I'm Home (Chapter)

Tadaima (ただいま) is the 2nd chapter of the 9th volume and the 36th chapter overall of the Attack on Titan manga, written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama.

Overview
Titans have been found in the southern part of Wall Rose and four messengers are sent to the major wall towns while Mike Zacharius evacuates a village Titans are near.. Dot Pixis is notified of the attack and the north squad is shown approaching Sasha's village. Sasha remembers a time when her father tried to take away some meat she was eating and told her that the forest was getting smaller and that they may have to change their hunting ways soon, much to Sasha's dismissal. While riding towards her village Sasha see's Titan tracks. She finds a 3 meter class Titan eating a woman's legs and when she is unable to kill it, due to lack of weaponry, she takes the woman's child and escape with him. When her horse runs away and the child does not take her advice to run, she remembers a time Ymir criticized her way of talking and then urges the child to go on ahead, speaking as she did 3 years ago. She shoots arrows at the Titan, one landing in its eye and she then stabs her last arrow in its other eye. The Titan wraps its arms around her but she is able to slip away as the Titan is covered in blood. Sasha runs to escape and then runs into her father and village members who have the boy and then give her a horse to ride.

Summary
Titans are discovered in the southern regions. Four messengers are immediately dispatched to the major wall towns. The next scene shows Mike evacuating a village as Titans have been south west of the village. Pixis is informed that Titans have appeared. The scene switches to the North Squad which spots Sasha's village in the distance.

Sasha reminisces about the time she spent with her dad where she's eating emergency winter food supplies to her father's dismay. They get into an argument about the number of people encroaching on their forest. Sasha feels that the people should leave. Her father, however, is more understanding and thinks they should give up their clan's hunting tradition. This appals Sasha since it would mean giving up who they are. Her dad would rather adapt as it means survival for him and the clan.

Back in the present Sasha spots Titan footprints in the dirt and is shocked that they've made it this far into human lands. A small building is shown with a 3 meter Titan eating a child's mother. The Titan continues eating as the kid sits helplessly on the other side of the room. Sasha sees this, grabs an axe, and heads into the house. She swings the axe and hits the back of the Titan's neck. Unfortunately the attack doesn't work. She grabs the child and runs toward her horse. Her horse spooks and takes off, leaving Sasha and the child to fend for themselves.

The Titan just leaves the building as Sasha has a flashback where Ymir is mocking her for talking the way she does. Ymir tells Sasha that she should speak as she normally does because there's nothing wrong with being yourself. Krista tells Sasha the same thing as Ymir.

Snapping out the flashback, Sasha tells the kid to run ahead until he meets up with people who will rescue him. She then turns to face the Titan with a bow as her weapon. She yells at the child to run and fires the first arrow at the Titan. Shaken by the Titan advances, she calms herself to fire the remaining arrows at the Titan's eyes. She hits one eye and has one arrow remaining. Not wanting to risk missing, she leaps at the Titan and stabs his second eye with the last arrow.

Using the Titan's blood, she slips away, running into her father along the way. Her father is with a group of people who ran into the kid Sasha saved. Sasha's father comments on her becoming a splendid person for taking on a Titan by herself to save the kid.

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Chapitre 36