Chapter Summaries

Chen Si, Mikasa, and Eren attended Hizuru’s fireworks festival before meeting Rina Sakurai, a representative of the Marley Eldia First Legion. Rina asked Chen Si to support the legion’s plan to establish a second Eldian nation on the Marley Continent.

• Chen Si, Mikasa, and Eren watched the Oriental Clan’s fireworks festival with Tachibana Masao.
• Tōjin Kiyomi told Chen Si that a leader of the Marley Rebels wanted to meet him, identifying her group as the Eldia First Legion in Marley.
• Tōjin Yamashinobu asked Mikasa to return to Hizuru and lead the Oriental Clan, but Chen Si said she would take the title without being bound to govern there.
• Rina Sakurai introduced herself as the wife of the Eldia First Legion’s commander and told Chen Si that the legion had over forty thousand members.
• Rina Sakurai asked Chen Si to help establish a second Eldian nation on the Marley Continent, where nearly three million Eldians remained.

Chen Si agreed to give Rina Sakurai two southern cities to establish an Eldian country, while Eren learned that Tōjin Yamashinobu planned to exploit a future conflict to seize Paradis Island’s iceburst stone. In southern Marley, the Governor-General’s forces began violently enforcing the Church of Thunder and suppressing other religions.

• Chen Si granted Rina Sakurai two cities south of the Kurnan River for her nation, and Mikasa pinched him after catching him sneaking a look at Rina Sakurai.
• Eren overheard Tōjin Yamashinobu boast that the Oriental Clan intended to seize Paradis Island’s iceburst stone and rise to power when Paradis Island clashed with the Mid-East Allied Forces.
• Tōjin Yamashinobu revealed that his spies had discovered Drus was developing a much faster aircraft, which he believed would force the Eldia Empire to abandon the Marley Continent.
• Governor-General’s cavalry announced that residents of the Governor-General District had to follow the Church of Thunder, and soldiers shot young Marleyan protesters.
• Governor-General’s guards surrounded worshippers inside a church of the God Church, where a bishop angrily challenged them.

Floch crushed resistance in the southern Fifteen Cities through mass executions, forced confiscations, and collective punishment, while the Eldia Empire gained wealth and strengthened its military. Marlowe recoiled from the brutality but promoted the dutiful Nolan and ended the chapter questioning whether he belonged in this role.

• Floch ordered troops to kill protesters and established the Sacred Treasury System, then empowered Marleyan converts as the Holy Guard to confiscate wealth and punish residents.
• The Holy Guard plundered and abused Marleyans, and after another fifty thousand people were killed, Floch declared the governorate secure while the Cabinet profited from the stolen wealth.
• Marlowe confronted Floch about the cruelty, but Floch defended his rule as necessary to govern the much larger population.
• Marlowe rejected Samuel's offer of a captive woman and struck him after Samuel insulted Hitch, then found Nolan faithfully standing guard.
• Marlowe promoted Nolan to be his adjutant and deputy captain, then looked at a photograph and wondered if Hitch had been right that he was not suited to his role.

Levi and Petra held a quiet wedding in the Royal Capital, where Chen Si’s promise to Mikasa and pursuit of Historia strained their relationship. As Historia drove away, Erwin delivered grave news amid Marley’s military collapse.

• Hange postponed her trip to Marley after receiving Levi and Petra’s wedding invitation, while Survey Corps comrades traveled to the Royal Capital.
• Levi and Petra married in a cathedral, and Kenny congratulated Levi before the couple shared a kiss.
• Mikasa asked Chen Si when they would marry, and he embraced her and promised he would never leave her.
• Historia left the cathedral after seeing Chen Si comfort Mikasa, and Chen Si hurried after her, but Royal Guards stopped him as she drove away.
• Erwin approached Chen Si with a grave expression as news reported that the Mid-East Allied Forces had overrun northern Marley and surrounded Magath and Augustin’s forces at Doran.

Augustin sacrificed his forces to hold Doran while Magath escaped, and the city fell after a four-month battle. In Galgada, Rundstedt declared the war lost and said he would die with Marley.

• Augustin ordered Magath to withdraw to Galgada, then led his three divisions in a desperate counterattack against the Allied forces.
• Magath broke through the western encirclement while Augustin's troops held off the enemy; after a month, Augustin's divisions were destroyed and he killed himself rather than surrender.
• After Doran fell, Congress appointed Rundstedt supreme commander, and officials begged him to save Marley.
• Rundstedt denounced the generals and officials for defying him and betraying Marley, then admitted he did not know how to lead them.
• Rundstedt declared the war lost and said Marley would retreat no farther, as his failing health left him near death.

Rundstedt gave his four protégés final missions to preserve Marley before dying. Bruce took command as enemy paratroopers halted Magath’s troops outside the city, leaving Marley’s survival uncertain.

• Gal agreed to join the Divine Revelation Plan, and Rundstedt assigned him the Abyssal Dawn mission to capture Eldia’s queen and force negotiations after Marley fell.
• Rundstedt gave Zoe a dagger steeped in Roald’s death blood and ordered her to kill Chen Si; Moriarty was tasked with helping her carry out the Avalanche Plan.
• Rundstedt assigned Moriarty to aid Zoe and Tailor to aid Gal, then urged them to restore Marley and protect its people.
• Rundstedt recalled the children he had raised, wondered if he had been wrong, and died.
• Bruce learned that Doctor Fuluo had fled and ordered the generals to their defensive sectors after Magath’s troops were stopped by enemy paratroopers outside the city.

Floch directed Adonis’s forces to seize Zhitomir and ordered Nolan to lead an assault on Galgada despite Nolan’s warnings about the Mid-East Allied Forces. Nolan’s small division achieved a major breakthrough, leaving Floch secretly plotting against him as the army moved to support his advance.

• Floch and Adonis’s six hundred thousand troops captured Zhitomir, where Adonis incited them to slaughter resisting soldiers and civilians.
• Nolan warned Floch that attacking Brittany would risk conflict with the Mid-East Allied Forces and fuel Marleyan resistance, but Floch assigned him the vanguard assault on Galgada.
• Nolan signed a written pledge to lead the attack, while Marlowe privately warned him that the assignment could mean his death.
• Nolan led fifteen thousand troops through surprise attacks and infiltration, broke through the Marleyan line, and captured sixty thousand soldiers outside Galgada.
• Floch sent all six hundred thousand troops to support Nolan’s force and secretly ordered Samuel to act.

As Adonis's forces entered Galgada, Magath surrendered to prevent Marleyans from killing one another and sought a final chance to address his countrymen. After Koslow died helping him reach the gate tower, Magath urged Marleyans to unite and believe in their future, then died as the soldiers rallied behind him.

• Magath told Koslow he would surrender to spare Marleyans further casualties, then handed over his cap and uniform.
• Nolan and Adonis saw Magath's troops surrender, and Magath crawled toward Adonis to ask for a chance to speak.
• Floch mocked Magath and allowed him to approach the gate tower, while soldiers who carried Magath were shot down.
• Koslow carried Magath up the wall and leaped to his death, giving Magath the chance to address the soldiers.
• Magath urged Marleyans to stop fighting each other and declared that Marley would rise again, prompting Marleyan and Aima soldiers to shout their support.
• Magath watched the soldiers rally and died after leaping from the wall.

Professor Mogwin used Reiner’s blood to help Gal survive a complete blood replacement with Roald’s blood. The experiment seemed to succeed when Gal transformed into a twenty-meter Titan, leaving his allies facing the consequences of his new power.

• Zoe told Mogwin she had left Philia in Hange’s care, and Mogwin ordered her to carry out Rundstedt’s orders to kill Charns and Floch.
• Mogwin explained that Reiner’s blood had retained its active cells and might carry healing properties that could counteract Roald’s destructive blood.
• Gal agreed to undergo the blood replacement despite Mogwin’s warning that his chance of success was no more than three percent.
• Hilbert and the others replaced Gal’s blood while Zoe, Tailor, and Moriarty held him down as he screamed in pain.
• When Gal’s heart appeared to stop, Mogwin warned the others not to shock him, and gold and black electric arcs burst from Gal’s eyes.
• Gal walked into the corridor and transformed into a twenty-meter, pitch-black Titan.

Gal accepted the identity Caesar Malaine and survived the fall of city hall after Marley’s loyalists staged a mass suicide and he shot himself in the face. Nolan’s forces raised the Wings of Freedom over the city, and Floch went to confront Gal after learning that an Eldia Restorationist had taken city hall.

• Bruce gave Gal the identity Caesar Malaine and ordered him to carry out his final mission.
• Kloster and four other generals killed themselves, then Bruce and the Marley agents staged a mass suicide while proclaiming Marley’s name.
• Bruce shot himself, and Gal shot himself in the face before declaring to Nolan that he was Caesar Malaine, an Eldia Restorationist.
• Nolan ordered his soldiers to salute Gal, and they replaced the Marley flag with the Wings of Freedom flag as resistance fighters surrendered or took their own lives.
• Floch learned from Nolan that Gal had taken city hall and went to meet him, while Marlowe criticized Nolan for giving away the credit and Nolan defended telling the truth.

Floch consolidated Eldian control over Galgada, using Gal’s ruthless rule to secure the city and win his trust. As the Seven Mid-East Nations negotiated Marley’s partition, Floch refused to give up the territory he had occupied, while Marlowe appealed directly to Erwin for help.

• Floch moved his headquarters into Galgada’s city hall and ordered Gal’s blood tested before accepting him as an Eldia Restorationist.
• After the test confirmed Gal was Eldian, Floch appointed him to replace Nolan and suspended Nolan pending an investigation.
• Gal imposed the sacred treasury system and executed five hundred people, then used the display of their heads to deter further resistance and limit wider violence.
• The Seven Mid-East Nations arrived in Galgada to negotiate Marley’s partition, but their competing proposals clashed with Floch’s demand to keep three-fifths of Marley.
• Zackly supported Floch’s territorial claims, leaving Marlowe unable to intervene, so Marlowe sent Erwin a telegram directly.

Chen Si learned that Floch’s unauthorized actions had alienated the Mid-East Allied Forces and that factions within Paradis were fighting over the empire’s future. After hearing that Eren had proposed the Yeagerists, Chen Si struggled with whether to support their call to eliminate every threat, and the chapter ended with him saying it was too late for Erwin to take over.

• The Drus Cabinet was overthrown after the king accepted a small exclave, and Hilleri seized power; the Shadas Empire also collapsed and was replaced by the Suros Alliance under Skayev.
• Chen Si rushed to Military Corps Headquarters after Levi’s wedding, where Erwin told him that news of Marley’s destruction had reached Within the Walls and Mid-East envoys were protesting Floch’s actions.
• Chen Si ordered Floch removed and called for talks to resume, but Erwin warned that Floch’s popularity after destroying Marley made dismissal politically difficult.
• Erwin explained the Hange Faction, Zacklyism, and the Yeagerists, revealing that Eren had proposed the faction that sought to annihilate threats to Paradis.
• After reading reports about the coups abroad, Chen Si admitted he understood the Yeagerists’ reasoning and questioned whether overwhelming military power could secure lasting peace.
• Erwin told Chen Si that his choice would determine national policy and offered to take over if Chen Si retired, but Chen Si replied that it was already too late.

Chen Si warned Erwin that the world was heading toward an endless war as nations rapidly expanded their military power. After Chen Si and his companions arrived in Marley, Floch murdered Claude and Nolan to prevent the creation of a separate Eldia nation on the continent, then staged the killings as an assassination attempt.

• Chen Si told Erwin that monarchy would be overthrown and that nations would rapidly develop their military power, warning him to prepare for an endless war.
• An ambassador from Drus informed the Military Corps that Inledi was researching Titan weaknesses and ways to destroy the Eldia Empire.
• Armin, Jean, Mina, Sasha, Connie, Eren, and Mikasa joined Chen Si aboard an airship bound for Marley.
• Claude asked Floch when Marley’s Eldia people could establish Second Eldia, and Floch shot him after insisting there could be only one Eldia nation.
• Samuel shot Nolan on Floch’s orders, and Floch wounded himself to make the killings appear to be an assassination attempt.
• Marlowe entered Floch’s office, heard Samuel’s cover story, and accused Floch of having lost his mind.

Chen Si negotiated the Brittany Agreement, dividing Marley among the Mid-East Allied Forces, the Eldia Empire, and two successor states. Meanwhile, Hilleri prepared Drus for war and ordered his officers to plan an invasion of Paradis Island, despite their fear of Chen Si’s Thunderbolt Titan.

• Chen Si arrived in Marley and shook hands with Merryweather as representatives and reporters watched.
• Chen Si signed the Brittany Agreement, ending Marley’s statehood and dividing its territory among the allied nations, the Eldia Empire, and the Aima Republic and Doran Marley.
• Hilleri grew furious over Drus’s small share of territory, but Ambassador Miller advised him to sign the treaty and secretly ally with Eldia.
• After learning that the Vulture Type I Fighter was ready for mass production, Hilleri ordered two thousand aircraft and considered importing iceburst stone from Paradis Island.
• Hilleri ordered Manstein and Rommel to devise a plan to destroy the Survey Corps, defeat Chen Si, and occupy Paradis Island.
• Rommel warned that Chen Si could strike Drus directly, and Manstein said there might be a way to defeat him.

Chen Si uncovered the starvation and mass deaths caused by Floch's rule in Marley and confronted him over Nolan's death. After learning that more than three million residents had died, Chen Si provided food to the people and then violently attacked Floch during a meeting with the governorate's officials.

• Manstein proposed provoking a war to test Chen Si's limits, then using a Suicide Corps to exhaust him; Hilleri appointed Manstein Marshal and planned to meet Chen Si.
• Chen Si and Hilleri signed a non-aggression treaty and economic alliance, arranging Drus exports and trade for iceburst stone.
• In Galgada, Chen Si and his companions discovered that Floch's Sacred Treasury seized residents' possessions and food, leaving them with poor rations.
• Marlowe told Chen Si that more than three million residents had died under Floch's system in two years, and Chen Si ordered better food distributed to those in line.
• At the Governor-General's Office, Floch claimed Nolan had died saving him from Claude; Chen Si praised Nolan's abilities, then blasted Floch into a wall and broke his limbs.

Chen Si punished Floch for his unauthorized actions and confronted Gal, who was posing as Caesar Malaine, before hearing his warning about Inledi’s new fighter aircraft. After reviewing Gal’s records, Chen Si asked him for a plan to govern Marley and weighed the cost of Floch’s brutal policies.

• Chen Si demoted Floch to Galgada’s city defense officer and appointed Marlowe Governor-General.
• Chen Si blasted Gal, who was posing as Caesar Malaine, and then restored both Gal and Floch with his power.
• Gal warned Chen Si that Inledi had developed fighter aircraft capable of threatening Paradis Island.
• Chen Si reviewed Gal’s blood test and records, confirming that he was an Eldian and finding his name on a list of fugitive Restorationists.
• Gal defended his harsh suppression of Marleyan rebels, and Chen Si questioned whether his approach would perpetuate hatred between Marleyans and Eldians.

Chen Si tested Gal by giving him authority, then gave him command of the Royal First Navy Fleet after Gal crushed the Marley Salvation Army and convinced Chen Si of his loyalty. Zoe Mogwin sent Chen Si a letter, and he flew to their agreed meeting place.

• Gal ordered ten residents beheaded and their heads thrown into the encircled Marleyan guerrillas’ camp to force their surrender.
• Zoe Mogwin, Tailor, and Moriarty realized Gal had exposed their position, and Tailor ordered a breakout while vowing to kill the traitor.
• Gal’s forces killed six thousand guerrillas, while Tailor and his companions escaped with about six hundred survivors after Gal secretly opened a route for them.
• Chen Si watched Gal brutally interrogate prisoners, ended his suspicions, and placed Gal in command of the Royal First Navy Fleet at a distant port.
• Chen Si recalled Floch to the Governor-General’s Office to govern alongside Armin, Jean, and Marlowe, then flew to meet Zoe Mogwin after receiving her letter.

Chen Si tried to persuade Zoe to surrender, but a volcanic eruption struck Galgada, and he exhausted himself saving its civilians. Zoe left him alive and fled, deciding they were even for now.

• Chen Si met Zoe by a stream, offered her a white dress, and urged her to abandon Marley with her family.
• Zoe confronted Chen Si over his lies and the destruction of her country, then drew a dagger as she resolved to keep fighting for Marley.
• An earthquake and volcanic eruption devastated Galgada, and Chen Si transformed into the Thunderbolt Titan to rescue villagers and contain the magma.
• Chen Si collapsed into the stream after saving civilians, and Zoe pulled him from the water and considered killing him.
• Zoe put away her dagger, covered Chen Si with her jacket, and left with the white dress as soldiers arrived to carry him to safety.

Sasha transformed into a Titan and lost control during a recruitment event, while armed soldiers and agents nearly turned on one another. Historia calmed Sasha with food, then learned about the curse and left angry at Chen Si for making Sasha suffer it.

• Chen Si ordered a military expansion of up to 150,000 troops after the Inledi Kingdom announced it had built jet fighters.
• Historia encountered Sasha and Floch at a recruitment event, where Sasha began convulsing and transformed into a twenty-meter Titan.
• Floch ordered Sasha killed, but Historia, Connie, Jean, and Kenny’s agents obstructed the attacks and argued over how to stop her.
• Historia ordered everyone to bring her food and drew Sasha’s attention with a pizza and other favorites until Sasha stopped attacking and fell asleep.
• Jean explained Sasha’s curse to Historia, who angrily questioned how Chen Si could make Sasha endure it before leaving with Ymir.

Historia learned that the Military Corps expected a new enemy, while Kenny's report exposed a surge in crime and racial violence in Chang'an City. Historia stopped Chen Si from sending 150,000 troops to Marley, but Chen Si remained convinced that war with the Mid-East was nearly certain.

• At the Reiss Family ranch, Dorrity told Historia she planned to enlist because the Military Corps was expanding against a new enemy.
• Kenny showed Chen Si reports of sharply rising crime and rape, along with the large number of black and mixed-ancestry babies born in Chang'an City.
• Ivanka reported that demonstrations had erupted in Chang'an City over unequal wages, but Chen Si halted his planned response after learning that Historia had accepted the demonstrators' demands.
• Chen Si told Kenny to prepare for a plan involving a small island northwest of Paradis Island after the demonstrations dispersed.
• Historia confronted Chen Si about his plan to send 150,000 troops to Marley, and he agreed to stop after warning her that the battlefield might reach their homeland.
• On the rooftop, Chen Si told Mikasa that war with the Mid-East was highly likely, and Mikasa promised to stay and fight beside him.