The World the Girl Saw: The Struggle for Trost, Part 2

The World She Saw is the sixth episode of the Attack on Titan anime. It was produced by Wit Studio and Production I.G. This episode focuses on Mikasa's past when she first met Eren after the murder of her parents.

Summary
The episode begins with Connie calling to Armin after the latter had just witnessed the deaths of his Squad 34 which included Eren and is in shock. After snapping out of his trance, Connie asks Armin what happened to the rest of his group.

However as Armin breaks down after recalling the events and when Connie attempts to comfort him, Ymir criticizes him for being a coward as only he escaped death. Connie is about to fight Ymir, but Krista breaks them up and attempts to calm everyone.

Armin leaves because he feels he would simply bring everyone down again and realizes that the world has always been vicious and believes his friends, Eren and Mikasa, viewed him as someone to protect because he is so weak.

He comes across Hannah attempting to resuscitate a seemingly unconscious Franz. She continues to administer CPR and begs for Armin's assistance, but Armin sees that Franz is dead (he no longer has the lower half of his body) and cries, pleading for Hannah to stop because it is futile.

At the base of Wall Rose, a crowd of people are waiting by the gate as a merchant, later revealed to be Dimo Reeves, is unsuccessfully attempting to get his wagonload of goods into the interior. Tempers flare as the people argue they need to evacuate first and push a soldier to the forefront to arrest him.

However, the businessman threatens the soldier using his clout with the military higher-ups and silences the soldier before as he says his goods are worth more than the lives of people. At that moment, a little girl notices a Deviant Type Titan running toward them, ignoring the elite soldiers following it. Mikasa quickly overtakes and dispatches it with little effort.

However, she is shocked to see that the civilians have not evacuated yet and the merchant attempts to threaten her too. But Mikasa is unfazed and is willing to execute the man if it will mean the rest of the people can survive. The merchant backs down and as the civilians run through the gate, the little girl thanks Mikasa who salutes back to her. As Ian Dietrich congratulates her on her quick actions, he wonders out loud how she became such an efficient soldier.

While thinking of the little girl and her mother, Mikasa begins to reminisce about her own past. She had just shown her mother an embroidery she had done in the Oriental style when her family heard a knock on the door.

Outside, Eren and his father are at Mikasa's house and while Dr. Yeager tells his son about Mikasa, Eren gruffly replies that only Mikasa will determine if they become friends.

Dr. Yeager begins to think something is amiss as no one is replying and opens the door to see both of Mikasa's parents dead. He hurries to report the incident to the Military Police and tells Eren to meet him at the base of the mountain.

Meanwhile, Mikasa wakes up with her hands tied behind her back. Her father had answered the door only to be stabbed in the stomach as human traffickers entered the house. Her mother picks up a pair of scissors and tells Mikasa to run as she attacks the group. However, Mikasa is paralyzed by fear at these turn of events and one of the kidnappers is forced to kill Mikasa's resistant mother. She is still shocked as the kidnapper lands a punch, knocking her out.

The men discuss selling Mikasa at the black market because Oriental people have died out and she is the last one. One realizes Mikasa's father is not Oriental and they argue about why Mikasa's mother had to die, as she was the last pureblood.

At that moment, Eren timidly opens the door and says he is lost. A trafficker goes up to him and pretends to comfort him when Eren pulls out a knife and stabs the man in the throat.

Everyone is shocked and as Eren quietly closes the door, a second man angrily pursues him only to see Eren running at him with a knife and guts him before pulling out another knife and mercilessly stabbing the man whom he calls an animal for enslaving children. Afterwards, he introduces himself to Mikasa and frees her, and she mentions that there was a third man in the group. Just as Eren hears it, the third man comes in, shocked, and begins choking Eren before he is able to reach for his knife.

Eren tells Mikasa to fight, but she is scared and holds the knife unsteadily. However, she realizes that the world is cruel and death is a constant part of this world as she sees a praying mantis eat a moth and her father had killed a duck while hunting. This activates powerful instincts inside her, which she still retains to this day. She kills the third man with a stab through the back to the heart.

Later, the Military Police looks over the crime scene and are stunned at the ferocity and age of the those who killed the human traffickers.

Dr. Yeager scolds Eren for not considering his own safety, but Eren says he simply wanted to rescue Mikasa as soon as possible. Mikasa is sad at the loss of her family and mentions that she is cold. As a sign of family, Eren gives her his scarf and says that she can live with his family. Mikasa is emotional and overjoyed and as the flashback ends, she reiterates that the world is cruel.

The bell signaling the evacuation is finished and that the soldiers can retreat is sounded. Ian calls for Mikasa to go up the Wall, but she leaves to help the vanguard.

She concludes that even in these harsh conditions, she has a family and that with Eren, she can do anything.

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