User blog comment:Dave55811/Chapter 58 is out now./@comment-68.187.220.250-20140610000734/@comment-13234254-20140612072953

I don't really think that Jean is dead, neither wounded. Isayama would have shown it if he died. Also, i don't believe he is injured because if that's the deal he will be pretty much useless in fights from now on. These guns are able to blew someone's head so if he is shot in the belly he kicked the bucket. If he is shot in the leg or the hand he will end up in a Wheel chair or like Erwin. I guess that for a person like Jean, WHO serves as Eren's double and in the current point of story it would be better to die. Besides if he really was injured this would slow down the team a lot and it would be difficult to locate Eren and Historia then.

About the person that saved him... I will have to go with Armin and not Mikasa. The was the blood was shed indicates that the person was shot and not slashed. Mikasa has only blades. Instead Armin, when he saw the female assassin aiming Jean, he put his hand into his clothes as if he was looking for a gun. I think that the gun he used was given to him by Levi, considering that Armin alone was driving the carriage so it was given to him for Protection. Levi was shown having a gun when he was guarding minister Nicholas in chapter 37 "Southwestward". Also Mikasa has already saved Armin in that chapter so IMO it wouldn't seem good each and everyone being saved by her. Also it would create space for the development of Armin and Jean's relationship and each one of them seperately. Jean might give up on holding back from killing people WHO want to blow his head off and start realizing that in order for humaity to break Free from the bounds of monarchy and t