Chapter Summaries

Kenny sacrificed his life to awaken Yasuo as Reiner recovered Gal’s memories and attacked Chen Si. Just as Reiner’s blow was about to land, Eren Yeager’s voice addressed all Subjects of Ymir and froze everyone in place.

• Chen Si guided Kenny’s mental energy into Yasuo, and Kenny died after telling Yasuo to seek the meaning of life.
• Reiner awakened and relived Gal’s memories of his friends, birthday, and the war that destroyed their lives.
• Reiner took control of the ultimate Armored Titan, spared Armin, Jean, Connie, and Sasha, but decided Chen Si had to die.
• Reiner charged Chen Si with a devastating golden punch while Chen Si continued transferring energy into Yasuo.
• A star-filled sky and silver sand appeared, stopping Reiner’s fist just above Chen Si as Eren Yeager announced himself to all Subjects of Ymir.

Eren used the Founding Titan to announce the Rumbling and ordered the Titans in the walls to destroy everyone beyond Paradis. As his friends pleaded for a way to stop him, Chen Si said they had to wait until everything was over for Eren to return.

• Eren addressed all Subjects of Ymir through the Paths and declared that he would trample the land beyond Paradis.
• The Paths disappeared, Reiner's Titan form dissolved, and the walls of Paradis crumbled as Colossal Titans emerged.
• Connie, Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Sasha, and Mina reacted to Eren's announcement, while Armin begged Chen Si to help stop him.
• Eren transformed into a gigantic skeletal Titan, and Hannes tearfully pleaded with him to stop.
• Chen Si asked Reiner what to do, but Annie stopped Reiner from biting his hand and told him there was no point.
• Historia and Hange urged Chen Si to save the people beyond the island, and Chen Si said they had to wait for Eren to return after everything was over.

As Eren’s Rumbling threatened the world, the others prepared to fight him while Chen Si refused to join them, determined not to accept a fate that ended with Eren’s death. The chapter left Mikasa questioning whether she and Chen Si should still try to reach Eren.

• Chen Si stopped Armin, Historia, and Ymir from rushing after Eren, while Levi learned that Zeke had failed and that Erwin might have drowned at sea.
• Yelena admitted that she had worked with Zeke, and Hange took command of the Survey Corps and called for volunteers to stop Eren.
• Reiner, Jean, Sasha, Connie, and Hannes joined Hange’s effort, while Historia and Mikasa begged Chen Si to help save the world.
• Chen Si realized Eren had left his friends free to choose whether to oppose him, but he refused to take part because he could not accept having to kill Eren again.
• Annie also stayed behind with Chen Si, while Hannes and the others headed for the east-coast port; Mikasa asked Chen Si whether they should try to persuade Eren.

Chen Si struggled with whether to stop Eren’s march, while Philia challenged his claim that destroying the world was the only way to protect Paradis. A report that his former comrades had escaped toward the East Coast Port forced Chen Si to act as a streak of light carried everyone away.

• Chen Si admitted that he would not intervene in Eren’s plan, and Mikasa accepted his decision as long as he and Eren stayed safe.
• Philia condemned the Rumbling and pleaded for Chen Si to consider the innocent people who would die, while Yasuo recalled that immense power could turn a person toward killing.
• Yasuo asked permission to fight the Colossal Titans and kill five of them, prompting Chen Si to reconsider the people whose lives were at stake.
• Louise reported that Yeagerist soldiers had stopped Her Majesty’s forces, detained her surrounding soldiers, and that Armin, Connie, Sasha, Jean, Mike, Hange, and Captain Levi had escaped toward the East Coast Port under pursuit.
• Chen Si demanded to know who had authorized the soldiers’ actions, and a streak of light suddenly swept everyone away.

Historia collapsed while imprisoned and learned she was pregnant, while Chen Si discovered the fetus had been developing for forty-four months without consciousness. Chen Si realized Ymir would attack Historia as the last outer wall collapsed and thousands of Colossal Titans advanced toward the East Coast port.

• Historia fainted from stomach pain, and Ymir called for help while two Yeagerist soldiers refused to protect her properly.
• Doctor Jessie examined Historia and announced that she appeared to be pregnant; Garo and Rief insulted her and threatened the fetus.
• Chen Si appeared and killed Garo and Rief after finding them threatening Historia and Ymir.
• Order told Chen Si that Historia had been pregnant for forty-four months and that the fetus had no consciousness, prompting him to suspect Ymir was connected to it.
• Chen Si saw Ymir attack Historia with a butcher's knife, but the vision vanished; he realized Ymir would attack them.
• The last outer wall near Paradis Island's East Coast collapsed, releasing thousands of Colossal Titans toward the port.

As the Rumbling approached, Suros and Drus ended their war and formed a human alliance, but their leaders learned that tens of millions of Titans were advancing too quickly for humanity to stop. The chapter ended with the allied generals preparing to fight despite recognizing that defeat seemed nearly certain.

• After hearing that the Rumbling was approaching, Suros and Drus declared a ceasefire, mobilized their forces, and joined together against Eldia.
• Adonis killed himself, while Rico ordered Cliff Harbor destroyed to prevent the allied navies from intercepting the Rumbling, then died under gunfire.
• Suros and Drus occupied the Aima Republic, raised their flags side by side, and repaired the harbor as the Rumbling crossed the sea.
• At the Human Command Center, Rommel and Manstein revealed that the Titans stretched beyond a 300-kilometer reconnaissance flight and would reach the continent within hours.
• Ivan, Manstein, and the other allied generals vowed to fight to the last soldier despite the overwhelming numbers and shortage of time and supplies.

Manstein and the allied generals agreed to unite their forces against the Rumbling, but Eren’s Founding Titan broke through their defenses. The allied armies collapsed, and the Rumbling was poised to sweep across the Marley Continent.

• Manstein proposed concentrating humanity’s forces in a layered defense, and the allied generals bowed to one another before battle.
• Clarence’s first naval line was quickly destroyed by the approaching Colossal Titans.
• The allied forces’ second line used warships, artillery, jet fighters, and airships to kill tens of thousands of Titans and hold them offshore until noon.
• Eren’s Founding Titan appeared and summoned Beast Titans that hurled crystal at the fleet, while a silver Black Iron Titan destroyed over a hundred jet fighters with its laser.
• Colossal Titans reached shore, and the allied soldiers’ morale broke as they fled; Ivan was trampled after a stray shot killed him, while Rommel and Manstein saluted and shot each other.
• The retreating troops trampled thousands of their own soldiers before the Titans crushed hundreds of thousands more, leaving every defensive line fallen.

The Rumbling devastated the world as Chen Si hesitated to use his remaining energy while Historia urged him to stop Eren. Mikasa revealed that Thomas had seized control of the Yeagerists and was inciting a march against the Empress and their other enemies.

• Saint Teresa sheltered fleeing Eldia people in Cliff Harbor, then died beneath a Colossal Titan as the Rumbling destroyed the church.
• Chen Si stopped gathering energy after Order warned him that it was all he had left, and he discussed the coming catastrophe with Historia.
• Mikasa told Chen Si that the Yeagerists were hunting political rivals, Commander Pixis was imprisoned, and the government had fallen under their control.
• Mikasa revealed that Thomas had become the Yeagerists' highest-ranking leader and had sentenced Armin, the Captain, Hange, and others to death.
• Thomas broadcast calls to kill dissenters and the Empress as crowds demanded their execution, while he watched from the High Tower.

Chen Si confronted the hatred his speeches had fueled among the Yeagerists and learned that Grotesque had merged with Eren, making Eren the only chance to stop another cycle of war. After receiving Zoe’s final letter and grieving her death, Chen Si led his companions toward the east coast to find Eren.

• Philia showed Chen Si his old speeches in the Marshal’s Chronicles and accused him of inspiring the Yeagerists’ hatred.
• Order explained that Chen Si would have to kill Eren to defeat Grotesque, whose power could otherwise revive through future hatred and war.
• A carrier pigeon named Little White fell dead beside Chen Si, and Ymir found a letter from Zoe addressed to him.
• Chen Si read Zoe’s letter, learned she had died after choosing to spare his life, and Philia realized he was not her sister’s true killer.
• Chen Si formed a thunderbolt longsword, called Mikasa and Yasuo to action, and Annie joined them to protect her father.
• Chen Si said they would find Eren and have him erase the Yeagerists’ memories, then carried the group toward Paradis Island’s east coast.

Armin and his companions fought Soviet soldiers at the Free Port before Reiner transformed to save them. After learning the Rumbling was approaching Paradis Island’s east coast, they faced the threat of Eren’s Titans advancing toward them.

• Sasha, Jean, and the others fought a Soviet Army garrison while Reiner struggled to transform and Yelena explained that the Yeagerists had seized the island’s armories.
• A howitzer blast flattened the group’s trench, but Reiner hardened one hand to shield them as Levi and Hange helped defeat the remaining Soviet soldiers.
• Levi confronted Yelena over her role in helping Zeke escape, and she broke down after admitting that the Euthanasia Plan had failed.
• Hange and Olyanpo warned that the old airships lacked the speed and fuel to reach Eren in time to stop the Rumbling.
• Armin and the others saw Colossal Titans advancing toward Paradis Island’s east coast, and Jean demanded to know why the Rumbling was coming their way.

Hange and the others struggled to launch their airship as the Colossal Titans approached, and Hange prepared to hold them off. Pieck arrived with the Cart Titan and Chen Si, who attacked the Titans as the chapter ended.

• Hange and Olyanpo discovered that the airship's damaged compressor was filling it with hydrogen too slowly to take off before the Titans arrived.
• Connie suggested Reiner hold off the Titans, but Hange warned that he was their only Titan Warrior and needed to save his strength.
• Levi explained that he was acting on his own motive to kill Zeke, while Hange chose to stay behind and protect the others.
• Hange said Pieck had been sent to guard weaponry, but Levi and Reiner insisted Chen Si and Pieck would come to help.
• Pieck arrived in the Cart Titan with Chen Si, who launched a spear toward the approaching Colossal Titans.

Chen Si reunited with the others as the Rumbling advanced, and he fought the Colossal Titans while the group prepared to escape by airship. After acknowledging the guilt and violence they shared, Chen Si and Reiner reconciled and agreed to work together to reach Eren.

• Chen Si, Mikasa, and Mike arrived to rescue Armin and the others, while Historia, Annie, and Pieck joined them.
• Historia told Hange that Kiyomi had prepared a small reconnaissance plane beyond the Rumbling’s range, and the group waited for the airship to inflate.
• Chen Si stayed behind to hold off the advancing Titans as the others boarded, and Mikasa tried to attack Reiner before Levi stopped her.
• Chen Si told Reiner that he had killed Gabi and explained why he no longer blamed Reiner, and Reiner accepted that they were both responsible for terrible acts.
• Chen Si and Reiner shook hands and agreed to work together to reach Eren.

As the airship headed for a nearby island, the group realized Eren might be driving them away to make Chen Si confront him rather than trying to kill them. Chen Si used his remaining transformation to land the failing airship, only for the passengers to be attacked by the island’s inhabitants.

• The Rumbling Titans swam away from the shore toward Marley, and Reiner suggested Eren might want them to stop him.
• Armin agreed that they should do what Eren wanted, and the airship continued toward a small island.
• The airship ran out of fuel, so Chen Si transformed into the Thunderbolt Titan and brought it safely down onto the island.
• A crowd of Black people attacked the airship with rocks and wooden pitchforks, and Chen Si recognized them as people Kenny had relocated there.
• Olyanpo stepped forward to calm the crowd and ask how they had ended up on the island.

Chen Si forced Olyanpo to quiet the starving refugees on Paradis Island and led his group to the West Coast, where they boarded a Hizuru reconnaissance aircraft to confront Eren. As the aircraft departed, Historia felt an inexplicable sadness and began to cry.

• Quinn incited the starving refugees to attack Chen Si and Olyanpo, but Chen Si used his power to stop their weapons and threatened Olyanpo into clearing the way.
• Hange shot three attackers, and Chen Si killed dozens more when another crowd charged, frightening the remaining refugees into submission.
• A young man told Chen Si that a warship and a strange giant bird had landed on the West Coast, so Chen Si led the group there.
• Chen Si rebuked Olyanpo for questioning his actions, and Olyanpo apologized and agreed to cooperate.
• Chen Si and his companions boarded a Hizuru reconnaissance aircraft, while Historia, Ymir, and others stayed behind; Historia watched the aircraft leave and began to cry.

The Rumbling destroyed the Suros Alliance and Drus as their leaders and civilians faced the approaching Titans. With most of the world trampled, Tōjin Yamashinobu received word that the Titans were nearing Hizuru Capital.

• Skayev watched the Titans approach, set the Suros palace on fire, and died in the blaze as the Suros Alliance fell.
• Hilleri refused to flee Drus, awarded child soldiers the Empire's Highest Honor Medal, and returned to his family as the Rumbling neared the capital.
• Eva gave their children sleeping pills and cyanide, then she and Hilleri died by gunshot; Gobel cremated them and killed himself.
• Drus's child soldiers charged the Titans and were crushed as the capital fell, while refugees fled and many begged for forgiveness or for Chen Si to save them.
• The Rumbling destroyed the Far East Continent, the Mid-East Continent, and most Oriental Islands, driving survivors toward southwestern Marley.
• Tōjin Yamashinobu learned that the Rumbling Titans were approaching Hizuru Capital and asked what was happening.

As the Rumbling devastated Hizuru, Tōjin Yamashinobu regretted abandoning Eldia and took his own life. On the flight toward Marley, Chen Si explained why he and Eren had chosen extreme measures, and he realized that Eren had acted much as he had.

• Tōjin Yamashinobu learned that Kiyomi had gone to Paradis to rescue the Eldian royal family and realized he had chosen the wrong side as the Rumbling reached Hizuru’s capital.
• Tōjin Yamashinobu killed himself with his family’s treasured sword, while some clan members followed his example and others fled toward the port.
• Reiner, Jean, Connie, Sasha, and the others questioned Eren’s motives aboard a reconnaissance plane bound for Marley, and Chen Si said Eren had wanted them to live freely without threats.
• Chen Si explained that he had killed Gabi to prevent Sasha’s death in the original timeline, and Levi said he would have made the same choice knowing the outcome.
• Armin asked whether Chen Si and Eren had known the future, and Chen Si realized that Eren’s choices had mirrored his own.

Chen Si transformed into the Thunderbolt Titan and cleared the intelligent Titans from Eren’s Founding Titan, while the Rumbling continued. As Chen Si tried to reach Paths and the others called to Eren, they were suddenly transported into Paths again.

• Mike, Hange, Armin, Jean, Reiner, and Mikasa considered why Eren had chosen genocide, while Chen Si decided the world’s death toll had reached the point where Eren needed to stop.
• Chen Si leaped from the Reconnaissance Plane, transformed into the Thunderbolt Titan, and flew to the Founding Titan to confront Eren.
• Chen Si attempted to use Aura Mimicry to enter Paths, but intelligent Titans attacked him, and he destroyed them all with lightning.
• The Savior Squad landed on the Founding Titan, and Jean worried that Chen Si’s transformation would end before he could stop the Rumbling.
• Armin and Mikasa called to Eren as Chen Si tried to mimic Historia’s aura, and the group was suddenly transported into Paths.

Chen Si and the others tried to persuade Eren to stop the Rumbling, but Eren refused and vowed to keep moving forward. Chen Si was transported to the past, where he witnessed Mr. Ackerman risk his life to save his younger self from a wolf.

• Armin, Jean, Connie, Sasha, Mina, Mikasa, Hange, and Levi each urged Eren to stop the Rumbling and return to Paradis Island.
• Chen Si told Eren he would share the burden of his actions rather than try to persuade him, and Eren was moved by his words.
• Eren declared that the Rumbling would continue and that he would not leave Paradis Island's future to fate.
• Chen Si found himself in the forest near Shiganshina District and saw his younger self lying unconscious on the path.
• Mr. Ackerman fought off a wolf attacking young Chen Si, and young Mikasa arrived as Mr. Ackerman killed it with his shovel.

Eren showed Chen Si a timeline in which he claimed to have engineered the deaths of Mikasa’s parents and Carla to shape Chen Si and secure the Rumbling, then challenged him to fight. Chen Si realized Eren might be trying to make him kill him, but the timeline shattered before he could confirm the truth, and a silver Evil Titan identified as Roald attacked.

• Eren stripped Mr. Ackerman of his Ackerman bloodline, then showed Chen Si a past timeline where he had made the traffickers sleep and let events unfold.
• Chen Si tried to warn Mikasa’s family and transfer energy to Mr. Ackerman, but Eren stopped him and revealed that he wanted Mr. Ackerman dead.
• Eren claimed he had caused the deaths of Mikasa’s parents and Carla to drive Chen Si toward revenge and make Grisha pass on the Attack Titan, ultimately enabling the Rumbling.
• Eren challenged Chen Si to kill him, and Chen Si broke free of Eren’s mental influence before the timeline shattered and everyone returned to Paths.
• Chen Si and the others reappeared on the Founding Titan’s Skeleton, where Reiner recognized Bertolt and Levi spotted Zeke.
• A purple-black beam struck, and Chen Si shielded the others before recognizing the silver Evil Titan in the sky as Roald.

Chen Si and his allies fought Eren’s summoned Titans across the skeleton as Gal joined Marcel and Roald in attacking Chen Si. Reiner transformed and dragged Gal away from the others, while the battle continued with the remaining Titans closing in.

• Chen Si fought Marcel and hurled a sword through Roald’s skull before carrying both Titans into the sky and blasting them with an explosion.
• Gal arrived and began gathering energy to attack Chen Si, so Mikasa, Jean, Connie, Sasha, Levi, Hange, and Mike fought to stop him and fend off the other Titans.
• Hange and Mike saved Levi from the Serpent Titan, and Levi agreed to compete with Mike against the approaching Titans.
• Gal’s energy buildup forced the group to retreat as Zeke attacked with hardening crystals, while Pieck rescued Armin and Mina and Armin renewed his resolve to fight.
• Reiner transformed into an Epic Enhanced Golden Armored Titan, rammed Gal away from the group, and attacked him with a blast of energy.