Chapter Summaries

Chen Si and Reiner defeated the Titans and their powerful enemies, while Levi and the others discovered that Zeke’s Beast Titan was only an empty shell. With Eren still driving the Rumbling, Jean and Hange urged the group to stop hesitating and kill him.

• Levi and Mike fought together against the Titans, while Pieck, Yasuo, Mikasa, and the others battled through the crowded battlefield.
• Annie saved Connie from the Ram and Bull Titans, then warned the group that Bertolt was approaching as a Colossal Titan.
• Armin directed the group to target Zeke, and Pieck pulled him from the bone spike so Levi could strike the Beast Titan’s nape.
• Reiner crushed Gal, and Chen Si defeated Roald and Marcel before destroying Bertolt and the Titans below with lightning.
• Annie discovered Zeke was not inside the Beast Titan, and Armin concluded that Zeke had hidden his real body like the War Hammer Titan.
• Jean and Hange told Chen Si and the others that they had to kill Eren to survive.

The soldiers battled the Founding Titan as its Titans repeatedly revived, while Sasha lost control and Chen Si ran out of thunder power. Armin awoke in Paths and found Commander Erwin behind him.

• Armin urged Chen Si and Mikasa to stop Eren as the Titans revived again.
• The Bull Titan swallowed Armin, while Mike rescued Mina and Levi returned to the fight.
• Reiner and Annie were overwhelmed, Pieck was impaled, and Sasha transformed into a purple-black Jaw Titan and attacked Bertolt.
• Pieck rescued Jean, Connie, and Mikasa from Sasha’s attack, but Chen Si was trapped by Marcel and Roald as his power of thunder ran out.
• Armin awoke in Paths and turned to see Commander Erwin.

Trapped in the Paths, Erwin and Zeke debated the meaning of life and the Survey Corps’ sacrifices while Armin recalled the happiness of ordinary moments. Erwin’s answer drew fallen soldiers to his side, and Zeke asked the people from his past to lend him their strength.

• Erwin told Armin and Zeke that Ymir controlled the Paths and seemed to determine their fates, while Armin focused on finding a way back to their world.
• Armin said the Survey Corps fought so humanity could live freely, and he described how simple moments with Eren, Mikasa, and Chen Si made life feel worthwhile.
• Zeke questioned whether life and freedom had any meaning, but Erwin argued that instinct and the joy of playing catch gave life warmth and meaning.
• Erwin explained that the living inherited the meaning of the dead’s sacrifices for all humanity, then saluted as fallen Survey Corps soldiers appeared behind him.
• Zeke saw Bertolt, Kusava, his father, and Gal among the people behind him, and asked them to lend him their strength.

Chen Si fell toward his death after his Titan disintegrated, while Erwin, Bertolt, Grisha, and Owl rescued the others from the Titans. As Chen Si found the resolve to define the world he wanted, he comprehended the law of World and stopped himself in midair.

• Chen Si’s Titan disintegrated, leaving him to fall as Mikasa cried out and the others watched helplessly.
• Erwin, Bertolt, Grisha, and Owl arrived and destroyed the Titans threatening the battlefield, while Marcel and Roald prepared to attack.
• Armin urged Chen Si not to give up, and Mikasa’s desperate plea jolted him awake as he fell toward the ground without any electric energy.
• Order’s past warnings reminded Chen Si that he needed to comprehend law power, and he reflected on the goals of the people he cared about.
• Chen Si resolved to create a world where no power could dominate others or threaten his loved ones’ freedom, then comprehended the law of World and stopped in midair.

Chen Si used the prayers of people across the world to perfect his laws and awaken his Thunderbolt Titan form, then cut down the Founding Titan's Skeleton. As Hallucigenia threatened the survivors and Chen Si confronted Order over its motives, he demanded that Order let him and the woman he loved live in peace after Grotesque was defeated.

• People across the world prayed for Chen Si, and their faith power flowed into him as his laws were perfected and his thunder power reached law level.
• Chen Si limited his Thunderbolt Titan transformation to five minutes, then cut the Founding Titan's Skeleton in two with the Golden Sword.
• Chen Si brought the survivors safely to the Marley Continent, where they celebrated their survival while Mikasa grieved over Eren's fate.
• Hallucigenia emerged from the dust and released smoke toward the survivors; Chen Si repeatedly destroyed it, but the smoke kept moving.
• Order told Chen Si that Eren and Grotesque had merged and that killing Eren was the only way to kill Grotesque.
• Chen Si accused Order of acting independently and threatened to kill himself unless Order let him and the woman he loved live in peace after Grotesque's defeat.

Chen Si fought Eren in their giant forms, preparing to kill him, but Eren’s relieved smile revealed that he had engineered the confrontation so Chen Si would end his life and destroy the Titan power. In Shiganshina District, Eren explained the deaths he had caused while trying to shape the future, including his own mother’s, and Chen Si recognized that Eren had done everything he could to protect them.

• Chen Si and Eren clashed in their giant forms while Mikasa, Armin, and the others watched, and Chen Si prepared a fatal strike.
• Eren smiled with relief as Chen Si swung at his head, and Chen Si understood that Eren had wanted him to kill him.
• In Shiganshina District, Eren confessed that he had acted cruelly to make Chen Si hate him and believe killing him was necessary to end the Titan power.
• Eren explained that he had influenced events surrounding Mikasa’s parents and Blake to protect the future he had seen.
• Eren confessed that he had redirected the Titan toward his mother after she saw him, and that he had run from her despite wanting to protect her.
• Chen Si sat beside the tearful Eren and said that Eren had truly done everything he could.

Chen Si tried to stop Eren from dying after Eren’s massacre, but Eren followed him into the past. Chen Si chose not to change the events he witnessed and instead sent his memories to his younger self, telling Eren that neither of them would need to reincarnate again.

• Eren told Chen Si that billions had died and that killing him would secure Paradis Island’s dominance, then urged Chen Si to kill him.
• Chen Si told Eren he was still his best friend and forced his way out of Eren’s timeline to seek another outcome.
• Chen Si arrived in Year 847 and saw Connie, Sasha, and Levi at the Training Corps, then spotted Chris and apologized as he chose not to interfere.
• Chen Si returned to the moment after Carla’s death and tried to send his memories into his younger self, but a ripple cut off the transfer.
• Chen Si recognized the lightning element in his younger self as something he had sent back, then promised to protect Eren and said neither of them would reincarnate again.

Chen Si entered a timeline where his past self lacked the energy to save Mikasa, so he intervened and tried to transfer his memories before Eren forced him into Paths. There, Chen Si negotiated with Ymir to protect Mikasa and Eren, but she challenged his understanding of love and pointed to someone in the images.

• Chen Si entered the Forest of Giant Trees timeline and discovered that his past self had no energy to save Mikasa from Bertolt.
• Chen Si sent his own energy to his past self, enabling him to destroy Bertolt's arm and torso and save Mikasa.
• Chen Si began transferring his memories into his past self, but Eren's power interrupted him and expelled him from the timeline.
• Chen Si found himself in Paths beside Ymir and asked her to give Mikasa power and ensure Eren survived in exchange for teaching her about love.
• Ymir questioned whether Chen Si understood love, showed him images of Historia, Annie, and Zoe, and said that one of them understood it.

Chen Si rejected the despairing future and destroyed his timeline, merging his power into the last timeline to give his past self another chance. The story returned to Year 844, where the one-time system tutorial began.

• Ymir transferred Chen Si’s thunder power to Mikasa, but Eren appeared and selectively erased memories Chen Si had sent to the past.
• Ymir explained that Chen Si and Eren had chosen different paths and that only one timeline remained undestroyed.
• Another version of Chen Si emerged from a new timeline, and Chen Si sent him back without revealing the future, defeating him with Three Thousand Thunder Shadows.
• Chen Si told Eren he still hoped to save him and chose to break apart his timeline rather than let his past self inherit its despair.
• Chen Si compressed his power into the timeline, realized he had created the system, and merged into the final timeline.
• In Year 844, the system announced that its one-time VIP beginner tutorial had activated after Chen Si’s first kill of a being from another world.

Chen Si discovered that the dead could persist in Paths and chose to sacrifice his laws to keep them alive. As he remade Paths into a living world, he erased nearly every trace of himself from the original world.

• Carla, Mr. Ackerman, Grisha, and Mrs. Ackerman appeared before Chen Si, urged him to stop Eren, and then froze as statues.
• Chen Si found Chris among the stars and confessed his guilt over the people who had died, but Chris told him to trust himself before dissolving into starlight.
• Order warned Chen Si that Paths would disappear if Grotesque died, forcing him to choose between the people inside and outside the space.
• Chen Si resolved to keep everyone in Paths alive and poured his laws into the space, restoring its land, rivers, and vegetation.
• Order explained that the transfer erased Chen Si from the original world’s memory, except for Eren and Mikasa, and Chen Si accepted the cost.

Pieck, Yasuo, Armin, and Mina escaped the spreading mist aboard Olyanpo’s plane, but Eren continued the Rumbling as the survivors began transforming into Titans. Mikasa realized everyone had forgotten Chen Si, while Armin watched Jean and Connie lose their human forms.

• Reiner threw Pieck and the others toward Olyanpo’s plane, and Yasuo caught Pieck as she fell before bringing her safely into the cabin.
• Mikasa tried to tell the others that Chen Si had vanished and could turn everyone back, but they did not recognize his name and believed she was breaking down.
• Eren, bewildered by Chen Si’s disappearance, ordered the Rumbling Titans to trample the survivors gathered in the canyon.
• Jean and Connie said goodbye to each other and to the unconscious Sasha as Eren’s power began transforming them and their comrades into pure Titans.
• Armin watched Jean and Connie transform, grieving as he hoped some part of their humanity would remain.

Hange and several others transformed into Titans, but Chen Si arrived as the Thunderbolt Titan and restored them. Mikasa fell under Grotesque’s control and begged Chen Si to kill her, and he struck Eren instead as the chapter ended.

• Hange accepted her transformation, and Jean, Connie, Hange, and Mike became Titans.
• Mikasa began transforming and fighting for control of her body, while Chen Si formed the Thunderbolt Titan from the gathered lightning.
• Chen Si used faith power to return the transformed Jean, Connie, Mike, Hange, and others to normal.
• Order explained that Grotesque had taken control of Mikasa and was imitating Chen Si’s abilities.
• Mikasa attacked Chen Si with a Titan sword, then briefly regained awareness and begged him to kill her.
• Chen Si comforted Mikasa as her body transformed, then a blue streak flashed past her and Eren’s neck began to separate.

Chen Si sacrificed himself to restore Eren and drag Grotesque into a spatial rift, but Grotesque clung to the rift and began healing with blood energy from across the continent. As the rift started to close, Mikasa took up the charged blade Chen Si had given her, leaving her to decide whether to cut the tendrils.

• Chen Si poured his life force into Eren, then sacrificed his limbs and heart to unleash Three Thousand Thunder Shadows and tear open a spatial rift.
• Chen Si and Grotesque were pulled toward the rift, while Colossal Titans were sucked into the space-time turbulence and Reiner discovered that Titan transformations had stopped working.
• Grotesque clung to the rift with twelve tendrils and drew blood energy from across the continent to heal itself.
• Levi and Mike tried to cut Grotesque's tendrils, but their blades could not damage them, while Yasuo and the others reacted to Chen Si's apparent sacrifice.
• Chen Si told Mikasa that the blade he gave her was the hardest in the world, and Mikasa picked it up as the fog spread and the rift began closing.

Mikasa imagined a peaceful life with Chen Si, but the vision revealed his guilt over abandoning Paradis Island and his decision to die. She returned to reality and cut down Hallucigenia’s tentacles, preparing to face the final one with Chen Si.

• In the imagined life, Chen Si told Mikasa that Paradis Island had fallen and Erwin, Levi, and Armin had been executed.
• Chen Si began destroying his Titan body to hide from Roald and collapsed, while Mikasa refused to abandon him and set out for the Marley Continent.
• Mikasa awoke from the imagined timeline and recognized it as an escape from the painful reality and Chen Si’s regret.
• Mikasa cut down Hallucigenia’s tentacles as she faced the loss of Chen Si and fought for everyone’s future.
• With one tentacle left, Chen Si thanked Mikasa for loving him, and she steadied herself to face what came next.

Mikasa sacrificed Chen Si to destroy Hallucigenia, and Eren broke through the world's barriers as the others mourned and regained their memories. As Mikasa bid farewell to Ymir, Chen Si's shattered body entered a passage in the space-time turbulence and the Attack Titan's Blessing activated.

• Mikasa kissed Chen Si and struck him and Hallucigenia into the space-time turbulence, where Order said goodbye as Chen Si's body broke apart.
• Eren transformed into the Attack Titan and summoned the forms of past Attack Titan hosts, breaking an invisible restraint and restoring everyone's memories.
• The spatial rift closed, leaving the others to grieve Chen Si's apparent death as Mikasa quietly wished him a safe journey.
• Mikasa spoke with Ymir, who dissolved, while people at the cliff worshipped after the Founding Titan and Hallucigenia vanished.
• Levi saw fallen comrades, including Chris, Isabel, and Furlan, and returned their Dedicate Your Hearts salute.
• In the space-time turbulence, a passage appeared beneath Chen Si's shattered body and the Attack Titan's Blessing activated.

After Chen Si died, Historia gave birth to their son and united the postwar world under a World Federation. Ten years later, Marley joined the Federation, its leadership began rotating among member nations, and Armin hurried off with Mina after learning her parents had agreed to their relationship.

• Historia learned that Chen Si had died, went into labor, and gave birth to their blue-eyed son by cesarean section.
• After leaving the hospital, Historia ordered the Survey Corps expanded and proposed uniting the world under a World United Government.
• Ten years later, Reiner addressed the World Federation Parliament as Marley officially became its 144th member nation.
• Armin announced Historia's decree that the Federation's presiding nation would rotate every four years and could request Survey Corps deployment.
• Mina told Armin that her parents had agreed, and he invited her to buy presents and visit them.

Ten-year-old Chen Nian asked Historia what kind of person his absent father, Chen Si, had been, and she told him to visit President Erwin to learn more. On his way to Erwin, Chen Nian stopped before a towering statue of his father and was approached by a cheerful girl.

• Chen Nian asked Historia whether his father had truly been a god and whether history had deified him to preserve the family’s authority.
• Historia told Chen Nian that Chen Si had been an extraordinary human, not a god, and suggested he ask President Erwin about him.
• After Chen Nian left, Historia watched the sunlit farm and quietly wept.
• Chen Nian headed toward Eldia National University to find Erwin and stopped to look up at the 120-meter statue of Chen Si in Central Avenue.
• A gray-blue-eyed girl with an orange ponytail greeted Chen Nian and asked if he missed his father.

Chen Nian accompanied Levi, Petra, and Lilith to pay respects to his father’s old comrades and discovered a popular poetry collection whose verses suggested its author had loved Chen Si. Meanwhile, Zeke was coaching baseball when a familiar voice called his name, leaving him startled.

• Chen Nian agreed to travel to Chang'an with Levi, Petra, and Lilith to pay respects to his father's old comrades.
• Lilith brought Chen Nian to a bookstore to pick out gifts, and he found the popular poetry collection Song of the Bird by Zoe Mogwin.
• Chen Nian read poems addressed to Chen and realized the author had shared a profound connection with his father, then bought the collection.
• Chen Nian heard readers praise Zoe Mogwin's romantic poems, while a merchant from Farnsi sought the rights to translate the book.
• Zeke coached a student at the Yeager Baseball Stadium and began his sales pitch when a familiar voice called out to him.

Levi took Petra, Lilith, and Chen Nian on a trip toward the coast, and they spent the night exploring Chang'an. In the night market, Chen Nian encountered Yasuo, who teased him about skipping their earlier outing.

• Levi visited Zeke, bought the redwood baseball bat he had picked out, and thanked Zeke for looking after his daughter.
• Levi drove his family from Maria Province toward the coast and decided they would spend the night in Chang'an.
• On the drive, Petra told Lilith and Chen Nian about Professor Goro Mogwin’s contributions, while Levi said others deserved thanks as well.
• At Chang'an’s night market, Lilith pulled Chen Nian away from a merchant trying to sell him a sword supposedly used by Marshal Chen Si.
• Yasuo greeted Lilith and Chen Nian at a candy shop and teased Chen Nian for having chosen school over an earlier invitation; the merchant then learned Chen Nian was a prince and slipped away.

Yasuo staged a fireworks-filled confession, and Philia accepted his proposal before hosting Levi’s family and friends at her lavish hotel. The celebrations continued through the night, ending with Yasuo and Philia alone together in his room.

• Yasuo confessed his love to Philia beneath a fireworks display, and she agreed to be his girlfriend.
• Yasuo and Philia invited Levi’s family to dinner at Philia’s hotel, where Yasuo revealed that Philia controlled vast business holdings.
• Hange, Sasha, Jean, and Connie arrived with the luggage, and Hange chased Lilith while Sasha tried to hug Chen Nian.
• Petra praised Yasuo’s devotion, prompting Levi to arrange fireworks for Petra; the two couples’ fireworks continued all night.
• Yasuo returned to his room and found Philia waiting for him, and she silenced him with a kiss.