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While reading manga of 進撃の巨人, we stumbled upon a compound sentence having 者
mentioned twice, both marked with は and at the end of that sentence. While we
managed to understand (at least in our opinion, which seems to align with
translations to the manga online) the sentence, we didn't understand why the
second 者 is there. Here is the manga panel for context and reference: [![enter
image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0IOe2.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0IOe2.jpg)

Just wanted to clear things although we think we managed to understand the
general translation of that sentence. Thank you all in advance!
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Double 者 (read もの) in a compound sentence
I think you can just translate the sentence quite literally, with 者 being "the
one":

> それを見た **者** は、この世界で一番の 自由を手に入れた **者** 。  
>  **The one** who saw that was **the one** who got the utmost freedom of this
> world into his hands.

There are no rules stating that 者 cannot be used more than once in a sentence,
just like in English there is no limit on "the one".

> both marked with は and at the end of that sentence

I only see one は here. If you meant the "これが" on the bottom, that's just
another sentence. I don't know if anything comes after これが, but it's not a
part of the previous sentence.
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