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May 21, 854
Dear Marco,
Nothing will bring you back. Finding out how you died didn’t bring you back. Avenging you didn’t bring you back either, but bloodying up your killer did feel good. Last night brought back all of the pent up emotions I thought I’d buried.
You were always too good for this world. Even in the face of death, you wanted to talk things out, and you gave them the chance they didn’t deserve. I can’t imagine how you felt in those last moments, in the grasp of a titan, knowing that your comrades crippled humanity and left you to die. I can never apologize enough, Marco. I should have been there for you.
We will stop Eren. We’ll stop him to save the world that you deserved to live in. In another world, we would share sleepy mornings and drunken patrols. In this world, I’ll keep fighting to keep my word to you.
Forever and always,
Jean