Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26495049-20161201065442/@comment-26932251-20161213082958

Kowys wrote: Another hint that Reiner and Bertolt (and Annie) don't have much longer to live:

Kudos to you for catching this. Seriously, one of the things I like about mysteries being revealed in long serialized formats is that little passing comments like this suddenly snap into context like a puzzle.

I remember reading this line and just thinking at the time that it didn't really make sense to me. I could only speculate that maybe Reiner was being fatalistic and the little time left just referred to the strong possibility that he could be KIA before his mission in the walls was complete.