[ It's funny, really. He and Eren have talked about how men like them can't rest, can't stop, can't ever be happy. Yet they've undoubtedly found more happiness in each other than anyone else. Eren's even cried from happiness around him. Yet Maruki never put words to it like that – and really, it only makes sense that it happened this way. Leave it to Dolph – wonderful, blunt Dolph who brooks no bullshit and cuts straight to the heart of every matter – to state the truth so plainly, so beautifully, that even Eren couldn't deny it.

Their hands tangle together now. Maruki grins back at him, so grateful he could burst. ]

I'm so glad. Really, I'm so happy you two were able to get on the same page. And... Thank you for doing that for him. I think it's really changed him.