Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190208231006/@comment-25279441-20190209213304

Glad this chapter happened. Finally good to see expositon for what Zeke's motivations and endgame are and honestly, when it comes to morality and weighing what is best for the world, his endgame is honestly probably the best we've gotten. The Eldians will become extinct, ending the cycle of tragedy surrounding them, but nobody has to be killed in the process, merely meeting their natural deaths.

Zeke pulling what appears to be a suicide bomb catching Levi off guard is also something I'm really glad happened. It makes up for what I found to be a largely irritating last chapter.

I didn't say it during the last discussion, the entirely of Levi last chapter urked me to no end. Sure he is a badass, but him managing to survive, kill the titans, and still manage to capture, defeat, and restrain Zeke all in one go was really really dumb and a huge ass pull. I mean, if Levi managed to just evade the Titans and rushed to get to Zeke, that'd be fine, but no they had to have him do literally everything.

Though I'm really glad that Zeke's surprise suicide bombing at least definitely landed a devastating hit. It reflects how I've always wanted Levi to be taken out, unceremoniously, by an equilizer, not in some epic battle, but by an unexpected surprise.

That being said, I'll be 100% frank, I don't want either of them to have survived.

Not only for narrative reasons, but also for logical reasons as well.

Zeke detonated what is essentially a RPG lodged into his stomach. A weapon which mind you is powerful enough to do serious damage to the Armored Titan. Even if his upper body is still somehow in tact, just the shockwave of the explosions would've logically killed both of them, or at the very least killed Zeke and left Levi beyond critically injured.

I say Levi might survive into the next chapter, but I'm also expecting him not to make it past the next chapter. As in the next chapter will be his dying breath. If not, I want him to be injured beyond any sense of recovery, to be taken out from being a player.

As for Zeke, I'm not sure how I feel about him surviving or dying. I can see him actually having died and being full aware he would die. Desperate people do desperate things, and with how much the two of them loathe each other, I can see Zeke pulling the trigger to just end both of them.