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The next memory was the day we saved Mikasa. Grisha looked through the open front door in shock seeing Y/N, Eren, and Mikasa around two supposed dead bodies.

The memory still felt fresh for Y/N as she gazed at her old self which had a different spark from her. As for Zeke, he had the same shocked face as Grisha.

"It appears that you thought I was the same as you, but you're wrong. If someone tries to steal my freedom away, I won't hesitate to take theirs." Eren answered whilst Grisha checked the bodies as his expression changed to a somewhat disappointed look.

'Well... Too bad' Y/N thought glancing at the dead bodies. 'I changed a lot... No shit. '

After a minute outside the house, a young Eren and young Y/N were being lectured by Grisha while Mikasa stood near the fire. Y/N remembered she didn't quite listen to what Grisha was saying letting all the words just pass through her ears.

"It's not because the old man told me to. I've always been like this since I was born." Even added.

"I can't believe being born with freedom actually comes with an emo personality." Y/N rolled her eyes.

"Since you were born?" Zeke questioned.

"The pitiful younger brother that the two of you're looking for doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the younger brother who shares the same wound as you." Eren answered as Zeke walked closer to the scene. "What I see... Is a man who doesn't know any other way to define himself besides continuing to deny his father's wish to restore Eldia. A pathetic man still haunted by his dead father."

"facts..." Y/N muttered.

"if so, these people are grateful to their father. His act opened his son and daughter's eyes, ultimately saving the world from the danger Eldia poses, Ina sense, this father is the one who saved the world. Ironic isn't it?" Zeke glanced at Grisha then at the forest. "Eren. Y/N."

All Y/N could do was laugh at Zeke's words. "Just because you said some words doesn't mean I fully agree on the shits you say, Bearded shit."

"And now you're starting to sound like that Ackerman..." Zeke muttered with poison in his tone upon spitting Levi's last name.

Y/N's eyes soften when she saw young Eren put the red scarf on Mikasa. Moreover, the current Eren was gazing deeply at the young selves.

"it's warm..." the young Mikasa muttered softly as young Y/N smiled.

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"Listen Eren... The power of the Founding Titan is within my hand. I can carry on the euthanasia plan whenever I want." Y/N rolled her eyes as Eren just stared at Zeke blabbering. "but... "

In the scene in front of the Yeager siblings were Grisha giving young kids a checkup. Then Zeke's blue orbs gazed at his younger siblings.

"I will never abandon you two" Zeke spoke as the scenery changed to Grisha walking back home as the sunsets. "Just like what Mr. Ksaver did for me."

'Bitch I was there for you..." Y/N rolled her eyes as she continued to glare holes at Zeke. The three were looking at a child and what it seems like his father playing with a ball.

"Before I save the world... I want to save you. "

The scene changes back to the basement aka Grisha's office. Grisha was writing the letter that would tell the Survey Corps about the outside of the walls. Y/N never got to really read the contents when Levi showed it to her but she immediately recognized the handwriting.

"'The humanity... Has not perished' huh" Zeke read whilst Grisha continued to write. Y/N stared at Eren who was beside her trying to figure out what he was thinking while Eren himself stared at nothing with no expression. "What grand word he left behind"

Both Grisha and Zeke's eyes calmed softly seeing the old photograph of their family being inserted in Grisha's book closed it and kept it locked in a drawer.

"I still have that picture..." Y/N muttered seeing the drawer being locked with the key. "I looked like a fabulous baby back then... "

After starting at the lock and then looking forward, Grisha's eyes widened supposedly seeing the frowned and empty face of Eren that was paired with Y/N's icy cold glare that probably pierced his soul.

The memory changes when that morning happened. The morning where gave the key. The day when everything would fall for Wall Maria.

"Oh, family. We're back!" the younger Y/N sang/shouted as she busts into the house as if she was about to give a musical.

'oh, dear... Rip our neighbors or whoever they were they probably died or something...' Y/N thought sighing.

"I'm home... " Young Eren added coming inside with Mikasa behind.

"Y/N. Please stop doing that" Mom/Carla said as she was cooking whilst Dad was sitting "And welcome home"

The two children alongside the teenage Y/N came in. The two children filled a box with firewood as young Y/N sat across from her father.

"Ah, Eren. I saw you've worked harder than usual" Carla praised coming up to young Eren as a young Y/N gave her mom the 'that brat is lying' face.

"Y-yeah" Eren stuttered as Carla suddenly pinched his ear. "What?!!"

"It's warm. I can tell that you are lying" Carla grinned. "Mikasa and Y/N helped you, didn't they?"

Y/N smiled seeing the scene. The feeling of nostalgia came through her. She knew Carla wasn't her real mother but she still felt like she was my mother.

"Oh. Dad, are you leaving?" Young Y/N asked puffing a slice of bread in her mouth.

"Work?" Eren also asked.

"Yes. Medical exams within the inner walls. It should take around two to three days" Grisha replied.

"Oh" Eren replied slurping the soup on his plate.

"Eren says he wants to join the survey corps," Young Mikasa suddenly said as Carla looked at her in shock.

"M-Mikasa. I told you it's a secret" Eren exclaimed.

Y/N glanced back at her two brothers. Eren's face slowly turned soft seeing the nostalgic memory and as for Zeke, he looked somewhat stunned.

"Oi Eren! Don't blame Mikasa. She just wants to keep you safe." young Y/N intervened.

"Eren! What are you thinking?!" Carla exclaimed as she went to Eren's side. "Do you know how many people died outside the walls?!"

"I do!" Eren replied.

"Then why?!-"

"Eren" Grisha's low voice spoke, "Why do you wish to venture outside the walls?"

"I want to know. What becomes of the outside world" the Young Eren answered with no hesitation but bravery. "I don't want to simply live my life like this! Besides if... Nobody follows their steps. The sacrifice of those who lost their lives would be in vain"

Y/N couldn't explain how proud she was even then and now. 'Young Eren had that spunk of freedom... But I don't know if that spunk still stays in him till this day... ' She then glanced at Eren whose eyes widen hearing his past self.

"I see" Grisha replied as he stood up heading to the door. "The ferry will depart soon. I'll be off now"

"Wait, Dear!! Say something to Eren" His wife pleaded as Grisha opened the door.

"Carla. A human's spirit of inquiry isn't something that can be talked down" Grisha replied.

"No shit sherlock" young Y/N replied as the determination was plastered on her face.

"Y/N!" Carla scolded.

'who even was Sherlock... ' Y/N questioned herself chuckling.

"Eren. Y/N. When I return, I'll show you the basement that I've always kept a secret" Grisha held out the key. Y/N couldn't stop staring at it. The key that started this whole fiasco.

Grisha didn't even look at the young Eren but the older Eren who was beside him at the door with a horrified face.

'stupid fucking key... ' Y/N mentally groaned as she squeezed herself past Eren and Grisha going out while Grisha looked at her with the same horrified look.

"Really?" The two young Yeager siblings exclaimed in excitement whilst

"Have a safe trip!!! " The young Eren waved as Grisha walked away from the household with an aghast face.

The scene changes to Grisha stopping in front of the Reiss Chapel. With no more hesitation, he opened the hatch going inside the crystal cavern.

Walking up to the Reiss family who wore a whole white wardrobe, Frieda looked at Grisha with a pre-determined face as she stood in front of her family.

"I'm an Eldian from outside the Walls! Just like you... I'm a subject of Ymir!!" Grisha was introduced with a not-so-very okay look.

'Frieda...' Y/N frowned looking at Frieda with pity and sadness. Frieda was a good and kind friend. Even meeting for just a few minutes or such, her kindness really stands out. 'It's sad that this is how her life ends...'

"King of the Wall! Please kill the Titans who are coming to destroy the wall!! Before my wife and children... And all the other people on the wall get eaten!! " Grisha exclaimed with a horrified face that will not help at this point.

Frieda sighed looking down with brows and lips furrow down, somewhat contemplating what to do... Only a few seconds, she closed her eyes and squeezed them shut as she opened them showing the blue orbs were replaced by the empty and cold but crystalline purple iris.

Y/N could already tell this was the curse of the First King...

"We must not run away from our sin. The time has come for us Subjects of Ymir to face judgment." Frieda answered coldly matching her blank face and making Grisha's face more horrified and terrified. "Man is far too weak in the face of such massive power. The tragedy of the Titan War opened my eyes... That the power of Titan must be protected from the hand of people. If the power of the Founding we're to again fall into the hands of the weak...

The world would be turned to hell once again... To protect the world, we must accept our sins. Our only choice is to perish."

"I feel I could get along with that lady... " Zeke spoke up as Y/N snickered.

"If you did want to perish from the world, you should've let Levi kill you" Y/N snapped back with a smirk.

"But this family will soon be slaughtered by Grisha. You said you've seen this memory before right? And that made you lose all hope in our father. " Zeke glanced at Eren. "Was that also a lie-"

Zeke's sentence was cut off by Grisha sending both Eren and Y/N with a terrified face.

"My house is right near the broken wall and that's where my wife, son, and daughters live!!" Grisha begged. "No one within the wall knows about the sin our ancestors have committed! Because you took away their memories!! Is having them eaten by titans without knowing anything that you call atonement??"

"No. No matter how hard we reflect on ourselves now, we cannot give back the lives we Eldians have taken away... However" Frieda explained placing a palm on her chest. "We can make sure never to take another life outside the walls again. So long as we remain ignorant and accept the world's rage... We Eldians will be the only ones who have to die... "

Grisha looked at her with a horrid as Eren's face fumed in furry while Y/N had the same expression as her younger brother. Y/N knew Frieda isn't at fault but the First King is...

Grisha's then glanced behind him sensing Eren's more growing rage from Y/N.

Y/N could see Ymir Fritz's empty face from Frieda's. The empty face that was forced to be secluded in a cage. To submission.

"There's no point in trying to convince me. And... Even if you take the power of the Founding Titan from me-"

"I know," Grisha answered with a sure face catching Frieda off guard. "That I can't use the power of the Founding."

"eh?"

"The Nine titans each have their characteristics. Including the one within me, the Attack Titan!" Grisha explained as Zeke looked at his father with shock. "From long ago the inheritor of the Attack Titan never obeyed others. And I know why... It's all been to resist the self-righteousness of the King!"

"At least he got it right... " Y/N muttered as Eren walked up beside his father.

"yes... We've all been led to this memory for this one moment. Attack titan can see the memories of its future inheritors. In other words... It is capable of knowing the future. " Grisha explained as Eren stood in front of his father.

"This is more interesting than what I thought..." Y/N muttered sharing the same shock as Frieda's. "so... He knew what's going to happen to us after all..."

"the future?!!" Zeke was shocked as well. "What does that mean, Eren? " Eren remained silent.

"You're such an idiot, Zeke! Can't you tell already?" Y/N replied placing both her pointing fingers on the side of her forehead.

"The Attack Titan's characteristic... I've never heard of it." Frieda spoke.

"I also know that you're not aware of it. Because even if you're part of the royal family, the vow to renounce the war... Keeps you from using the Founder's full power as well!! " Grisha said. "I will eat the Founding... And end the royal bloodline right here and now! That is the future already set for us!!"

Grisha took out a knife from his jacket which alarmed Frieda.

"Run!! " She screamed at her family as they started to run for their lives.

Frieda was about to bite her hand but stopped upon hearing the knife fall to the ground.

"I can't do it," Grisha admitted falling into a vulnerable state. "I... I could never kill children. I am a doctor who saves a life. "

"Impossible... Grisha certainly took the Founding and killed the entire royal family..." Zeke muttered wide-eyed as Y/N turned shocked realizing it. "it has to!"

"well isn't that shitty... At least he still has the last of his sanity together. " Y/N sighed as confusion came up to her.

"The past... Can't ever be changed." Grisha muttered

"what are you doing Frieda!?" Rod exclaimed catching Frieda's attention. "Hurry up and kill that man! The founding is invincible! Kill that man!"

"We must not let that man alive!"

"kill him now, sis! "

"he will destroy our paradis!"

"Frieda! Protect everyone!"

Frieda's contemplating blue orbs began to hesitate whether or not to do it. It made Y/N have pity. Frieda looked at Grisha who was vulnerable while her family shouted screams of death at Grisha.

"What are you doing? " Eren muttered at his father while Frieda looked at her hand gritting her teeth. "Stand up, dad... "

Eren then crouched down holding Grisha's shoulder forcefully which made Y/N shock once again. This was supposed to be a memory and not the past. Could it be the same that had happened to her when she talked with Frieda about the experiment?

"Did you forget? The reason why you're here. Isn't it to get revenge for your little sister who was eaten by dogs? " Eren taunted with an inhuman look as Grisha's face burned deeper and full of terror. "for your fellow restorationist, for Dina, for Kruger... You have to avenge them..."

Grisha's eyes suddenly tear up remembering his life in Marley.

"and keep going forward... Even if you die, and even after you die. "

Grisha feeling absolute hell took the knife remembering his life with Eren and Y/N from infancy to what they are.

"This is... The story... That you started isn't it? "

With Grisha screaming he plunged the knife into him, Both Zeke, Y/N, and Frieda were dumbfounded as Grisha transformed into a titan. With no choice, Frieda bit her hand and transformed as well.

There it was... The massacre of the Reiss family and Grisha earned the Founding. No words can explain war but a pure massacre, dead bodies, and bloodbaths.

The Yeager siblings stood there in front of the bloodied massacre of the dead Reiss family. Zeke was speechless looking at Eren he a look of sorrow.

"Erena..." Y/N muttered staring at the bloodbaths of the Reiss family.

The Reiss Chapel has turned apart as the fire grew. Outside of the church was an evaporating titan of Grisha. Though a messy and tired Grisha came out of his titan and limped away.

After realizing what he had done he stopped as his face turned into horror while he screamed and threw a tantrum. "I killed them! I even crushed the little children! With my own hands!"

"what a drag..." Y/N muttered. Of course, her two brothers didn't even take notice that her presence wasn't behind them as they walk up to Grisha.

Y/N stayed inside the burning chapel and began to search for a specific chair. The girl wasn't so sure if they time-traveled to the past or were in memory lane. But one thing is for sure Y/N will make sure she'll survive this hellish world.

Remembering what Frieda had done, she came to the chair and crouched down pushing a button from its bottom. It opened a small hatchet that contained the velvet box.

'it's still here...' Y/N thought then glanced in the direction where Grisha was looking at Zeke with shock. 'Fuck them...'

The girl couldn't care less about Zeke's daddy issues as she took the velvet box and opened it.

The box contained the injection labeled 007. Y/N's theory was somewhat right. The time when Frieda gave her the 006 injections was in the past. Probably even before her young self came to Paradis.

Y/N knew exactly what to do with the injection in her hand. The girl could say that this would probably be one of her top 10 smart moments.

She stared at the injection and said. "I may have a history with needles but fuck it." Then placed it in her pocket stood up and left the burning chapel without giving it one last look.

"Dad..."

"Zeke..."

Y/N finally arrived at the scene where Zeke and Grisha were together in their arms hugging and crying.

"stop Eren..." Zeke pleaded though as it seemed like Eren definitely didn't want to.

Y/N's eyes widen when in a blink Zeke and Eren were nowhere to be found. Disappeared all of a sudden. And the worst part is... They left Y/N with a shock and tearing Grisha.

"What the actual fuck" Y/N snarled which caught Grisha off guard hearing her.