[He's given enough. Armin thinks so too. Meanwhile, he, The Commander, is relaxing on an interdimensional vacation when there is - when there must be - so very much to do now that the world has been squashed to almost nothing...
[And all he can think is that Eren is here, and Eren is alive, and Eren is so very often beside him.
[Plenty of people would insist that Armin Arlert isn't a selfish person. They'd be wrong...]
In Shiganshina...there was this tree...[His voice is wandering, his eyes on the stars. He doesn't sound quite present, even standing there next to Levi. His heart is somewhere else.]
It's a little silly, I guess, but I valued that place - that specific place - a lot.
Eren and Mikasa and I - sometimes we'd spend all day racing to that tree, just...laughing. Laughing until we couldn't breathe.
[...]
I miss that place. And I miss Shiganshina.
But I'm glad to be here with them. When it comes to home, I guess it really is, more than anything else, those two people...
Maybe I should want to go back. Maybe I should want to do whatever I can to undo the damage that's been done, but...
[A glance now at Levi.] Call me selfish, I guess. Ellipsa has given me more than I could ever deserve. I want to hold onto that. Forever.
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[And all he can think is that Eren is here, and Eren is alive, and Eren is so very often beside him.
[Plenty of people would insist that Armin Arlert isn't a selfish person. They'd be wrong...]
In Shiganshina...there was this tree...[His voice is wandering, his eyes on the stars. He doesn't sound quite present, even standing there next to Levi. His heart is somewhere else.]
It's a little silly, I guess, but I valued that place - that specific place - a lot.
Eren and Mikasa and I - sometimes we'd spend all day racing to that tree, just...laughing. Laughing until we couldn't breathe.
[...]
I miss that place. And I miss Shiganshina.
But I'm glad to be here with them. When it comes to home, I guess it really is, more than anything else, those two people...
Maybe I should want to go back. Maybe I should want to do whatever I can to undo the damage that's been done, but...
[A glance now at Levi.] Call me selfish, I guess. Ellipsa has given me more than I could ever deserve. I want to hold onto that. Forever.