"...I almost killed your close friend, I beat a guard unconscious with a rock. But not that boy Falco. I want you to take him prisoner. Killing me should be enough, right?"
"We're not killing you," Armin says, though I bet he slightly directs that to me too.
"You...can't stop yourself from wanting to kill me, right?"
"No, I don't want to. That's all you ever talk about, huh? Kill, kill, kill… You remind me of a certain someone." The door to the room closes, accompanied by footsteps. We face the newcomer, our eyes widening as the fourth child from Shiganshina enters. "Er…"
He holds his hand up, already cut and bleeding.
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"Wha… Floch?"
"Commander." Floch storms the room, followed by other armed members of the Jaegerist faction. "You must know where Zeke is. You're going to take us to him."
Hange takes a deep breath. "Listen, we're not trying to oppose you. Didn't you get the proposal from the corps?"
"Yes, and we declined it. We don't negotiate with the corps."
"And why's that?"
"Eren's decision. We're not making a bet like entrusting Commander Pyxis with the fate of this island. He's probably bust now trying to come up with a way to take the Founder from eren as we make our way to Zeke."
"You're being delusional...or is that what your friends in the Garrison told you?"
"Do I look like one of your kind soldiers who's going to answer any question you ask me? Shall I prove that I'm not?" Floch holds his pistol up. "I'd like you to come with us before I have to."
"Wha?" Nicolo suddenly walks upstairs, surprised by the commotion...and the man standing along the rebels. "Grior? Don't tell me you brought them here?"
"Nicolo, you've gotten too close to the Eldians. I knew this day would come. I was right to not tell you how to contact them."
"Did… Yelena put you up to this?"
"Listen to me, Floch," Hange exclaims. "This is no time for us to be fighting one another! Wine contaminated with Zeke's spinal fluid has been served throughout the corps! Zeke has us dancing in the palm of his hand! Grior over there should have an idea of what's going on!"
"If anything, Nicolo is the delusional one here. He has no proof."
"You…"
"Finished? We'll be tying your hands. Will we need to fire before you listen?" Floch then points to the Braus family at the other end of the room. "We can't let you go free, either. We'll be restraining you."
As the Scouts and everyone else are tied up, Jean glares at Floch. "Dammit! Floch, there's a serious possibility that this is all our enemies' plan!"
"Even then, that just means those already idiotic MPs will look that much stupider, right?"
Hange gasps. "Wha… We never told you the Military Police drank the wine! Wait… Did you already know about the wine?"