22. Long-Distance Enemy Scouting Formation

The column rides in a wide fan, with riders relaying the positions of Titans by coloured flares so that the centre can avoid them. As long as the signals are passed on, the system works as intended.

Then the right flank falls silent: no further flares come, and the first reports speak of heavy losses among the riders there. Whatever has cleared that flank behaves unlike an ordinary Titan.

This chapter appears in volume 5, released on August 9, 2011. In the anime it is adapted in S01E17 — Female Titan: The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission, Part 1.