Bahamut

Bahamut is the ninth short story of the Attack on Titan Anthology. It is written, illustrated, colored, and lettered by Ronald Wimberly.

Overview
Bertolt Weill is a famous dramatist who lives his life as he wishes. One day, his lover, Sophie, shows him she can turn into a Titan, but they are found by Survey Corps soldiers. Bertolt pretends to have been kidnapped, Sophie runs away after being injured and Bertolt is arrested for treason. The day of his execution, the Wall is breached and Titans, including Sophie, get in the city. She finds Bertolt and takes him away, saving him from death, then abandons him.

Summary
After the successful end of his play, writer Bertolt Weill exits the theater and hands the flowers he was offered to D.S. Winters. He climbs in a carriage and meets his sponsors who congratulate him, to which he answers they made their money. Later on, Bertolt attends a party and sleeps with two women and a man. The Military Police then storm into his home in search of anything illegal. Bertolt lets them conduct their search, but it is interrupted by the arrival of D.S. Winters, who states he will take care of the case.

Some time later, Bertolt is interviewed by reporters and seems uninterested in their questions about his play. A reporter then asks him his greatest ambition in life, which he answers is to become immortal before dying.

He is later seen buying some food, after which he goes to meet his lover Sophie. They exit the town and go to the forest where they light a fire and eat. They make out but Sophie pushes Bertolt back. She moves away, undressing, and shows Bertolt her secret ability.

Somewhere else, a Survey Corps squad led by Captain Makō Messer battle Titans. When they are done, he checks his soldiers are alive. After that they head back to the city while Ezkebel theorizes that there are some Titans posing as humans within the Walls. They are interrupted by a lightning and head towards it, understanding it is due to a Titan.

Bertolt and Sophie are asleep but the latter is awakened by the arrival of the Survey Corps. Medina attacks her and Bertolt falls on the ground. Makō asks him what is he doing there and Bertolt claims he has been kidnapped. This angers Sophie who reaches out for him but Makō slices her arm off, which makes her run away. Makō decides not to pursue her and arrests Bertolt for treason.

The day of his execution, Makō leads Bertolt to the gallows before a crowd where a man reads the details. The event is interrupted by the arrival of Titans in the city who eat the citizens. Sophie arrives at Bertolt's location. Not wanting Bertolt to escape, Makō goes to kill him but he is saved and taken away by Sophie, much to Makō's annoyance. Sophie exits the town and goes to the forest. She sets Bertolt free and he tries to apologize, but she abandons him.

Trivia

 * Bertolt's answer when asked his greatest ambition, Devenir immortel, et puis... mourir (To become immortal and then die) is a reference to the movie Breathless.


 * The moment where Bertolt and Sophie make out is censored by the author with a poem called La Géante (The Giantess)


 * A Titan looking like can be seen when Titans invade the city.
 * Eren Jeager is briefly mentioned in the story by a Survey Corpse member to back up his theory that there could be Titans who can disguise themselves as humans (which Sophie is revealed to be) since he can change into a Titan.
 * Although the front page says that it takes place in Ishayama's AOT, this story is likely an alternate universe. The opening scene shows a play where a Titan eats their former human lover and changes back to a human (this mirrors the final scene except that Sophie doesnt eat Bertolt) which is a reference to Titans becoming human after eating Titan-Shifters. Sophie also reveals herself to be a Titan/shifter although she doesnt appear to resemble any of the shifters in the main universe. The Titans of this world also retain their private parts, as opposed to cannon. There are also plenty of people with dark skin in this version of Wall Rose even through the Paradisians had never met a dark skinned person before Onyankopon.
 * Bahamut in Islamic mythology is a monster, represented as a fish or a serpent/dragon that serves as a support structure for which the ox stands on while holding up the angel that holds up the world.