In this chapter, we learn that the student council is planning to hold a folk dancing exhibition at the athletics fair. Annie has come to see eren and wants to ask him to be an observer of the activities of the council. Reluctantly, eren agrees to do so. He tells mikasa that he will bring him a present: dirt from anonder a titans fingernail. He also tells him that the council members are not there yet, and that he is just there to observe. He says that they are about to witness a shop lifting and that the shop owner is buying a magazine. He adds that they plan to steal the store blind and that they will distract the clerk. Confused, he asks eren why he didn't tell him sooner about the mission to observe the titans. . He asks why he wasted so much time talking to eren when he could have asked him the same question in front of an old lady. In other words, he's paired up with her.