Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27441457-20170608195407/@comment-32382898-20170625000129

Guys, I think it's time we relate the progress of the story back to the beginning. It seems like it's coming to an end after all.

1. Remember at the start of the anime/manga, we were introduced to a tearful Eren asking Mikasa why her hair was shorter?

2. When Eren Kruger suddenly mentioned "if you want to save Mikasa and Armin."?

3. When they arrived at the ocean, Eren's motivation turned dark and he wanted the "devils" on the mainland gone?

Putting those three together, you get a picture of Eren being too consumed by grudge and hatred that he failed/almost failed to save his friends and the last words from Mikasa were "Safe trip, Eren."

Also, throughout the 9 years - 1st to 5th (wall breached to getting back Wall Maria) 6th (arrived at the ocean after scouting beyond Wall Maria) 7th to 9th (presumably inventing something to get the Survey Corp across the ocean and story progression which will hopefully be revealed before 2018, I'm saying this looks like yet again one of Isayama's plots to get us desperate and crushed all over again on a monthly basis.

All in all, it's useless to speculate what Isayama has in mind but we do it anyways =)