Opening

Eren comes to on a high branch and discovers both arms gone, severed when Reiner cut him from his Titan. Ymir, missing an arm and a leg herself, sits beside him as their captors keep watch. Reiner offers a hollow apology for the rough extraction, and Eren answers with a look of pure hatred.

Escape is off the table. Ymir spells it out: the forest below crawls with abnormal Titans, only Reiner and Bertolt carry maneuvering gear, and Eren's regeneration is consuming the power he would need to transform. Reiner explains they will move after dark, when the surrounding Titans go still, and dodges Ymir's question about why they cannot simply leave for the hometown now. Eren registers that Ymir understands far more about their situation than she lets on and resolves to pry loose what she knows.

Strangest of all is Reiner's behavior. He chats about promotions and defending Wall Rose as though still an ordinary soldier, which appalls Eren and visibly disturbs Bertolt, who finally corrects him: they are Warriors, not soldiers. Ymir concludes that Reiner has been hiding inside the soldier persona to escape the weight of what he has done, an observation that earns a snarled order to shut up.

Eren's memory drifts to a conversation from their trainee days, when he told Bertolt how a boulder from the Colossus Titan's breach pinned his mother in the wreckage for a Titan to devour, and Bertolt offered flat condolences. The recollection strips away any remaining illusion: these two are not soldiers or Warriors but mass murderers. Reiner accepts the label, tells Eren the friend he knew no longer exists, and invites him to scream about it. Eren swears to make their deaths the most agonizing he can deliver.

Ymir steers toward intelligence instead. She recalls how both men stared like thrilled children at the giant ape Titan near Utgard Castle and guesses they intend to locate the Beast Titan before heading home. When Eren demands she name humanity's true enemy, Reiner interrupts with a recruitment pitch: come with them, and Historia can be saved. The invocation of Historia visibly lands. Asked again about the enemy, Ymir gives only an evasive "Who knows...?"

The chapter closes volume 11, published June 9, 2013 in Japan with the English edition following January 28, 2014. It belongs to the Clash of the Titans arc, running between The Hunters and Children, and the anime adapted it as an episode of the same name.

A colored printing later appeared in the first volume of Japan's Attack on Titan: Full Color Edition and the first volume of the American collection The Best of Attack on Titan: In Color.

The chapter quote is Eren's demand that Ymir identify the real enemy, the question her final line pointedly leaves open.