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If I ever end up as Yang Jie again, I need someone to pull me out. I can't let him mess things up like that again. And I really want to punch him. I don't care if it'd mean punching myself too. The bastard has it coming.

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They really did. Sounds like we could've ended up with a worst case scenario if it wasn't for them.

Yeah. I don’t think the pirates could have stopped that by themselves, not after the barrels were already in the water.

Not safely anyway. Not with that many decoys to worry about.

Explosives and safety don’t generally go together, no.

That's true. But I have a feeling dealing with the barrels would've been more unsafe than usual. They didn't use fuses or anything as obvious as that.

Jesus. Definitely don’t want to be messing with those with all those civilians about.

Exactly. Which is why he's too dangerous to be left alone.

You sure about this, though? Might not be so great for you to be awake in him.

[Sorry dude but you guys are the worst actors in the world.]

I'm sure. If I end up being him again and he works against the rebels or gets civilians caught in the crossfire, I'll never be able to forgive myself. Once I'm awake I can work with whoever's themselves to figure out what to do from there.

[Eren's not a great actor, but at least he's not "extra-planar bug spirit" levels of bad at it.]

Don’t push yourself too hard.

[There's actually a bit of a mental laugh of that.] Don't worry, that's nothing compared to what I've been through. I was pushing myself harder than that when I was still in the Training Corps.

[Chloe’s not sure that spending a month under cover constantly as someone you hate is something people do in the army, but she lets it go]

Ah, you must be Eren. I see what Jean meant now, I think.

[He's definitely amused by that, but there's a weird hint of sadness from his end too. Or perhaps not that weird, considering how recently Jean disappeared.]

Yeah, that's me. Did Jean say anything too bad about me?

He and I had ... some ideological differences regarding what happened to Tower. He said I reminded him of you, so he couldn’t say anything too bad about you after that.

[Oh. Well that could mean a couple different things, really.]

Sorry, I didn't mean to pry. We were both friends and rivals, so we'd talk shit about each other sometimes.

I don't think I got your name?

[Oops, that could definitely come off as suspicious to someone who doesn’t trust easily, especially since Jean isn’t around to confirm.]

Oh, sorry about that, love. Forgot my manners. Chloe Frazer. I knew Jean because we share a patron.

[Fortunately Eren doesn't find it suspicious. He's just wondering whether she reminded Jean of how he is now, or of how he used to be when he and Jean were trainees. Those would imply two very different things, particularly concerning the subject of Tower's murder.]

You don't need to apologize when I forgot to introduce myself too, you know. I'm guessing Jean already told you how he and I know each other?

Not in detail, just that you two were in the army together.

You prefer freedom to safety, I think is what he meant.

Oh! Yeah, that's probably what he meant. That's true of all of us in the Survey Corps, but I'm the only one who's been yelling about it since our first day as Trainees.

Me and Jean enlisted in the military at the same time, and we became rivals right away. We hated each other at first but now he's one of my best friends.

That seems to be how it works. My current business partner back home threatened to kill me the first day we worked together.

Wow, that must have been one hell of a first meeting. At least me and Jean never threatened to do worse than punch each other until we couldn't move anymore.

[So some days they were only just short of outright threatening to kill each other, really.]

Oh, she was cross with me because she thought I was trying to sell her out, so she was like, pointedly reminding me what happened to the last guy who betrayed her.

Oh. Okay, that makes a hell of a lot more sense. [The way he says that definitely implies Eren's dealt with his own share of betrayals.] At least it sounds like you were able to convince her you're not planning to betray her?

Well, the thing is that I was, sort of. Just not over that. That really was a wild couple of weeks, but it’s all water under the bridge now. I wouldn’t trade working with her for anything.

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