Oh my God. I had a guess but I hadn't seen the raws in their entirety THIS IS COMPLETELY NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING?????
my current guess is (WARNING THIS IS A GUESS I SPEAK SHIT-ALL JAPANESE OR CHINESE FOR THAT MATTER):
Marlo and Hitch, who only know the SL as criminals, find their hideout and are captured
Levi says they're dangerous witnesses and need to be silenced somehow, maybe doesn't go out and says they need to be killed but implies it
Jean offers to be the one to "get rid of them" to Levi
Levi agrees
Jean takes them to a secluded place, attempts to kill/menace them but fucks up - he either decides halfway throught the fight "fuck this noise the guy is right I'll just let them escape" or just fucks up from the beginning ON PURPOSE for some reason
(I kinda wanna say he's fucking up on purpose from the beginning because, come the fuck on, tripping on his own feet? I know we like to talk about how much of a dork he is but he's a fucking top ten soldier, trained in hand to hand with Eren Jaeger - but it's not impossible it's just my tender fangirl heart speaking)
he's either letting them escape as his own initiative because he doesn't think they're a real menace, in which case shit will come bite him in the ass HARD later on, or he's putting them on some sort of "trial" to see if they can be trusted or if they're spineless cowards like the rest of the MP
if that's the second case then the final panels are probably the Levi squad setting an ambush for somebody and Marlo and Hitch are on to it
oh my God I really want a translation of this I REALLY NEED A TRANSLATION OF THIS /chews table
warning for probably unwarranted Jean fangirling and cursing behind this line
my current guess is (WARNING THIS IS A GUESS I SPEAK SHIT-ALL JAPANESE OR CHINESE FOR THAT MATTER):
Marlo and Hitch, who only know the SL as criminals, find their hideout and are captured
Levi says they're dangerous witnesses and need to be silenced somehow, maybe doesn't go out and says they need to be killed but implies it
Jean offers to be the one to "get rid of them" to Levi
Levi agrees
Jean takes them to a secluded place, attempts to kill/menace them but fucks up - he either decides halfway throught the fight "fuck this noise the guy is right I'll just let them escape" or just fucks up from the beginning ON PURPOSE for some reason
(I kinda wanna say he's fucking up on purpose from the beginning because, come the fuck on, tripping on his own feet? I know we like to talk about how much of a dork he is but he's a fucking top ten soldier, trained in hand to hand with Eren Jaeger - but it's not impossible it's just my tender fangirl heart speaking)
he's either letting them escape as his own initiative because he doesn't think they're a real menace, in which case shit will come bite him in the ass HARD later on, or he's putting them on some sort of "trial" to see if they can be trusted or if they're spineless cowards like the rest of the MP
if that's the second case then the final panels are probably the Levi squad setting an ambush for somebody and Marlo and Hitch are on to it
oh my God I really want a translation of this I REALLY NEED A TRANSLATION OF THIS /chews table