Eren looks at Cairbre for a moment, then sighs and shakes his head. "No, two is definitely better than nothing. If I didn't get to talk to him at all, or if I wasn't there to help him put his mind together..." He shudders. "But just because it's better doesn't mean it was enough.

"Of course we'd want to know! I wanted to know! That whole time, I didn't know if I'd ever get to see him or even talk to him again! All I knew was that that thing was something as strong as you Arcana, which meant there was a chance it might've trapped him there! I thought I'd lost him and I... I can't lose Armin! Not him or anyone else I call family! Not like that; not when there's no hope of them ever coming back! My family is what drives me to keep going, Cairbre. I can't keep moving forward without them. What's the point of finally gaining my freedom if they're not there to share that freedom with me!?"