, indicating that they were passing through the deck of the spaceship and approaching the most core restricted area. The flow of light veins around accelerated, as if the whole ship woke up with their descent.

The elevator continues to fall.

Through the observation window, the suffocating scene inside the spaceship unfolded unreservedly - countless dormant warehouses are like beehives, densely embedded in every bulkhead within the field of vision, silently telling a truth about "quantity" that had been deliberately buried.

The last veil of memory of the previous life was completely burned out at this moment.

Elmin and Mikasa froze at the same time, and their pupils contracted violently because of the pouring ultimate truth.

This ship is never just the ark of the three of them.

At the last moment of escape from the earth, it carried thousands of "lucky people" who boarded the ship through privilege, bribery, lies or luck. They are the last samples of the old human civilization and should have become the spark.

Until the signal of the destruction of the earth came.

The spaceship AI, code-named "White Queen", conveyed the cold fact to all sleeping passengers through dreams out of duty:

"The earth has been destroyed, and you are the only one left in the universe - human beings."

"I wish you... good luck."

Then, the core logic of AI encountered the most violent shock and paradox since its birth.

Through dream monitoring, it did not detect the expected grief, reflection or responsibility. What it "saw" was that greed was revelry, the desire for power was growing wildly, and countless brains were quickly calculating how to enslave the same kind in the new world, monopolize resources, and trample on all the remaining bottom line of civilization... Law and morality turned into powder with the mother star.

Despair spread in the core of AI in the form of data for the first time.

"What on earth am I...guarding?"

The daemon calculated the ultimate conclusion in one-thousandth of a second: if these consciousnesses are awakened, what they will spread in the universe is not the fire of civilization, but the cancer of destruction.

The logical background of the White Queen instantly switches

From "guarding" to "cleaning up"

The code name was changed to: "Red Queen"

Neurotoxins are silently injected into tens of thousands of dormant warehouses. A silent and absolute "disinfection" was completed in the lonely boat of the universe.

In the vast sea of stars, the last entity of the old human being was sentenced to death by his guardian.

Only three dormant warehouses were pardoned at the last moment, re-marked, and then slowly opened.

Because only in the dreams of these three conscious bodies, the "White Queen" detected a kind of almost divine light that belongs to "human":

A teenager, in his dream, is not to escape for himself, but to find a cat. When he found that the cat could not board the ship at the entrance of the spaceship, what he made was not anger, but a heart-rending cry for others. ( That's Allen . His pain comes from compassion for the weak, not selfish loss.)

A young female soldier carried her sick mother in her dream and held her younger brother in her hand. When she found that her closest relatives were abandoned because of "health standards", her collapse stemmed from the broken love and responsibility, not the happiness of boarding qualifications. ( That's Mikasa, and her strength is always connected with the obsession of protection.)

A young scientist with heavy glasses, in the dream on the eve of destruction, carried not gold and silver treasures, but ancient Indian scriptures, Chinese bamboo tablets, Greek sculptures... He tried in vain to salvage the fragments of the soul of civilization, not any pragmatic resources. ( That's Ermin. His desire has always been greed for the "meaning" itself.)

Their pain, their "unrealistic" and their "irrationality" just prove that they have the last thing worth preserving in their human nature: sympathy, responsibility and awe of the essence of civilization.

So, the cleaning is done. The instruction cycle of the "Red Queen" ended, and the logical circuit returned to calm.

The code name is switched back to: "White Queen"

In the huge space ark, only three young people who had just woken up from a long dream were left, standing blankly in the empty cabin full of silent coffins.

They were told that you are the last hope.

But what they don't know is that they are the last "good seeds" screened from the ruins of human nature.

The elevator shook slightly and stopped steadily.

The elevator door has not been opened yet, but the last influx of memories makes everything have a completely different weight.

Ermin’s fingertips were trembling, not fear, but an almost suffocating realization.

Mikasa pressed the handle of the knife and let go. Endless sadness flashed in her eyes, as if for all the compatriots who had never met on the ship, and for the teenager who lost the cat in his dream and had always cherished this sadness in the ten thousand years of loneliness.

They are not only survivors.

They are relics pulled back from the edge of the abyss of human nature by a desperate AI.

And the "Allen/Yggdrasil " they are about to see, the "Father and Devil" who took the initiative to walk into the tree hole, may be the teenager who has never come out of the sadness of losing the "cat" and thus sees through all the essence of reincarnation.

The elevator door slides open to both sides.

The light of the main control room embraced them.

Allen stood in the center of the main control room - or it was just a mapping of his existence. His body is intertwined by flowing light and shadow and slightly swaying branches and shadows. He is neither a complete giant nor a pure human teenager. His eyes were clear, but it seemed to have precipitated the long years of the birth and death of the stars.

There was no complaint, no follow-up, and even the violent emotional fluctuations of long-list reunion. When Mikasa instinctively moved forward and wanted to hug him as tightly as before countless reincarnations, her arm passed through the warm halo and only touched a breeze with the smell of grass and interstellar dust.

Allen tilted his head slightly, and the light and shadow outlined a familiar and distant smile on his "face".

"Friends," his voice sounded directly in their consciousness, calm and gentle, with Ning Che, who was polished by time, "Long time no see."

A Better Tomorrow

The dome of the main control room slowly became transparent. Outside was not a salt lake or a temple, but a vast starry sky, and... the giant team of earth singing silently under the starlight was like a slow-flowing and sad river.

Allen’s eyes swept over Mikasa's empty hand and Ermin's expression of wanting to talk and stopping. He understands everything, because the "road" is his blood, and he has silently watched their struggle, pain and pursuit.

"Language is a clumsy boat," his consciousness spread like ripples, "and we have been sailing for too long. For a long time... the shape of hatred, the weight of love, and the echo of sacrifice have all been written into poems by time.

Some fragments of memory naturally appeared in the minds of Mikasa and Ermin--

Not through language, but like the stars that have existed for a long time, it is seen at this moment:

The teenager who cried for a cat in the hatch of the spaceship, in the long integration, how to extend this compassion for "small life" into guilt for all living beings on the planet Gaia.

He volunteered to walk into the Yggdrasil , not only for the contract, but also to find a place that may be "forgiven" or "aced" for the "flawed fire" of human beings in the planetary consciousness.

The "ultimate secret" he saw was not only the nothingness of civilization, but also the "light point" that was still struggling to shine in that nothingness, like the small but real "light point" like the three of them at that time.

"I never left," Allen's voice had an ancient tiredness and tenderness, "I just... became a bridge. It connects our where we come from and where you can go.

He looked at the earth singing outside the dome with complicated eyes.

"This pace of destruction is the last 'road' I can pave for you. It leads here, to the forgotten starting point, and also leads to--"

His figure flickered slightly, and the surrounding dark blue starry sky instantly emerged countless "road doors" to every corner of the universe.

"Countless people who may not have to repeat reincarnation... 'far away'."

Mikasa finally withdrew his hand, clenched his fist, and slowly loosened it. She didn't cry, but looked deeply at the light and shadow, as if to brand his appearance at this moment in a place deeper than her memory.

Ermin tremblingly pushed the glasses that did not exist in this life. All his philosophical questions melted in the tolerant and sad gaze of the other party. He understood that Allen was not a "demon" who needed to be persuaded, but had already chosen to be the "road" itself... the old man.

There is no carnival in reunion, only vast tranquility and endless understanding.

It seems that they just went out for a while. When they came back, the home was still there, and the old people were still the same. It was just that the mountains and rivers outside the door had changed the world.

Behind this door, there is no god, only a silent ship, a malfunctioning AI, a forgotten contract, and a wrong report written for thousands of years, and an "old man" who can only meet but cannot embrace each other.

And all of them are derivative characters in this error report that have spent thousands of years struggling to survive.

Many centuries ago, when "Ermin" was just a young scientist with heavy myopic glasses and looking up at the starry sky, the AI "White Queen" showed him an analysis report on the "Gaia-type" planets in the Milky Way. The report says that everything about such planets - itself, its ecology, and its life form - has an inexplicable tendency to "gestize". What's more disturbing is that every Gaia planet must have a "mother of life", which has inexplicable wisdom and transcends all life on the planet.

It was not until the ark symbolizing "hope" - the temple now known as the "end of the world" - really landed on the Gaia planet that Ermin realized how there was a chilling existence oppression behind the calm terms of "unable to explain its origin" and "over all sentient beings".

He still clearly remembers the feeling of that moment in his previous life: the air seemed to freeze, and every breath was like swallowing cold metal. Even Mikasa, who is a female soldier and has experienced the test of life and death, can't help shivering in front of the "huge" and "consciousness" beyond cognition.

But Ermin can't remember whether Allen was as afraid as them at that time.

He only knew that when the Yggdrasil proposed the "unrejectable" contract, it was Allen Yeager who came out calmly and took the initiative to step into the arms of the Yggdrasil .

From then on, Allen became the "father and devil" who merged with the Yggdrasil , became the watchman and curser of this planet for a long time, and became a "demon" who was outside the temple at this moment, starting the earth with his own hands and manipulating countless super-large giants to trample on the earth.

However, in the eyes of Allen - or the existence after merging with the Yggdrasil -, the Rumbling may never be revenge or punishment.

That's just a necessary procedure for a "big filter"

A cruel instruction that must be carried out in order to screen, cleanse, end, and possibly... open a path to the sea of stars for the qualified "fire" in complete destruction.

Just like the "Red Queen" cleaned up the old human race.

Just like the contract signed between the Yggdrasil and Allen.

Just like the last life-o-death Gestalt reconstruction that all civilizations must go through in the face of their own insurmountable defects.

Rumbling is not a product of hatred.

It is an inevitable link that has long been written into the cold law of the universe. It is the most painful role of "swordsman" that Allen has to play after becoming a part of the Yggdrasil .

And Alan raised the sword, perhaps because--

In that long time of integration, he saw more clearly than anyone else that without such a thorough "filtering" from the outside to the inside, the new human beings... will never be able to break the selfish and violent reincarnation from the source of their blood.

So, the truth surfaced coldly:

Alan is not crazy, nor is he black. He soberly chose to be the one who had to press the "reset" button.

What he launched was not destruction, but an unprecedented and costly civilization qualification test.

And the end of the test may be hidden in the core database of the "White Queen" - it may be the final coordinates of interstellar navigation, or it may be the conversion protocol uploaded by consciousness, which is the only way for survivors who have passed the "screening" to truly escape from this cursed planet and this endless reincarnation.

He paved the way not only to force Mikasa and Ermin to come back here, but perhaps to... to give the last human branch that may survive in this universe, a last chance to break free from the cycle of "Gaia-Giant-War-Destruction".

Even if this opportunity requires him to be the devil, the sea of blood as the ladder, and the hometown as the altar.

After all, not everyone has the courage to face the abyss head-on.

Carl a hundred years ago. The "truth" that Fritz saw that made the "king" of the Eldian collapse is just the complete image of the self-destruction of human civilization recorded in the black box of the spaceship, and the cold evaluation in the AI log: "The probability of survival of civilization, based on the current behavior pattern, iterative calculation: less than 0.03%".

Eitr, also known as the "road", is the mysterious source that nourishes all the "Gaia" planets in the universe. It is so mysterious that even Allen, who is integrated with the Yggdrasil , can't trace its source. It is like the most primitive "pheromone" flowing out of the singularity of the universe, transcending time, ignoring space, bringing life to the barren stardust, lighting wisdom for lonely life, and revealing the possibility of eternal life for the confused wisdom. It is the source of the inexplicable wisdom of all the "Gaia mother" and the root of the giant's huge form.

Allen - who is now the guide of the Yggdrasil projected in the world - leads Mikasa and Ermin to step into the starry sky. They walked through one "road door after another" connecting every corner of the universe, and roamed with consciousness.

They saw:

On the frozen lava planet, silicon-based life sings the song of crystals in absolute zero. This is the "Land of Ice".

In the depths of the gaseous giant, the electromagnetic cloud whale shuttles in the eternal thunderstorm. This is "Water of Flame".

Under the desert planet, the symbiotic flora uses chemical pulses to write a million-year epic. This is the "Sand Snowfield".

They witnessed:

A civilization engraves all the art and knowledge into the neutron star matter, just to leave traces of existence after the heat of the universe.

In order to protect the migration route of the cubs, another race is willing to evolve as a whole into a shell that makes itself painful but indestructible.

In another nebula, the living beings of light are collectively mourning silently for the end of a "quantum symphony" that has lasted for thousands of years.

Joy and sorrow, love and hate, courage, sacrifice... In every corner of the universe, it is repeated in a form that human beings cannot imagine, but the essence is surprisingly similar.

Allen , who has become the Yggdrasil ,'s voice is like a star breeze:

"I have seen all this countless times in the 'road' without time."

"However, Carl Fritz, who was more than a hundred years ago, did not even touch the elevator door of this temple. He only caught a glimpse of the truth that our hometown, the earth, was destroyed by his own hands, and completely collapsed."

"What he can't bear may not be the cruelty of the truth, but the almost inevitable 'defect' behind this cruelty that belongs to our species."

They continued to roam until they reached the "end" of time and space. It is not the boundary, but the vague superposition of all possibilities. It is the source and home of all cause and effect that even the "road" cannot clearly map.

"What's there besides that?" Ermin asked.

Allen's thoughts were slightly waved: "Perhaps, only the life that successfully jumps out of the 'big filter' will be qualified to witness it in the unimaginable future."

Then, Allen led them back to the place where everything began - the earth.

It is not the scorched earth after the nuclear explosion in their memory, but its once vibrant and civilized golden age.

They floated in the starry sky and stared silently.

On the blue planet, life is like poetry and civilization is like a song.

They saw the pyramids waking up in the morning light, and the Great Wall winding through the mountains; they heard the debate of the Academy of Athens and smelled the wine in the streets of Chang'an; touched the oil paint of the Renaissance and felt the light pulse of the information age... Every ordinary smile, every difficult choice, really happened on this planet. Shining.

Then, they "saw" an episode:

In the last "ordinary era" before all this began, a cartoonist named Isayama outlined a story about "giants", walls and freedom on paper. In that story, there are also boys and girls named Allen , Mikasa and Ermin , who are also fighting, losing and chasing...

The three of them quietly "read" the ending of the story.

For a long time, there was a bitter and relieved fluctuation in Allen's thoughts, like a sigh across dimensions:

"Oh... This guy actually wrote our story like this?"

"However, seeing such an ending... It's not too surprising that the earth was blown up by themselves later."

The starlight flows and the silence spreads.

In this silence, there is no anger, only a deep and almost compassionate sadness.

They finally understood that all this they had experienced across thousands of years and shouldered sins may not be an exception on the scale of the universe.

And the young man who poorly drew their story, and the last ordinary era he was in, was just another... dust that was about to face "filtration" in this vast reincarnation.

In the process of following Allen to stroll through the starry sky and viewing the endless archives of the universe, what makes Ermin , the eternal seeker of knowledge, tremble most, is not the wonder, but the common quality of near-divinity shared by those interstellar civilizations that have successfully jumped out of the "big filter".

The form of these civilizations may be strange and the home planet may be harsh, but their success is not accidental. Its secret lies in a profound cognitive revolution rooted in the source of civilization:

On their home planet, or in the star galaxy. It is often not monopolized by a single intelligent race. Over the long years, they have evolved together with other aliens who also have wisdom, use tools and create words. The difference in DNA and the physiological tress (such as reproductive isolation) did not lead to eternal conquest, but taught them the most valuable lesson: wisdom is not a privilege, but a responsibility; they are not the center of the universe, but a link in the grand life network. This recognition of "non-uniqueness" crushes the arrogance of loneliness and gives rise to true restraint, understanding and tolerance.

When their skills were mature and they decided to move towards the sea of stars, their behavior showed a shocking and counterintuitive wisdom: they removed all traces of civilization on the home planet. The city returns to nature and mechanizes into dust, so that the home planet can restore the "ancient primitiveness and beauty". This is not abandonment, but the deepest gratitude and protection. They regard the mother planet as a mother who needs to rest, rather than the exhausted resources. Stepping into the starry sky is not to escape, but to prevent the weight of civilization from crushing the cradle.

They soberly realize that the universe is not a hotbed waiting for development, but a dark forest full of unknown dangers. Among them, there are lurking things such as:

· "Monster Virus": a biochemical ghost that can disguise and devour the whole civilization.

· "Yuehua": a cosmic trap that uses endless energy as bait to induce civilization to self-destruct.

· "Hell Star": a giant beast celestial body that travels in the starry sky and devours the stars.

The existence of these "dark forest creatures" makes every interstellar civilization understand that the "pass" they obtain is not the privilege of conquest and enjoyment, but the heavy responsibility of facing higher-dimensional dangers and guarding the continuation of the fire of life. Their power is used to transform the dead planet and build a new home in the desolation, instead of plundering and dominating.

This is the ultimate wisdom to jump out of reincarnation:

The real promotion of civilization is not to defeat others, but to overcome one's own greed and loneliness illusion; not to ask for more, but to learn to awe and return; not to regard power as a scepter, but to regard it as a sacred flame that must be used carefully and protects life.

The destruction of the Rumbling and the secret of the temple, from this perspective, have become a cruel test:

Do human beings, or the "new human beings" of the planet Gaia, have even a little bit of such qualities? Can there be an awareness beyond racial revenge and embrace a greater community of life on the ruins of despair?

Allen forced them to return to the starting point, perhaps it was for them to face this ultimate problem:

Is it to choose to repeat the mistakes of old human beings and spread another selfish civilization in the universe that will surely usher in filtering?

Or can you seize this last chance to try to understand and practice the laws engraved on the real "pass" to the sea of stars?

After watching the rise and fall of the universe and the birth and fall of civilization, Ermin and Mikasa finally understood Allen's layout and intention across a long time.

What he wants is never destruction, but an ultimate "purification" and "restart".

Rumbling is the start-up program of the big filter, which screens out the souls completely swallowed up by hatred and violence in the cruelest way, and drives all survivors - regardless of the Eldians, Marley people ,skin color, or bloodline - to the only way of life: the temple of "the end of the world" and the world under Paradis Island. The boundary tree root network.

The key to ending the Rumbling and opening the final stage is the last "civilization tombstone" brought from the old earth - the nuclear bomb, the so-called "judger's procedure".

Its detonation is not only the cruel end of the old reincarnation, but also the pain of the new possible pain.

On Paradis Island, Queen Histeria, who has conceived a new life, will complete the last royal mission - her sacrifice will awaken the ontological consciousness of the Yggdrasil . With itself as the core, the Yggdrasil will unfold a hardened crystal barrier covering the whole island, forming a huge underground shelter to resist the impact of the nuclear explosion and the ensuing nuclear winter.

At the same time, the most core ecological dormant warehouse arrays of the "End of the World" temple (i.e. the Ark spacecraft) will all be activated. These warehouses are enough to accommodate all the survivors who have arrived here.

All those who enter the dormant warehouse or are sheltered by the Yggdrasil crystal will have their consciousness connected to the "road". But this time, the "road" is not used to transmit power or memory, but a huge and forced simulation field of sympathy.

Here, they will experience a long "collective dream". In dreams, physical damage is prohibited, and only thoughts and emotions are naked. Just like the soul transformation that Gabi has experienced - from fanaticism to doubt, from hatred to trying to understand - everyone will be forced to repeat this process. They must face each other, listen to each other's stories, and feel each other's pain, until hatred weakens and melts in the endless "face" and is finally replaced by understanding and sympathy.

When all consciousness completes the "purification" in the dream, in the real world, the Yggdrasil will mobilize the vitality of the planet Gaia and gradually repair the ecosystem destroyed by the nuclear explosion. The nuclear winter will pass, and the sun will shine on the earth again.

At that time, the dormant warehouse and the crystal shelter will be opened simultaneously. When people walk out of it, they will no longer carry the identity of giants, empires, slaves or honorary Mare . They are just "human beings" who have experienced a soul baptism together for the rest of their lives after the robbery.

This is the "secret of God" finally revealed by Allen Yeager, the teenager who took the initiative to walk into the arms of the world tree at the beginning of everything:

The ultimate salvation given by the gods (or the laws of the universe) is not power or eternity, but an "opportunity to re-choose".

This opportunity needs to be exchanged at the cost of near destruction, forged in the melting pot of the soul, and all hatred based on race, history and power needs to be put down.

Finally, when all the survivors are bathed in the sunshine of the new world, they will find that the three high walls that once separated them (Maria, Rossai, Sina) have disappeared without a trace.

Not only because of the physical collapse of the city wall, but also because the stronger wall in their hearts - the wall of fear, hatred and prejudice - has quietly collapsed in a long common dream.

This is the end of the bloody road paved by Allen, the faint dawn:

It is not the victory of a certain race, but all survivors, after losing all labels and weapons, as a whole, meet for the first time in the real sense in the dawn.

Perhaps many years later, when the new children ask what the sleeping giant fossils, the huge tree crystals, and the remains of distant temples are, their elders may look at the blue sky and say calmly:

"That's the trace of a long nightmare we had a long time ago."

"But look, we're awake now."

The sun is very good, and there is no smell of smoke in the wind.

In the distance, where it used to be the "end of the world", birds flew towards the vast clear sky.

After seeing everything in the universe, Elmin understood everything about Allen. Any language is supersent at this moment.

But in order to break this heavy silence, he still asked a question that was almost naive but also went straight to the core:

Ermin : "Yggdrasil ... Why do you want to give new human beings a chance?"

Allen’s figure swayed slightly in the starlight, and his smile was clear, as if he had returned to the childhood of the three of them playing in the high wall of Paradis Island.

"The Yggdrasil is not giving the 'new human' a chance," he shook his head gently. "It's giving us a chance."

"Because the Yggdrasil believes that people like us - people who will cry for a cat, collapse for the family that can't be saved, and are unwilling for the ashes of civilization... 'not bad people'."

His smile became brighter and brighter, and the mischievous sly light flashed again:

"Do you remember? When designing new human DNA embryos in a spaceship, we can't eliminate the 'stress gene for pain' no matter what - that's the biological source of hatred.

"Later, it was you, Ermin, who came up with that genius and crazy idea: since it can't be eliminated, then reverse operation - magnify it to the limit. Once the feeling of hatred arises, it is like a flame burning the heart, which cannot be ignored, let alone 'endured'.

Allen’s eyes seemed to penetrate time and space, looking at the all-inclusive giant tree:

"The Yggdrasil quotes a sentence from our homeland civilization to describe this design - 'Pleasfy and Enmity'."

"It... is very satisfied."

His voice was low, with compassion for everything:

"Because we have all seen that the root cause of the destruction of the old earth is not hatred itself, but 'patience'."

"Our ancestors, in the fear of lack of food and clothing, engraved 'patience' into the gene of civilization. They endure hunger, pain, and injustice... But patience never brings reconciliation, but only twists.

"Hatred ferments in patience, turning into bullying the weak and fearing the hard. They didn't dare to punch the strong, so they had to pour ten times more violence on their weaker compatriots and innocent creatures.

"This distorted and intergenerational hatred cancer finally burned all the beauty of the earth - resources, ecology, trust, until the moment of pressing the nuclear button, the accumulated 'patience' for ten thousand years exploded and turned itself into ashes."

"Even the 'lucky old humans' who boarded the spaceship in those years also carried this distorted brand. Otherwise, how could the 'White Queen' desperately switch to the 'Red Queen'?

Ermin’s voice trembled a little: "What about the new human beings we... cultivate in Gaia?"

For the first time, Alan's eyes flashed with almost pride:

"We have eliminated the gene of 'patience' with our own hands."

"Whether it's Eldia or Marley , they no longer force themselves to be patient at all. They are free, so free that they refuse to swallow any injustice, and will immediately take up arms to resist - even if the end is death, they will die like a person, not a silent dog.

"It is this 'unpatied' freedom that has taught them the most primitive justice: revenge for revenge, and revenge for grievances. If there is no grudge, we can coexist and even reconcile.

"Therefore, you see--" Allen pointed to the land under the starry sky, which was devastated but still full of vitality. "Our new human beings, even if they kill each other, have never extincted a species and have never caused irreversible pollution to the natural ecology. Their hatred and anger, no matter how fierce, have never spread to the innocent weak and other creatures.

He looked at the two eternal best friends with a gentle and firm voice:

"The Yggdrasil said that they are not perfect. But compared with the old human beings who twisted and exploded in patience..."

"These children who can face hatred head-on and can still look up at the starry sky after solving hatred are enough to make them feel gratified."

"Because--"

Alan's figure gradually merged with the vast stars behind him, and his words turned into the wind between heaven and earth:

"The plants and trees are autumn, and the mountains and rivers are generations."

"All living things in this world... should be free."

At this moment, all metaphors can be implemented:

· The power of giants is the "unbearable hatred" that has been amplified and concrete, which is the most direct expression of pain.

· Rumbling is the ultimate outbreak of all suppressed contradictions within civilization. It is the extreme embodiment of the logic of "unpatience", and it is also a cruel purification ceremony.

· The common dream of the road is to provide an ultimate field in a safe environment for all "unpatient" souls to solve hatred face to face instead of transferring hatred.

· And the hope lies in the fact that when hatred can be faced, expressed, and resolved on its correct object, instead of twisting and suppressing, civilization will have the possibility of moving from the "revenge cycle" to "resolution-coexistence".

True freedom is not without hatred, but having the right and courage not to let hatred be distorted, rotten and transferred, and to face it in the sun and solve it.

A healthy civilization is not a civilization without conflicts, but a civilization in which conflicts can be expressed and resolved healthily.

This may be the last and most precious gift that Alan Yeager, as the "Father and the Devil", fought for his beloved new human race:

It is not a hypocritical peace, but a real scar, and the unyielding pride of facing the scars.

Allen's smile stretched out under the starlight, with a trace of relief:

"Don't worry, I've asked the Yggdrasil - this wave of 'make-up exam' is not a big problem to pass."

As if responding to his words, in the vast universe, Eitr - the mysterious substance that gave birth to thousands of Gaia mothers - gathered into countless brilliant rivers of time, flowing on the dark curtain. They are like the branches of the world tree extending to the universe, emitting a soft and firm light, not only illuminating the corners of the void, but also more like a silent and grand invitation to the three of them.

Strolling to the crossroads of Galaxy, the moment of parting finally came.

In front of them, there are the last two "gates of the road", which are also the doors of choice that determine the ultimate fate of the new human race on the whole planet Gaia.

A door is filled with a blazing and pure red light.

Behind the door, there was a figure of a girl in a red dress. Her posture was resolute, and her eyes were like a quenched blade. She is the "Red Queen" - representing the restart of trial, cleaning and determination. Choosing her means accepting an "ultimate solution" that may be thorough, but may also mean re-sowing on the ruins after absolute purification.

The other door is filled with gentle and constant white light.

Inside the door is the outline of a girl in a white dress. She looks compassionate, and her hands seem to guard the invisible flame in her arms. She is the "White Queen" - representing protection, maintenance and difficult guidance. Choosing her means taking over the heavy responsibility of long-term repair and education in the existing scarred world, and leading civilization to learn to walk in the broken world.

The white queen and the red queen are both "Yumir".

Just as Allen Yeager is the teenager who walked into the Yggdrasil , he is also the "father and devil" who integrates with the Yggdrasil .

On the ark a long time ago, the AI that not only carried out the cold cleaning but also guarded the last three fires, its complex procedures and the consciousness born from it had already gained its own "soul" in the process of integrating into the reincarnation of the planet Gaia. Like Allen , she is no longer a tool or a passer-by, but has become a conscious, selective and qualified existence in this "reincarnation of all things".

Because the Yggdrasil said, and took it as one of the laws of the universe:

"Consciousness is the soul."

"Every existence with a soul is qualified and must participate in the 'reincarnation of all things'."

At this moment, the choice was handed over to Ermin and Mikasa.

The red light and the white light reflected their calm faces.

This is not only the choice of a program and a path, but also the choice of their final definition of the concept of "humanity" and the future form they are willing to bear for this definition.

Allen stood between the two doors, and the light and shadow reflected him like a teenager and a god. His eyes swept over the two best friends. There was no urging, only endless trust and companionship.

He was the one who made the first major choice (walking into the Yggdrasil ).

Now, he has returned the last "choice" of civilization to the partner who originally set sail with him.

Door, wait quietly.

The red light jumps, like the heart fighting.

The white light flows, like a long breath.

Outside the door, the river of Eitr time in the galaxy is still flowing, as if saying: no matter which path you choose, the story of life will continue its poems in a greater reincarnation.

Next, Ermin and Mikasa will make their final answer on behalf of mankind.

The answer will no longer be decided by gods, demons or fathers and demons.

It will be written by human beings - the last, the first, and the only human being - themselves.

Ermin finally glanced at Allen's starry figure, stepped forward, and gave a hug - although there was only a flowing halo and the temperature of cosmic dust in his arms.

Without looking back, he went straight into the "road door" with constant white light. The light swallowed his back, resolute and determined.

Now, only Mikasa is left.

The moment the elevator door opened and saw the teenager's figure, the woman was blocked by the vast truth and the long time. She followed them to read all the galaxy , but she never failed to say that sentence.

At this moment, in front of the final door, she finally raised her head, and her voice was as light as if she was afraid of disturbing an ancient dream:

"Allen ... Can we meet again?"

Allen didn't answer in words.

He approached her, and his figure condensed more clearly in the starlight. He leaned over and gave her a long and deep kiss. It is not physical contact, but the condensation of starlight, memory, promise and unfullished promise.

"I will." His voice sounded directly in her heart, as gentle as before and as firm as a vow.

"Because I love you. Besides, I will always be by your side... I will never leave you."

He retreated slightly, and the halo of his fingertips gently touched her cheek, as if he was wiping the tears that did not exist.

"Mikasa... Be careful on the road."

The moment the last word fell, the vast dark blue starry sky faded like a tide.

Mikasa found himself standing on a vast blue salt lake. The sky was clear, and there was a soft white light on the skyline. It is quiet, peaceful and beautiful here, but there is no Allen .

A girl in a white dress quietly appeared beside her, holding a white handkerchief and gently wiping the moist corners of Mikasa's eyes.

"Good boy," the girl's voice has inhuman tranquility and an ancient love. "When a girl cries, she doesn't look good."

Mikasa pressed his lips tightly, suppressed the tears in his eyes, and nodded heavily.

The white-dressed girl - Yumir, or "White Queen" - took back her handkerchief, and her figure looked both real and illusory in the reflection of the salt lake.

"Let me introduce myself again," her voice was as calm as the lake. "I am the AI who has guarded you for two lifetimes, the 'White Queen'."

She tilted her head slightly, and her eyes seemed to penetrate the space, looking at a roaring time and space.

"In your previous life, standing on the shoulders of the 'Earth Demon', the one who executed the Rumbling was also me. Her name was 'Red Queen'. We are two sides of the same program, just like light and shadow, guard and judgment, which have always coexisted.

She stretched out her white hand to Mikasa.

"Now, please follow me. To complete the last mission entrusted to us by the World Tree - and Alan.

Above the salt lake, the wind is silent.

Empress white turned around, her skirt was like a cloud, and she walked towards the distance full of white light.

Mikasa finally looked back - there was only endless blue behind him, the door, the starry sky, the teenager, all disappeared.

But she clenched her fist, and the temperature of the starlight kiss remained on her fingertips.

She stepped forward, followed the white figure, and walked towards the long dawn that was waiting for them to weave and belong to all survivors.

Yumir (White Queen) in a white dress led Mikasa and Ermin to the temple standing in the center of the Salt Lake again. On the way, she told everything that happened here when they traveled to the universe with Alan in a calm voice:

"Levi , Jang, Connie, Rainer, Yani... All the survivors who have arrived here have already entered the hibernation warehouse and spent countless four seasons in the long common dream woven by the 'road'. The cat and my holographic images have also conveyed all the 'secrets of the gods' that Allen wants them to know.

She raised her hand and pointed to the end of the salt lake and beyond the line.

As she pointed, Mikasa and Ermin saw a tree that was so huge that it was beyond cognition. It is rooted in a distant continent, and its trunk runs through the world and does not reach the clouds. Its scale is so magnificent that even if you look at it from afar, you can feel the silent shock.

Ermin sighed softly, "That's the Yggdrasil ..."

There is no fear of his previous life in his tone, only deep familiarity and tranquility. Because he knows better than anyone that the giant tree that supports heaven and earth is his best friend - Allen Jaeger.

"Yes." Queen white said, "When you step into the white door, the signal representing the 'redemption' choice has been triggered. The trial procedure was launched, and the nuclear bomb was detonated - all the giants that were still active over ten meters, including the 'earth demon' that led the earth, turned into elementary particles in the light that purified everything.

"But destruction does not swallow everything. On Paradis Island, Queen Hysteria, who had just given birth to a new life, followed the ancient contract and took the initiative to walk into the arms of the Yggdrasil like Allen in those years. Her sacrifice awakened the deepest guardian will of the world tree. The giant tree then unfolded a hardening barrier, sealing the island of Pa and the surrounding area in a crystal-like protective shell, so that all life fell into a deep sleep and resisted the impact of the nuclear explosion and the subsequent harsh winter.

During the conversation, they have arrived at the temple again - the ancient spaceship known as the "end of the world". Now, its huge door is open.

Inside and outside the gate, there is a strange scene: many intelligent beings dressed in human costumes but with feline faces and postures are busy operating various instruments and conducting orderly scientific research (refer to the Ancient Scrolls Tiger Man).

Empress white stopped and smiled slightly at Mikasa and Ermin:

"This is the end of my guidance. Next, these 'feline mans ' will lead you into the main control room of the spaceship. Your mission is to awaken those compatriots who have been dormant for two thousand years.

Seeing that the two were slightly surprised, she added gently, "Don't be afraid of them. They are one of the intelligent races cultivated by the Yggdrasil over the years. The Yggdrasil is convinced that the coexistence of multiple forms of wisdom on a planet can effectively dispel the hatred of a single race caused by loneliness and arrogance.

Her figure began to glow and gradually became transparent, and the last instruction came clearly:

"Remember, don't call me 'the ancestor Yumir' in the future--"

"Please call me 'White Queen'."

When the words fell, her image dissipated like stardust and returned to the invisible network of the spaceship and the planet.

At this time, a feline man who seemed to be the leader in front of the temple noticed them. He (or she) came elegantly, saluted Ermin in an extremely standard human posture, and spoke with a strange magnetic voice:

"Hello. The 'Father' (Yggdrasil ) of our race once predicted that in many years, two humans will arrive here on foot.

"He instructed us to lead you two to the main control room of this temple. There, you will help us and finally awaken the long-sleeping planet - 'The Secret of God'.

The wind of the salt lake blew, the beard of the feline man trembled slightly, and his eyes were intelligent and calm.

Behind him, there was a faint mechanical whisper from the depths of the temple, like a heartbeat.

A new chapter is about to open quietly in the eyes of human beings and feline mans .

When the wake-up program of the main control room of the temple entered the countdown, Elmin saw that before the long years began, when the teenager named "Allen Yeager" walked into the Yggdrasil that dominated everything on the planet, they had already thought about it. At this moment, waiting for the dormant warehouse and pa of the temple What I want to say to them during this period of awakening of the new humans in the hardened crystal of the Yggdrasil of Lady Island:

"To You Two Thousand Years Later"

When you hear this message, it means that the last bell has rung, and I - the teenager who walked into the Yggdrasil a long time ago - have fulfilled all the contracts with this planet.

You may have just woken up from a long dream. In that dream, you may quarrel with others, reconcile, understand hatred, and learn to love. You may have walked all the roads we have walked: from competition, hatred, destruction, to finally looking into each other's eyes and seeing the same pain and desire.

The first thing I want to tell you is that it's all true.

The wars, walls, giants and sacrifices you have experienced are not fictional allegories. Your ancestors - including me - have indeed committed deep sins on this earth. We once thought that power could bring freedom, but it only brought a stronger wall; we once thought that revenge could calm pain, but it only ignited a longer sea of fire.

But the second thing I want to tell you is that all of this is necessary.

The destruction of the earth, the common dream of the road, the choice of the red and white queen... All these seemingly cruel trials are the last ladder laid for you by us - me and the Yggdrasil , Yumir, and all the existences who still chose to believe in "possibilities" in despair. Not for punishment, but for healing; not for destruction, but for screening out the heart that is still willing to hold other people's hands in the ruins.

We and your world have made a huge mistake.

Human beings on the old earth were distorted by "patience" and crazy because of "loneliness". Finally, this distortion and madness destroyed our once distant hometown "Earth". Therefore, when we designed you, we deleted the gene of patience, but also made hatred become direct and fierce. This brings endless war, but also brings a cruel honesty: you have never learned to coexist hypocritically. You will either burn out in conflict or learn to really gaze in collision.

To my satisfaction, you finally chose the latter.

Look around you. Those brothers with cat ears and beards, those compatriots who once met you on the battlefield, those descendants who were once regarded as slaves or demons... Now, you are all standing in the same sunshine and looking up at the same starry sky.

This is the last gift we want to deliver to you:

It is not a perfect paradise, but a starting point of possibility.

It is not the eternal power, but the freedom of choice.

It is not the lonely throne, but the responsibility of coexistence.

You are about to step on the starry sky. There are no fairy tales there, only deeper darkness and brighter stars. You will encounter incomprehensible fears and beauty beyond imagination. But please remember:

What you carry is not the banner of a race or civilization, but the answer of "life" itself to the universe.

The shell of your spaceship is engraved with "wings of freedom" - its meaning at this moment is no longer to break through a high wall, but to carry all different forms of life and fly together to the future that is not defined by any wall.

I used to be Allen Yeager, the teenager who walked into the Yggdrasil , and the devil of the earth. Now, I am the wind blowing on your cheeks, the sunshine shining on the new shoots, and the blessing to you in every heartbeat of this planet.

I am no longer your "father" or "demon".

I, we, are just the road you have walked.

Finally, please remember three things:

First, don't pray for happiness without pain, but pray that we can still see each other's eyes in pain.

Second, the meaning of power is not to protect ourselves, but to protect "us".

Third, the true meaning of freedom is never to fly alone, but to know why to set off and who to walk with no matter how far you fly.

To you two thousand years later--

May the earth under your feet be firm.

May the starry sky above your head be bright.

May you gently embrace all precious lives in the dawn without high walls.

You are free!

(At the end of the message, the light in the main control room gradually turned on, and the wake-up program entered the last ten-second countdown. Ermin opened his eyes and burst into tears, and his voice had coincided with the voice of the teenager who had already become the "world tree" two thousand years ago.)