Attack on Titan Chapter 122

Frieda Reiss tells her sister Historia that she should be like the girl in her storybook, because she is kind and always thinking of others. However, the girl lives in a harsh time when her people are enslaved by the Eldian tribe. When one of the slaves lets a pig escape, Fritz, the tribal leader calls for his slaves to identify the culprit or he will gouge out an eye from each of them. The other slaves point to a single girl, Ymir. She is surprised, but bows her head and takes the blame. As a result, she is set loose in a forest and chased by hunters on horseback with dogs and arrows. Blood runs from one of her eyes and she is struck multiple times, but she still runs until she finds a gigantic tree with a crevice at the base of its trunk. Ymir walks inside and stumbles into a chasm, where she falls headfirst and lands in water. A spindly substance is beneath her, lined up with her spine, and tendrils of it reach up to her back as she drifts down. The forest erupts ...