[Erwin is deeply unimpressed by the bodyguard theatrics. This is a conversation, not a barroom brawl, and he has no intent on attacking either one of them.]
And he wasn't asking you questions? He wasn't expressing frustration that you were keeping things from him?
[Maybe he wasn't, but Erwin finds that hard to believe. If Eren came to him, of all people, that probably means he'd exhausted all other avenues first.]
Where would that track have led, Mikasa? Would it have not been the right time if or when Eren tried to declare war on Vaeros, which he seemed to think I would gladly do with him? Would it not have been the right time if Eren regained his immense and dangerous powers and started using them against this world? Would it ever have been the right time to tell him your role, both of your roles, in his fate?
[He holds up his robotic hand.]
Which, if he has learned, it hasn't been from me. I'm not the doddering old fool you seem to think I am; I'm aware of the difference between information that hurts and information that destroys.
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And he wasn't asking you questions? He wasn't expressing frustration that you were keeping things from him?
[Maybe he wasn't, but Erwin finds that hard to believe. If Eren came to him, of all people, that probably means he'd exhausted all other avenues first.]
Where would that track have led, Mikasa? Would it have not been the right time if or when Eren tried to declare war on Vaeros, which he seemed to think I would gladly do with him? Would it not have been the right time if Eren regained his immense and dangerous powers and started using them against this world? Would it ever have been the right time to tell him your role, both of your roles, in his fate?
[He holds up his robotic hand.]
Which, if he has learned, it hasn't been from me. I'm not the doddering old fool you seem to think I am; I'm aware of the difference between information that hurts and information that destroys.