Board Thread:Manga/@comment-4929778-20160808235623/@comment-5774380-20160809014213

You don't kill thousands of people and expect the survivors to receive you with open arms and saying "don't worry, we understand you, you're forgiven". Bertolt had to die, that was inevitable. And he tried to kill Armin, so it's fair that he died to repair that damage. If anything, Zeke would have died to save Erwin, but if Armin had to be saved by killing someone, that had to be Bertolt.