Marley, Cliff Harbor.
An unremarkable cargo ship docked at the harbor, the least conspicuous among the many freighters there.
The cargo hold opened, revealing a crowd of people. Chen Si led the way, with Mikasa right behind him. Everyone from the 104th Cadet Corps had come except Eren.
Historia still refused to release Eren. Erwin and Kenny had already used every means they could think of to quell several waves of protesters.
Support for Historia on Paradis Island had become polarized. Half the population fanatically supported Eren's ideology of genocide, while another faction considered aggression the fundamental sin, a desecration of the Wings of Freedom.
After Chen Si arrived, Marley's Governor-General's Office secretly issued an order for Marlowe to search the Fifteen Cities in southern Marley and eliminate Angel, Poet, Dusk, and Tailor-the last four remnants of Marley-without leaving a single one alive.
Chen Si sent the Central Intelligence Agency's strongest operatives, Kenny and Ivanka, along with the twelve elite agents Kenny had personally trained, to Marley to join the hunt. At the same time, they searched all of Marley for Hange.
Chen Si would rather kill an innocent by mistake than let a single target escape, but he never said so outright. He had yet to take sides between Eren and Historia, and anything he said or did could have irreversible consequences for either of them.
So Chen Si secretly brought Floch with him, along with Caesar Marley-en, the only person currently at his disposal who would carry out his intentions. Caesar was a sharp blade in his hand. He needed an executioner like him, and no one on Paradis Island was better suited to the job.
Kenny did not disappoint Chen Si. The Central Intelligence Agency's elite Eldian agents worked far more efficiently than Chen Si had imagined.