Recaps

Chen Si treated patients and helped Zoe retrieve the Snow Mountain Flower while forming a closer bond with her. After investigating how to overcome the Titans’ lifespan limit, he rejected Rundstedt’s offer to join Marley and prepared for the coming conflict as Eren’s plans and Marley’s threat drew nearer.

• Chen Si returned with Zoe to the Mogwin Residence, cured Mogwin’s consumption, and arranged for Hange to study under him.
• Chen Si treated patients at a Marleyan hospital, helped Mrs. Gus and her grandson, and secretly told Eren to find a way past the Titans’ lifespan limit.
• Chen Si and Zoe visited Uncle Drew’s village and Annecy, where Chen Si treated Buz and promised Zoe they would return to Lake Bourget with Philia and Yasuo.
• Chen Si and Zoe retrieved the Snow Mountain Flower from Costalia Mountain, and Chen Si gained a lightning art that increased his Three Thousand Thunder Shadows to five hundred.
• Eren agreed to Zeke’s euthanasia plan, while Pieck gave Chen Si Roald’s test data in exchange for his protection and help saving ordinary people.
• Chen Si studied Titan research and learned that suppressing regeneration might let Titans survive beyond the thirteen-year limit, but the discovery would come too late for Eren.
• Rundstedt offered Chen Si citizenship and resources, but Chen Si refused and vowed to fight Marley after hearing its plans to invade Hizuru and Paradis Island.
• Chen Si received Eren’s letter about Liberio’s defenses, warned Falco to stay away from Gabi Braun, and headed to Hizuru’s embassy as Erwin considered an alliance.

Chen Si and the Survey Corps struck Marley during Willy Tybur’s declaration of war, destroying much of Marley’s military before Roald’s attack and a vast Titan army turned the campaign into a desperate fight. The Corps remained in Liberio to battle the Titans while Chen Si was separated from them and the soldiers began running out of weapons.

• Jean rallied Squad Four to support Chen Si, while Levi and Chris received a telegram from Hizuru.
• Chen Si learned that Willy Tybur planned to use the World Joint Assembly as a massacre and intended to seize the Founding Titan amid the conflict between Eren and Roald.
• Hange escaped Marley’s laboratory with Mogwin’s help, and Chen Si reunited with her before leading her to Erwin’s forces.
• Chen Si destroyed Marley’s artillery regiment, and the Survey Corps learned that the artificial Titans were vulnerable at the throat.
• Chris helped launch a rebellion in Brittany, and the uprising killed Marley’s leaders and crippled its military command.
• Eren transformed at Willy Tybur’s speech, ate Willy, and devastated the venue while Chen Si and the Survey Corps fought Marley’s forces across Liberio.
• Chen Si and Erwin destroyed the advancing Titan legion with lightning and a Colossal Titan blast, but Roald attacked Chen Si and their clash devastated Hanburn City.
• Erwin rallied the Survey Corps to defend Liberio as residents evacuated, and the soldiers fought the approaching artificial Titans until Zeke joined the battle and Marley’s forces continued to overwhelm them.

The Survey Corps captured Liberio and Cliff Harbor but suffered devastating losses as Chen Si fought Roald, whose body became the Devil Titan after Marcel’s will took control. Marcel overwhelmed Chen Si and left him wounded, while Mikasa reached him as the airship descended.

• Chen Si arrived in lightning armor and rescued the soldiers at Liberio, but Roald struck him down and surrounded the Survey Corps with Titans.
• Chen Si transformed into the Thunderbolt Titan and beheaded Roald, who regenerated and renewed his assault, and the battle killed many soldiers, and Eren’s crystal canopy protected several survivors from a nuclear blast.
• The Survey Corps captured Liberio and Cliff Harbor while Chen Si battled Roald above Gniez, and Historia negotiated arms supplies as the Rothschild family began seeking an alliance with Paradis Island.
• Moriarty, Angel, Tailor, and Gal attacked the Survey Corps during its evacuation, killing hundreds and taking Reiner’s body, while Chris and Mikasa helped direct survivors toward Chen Si.
• Chen Si grew to forty meters amid worldwide thunderstorms and carried Roald toward space, while Zoe and the Survey Corps fought to capture Cliff Harbor at heavy cost.
• Grotesque revealed its connection to war and chaos on Paths, where Marcel’s memories and will overtook Roald, and Marcel transformed into the Devil Titan and vowed to destroy Paradis Island.
• Marcel overpowered Chen Si and attacked the approaching airship, but Chen Si intercepted him before Marcel unleashed the power of sin and caused Chen Si’s Titan body to disintegrate.
• Hermann lured Philia through a blood-red barrier, while Marcel absorbed the lightning and left Chen Si wounded, and Mikasa jumped from the airship and reached Chen Si as Levi warned the others not to confront Marcel.

Chen Si destroyed Marley’s capital, mourned Chris, and forced Marley’s surrender while rebuilding the political order around Paradis. As the former cadets settled into uneasy peacetime, rival factions formed and Chen Si, Mikasa, and Eren traveled to Kamikawa for a fireworks festival.

• Chris sacrificed herself to restore Chen Si’s power, and Chen Si unleashed a blast that destroyed Marley’s capital and killed more than two billion people.
• Chen Si trapped and destroyed Marcel, but Chris died after revealing her name was Zhang Surou, leaving Chen Si devastated.
• Sasha inherited Marcel’s Titan power, and Chen Si accepted Adonis’s surrender under terms that transferred more than a quarter of Marley to Paradis.
• Chen Si promoted the surviving cadets and declared the war over, while Eren questioned whether Chen Si’s plans could bring anyone freedom.
• At Chris’s state funeral, the Empire posthumously promoted her to Army Marshal and honored her as the Goddess of Time and Space.
• Chen Si appointed Floch Governor-General of Marley, negotiated Walde Dinky’s shift into railway and real estate investments, and left Nolan to assist Floch.
• Historia approved the Equal Rights Act after the deaths of more than forty thousand Black workers during Chang'an’s construction, while Yelena and Zeke secretly formed the Restorationist Faction.
• Chen Si, Mikasa, and Eren traveled to Kamikawa with Tachibana Masao for the Fireworks Festival.