Chapter 2548 Seeking Common Ground While Reserving Differences
After a long-lost father-son reunion, Zeke heard his father speak with the same cynicism as before, and immediately knew that this must be his biological father, the man who forced him to accept hatred that did not belong to him and sent him to be a child soldier.
The hatred of the father is not the hatred of the son. Zeke has always been unwilling to accept the twisted teachings of his biological father, so he finally came up with the idea that he was born with only pain, and generalized that all Eldians were born with only pain. This world has no kindness to the Eldians, and will only make Eldia wallow in the quagmire of hatred.
So this is not a happy father-son reunion. There is no family affection in the atmosphere, only a heavy feeling of revenge.
As soon as Grisha came, he asked the honorary Marleyans present to choose whether to be a fighter against Marley or to become an enemy.
The returning trio did not know that the man in front of them was still the leader of the Eldian Restorationists. He united a group of compatriots who wanted to resist Marley and tried to resist Marley with violence. Although he failed, he survived. So the trio is not used to the other party suddenly appearing and asking them to make a choice.
"You haven't changed, you're still so naive." Zeke couldn't stand it anymore: "Do you only see black and white, only fighters and enemies? If it were that simple, the Eldians wouldn't have been considered demons in the past 100 years. Your ideas are impossible to succeed. Not only do you want to put yourself in an irretrievable situation, but you also want to put your family in a dead end. What do you think of your family? As pawns for your revenge?"
Although it was a long-awaited reunion, Zeke is no longer a child now.
"I am indeed a failed family, but since I have chosen this path, my family is already in danger, and I can only train you to be fighters and fight together." After coming to the high wall, Grisha has actually changed a lot, and it can even be said that he has let go of his hatred, but Marley does not want to let the Eldians go, and even sent giants to mess up the wall, so he knows that he must fight.
"So for your hatred alone, you force your whole family into a desperate situation? You are really a good father." Zeke laughed.
Grisha was not shaken at all, just staring at his eldest son with an unrepentant look, as if he wanted to show his heart.
Unfortunately, the father and son obviously did not have this tacit understanding.
Grisha's hatred for Marley was mainly because he and his sister left the quarantine zone to watch the airship when he was a child, but the result was that his sister was bitten to death by the garrison's dog. This made Grisha realize at a young age that the honor of the Marley people was a cover, a lie, and they did not even have the most basic right to survive. Later, when the soldiers came to investigate, the parents could not show sadness, but had to pretend that nothing had happened, and said that it was not the master's fault, but the fault of the young, that they did not educate their daughter well, and that the victim was wrong, not the perpetrator.
At that time, Grisha's three views collapsed, so he embarked on a road of revenge. When he grew up, he was a doctor in the quarantine zone, so he was absorbed by the restorationists. Then he learned the history of Eldia and knew that Eldia was not a demon at all. It was Marley who fabricated history just to enslave the Eldians.
Later, he met his ex-wife, had a son, and sent his son to training, until he failed, and the journey of revenge came to an end.
But Marley's current behavior has proved that Marley will not let them go.
For his son's ridicule, Grisha knew that Zeke thought he was wrong. His son accepted Marley's education and thought that everything was the Eldians' fault.
In Marley's education, the Eldians were demons who enslaved the continent for 1,800 years, and what Eldia did was cruel. Because Eldia was just a small tribe at the beginning, with a small population, and only the people of Ymir could become giants. Why did the blood of the ancestor giant spread so quickly? It is because countless women on the continent were defiled in a thousand years and gave birth to a large number of Ymir people, which led to the current spectacular population size.
Of course, because the technology was backward at the time, even if they tried their best to give birth to children, they could not assimilate the entire continent, but the people of Ymir went from one person to millions, so we know that many people must have become tools for the reproduction of the people of Ymir.
In addition, Eldia has a killer weapon like the Titan, so it is easy for other nations to regard it as a monster.
But the Marleyans also want to use the Titans, so they must intensify the propaganda of the evil of the Eldians, brainwash the Eldians into deserving sinners, and make them willing to become tools of the Marleyans.
I can only say that the Marleyans are also idiots. They hate the Eldians, but they live like the Eldians.
In fact, Marley has a good card. They can play the role of the savior of the people of Ymir, not the debt collector. They can tell the people of Ymir that it was Marley who defeated the evil Eldian royal family and saved the equally oppressed people of Ymir. Everyone is a victim, and everyone will work together to build a better future. In this way, the people of Ymir will definitely be able to integrate into Marley and fight for Marley wholeheartedly.
However, Marley, like the Eldians, is a hereditary noble family, and the nobles are hereditary. It is really hard to expect them to have much political wisdom.
Grisha stared at Jike and said slowly: "I know why you are dissatisfied, because you do not want revenge, because you do not understand my hatred. It is indeed a failure of my education. If you want to choose to become an enemy, then that is It's not your fault, but please listen to me before you make your final choice."
Jike gave his father a chance to finish: "You say it."
"We Eldians, whether we are the people called Ymir or the honorable Marais, do not have the basic rights to survive. Our lives do not belong to us, but are just temporary refuge. It is within us and can be taken away from us at any time, and there will be no punishment for those who kill us."
"That's because we are Eldians, the demons who have enslaved the continent for a thousand years, and we deserve it." Zeke said.
"We did make a mistake, so we have to stand up and fight. We want the Eldians to never make the same mistake again." Grisha said, "So we have to understand who is the real person in Eldia. Who are the backward reactionary forces and the advanced progressive forces? We also need to understand the two forces in Marais so that we can fight. "We are Eldians. We did something wrong, so we can do better." We have a responsibility to learn lessons and educate our children and grandchildren not to make the same mistakes.”
Correction, since we know that the past thousand years were wrong, we must correct them.
"It's easy to say, as long as we have the power of giants, it is impossible to change." Jike does not think there is a way to change.
"Yes, as long as we don't be spectators and unite with the progressive forces in Eldia, we will be able to do it." For the first time, Grisha stepped out of the narrow nation and looked at the nation in a dialectical way.
Not only are there differences between different ethnic groups but also within ethnic groups. In the past, everyone regarded the nation as a whole, but that is about to change now. We must put aside our ethnic differences and look for the same progressive nature that different ethnic groups have. Only in this way can we seek common ground while reserving differences, overcome backwardness, and look to the future.