Krista Lenz (Chapter)

Krista Lenz is the 52nd chapter of Shingeki no Kyojin manga written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama.

Summary
A few days have passed since the new Squad Levi formed, and the Survey Corps is planning their next moves. However, they receive the news from Hange that Pastor Nick has died. She and Moblit had hid him in the barracks of Trost District, and once they are notified of his death, they decide to investigate. The two are stopped by Military Police members from the interior. Djel Sanes tells them that a robber had entered Nick's place and killed him, but Hange notices signs of torture on the Minister's body, so she decides to interrogate the Military guards. Having concluded that they were the ones who tortured Nick, she and Moblit leave the scene. After hearing this story, Levi agrees that they not only have enemies outside the Walls, but inside too. After discussing what the next move should be, they concur that they would take the route that Erwin himself would: advance with the plan to retake Wall Maria, and take down whoever wants to stab their backs.

Some hours later, as Connie and Eren discuss their current situation, Eren remembers when Historia told them about her upbringing. Being a lonely child, she worked in the farm she was born in. Her mother wouldn't talk to her and her grandparents only would when they taught her chores. Since other kids would throw rocks at her, she knew that she could never leave the farm. After learning how to read, she knew how mothers took care of their children, and she, wanting to know how her mother would react if she hugged her, tried to do it. But this caused her mother to insult her and leave the farm.

After a couple years, she met her father, Lod Reiss, who was the owner of the land she lived in. He wanted Historia and her mother to live with him, but as soon as they went for the carriage, they are surrounded by a horde of men demanding to know if Lod Reiss had any relationship to them. He denied it, and this caused one of them to slit Historia's mother's throat. As he was about to kill Historia, Lord Reiss told her that she should change her name to Krista Lenz and live in hiding. When she was 12, she enrolled into Military and eventually met up with the rest of the 104th Trainees Squad.