Pickup up where we left off, Mikasa and Connie are not gonna let Armin just sacrifice himself, so they drag him off intending to take him with them as they escape.
But wait. Here’s where Armin begins proving his worth. He’s got a plan.
The plan is to use the rogue titan to clear the other titans attacking HQ, because, well, there’s too many of them. Mikasa and Connie should clear out the titans surrounding the rogue one, so that this one will make a bee line towards the titans besieging HQ. Sound legit, except the part where this is really just an educated guess on the nature of the rogue titan.
As for the others? Jean rallies the troop, pretty much using the fallen comrades as sufficient distraction for the titans. While the titans are busy eating those who have already fallen, he leads the others forwards…
abandoning anyone else who may get caught by titans…
A number of them do make it inside HQ, where the weight of his decision bears on Jean…
only until he sees one of those guys who holed himself inside HQ and gives him a good one.
But well, titans are still outside, and they’re still royally screwed.
But wait…
Rogue titan has arrived, and he puts up a titan ass whooping clinic.
Mikasa, Armin and Connie soon follow inside HQ, where they begin discussing plans on how to retake the basement where the gas reserves are. Armin draws up a plan involving lowering rifle-equipped cadets to blind and distract the 7 titans underneath, while their best 7 strikers go in for the kill.
And they execute the plan accordingly…
But Connie and Sasha fail to cut deep enough, needing Mikasa and Annie to give them a helping hand.
And thus, the cadets are all able to resupply and escape safely. Yey!
But well, Mikasa and a few more cadets look over the now incapacitated rogue titan, and discuss what exactly should they do about it. Some wants to help it, saying they can uncover the mysteries of titans through this one. Others want to leave now, since titans are enemies nonetheless.
But the discussion is moot as soon as the abnormal titan who ate Thomas in episode 5 shows up, sending the rogue titan in a frenzy…
Bam, all titans down, and the rogue one is spent.
But lo and behold, somethings pops out of the nape of the rogue titan…
It’s…
It’s Eren!
Cue Mikasa moment, and slow-mo run…
And then… Mikasa x Eren.
Mikasa~
