Dedicate Your Heart (Episode)

"Erwin, I have no regrets about my decision not to choose you... to entrust the future to someone with the same look in his eyes you all had."

- Levi Ackermann reflects on his choice of who to save

Dedicate Your Heart (心臓を捧げよ) is the 33rd episode of the 4th season and the 92nd episode overall of the Attack on Titan anime, produced by. It is the second of four episodes, available only on Japanese streaming services, that constitute the episodic version (各話版) of Special 2.

Overview
Jean Kirschtein and Reiner Braun head for the Founding Titan's nape, joining up with Pieck Finger in an attempt to blow off the Titan's head with the explosives she had previously laid. On the other end of the Founding Titan, Mikasa Ackermann, Conny Springer and Annie Leonhart attempt to chase down the Titan that had captured Armin Arlelt, but are stopped by a replica of Bertholdt Hoover's Colossal Titan.

Meanwhile Armin discovers himself in the Paths where he finds Zeke Jaeger, who explains that Eren understood what Ymir could not let go of, and that is why she sided with him. Zeke does not believe escape is possible or worth pursuing given that everything dies in the end, but Armin convinces him that even the smallest things in life can still have meaning. Zeke remembers the time he spent playing ball with Tom Xaver, and realizing that he still cherishes those memories, he helps bridge the gap to the previous inheritors of the Titans, allowing their versions of the Nine Titans to break free of the Founder's control and help their friends.

Summary
The group heading back to the Founding Titan hear a gunshot as they depart, and their attention is quickly drawn back to their own battle as numerous War Hammer Titans fire arrows at Falco Grice. Reiner Braun and Jean Kirschtein are dropped off first near the Founder's nape, with Reiner transforming back into the Armored Titan to draw the attention of the various War Hammers. This gives Jean, who fixed his ODM gear with the working parts of Reiner's, an opportunity to get to Pieck Finger.

Seeing the distraction the two are causing, Pieck escapes her impaled Cart Titan, and transforms once again to attack the War Hammer Titan that had caught her. Because of the Cart Titan's supreme endurance, she tells Jean not to worry about her. She can transform over and over again to keep fighting as long as her own body remains intact, so she directs him to go after the detonator.

Falco flies the remainder of their group towards the rear of the Founding Titan and Conny spots the Titan that captured Armin Arlelt. Mikasa Ackermann, Annie Leonhart, and Conny Springer drop as the second team and Annie transforms into the Female Titan. Gabi Braun and Levi Ackermann remain on Falco's back.

Conny and Mikasa try chasing after the okapi-headed Titan carrying Armin with Annie fighting the Titans around them, but their quarry escapes them and doubles back toward the head, forcing them to confront Bertholdt Hoover's Colossal Titan.

Meanwhile, Armin yells at his unmoving body in distress, trying to get himself to move. Then he realizes he has sand in his hands, and that if he was truly dead he would not have the luxury of thought. Armin is in the Paths. As he tries to think about how best to take advantage of this, he turns around and sees Zeke Jaeger. Zeke is subdued as he recognizes Armin's presence and surmises that he was also consumed by Ymir.

Zeke explains that long ago "life" came into being and survived because of its ability to multiply, changing form and adapting to different environments, eventually leading to humanity. Death and extinction run counter to the goal of multiplying, and life is deterred from meeting them through fear. Ymir is no different, and in her fear she created a bigger, stronger, immortal body and then escaped to a realm where death does not exist.

Given that information, Armin wonders what her objective could be, but Zeke has been unable to find an answer for that, noting that despite her power she did not defy King Fritz and had followed his will for two thousand years. He mentions though, that Eren understood what Ymir could not let go of, and that is why she sided with him.

Zeke does not believe it is possible to escape from here, and does not see the point, connecting the calamity affecting the world now with life's mindless struggle to keep multiplying. Regardless of what happens, everyone dies eventually. He equates the moment before death with being set free.

In the sand beside him, Armin finds a dried leaf, and remembers it from his childhood when he, Eren, and Mikasa were racing to a tree on top of a hill. It is a pleasant memory and he tells Zeke that in that moment he simply thought he had been born to race Eren and Mikasa up that hill. Whether feeding squirrels or going to the market with them, he found those insignificant moments precious, and as he says this, Zeke sees Armin is holding a baseball instead of a leaf. When Zeke asks him where he got it, Armin replies that he found it buried in the sand.

Zeke cannot understand why it would be there. Armin, still seeing the object as a leaf, does not know either, but tells Zeke that even though it is not required to multiply or anything else for life, he still finds it precious. This brings back memories for Zeke, of his time spent playing catch with Tom Xaver. There was no larger point to it, but Zeke agrees that it had meaning.

The two of them look up and see Xaver, Grisha, Eren Kruger, the Galliard brothers, and Ymir of the Scout Regiment.

Outside, near the Founding Titan's nape, Jean saves Pieck after another of her escapes, though she says she can still fight once her arm heals. They try to retreat to Reiner, only to see that he has been overwhelmed by the multiple War Hammer Titans. Further down the Founder's back, Annie, Mikasa, and Conny continue to struggle when Bertholdt's Colossal Titan reaches down and sweeps their enemies away. By the nape, Porco and Marcel Galliard's Jaw Titans work to stop the smaller Titans from getting to Pieck and Jean. Ymir's Jaw knocks one of the War Hammers away from Reiner.

Mikasa does not understand the reason some of the Titans seem to have changed sides, but uses the opportunity to chase after the okapi-headed Titan. After Gabi wounds it with a headshot from her rifle, Mikasa succeeds in catching up to it and cutting its jaw open, causing Armin to fall out. The Titan spears his leg with its tongue to try keeping a hold of him, but he wakes up and kills it with a Thunder Spear. Annie catches him with her Female Titan.

As Grisha and Eren Kruger's Titans join in on the fight, Zeke emerges from one of the Founding Titan's spines and calls out to Falco and those on his back, in particular Levi.

The Titan flying in the sky
''Unlike common cases of Titan inheritance, Falco became a Pure Titan through Zeke's spinal fluid, and then inherited the Jaw Titan. As a result, in addition to the Jaw Titan, it also developed the characteristics of the Beast Titan, and its claws and jaws took on a shape reminiscent of the beak and claws of a bird of prey. Its biggest feature is the huge wings that grow on both arms. Its huge wings, which can reach a total length of 30 meters when its arms are spread out, have the power to lift its giant body into the sky by flapping them.''

Japanese
Additionally, although uncredited, the infant son of Yuki Kaji (Eren Jaeger) is the voice of a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes that a crowd fleeing from the Rumbling attempts to save.