Chapter Summaries

Erwin and the Survey Corps weighed whether to reinforce Hizuru at Cliff Harbor or aid Chen Si against Roald, and chose to secure their alliance and advance on Marley’s capital. A second telegram revealed that Winston Rothschild had offered to support Eldia, leaving Ian ordered to join Hizuru and reach the capital within a day.

• Erwin, Hange, Ian, Rico, Levi, and Chris discussed the campaign in Liberio as Hizuru’s brigade fought the Marley garrison at Cliff Harbor and Chen Si battled Roald.
• Hange and Levi urged Erwin to consider supporting Chen Si, but Erwin concluded that Cliff Harbor was essential to the invasion and to preserving the alliance with Hizuru.
• Louise reported that Natsume Hoki requested reinforcements after Hizuru captured Cliff Harbor but suffered heavy losses in street fighting.
• Erwin decided to send troops to help Hizuru, accepting that the Survey Corps could do little to assist Chen Si and would have to trust him against Roald.
• Louise revealed that Winston Rothschild offered allegiance, financial support, and help developing Paradis Island in exchange for protection of his businesses and private property.
• Erwin ordered Ian to lead the troops to Cliff Harbor, join Hizuru’s brigade, and break into Marley’s capital within one day.

After the Survey Corps completed its mission in Liberio, Erwin secretly considered using Chris's ability in future combat while the survivors prepared to withdraw. Hannes urged Eren, Mikasa, and Armin to stay alive, and Zeke pleaded unsuccessfully for an airship so he could reinforce Chen Si.

• Erwin ordered Ian to mobilize the troops and told Mike to send the returning soldiers home, then asked Levi whether he could still use his ability.
• Erwin told Chris that Chen Si's energy had been divided into several portions when he fought Roald, and said he wanted to incorporate Chris's ability into the corps' combat operations.
• Jean mourned Marco and Dennis, while Armin reminded him to make their sacrifices worthwhile.
• Hannes reunited with Eren, Mikasa, and Armin, urged them to survive, and joined Ian's force as it marched toward Cliff Harbor.
• Zeke asked Erwin for an airship to reinforce Chen Si, but Erwin refused to let him endanger himself.
• Three airships arrived to take the survivors away, as they grieved for the comrades who had died and celebrated their return.

As the Survey Corps prepared to march, Chris kept Levi’s secret task from him while Mikasa reclaimed her scarf and vowed to reach Chen Si. A coordinated attack began with Ian’s death, and Chris moved to protect Sasha from a sniper’s bullet.

• Chris gave Sasha her last piece of chocolate and kept Erwin’s assignment secret from Levi, who suspected she had taken on a task meant for him.
• Mikasa took back her scarf from Louise, then told Armin she only needed him to get her to Chen Si.
• Tailor took over airship number two, while Gal set up a sniper rifle aimed at Ian and a disguised attacker moved with the Survey Corps.
• After Armin revealed that someone disguised as Hange had taken Reiner, Hange recognized the Thousand-Faced Killer, Angel, and rushed to protect Erwin.
• Gal shot Ian as Sasha sensed a sniper and aimed at the distant building; Chris spotted a sniper on the airship and shoved Sasha aside, taking the incoming shot as a lens shattered.

Chris survived a sniper attack by using a new power awakened through her shattered Sunglasses, while the three Marley Agents escaped after devastating the Survey Corps. Erwin took full control of the military and began considering a new war plan as the survivors faced heavy losses.

• Chris used a silver wave to freeze Gal's surroundings and enabled a bullet to kill Reiner, then collapsed from dizziness as Mike rushed to catch her.
• Erwin ordered the howitzers to fire on the airships, but Rico objected, and the artillery was destroyed in a chain of explosions that killed hundreds of Survey Corps soldiers.
• Mikasa pursued Moriarty but was wounded by Tailor's gunfire, while Eren took bullets protecting her and failed to transform into a Titan.
• Moriarty, Angel, and Tailor escaped aboard the airship as Gal fled carrying Reiner's body, leaving the Survey Corps with heavy casualties and most of its howitzers destroyed.
• Rico tried to take responsibility by shooting herself, but Erwin disarmed her and kept her in command, consolidating control over the military.

Eren recovered from his gunshot wounds as the Survey Corps advanced toward Cliff Harbor, while several soldiers defied orders and crowded aboard Chris’s airship to help Chen Si. The airship headed toward the battlefield, and Eren confronted Pieck as she raced toward the Survey Corps.

• Mikasa removed the bullets from Eren’s wounds while he endured the pain in silence.
• Gal, Tailor, and Moriarty discussed Reiner’s body and suspected that Mogwin had leaked intelligence to the Survey Corps.
• Erwin ordered the troops to advance, while Sasha, Connie, Jean, Mikasa, and the others planned to leave their assigned airship and help Chen Si.
• Chris redirected airship one toward Chen Si, and Yasuo, Zeke, Levi, and the others risked a midair climb to board it.
• Chris helped pull the group into the cabin, where Mikasa asked her to change course toward Chen Si and learned they were already heading there.
• Eren approached Pieck as she raced toward the Survey Corps.

Chen Si recovered from Roald’s assault and summoned lightning from across the world, transforming into a forty-meter Thunder God Titan. As the storm empowered him and battered Roald, the battle turned in Chen Si’s favor.

• Roald badly wounded Chen Si, then offered to join forces against Hallucigenia and revealed that he considered them both pawns.
• Chen Si rejected Roald’s offer, healed himself, and declared that Roald should submit to him.
• Thunderstorms erupted across the world, affecting Marley, the Mid-East Allied Forces, the Shadas Empire, and the Church of Thunder on Paradis Island.
• Chen Si drew in vast quantities of lightning, grew to forty meters, and forced Roald backward as the storm stripped flesh from his body.
• Chen Si’s system declared that his Thunder God Titan Form would last indefinitely as long as lightning endured.

Chen Si attacked Roald while Marley faced a sudden invasion by the Paradis-Hizuru Allied Forces. Zoe secured three battalions of reinforcements for Cliff Harbor, where Marley’s troops launched a counterattack against the Survey Corps.

• Chen Si struck Roald and carried him toward space as Roald regenerated from his injuries.
• Zoe learned that Paradis and Hizuru had seized Liberio and Cliff Harbor, then rushed to the Doran frontline command headquarters.
• Zoe persuaded General Augustin to send three battalions by air to reinforce Cliff Harbor, despite his concerns about Marley’s northern border.
• At Cliff Harbor, Frederick Summerfield ordered his dwindling defenders to hold the harbor or destroy it rather than let it fall.
• Fifteen hundred Marleyan paratroopers arrived and counterattacked the Survey Corps.

Zoe fought through Cliff Harbor, but spared Petra when she recognized her as a fellow woman. Erwin refused Hange’s call to retreat, and the Survey Corps captured the city at a cost of 3,200 soldiers.

• Zoe fought Oruo and Gunther in a stairwell, escaped after a Marleyan soldier shot Gunther, and Oruo carried the wounded man away.
• Petra, wounded and unable to reach her pistol, accepted that Zoe might kill her, but Zoe lowered her weapon and left.
• Zoe retreated through the alleys, overwhelmed by the number of people she had killed and the collapse of Marleyan resistance.
• Hange urged Erwin to retreat because the Survey Corps had suffered heavy losses, but Erwin insisted they had to take Cliff Harbor and charged forward.
• Commander Frederick and his twelve remaining soldiers died in a theater explosion, killing eight Survey Corps soldiers.
• The Survey Corps wiped out Cliff Harbor’s 2,000 defenders and took control of the city after losing 3,200 soldiers.

Erwin ordered the Survey Corps to occupy five coastal cities and use their victory to build alliances, while he wondered whether an invisible force was steering Paradis Island toward the Rumbling. In the north, Chen Si tortured the regenerating Roald for answers, but Roald suddenly began to dissolve as a vast conflict between two beings on Paths emerged.

• Erwin ordered Rico to spread news of the victory and Mike to occupy five coastal cities while protecting Marleyan civilians.
• Erwin told Hange that the raid on Liberio had disrupted the world's plans to destroy Paradis Island, then wondered whether an invisible hand was pushing events forward.
• A strike obliterated Marley's Third Northern Army Group, and the military executed survivors and witnesses to conceal the loss.
• Foreign nations learned that the Survey Corps had occupied five cities and sent diplomats aboard seven warships toward Cliff Harbor.
• Chen Si repeatedly stabbed the regenerating Roald until Roald seemed ready to speak, but a surge of energy overtook him.
• On Paths, two immense phantoms battled as one cried out, "Order..."

Order confronted Grotesque in the Paths and explained that free will and love exceeded the power of laws, while Grotesque sought a way to claim that power. Grotesque used its influence to bring Carla and others back, leaving Grisha and Carla reunited as scenes from the world after their deaths appeared.

• Grotesque revealed that it had merged with the world and drew strength from war, chaos, death, and hatred.
• Order told Grotesque that free will and love could not be controlled by laws and warned that its host could erase Grotesque.
• Grotesque decided to control humans who possessed that power and unleashed dazzling light across the silver desert.
• Founder Ymir gathered silver sand as Carla and other human silhouettes began to form.
• Carla and Grisha recognized each other, rushed into an embrace, and apologized through their tears.
• Grisha, Carla, and Marcel saw scenes from the world after their deaths play before them at a hundred times normal speed.

Marcel witnessed his family’s suffering and deaths, filling him with hatred for Chen Si and Paradis Island. That hatred awakened Marcel within Roald, who transformed into a powerful Titan and vowed to destroy his enemies.

• Marcel watched Porco and their mother endure torture and die at the hands of the Survey Corps, and swore revenge on everyone responsible.
• Carla feared Marcel would harm the children, and Grisha identified him as the Jaw Titan Chen Si had killed.
• Marcel’s memories and will flooded Roald, who struggled against him before roaring as a crimson pillar of light engulfed him.
• Roald transformed into a monstrous Titan, and Chen Si summoned a thirty-meter thunderbolt sword to face him.
• Marcel accused Chen Si and Paradis Island of causing his family’s deaths and declared that he would destroy everything connected to the island.

Chen Si confronted Marcel Galliard, who had returned as the Devil Titan and rallied Marley’s forces before attacking him. After a fierce aerial battle, Marcel seized Chen Si and flew toward Marley’s capital, threatening Paradis Island and Chen Si’s loved ones.

• Marcel Galliard declared himself the Devil Titan, and Marley’s soldiers cheered as the Mid-East Allied Forces panicked at the sound.
• Chen Si condemned Marcel for betraying his people and declared him guilty of treason, while Chris and Mikasa heard him and ordered Olyanpo to fly north.
• Marcel insisted he was a Marleyan and transformed into the Devil Titan, then clashed with Chen Si’s Thunderbolt Titan in the sky.
• After a prolonged battle, Marcel overpowered Chen Si, grabbed his head, and flew toward Marley’s capital while threatening Chen Si’s friends, family, and Paradis Island.

Chen Si fought Marcel while the Wings of Freedom airship approached, but Marcel unleashed a worldwide attack that immobilized soldiers and began draining them. Mikasa survived after a mysterious voice answered her, and the chapter left Chen Si surrounded by red and black runes as the others collapsed.

• Chen Si and Marcel exchanged attacks as the Wings of Freedom airship advanced toward their battlefield.
• Marcel fired a deathly attack at the airship, but Chen Si intercepted it and impaled Marcel with ten lightning swords.
• Marcel invoked Destruction and the seven sins, drawing blood-red energy from soldiers across the world and freezing the airship's passengers with visions tailored to their desires and fears.
• Mikasa began dissolving into nourishment for Marcel, but a distant voice answered her and jolted her awake.
• Jean and the others collapsed from the assault while Mikasa remained unharmed and Chen Si stood surrounded by red and black runes.

Chen Si took on the laws of sin and was destroyed by Marcel’s attack, while the Rothschild family remained hidden beneath its estate and plotted around Marley’s likely victory. Hermann took Philia away from Lisa under the pretense of giving her food, leaving Lisa uneasy.

• Chen Si absorbed the laws of sin and endured Marcel’s attack until his Titan body exploded and disintegrated.
• Winston and his sons discussed how the Rothschild family could profit regardless of which side won the war.
• Hermann resolved to sabotage Edison’s partnership with Mogwin because he feared losing status within the family.
• Philia worried about Mogwin and Zoe while she waited with Lisa beneath the estate.
• Hermann lured the hungry Philia away from Lisa by offering her imported desserts, then refused to let Lisa accompany them.

Hermann tricked Philia into leaving the estate through the Titan blood barrier, while Marcel stripped Chen Si of the lightning he needed to transform and left him gravely wounded. Mikasa reached Chen Si as the airship descended, while Levi stopped the others from rushing into a fight they could not win.

• Hermann led Philia to the storeroom, lied that her injured father waited across the street, and sent her through the blood-red barrier; he then returned and falsely claimed she had pushed him outside.
• Marcel absorbed all the lightning in the sky, prevented Chen Si from becoming the Thunderbolt Titan, and left him bleeding among the ruins.
• Chen Si roared at the people aboard the descending airship to get away, and Mikasa jumped from it using her Vertical Maneuvering Equipment to slow her fall.
• Jean urged Olyanpo to make the airship descend faster as Connie, Sasha, and Yasuo prepared to go down, but Levi stopped them, warning they were no match for Marcel.
• Mikasa reached Chen Si, helped him up, and touched his bloodied face as she wept.

Mikasa attacked Marcel with lightning as Zeke, Levi, Eren, and Pieck joined the battle, but Marcel overwhelmed them and killed Eren, Zeke, and Pieck. As the airship descended, Chris foresaw the others being slaughtered and resolved to enter an abyss in their place.

• Mikasa drew on lightning and attacked Marcel, while Chen Si discovered a vast energy source in his heart that he could not access.
• Zeke and Levi transformed, and Eren and Pieck joined them in attacking Marcel, but Mikasa's strikes could not pierce him.
• Marcel struck Eren down, then crushed the Beast Titan and Cart Titan, killing Zeke and Pieck.
• Armin broke down, while Sasha kept firing at Marcel and the others watched in despair.
• Chris saw a vision of Mikasa, Chen Si, Levi, Yasuo, Jean, Sasha, Mina, Armin, and Connie being killed, and decided to enter an abyss in their place.

Chris sacrificed her life to restore Chen Si’s power and freeze Marcel’s attack, allowing Chen Si to unleash a devastating storm. The Marley Capital was destroyed, and Chen Si absorbed the energy needed for his Titan transformation.

• Chris ordered the others to flee, then jumped from the hatch to give Chen Si the missing part of his power; Yasuo followed, and Levi fell while trying to stop him.
• Chris used Eternal Spacetime to freeze Marcel and his energy torrent, then reversed time to restore Eren and the Titans while pouring her life force into Chen Si.
• Chen Si used Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to unleash a catastrophic blast across the region.
• Yasuo found Philia and shielded her as a figure turned transparent and covered them from the blast.
• The storm destroyed the Marley Capital and killed more than two billion people, while Chen Si absorbed life force for his Titan transformation and reached 100% electric energy.

Chen Si destroyed Marcel’s Titan body, but Order warned that Marcel’s hatred could survive through future inheritors. Chris died after exhausting her life, leaving Chen Si overwhelmed by grief and guilt as Eldia captured Gniez and Chen Si announced Marley’s surrender demand.

• Chen Si trapped Marcel in a lightning prison and reduced his Titan body to dust, but Marcel claimed his memories and hatred would pass to future Eldians.
• Order told Chen Si that he had to devour Marcel to suppress his consciousness, while Chris fell from the sky and could not be revived because her life source was exhausted.
• Chris revealed her name was Zhang Surou, said goodbye to Chen Si, and died in his arms; Levi stayed beside her after losing his abilities and Ackerman bloodline.
• Yasuo, Philia, and the others arrived as Chen Si announced the capture and destruction of Gniez and threatened Marley with further devastation unless it surrendered.
• Chen Si admitted to Armin that he had slaughtered the city, then broke down among the ruins as Mikasa embraced him and Eren stared at Chris’s body.

After Marley’s capital fell, the Mid-East Allied Forces invaded from the north while Claude’s Second Eldian Corps rebelled and helped destroy Marley’s First Division. Marley’s northern front collapsed, and Augustin and Magath learned that Adonis had surfaced as their forces prepared to defend Doran.

• Winston arrived with Philia and Yasuo to meet the Survey Corps, while foreign airships reported Marley’s ruined capital and the Mid-East Allied Forces declared war.
• Claude received Erwin’s letter and, alongside Rina Sakurai, prepared to act as the Second Eldian Corps rebelled against Marley.
• The Mid-East Allied Forces and the Second Eldian Corps attacked Marley’s First Division from both sides, annihilating it at a cost of 150,000 allied casualties.
• Marley’s northern front collapsed, and Magath and Augustin joined forces with 1.6 million troops to defend Doran.
• Augustin and Magath received urgent news that Adonis had surfaced.

Chen Si and the others mourned Chris while Winston sought protection and trade rights from Paradis. When Marcel tried to destroy himself, Order warned that only a young Eldian could safely inherit his Titan, forcing Chen Si to consider the 104th Cadet Corps.

• Chen Si brought Chris's body to Winston's factory quarters, declined a priest, and heard Winston ask for protection for his family's businesses and permission to trade in Paradis.
• Erwin, Hange, Petra, Mike, and Levi arrived and mourned Chris; Levi punched Erwin, then acknowledged that Erwin's decision had not been wrong.
• Yasuo revealed to Philia that they were from Paradis Island, and Chen Si turned away when he saw her reaction.
• Chen Si told Erwin that someone had to inherit the Titan power trapped in Marcel's head before Marcel could return to life.
• When Marcel tried to kill himself, Chen Si restrained him and called for Titan serum; Moblit brought it, but Order warned that older Eldians might lose control and that Marcel had only forty seconds left.
• Chen Si learned that only the young cadets from the 104th Cadet Corps were suitable candidates and struggled to choose an inheritor.