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Note: I apologize for not having more quotes from the manga in this. But I haven’t found typesetted new chapter yet, so please accept just looking at summaries of what was going on.

Erwin works in mysterious ways, and Isayama has a thing for hinting at future events. He does this plenty through Erwin, actually, who seems to have a knack for knowing what will happen before it does. Levi even says something along the lines of ‘he’s always a step ahead of us.’

Erwin has been acting mysteriously the past few days. The conversations he’s had with Nile, Pixis, and Hange, as if he’d been preparing for something, seem very ominous. But it seems like it’s all part of Erwin’s plan, as always.

He promised Pixis that he would try to prevent bloodshed in the overthrowing of the government, but admitted he didn’t have the key factor to make a scene he would need to cause in order to make the general public upset enough to cause a revolution. But is that exactly right?

What I think is that this ‘key factor’ Erwin originally talked about was a murder that he could have Nile pin on Erwin himself. When the time came around for it, Erwin knew he would have to have someone take his spot for the time being, and named the most capable for the job—Hange—as Commander. He then proceeded to win the civilians over with his speech about Reeves. 

His sentence is going to be the key factor; he’s planning on winning over the populace with it, and he knows that if he doesn’t manage to win them over, the entire Scouting Legion is going to be executed. But if he manages to win them over—which we’ll see in future chapters—we’ll likely see more unrest. And the Garrison and the side of the MP that Nile is in charge of will likely help in the unrest and eventually create a complete revolution against the King.

There’s a reason why Erwin still seems so grim-faced; none of this surprises him. This is all part of his plan. There is no huge danger for the Scouting Legion other than the Human Repression Unit right now. And even this Repression Unit may be beneficial. While Kenny Ackerman understands how Levi works, he doesn’t understand how Hange nor Erwin work; their actions and choices might through him off his game and make things harder for him, as well as pose a threat to the public that the Scouting Legion can work on saving the civilians from, further making them side with them rather than the useless Military Police, who’s corruption stops it from working properly in stopping crime.