Liar

Gabi soaks up admiration from every Eldian they pass as she and Reiner cross the internment zone at Liberio. At the gate, a guard fishing for war stories gets nothing; Gabi has gone oddly quiet about her exploits. She flips the scrutiny around on Reiner, pointing out that his own mother finds him changed since the island. He blames growing up. She promises to learn the truth eventually, noting that inheriting his Armored Titan would deliver every one of his memories to her through their shared blood.

Outside headquarters, Falco drills while Udo and Zofia complain about the hour; his taunt at Gabi about who will claim the Armor earns him a headbutt. Inside, Galliard finds Pieck crawling on all fours out of habit, and the pair joins Reiner and Colt in Zeke's room. Zeke's briefing is grim. Every war in which Marley deploys its Titans deepens the world's hatred of Eldians, and Fort Slava proved that ordinary weaponry is catching up to Titan power. Strategic worthlessness would mean the end of Eldian rights, so the Warriors must take back the Founding Titan and crush the islanders, who threaten the whole world in Marleyan eyes.

Pieck raises the obvious objection: recovering the Founder does nothing for Eldia's standing abroad. Zeke's answer is the Tybur family. The War Hammer Titan rests in their keeping, they were the first house to break with King Fritz during the Great Titan War, and their honorary status plus a record of never fighting in Marley's conflicts gives their word a weight no Warrior's carries; they will speak for Eldia to the world. Galliard hates the idea, sneering at a clan that lived in refinement while other Eldians stayed penned behind walls, but Zeke and Reiner call the alliance necessary, and the Tyburs are already holding a press conference committing the Warriors to retaking the island within a year. Marleyan commanders eavesdrop on everything, and Magath mutters that Zeke said far too much.

Watching the candidates spar, Reiner slides into memory. Officials who observed the young Warriors wielding their Titans in a real war judged the generation far stronger than the last, though Magath privately questioned resting the Founder mission on children. The assignments came down: Zeke and Pieck would defend the homeland while Reiner, Bertolt, Annie, and Marcel sailed. Galliard, passed over, attacked Reiner in a rage and had to be dragged off by his brother. At the departure parade Reiner slipped away to meet his father for the first time, imagining a reunited family under his new honorary status; the man ordered him gone, terrified that a half Eldian son would get his whole family killed.

The night camp at the island's rim broke him further. Bertolt voiced doubts about whether the crown inside the Walls would truly leave the Founder unused, and Marcel apologized out of nowhere: the Armor was never meant for Reiner. Marleyan brass had picked Galliard until Marcel talked them out of it to keep his brother clear of the mission. Dawn light woke a buried Titan before Reiner could even absorb the confession. It lunged, Marcel shoved him aside, and Reiner fled with Annie and Bertolt while his savior was eaten, re-armoring his shattered ego with a vow to become the hero who wipes out the island devils.

Gabi presses Reiner about his changed behavior and invokes the memory transfer that would come with inheriting the Armor.

Zeke lays out the stakes: rising global hatred, conventional arms overtaking Titan power, and the Founder as Marley's only lever, with the Tyburs announcing a one year timetable for the island operation.

Flashbacks reveal the rejection by Reiner's father and Marcel's confession that he steered the Armored Titan selection away from his brother and onto Reiner.

The buried Pure Titan, Ymir's, devours Marcel after he shoves Reiner clear at the start of the mission.

Liar begins volume 24 and stands 95th in the overall chapter count, with a simultaneous Japanese and English release on July 7, 2017. It falls in the Marley arc, after The Boy Inside the Walls and ahead of The Door of Hope, and the anime spreads its material across the episodes Midnight Train, then The Door of Hope, and finally From One Hand to Another.

The chapter quote belongs to young Reiner, hyping himself as a chosen Warrior destined to save the world from the island devils; the title punctures that speech, since his selection itself rested on Marcel's lie.