Grisha gathers the two while the police investigate the murder, with Mikasa now being an orphan, Grisha takes Mikasa in.
Mikasa successfully kills the last robber and saves Eren. The final robber arrives and immediately kicks Eren and later choking him, Eren weakly encourages Mikasa to fight the man which then later awakens her power. Eren finds a cabin and makes a plan in order to save Mikasa by acting like an innocent lost boy in the mountains, with this plan he was able to stab one of the robbers, as well another one before freeing Mikasa from the ropes. Grisha tells Eren to wait by the foot of the mountain, however Eren disobeys his father's request and goes to search for Mikasa, who was taken by a group of robbers planning to sell Mikasa as a sex slave. When arriving the home they encountered the bodies of Mikasa's parents deceased.
The two first met as Eren's father, Grisha, was the family doctor for the Ackerman family.