Chapter Summaries

Chen Si searched for Eren at the hospital, while Eren met Zeke and agreed to the euthanasia plan for the Eldia people. Chen Si then negotiated with Pieck over protecting her family and rescuing ordinary people before questioning Roald’s test data.

• Chen Si failed to find Eren at the hospital, treated several patients, and left as his reputation as Doctor Charns spread through Gniez.
• Eren told Zeke that he believed the Eldia people should never have been born and agreed to work with him and Chen Si on the euthanasia plan.
• Zeke warned Eren that someone had been watching Chen Si and told him about the World Joint Assembly scheduled for October ninth next year in Liberio.
• Zeke gave Eren a baseball, which fell when Eren failed to catch it, leaving Zeke uneasy.
• Pieck gave Chen Si Roald’s information and test data after he agreed to protect her Fingal family and allow her to save ordinary people under guard for Paradis Island.
• Chen Si reviewed Roald’s test report and asked Pieck whether the data was intended to scare him.

Chen Si learned that Roald's Jaw Titan was an overwhelming threat, but reaffirmed his cooperation with Pieck and went to Marley's Research Department to investigate Titans. He discovered the history and varied powers of the Founding Titans, but found no information on extending their lifespans.

• Chen Si read a report describing Roald's immense strength and regeneration, while Pieck admitted she did not know where he was.
• Chen Si told Pieck their cooperation remained in place and left to visit Marley's Research Department.
• Hilbert escorted Chen Si to Professor Mogwin's office and allowed him to consult its materials.
• Chen Si found Tom Kusava's Titan Encyclopedia and read about Titan history and the varied abilities of past Founding Titans.
• Chen Si learned that some Founding Titans could manipulate space, time, or minds, but found no research on overcoming their limited lifespans.

Chen Si discovered Mogwin’s notes suggesting Titan regeneration could eventually be suppressed, but the research would take too long to save Eren. He then met Rundstedt von Gelt, the Director of Marley’s Special Operations Bureau, in Mogwin’s office.

• Chen Si read Mogwin’s notes and learned that Titans’ energy might sustain them beyond the thirteen-year limit if their regeneration could be suppressed.
• Chen Si realized the breakthrough would come too late for Eren and vowed that Marley would die with him.
• Rundstedt von Gelt arrived at Mogwin’s office and introduced himself as the Director of Marley’s Special Operations Bureau.
• Chen Si sat with Rundstedt and bluntly told him he disliked dealing with military people.

Rundstedt tried to recruit Chen Si into Marley by offering him wealth, medical resources, and a chance to be with Zoe, but Chen Si rejected him and vowed to fight for Hizuru. Rundstedt warned that power and love would leave Chen Si abandoned by everyone, stirring fragmented memories that left him shaken.

• Rundstedt offered Chen Si Marleyan citizenship, a mansion, medical resources, and help getting together with Zoe, but Chen Si refused because Marley’s wars conflicted with his principles.
• Rundstedt said he could help Chen Si and Zoe marry, but Chen Si replied that he already had a fiancée and that his family and friends would oppose joining Marley.
• Rundstedt warned that Marley would invade Hizuru and Paradis Island within two years, and Chen Si vowed to fight alongside his country.
• Rundstedt described how his wife had betrayed him and argued that love and family would eventually abandon Chen Si as he gained power.
• Chen Si recalled fragmented memories involving Eren and genocide, then became shaken as Rundstedt said he would become everyone’s enemy.

Chen Si received an invitation to the World Joint Assembly, promised to cure Kruger, and warned Falco to avoid Gabi. Meanwhile, Erwin and Armin prepared to negotiate a military alliance with Hizuru.

• Rundstedt invited Chen Si to the World Joint Assembly and warned that they would both end up alone and misunderstood.
• Chen Si returned to the Mogwin Residence and learned that Zoe had taken Yasuo and Philia shopping.
• Falco delivered Eren’s letter and pleaded with Chen Si to treat Kruger; Chen Si promised Kruger would recover and warned Falco to stay away from Gabi Braun.
• Chen Si read Eren’s details about Liberio’s defenses and warning not to meet him, then headed to Hizuru’s embassy.
• At Thunder God Port, Erwin told Armin that Hizuru might accept their military alliance proposal as Marley’s threat grew.

Erwin told Armin that leading the country required ruthlessness, while Jean turned a recruit's doubts into a pledge to stand with Chen Si. The recruits recommitted themselves to the Survey Corps, and Levi and Chris reflected on the possibility of retirement before Petra brought news from Hizuru.

• Erwin told Armin that he lacked the ruthlessness needed to lead the country and that Chen Si was better suited to the role.
• Mikasa and Jean drove their recruits through harsh training at the Survey Corps branch headquarters in Chang'an City.
• After Dennis questioned the point of training when Chen Si and other powerful soldiers could fight, Jean recalled his own early doubts and acknowledged Dennis had a point.
• Jean explained that Chen Si needed the Corps' support and led Squad Four in pledging to fight beside their Marshal.
• Levi and Chris discussed retirement as Petra arrived with a telegram from Hizuru.

Nine months after Yasuo and Philia discussed their New Year's wishes, Marley prepared for the World Joint Assembly while Chen Si helped the Corps plan a campaign against Marley. The chapter ended with Chen Si calling Rundstedt as Zoe left for her unit and Roald remained missing.

• Marley opened its ports to visitors ahead of the World Joint Assembly, where Willy Tybur was scheduled to speak about the threat from Paradis Island.
• Hange joined Marley's physics research institute under Professor Upton and eagerly rushed to the laboratory.
• Zoe waited three hours for Chen Si, then left him a note saying she hoped to see him again and visit the dandelions together.
• Chen Si reflected on Hizuru's alliance with the Corps, his intelligence work across Marley, and Erwin's plan to eliminate Marley's military leadership, while Roald's whereabouts remained unknown.
• After reading Zoe's note, Chen Si called Rundstedt and identified himself.

Rundstedt sent Dusk, Tailor, and Angel to monitor Hizuru’s delegation while ordering Zoe to resume an abandoned investigation in Doran. In Liberio, Willy Tybur revealed to Magath that he planned to use the coming battle to capture the Founding Titan and eliminate Roald.

• Rundstedt ordered Dusk, Tailor, and Angel to kill suspicious members of Hizuru’s delegation in Liberio without leaving traces.
• Rundstedt assigned Zoe to investigate the death of Doran City’s mayor and the killings of two Marleyan Warrior Unit officers, then warned her to abandon unrealistic fantasies.
• Rundstedt recalled ordering Dusk to assassinate Charns and said Chen Si had not accepted his offer despite being given nine months.
• Willy Tybur and Magath discussed Marley’s artillery deployment and the danger posed by suspicious operatives in Liberio.
• Willy Tybur told Magath he planned to let the World Joint Assembly suffer devastating casualties so Marley could gain time to build its Titan army.
• Willy Tybur revealed that he intended to use the conflict between the Founding Titan and Roald to capture the Founding Titan and eliminate Roald.

Eren returned to Liberio as Erwin’s Survey Corps prepared an assault, but Marley’s forces and a new experimental Titan threatened their staging point. At Marley’s Research Department, Hange discovered an underground passage just as agents arrived to kill her, and an unknown person pulled her to safety.

• Eren boarded a transport to Liberio after Falco told him he had mailed Eren’s letters and would see him there in two days.
• Levi returned to Erwin’s team and reported that Clark and Aubrey were missing; Dennis soon arrived with news that an artillery unit had stopped on a nearby hill, prompting Erwin to order an immediate retreat.
• Pieck’s experimental Titan, Number Three, sensed enemies near the artillery regiment as it headed toward Liberio.
• Hange accidentally cut through the laboratory floor with a machine, found a passage beneath it, and fell into the underground corridor.
• Bruce and his black-clad agents entered the laboratory to find and kill Hange, but a pair of hands pulled her through a hidden opening before they reached her.

Hange learned from Mogwin that Marley had created more than three hundred artificial Titans through his research, then escaped the Special Operations Department’s cordon with his help. At the Eldia Grand Theater banquet, Chen Si watched the Warrior Candidates and noticed that Gabi’s remaining energy had vanished.

• Mogwin revealed that the Special Operations Department had ordered Hange and Charns killed, and Hange questioned him about why he had saved her.
• Mogwin said he opposed war and showed Hange records of more than three hundred artificial Titans created through his research.
• Hange threatened Mogwin with a dagger but spared him, then insisted she would help her comrades attack Liberio.
• Mogwin led Hange through an underground passage to Rundstedt’s empty office and told her that an artificial Titan’s throat was its weak point.
• Hange escaped through a window while the Research Department remained surrounded by Marley Security Officers.
• At a banquet in the Eldia Grand Theater, Chen Si watched Gabi, Falco, Sofia, and Udo serving guests and noticed Gabi’s remaining energy had disappeared.

Chen Si used Gabi’s accidental spill to expose the hostility Marleyans and the Mid-East representatives held toward Eldians, then found her near death after the waiters beat her. When an assassination attempt drove him to flee, Moriarty rescued Gabi while Chen Si escaped.

• Chen Si secretly caused Gabi to stumble and spill wine on him, then used his injury to leave the banquet and follow her outside.
• The Drus prince and Oran president had Gabi dragged away, where Eldian waiters beat her nearly to death.
• Chen Si found Gabi’s severe injuries and asked whether she hated her attackers, but she said she hated not being Marleyan.
• Dusk Gal fired a sniper shot at Chen Si, who dodged it and fled while throwing Gabi into the air.
• Moriarty caught Gabi as she fell, and Gal told him to take her to a hospital after Chen Si escaped the agents.

Moriarty arranged to save Gabi by bringing her to the Special Operations Department, where doctors discovered Roald’s Blood in her system. After Chen Si escaped, Rundstedt ordered a crackdown on the Hizuru delegation and secretly drank Roald’s Blood, which neutralized the energy Chen Si had planted in him but also prevented the blood from healing his kidney failure.

• Falco begged Moriarty to save Gabi, and Moriarty offered to help after learning Falco’s older brother knew Zoe.
• Moriarty brought Gabi to the Special Operations Department, where the doctors found a low concentration of Roald’s Blood in her blood.
• Bruce reported that Chen Si had escaped, so Rundstedt ordered the Hizuru delegation detained and directed his men to prepare an ambush at the conference.
• Rundstedt secretly drank Roald’s Blood in hopes of curing his terminal kidney failure.
• Roald’s Blood canceled out the energy Chen Si had planted inside Rundstedt, costing Rundstedt the chance to be healed by it.

Rundstedt tortured captured Survey Corps soldiers Clark and Aubrey, who refused to reveal their secrets, then ordered them taken to a public venue. Meanwhile, Chen Si found Hange in Hanburn City as she hurried toward Liberio to warn Erwin about greater threats.

• Rundstedt questioned Clark and Aubrey after agents brutally tortured them, but neither soldier revealed information about the Survey Corps.
• Rundstedt inferred that the prisoners came from Paradis Island and mocked them, while Aubrey realized Marley did not know their Marshal had arrived in Marley.
• Rundstedt ordered Clark and Aubrey taken to a venue so the world could see them as a threat from the Eldia people.
• Chen Si flew toward a companion whose energy mark he detected and found Hange struggling through an alley without equipment.
• Hange tried to stab someone behind her, but Chen Si caught her arm and identified himself.

Chen Si flew Hange to the Survey Corps after learning Marley had created hundreds of powerful artificial Titans, then destroyed Marley's artillery battalion before it could fire on Erwin's forces. The howitzers remained intact, and Hange eagerly claimed them as Pieck watched Chen Si leave.

• Chen Si learned that Erwin's rendezvous was at a factory near Bulaimei City and that Marley's laboratory had created over three hundred artificial Titans with vulnerable napes.
• Chen Si flew Hange toward Erwin and explained that Marley's detention of the Hizuru Delegation would force Hizuru's five thousand soldiers to join the fight.
• Levi repeatedly attacked Number Three's nape while Erwin's group struggled to immobilize the unusually durable Titan.
• Pieck held back Marley's artillery battalion, and Chen Si arrived before the artillerymen could fire, killing over two hundred soldiers with a lightning strike.
• Chen Si praised Pieck for not firing, then flew to Erwin's group as Hange celebrated taking the intact howitzers.

Chen Si rejoined the Survey Corps, revealed the weak point of Marley’s artificial Titans, and helped Erwin devise a plan to turn the world against Marley. As the Corps rushed toward Liberio, Hizuru sent a fleet after its embassy escaped Marley’s siege.

• Chen Si reunited with Mikasa and the Survey Corps, then told Armin that technology might one day overcome the Titans’ lifespan limit.
• Chen Si revealed that Marley had made more than three hundred artificial Titans whose only weak point was the throat, and Levi killed No. 30 by cutting its throat.
• Erwin ordered the troops to target the Titans’ throats and proposed blaming Marley’s Titans for the deaths of other countries’ representatives in Liberio.
• Chen Si told Erwin that Hizuru could operate Hange’s artillery, and Erwin considered using Marley’s artificial Titans to unite the world against Marley.
• Hizuru dispatched more than a dozen transports and warships after Tachibana Masao helped Tōjin Kiyomi and the embassy delegation escape Marley’s siege.

Chris seized the Brittany Armory with the help of mesmerized Marleyan soldiers, and Martin Mand led Brittany’s black residents in an armed uprising. The revolt began as Erwin’s undisclosed plan unfolded, while Chen Si waited with the Survey Corps in Liberio.

• Marley blamed Hizuru for Charns Paradis’s disappearance, severed diplomatic ties, and convinced other nations to condemn Hizuru.
• Pieck hid the Survey Corps in the Liberio Internment Zone, where Chen Si added Willy Tybur to his Kill List and learned from Erwin that Chris was about to act.
• Chris killed five men who blocked her near the Brittany Military Base, then used her power to make a patrol seize the Armory.
• The soldiers killed the Armory guards, captured Colonel Meyer, and took control of the base with Chris’s help.
• At eight o’clock on October 9, 854, armed groups opened the Armory to Brittany’s black residents and distributed weapons.
• Martin Mand led thousands of black people in an uprising and called on them to attack City Hall.

Black rebels seized Brittany as Marley’s command structure collapsed, and Chen Si and Erwin prepared to attack. Eren met Reiner in a basement after Reiner struggled with suicidal despair.

• Martin captured Brittany’s municipal building and the district governor, but Black rebels ignored his orders and began looting, burning, and killing across the district.
• Black soldiers and civilians attacked Brittany’s military base, overwhelming its two hundred defenders after the defenders killed thousands of attackers.
• Magath learned that senior officials and command staff had died, communications with neighboring sectors had failed, and Brittany had fallen; he ordered Pieck to recall the troops sent there.
• Chen Si told Erwin that Marley’s leadership had been eliminated, and Erwin ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• Reiner considered suicide before Falco told him that a friend was waiting; Reiner then went to meet Eren, who greeted him after four years.

Eren confronted Reiner in the basement as Willy Tybur revealed that Carl Fritz had secretly ended the Great Titan War and intended the walls to protect peace. The chapter ended with Reiner begging Eren to kill him as Chen Si and Floch arrived.

• Eren questioned Reiner about his role in his mother's death and the destruction that brought him to Paradis, and Reiner admitted he had acted in pursuit of world peace.
• Willy Tybur told the audience that Carl Fritz had arranged Helos's heroism, retreated to Paradis, and created the vow renouncing war to preserve his peaceful beliefs.
• Willy accused the Tybur Family of betraying Eldia and warned that a usurper had taken the Founding Titan and restored the Eldia Empire.
• Reiner confessed that he had persuaded Annie and Bertolt to stay on Paradis after Zeyechuan died because he wanted distinction and a better life for his family.
• Reiner begged Eren to kill him, but Chen Si entered the basement with Floch following behind.

Chen Si forced Reiner to choose between serving him and losing his family, then headed for Willy Tybur’s rally as Eren transformed. The chapter ended with Eren’s attack destroying the venue and lightning erupting throughout it.

• Chen Si changed into the uniform Historia had designed, ordered Eren to leave Liberio’s fleet intact, and had Floch beat Reiner.
• Chen Si told Reiner to help destroy Marley and offered to spare either his mother or Gabi, but began the countdown before Reiner could choose; Chen Si then announced that his mother would live.
• Eren offered Reiner his hand, and Reiner accepted as Willy Tybur declared war on Paradis Island.
• Chen Si advanced toward Willy Tybur’s stage while Eren transformed, bringing down the building and unleashing more than a thousand bolts of lightning across the venue.

The Survey Corps launched a devastating assault on Liberio, destroying Marleyan forces and killing Willy Tybur amid the chaos. Magath ordered his remaining guards to contain the fighting and hold out for reinforcements, while Pieck remained with the Survey Corps.

• Gal warned Moriarty that their rooftop position was surrounded, then fired at Chen Si as lightning erupted and devastated the defenders.
• Survey Corps soldiers rescued Leonard and Fingal; Leonard learned Annie had joined the corps, while Pieck refused Fingal's plea to flee.
• Eren crushed hundreds at the venue, ate Willy Tybur, and caused Udo and Sofia to suffer fatal injuries as Gabi tried to save Sofia.
• Magath learned the three Liberio battalions had been wiped out and Pieck was missing.
• Magath ordered his fifty-man Guard Unit to keep the Survey Corps contained until reinforcements arrived, despite Koslow's warning that the order meant certain death.