Is this cartoonist mentally ill?

Alan didn't know why he was crying, but he and his childhood sweetheart Mikasa didn't think much about it and went back to the city from the suburbs carrying the firewood they collected.

Then, in the conversations, observations and narrations along the way, the world view of this work slowly emerged.

77 years ago in this world, the natural enemy of mankind, the "giants", suddenly appeared in the world. ①

These huge humanoid creatures are huge and powerful, but they have no wisdom in their actions, but for some reason they only feed on humans.

The human beings in this world as a whole are also close to the Renaissance in Europe and America, and are unable to fight against these giants.

The remaining humans who faced the survival crisis fled to a place and built three huge walls, namely Wall Maria, Wall Rose and Wall Sina.

People enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life in this isolated environment.

Alan Yeager is a child living in the wall. He was born in Wall Maria since he was a child and lived with his father Grisha Yeager, his mother Carla Yeager and his childhood sweetheart Mikasa Ackerman.

He and Mikasa have a good friend named Armin Arnold, and the three of them have always been together.

And under the influence of the book that Armin took out about the outside world, Eren aroused his desire to go out of the wall.

He also hoped to join the "Survey Corps" and go to live outside the wall with everyone after all the giants were expelled.

As for the "Survey Corps"...

That is the group of soldiers who fought the giants in the jungle in the previous plot.

After the three huge walls were built, the people inside the walls created four major corps for the convenience of management and to defeat the giants one day and return to the vast outside of the wall.

The first corps is the largest and most basic training corps, composed of recruits who have not yet joined the formal corps and instructors responsible for training recruits.

After graduation, recruits can choose to join one of the remaining survey corps, military police corps or garrison corps.

Among them, only the top ten recruits in the comprehensive final exam of the training corps are eligible to join the military police corps.

The Military Police Corps is also the most desirable place among the four major corps, not because this corps is a hero fighting against the Titans.

But because...

Joining the Military Police Corps, you can manage the people beside the king. It is a conservative faction in the human camp, and its main duty is to maintain order.

And it is precisely because of the right to live in the interior that you do not need to face dangerous Titans.

So it is the most sought-after existence among the three major corps. As mentioned earlier, only the top ten recruits in the comprehensive final exam of the training corps are eligible to join the Military Police Corps.

The corps emblem is a unicorn, which means noble, holy, fair, and defending order.

The opposite of it... is the Survey Corps.

Because the Survey Corps is the main war faction, that is, the radical representative who hopes to defeat the Titans and lead humans back to the vast life outside the wall, it is a reformist in the human camp.

Almost with the determination to die, challenge the Titans outside the wall and explore the area outside the wall, so the mortality rate of soldiers in the Survey Corps is extremely high.

Because the mortality rate is the highest, it is a corps that ordinary recruits are absolutely unwilling to join.

But because of this, the eliteness of the soldiers is far from comparable to other corps. Because they have been fighting against giants on the front line for a long time, almost everyone has extraordinary combat capabilities.

The death rate of new recruits participating in the first expedition outside the wall is 50%. Those who can survive will gradually become excellent soldiers with a high chance of survival.

The corps emblem is a bird's wings overlapped, in blue and white, implying that humans refuse to endure the humiliation of being caged like livestock and always yearn for freedom.

The rest are the garrison corps representing the neutral faction, whose main responsibility is to strengthen the city walls and defend various cities.

Only those recruits who fail to pass the military police and do not want to join the survey corps will go to the final destination.

At the same time, like the military police, they have basically never fought against giants, unless the giants broke through the city walls.

But now this has hardly happened, so the garrison corps has not fought against giants.

So it is also a good choice for recruits who are afraid of fighting giants.

But it is also under the jurisdiction of the Military Police Corps. Soldiers who have accumulated a lot of experience in the Garrison Corps can also apply to transfer to the Military Police Corps.

The Corps emblem is a rose, which means the rose language of protecting peace.

On the way, when Allen and Mikasa came back, the soldiers of the Garrison Corps they met were all drunkards who gathered together to drink and gamble.

Allen couldn't stand such behavior and felt that if all soldiers were like this, the giants would sooner or later rush into the wall and destroy the streets.

He even clashed with Hannes, a soldier who knew him and had a good relationship with him.

However, Hannes and other soldiers thought that this was just the nonsense of Allen, a child.

This is not their self-righteousness, because...

"After becoming a soldier, when doing the wall reinforcement work, there is a chance to see those guys wandering outside the wall."

Hannis said with a smile, "But I don't think those guys can do anything to this 50-meter-high wall."

From the comics, it can be seen that the highest of those giants is only more than ten meters, and the more than ten-meter-high giants really can't do anything in front of that high wall.

Moreover, not everyone in the garrison corps has such a comfortable life every day.

They would regularly repair the city walls and use cannons to clear out suspicious giants that got too close to the walls.

But Allen still questioned and said, "Then...you didn't have the consciousness to fight those guys from the beginning!"

"No!"

Hannes said simply.

Allen was still unconvinced, and he then confronted Hannis.

Then Hannis was really not angry at all, he actually thought it was good.

"But... Allen."

He even said to Allen earnestly, "When the soldiers are very active, that is the real worst time..."

He mocked himself again and said, "On the contrary, when we are ridiculed as a bunch of 'lazy and lazy' useless people, it is better for everyone to live in peace."

I have to say that some comic fans really think what Hannis said is right.

If a country's soldiers mobilized on a large scale, that would indeed be the worst thing.

but……

Allen still had different ideas.

Especially when the soldiers from the garrison behind Hannis said, "Just like Hannis said, it's true... I don't know what those guys from the Survey Corps were thinking when they said, 'We're going beyond the wall.' …actually played war games for fun without permission.”

"Even if a person never goes outside the wall for the rest of his life... he can still live a life of eating and sleeping... but... like this..."

Allen asked reluctantly again, "It's just like...domestic animals...isn't it?"

Hannis was speechless, but the other soldiers regarded him as a weirdo.

But there is indeed no right answer to this debate. Some people just want to live a stable life, while others want to be aggressive. This is just a matter of choice.

However, Allen's idea is indeed correct. From a human perspective, it is better to be proactive than to wait for death.

He and Mikasa continued walking towards home, but at this moment, a huge bell sounded in the distance.

Allen immediately shouted excitedly, "The Survey Corps is back! The main entrance is about to open!"

He grabbed Mikasa's hand and ran towards where the crowd gathered, "Let's go! Mikasa! The heroes have returned in triumph!"

However, when they went to the main entrance where the crowd gathered, there was a sea of ​​people, and everyone was waiting for the return of the Survey Corps.

But……

But it was not a triumphant return, and people did not regard the Survey Corps as heroes.

Even the soldiers of the Survey Corps were not as high-spirited as when they returned in triumph.

But... almost everyone was injured and dejected.

Judging from their appearance, it was obvious that they were the same group of soldiers who fought the giant at the beginning.

The people around him were also talking, and their words contained cynicism or negative emotions of anger, disdain, and sadness.

"Is this the only number of people who have returned?"

"If it doesn't happen like this, you won't be able to come back?"

"This time is also very cruel..."

"There were more than 100 people who went to investigate this time, and there are not even 20 people here..."

"Does it look like they were all eaten?"

…

Then something happened, which seemed to be the mother of one of the soldiers of the Survey Corps.

After she saw no trace of her son, she stepped forward and stopped the soldier captain headed by the Survey Corps and questioned her son's whereabouts.

However... the soldier captain could only hand her a Survey Corps cloak that seemed to be wrapped in the same object.

The mother opened it and saw that there was only one hand...

"Sorry...we...can only take back these few..."

The soldier captain said to her dejectedly, ashamed and self-reproaching.

Suddenly, the mother sadly hugged her son's remaining arm and cried loudly.

Comic fans suddenly recalled that it seemed... the soldier who appeared at the beginning and shouted passionately, "Let you learn the power of mankind", was the hand that appeared in the close-up.

So cruel...

The Survey Corps fighting against the Titans could end up with no whole corpse if they were not careful.

All the passion was in vain, and only the cold body was the real and cruel reality.

However, the mother did not criticize everyone in the Survey Corps for this. She even said with hope, "But...my son...has completed his mission, right?"

Of course...it will be!

However, the look and eyes of the soldier commander showed that he was overwhelmed, sad, guilty and remorseful.

"Even if he didn't make any direct achievements! My son's death has become food for mankind to fight back, right!?"

the mother asked loudly, crying again.

After all, she knew the dangers her son would face if he became a soldier of the Survey Corps. No matter what she had done before, she must have supported and understood it from that moment on.

Just like every mother who lets her children serve as soldiers in reality, she is well prepared.

At this time, although his son died, if his death was meaningful, it would be a kind of relief.

However……

"This... of course..."

It could be seen that the soldier captain wanted to give the mother the last comfort.

However, everyone around, including Allen, who regarded the Survey Corps as heroes, and Mikasa all saw that he was lying reluctantly.

But the next moment he hesitated, seemed to be struggling, but finally changed his mind...

"……No……"

"This investigation... we... we..."

"This time... we didn't get any results either!!"

He cried bitterly in shame, saying, "It's because I'm always so incompetent that I just let the soldiers die in vain... I couldn't find out the true identity of those guys!!"

These words also made the people around him more sarcastic.

"It's really... too bad."

"It's obvious that you can live safely inside the wall..."

"Soldiers... what a waste of tax money."

"That's right... It's like using our tax money to feed those guys and fatten them up..."

...

After saying this, Allen was so angry that he threw a piece of firewood on the head of the rude man.

But Mikasa was quick and pulled him away.

The comic fans who saw this felt the cruelty of this world, and even felt a sense of familiarity.

"Really, Mr. Aoyama always talks about 'reality' in comics."

Fan Siwei looked at the video equipment and expressed his opinion to Li Xi after watching this plot, "It feels like what Kiritsugu said, 'Bravery, honor and other things are fictional illusions, and the crash in the end caused people to bleed and sacrifice.'"

"It is indeed a bit like Kiritsugu, but not necessarily. After all, maybe the meaningless sacrifice will become 'meaningful' under Mr. Aoyama's brush in the end?"

Li Xi responded, "I always think that Mr. Aoyama is a superficial pessimistic and nihilistic realist. I am an old fan, and I can see it!"

"That's right, let's see the plot behind the giant."

Fan Siwei said with expectation.

They continued to read the comics.

After a series of episodes, Allen and Mikasa finally returned home.

When Allen's mother Carla asked them why they came home so late, Mikasa directly said that Allen wanted to join the Survey Corps.

Carla got angry and expressed her disapproval.

However, Grisha, Eren's father, did not stop him, but encouraged Eren that human curiosity cannot be suppressed.

Before leaving, he even picked up a key from his chest and said to Eren, "Eren, when I come back, I will show you the secret basement."

Eren was very excited and said goodbye to his father with his mother and Mikasa.

Then when they went to find another good friend Armin, they found that he was being bullied by a group of children.

Eren stepped forward, but when those children saw Mikasa behind him, they immediately ran away.

It seemed that... Mikasa was even more terrifying than Eren.

Eren and Mikasa comforted Armin, and Armin talked about the reason why he was bullied, but at this moment...

Suddenly, they felt a violent earthquake.

Then the scene at the beginning happened again!

A giant taller than the city wall was spying on them outside the wall!

Then it was...

It raised its right foot high and kicked directly at the main gate of Wall Maria! !

"BOOM!!!"

A huge explosion sounded.

That sentence appeared again in the voiceover...

"That day...humanity finally remembered...the fear of being dominated by giants!"

This episode ends.