Chapter Summaries

Chen Si demonstrated the Thunderbolt Titan’s devastating power, then restored Chris’s appearance and prepared Levi and Chris to strengthen their abilities by killing Titans. The chapter ended as Levi flew alone toward a horde of Titans, with the Survey Corps preparing to follow.

• Erwin and Hange discussed the danger of flying Titans as Chen Si’s blue energy attack struck a mountain, destroying it and the Titans nearby.
• Chen Si returned to the Survey Corps, told Armin about the universe, and agreed to help deal with Marley’s air force.
• Chen Si used his power to restore Chris’s beauty and erase her scars, and she thanked him and offered to help with his future marriage.
• Order explained that Levi and Chris could regain strength by killing a hundred Titans each, so Levi sent Eren and Annie to bring a horde.
• Levi flew into the approaching Titans alone and ordered the Survey Corps soldiers to stay back.

Levi and Chris killed Titans and gained upgraded abilities, while Chen Si sparred with Levi before Petra confessed her feelings by giving him a knitted shirt. Chen Si then took Mikasa to a stream, where they shared a tender moment, and Eren watched them from afar.

• Levi killed more than fifty Titans in under two minutes, and his ability upgraded to make him immune to attacks while invisible.
• Chris’s gaze caused Titans to die, and her ability upgraded to let her mimic the aura of any living creature.
• Chen Si tested Levi’s ten-second immunity, accidentally destroyed Levi’s clothes, and Petra offered him a knitted shirt; Levi thanked and embraced her.
• Chris celebrated Petra and Levi, then embraced Mike, while Armin and Mina talked excitedly about the outside world.
• Chen Si flew with Mikasa to a stream, and they reminisced about butterflies before embracing.
• Eren watched Chen Si and Mikasa from ten kilometers away and smiled with relief.

Eight months after the Titans on Paradis were nearly eradicated, Chen Si continued searching for Ymir and followed Eren’s hint to look northeast. The search party found a Titan matching Ymir’s appearance, and Chen Si ordered soldiers to bring him clothes.

• The soldiers reported that their squads had found no sign of the target Titan, while Chen Si admitted to Eren and Mikasa that he wanted to turn Ymir back into a human and make her Historia’s maid.
• Eren told Chen Si to search northeast, and Chen Si ordered Erwin to lead the troops farther in that direction.
• Erwin, Levi, and the others discussed Chen Si’s growing authority as the group traveled northeast.
• A red signal flare announced a Titan, and Chen Si landed in front of a seven-meter Pure Titan that looked like Ymir.
• Chen Si ordered nearby soldiers to bring him a set of clothes.

Chen Si restored Ymir from her Pure Titan form to a human, and she learned that the Survey Corps had cleared Paradis of Titans and was heading to the sea. After recounting her life and discovering that sixty years had passed, Ymir questioned Chen Si’s motives and the freedom of Queen Historia.

• Chen Si restrained Ymir with psychic pressure and used a silvery-white light to turn her back into a human, then welcomed her home and told her she was free.
• Petra and Chris dressed Ymir, and the Survey Corps continued toward the coast with her riding in a supply wagon.
• Ymir learned that the Corps had cleared the Titans from Paradis and told Hange, Petra, and Chris how Marley’s Restorationists had made her their figurehead before Marley exiled her as a Titan.
• Hange told Ymir it was the year 851, and Ymir realized she had spent sixty years wandering Paradis as a Titan.
• Petra explained the Eldia Kingdom’s government and Historia’s rise to the throne, prompting Ymir to suspect Chen Si controlled the Queen and had an ulterior motive for saving her.

Chen Si, Eren, and the others reached the Sea, where the Scouts experienced its vastness and beauty for the first time. They explored the shore together, while Eren became certain that events were unfolding as his memories foretold.

• Petra told Chris that Marshal Chen Si had supported the Queen and helped her gain power, then introduced herself to Ymir.
• Chen Si and the others rode through the desert and reached the towering wall near the Sea.
• The group climbed a slope and saw the Sea, leaving Armin, Erwin, Levi, and the others awestruck.
• Everyone went down to the beach, where they splashed in the water, collected shells, and joked around.
• Chen Si led Eren into the Sea, and Armin admired a shell while reflecting on the beauty of the outside world.

At the sea, Chen Si questioned Eren’s resolve to protect Paradis through genocide and entered Eren’s memories to learn what future he had seen. He witnessed the Rumbling, Eren’s death, and a lightning-shrouded figure who looked exactly like himself.

• Eren said that the sea held enemies rather than freedom, and Chen Si worried that events were repeating as he remembered them.
• Chris warned Chen Si that his support for genocide might help cause future tragedies, while Chen Si decided he needed to see Eren’s memories.
• Chen Si confronted Eren over the suffering he called freedom, and Eren allowed him to look into his memories.
• Chen Si saw that the Rumbling had begun, that Mikasa, Armin, Historia, and others tried to stop it, and that Eren died.
• A lightning-shrouded figure attacked Chen Si’s mental energy, and he discovered the figure looked exactly like himself.

Older Chen Si drove his past self from Eren’s mental world, believing that withholding the future’s ending left room to change it and save Eren. Back on the shore, Chen Si concealed what had happened as the Survey Corps began preparing a coastal outpost.

• Chen Si awakened his complete form and attacked Older Chen Si, who summoned Three Thousand Thunder Shadows and blasted him from Eren’s mental world.
• Older Chen Si told Older Eren he still hoped to save him, despite having no better solution, and Older Eren broke down in tears.
• Chen Si returned to shore coughing blood, while Mikasa and Eren checked on him and Levi and Chris searched for enemies.
• Chen Si said he had encountered a problem with his training, and Erwin directed Hange to begin building a coastal outpost.
• The Survey Corps started clearing land, while Mikasa worried that Chen Si and Eren seemed exhausted by their burdens.

Chen Si tried to persuade Eren that the future in his memories could be changed, while Marley’s leaders debated the newborn Jaw Titan inheritor and military policy. The chapter left Magath heading to the Special Operations Bureau to prepare a mission against the Mid-East Allied Forces.

• Chen Si asked Eren to trust him and bet his life that the future in Eren’s memories would not happen, while Eren privately resolved to unleash the Rumbling to protect Chen Si.
• Magath told Calvi and Sissoff that Roald Galliard had inherited the Jaw Titan at birth and was already adolescent-sized and exceptionally powerful at two years old.
• Sissoff argued that Marley should transfer Roald’s Titan to another candidate, but Calvi and Magath rejected the idea after reviewing Roald’s abilities and the political risks.
• Magath urged Calvi to redirect scientists toward military reforms and Professor Mogwin’s wind-power research, but Calvi said the head of state’s approval was required.
• Calvi ordered Magath to send the Special Operations Squad to the Mid-East to target its pro-war faction, and Magath left for the Special Operations Bureau.

Magath told Zoe that the military had rejected his request to transfer Professor Mogwin out of Titan research and reactivated her agent codename for a new mission. After Professor Mogwin collapsed from guilt over the deaths caused by his work, Zoe resolved to leave and fight to end the war.

• Magath visited Zoe and told her that Professor Mogwin would have to continue his Titan research because the military had rejected his recommendation.
• Magath reactivated Zoe’s codename, Poet, and said Tailor would work with her on a mission for the Special Operations Department.
• Professor Mogwin angrily rejected Magath, then broke down over the deaths caused by his research and fainted.
• Zoe cared for her father and resolved to end the war before saying goodbye to Philia.
• Zoe left her home as Poet, uncertain how many years she would be away.

Zoe slipped away from Professor Mogwin’s laboratory through a hidden tunnel, while Hermes, a Mid-East spy posing as Niteli, was caught and killed by Louis Moriarty, the agent known as Angel. A year after returning to Marley, Reiner grieved for Annie and Bertolt as Zeke promised to care for their families.

• Zoe decoded Angel’s message, changed into a black coat, and escaped through a hidden tunnel beneath Professor Mogwin’s office.
• Hermes broke test tubes to get into the office and discovered Zoe was missing.
• Hilbert poisoned Hermes, revealed himself as Louis Moriarty, and identified himself as Angel before Hermes died.
• Reiner looked at the Warriors’ induction photograph and wondered whether he had been wrong.
• Zeke comforted Reiner and promised to take care of Annie’s and Bertolt’s families.

Zeke introduced Reiner to Roald Galliard, the Galliard family’s newly revealed Titan, who blamed Reiner for Marcel’s death and declared his intent to kill Chen Si and destroy Paradis Island. After Roald killed Captain Baron and transformed, he slaughtered the soldiers who surrounded him, then came under fire from Marleyan armored vehicles.

• Zeke told Reiner that the armistice would let him go home and that Gabi and Falco were leading candidates to inherit the Armored Titan.
• Zeke introduced Reiner to Roald Galliard, who had inherited Marcel’s memories and accused Reiner of failing to save his brother.
• Roald killed Captain Baron for insulting him, then warned Zeke not to speak to him disrespectfully.
• Victor ordered more than a hundred soldiers to shoot Roald, but Roald transformed into a black iron Titan and killed the soldiers with a single claw swipe.
• Twenty Marleyan armored vehicles arrived and fired tank shells and machine guns at Roald as Reiner assumed he was doomed.

Roald rampaged through Marley’s border defenses, nearly killing Zeke before Pieck rescued him and Porco brought Roald back to his senses. The Mid-East Allied Forces launched a counterattack, and Roald headed toward the front lines as Porco pleaded for his life.

• Roald destroyed Marleyan vehicles and fortifications, then fought Zeke and Reiner, killing Reiner’s Armored Titan and capturing Zeke.
• Pieck rescued Zeke from Roald, and Porco’s appearance triggered Marcel’s memories, calming Roald and ending his bloodlust.
• Elvis ordered the Mid-East Allied Forces to attack Marley’s border, and their troops breached the defenses and captured positions.
• Roald heard fighting at the front and leaped toward it, while Porco asked Pieck to spare him and Zeke considered Roald’s value as a weapon.

After Roald single-handedly crippled two Mid-East Allied Forces divisions, Marley’s military and the Tybur Family sought to secure his cooperation rather than punish him. Roald rejected Lara Tybur’s attempts to recruit him, but his mother and Porco calmed him, and he agreed to return home after the war.

• Roald turned against the Mid-East Allied Forces and crippled two of their divisions, forcing the last division to retreat.
• Magath learned that Central Military had ordered him not to act against Roald and that the Tybur Family had sent Lara to meet him.
• Mrs. Galliard embraced Roald and pleaded for him to be spared, while a military envoy promised rewards instead of punishment.
• Lara offered Roald an honorary citizen medal and a place for his family among the Tyburs, but Roald rejected her and threatened the family.
• Mrs. Galliard slapped Roald after he insulted the Tybur Family, and Porco warned him that Lara might be the War Hammer Titan.
• After the visitors left, Mrs. Galliard asked Roald to come home when the war ended, and he agreed.

Roald found a reason to protect Porco and his family, while General Elvis’s death helped push the Mid-East Allied Forces into an armistice with Marley. Zeke prepared to expand the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers and send support to Paradis Island, where he believed Marshal Chen Si could help advance the Euthanasia Plan.

• Porco apologized to Roald for Marcel’s death, and Reiner offered to let Porco inherit the Armored Titan so Gabi would not have to.
• Roald decided to kill Chen Si and destroy Paradis Island to protect Porco and their family, and his bloodlust returned.
• A woman watched General Elvis’s military car pass in New Lanka, and Elvis was later suspected to have been assassinated by the Pro-Peace Faction.
• After Elvis’s death, the Mid-East Allied Forces’ Parliament signed a two-year armistice with Marley, which withdrew some troops while keeping others ready.
• Zeke asked Yelena about expanding the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers and told her Roald had to die for the Euthanasia Plan to succeed.
• Zeke planned reconnaissance of Paradis Island and a separate transport for Yelena, while Yelena reported that Hizuru was interested in iceburst stone.

Chen Si captured a Marley transport ship after wiping out its armed crew, and the Survey Corps took the vessel and its supplies. As the Corps examined the ship and its weapons, Erwin tried a cigarette and Elderdin explained how its rifle worked.

• Chen Si trained on the cliffs, then accidentally sent a huge wave toward a Marley transport ship with a lightning punch.
• The Marley ship approached the Survey Corps’ coastal base, and Bernie ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle.
• Chen Si boarded the ship, killed the soldiers who fired at him, spared Captain Steve and Bernie, and forced Steve to bring the vessel to shore.
• The Survey Corps boarded the ship, detained Steve and Bernie, and found blueprints and other supplies.
• Hange examined revolver blueprints, Erwin discovered and smoked cigarettes, and Elderdin explained the M1903 Springfield Rifle to Oruo and Jean.

The Scouts captured a Marleyan reconnaissance ship, learned about Marley’s territory and advanced weapons, and killed the captured officer Bernie. Chen Si forced Captain Steve to train their soldiers in ship operation and became concerned that Marley might develop nuclear weapons.

• Connie and Sasha discovered canned meat aboard the ship, while Erwin and Levi studied a world map showing Marley three thousand kilometers away to the east.
• Chen Si ordered the officer interrogated because more Marleyan reconnaissance ships were expected, and Chris quickly extracted intelligence from him.
• Eren killed Bernie, and Chen Si compelled Captain Steve to train soldiers to operate ships by warning him that many more captains were on their way.
• Hange and Petra examined advanced rifle blueprints and learned about machine guns and anti-Titan howitzers, while Chris estimated Marley could begin researching nuclear energy in about ten years.
• Chen Si discussed the threat of nuclear weapons with Chris, and Erwin asked him what plans he had for the future.

Chen Si proposed preparing for a future confrontation with Marley by studying it firsthand, and Erwin planned the Survey Corps’ first overseas expedition. Chen Si then transformed into a Titan and flew the Corps to the Royal Capital, where the sight of him alarmed the residents and officials.

• Chen Si argued that Paradis Island should use Zeke’s help to develop its technology and eliminate Marley’s ability to threaten it, while Erwin called for reconnaissance before deciding how far to go.
• Erwin announced that the Survey Corps would launch its first overseas expedition to investigate Marley, and Jean raised the problem of entering the country without plausible identities.
• After Chen Si granted the soldiers three days off, he transformed into a Titan, lifted their ship, and carried the Corps into the sky.
• Chen Si flew the ship over the Royal Capital, terrifying residents who mistook him for an invading Titan.
• Nile prepared to organize a defense, but Pixis stayed calm and looked up at Chen Si.

Chen Si healed the sick and injured across Paradis Island, drawing crowds of grateful residents and veterans to the pillar of light. As Historia hurried to see him, Yasuo mastered a powerful single-strike technique modeled after Chen Si's fighting style.

• Chen Si lowered the enormous ship, transformed into a pillar of lightning, and announced that his healing light would last a week.
• Residents and disabled veterans praised Chen Si, while Pixis chose to leave the healing to those in greater need and reflected on his past decision to protect Chen Si and Eren.
• Pixis ordered the Military Police to help people reach the pillar of light in Christa District.
• Historia ran from the palace to see Chen Si, and Kenny cleared the route and reassured her that Chen Si would not leave.
• Yasuo used the single-strike technique Kenny had taught him to sever a row of wooden stakes, then struggled to stay upright from exhaustion.

Yasuo rushed toward Chen Si’s miraculous healing light, while Chen Si prepared a crown for the Queen after returning to the Royal Capital. Erwin then confronted Chen Si with his suspicion that he was not from Paradis Island.

• Ivanka disarmed Yasuo and warned him about his poor fighting and stamina, but Yasuo punched through a wooden post and injured his hand.
• Chen Si’s silver-white light appeared over the sky, and he announced it would heal illnesses and injuries for a week, drawing Yasuo and many others toward Christa District.
• Mina realized Annie had not boarded the ship, while Mikasa led the group toward the Queen and Hange excitedly unloaded equipment.
• Chen Si borrowed shells from Erwin, broke them open to reveal pearls, and said he would make a new crown for the Queen’s coronation.
• Erwin told Floch to collect gemstones from Lord Baldo to repay the Survey Corps’ military funds, then asked Chen Si if he was not from Paradis Island.

Chen Si explained his origins to Erwin and reaffirmed his loyalty to Eldia, while Historia reunited with the Survey Corps in Central Avenue. Floch arrived with gemstones for Chen Si and flaunted his authority, just as the chest opened and the gems floated into the air.

• Erwin pressed Chen Si to reveal where he came from, and Chen Si said he was from Earth in another world and served Eldia as its Marshal.
• Erwin accepted Chen Si’s explanation, while Armin and Sasha calmed Mikasa and Levi.
• Historia arrived in Central Avenue and greeted the Survey Corps after three months in the Royal Capital.
• Kenny checked Sasha’s food before Historia could eat it, and Sasha angrily ate the meat herself.
• Floch rode into the avenue with gemstones for Chen Si, invoked his position as Marshal’s Adjutant, and the chest opened as the gemstones rose into the air.