Chapter Summaries

Chen Si defended Mikasa and Eren during the hearing, but Levi beat both of them to demonstrate his control. Erwin arranged for Chen Si and Eren to join the Survey Corps under Levi’s supervision, leaving Chen Si ready for life beyond the walls.

• Chen Si threatened the crowd when merchant representatives called for Mikasa to be arrested and dissected.
• Chen Si tried to attack the Military Police, but Levi swiftly kicked and overpowered him and Eren.
• Chen Si discovered that Levi had maximum combat abilities and a 120% Ackerman bloodline, then pretended to pass out and received a reward that removed his sense of pain.
• Levi warned the hearing that Chen Si and Eren had killed many Titans and that neither was a match for him.
• Erwin arranged for Levi to supervise Chen Si and Eren, and the two were released into the Survey Corps.

After being released from the courthouse, Chen Si and Eren were handed over to the Survey Corps, while their friends welcomed them and Jean faced pressure to join them. At headquarters, Mikasa comforted Chen Si and cared for Eren, and Zhang Surou helped Petra approach Levi, who finally told her she looked pretty.

• Mikasa threw herself into Chen Si's arms as they left the courthouse, and the waiting cadets celebrated that Chen Si and Eren were alive.
• Sasha and Connie invited Jean to join the Survey Corps, leaving him uncertain about his choice.
• After the handover ceremony, Chen Si and Eren were taken to Survey Corps headquarters, where Mikasa longed to return to a peaceful life with Chen Si.
• Mikasa tended Eren's wounds and glared at Levi, while Hange and Zhang Surou joked over Zhang Surou's lipstick.
• Zhang Surou applied lipstick to Petra and encouraged her to ask Levi if she looked pretty.
• Levi recalled Isabel and Furlan before telling Petra that she looked pretty, making her smile.

Zhang Surou gave Mikasa a makeover, and Mikasa kissed Chen Si before leaving the Survey Corps headquarters. Chen Si then learned how Zhang Surou had joined Levi and discovered that she had not known Isabel and Furlan would die after she left them.

• Zhang Surou applied makeup to Mikasa and encouraged her to be brave about love.
• Mikasa appeared before Chen Si and Eren, kissed Chen Si on the cheek, and left with a lipstick mark on him.
• Erwin welcomed Eren and Chen Si to the Survey Corps after Levi's beating had helped secure their custody.
• Chen Si asked Zhang Surou about Isabel and Furlan, and she recalled joining Levi after arriving in the Underground District around the beginning of 843.
• Zhang Surou explained that she had left Isabel and Furlan behind when she and Levi went after Erwin, believing the two would be safer without them.
• Chen Si was stunned when Zhang Surou revealed that she had not known Isabel and Furlan would die.

Chen Si asked Zhang Surou whether she supported Eren’s future Rumbling, then realized she had only followed Attack on Titan through the sea scene. As they examined why Eren might choose the Rumbling in this altered timeline, Chen Si recalled that Eren had cried beneath the big tree even though Carla had survived.

• Chen Si asked Zhang Surou if she was a Yeagerist, but she had never heard the term, so he took her into the hallway to explain.
• Zhang Surou revealed she had only watched the story through Eren’s declaration that their enemies lay across the sea, and Chen Si explained that Eren later unleashed the Rumbling.
• Chen Si described Eren’s visions of Paradis being destroyed and his choice to destroy the world for his companions, while Zhang Surou questioned how Eren’s past actions might have been influenced by his future self.
• Chen Si and Zhang Surou considered what Eren’s future self might have done differently in this timeline, including whether Eren had cried beneath the big tree.
• Chen Si remembered that Eren had cried beneath the tree despite Carla surviving, leaving him stunned and searching for the reason.

Chen Si, Zhang Surou, and the Survey Corps traveled to the old headquarters, where Chen Si reunited with Grass Mud Horse and the squad settled in. The chapter left them at the castle, with Oruo and Petra bickering while Zhang Surou and Chen Si teased Oruo.

• Erwin, Levi, Hange, and Zhang Surou discussed Chen Si’s low spirits, and Zhang Surou blamed his vague sense of future danger involving himself and Eren.
• Chen Si and Eren hurried to the stables, reunited with their horses, and set off with the others for the Survey Corps’ old headquarters.
• Oruo taunted Eren on arrival, but his tongue injury made him spray blood, while Chen Si watched with satisfaction.
• At the castle, Petra criticized Oruo for imitating Levi, and Zhang Surou joked that Oruo had feelings for the captain.
• Chen Si joked that Grass Mud Horse might prefer stallions like Oruo, making Zhang Surou laugh and Oruo snap at him.

The Survey Corps cleaned the castle under Levi’s strict orders, while Chen Si tried using electricity to exterminate pests and was ordered to redo his work properly. The chapter ended with Levi assigning Chen Si to clear away the dead bugs and ordering Eren to clean his room again.

• Chen Si bragged about his Titan-killing record, and Zhang Surou hinted that the Corps would soon be fighting something besides Titans before revealing she meant bugs.
• Chen Si blasted cockroaches and rats with electricity, but Levi inspected the scorched, dusty room and ordered him to fetch water and clean with a broom instead.
• Levi told Chen Si to clear the pests from Zhang Surou and Petra’s floor, while Eren complained that he had been ordered to sleep in the basement.
• Petra explained that Erwin had brought Levi and Miss Chris into the Survey Corps, and Chen Si and Eren wondered who could bring Levi to heel.
• Zhang Surou gave Petra insect-repellent incense, while Levi ordered Eren to redo his cleaning and Chen Si to remove every dead bug.

Chen Si told Erwin that Titans were transformed humans and identified Reiner Braun and Bertolt Hoover as the Armored and Colossal Titans. Erwin revealed that Zeyechuan had been captured as a suspected accomplice, while Chen Si learned that Carla was safe and that Erwin had prevented rumors from damaging him in court.

• Erwin assigned Chen Si to Hange's squad as deputy squad leader so he could learn the Survey Corps' methods before leading his own combat squad.
• Chen Si told Erwin that Titans were transformed humans, described the Jaw Titan, and identified Reiner Braun and Bertolt Hoover as infiltrators.
• Chen Si and Erwin agreed that confronting Reiner and Bertolt during an expedition beyond the walls would be safer than fighting them inside the walls.
• Erwin told Chen Si that Carla had been taken hostage by a suspected accomplice but was unharmed and under protection.
• Erwin revealed that the captured suspect was Zeyechuan, who had accused Chen Si of leading the Titans, and explained that he and Keith had kept the accusation from spreading.

Chen Si persuaded Erwin to move Hange’s two Titan test subjects to the Castle and went with the group to retrieve them, while hoping to prevent Annie from attacking them. On the road, Zhang Surou joined the expedition as Mikasa trained alone at the Training Corps camp, determined to grow stronger and protect her friends.

• Chen Si told Erwin he would support his plans, then asked where Zeyechuan was being held and proposed moving Hange’s two Titans to the Castle.
• Erwin agreed to move the Titans, and Chen Si decided to take Eren along to haul them while hoping to keep Annie from killing them.
• Chen Si and Erwin interrupted Hange’s late-night discussion with Eren and explained that her Titan test subjects would be moved to protect nearby residents.
• Chen Si, Eren, Hange, Moblit, and Erwin set out on horseback, with Eren disappointed that his job was to move the Titans rather than explore beyond the walls.
• Zhang Surou rode up beside Eren and said she had come to see the captured Earthling.
• Mikasa finished two hundred sets of sit-ups and continued training, vowing to become stronger and protect everyone.

Historia confronted Mikasa about standing beside Chen Si, then asked Mikasa to train her so she could help him. Meanwhile, Chen Si reflected on the losses caused by Titans, and Carla reached Survey Corps headquarters looking for Eren without learning where he was being held.

• Mikasa told Historia that her kindness could not help Chen Si and insisted that only she was strong enough to protect him; Historia admitted her limits but asked Mikasa to train her.
• Mikasa was stunned when Historia said Chen Si liked her and stumbled as Historia tried to steady her.
• Zhang Surou and Lifa remembered Isabel's death during an expedition outside the walls, and Eren and Chen Si reflected on the lives Titans had taken.
• Chen Si resolved to protect Eren and his loved ones, while he and Eren reminisced about their childhood as the group approached its destination.
• Carla went to Survey Corps headquarters with Keith to find Eren, but the soldiers concealed his whereabouts, and she spent the night in the visitors' dormitory.

Carla searched the Survey Corps camp for Eren while Reiner set the Titans loose and burned the Armory. The Titans attacked as Carla reached Zeyechuan’s cell, where he pretended to be Eren, and Keith, Mike, and Elderdin rushed to help.

• Carla woke from a dream about Eren and ran through the camp searching for him.
• Zeyechuan begged his system to save him, but it denied his request.
• Reiner set fire to the Armory, freed the two sleeping Titans, and awakened them by stabbing them.
• Mike and Elderdin learned that the Armory was burning and that the camp had little usable equipment.
• Carla found the Titans and ran to Zeyechuan’s cell, while Keith and Mike charged toward her.
• Zeyechuan activated his invisibility and imitated Eren’s voice, asking Carla to save him.

Chen Si rushed to Survey Corps Headquarters and destroyed the Titans, but he arrived too late to save Carla after Sonny bit off her leg. Carla died with Eren beside her, and her final words made Chen Si suspect that Eren might transform.

• Carla found Zeyechuan’s cell empty before Sonny grabbed her, while Hange and the others hurried toward Headquarters.
• Chen Si leapt from his horse and flew to Headquarters as lightning, leaving Eren and the others stunned.
• Keith, Mike, and Elderdin struck Sonny with a log, but Sonny bit off Carla’s lower leg as she fell.
• Chen Si killed Sonny and the other Titan with lightning, then tried and failed to heal Carla.
• Carla told Chen Si to look after Eren and urged Eren to live, then died as Eren held her hand.
• Chen Si heard Carla’s final words and wondered whether Eren would transform.

After Carla’s death, Chen Si struggled with his inability to protect those he loved and vowed to become strong enough to decide their fates. He warned Eren about the Rumbling and secured his promise not to hurt their friends, but Eren’s vow to kill every enemy left Chen Si fearing the future.

• Hange confirmed Carla was dead, and Eren and Keith collapsed in grief while Chen Si blamed the Titans and vowed revenge.
• Chen Si rejected Zhang Surou’s claim that fate could not be changed and decided to kill anyone who might threaten his loved ones.
• A soldier reported that the Armory fire had been extinguished and that someone had set it deliberately, and Mike noticed Hange had collapsed.
• In the dormitory, Eren asked what Carla meant by “don't go,” and Chen Si wondered whether she had known about the Rumbling.
• Chen Si made Eren promise to stay alive and never hurt Mikasa, Armin, Sasha, or their friends, then agreed to support Eren’s future choices.
• Eren vowed to kill every enemy who threatened them, leaving Chen Si worried that he might still destroy the world with the Rumbling.

Chen Si and Zhang Surou tortured Zeyechuan over Carla’s death, while Zeyechuan confessed how Carla had been drawn to his cell. Erwin and Levi received a report detailing Zeyechuan’s extensive crimes and went to inspect him before deciding whether to recruit him.

• The Military Police Brigade investigated the attack on the Survey Corps as Erwin asked Eren who he thought their enemy was.
• Chen Si and Zhang Surou confronted Zeyechuan in the underground cells and attacked him after he proposed working together and spoke about women as playthings.
• Chen Si tortured Zeyechuan about Carla, and Zeyechuan confessed that he had pretended to be Eren, prompting Carla to approach his cell.
• Chen Si broke Zeyechuan’s arm and discovered that he had no healing ability before Zeyechuan passed out.
• A staff officer told Erwin and Levi that Zeyechuan had murdered more than forty people and raped over a hundred women in Wall Sina, along with further crimes in Wall Rose.
• Erwin decided to go inside and inspect Zeyechuan before choosing whether to bring him over to their side.

Chen Si and Erwin considered how to use Zeyechuan’s invisibility ability after Zhang Surou tortured him into revealing his information. Meanwhile, Annie accepted Reiner’s order to spread news of Zeyechuan’s arrest, while Armin watched her leave and grew suspicious.

• Levi revealed that Zeyechuan could turn himself and someone he touched invisible, potentially allowing them to evade Titan attacks, and Erwin asked Chen Si whether they should use the ability.
• Chen Si suggested keeping Zeyechuan captive as a limbless torso, and Zhang Surou interrogated him until she believed he had disclosed everything.
• Reiner urged Annie to resume their mission and warned that Zeyechuan might expose them and their families, so Annie agreed to spread news of his arrest.
• Armin watched Annie leave the Training Corps base and sank into thought.
• Chen Si asked how Zhang Surou had tortured Zeyechuan without leaving visible injuries, and she said she had been an agent working for the United States in South Korea.

Zhang Surou recounted how she became a U.S. operative before waking in the world of Attack on Titan with new abilities. After a tense first encounter with Levi, Furlan, and Isabel, Levi accepted her into their group.

• Zhang Surou explained that she had become a spy named Chris Vineyard and had watched Attack on Titan while preparing for an assignment.
• Zhang Surou woke in the Underground District in 844 and received the Soul Control ability and a Black Widow character template from a one-use system.
• Zhang Surou lunged at Isabel, but Levi knocked her down and held a blade to her throat.
• Zhang Surou realized she had entered the world of Attack on Titan and asked to join Levi, Furlan, and Isabel.
• Furlan investigated Zhang Surou and reported that she was not connected to any gang or the Royal Government.
• Levi lowered his blade and asked Zhang Surou's name, and she introduced herself as Chris Vineyard.

Zhang Surou joined Levi, Furlan, and Isabel in the Underground District, helping them fight the Damian Faction and protect local shops. Damian planned to drug Levi’s group at Gate 11, and Isabel headed there to enjoy the sunlight with Furlan and an escort.

• Isabel welcomed Zhang Surou into Levi’s group, and Levi challenged her to prove herself by cleaning.
• Zhang Surou joined Levi, Furlan, and Isabel, and her fighting skills helped them defeat gangs and drive back the Damian Faction.
• Damian told his steward Fingal that Miroslav Earl wanted Chris, then planned to use a hallucinogenic sedative to capture Levi’s group at Gate 11.
• Levi grew suspicious when Isabel announced that Gate 11 would open to everyone for ten minutes of sunlight.
• Zhang Surou encouraged Levi to let Isabel go, and Levi agreed while instructing Furlan to send an escort and bring her back if Damian’s men appeared.

Levi decided that killing the Survey Corps commander might be the only way to bring Zhang Surou and the others aboveground and give them ordinary lives. When Damian’s gang abducted Isabel and Furlan, Zhang Surou attacked Damian’s headquarters, but she was drugged and captured after rescuing the shopkeepers’ families.

• Levi told Zhang Surou that killing the Survey Corps commander might be their only path to living aboveground, and she agreed to consider it.
• Damian’s men attacked Furlan’s group at Exit 11, killed Jace, and abducted Isabel.
• Furlan found Jace dead and Isabel missing, then went to Damian’s headquarters while Levi stayed behind to protect the children.
• Zhang Surou entered Damian’s headquarters, killed thirteen gang members, and freed the captive shopkeepers’ families, but could not find Isabel.
• A little girl offered Zhang Surou drugged carrot juice, and Damian’s gang captured Zhang Surou, Isabel, and Furlan.

The chapter revealed Zeyechuan’s origins and how he used his invisibility ability to join Marley’s mission to Paradis Island, where he committed brutal crimes before the Survey Corps captured him. As an angry crowd demanded his execution, Erwin announced that Zeyechuan would be publicly executed.

• Levi rescued Zhang Surou from Damian’s gang, and she later recovered after Levi searched the Underground District for help.
• Erwin agreed to execute the captured Zeyechuan publicly after residents demanded his death, and Chen Si volunteered to carry it out.
• Three years earlier in Marley, Zeyechuan gained an invisibility ability and Karate Mastery, then impressed Magath by fighting the Warrior candidates.
• Zeyechuan persuaded Magath to let him join the mission to Paradis Island, where he traveled with Reiner, Annie, Bertolt, Marcel, and Pieck.
• Zeyechuan admitted that he had treated people as game characters and committed rape and murder before Chen Si confronted him.
• Erwin told the crowd that Zeyechuan had raped and murdered residents, and the residents threw potatoes, bricks, and stones at him while demanding his execution.

Chen Si executed Zeyechuan before the worshipful crowd and gained his abilities, while the system revealed another transmigrator was still active. At the Training Corps, military police abandoned their inspection and left with the cadets, leaving Armin uneasy as Annie had just departed.

• Chen Si presented Zeyechuan’s execution as the release of the victims’ souls, and Erwin and Levi discussed using the Church of Thunder to challenge the Royal Government’s influence.
• Zeyechuan recalled how the other Warriors had rejected his plans to attack the Training Corps, then wondered whether Eren from the future had shaped events.
• Chen Si killed Zeyechuan with a burst of lightning and received his character template; the system reported that three of four players were online and began searching for the remaining transmigrator.
• Chen Si told Erwin that Zeyechuan’s abilities could be inherited and proposed giving them to a strong family member who would join the Survey Corps.
• At the Training Corps, military police questioned Sasha and Historia before a captain ended the inspection and ordered the cadets to leave; Armin felt uneasy after Annie departed.

As the 104th Cadet Corps mourned their dead, Historia and Jean chose the Survey Corps, while Annie resolved to prioritize her family and survival. At the Castle, Chen Si learned that no other transmigrators had been detected, though the unexplained online count still troubled him.

• At the cremation, Historia remembered Chen Si and declared that she would join the Survey Corps, and Jean chose the same regiment before breaking down in tears.
• Annie told Connie to follow his own wishes, while Armin suggested that people fought for those they cherished; Annie recalled her father and decided that her family mattered more to her than Chen Si.
• Annie told Armin that she wanted to stay alive and had someone she disliked, leaving her reasons for joining the Military Police Brigade unclear.
• After returning to the Castle, Chen Si learned from the system that it had detected no transmigrators besides him and Zhang Surou, despite an online count of three.
• Chen Si suspected that the third person online had special abilities, but decided not to worry because they were not a transmigrator.