Historia once asked Frieda what it meant to be a girl, and Frieda’s answer was to point at a girl in a book.
This world is filled with painful and harsh things, oppression and being oppressed, exploitation and being exploited. Human society has always gone through these repetitive events, and in this unequal feudal era, there was a slave.
The girl always watched it all from the side.
The girl seemed to yearn for the romantic affections between nobles. The girl had thought she would live her life as a slave in such a mundane way, but she never expected that all her misfortunes would begin here.
One day, the slave owner discovered that someone among the slaves had intentionally let a pig escape.
The slave owner declared that if no one confessed, he would gouge out one eye from everyone present.
Upon hearing this, the slaves immediately identified the girl. The girl simply knelt down before the slave owner without any defense, and the punishment meted out by the slave owner was a hunting game.
Severely injured, the girl struggled and weakly fled through the forest, with a crowd of nobles behind her, enjoying the hunt. They leisurely rode their horses, laughing freely, as if mocking the girl's helplessness.
Already exhausted, the girl stumbled over a branch. Blood seeped from the corner of her eye, soaking a flower with nine petals. The physical wounds made the girl cry out in pain. She thought she was going to die there.
However, at this moment, looking up, the girl suddenly discovered a giant tree. The instinct for survival drove the girl to gradually enter the giant tree hollow. But the hollow also hid danger, and the girl immediately fell into the underground river at the bottom of the hollow, the feeling of suffocation gradually invading every part of her body.
But at this very moment, a glowing strange egg-like insect quietly floated behind the girl. The strange egg-like insect gradually extended its tentacles, clinging tightly to the girl's spine.
The next second, a massive skeleton appeared in the dense forest. As the dust settled, the figure of a tall giant gradually emerged before everyone, and this was Ymir Fritz.
However, Ymir, who had gained immense power, did not resist the detestable slave owner, who was the first King Fritz. Because of Ymir's Titan power, the Eldian tribes continuously expanded their sphere of influence.
In the name of King Fritz, Ymir successfully massacred the Marleyan tribes. As a reward, King Fritz promised Ymir that she would bear royal children.
In the time that followed, Ymir continuously invaded other countries and then became pregnant and gave birth to new offspring, repeating the cycle endlessly.
And in the thirteenth year of gaining Titan power, Ymir had already successfully given birth to three daughters. The Eldian Empire continued to grow. Punishment—perhaps Ymir's life would continue like this.
However, where there is oppression, there is resistance. A warrior, dissatisfied with King Fritz's oppressive policies, prepared to assassinate him. The warrior fiercely thrust a spear towards King Fritz, but Ymir promptly stepped in front of King Fritz, blocking the attack.
With her shoulder pierced, Ymir collapsed. Her daughters watched their mother's injured state with concern, but King Fritz merely watched coldly from the side.
King Fritz stated that he knew a single spear could not kill Ymir.
At this moment, King Fritz still ordered Ymir to quickly get up and continue her work.
At this point, Ymir realized that she was merely a slave, and her yearning for love was nothing but a joke.
With these thoughts, Ymir gradually gave up the will to live. But in this final moment, she remembered the flower stained with blood, the nine-petaled flower with only one petal stained with fresh blood, flowing separately. Perhaps this also represented the freedom Ymir had once pursued.
As her consciousness gradually blurred, Ymir seemed to arrive at a silent place, where there was only a clear blue sky and earth everywhere.
Ymir thought her death would bring answers, but instead, she fell into an even greater abyss of confinement.
King Fritz ordered Ymir's corpse to be chopped into pieces and distributed equally among her three daughters to eat, in order to inherit the Titan power.
King Fritz commanded the three daughters to procreate, ensuring that Ymir's bloodline would not be broken.
If a daughter died, then her grandchild would eat her spinal fluid. If a grandchild died, then the next generation would eat the spinal fluid.
The Titan power was also continuously passed down, evolving into nine Titans. And whenever descendants needed the Titan power, Ymir would always carry a small wooden bucket in the Coordinate, painstakingly crafting the Titan's flesh and blood bodies. But this foolish act must now end.
Eren angrily declared that he would completely end this world, so he begged for power. Eren continued to speak emotionally to his ancestor, saying, "You are not a slave, nor are you a mere life. You are just an ordinary person. Therefore, you do not need to obey anyone's instructions. The decision-maker is you. Choose yourself."
King Gg, seeing Ymir stop moving, immediately realized something was wrong and began to rage impotently. Eren continued to try to persuade the ancestor, asking if she wanted to stay there forever or end everything.
Meanwhile, King Gg behind them continued to rage impotently. Eren continued to vehemently plead with the ancestor, "You are the one who guided me here. You have actually been waiting for me all along, haven't you? Since 2000 years ago, you have been waiting for someone to liberate you."
Hearing this, Ymir's eyes suddenly lit up, and tears began to pour down her cheeks incessantly. At the same time, Eren's broken head was miraculously reconnected by a glowing strange egg.
At this moment, all the city walls on the island collapsed. Countless Colossal Titans all awakened from within the walls. They marched in unison towards Marley, and an unimaginably huge skeleton suddenly appeared before everyone.
What kind of location was this that successfully began, and it was clearly impossible to turn back.