Pride

Hange guns down a Yeagerist searcher and returns to camp, where Levi lies unconscious, alive after the Thunder Spear blast only because of his Ackerman blood. Levi wakes as Eren's Founding Titan address reaches every Subject of Ymir, furious that he misjudged Zeke's willingness to die. Building a sled to move him, Hange soon crosses paths with Pieck Finger and Theo Magath and proposes something unthinkable: pooling their strength against Zeke, since stopping the Founding Titan exceeds what either side can manage alone. Magath warily agrees to listen.

At Ragako, Connie brings Falco to the Titan that was once his mother, planning to feed the boy to her and restore her humanity. Armin and Gabi arrive on horseback just as Gabi shouts the truth, that Falco now carries the Jaw Titan. Connie grabs Falco at knifepoint and climbs toward his mother's mouth, but Armin anchors his gear above her jaws and offers himself instead, gambling that Connie will not let a friend die. The gamble works. Connie hauls Armin clear, admitting his mother would never have wanted a soldier who kills children, and recommits to being someone she could take pride in.

In Shiganshina, Mikasa reclaims her scarf from the wounded Louise, who idolized her, while Floch proclaims the end of Eldian persecution to a celebrating crowd. Annie, discovered wolfing down a pie beside her old classmates, slips away from Hitch with a farewell note. On the headquarters roof, Floch prepares to execute Yelena and Onyankopon, with Jean seemingly among the Yeagerists, until Jean fires four shots into the ground as a signal and Pieck's Cart Titan erupts through the crowd, swallowing Jean, Yelena, and Onyankopon to carry them out. Mikasa's group escapes with wagons of supplies, observed from a window by a figure later revealed as Keith Shadis. Reunited, the unlikely allies wake Reiner with a kick from Annie, and Connie tells the panicking Warrior that former enemies now stand together, that the group is off to save the world, and that Reiner's help is required.

The anti-Rumbling alliance forms: Levi and Hange of the Survey Corps join Magath and Pieck of Marley against Zeke and the Yeagerists. Connie abandons his plan to sacrifice Falco after Armin's attempted self-sacrifice forces him to choose, and his mother remains a Titan.

Pieck's staged rescue extracts Jean, Yelena, and Onyankopon from execution, with Jean's four gunshots doubling as the go signal for Mikasa and Connie's supply raid. Annie rejoins her former classmates, Mikasa recovers her scarf from Louise, and the group frees Reiner to complete the roster.

Floch's rooftop speech clarifies Yelena's true agenda, assisting Zeke's euthanasia plan, and Onyankopon's motive of saving his homeland through Eldia. Jean's cryptic reference to bones that would never forgive him invokes Marco Bott as the reason he abandons the Yeagerist future. Keith Shadis's silent appearance in the window sets up his later role.

A colored edition of this chapter appeared in Japan in Attack on Titan: Full Color Edition volume 2 and reached US readers through The Best of Attack on Titan: In Color volume 1. It closes volume 31, sitting between Sunset and Night of The End in the War for Paradis arc.