Chapter Summaries

Chen Si realized that the code-named Poet was a woman as Moriarty murdered Oruo during a plot to destabilize the Survey Corps. As night and rain approached, Chen Si recalled Zoe’s reasons for staying and chose to be selfish once more.

• Chen Si heard that the Special Operations Department had lured him into a trap, and he grew uneasy when Jean reported that Shadow was being taken to Paradis Island.
• Oruo welcomed Irene to Marley, but Moriarty revealed himself in disguise and poisoned him.
• Oruo briefly resisted the poison, then died after Moriarty stabbed him and slit his throat.
• Moriarty prepared to meet Zoe as they pursued a plan to kill the Survey Corps’ old guard and help Gal reach Paradis Island.
• Shadow told Kenny that the code-named Poet was a woman, confirming Chen Si’s suspicion that Zoe was the spy.
• Chen Si recalled Zoe’s resolve to protect children and their dreams, then rose as the rain began and said he would be selfish once more.

Marlowe was assassinated by Zoe, but his desperate grenade attack wounded her and triggered a deadly escape through the Governor-General's Office. Trapped in a warehouse with soldiers closing in, Zoe was interrupted by someone with a face exactly like hers.

• Marlowe wrote Hitch a letter, then was ambushed by Zoe in his bedroom.
• Zoe grievously injured Marlowe, but hesitated after seeing a photograph of Philia and Yasuo; Marlowe used the pause to grab her and detonate a grenade.
• Zoe escaped the explosion with injuries, killed soldiers, and destroyed a garage full of military vehicles while fleeing the Governor-General's Office.
• Zoe hid in a warehouse while still needing to assassinate Shadow and protect Dusk, then prepared to fight the soldiers searching for her.
• Someone with a face exactly like Zoe's pushed down her pistol as soldiers closed in.

Moriarty warned Zoe that her cover was exposed and explained that Chen Si might spare her if she approached him, then confessed his love before sacrificing himself to help her escape. Zoe survived the warehouse’s destruction in disguise, while Moriarty’s identity was obliterated in the explosion.

• Moriarty detonated an explosion outside the warehouse to distract the Survey Corps and told Zoe that Shadow had exposed her identity and that Chen Si might be willing to spare her.
• Moriarty explained Chen Si’s devotion to the 104th Cadet Corps and his unusual response to Zoe, then urged her to approach Chen Si because she might get close enough to strike.
• Moriarty confessed his feelings, and Zoe thanked him but rejected him, saying she had always seen him as a child.
• When Samuel’s soldiers rushed the warehouse, Moriarty wore Zoe’s face, drew their fire, and detonated the explosives on his body, killing himself and nearby soldiers.
• Timed explosives brought down much of the warehouse as Armin and the others organized rescues, while Zoe escaped through the ruins disguised as a Survey Corps soldier.

Zoe attacked the harbor to reach Shadow, but the assault ended with Shadow dead and the assassin surrounded by Survey Corps soldiers. Kenny and the others saw the smoke clear, leaving the outcome for Zoe uncertain.

• Zoe posed as Eric near the harbor, but Ando recognized that something was wrong and exposed her disguise.
• Zoe killed Ando, then launched a direct assault on the guard post and killed several soldiers to reach Shadow.
• Kenny ordered the soldiers to attack after noticing the sentry was dead, and the soldiers destroyed the guard post with gunfire and grenades.
• Zoe charged from the smoke using half a corpse as cover, took multiple shots, and threw grenades toward Shadow.
• Floch’s soldiers shielded Shadow, but the explosions killed many soldiers, and Zoe pulled a dagger from Shadow’s neck as his bullet-riddled body fell dead.

Zoe Mogwin was revealed as Dusk, a Marley agent, and nearly died after the battle before Chen Si arrived and healed her. He explained that he saved her because he loved her, leaving Zoe torn between her duty and her feelings for him.

• Zoe removed her disguise mask, and Philia recognized her as her sister while Zoe denied knowing her to protect her.
• Hange and Floch realized Zoe was Dusk, and Floch aimed his gun at her as she collapsed.
• Chen Si appeared and used his vitality to heal Zoe, then sealed them inside a curtain of light.
• Zoe questioned why Chen Si would save an enemy who had killed his subordinates.
• Chen Si said he cared most about the people he loved, recalled his promise to Historia, and told Zoe he loved her too.

Chen Si confessed why he protected Paradis Island and tried to persuade Zoe to abandon her fight, but Zoe took half of Roald’s laws of death into herself to spare him. She died in Chen Si’s arms as he lost his Thunderclap Body and was left questioning whether fate could be changed.

• Chen Si told Zoe that he protected his friends and Paradis Island, and that he would intervene to keep Eren safe if the Rumbling began.
• Chen Si offered Zoe a new identity so she could start over with Philia, and Zoe admitted she could not stab him.
• Zoe drove the Death Dagger through her own palm and Chen Si’s chest, splitting the laws of death between them.
• Order told Chen Si that Zoe had taken half the laws of death for him, saving his life but permanently stripping away his Thunderclap Body.
• Zoe died in Chen Si’s arms after asking whether she was still like a cloud, while Floch, Armin, Mikasa, and the others saw him kneeling in the rain.
• Chris appeared beside Chen Si and reminded him that he was a Chance, but Chen Si wondered whether fate was predetermined.

After Chen Si killed Zoe, Philia vowed to avenge her sister, and Chen Si ordered her sent to the Royal Military Academy while he remained in Marley. News of Zoe’s death spread worldwide, but aboard the Paradis Island fleet, the real Dusk—Gal Nangus—learned of it and became the last surviving Codename Agent.

• Philia mourned Zoe, confronted Chen Si about using her sister, and vowed to spend her life killing him.
• Floch drew his gun on Philia, but Yasuo and Kenny intervened before Chen Si ordered everyone to protect her and arrange her education at the Royal Military Academy.
• Chen Si said he would remain in Marley as a deterrent while Mikasa and the others returned to Paradis Island.
• The Survey Corps announced that Dusk and the other Codename Agents had been killed, and Drus Country and Hizuru sent congratulatory telegrams.
• Aboard the Paradis Island fleet, Gal Nangus learned of Dusk’s reported death, crumpled the telegram, and was alerted to an airship overhead by Bivis.

Gal stopped Bivis from shooting down Kenny’s airship, then Chen Si mourned Chris and Zoe at Annecy before returning to face crises on several fronts. The chapter ended with Chen Si standing alone before twenty thousand rebels in Wright City.

• Gal ordered the antiaircraft gunners to hold fire after recognizing that Kenny’s airship carried Zoe’s sister Philia, and he refused to risk angering Chen Si.
• Chen Si visited Annecy, grieved for Chris and Zoe, and admitted that he could no longer tell right from wrong.
• Chen Si learned that twenty thousand students and administrators had risen in Wright City and that Soviet forces had invaded Hizuru.
• Chen Si ordered Caesar Marley-en’s army to engage the Soviet fleet and land in Hizuru, while Erwin began building coastal defenses on Paradis Island.
• After Todd’s rebels defeated Wright City’s defenders, Chen Si confronted them alone outside city hall.

Chen Si subdued the Marley Uprising Army through negotiation and promised civilians farmland, concealing that he had lost his Titan Power. Back in the Royal Capital, Erwin succeeded Chen Si as Marshal and began selecting successors for the Founding Titan and Beast Titan, putting Eren’s future in question.

• Chen Si persuaded Todd to disband the Marley Uprising Army by promising leniency and farmland for civilians, while hiding that he had lost his Titan Power.
• Marleyan civilians registered with the Survey Corps and received farmland, improving Chen Si’s standing in the Governor-General District.
• Historia invested Erwin as the Eldia Empire’s new Imperial Marshal, and Erwin quickly gained control of much of Chen Si’s power base.
• Erwin persuaded Kenny to have the Central Intelligence Agency accept his orders and convened the first Survey Corps meeting without Chen Si in eight years.
• Erwin’s proposal to choose successors for the Founding Titan and Beast Titan passed with nearly ninety percent support, while Pixis abstained over concern for Chen Si’s relationship with Paradis Island.

Gal led a surprise attack on a Soviet transport fleet, prompting the Soviet Union to declare war on Paradis Island. As Erwin prepared to act against Eren and Levi returned to service, Mikasa and the Survey Corps readied Paradis’s defenses and spotted approaching warships.

• Gal sent a squadron to attack the Soviet transport fleet bound for Hizuru while leading his main force toward Paradis Island, and the Soviet Union declared war on Paradis Island.
• Erwin told Levi he planned to move against Eren and keep his plan from Chen Si until the inheritance was complete; Levi agreed to return to the Survey Corps and watch the enemy.
• At Thunder God Port, Armin explained the strategic value of Paradis’s foothold in Marley, while Hange objected to the invasion and Floch announced the Suros Alliance’s declaration of war.
• Erwin reassured the group that Caesar’s fleet could repel the Soviet forces, as German-made coastal defense guns were installed along Paradis Island’s shores.
• Mikasa spotted warships approaching, raised the alarm, and the Survey Corps rushed to its shelters and gun emplacements as Armin and Erwin looked up at the ringing alarm.

Erwin suspected that Caesar’s fleet had returned impossibly fast and that Caesar might have defected, so he ordered Paradis Island’s troops to evacuate into underground fortifications. Aboard the Christa, Gal struggled with confused memories before ordering an immediate saturation bombardment.

• Mikasa and Annie questioned why the returning Survey Corps fleet appeared to have suffered almost no losses, while Erwin and Armin realized it had reached Paradis Island far too quickly.
• Erwin suspected Caesar had defected and ordered the garrison to withdraw to Chang'an City’s underground shelters and prepare the coastal guns.
• Louise broadcast the emergency evacuation order, and Mikasa, Annie, and the other troops began rushing toward the fortifications.
• Aboard the Christa, Gal experienced confused memories of being Reiner Braun and reaffirmed his identity as Gal Nangus, codename Dusk.
• Gal asked Bivis whether he would give everything for the people, then ordered the fleet to begin a saturation bombardment.

Caesar’s fleet bombarded Thunder God Port and Chang’an City, forcing the Survey Corps into a desperate fight to survive and rescue their comrades. Erwin sacrificed himself in a Colossal Titan explosion that devastated the fleet, but Gal revealed himself as the true Dusk and killed Erwin beneath the sea.

• Caesar’s battleships destroyed most of the coastal defenses, while Jean, Sasha, and Connie learned that Mikasa was missing and Jean and Sasha set out to find her.
• Mikasa lost her connection to Chen Si’s power, found her long blade amid the ruins, and was swallowed by the shellfire as Jean cried out for her.
• Sasha transformed into a 20-Meter-Class Titan to shield Jean, but the bombardment battered her body and left her struggling to control herself.
• Erwin sailed toward the fleet and detonated his Colossal Titan, destroying more than half of the warships and severely damaging the rest.
• Gal revealed himself as Gal Angus, the true Dusk, and used a Black-Gold Beam to drive Erwin underwater until the Colossal Titan and Erwin were destroyed.

Gal captured Chang'an City and advanced toward the Royal Capital to seize Historia, while Eren escaped his dungeon and joined the defense against Gal's forces. The chapter ended as Eren's Attack Titan emerged and struck the rebel army.

• Gal ordered his troops to occupy Chang'an City and march on the Royal Capital, then found Annie protecting an unconscious Mikasa in the ruins of Thunder God Port.
• Gal's rebels seized Chang'an City, breached Wall Maria, and destroyed the militia defending the Royal Capital with overwhelming firepower.
• Floch helped Eren escape from his dungeon, where Eren had waited for the moment he remembered.
• Gal's tanks and soldiers attacked Christa District, and Hannes prepared to sacrifice himself to destroy a heavy machine gun.
• Eren's War Hammer spikes impaled the machine-gun crew and destroyed more than twenty tanks, then his Attack Titan emerged as the Survey Corps cheered.

Eren and Gal fought as Gal revealed his Titan form and overwhelmed Eren, while Zeke escaped confinement and transformed many of Paradis Island’s leaders into Pure Titans. Levi stopped Zeke, but Zeke warned that the rebels had likely already devastated the island’s defenses, leaving Levi uncertain about what to do.

• Bivis watched Gal transform into a Titan and kill his remaining rebel troops with a wave of black-and-gold light.
• Eren hardened his body and attacked Gal, but Gal shattered his defenses and blasted away part of Eren’s body.
• Zeke transformed into the Beast Titan, broke out of his residence, and escaped Mike’s attempts to stop him.
• Zeke’s roar transformed hundreds of people in the Royal Capital, including senior officials other than Pixis and Zackly, into Pure Titans.
• Levi attacked Zeke with Thunder Spears, pierced his chest, and ordered Mike to help the Cabinet.
• Zeke urged Levi to let him go, warning that Caesar had betrayed the Survey Corps and that the rebels might already have overrun Paradis Island.

Levi agreed to join Zeke against the advancing threat, but Zeke escaped when Levi’s failing strength prevented him from stopping him. As Paradis fell and the Marleyan forces faced an imminent defeat, Chen Si set out by lifeboat, leaving Rico to fear that he had lost the power everyone depended on.

• Levi accepted Zeke’s proposal to reinforce the front lines, but Zeke tried to transform and bite him as soon as they reached the ground.
• Levi’s dizziness and exhaustion stopped him from killing Zeke, who transformed and fled.
• At the Cabinet, Mike arrived as Pixis ordered him to the front lines and stayed behind with Zackly to deal with the Titans, including the captured Nile.
• Chen Si learned that the airships lacked iceburst stone and could not reach Paradis in time, while the Royal Capital could hold out for only three more hours.
• Chen Si ordered the iceburst stone from two reserve lifeboats consolidated into one and departed with Rico, who suspected he had lost his Titan power.

Chen Si learned that Caesar had been a Marley Agent and that Zoe’s death had completed a five-year deception, leaving him convinced he had lost. Older Chen Si appeared and gave him the power to transform again, sending him toward the battle as Gal devastated the Royal Guard and Eren while Kenny evacuated Historia and Ymir.

• Chen Si realized Caesar was a Marley Agent and concluded that Zoe had concealed Dusk’s identity as part of a five-year plan.
• Rico broke down as Chen Si despaired over his failure to protect Paradis Island and the people he loved.
• Older Chen Si appeared from Chen Si’s heart, transferred his power to him, and sent him racing toward the battle in his thunder god form.
• Gal turned his damaged limbs into a hundred Armored Titans, which overwhelmed Tyler’s Royal Guard and destroyed the artillery position.
• Gal pierced Eren with a crystal spike and shattered his hardened body with a crushing leap.
• Kenny forcibly evacuated Historia and Ymir from the Imperial Palace, but their jeep would not start because shrapnel had damaged it.

Kenny tried to evacuate Historia as dozens of Armored Titans surrounded them, while Floch and Blake plotted to kill her rather than let her become leverage against Chen Si. Eren intervened, but Gal destroyed his Titan, and Floch’s soldiers surrounded Historia with their rifles aimed at her.

• Kenny, Historia, Ymir, Yasuo, and Philia escaped in a truck as Kenny’s men stayed behind to fight the pursuing Armored Titans.
• The Titans overturned the truck, and Kenny and Yasuo fought back while one Armored Titan appeared to offer Historia its hand before striking Ymir and injuring her.
• Floch and Blake concluded that the Titans wanted Historia alive, then revealed that they intended to kill her because Chen Si might yield to save her.
• Eren killed dozens of Armored Titans with spikes, but Gal crushed his Titan and searched for his hiding place.
• Blake ordered Floch to kill Historia, then sacrificed himself and his bishops to hold off the Titans while Floch surrounded Historia with over a hundred soldiers.

Yasuo unleashed a deadly sword technique to save Kenny, Philia, Historia, and Ymir from Floch’s firing squad, killing Floch and the two hundred soldiers at the cost of his own life. He died after asking Philia to keep her promise, while a memory recalled how they first met.

• Floch ordered his soldiers to surround and kill Historia and her allies, while Kenny prepared to resist despite knowing they were outmatched.
• Yasuo remembered Chen Si’s blade and his grandmother’s charge to protect, then asked Philia to promise she would stop hating Chen Si if he saved them.
• Historia offered to give up the throne if Floch spared the others, but Floch rejected her plea and ordered his soldiers to fire.
• Yasuo awakened the Ackerman power and used One-Sword Style, Whirlwind, to cut through the bullets and decapitate Floch, Samuel, and all two hundred soldiers.
• Yasuo collapsed with his heart destroyed, and he died after Kenny praised him and Philia wept beside him.
• A memory showed Philia giving lollipops to Ramzi and Yasuo, who revealed that Yasuo was his real name.

Chen Si rescued the surviving members of his group, discovered Mikasa's faint presence, and set out with them to confront the crisis. Meanwhile, 120,000 Soviet troops invaded Paradis Island, leaving Hange and the Royal Capital facing overwhelming danger.

• Chen Si found Sasha, Jean, Armin, Mina, and Connie among the ruins and used his life force to restore them, but he could not find Mikasa at first.
• Chen Si sensed Mikasa beneath an unfamiliar power linked to Reiner and Roald, learned Erwin had gone to face Caesar's fleet, and detected reconnaissance boats near Thunder God Port.
• Chen Si departed with Armin, Jean, Mina, Sasha, and Connie, and the light carrying them destroyed the nearby reconnaissance boats.
• As the German Army pressed its attack on the Suros capital, Skayev ordered the occupation of Paradis Island after Soviet scouts reported unrest and Chen Si's absence.
• A force of 120,000 Soviet troops landed on Paradis Island and routed Hange's militia, forcing Hange to retreat to the Royal Capital with the survivors.
• Hange returned to the Royal Capital amid fleeing residents and ruins, realizing Paradis Island faced disaster as Chen Si remained absent and its other defenses had fallen.

Chen Si destroyed the Soviet force and defeated Gal, but learned that killing Gal would also kill Mikasa and Annie. As Yasuo lay dying, Chen Si chose to sacrifice his mental energy to save him, while Gal's final thoughts turned to Marley's future.

• Chen Si annihilated the Soviet troops and confronted Gal, who revealed that Mikasa and Annie were embedded in his heart and would die if he died.
• Kenny begged Chen Si to save Yasuo, and Chen Si revealed that Petra was pregnant before claiming Yasuo as his own child too.
• Order explained that a blood relative could save Yasuo by giving him blood and mental energy, but the donor would die and Yasuo would remain frail with a shortened life.
• Despite Order's warning that the sacrifice would end his chance to grow stronger, Chen Si used his mental energy to collapse Gal's mind.
• Gal called for Reiner as his Titan body fell, and all Seven Codename Agents of the Special Operations Department were wiped out.