Recaps

Chen Si helped establish the New Eldia Kingdom, strengthened the Survey Corps, and led its campaign to clear Paradis of Titans. The Corps restored Connie’s mother and Ymir, uncovered Chen Si’s connection to Order, and reached the Sea.

• Historia and Pixis established the New Eldia Kingdom, reorganized its government, and appointed Chen Si Imperial Marshal alongside Erwin.
• At the Founding Ceremony, Historia declared the Church of Thunder Eldia’s state religion, and Chen Si rallied the crowd as faith in him awakened.
• Chen Si arranged Zeke and Pieck’s staged escape, shattered Annie’s crystal, and later restored Connie’s mother from Titan form.
• Kenny took Yasuo Ackerman as his apprentice, while Roald gained the Jaw Titan and trained in Paths until he could defeat Chen Si.
• The Survey Corps cleared Wall Maria, and Chen Si transformed into the Thunder God Titan after Eren used the Coordinate to gather Titans, including Dina Fritz.
• Chen Si learned from Order that it had brought him to the world to help defeat Grotesque, then returned to the Corps and helped Levi and Chris strengthen their abilities.
• Chen Si turned Ymir back into a human, and she learned that sixty years had passed while she wandered Paradis as a Titan.
• The Survey Corps reached the Sea, where the soldiers explored the shore and Chen Si led Eren into the water.

Chen Si brought the Survey Corps into contact with the outside world, helped establish the Eldia Empire, and began preparing Paradis for war with Marley. After welcoming Yelena and the Volunteers, he pursued new alliances and projects while Roald remained a threat.

• Chen Si confronted Eren about the Rumbling, saw memories of its devastation, and fought an older version of himself inside Eren’s mind.
• Magath sent Zoe on a covert mission as Marley weighed Roald Galliard’s power, and Roald transformed, devastated Marleyan forces, and later agreed to return home after the war.
• After Marley and the Mid-East Allied Forces signed an armistice, Zeke planned to expand the Volunteers and told Yelena that Roald had to die for the Euthanasia Plan.
• Chen Si captured Marleyan ships, brought the Survey Corps overseas, and revealed that he came from another world before crowning Historia Empress of the Eldia Empire.
• Chen Si and Historia’s engagement announcement sparked a conflict with Mikasa and the Church of Thunder, but Chen Si refused to marry anyone until Marley was destroyed.
• Chen Si captured more Marleyan soldiers at the harbor, killed Captain Matthew, and welcomed Yelena and the Marley Volunteers to Paradis.
• Yelena disclosed the Euthanasia Plan to Eren, but Chen Si persuaded him to pretend to support it while Paradis prepared for war and began building a railway and new city.
• Chen Si agreed to bring displaced people from Brittany to Paradis, rejected sacrificing his companions to restore Order’s power, and discovered his skill at cooking fried rice.

Chen Si secured a technology and iceburst stone agreement with Hizuru, disrupted Marley with false intelligence, and led a group to Marley to assess its power. There, the group encountered hostility toward Eldians as Roald joined Willy Tybur’s plan to mass-produce Titans and Philia hinted at a connection to Marley’s Special Operations Department.

• Chris demonstrated her five-second aura mimicry, while Magath learned that a Hizuru warship was heading to Paradis Island.
• Chen Si and Erwin welcomed Tōjin Kiyomi’s delegation after Chen Si saved its warship from a tsunami, and the two sides negotiated an agreement exchanging Hizuru technology for exclusive iceburst stone mining rights.
• Chen Si captured Marley agent Maren and used false intelligence to throw Marley into turmoil, while Tōjin Kiyomi agreed to supply telegraph machines and help Mikasa if she wanted it.
• Hizuru established an embassy in the Royal Capital, and Chen Si assembled a group to travel overseas as Paradis Island advanced its railway, military academy, and new Chang'an City.
• Chen Si brought Yasuo and Hange aboard the ship to Marley, while Kenny reluctantly let Yasuo go and warned Chen Si to keep him alive.
• Gabi’s attempt to blow up Sparta Fortress helped trigger a Mid-East counterattack, but Roald’s Jaw Titan routed the enemy forces and Roald left with Gabi.
• Willy Tybur revealed to Magath that Marley had been deceived by false intelligence, then recruited Roald into a plan to create Titans modeled on him and attack Paradis Island.
• Chen Si’s group entered Marley and encountered prejudice against Eldians, while Ramzi introduced them to Philia, whose Older Sister had gone to the Mid-East after fighting human traffickers.

After sending the Survey Corps back to Paradis Island, Chen Si stayed in Marley to pursue Titan research and search for Eren. He rescued Zoe with Yasuo, but Roald abducted her and left Yasuo dying after Chen Si defeated Evil Titan Number One.

• Chen Si brought the Survey Corps together for a farewell gathering, proposed Philia’s engagement to Leo, and confessed his love to Mikasa.
• At the Eldia assembly, Chen Si learned of Willy Tybur’s planned World Joint Address and prepared the Survey Corps to return to Paradis Island while he stayed behind to investigate Marley.
• Chris advised Chen Si to use Yasuo to approach Philia and Professor Mogwin, then warned him against choices that could divide Paradis Island.
• Professor Mogwin and Rundstedt tested Roald’s blood, creating a transforming Lizard Titan, and Roald offered enough blood to make two thousand Titans.
• Eren disappeared after facing his despair, and Chen Si flew to the Mid-East with Yasuo to steal Marley’s Titan research.
• Zoe escaped an assassination attempt but was wounded, and Chen Si treated her before they fought off Mid-East soldiers and Moriarty helped fake her death.
• Zoe agreed to help Chen Si enter Marley, but an illusion at an abandoned hospital separated him from Yasuo and led him to a bald, pale-skinned man.
• Roald abducted Zoe and ordered Evil Titan Number One to kill Chen Si, who pierced the Titan’s nape before finding Yasuo gravely wounded outside.