Which may or may not be edited/thrown out when the entire chapter is released with translations.

Those spoiler images are pretty horrifying. Given what Grisha went through, his position becomes more understandable (even if not necessarily justifiable). Grisha’s read for awhile as a very gray character to me, morally speaking, and this seems to confirm that status. I feel incredibly sorry for him, and from a psychological perspective, he must be a pretty strong person to be able to continue to lead a semi-normal life/show compassion towards anybody after that. Ultimately, he’s a tragic figure to be sure, and I can even see some (albeit distant) parallels with Erwin Smith here–both sacrificed countless people to achieve their goals, which were in part motivated by honoring their loved ones’ deaths and the ideals they stood for. The difference, of course, is that Grisha was a lot more foolish than Erwin and had a lot more knowledge of the true happenings, and put both his children in impossible positions, for which he can be faulted. 

Secondly, the image of the titan Kruger turns into bears a striking resemblance to both Grisha’s titan and to Eren’s titan (I actually think it looks like a hybrid of both Grisha and Eren’s titans, which interests me because Grisha and Eren’s titans only seemed to minimally resemble each other’s). My current hypothesis is that it’s most probably the shifter Grisha ate to turn back into a human is Kruger, which would be narratively satisfying in a number of ways. Of course, the full chapter could completely crush this speculation, but I would be very surprised if this is a coincidence. It’s also possible Kruger is Zeke’s boss, in a sense, and is still alive and is our missing 9th titan, but I think the resemblance between Kruger’s titan and Grisha’s/Eren’s is too strong to make this likely.  

@mercyandmagic I’d love to have your thoughts.