Soldiers Dance

 is the fourth and final chapter of the eighth volume and the 34th chapter overall.

Summary
Armin recovers Eren from his Titan body and Eren wonders what had become of Annie. Some soldiers try to break open Annie's crystal covering, when Hange asks them to tie up the crystal and move it to some place underground where it will be easier to restrain Annie. While the soldiers were preoccupied with tying Annie up, Hange notices Mikasa clinging to the wall and staring into the breach on the wall. The Titan, inside the wall, moved its eyelid a bit and surprised Mikasa. Hange wonders whether the inside of the Walls were packed full of Titans, when Pastor Nick appears and makes an appeal to have no daylight shine upon the Titan. Marlowe and his group wonder about the two Titans and are dismissed by a superior officer for being just rookies.

After covering the hole, Hange questions the Pastor about the Wall Titan and he apathetically denies giving answers. Hange turns furious and holds him against the edge of the Wall, threatening to let go of him if he didn't talk. He still doesn't comply and bids her to let go of him and observe first-hand their sect's Iron-Will. She lets him live and reminisces her feelings during her first expedition as a Survey Corps member.

Later, Jean, Armin and Mikasa are in an underground room where Eren was resting. They discuss about Annie's Titan ability, the Wall Titan and how the Wall was built in the first place, until a soldier requests for Armin's presence in a meeting above. In the meeting, Commander Erwin states that currently they couldn't get any information out of Annie and apologizes for the loss faced by the district. He requests the higher authorities to allow them to track the other spies down. A soldier barges in and informs him of Wall Rose's breach.

Around twenty hours before this, Connie, Sasha, Bertholdt, Reiner, Ymir, Krista and other rookies were stripped of their equipment and stationed in a location in southern part of Wall Rose, close to Connie's and Sasha's villages. They discuss about what could be happening when Sasha hears rumbles that sound like heavy footsteps. Mike Zacharius senses a vast number of Titans that were invading from the South and orders Touma to report this to the Commanders currently within Sina.