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Yatangaki wrote: Just a question : how do you guys know that there's a 3 years time skip ?

I mean, I've read the chapter but I don't get it. Nobody said anything about the time skip. Did I miss something ? They've been fighting the war with the Mid-East Allied Forces for about 4 years. Zeke says to Reiner that the war began because of their failure to get the Progenitor Titan (i.e., at the battle in Shiganshina).

So it's been 4 years since that battle, and about 3 since the Survey Corps reached the edge of Paradis Island and saw the ocean.