Annie sat back, she could already see how they did not wish to help her. She had to guess, she had to know, he was a cunning bastard of a man. Jacob Peralta had wanted her like this, he wanted her to recall every single person that she had effected. Her motives, no matter how right they were in their eyes or the eyes of the foundation, it was wrong in the eyes of other people. Were there truly any good guys in this battle? There was Armin with Graham, while with the Eldians, it was Peralta and Erwin. 

She had to wonder if this was how things needed to be, for now, things were just that different, she did not know what caused it but she guessed that her warrior side recognized that much as well. Things were not good, nor were they bad. People just had different ways of going about things, people had their borders, they knew which lines they were willing to cross in order to get that thrill of battle. The victory, the look in their eyes that whispers: 'I won.'

She remembered that moment with one of her own people. Surprisingly enough, it was her leader at the time. Reiner himself had that look, the victorious gleam that we all wished to have, something about it had unsettled her. Reiner was not a bad guy, nor was he a good guy but he did not prey on other people like that. Annie wondered for a moment, had he broken himself like the rest of them? Reiner was a part of the group for a long time, something about his act, it became something more than just that. 

"Mrs. Yeager, if you could please continue about the events of the Waterfront Pier attack. What else had happened?"

Annie bowed her head, knowing that she had shown some forms of weakness. Something that Diaz and Santiago were looking pretty curious about, they wondered what other things she had to say about her partners. 

"The battle had gone on for a while, reinforcements had arrived and blimps were used to drop air-bombs, detonated as soon as they hit the ground. It was a massacre, something that Bertolt had shown remorse for. He was the one most affected, his lover was killed in the attack. His lover was Mina Carolina, an Eldian revolutionist fighting against us at the time."

Both wardens had gasped at what Annie said, Bertolt had taken part in the killing of his own lover? It was truly unheard of in times of war but this just backed it up. No wonder why they had gotten reports of the explosive expert not really taking part in the battle, maybe that could be exploited to bring him down. 

Annie's mind soon went back to the battle, she remembered hearing the whistles in the air and all too soon, she saw herself being at the front end of a rifle. Something that was already shaking her to the core of her very existence, even though she was the wife of Eren Yeager, she knew they had ordered for her death, she did not blame, in fact, she praised them.

Mina had stared her down for a single moment before she was shot down by Reiner, his own face masked with stoicism. He looked across the battlefield and found Bertolt, they stared each other down before they heard a gasp of life escape from Mina...

Just as Reiner was about to deliver the final shot...he was punched in the face by Bertolt. 

"I dare you, I fucking dare you! You may be my brother in the unit but lay a single hand on her head, I don't care about me dying myself but I will put a bullet inside that skull of yours! Understood!?"

Bertolt stared Reiner down, who nodded his understanding. Turning away, walking down further into the battlefield as Annie stayed behind.

"Bert-"

"Don't Annie, just...don't, okay? This is the price for our sins, correct? That's what we are always taught...what we are always meant to do! Fight to free ourselves, like we did this in the first place...we were brainwashed teenagers at the time, what did we know?"

Bertolt rumbled on as he pulled out his revolver and kissed Mina's lips softly, granting her one last look as he ended with a shaking gun and a bloodied face...

"I fulfill my duty to the bitter end."