Marco raises his head when Galliard touches his shoulder. He's surprised because... Galliard is from Marley. While Marco knows the people in Marley don't know the people in Paradis, he's still touched all the time that Galliard has sympathy for him. Especially after he just attacked what is probably his comrade.

Then Reiner speaks, that familiar defensiveness in his tone. Any time someone had a bad word to say about Bertholdt, that's how he'd get. The familiarity after everything that just happened?

Marco starts to cry.

Not loud, but tears start streaming down his face. Then he laughs a little, bitterly.

"You always do this," He tells Reiner, unable to help himself. "You take responsibility to keep people out of trouble. You covered for me when my gear broke in training and said you were the one who helped me put it on. You let Connie cheat off your maths until he understood it himself. It's why I didn't believe what I was hearing. How could someone who put himself out for everyone be a bad guy?"

Marco sniffs a little, trying to stem the tears.

"It wasn't - it wasn't just you, Reiner, it's not only your fault this time. Bertholdt messed up too. So did Annie... so did I. We were on opposite sides even if I didn't know it."