Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160609000528/@comment-26932251-20160614204216

MasteroftheWastes wrote: Maybe Eren tries to kill them but Hanji steps in and tells Eren to let it go. Why? Why would they do that?

The fact is, they know they can't restrain these people, they know that they are a bag of tricks, like that weird bouncing thing Reiner did when Levi stabbed him...

Also, they don't know what is going on outside...

Furthermore, information? The information they are here for is under that big rock that fell on Eren's childhood home. I don't think Bertolt and Reiner have anything compelling to offer.

Realistically, I think Isayama is going to give Bertolt and Reiner some kind of way to escape, like that weird ass bullshit that happened after Levi stabbed Reiner in the neck and that's the only way they'll survive.

I think it's rather silly to think that after everything Reiner and Bertolt did, I mean FFS Bertolt practically nuked Squad Hange and Squad Levi, that there is anything of value that they could bargain to Hange to get Eren to stop from executing them.

I know you seem to see things through the child soldier angle and I can appreciate that but in simple objective terms they are too great a threat alive rather than dead. Eren shouldn't torture them and I don't think he really would but one slice each across their spines and the colossal and the armored titan will never be a threat to humanity again.

The only ambiguity I see right now is that maybe Eren wanted to capture Bertolt because of the way he extracted Bertolt from the nape of the colossal, he cut him at the arms and legs, rather than apparently slashing carelessly and striking a potentially fatal blow through the head or spine, but that might have just been because it's easier to immobilize a titan with a shifter that way.