Support

Support (支え) is the 1st chapter of the 29th volume and the 115th chapter overall of the Attack on Titan manga, written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama.

Overview
Floch Forster, Hange Zoë. and a number of Yeagerists are traveling to a Titan Forest when they hear the explosion caused by Zeke Yeager triggering a Thunder Spear. Zeke believes he is dying and he thinks back to his shared mission with Tom Xaver and his meeting with his brother, Eren Yeager. Before he dies, a mysterious Titan crawls up to him and tears open its belly, stuffing Zeke inside. Hange and Floch find the remains of Levi Ackerman as Zeke emerges from the Titan, fully healed.

Meanwhile, Yelena has Dot Pixis and other dissenting members of the military assembled in Shiganshina District. Eren goes to meet with the imprisoned Gabi Braun, to have her send out a distress call to Marley in exchange for saving Falco Grice. However, a disguised Pieck stabs the prison guard and pulls a pistol out, pointing it at Eren.

Summary
As Floch and the other Yeagerist members escort Hange, they hear an explosion off in the distance. As they ponder what it could be, Hange recognizes it as an explosion caused by a Thunder Spear. A gravely injured Zeke is barely clinging onto life and notes that the area around him has become quiet. He closes his eyes and wonders if this the end for him.

Zeke then has a flashback to a conversation with his friend and mentor Tom Xaver. Xaver reveals to Zeke that there is a way to break the war renunciation vow made by Karl Fritz; by having a descendant of the Royal family cooperating with the holder of the Founding Titan. Due to Zeke already expecting to receive a Titan power, the decision can only be made by the holder of the Founding Titan. He entrusts Zeke to find someone they can trust to inherit the Founding Titan. After Zeke eats Tom and becomes the new holder of the Beast Titan, he promises to find a suitable holder. He flashes back to when he first recruited Yelena and the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers and also when he learned of both his father's survival and the existence of his half-brother Eren who has somehow gained the powers of the Founding Titan. After Eren sneaked into Marley, Zeke and Eren met up and the two agreed to commence with the euthanization plan. Zeke then seemingly passes away; immediately, a nearby Eldian girl transforms into a Titan and rips open its stomach, putting Zeke inside.

At Shiganshina, Yelena and the Yeagerists have rounded up Commander Pixis and the other Eldian military members and ties different colored cloths around the arms of the military; Pixis assumes this is to reveal who drank the infused wine and who could be deemed as a threat; after some banter, Yelena glares at Pixis and, due to not trusting Zeke, claims they must be punished for their actions.

Floch, Hange and the others approach the remains of the wagon and notice the Titan in the distance; Hange then spots a body near the river and, despite warnings, goes over and is horrified to see that it's Levi. Floch brushes it off as fortunate and goes to check for a pulse, but Hange reveals that he is dead due to absorbing the blast of a Thunder Spear detonation at point blank range. Floch then notices the Titan begin to evaporate and a recovered Zeke steps out in a daze; Hange uses this opportunity to escape with Levi's body and jumps into the river. Zeke briefly reveals what happened with the Survey Corps soldiers that were escorting him with Levi and goes to meet up with Eren.

In a prison cell, Gabi recalls the reactions of the Blouse family and is surprised when Eren appears with two Yeagerist members. He orders her to cooperate with him if she wants Falco to survive, but then one of the soldiers plunges a knife into the throat of the other; the soldier is revealed to be Pieck and holds Eren at gunpoint as she closes the cell door.

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