In ancient times, an ancestor of the Ackerman clan and a scientist who betrayed the royal family tried to create a new Titan capable of standing against the Founding Titan. They captured an ordinary Ackerman woman and injected experimental spinal fluid into her abdomen. As soon as the experiment began, the traitor repeatedly stole large quantities of research documents from the royal family. The king soon ordered his execution. After the traitor was captured, the Ackerman ancestor was implicated as well and beheaded, bringing the plan to create a Titan that could oppose the Founding Titan to an untimely end.
On the day the ordinary Ackerman woman was to die, the experimental Titan child inside her was also due to be born. In the end, the mother and the specimen in her womb were buried forever in a dark basement.
But one day, a yellow flash of lightning burst from a skeleton in that spiderweb-covered, waterlogged basement...
