Easier Than Lying

“This is not what you want, is it?”

No, it never was, all Eren ever wanted was to see the ocean with Armin and Mikasa. To witness all those things that the world offered in the books Armin use to read. “You wanted freedom, didn’t you?”

He swallows because he knows that this was always the path, regardless of whether Eren did it alone or not. The silence answers Ymir’s question, as she turns back to him, forcing Eren to follow her. Their footsteps echo in the Paths, following each other. “If you want to change your mistakes, change the past, there is a cost to this. Just like the other many things you have achieved for freedom.”

Or: Eren goes back in time and changes a few things.