Shingeki no Kyojin 31

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tl by molokidan

1)
slanted: Morning always comes, whether you want it to or not...
Chapter 31 - Smile

2)
1: Wall Maria - East Wall City
2: Stohes District
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3: What? Didn't you hear?
4: The giant kid and important officials were summoned to the capital.
5: They'll be passing through town today.
6: So that rumor about a kid who could turn into a giant was true...
7: Apparently the military police are going to take him in.

3)
1: The conservatives will probably try to use him to barter with the empire.
2: I thought they were going to dissect him?
3: Well...either way, I just hope things go well and they seal up the door.
4: Did you...just say you wanted the door shut?
5: Huh?
6: You want to stain that door with even more human hands?!
7: Wha...?!
8: Hey...don't touch him!
9: Ahh...
10: He's one of those guys who "loves" the walls...and worships them as God...don't get involved.
11: Oh...you mean there are still people like that...geez.
12: I wonder when the wall will get destroyed next.

4)
1: Stohes District - Military Police
2: You're finally up...
3: Your sleeping face was so scary...I couldn't wake you up.
4: Sorry, Annie.
5: Lately you've always got these big bags under your eyes.

5)
1: What? You mad already?
2: C'mon.
3: It wouldn't hurt to be a bit less antisocial.
4: Just leave her alone.
5: Annie came from Trost.
6: She's the only actual war survivor we have in this department.
7: She just came from seeing hell,
8: it's no wonder she hasn't completely healed yet.
9: Oh really? So you like her, huh?
10: Pff!
11: ...what's so good about her?
12: Hitch...there's only one way for an idiot woman like you to get into the military police.
13: ...what? I have no idea what you're talking about...go on, what are you trying to say?
14: Enough, you two.
15: He's here.

6)
1: Just
2: relax.
3: You'll all be working on a different job today.
4: That's why I called you here.
5: Listen up.
6: A group from the scouting legion has been called to the capital.
7: I don't have to tell you about their loss of prestige, right?
8: They'll be passing through the main street in town today.
9: It's the job of the military police HQ to escort them,
10: so we just need to be with them while they're in town.

7)
1: Three-dimensional maneuver gear will be temporarily allowed in town.
2: Move alongside the escorts with a strong guard formation.
3: That is all.
4: ...can I ask one question?
5: Hm?
6: What is it?
7: What are we guarding them from?
8: I dunno.

8)
1: ...I've never heard of anyone defying the empire inside these walls.
2: Sure, there's petty crime...but a group of rebels? As long as their HQ wasn't outside of the walls or something...I find it very hard to believe.
3: I can't even come up with a motive.
4: You
5: know what?
6: You're pretty serious.
7: I leave everything to you.
8: All the details are written here.
9: Huh?
10: Us senior officers are busy.
11: Just carry out this mission as you see fit.
12: Just don't mess it up, alright?

9)
1: Dammit...
2: What does he take us for...?
3: How could he just throw all the responsibility on newbies like us who haven't even been here for a month!
4: This organization is more corrupt than I thought.
5: I guess that's why I chose it, though...
6: But the newbies are the ones doing most of the work around here!
7: I wish I'd known about that!
8: They're rotten...
9: All they do is think about themselves...
10: Huh?
11: Marlo...are you trying to say you're different?
12: The minute you became a military policeman, you turned into one of them.

10)
1: I'm not the same as them.
2: I'm not rotten like all of you!
3: I came here to fix the military police!
4: Wow!
5: You mean you're a good guy, Marlo?!
6: ..how?
7: There's no way to do it but to stand at the top.
8: Until I do that...
9: I don't mind becoming rotten...I'll do anything.
10: But once I stand on the top, I'll make everyone work for every last bit of their pay.
11: And those who fudge the tax and steal land will receive the proper punishments.

11)
1: Did you
2: or your family suffer from things like that?
3: ...no?
4: Those sort of crimes are plain-faced truths that everyone knows about.
5: Anyway, I won't sentence them to death.
6: But I will humiliate them.
7: Show them that their lack of logic makes them no different from animals who shit wherever they please.
8: I'll just turn them back into normal humans...that's all.
9: Back into what people should be...

12)
1: Oh man!
2: You're the real thing!
3: Sorry, I thought you were just a loser!!
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4: That's quite the lofty goal...do your best.
5: No.
6: Hm?
7: If a "good" person like you controls the ranks,
8: that's when things will truly end.
9: Oh...so you CAN speak.
10: If you have something to say, then say it.

13)
1: I
2: think you're a just person, because you say just things.
3: I know that people like that exist.
4: Going against the majority...takes a lot of courage.
5: I respect you.
6: You may just be a bit stupid...
7: But...one thing that's clear is
8: that people like you are rare.
9: Which means you neither represent the majority,
10: or what is "normal."
11: People like you
12: are "special."

14)
1: And if that's the case, then what should we be called?
2: We prioritize our own interests above others'...
3: If we're surrounded by corrupt people, then we go with the flow.
4: You called people like us
5: rotten...
6: evil, even.
7: As far as I've seen, the trainees
8: are mostly composed of rotten, evil people aspiring to join the military police.
9: Get to the point already...
10: You're trying to say people like you aren't really that bad, right?
11: No...
12: I think we are rotten, and clearly bad people.
13: We certainly aren't "just" people...but.

15)
1: We ARE normal, aren't we?
2: As you say, if all the people in this organization were "good," then it wouldn't be corrupt, right?
3: It just happens that things are organized in a way that it really brings out the true desires of the people in it.
4: Which means...I'm just
5: a weak person who is easily influenced.
6: I just want to be thought of as a human...
7: that's all.

16)
1: That's all...?
2: You talk too much...and it isn't even fun to listen to.
3: I guess when people who usually never talk open their months, it all comes out...
4: Yeah, that's exactly what she is!
5: A "just" person...?
6: If the problem is that this organization requires all the people in it to be "just"...
7: then maybe what needs to change aren't the people...
8: but the organization...itself...?

17)
1: Hmm.
2: Enough talking. Let's go!
3: What?
4: Yes sir!
5: I'm serious about this!
6: I plan to carry this mission out perfectly, from the start!
7: ...well,
8: I guess as long as he's here, things won't get dull...
9: Annie.

18)
1: Armin...
2: Hey...
3: You've really...become a full-fledged military policewoman, huh?

19)
1: What's going on...?
2: Why are you dressed like that?
3: I'm a transporter.
4: I'm wearing this raincoat so that my 3DMG can't be seen.
5: Look.
6: Armin?
7: What's going on?

20)
1: Annie...
2: Will you help me
3: give Eren a chance to escape...?

21)
1: Escape?
2: To where?
3: After defying the empire's orders within these walls...
4: Where can he go?
5: We'll just hide him for a bit.
6: And I don't intend to directly defy their orders.
7(2b): If a faction of the scouting legion makes a protest, that will create enough time to upset the power of the council.
8: I'm sure of it!

22)
1: Upset the power...?
2: You really think things will happen that perfectly...?
3: Where's your proof?
4: Sorry.
5: I can't tell you...
6: No, I'm sorry...
7: There's no way I can do this.
8: I'll keep quiet about it, so just do your best.
9: Annie!
10: Please!
11(2b): They're going to kill Eren!
12: No one knows what's going on! All they care about is their own safety!
13: They're leading the entire human race to ruin, and they don't even realize it!

23)
1: I know I can't prove it...
2: but...
3: at this point...there's nothing we can do that doesn't involve a big risk...
4: I promise to do this so that it doesn't cause too much trouble for you...
5: But I need the power of the military police in order to pass through the inspection at Wall Sina.
6: This...
7: is all I have left.

24)
1(2b): Do I...really look like that good a person to you?
2: A good person?
3: I...don't really like that term.
4: I mean...
5: I think "good" is only relative to how that person affects you personally.
6: There's no such thing as a person that's "good" for everyone.
7: By helping someone out, you may be doing a disservice to someone else...
8: Therefore...
9: If you don't help me out with this, Annie...

25)
1: You'll become a bad person to me...

26)
1: Alright.
2: ...I'll do it.

28)
1: We...got through pretty easily.
2: Ssshh....
3: They didn't even check inside the cart...
4: Don't look around.
5: Figures the daily work of the military police isn't top-notch.
6: Now we just need to make sure the decoy, Jean, isn't noticed...
7: We can't keep this up for much longer...
8: He and I don't look anything like each other...
9: It's alright. Your bodies are similar, and your eyes both look evil.
10: You both have "villain" faces.
11: My face isn't that long...

29)
1: Hey...
2: How would you have gotten over the wall if I hadn't helped?
3: We would have charged through with 3DMG.
4: ...isn't that a bit too much?
5: If you had run before entering Stohes, you wouldn't have had to go to this much trouble.
6: Why does it have to be here?
7: I don't think our "switch" plan would work in any other town but this one, due to its geography.
8: Waiting a while, and having the police let their guard down will give us more time to escape.

30)
1: OK...
2: I understand now.
3: Ah!
4: Here...this is it!
5: This?
6: Yeah...we'll go through here.

31)
1: These are the ruins of the underground city that was planned a long time ago.
2: It goes all the way up to the outer wall.
3: Really? Wow...
4: Yeah, it's safer than walking on the surface.
5: Hm?
6: Annie?

32)
1: What's with you...? Don't tell me you're afraid of cramped, dark places?
2: ...yeah.
3: I'm afraid...a brave,
4: death-seeker like you...
5: probably
6: can't even understand the feelings
7: of a frail maiden like me.
8: ...A maiden who can make a huge man flip around in the air surely can't be called "weak."
9: Stop blabbering and hurry down here!
10: No.
11: I'm not going.
12: I'm scared of what's down there...
13: If you aren't going to stay on the surface, then I quit here.

33)
1: Wh...
2: What the hell are you talking about?!
3: Hurry up and get down here!!

34)
1: Stop fucking around!!
2: Eren! Don't shout.
3: It's alright, isn't it, Mikasa?
4: For some reason,
5: ever since we got here, I haven't seen a single person.

35)
1: It really...
2: hurts.
3: Armin...
4: since when did you start
5: looking at me with those eyes?
6: Annie...
7: Why

36)
1: did you have Marco's 3DMG?
2: We worked on it together,
3: so I could tell from the dents
4: and scratches on it.
5: Yeah...
6: I...
7: found it.

37)
1: ...then
2: you're the one who killed the two giants
3: we took alive?
4: Maybe...
5: But if you thought that way one month ago,
6: then why
7: didn't you do anything?

38)
1: ...because
2: I still can't believe it, even now.
3: I was sure...I was just seeing things...
4: I hoped I was...
5: That's why...
6: ...but
7: If you had killed me then, Annie...
8: Things...wouldn't have turned out this way...

39)
1: Yeah...I feel that way from the bottom of my heart. To think I'd become this cornered by you.
2: I wonder...
3: why I didn't kill you then.
4: Hey...!
5(2b): Annie...you have terrible timing, you know that?!
6: You may just be making this stuff up for some stupid joke...so...
7: just hurry up and get over here!!
8: All you need to do is come underground with us, that's enough proof!!
9: So come on! Prove yourself to us!!

40)
1: ...I can't go that way.
2: I...
3: failed to become a warrior.
4: Come on...!!
5: Enough of that shit already!!
6: Talk to us, Annie!!
7: We can still reason with each other!!
8: Forget it.

41)
1: I can't listen to this any longer.
2: It's futile...

42-43)
1: Time to slice up the
2: the female giant again.

45)
1: Armin...
2: I'm glad...I was a good person for you.
3: You won your bet here.
4: ...however.
5: I bet on what happens next!!
slanted: The shocking turns continue!!