Chapter Summaries

Chen Si argued that Gabi had to die because she could threaten the Survey Corps and might let Roald resurrect, and he killed her with mental energy despite Hange’s offer to do it peacefully. As Chen Si posed a trolley problem to Hange, Marleyan Evil Titans attacked the city.

• Chen Si arrived among the ruins and told Erwin that Gabi was brainwashed, dangerous, and possibly linked to Roald’s resurrection.
• Erwin agreed to take responsibility for Gabi’s death, while Levi knocked Falco unconscious and Petra carried him away.
• Hange took Gabi away to kill her peacefully, but Chen Si killed her with mental energy before she could act.
• Chen Si asked Hange which track she would choose in a trolley problem involving the Survey Corps and innocent Marleyan residents.
• Marleyan Evil Titans charged through the city, destroying buildings and killing residents with purple-black lightning.

Erwin unleashed a nuclear blast against the Titan legion in Liberio while Chen Si tried to protect Mikasa and Eren from Lara Tybur’s iron spikes. The explosion devastated the district, and the survivors saw Erwin’s Colossal Titan standing beside Chen Si’s lightning-armored Thunderbolt Titan.

• Magath and Koslow were swallowed by Pieck as the Titan legion charged toward Erwin and the Survey Corps.
• Erwin transformed above the legion, while Lara Tybur impaled Eren and Chen Si blasted her from her hidden crystal.
• Mikasa rescued Eren from the Attack Titan, but Lara trapped them in an Iron Curtain at the center of Erwin’s nuclear blast.
• Chen Si enveloped Mikasa and Eren in a blue-white sphere as Lara enclosed herself in another hardening crystal before the explosion struck Liberio.
• The blast destroyed buildings and devastated the Titan legion, while Pieck shielded Magath and Koslow and survived with severe injuries.
• As the smoke cleared, the Survey Corps saw Erwin’s Colossal Titan standing beside Chen Si’s lightning-armored Thunderbolt Titan.

Chen Si and the Survey Corps defeated Marley’s Titans and took control of Liberio while the Paradis-Hizuru Allied Forces sailed in to support them. As Rundstedt prepared to act from a secret testing ground, a giant crimson eye opened beneath the collapsing earth.

• Levi and Hange watched Chen Si safely bring Eren and Mikasa down, then Chen Si used his Titan power to destroy the remaining forty Evil Titans.
• Tōjin Kiyomi discussed Hizuru’s potential postwar gains as Levi ordered the Survey Corps to secure Liberio’s port and command headquarters.
• Ian ordered the allied fleet to sail at full speed after Louise reported that Liberio had been occupied, and the troops celebrated the news.
• Rundstedt reviewed booklets about the Evil Titan projects and claimed he had outmaneuvered Charns.
• At the secret Titan testing ground, the earth split and collapsed as a crimson eye opened beneath it.

Chen Si destroyed five of Marley’s elite divisions and more than a hundred thousand soldiers while advancing through the southern cities, leaving civilians alive as they evacuated. As he prepared to leave Nifflia, Roald arrived in the Ancient Giant Hand and attacked him.

• Chen Si annihilated Gasol’s Seventh Division with lightning and then wiped out garrisons in cities along the route from Liberio Harbor to Cliff Harbor.
• Chen Si destroyed five of Marley’s eight elite divisions, killing more than a hundred thousand soldiers while avoiding deliberate harm to civilians.
• At Nifflia, Major General Osborne ordered a retreat and civilian evacuation after learning that Liberio had fallen and the Sixth Legion had been killed.
• Chen Si saw the city’s residents fleeing and chose to leave once Nifflia’s defenders were defeated and its gates opened.
• Roald attacked Chen Si with a red blast, knocked him backward, and declared that the Ancient Giant Hand would be his graveyard.

After the Survey Corps took Liberio, Erwin gave its Eldia residents the choice to join Paradis or surrender as prisoners, while the crowd rejected Hange and Armin’s appeal. The chapter ended as thousands of Evil Titans charged toward Liberio, revealing that the Survey Corps had fallen into a trap.

• Hange and Armin tried to persuade Liberio’s Eldia residents to join Paradis, but the crowd blamed them for the deaths and refused their appeal.
• Armin warned the residents that Marley had created Artificial Titans using Marleyan lives, and Mrs. Harland slapped him before collapsing.
• Eren murmured about the Rumbling as Erwin ordered the residents to choose between joining Paradis and surrendering as prisoners of war.
• Floch shot a young man and then a woman who resisted Erwin’s order, while Mikasa and Hange watched uneasily.
• The ground shook, and Mike warned Erwin and Chen Si that at least a thousand Evil Titans were approaching; Hange realized the Survey Corps had fallen into a trap.

Chen Si fought Roald but could not overcome his rapid regeneration and superior power before his transformation began to fail. Roald drove Chen Si into Hanburn City, where their impact devastated the city center and killed tens of thousands.

• Chen Si attacked Roald with Thunderclap, but Roald survived the blast and healed his wounds almost instantly.
• Chen Si used Three Thousand Thunder Shadows to strike Roald with three hundred lightning pillars, but Roald regenerated completely after his Heavenly Veil shattered.
• With his transformation nearly expired, Chen Si tried to flee, but Roald struck him and claimed Chen Si's energy was too weak to kill him.
• Chen Si kicked Roald into the sky, but Roald fell back onto him and sent them hurtling toward Hanburn City.
• Roald and Chen Si crashed into Hanburn City, destroying its center and killing twenty thousand people immediately, while the earthquake buried more than thirty thousand others.

The Survey Corps realized Marley had lured them into Liberio to trap and annihilate them with an army of Artificial Titans. Erwin proposed a desperate second Colossal Titan explosion, and his speech rallied the Corps to fight even though victory was uncertain.

• Yasuo joined the others in Liberio, while Jean and Mikasa scolded him as the approaching Titan army shook the ground and devastated the Internment Zone.
• Erwin deduced that Marley had used the earlier Titans to force his first Colossal Titan explosion, while Hange suspected Professor Mogwin had been deceived along with her.
• Erwin proposed that the Corps kill and gather as many Titans as possible so he could trigger a weaker second explosion, warning that the person who lured them together would die at its center.
• Floch and other recruits questioned whether they should risk dying before Chen Si returned, but Dennis and Marlowe argued that the Corps should stand and fight.
• Erwin urged the Survey Corps to give meaning to their fallen comrades by fighting for Eldia’s people, and his words rallied the soldiers.

The Survey Corps prepared to hold back the Titan army while the Eighth Rifle Squad evacuated Liberio’s residents to Paradis Island. Their charge exposed the Titans’ throat weakness, but snipers Gal and Moriarty threatened Erwin before Levi intercepted a bullet and ordered Sasha to eliminate the snipers.

• Mikasa, Levi, Marlowe, Oruo, Gunther, Elderdin, Petra, Jean, and other soldiers stepped forward to face the Titans, and Mikasa shamed Floch into joining them.
• Erwin ordered Tōjin Kiyomi and the Eighth Rifle Squad to evacuate Liberio’s residents to Paradis Island while the Survey Corps stayed behind to fight.
• The Survey Corps charged the Titan army and used Thunder Spears to destroy Titan throats, revealing their weak point.
• Sasha spotted Gal and Moriarty and warned the others as Gal fired at Erwin; Sasha shot Gal, and Levi emerged with the bullet that had threatened Erwin.
• Levi ordered Sasha to take out the snipers and support the Corps from high ground as he attacked two Titans with Thunder Spears.

Gal survived being shot and stayed behind to deal with the Survey Corps' experts while Moriarty secretly waited nearby. The Survey Corps fought the Marleyan Titans, but Eren was overwhelmed, and the Beast Titan appeared just as Eren's nape hardening began to break.

• Gal ordered Moriarty to dig the bullet out of his wound, then sent him away at gunpoint while deciding to stay and hunt the Survey Corps' experts.
• Sasha left her rooftop overwatch, and Levi, Mikasa, and the others continued fighting Titans despite Dennis's pleas to rescue Kaisi.
• Eren transformed to save Kaisi, then became surrounded by artificial Marleyan Titans and was pinned down despite using Hardening.
• Mikasa used Thunder Power, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash to kill the Titans surrounding her group, but she could not reach Eren while protecting Armin.
• More than thirty Titans restrained Eren and battered his nape until the Beast Titan appeared eight hundred meters away.

The Survey Corps and Zeke fought together against Marley’s overwhelming Titan army in Liberio, killing hundreds but suffering casualties as their Thunder Spears ran out. Levi ordered the soldiers to keep fighting with rifles and blades, and the assault began again despite the danger.

• Zeke attacked the Titans surrounding the Survey Corps with volleys of stone, giving the soldiers room to fight, while Hange realized the Titans had to lose blood from their necks to die.
• Eren joined the battle, and Mikasa, Nanaba, Gelgar, Mike, Erwin, Hange, Moblit, Levi, and Yasuo killed Titans across the battlefield.
• Jean saved Yasuo from an Artificial Titan’s strike but was left in danger until Sasha shot down the Titan attacking them; Sasha then killed another Titan pursuing Mina.
• The Survey Corps killed more than two hundred Titans in half an hour, but Marley’s forces continued to overwhelm them, and soldiers died even when firing at Titan weak points.
• After the Assault Squad ran out of Thunder Spears, Levi ordered the soldiers to use rifles and then blades, and three shooting squad soldiers were immediately smashed by Titans.

The Survey Corps fought overwhelming numbers of Titans until Chen Si arrived and rescued the soldiers, but Roald struck him from behind and sent him crashing into Liberio Harbor. Roald confronted Chen Si as the battle remained unresolved.

• Samuel charged the Titans after Lunsa died, while Connie and Oruo learned that only a handful of their squad members remained.
• Erwin led the seventy surviving soldiers against more than fifteen hundred Titans, and soldiers including Amanda sacrificed themselves to kill their enemies.
• Mikasa lost the strength to use Chen Si's power as Titans swarmed Eren, while Zeke was surrounded after hurling stones at the advancing horde.
• Chen Si arrived in lightning armor, killed hundreds of Titans, healed the soldiers, rescued Zeke, and cleared the Titans from Eren.
• Roald struck Chen Si from behind, hurling him into a warship at Liberio Harbor, then accused him of running away.

Chen Si appeared to be defeated by Roald, leaving the Survey Corps surrounded and facing certain death. Just as Roald advanced on them, Chen Si's voice returned as he prepared to transform again.

• Chen Si's Titan form began dissolving after Roald struck him with a pillar of purple-black light, and Mikasa and the Survey Corps believed he had lost.
• Roald surrounded the Survey Corps with Titans, killed Gabi, and blasted Sasha's building as the soldiers struggled to respond.
• Floch and seven Church of Thunder soldiers charged Roald, but his light attack reduced the seven soldiers to dust, while Levi ordered the others to fall back.
• Erwin hesitated over whether to transform and risk killing the Corps, as Roald approached and offered to make him a pet.
• Yasuo attacked Roald's neck, but his blade cracked; Chen Si then announced that he was about to transform into the Thunderbolt Titan and called out to Yasuo.

Chen Si awakened a devastating sword technique and decapitated Roald, seemingly ending the Titan assault, while Ian’s fleet carried Liberio’s residents toward Paradis. The chapter ended with Roald regenerating and rising again as Eren warned Chen Si that he was still alive.

• Chen Si manifested a giant thunder-wreathed sword, reached enlightenment, and used Heaven and Earth Annihilation to cut off Roald’s head and pin his body to the ground.
• Ian split the allied fleet’s forces between escorting Liberio’s residents to Paradis and landing at Liberio, while Hizuru chose Cliff Harbor.
• Captain Locke identified Porco and Mrs. Galliard, had them detained, and ordered soldiers to torture and kill them despite the Empress’s orders to protect prisoners.
• Chen Si collapsed from exhaustion as the Titans fell, and the Survey Corps celebrated what they believed was victory.
• Eren spotted smoke rising from Roald’s body and warned Chen Si, who saw Roald regenerate his head and rise again.

Chen Si and Roald fought above Liberio while the Survey Corps made a desperate stand against the Titans, and Chen Si carried Roald toward Marley’s capital. A nuclear blast devastated the battlefield, but Eren shielded several survivors with hardened crystal, leaving Eren unconscious and Petra calling for the Captain.

• Roald regenerated, revived the fallen Titans, and attacked the Survey Corps, while Chen Si intercepted his blast and fought him in the sky.
• Chen Si flew off with Roald toward Gniez, and Erwin led the remaining soldiers in a charge against the Titans.
• Eren attacked Lara Tybur’s crystal as Mikasa, Yasuo, and the others fought to protect him; Erwin and Dennis died, while Levi used his power to transport nearby comrades away.
• Armin confessed his love to Mina, and Mina carried him toward safety as the nuclear blast engulfed the battlefield; Eren formed a crystal canopy that protected them and several others.
• Falco survived with Colt, while the Survey Corps survivors found Eren unconscious in the remains of his Titan and pulled him free; Petra then cried out for the Captain.

Chris arrived just as forty Titans attacked the wounded Survey Corps and killed them all by turning them against each other. She reunited with Petra and found Levi gravely injured, while Erwin reported that Chen Si was struggling against Roald and Chris shared news of the campaign elsewhere.

• Levi, Erwin, and Hange assessed the survivors and their injuries, then realized forty Titans were still alive and most soldiers had lost their weapons or equipment.
• Zeke emerged alive from the rubble, while Mikasa prepared to fight the approaching Titans and Colt drew them away from Falco and Gabi.
• Erwin declared that the Survey Corps deserved his trust, and Chris arrived in a burning military jeep, using her power to make the Titans kill one another.
• Chris embraced Petra, learned that Levi had lost a dangerous amount of blood and an eye, and asked about Chen Si, who was battling Roald far away.
• Chris reported that Martin Mand had taken control of Brittany and Hizuru's forces were fighting in Cliff Harbor, then scolded Levi for risking his life and ordered him to let others care for him.
• Mike ordered the soldiers to search the battlefield and Marleyan Armory for surviving enemies and usable weapons.

Chris reunited with the surviving Scouts while Reiner, devastated by Gabi’s death and overwhelmed by guilt, tried to end his life. Reiner lay barely alive after shooting himself as Floch’s soldiers surrounded him.

• Levi promised Chris he would rest, and Mike intervened before Chris greeted the surviving 104th Cadets and urged them to help Chen Si.
• Jean, Connie, Floch, Oruo, and other soldiers found Reiner badly wounded and unable to heal.
• Floch identified Reiner as the Armored Titan and ordered the soldiers to aim their rifles, while Jean tried to stop them.
• Reiner saw Gabi’s body, mourned her, and confessed that he blamed himself for the deaths and suffering of many people.
• Reiner asked Jean to spare his mother and Falco, then shoved a rifle muzzle into his mouth and fired; Floch’s bullet also struck him, leaving Reiner barely alive.

After Reiner killed himself, Eren used Floch’s guilt and fear for Chen Si to push him toward supporting the Rumbling. As Paradis Island celebrated its victory, Moriarty disguised as Hange secretly carried Reiner’s body away, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Floch shot Reiner as he tried to take Jean’s rifle, and Reiner then used the gun to kill himself.
• Eren told Floch that Reiner could not regain his Titan power and warned that his death might bring forth another powerful Titan.
• Eren urged Floch to support the Rumbling and trample the world, and Floch murmured that the world should be flattened.
• Paradis Island’s soldiers arrived and celebrated their victory while Jean, Mikasa, Armin, and the others mourned beside Reiner’s body.
• Disguised as Hange, Moriarty took Reiner’s body away, removed his mask, and sighed over Reiner.

Historia rejected raising taxes or seizing Walde Dinky’s businesses to resolve a supply crisis, instead arranging a tobacco-factory stake in exchange for his arms workshops. As Historia prayed for Chen Si’s safe return, Chen Si continued fighting Roald near Gniez, where Roald’s attack threatened the city.

• Historia learned that the Survey Corps had captured Liberio and freed its Eldian residents, but that the first assault force had suffered heavy losses and Chen Si was battling a powerful enemy.
• Pixis told Historia that Walde Dinky had demanded twice the agreed payment for military supplies, while the second shipment remained delayed.
• Historia rejected higher taxes and confiscating Walde Dinky’s businesses, and proposed exchanging a stake in a tobacco factory for his arms industry.
• Pixis negotiated a twenty-percent tobacco-factory stake, which Walde Dinky accepted, and Historia prayed for Chen Si and the 104th Cadet Corps to return safely.
• Chen Si drove a lightning sword into Roald’s forehead and flew toward the Marley Special Operations Bureau’s headquarters with him, but Roald unleashed a blast that swept across Gniez.

Chen Si and Roald battled over Gniez, destroying the Marley Security Bureau and devastating the capital as its officials failed to respond. In a basement shelter, Winston Rothschild argued with his sons about escaping and protecting the family’s businesses while wondering who had invaded Marley.

• Roald’s energy breath and Chen Si’s sweeping blast destroyed the Marley Security Bureau, killing Alexander II and more than a thousand officers.
• Chen Si and Roald fought across the skies above Gniez, sending shock waves through the capital and forcing residents to flee as factories and commercial districts collapsed.
• Winston Rothschild berated a surviving Congress official for failing to defend his businesses, then fled to his basement after a nearby mansion collapsed.
• Winston’s sons Edison and Hermann argued over whether to drive to an air-raid shelter and accused each other of coveting their father’s fortune.
• Joyce praised Winston’s safety and his own automobile factory, while Winston wondered whether the Mid-East Allied Forces had invaded Marley.

As Paradis Island attacked Marley, the Rothschild family weighed switching its allegiance while protecting its business interests. Winston ordered Joyce to contact Paradis Island through Hizuru and Edison to bring Professor Mogwin’s daughter Philia to safety, as Philia worried about her sister Zoe.

• Joyce told Winston that Paradis Island had infiltrated Marley and proposed that the Rothschild family join its side; Winston agreed that family interests came first.
• Winston praised Edison’s investment in Professor Mogwin’s wind-power research and urged him to increase it to five million and secure future technology rights.
• Winston told Edison to bring Philia to the Rothschild residence, and Edison went upstairs to send for her.
• Winston ordered Joyce to contact Paradis Island through Hizuru and sent Hermann to assist them.
• Winston observed the destruction in Gniez and declared that the Rothschild family would prosper even if Marley fell.
• At the Mogwin Residence, Philia worried about the war and her sister Zoe as Aunt Lisa comforted her; then several lavishly dressed visitors rang the doorbell.