Set only some time after the events of the anime with the bird having returned her scarf, Mikasa Ackerman is dragged back into the seedy underbelly of both Marley and Eldia when Queen Historia Reiss abandons her position as the queen and flees with her daughter to start a new life over and as it turns out Mikasa is the only person capable of bringing her back. Now what follows is a dangerous cat-and-mouse game as Historia finds herself hunted and tracked by Mikasa all the while the two begin to realize they may have more in common than they thought.