Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Beast Titan, Bai Yu led his companions toward a distant wall while waiting for support. They encountered Pieck Finger and her companions, and Bai Yu asked to enter Hermes City in exchange for information.

• Bai Yu spotted a distant wall and waited for an airship to arrive after sending headquarters their coordinates.
• Bai Yu ordered the airship to hover while he and his companions headed toward the wall, and Eren and the others joined them.
• Pieck Finger transformed into the Cart Titan to kill a Pure Titan, while Xiate and Kali swiftly killed three Titans pursuing her vehicle.
• Bai Yu introduced himself to Pieck and asked whether she had come from beyond the wall.
• Bai Yu told Pieck that his team had crossed into Marley to survey Titans and asked her to take them into Hermes City in exchange for information.

Bai Yu led his group into a city with Pieck’s help and surveyed civilians about Titans and Eldians. Their hateful answers left the group shaken, while Pieck quietly confirmed Annie’s identity.

• Pieck guided Bai Yu’s group toward the city as Ming, Xiate, Kali, and Mikasa killed the Titans they encountered.
• Bai Yu explained that he wanted to learn how Marleyan survivors felt about Eldians who could transform into Titans.
• Bai Yu bribed a gate guard with compressed biscuits, and the group entered the city after registering and having their weapons inspected.
• Bai Yu offered chocolate to a woman and child in exchange for answering questions, and the woman condemned Eldians as devils who deserved to die.
• Bai Yu continued surveying people, who repeatedly said Eldians deserved death, even if the Eldian was a kind child.
• Pieck pulled Annie toward the back of the group and asked whether she was Annie.

Bai Yu abducted Pieck and escaped Hermes City with the others, then declared that he would destroy the city to protect Eldia from future enemies. His companions wrestled with his decision as they boarded the airship, with Armin left deeply conflicted.

• Bai Yu knocked Pieck unconscious outside Hermes City and escaped with Annie, Ming, and Eren as they transformed into Titans and evaded gunfire.
• Bai Yu sedated Pieck and announced that he planned to slaughter the city, provoking objections from Armin, Eren, Mikasa, and Kali.
• Bai Yu defended his decision by recounting his service to Eldia and declaring that he had to plan for its future generations.
• Bai Yu boarded the airship with Ming, Annie, and Xiate, while Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and the Survey Soldiers followed after saluting him as Marshal.
• Armin remained troubled by the choice between his convictions and his national identity as he looked back at Hermes City, which he believed would soon lie in ruins.

Historia approved Bai Yu’s order, and Eldia launched a full-scale campaign against the Titans and Marley. After rallying the army, Bai Yu ordered the forces to advance, leaving Eldia’s troops moving toward their assigned targets.

• Historia hesitated over Bai Yu’s telegram, but Ymir convinced her to trust his judgment, and Historia approved the order.
• Eldia activated its factories and deployed its airships, planes, ships, and transport forces toward bases in Marley.
• Bai Yu addressed the assembled Eldian army, recalling its suffering and victories and calling for an all-out counterattack.
• Bai Yu raised Eldia’s flag, ordered the three armed services to advance, and the planes and ground forces set out in separate columns.
• Historia and Bai Yu’s companions watched the mobilization and saw a commanding side of him they had rarely noticed.

Bai Yu directed Eldia’s campaign to clear Marley of Titans while Queen Historia visited the front and chose to stay near him. After a week of successful advances, Bai Yu ordered a massive artillery and aerial assault on Hermes City, leaving the city engulfed in fire.

• Bai Yu studied reports from the western and southern fronts and ordered bombers, elite squads, and artillery to attack Titan-held locations.
• Historia arrived at the front, told Bai Yu she wanted to witness the soldiers’ progress, and stayed beside him rather than going aboard the airship.
• Over the next week, Eldia’s forces cleared Marley’s abandoned cities and forests using artillery, airstrikes, Jay’s Colossal Titan transformations, and elite squads.
• Bai Yu ordered the guns calibrated and aimed at Hermes City as Historia watched from the mountainside.
• Eldia’s artillery battered Hermes City’s walls before aircraft bombed the city, setting it ablaze and leaving Historia struck by the destructive power of modern weapons.

Three years after the Battle of Twilight, Bai Yu told Historia he planned to inherit all eight other Titan powers and, when he died, take Great-Grandmother and every Titan with him. Historia worried that there was no other way to end the Titans, while Bai Yu asked her to keep his plan secret.

• A teacher explained to a student that Bai Yu was called the Death God because he killed hundreds of thousands during the Battle of Twilight.
• Bai Yu asked Historia whether she planned to choose a partner and have children, since he had promised to teach her future heir.
• Bai Yu told Historia he would inherit Annie's Titan power the following year, then gather the other eight powers as well.
• Bai Yu explained that he intended to eliminate Great-Grandmother and every Titan when he died, and asked Historia to keep his plan secret.

Bai Yu and Xiate spent their final years together, and the age of Titans ended when they died on the same day. After Bai Yu’s death, he returned to his original world, while Historia prepared to tell a young girl who her father had been.

• Historia told Bai Yu that she wanted to ensure the Royal Family had an heir, then drew him into an intimate embrace.
• Years later, Bai Yu told Xiate he had realized he was the one who had controlled the Titans, shaping sand with the Founder Ymir.
• Bai Yu and Xiate spoke of their bond and their promise, then died together beneath the tree.
• Historia held a young girl and pointed toward the hillside as she began to answer the girl’s question about her father.
• On August 19, 860, Bai Yu Doyle and Xiate Doyle died, and every Titan reverted to human form.
• Bai Yu’s system completed its analysis and returned him to his original world.

Bai Yu, Xiate, and Annie rushed to their first day of junior high after Bai Yu lost track of time. At school, they chose the Human Building while Eren and the other students ran toward the Titan Building, leaving Bai Yu to predict trouble for their lunches.

• Bai Yu, Xiate, and Annie set out for their first day of junior high and met Annie on the way.
• They saw a red-haired girl’s watermelon get smashed when Eren crashed into her, then ran after realizing they were nearly late.
• Bai Yu reached the school gates and watched Eren fall from the sky as a crowd of students rushed after him.
• Bai Yu, Xiate, and Annie entered the school and chose the Human Building instead of following Eren to the Titan Building.
• Bai Yu said he would mourn the lunches of Eren and the others.

Bai Yu overslept and skipped his duties, then joined Ming for a drink. Two years after the continent-wide campaign, Bai Yu had settled into a leisurely life, and the chapter left him and Ming quietly drinking together as they recalled the peaceful days of the Titans.

• Bai Yu woke late with Annie and realized Little Xi would have to handle his duties in his place.
• Bai Yu decided to skip work and invited Annie to find Ming and drink with him.
• Bai Yu and Annie found Ming drinking on a high wall, where he had coughed blood into a tissue.
• Bai Yu sat beside Ming and drank with him, reflecting on how Eldia had developed during the two years since the campaign.
• Bai Yu and Ming clinked their bottles and watched the grassland, remembering the days of the Titans.

Bai Yu took a Forgetfulness Pill that made everyone forget him and mitigated the effects of his past actions for twenty-four hours. He tested it on Annie and Kali, then set out to visit more familiar faces.

• Bai Yu swallowed the Forgetfulness Pill before Annie could stop him, and she immediately forgot him.
• Bai Yu flirted with Annie, who kicked him away and warned him to stay away from her.
• Bai Yu visited the Survey Corps base, found his former room stripped of his belongings, and discovered that his book about Christa remained, though its dedication had changed.
• Bai Yu met Kali and claimed to be a new recruit, but she recognized that he was not who he said; he subdued her, and she forgot him.
• Bai Yu decided to seek out Xiate while the pill's effects lasted and found an access pass he could alter to enter the outer public areas.

Bai Yu visited Xiate and Ming, testing how they responded to him after losing their memories. Xiate treated him as a stranger, while Ming remembered a promise between them but could not explain why they had made it.

• Bai Yu drove to the New Recruit Training Base and told Xiate that Kali wanted her to return at three that afternoon.
• Bai Yu confessed that he admired Xiate and wanted to marry her, but Xiate kicked him down and warned that she would dismiss him if he did it again.
• Bai Yu left for Ming’s hilltop drinking spot and sat beside him.
• Ming asked Bai Yu’s name, then said they had made a promise despite not remembering him.
• Bai Yu asked why they had made a promise, and Ming quietly wondered the same thing.