[It took Frieda a lot to not pull away from Mari's grasp. Increasingly fraying under the accusations coming from the darkness, she truly didn't feel like she could remain in the company of someone so innocent and clueless.]
I'm still your friend? Can you really say that? I may have been friendly to you, but does that make up for all the suffering I caused to others? Why shouldn't I suffer the consequences of what we Eldians have done?
[Realising that she wasn't even giving her a chance to understand the full situation, she volunteered the information she'd been holding back:]
Among the people of our world, we alone can take on monstrous titan forms, and we overran and enslaved the whole continent like that. So many people were killed, mutilated, raped and enslaved! We built our empire on their backs, for two-thousand years, until my ancestor put an end to it - and when the world came to take its revenge on us in our exile, I-- I did nothing to prevent it, because that'd only have led to even more deaths! Do you understand?
CW: War Crimes
I'm still your friend? Can you really say that? I may have been friendly to you, but does that make up for all the suffering I caused to others? Why shouldn't I suffer the consequences of what we Eldians have done?
[Realising that she wasn't even giving her a chance to understand the full situation, she volunteered the information she'd been holding back:]
Among the people of our world, we alone can take on monstrous titan forms, and we overran and enslaved the whole continent like that. So many people were killed, mutilated, raped and enslaved! We built our empire on their backs, for two-thousand years, until my ancestor put an end to it - and when the world came to take its revenge on us in our exile, I-- I did nothing to prevent it, because that'd only have led to even more deaths! Do you understand?