Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人)

*ATTACK ON TITAN*

Season 03 Episode 19

"The Basement"

Episode Title: "The Basement"

Armin! Get down!

It hurts...

It hurts so bad...

Bertholdt...

It hurts...

It hurts so bad...

Sasha?

Sasha!

You're in terrible shape... What happened...?

Armin!

Eren?

I'm glad... you're back!

Huh?

You're up?

Captain!

What in the world happened here?

I remember... Bertholdt becoming a Titan...

What about the others?! Are they okay?!

That's as far back as you remember?

Huh?

Eren, tell him everything.

Well? Up to speed, Armin?

Are you telling me... the Scout Regiment...

...is the nine of us here... and that's it?

For the time being.

The fighting ended four hours ago.

We've been looking for survivors, but... none yet...

S-So, we managed to seal the walls of Shiganshina...

But Reiner, the Beast Titan, and one other escaped...

Bertholdt was captured...

Then... there was a dispute...

...about using the injection on Commander Erwin or me...

And I...

...turned into a Titan and ate B-Bertholdt...

Here.

Why... did you pick me?

No matter how you look at it,

wasn't Commander Erwin the right one to bring back?

Captain! Why did you give me the injection?!

Tsk!

I told you to tell him everything.

The thing is, it seems your two friends here didn't think that way.

They stood up to me... prepared to draw blood.

Huh?

We'll take whatever punishment comes.

You'll be disciplined for insubordination, but...

Does taking the punishment allow you to do anything?

No...

However...

The final decision to choose you was mine.

No...

I chose this to be the place where Erwin dies.

I don't understand...

There's no way it's okay to let Erwin die...

If the commander is gone, how... how will we go on?

I agree. I thought it should've been used on Erwin...

...if we're being brutally honest.

No... It's a shame we were put in that position...

Anyways, Erwin entrusted Levi with the decision to use it.

And Levi ended up choosing you.

There's nothing more to say.

Erwin's life and a Titan's power rest on your shoulders.

No matter what anyone says, that's part of who you are now, Armin.

Does that mean... I need to be... Erwin's replacement?

No way... I can't...

Don't get me wrong.

You'll never be Erwin's replacement.

But...

...I know you have a strength that nobody else has but you.

I won't regret my decision.

However, don't make these guys regret it.

Nor anyone else.

And don't regret it yourself, either.

That is your mission.

Shut up!

We're no match for Sasha.

Well, being the successor of Erwin as commander of the Scouts,

we're kinda in the same boat.

From here on out, we'll have to grin and bear it.

Right...

Now then...

If it's not a problem for Armin, we should get going.

Levi, Eren, Mikasa, and I will go investigate.

You other four keep watch from atop Shiganshina's wall.

Roger.

Eren. Do you still have the key?

Yeah.

Right here.

Eren...

When I get back,

I'll show you the basement that I've kept secret all this time.

Hey, Eren!

How many times must I say you can't go in the basement?!

Why aren't I allowed to?!

Because your father keeps his work tools there.

Medicine, too.

It's dangerous for children.

Tsk...

Your intentions are the key.

The key to saving humankind from this despair.

We have reason to believe that the basement of his home in Shiganshina...

...houses a secret of the Titans that not even he is aware of.

If we can just reach this basement, we may be able to obtain information

that will help us break free from the Titans' century-long tyranny.

Hey, where's your house?

R-Right...

Is this it?

Hey, Dad!

When will you show me what's in the basement?

Who knows?

Perhaps when you realize the most important thing of all.

"Information Available for Public Disclosure" "Basement Key" "Grisha Jaeger, having come from outside the walls and thus knowing many secrets, entrusted the basement key to his son. The basement will likely reveal the mysteries of the world which Grisha couldn't mention to anyone."

Luckily, the fires didn't make it this far.

Right here.

Under this are the stairs to the basement.

Good.

That's a relief. It's not flooded with water.