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There are several differences in this scene.

1. Eren was not crying

Eren was crying on 6th Episode as seen in here :

But in Mikasa's flashback in recent episode, Eren was not crying. He has a really merciless expression here.

2. Mikasa's Expression

In the 6th episode, Mikasa expression is emotionless, and maybe a little relieved because someone finally saved her

But in recent episode, Mikasa was legit terrified, by Eren's action

3. How Eren recognize Mikasa

Okay, this is where it gets chilling.

In the 6th Episode, it was Eren's first time to see Mikasa. Noted : It was his FIRST time to see Mikasa. When he saved her he said this :

"It is alright now" and the scene moves into next scene which is him saying "You are Mikasa right ?"

It was natural, because Eren has not meet Mikasa yet, and he did not know how she looks like. Of course he was going to make sure that she is Mikasa.

But in the recent episode,He said this

"It is fine now, Mikasa" as if he already knew how she looks like. Well he already knew that the kidnapped girl was named Mikasa, but i think if you don't know how the girl you saved looks like, you want to make sure that the girl you saved is indeed Mikasa. But i don't know i can be overthink about it

4. The weather

This fact is the most chilling to me.

In the 6th episode, when Mikasa was kidnapped it was raining, hard.

But in the recent episode, it was shown that there were birds

This is confusing to me. Why there were birds if it was raining outside ? and i find in google that Birds actually can fly when it is raining, but they choose not to. So that means, in this scene it was not raining at all because there are birds flying.

I also search in the 6th episode whether the windows has the glimps of birds as it was shown in the recent episode. There was not a single window shot that has birds.

I actually am not sure what the differences implies though. There are two possibilities that i can think of :

1. Alternate universe exist

So what Mikasa saw is just fragment of other Mikasa in alternate universe of the event. So the course of event is slightly different. She can remember something about other alternate universe maybe because she is an ackerman.

Or

2. Eren is in the timeloop

Because it is hinted that Attack on Titan world has single timeline. Meaning that even if you take different action, the ending will be the same anyway. But Eren has the Attack titan, and it has the power to reach the future, transcending time. So i think it is not impossible for him to time travel to the past via P A T H, now he has Ymir on his side.