Using the Paths, Zeke shows Eren his life from birth through their father Grisha's

memories, hoping to convince Eren that Grisha has brainwashed him. However, they
discover that Grisha had instead forsaken his Eldian nationalism and allowed Eren to find
his own path in life. Eren tells Zeke that he was mistaken to assume that they were the
same, as Eren preserved his freedom he was born with while Zeke is unable to move pas
Grisha's dream. Undaunted, Zeke states that with the power of the Founding Titan, he
can still carry out the euthanization plan. In the memory when Grisha offered Eren to
show him the secrets of their basement, he's revealed to be talking to Eren's future self.
Zeke and Eren then arrive at the moment when Grisha confronts the Reiss family. As
Grisha pleads with Frieda Reiss to save Paradis with the Founding Titan, he reveals that
the Attack Titan's ability is that the host can see the memories of its future inheritors.
When Frieda refuses to help and cites King Fritz's ideology about how the Eldian people
shall accept the world's punishment, Grisha decides to kill the Reiss family and take the
Founding Titan for himself. However, he hesitates and realizes that he cannot bring
himself to kill, especially not children. Eren intervenes by using his memories of the
future to communicate with Grisha, goading him into slaughtering the Reiss family
and causing the events of the past to play out as they were meant to. After the event,
Grisha breaks down and sees Zeke, telling him that it will be Eren's plan that will come to
pass. Grisha then expresses his regret to Zeke for not being a better father to him, visibly
moving Zeke. When Grisha pleads with him to stop Eren, he's suddenly knocked out from
Grisha's memories and both are brought back to the Paths.

"From You, 2,000 Years

Ago" Kazuyoshi
March
8 2 Transliteration: Naoki Katayama & February 7, 202
13,
0 1 "Nisennen-mae no Kimi Matsuura Yuichiro 2
2022
kara" (Japanese: 二千年前の君 Hayashi
から)

Returning from Grisha's memories, Zeke is horrified to learn that Eren purposely pushed
Grisha to acquire the Founder and manipulated his past to ensure the future he had
foreseen when touching Historia. Zeke commands Ymir to enact the euthanization plan,
but Eren rips free from his chains to rush after Ymir as she advances toward the
Coordinate. In a flashback to 2,000 years earlier, Ymir lived in a small rural village which
was invaded by Eldians led by Fritz who enslaved the inhabitants. The young Ymir is
blamed for letting a pig escape. While she is being hunted down, she enters an ancient
tree and falls into a deep pool where a parasitic-looking entity turns her into the first
Titan. Still treating her as a slave, Fritz uses Ymir's Founding Titan to destroy Marley's
armies and expand the kingdom of Eldia. During this time, Fritz has three daughters with
Ymir: Maria, Rose, and Shina. One day, Ymir sacrifices herself to save Fritz from a
dissenter, and Fritz orders his children to eat her body so their descendants can keep
passing on the power of the Titans. Ymir's soul is transported into the Paths where she
spends the next 2,000 years making Titans by hand. Back in the present, Eren reaches
Ymir and offers her the freedom to choose her future for the first time in her life. Ignoring
Zeke as the one of royal blood, she decides her future lies with Eren. Consequently, the
Rumbling begins as the Walls collapse and the thousands of Colossal-like Wall Titans
encased within it are released. Pieck, Magath and Floch tumble from Wall Maria while
Reiner rushes to save Gabi. Though Armin is relieved that Eren was not on Zeke's side, he
realizes every Wall Titan on Paradis was released when only a small group would've been
enough to take down the global alliance. Eren, having transformed into his version of the
Founding Titan, uses the Paths to telepathically announce to all Subjects of Ymir of his
intention to use the Rumbling to exterminate all life beyond the island.

Hidekazu
"Thaw" March
8 2 Hara & February 14, 20
Transliteration: "Hyōkai" Jun Shishido 20,
1 2 Tokio 22
(Japanese: 氷解) 2022
Igarashi

Eren and the Wall Titans march off to trample the world outside of Paradis. Reiner and
Gabi search for Falco who was presumably carried away by Jean and Connie. Reiner was
wounded while protecting Gabi from falling debris for his Titan's armor also disappeared.
He regrets his failure over halting Eren and urges Gabi to escape and warn everyone, but
she points out that Eren must be stopped. Reiner states he has already given up, so he's
left behind in a house. The Pure Titans created by Zeke run amok in Shiganshina. Armin,
Mikasa, Jean and Connie discuss Eren's actions and an unconscious Falco's fate when a
Titan's sudden attack allows Connie to escape with the boy, planning to feed him to his
mother to make her human again. In the Titan-filled streets, Gabi saves Kaya from Nile's
Titan and the Braus family and Nicolo protects her from the Survey Corps, mending the
rift between them. Armin, Mikasa, Jean, and Shadis rally the remaining Jaegerists and
Cadets. The soldiers lure all the Pure Titans towards the fort in the center of the district
where they work together to finish off their former comrades with Armin killing Pyxis'
Titan. The battle ends with all Pure Titans and Marleyan soldiers killed, although the
thrilled Louise is injured. Onyankopon and Yelena are baffled to witness the Rumbling.
Floch is revealed to be alive as he arrives with an intention to punish the Volunteers. Mr.
Braus takes Armin and Mikasa to Gabi who is horrified to learn of Connie's plan and
pleads with Armin to convince Eren that not everyone outside the island has to die. Upon
learning that the Armored Titan's hardening came undone at the same time as the
beginning of the Rumbling, Armin deduces that Eren commanded all Titan hardening be
undone, implying that Annie's crystal is now also undone.