Chapter Summaries

A year after settling into the world, Su Yang trained Mikasa in Nen and taught her its basic techniques and types. As they returned home in the rain, they found Mikasa’s mother fleeing the house and crying for help, and Su Yang charged toward the danger.

• Su Yang reflected on the year he had spent settling into the world as Mikasa grew to nine years old.
• Su Yang examined Mikasa’s fist after she punched a deep mark into a tree and explained how Nen could protect her.
• Mikasa recited the four basic Nen techniques, and Su Yang taught her the six Hatsu types and their learning efficiencies.
• Su Yang and Mikasa headed home in the rain while Mikasa practiced Ten, then found the door open and Mikasa’s mother running out, shouting for help.
• Su Yang raced toward the house at explosive speed as Mikasa watched him disappear ahead.

Su Yang rescued Hirai Heiko and Mikasa Ackerman from traffickers, but Tom Ackerman died protecting them. After the family avenged Tom, Su Yang took Mikasa with him to eliminate everyone behind the attack and secure enough money for their future.

• Su Yang killed or disabled the traffickers who attacked Hirai Heiko and found Tom Ackerman fatally wounded after he had helped her escape.
• Tom asked Su Yang to care for Hirai Heiko and Mikasa, and Su Yang promised before Tom died.
• Su Yang gave Hirai Heiko and Mikasa the chance to kill two of Tom's murderers, then killed the last trafficker and cleaned up the scene.
• After preparing a meal for Hirai Heiko and Mikasa, Su Yang took Mikasa with him to avenge Tom and told her to enter Zetsu before they left.
• Mikasa entered Zetsu in about ten minutes and fell asleep on Su Yang's back as he ran hundreds of kilometers, eliminated the culprits and accomplices, and obtained enough money for the family to move into the second ring of walls.

After defeating a group of traffickers, Su Yang used their stolen wealth to prepare his family for a safer life, training Hirai Heiko and Mikasa in Nen. A year later, Mikasa reached the fourth stage and discovered that she was an exceptionally gifted Enhancement Type user.

• Su Yang returned home with money, gold, and property deeds taken from the traffickers, and reassured Mikasa that he would not leave her.
• Su Yang told Hirai Heiko about the stolen wealth and urged her to train so she could protect herself and Mikasa.
• Hirai Heiko agreed to train, and Su Yang promised they would move into the second wall once she could defend herself.
• A year passed, and Hirai Heiko gained basic combat ability and moved into the second wall with Su Yang and Mikasa.
• Su Yang tested Mikasa’s Nen affinity and found that she was an Enhancement Type whose abilities also showed strong Emission and Transmutation potential.
• Su Yang explained that his own Nen ability was Specialization Type, allowing him to use every Nen type at full efficiency.

Su Yang and Mikasa saw the Colossal Titan breach the outer district’s gate and unleash a horde of Titans into the city. They split up to help the fleeing people while prioritizing their own safety, and Su Yang descended to confront the Titans.

• Su Yang and Mikasa finished their training atop the third wall and spotted lightning flashes and the Colossal Titan beyond the outer district.
• The Colossal Titan smashed open the gate, sending debris and a powerful blast through the town as Titans poured inside.
• Su Yang shielded Mikasa from the hurricane of air and saw the panicked citizens struggling to evacuate.
• Su Yang told Mikasa to guide people along the evacuation routes and put her own safety first.
• Su Yang jumped down from the wall, drew his sword, and prepared to face the Titans.

During the fall of Wall Maria, Su Yang rescued Carla Yeager and defeated a fifteen-meter Titan, discovering that its weak point was at the neck. He left Eren and Armin with Hannes and continued hunting Titans as the district descended into chaos.

• Su Yang found Eren and Armin trapped beside their collapsed home, where Carla Yeager’s leg was pinned beneath the wreckage.
• Su Yang cut through the fallen eaves and freed Carla, then went alone to fight the approaching Titan.
• Su Yang severed the Titan’s legs, arms, and neck, spotting what appeared to be a person inside its neck and identifying it as the weak point.
• Hannes arrived, carried Carla toward the wall, and took responsibility for Eren and Armin while Su Yang continued on.
• Su Yang searched for isolated Titans, while terrified residents fled or hid and a male Titan seized a woman in a dead end.

A giant attacked Shiganshina, forcing Eren, Armin, and Carla to flee with Hannes while the preacher and others fell victim to the monster. The survivors escaped toward Wall Maria, where Garrison Regiment soldiers prepared to defend the inner gate as the giant approached.

• A giant grabbed the preacher and swallowed him while the woman it had seized struggled to escape.
• Hannes carried Eren and Armin away, apologized for his fear, and helped Carla reunite with them.
• Hannes explained that Shiganshina served as bait for giants, then put Eren, Armin, and Carla aboard an evacuation ferry.
• Eren vowed to drive out the giants, while Carla held him close and thanked Hannes for saving them.
• Garrison Regiment soldiers prepared cannons and Omni-Directional Mobility Gear at Shiganshina's inner gate as the giant appeared on the road.
• The ferry crew raised the gangplank and prepared to depart, while soldiers at the dock kept order among the travelers.

Su Yang raced toward the inner gate as the Outer Gate defenses collapsed, but an Armored Giant charged through the inner gate before it could close. Eren watched the breach in despair, thinking his mother had escaped while his father was missing.

• Civilians rushed to board the ferries as garrison soldiers failed to stop the Giants with cannon fire and began retreating.
• Su Yang abandoned the effort to hold the Outer Gate and raced across the rooftops toward the inner gate.
• An Armored Giant appeared and charged through cannon fire toward the inner gate.
• The Armored Giant smashed a huge hole through the inner gate, scattering soldiers and filling the area with dust and rubble.
• Hannes saw the destruction as Eren stared at the Armored Giant and feared humanity would be eaten again, worrying about his missing father.

Eren mourned his father and blamed humanity’s weakness for the Titans’ destruction, while Su Yang avoided confronting the Armored Titan and took Mikasa home. Eren later woke from a dream of his father forcing an injection on him, then joined Carla and Armin among refugees receiving scarce food.

• Eren shoved Armin away and wept as he vowed to wipe out the Titans.
• Su Yang met Mikasa on the wall, promised they could grow strong enough to defeat the Titans, and returned with her to the villa.
• Su Yang told Hirai Heiko to stockpile flour, rice, and cured meat.
• Eren dreamed that his father pinned him down and injected him while telling him to remember the key, then woke beside Armin and Carla with the key around his neck.
• Eren, Carla, and Armin joined the refugees receiving bread, where Eren noticed a Garrison Regiment soldier looking down on them.
• A soldier complained that people from outside the walls should not receive food and said the Titans might as well eat them.

After Wall Maria fell, Su Yang brought Mikasa, Eren, Armin, and Carla to his villa and offered them food and work. When Eren and Armin vowed to join the Survey Corps, Su Yang agreed to train them in Nen first.

• Carla stopped Eren from attacking the Pawn and urged him to accept the bread and focus on surviving.
• Su Yang offered Carla, Eren, and Armin rooms, food, water, and wages in exchange for work, then took them to his villa in the second district.
• A year later, 250,000 refugees were sent to reclaim Wall Maria, and only a little over a hundred survived; Armin feared his grandparents had died in the operation.
• Armin told Su Yang he planned to join the Survey Corps, and Eren confirmed he would go too.
• Su Yang showed Eren and Armin a Nen fireball and offered to train them, prompting Eren to ask him to teach them.

In the year 848, Su Yang, Mikasa, Eren, and Armin joined the 104th Training Corps, where Instructor Keith subjected the recruits to a harsh enlistment ceremony. Keith questioned and berated the new cadets, then turned his attention to a girl eating potatoes during the ceremony.

• Two years after Eren and Armin signed Su Yang’s contract, Su Yang, Mikasa, Eren, and Armin joined the Training Corps.
• Keith began the 104th recruits’ enlistment ceremony by shouting that they were unfit to face the Titans.
• Keith challenged Armin, Thomas, and a black-haired girl, while his assistant asked why he frightened the recruits.
• Keith struck Jean after he admitted he wanted to join the Military Police Brigade, then questioned Marco about his goal.
• Keith corrected Connie’s reversed salute and noticed a girl eating potatoes, so he walked toward her.

Sasha was caught eating a stolen potato and ordered to run until she was exhausted, while Eren described the Titans he had seen to his fellow trainees. Eren ended the dinner conversation by declaring that he would join the Survey Corps and kill every Titan.

• Instructor Keith caught Sasha eating a stolen potato, and Sasha offered him a small piece before he ordered her to run until she had no strength left.
• Eren and the other trainees watched Sasha continue running after five hours, and Armin explained that eliminated recruits were being sent to the development zone.
• At dinner, Mikasa urged Su Yang to eat more while the other trainees gathered around Eren to ask about the Colossal Titan and the fall of Wall Maria.
• Eren described the Colossal Titan as nearly skinless and dismissed the Armored Titan as an ordinary Titan with a tougher shell.
• Eren recalled the Titans killing people in his hometown, then told the trainees that Titans could be killed by striking the nape and vowed to join the Survey Corps and kill them all.

Jean and Eren argued over their ambitions before the alarm interrupted them, while Su Yang openly showed affection for Mikasa. Later, Christa gave exhausted Sasha food, and Su Yang warned Christa that compassion without strength could endanger her; he then took Mikasa away to train her Nen ability.

• Jean challenged Eren about wanting to join the Survey Corps, and they made peace when the alarm rang.
• Su Yang kissed Mikasa in front of Jean and advised her to cut her hair to shoulder length for training.
• Exhausted Sasha charged at Christa and stole the bread she had brought, then called her a goddess.
• Ymir carried Sasha away to bed, while Su Yang cautioned Christa that compassion needed to be backed by strength.
• Su Yang kissed Mikasa again, then led her away to train her Nen ability.

The 104th trainee corps began balance training for Omni-Directional Mobility Gear, and Eren failed badly despite his two years of Nen training. Su Yang agreed to examine Eren’s problem that night, leaving Eren hopeful for help.

• Mikasa followed Su Yang to training and agreed to keep practicing her Nen ability each day.
• Keith brought the 104th trainee corps to the balance apparatus, where Mikasa showed strong aptitude and Eren hung upside down after losing control.
• Eren fell headfirst during another attempt, and Armin reassured him before they went to the dining hall.
• Other trainees mocked Eren, who felt humiliated by his failure to balance despite boasting about defeating the Titans.
• Su Yang and Mikasa joined Eren and Armin, and Eren explained that he could not maintain Nen focus or use Ten.
• Su Yang said he would examine Eren’s balance problem that night, and Eren hurriedly led him and Mikasa away.

Eren sought help understanding the Omni-Directional Mobility Gear training apparatus and discovered that a faulty belt, not a lack of ability, had caused his repeated failures. He passed the assessment in 850, after two years of training with the 104th Training Corps.

• Eren asked Jean and Connie for help, but they mocked him, so he went to ask Bertolt and Reiner instead.
• Bertolt, Reiner, Armin, Eren, Su Yang, and Mikasa discussed their reasons for becoming soldiers and facing the Titans.
• Reiner demonstrated the training movements, but Eren failed three attempts until Su Yang told him to switch belts with Armin.
• Eren succeeded with Armin's belt and reported that his own belt was defective during the next day's assessment.
• Instructor Keith confirmed that Eren's belt had a damaged buckle, apologized, and approved his aptitude assessment as Eren celebrated with Armin.
• The 104th Training Corps had trained for two years, and rain fell in the year 850.

Keith put the 104th Cadet Corps through harsh endurance and Titan-target drills, evaluating the trainees’ strengths and weaknesses. Two days later, Eren questioned the purpose of hand-to-hand combat training, and Reiner urged him to help make Annie take it seriously.

• Keith ordered the trainees to run with weights in the rain, and Reiner carried Armin’s backpack despite the risk of losing points.
• The trainees attacked wooden Titan targets, where Jean, Bertolt, Annie, Connie, Sasha, Eren, Mikasa, and Su Yang demonstrated their skills.
• Su Yang nearly severed the napes of five targets in rapid succession, while Mikasa finished the targets and Eren showed solid fundamentals.
• Two days later, Eren threw Reiner during hand-to-hand combat practice and questioned why soldiers needed to fight humans.
• Reiner explained that soldiers had to master weapons and fighting techniques, then blocked Annie’s path and urged her to train seriously.

Eren sparred with Annie during training and was repeatedly defeated by her hand-to-hand techniques. Later, Armin and Jean discussed Vertical Maneuver Gear tactics as the trainees considered how practical skills could help them enter the Military Police Brigade.

• Reiner told Eren to spar with Annie, who quickly swept him to the ground and took his wooden dagger.
• Annie defeated Reiner as well, then explained that her father had taught her fighting techniques and that hand-to-hand combat earned no extra evaluation points.
• Annie argued that people trained to fight Titans often did so to stay away from them, and Eren recognized the contradiction in the trainees’ goals.
• Armin explained that Vertical Maneuver Gear tactics had been neglected before Wall Maria fell, while Jean described using a short burst of power and inertia to conserve gas.
• A trainee remarked that only the top ten students could enter the Military Police Brigade, and the discussion turned to the value of practical skills.

Eren confronted the trainees’ desire to avoid Titans while learning practical fighting techniques, then clashed with Jean over the Military Police and the system that rewarded safety. At graduation, Su Yang and Mikasa ranked first and second, and both chose to join the Survey Corps alongside Eren.

• Annie defeated Eren in a training bout and said she had no interest in playing soldier in a boring world.
• Armin explained the history of Vertical Maneuver Gear Tactics, while Jean taught the other trainees how to conserve gas and discussed entering the Military Police Brigade.
• Eren argued with Jean about seeking comfort in the interior, then used fighting techniques to throw him to the floor.
• Su Yang told Instructor Keith that Jean had slipped and Eren had helped him up, avoiding consequences for their fight.
• The 219 surviving trainees graduated, with Su Yang ranked first, Mikasa second, Reiner third, and Eren fourth.
• Su Yang, Mikasa, and Eren chose the Survey Corps, leaving the other trainees confused.

After graduating, Eren and Armin chose to join the Survey Corps, inspired by Eren’s determination to fight the Titans, while Su Yang reminded them to conceal and limit their Nen abilities. The Survey Corps returned to the walls the next day, where Eren reunited with Hannes and learned that Connie and other recruits had also decided to join.

• Eren rejected the Military Police Brigade and declared that he intended to wipe out the Titans, prompting Jean to defend his own choice to join the brigade.
• Armin followed Eren and said he would join the Survey Corps, and Su Yang encouraged them while warning Eren to use no more than thirty percent of his Nen ability except in a life-or-death situation.
• The next day, Eren and Armin watched Commander Alvin, Captain Levi, and the Survey Corps arrive, and Eren argued with soldiers who assumed the Colossal Titan would not return.
• Eren greeted Hannes and promised that he and his friends would prevent the tragedies of the past and defeat the Titans.
• At the wall, Eren learned that Connie had chosen the Survey Corps too, and Mina and Armin suggested Eren’s speech had influenced the recruits.

Eren and the recruits faced the Colossal Titan when it suddenly breached the wall again. Eren attacked it, but after unleashing scorching steam, the Titan vanished, leaving him to wonder if it could teleport.

• Sasha admitted she had stolen pork belly, and the recruits eagerly planned to share it.
• Eren reflected on humanity’s preparations to reclaim lost land and declared that its counterattack had begun.
• The Colossal Titan appeared behind Eren and destroyed the gate, blasting recruits from the wall; Sasha saved the falling Samuel with her grappling hook.
• Eren attacked the Titan and realized it was deliberately targeting the fixed gun emplacements.
• The Colossal Titan released scorching steam that burned Eren, then vanished again, leaving him wondering whether it could teleport.

The Colossal Titan’s return destroyed Trost District’s outer gate, forcing the soldiers and 104th Cadet Corps to fight the invading Titans. Su Yang reunited with Mikasa as the breach remained open, while the chapter ended at a luxurious castle elsewhere along Wall of Sina.

• Eren told his companions that the Colossal Titan had vanished before he could defeat it, and the soldiers began emergency preparations after the gate was breached.
• The Garrison Regiment evacuated civilians, set up artillery, and sent soldiers to charge the Titans while the 104th Cadet Corps received its orders.
• Armin warned Eren that they could not quickly seal the breach and might have to abandon the district, as the Titans regenerated and kept advancing.
• Su Yang returned, embraced Mikasa, and told her to give everything she had if her life was in danger.
• The ropes and traps failed to stop the Titans, and the scene shifted to a luxurious castle surrounded by a river along Wall of Sina.