Chapter Summaries

Pixis left Duke Balte to respond to the Colossal Titan’s attack on Trost, while the newly graduated recruits prepared to defend Wall of Rose and evacuate its residents. As Jean argued with Eren about the battle and his lost chance to go to the interior, the defense of Trost was underway.

• Duke Balte mocked Pixis during their chess game until a messenger reported that the Colossal Titan had appeared in Trost and destroyed the gate.
• Pixis took wine for the battlefield, rejected Duke Balte’s order to protect his territory, and set out for Trost with a Garrison Regiment soldier preparing horses.
• The chapter described the Fixed cannons’ ammunition and the recruits received orders to support the Garrison Regiment, fight Titans, and hold Wall of Rose while residents evacuated.
• Jean complained that the attack had ruined his chance to go to the interior, and Su Yang pulled Christa away from a vomiting soldier before Eren slapped the soldier on the back.
• Jean collided with Eren and angrily accused him of being carefree about the battle and eager to become Titan food.

Su Yang and the trainees entered the battle against the Titans while residents evacuated, and Eren, Armin, and their classmates tried to support the front. An Abnormal Giant nearly caught Eren, then seized a blond trainee, leaving the others unable to save him.

• Su Yang sent Mikasa to the rear guard and led the others toward the center of town to support the vanguard.
• Eren, Armin, Mina, and the other trainees advanced into the Titan-filled streets as black smoke obscured their view.
• Eren watched the battlefield and planned to wait for a safe chance to strike rather than act impulsively.
• An Abnormal Giant pounced at Eren, but Armin pulled him out of its path.
• The Abnormal Giant bit into a blond trainee, and the watching trainees could only stare as he was caught in its jaws.

Eren and his companions fought to rescue a soldier swallowed by an Abnormal Giant, but the battle left Eren maimed and Armin in danger. Eren saved Armin from being swallowed, then lost an arm and was dragged into the giant’s stomach.

• Eren led his companions toward the Abnormal Giant that had swallowed their comrade, but another giant ambushed him and bit off his leg.
• A giant knocked Mina down, and Armin rescued her by cutting the nape of the giant pursuing her.
• Armin tried to carry the injured Eren away, but he rushed to save Mina and was swallowed by a gray-bearded giant.
• Eren jumped into the giant’s mouth and threw Armin out, telling him to see the world beyond the walls.
• The giant bit off Eren’s arm and swallowed him as Connie found the severely injured Armin.

After Eren’s death, Armin struggled with his injuries and guilt while Trost’s civilians became trapped at the inner gate behind a merchant’s carriage as an Abnormal Giant approached. The soldiers failed to lure the Titan away, leaving the crowd in immediate danger.

• Connie and the other soldiers found Armin and Mina as the only survivors of their squad, and Armin stood despite his severe injuries.
• Armin blamed himself for Eren’s death and watched Hanna refuse to leave Franz’s body, insisting that CPR might save him.
• At Trost’s inner gate, the bald merchant refused to move his cargo, blocking civilians from escaping and demanding that they help push it through.
• A woman spotted the approaching Abnormal Giant, and the panicked crowd began pushing the carriage while Garrison Regiment soldiers chased the Titan.
• A middle-aged soldier said the Abnormal Giant would not respond to their attempts to lure it away.

Mikasa killed an Abnormal Giant and forced the merchant blocking the inner gate to let the residents evacuate. As Titans approached again, she chose to support the vanguard’s retreat and vowed to keep up with Su Yang.

• Mikasa overtook the Garrison Regiment soldiers and killed the Abnormal Giant with a strike to its nape.
• Mikasa confronted the bald merchant, knocked down his bodyguards, and threatened him until he ordered his men to move the carriage blocking the inner gate.
• The residents evacuated through the gate, and a mother and daughter thanked Mikasa before she saluted them.
• As rain fell, Mikasa reflected on her reinforced blades and their limits while Titans approached the inner gate.
• When ordered to retreat and climb the wall, Mikasa instead went to support the vanguard’s retreat and resolved to keep up with Su Yang.

The trainees were trapped in Trost District without enough gas while Titans surrounded the supply depot, and the Supply Soldiers were too frightened to resupply them. As despair spread, Connie urged the trainees to attack the Titans, Sasha tried to rally them, and Reiner said it was not yet time to act.

• Supply Soldiers argued with their superior, who threatened one of them with execution for questioning his orders.
• Mikasa reached a rooftop and saw that Titans had surrounded the supply depot while the soldiers inside hid in terror.
• A short-haired Supply Soldier shot himself with a repaired flintlock rifle, horrifying the soldiers around him.
• Jean and Connie discussed the trainees' lack of gas and the need to clear the Titans around the supply point, while the other trainees remained despondent.
• Sasha offered to lead the vanguard and approached Armin, but found him too crushed to respond.
• Annie asked Reiner what they should do, and he said they needed to wait until more people gathered before attacking.

After Armin revealed that Eren and the rest of Class 34 had died, Mikasa resolved to clear the Titans around headquarters so the trainees could resupply their gas. She led the attack while the others overcame their fear and followed, determined to reach Su Yang at the gate.

• Mikasa learned from Armin that Eren had died saving him and that the other five members of Class 34 were dead.
• Mikasa declared she would fight the Titans surrounding headquarters alone and launched toward them.
• Jean, Connie, Reiner, Marco, Sasha, and the other trainees overcame their fear and followed Mikasa into battle.
• Mikasa used her Maneuver Gear to kill Titans as Jean led the others in providing cover and rushing toward headquarters.
• Mikasa thought of Su Yang at the gate and continued slaughtering Titans so the trainees could get gas.

A fifteen-meter Black-haired Giant rescued trainees from attacking Titans and fought with apparent intelligence and Fighting Techniques. As Mikasa, Armin, and Connie tried to escape the Titan-filled district, they realized Mikasa was nearly out of gas and needed to use Armin’s supply.

• Armin noticed Mikasa’s propulsion gear had been enhanced with Nen, while Jean watched trainees get trapped by Titans and blamed himself for failing to stop them.
• The Black-haired Giant appeared, kicked one Titan’s head off, struck down another, and bit the flesh at its nape to kill it.
• The Black-haired Giant smashed a fifteen-meter Titan’s head into a tower, regenerated its missing left hand, and stomped the headless Titan back into the ground when it began to rise.
• Mikasa, Armin, and Connie discussed the Black-haired Giant’s intelligence and decided to hurry toward headquarters as Titans occupied the district.
• Connie noticed Mikasa’s gas gauge was in the red, and Armin proposed transferring his gas to her so they could escape.

Armin proposed using the Black-haired Giant to draw Titans away from headquarters while Mikasa and Connie cleared its surroundings. Jean led the other Pawns in a gas-conserving charge toward headquarters, and they reached the building despite further casualties.

• Armin proposed luring the Titan that attacked other Titans toward headquarters, and Mikasa agreed to try his plan with Connie.
• Jean overcame his doubts and led the trainee Pawns toward headquarters while avoiding fights to conserve gas.
• Mikasa hunted Titans near the Black-haired Giant as Connie guided Armin after her.
• The Black-haired Giant defeated a Titan and noticed the greater number of Titans near the castle.
• A Titan caught Jean by the leg, but he cut its fingers free and escaped without stopping to fight.
• After another Pawn was caught by a Titan, Jean reached headquarters through a window, and the others followed.

Jean and the other trainees were trapped in the castle as Titans broke through the walls, but the Black-haired Giant fought them off. Connie explained that the Titan could help them escape, though Reiner and Annie wanted to know what Connie knew about it.

• Jean attacked a Supply Soldier in anger over the squad's abandonment, but Marco stopped him and explained that Titans had already taken the supply depot.
• A Titan broke through the castle wall, sending the soldiers into a panic as they fled and Jean feared they could not defeat the monsters.
• The Black-haired Giant appeared and punched two Titans away, while Mikasa, Connie, and Armin returned after escaping with their gas nearly depleted.
• Connie told the trainees that the Black-haired Giant was an Abnormal Giant that killed other Titans and could help them survive.
• The Black-haired Giant defeated several more Titans with punches, kicks, and a joint-lock throw as additional Titans approached.
• Connie reassured Reiner and Annie that the Black-haired Giant would protect the building, but postponed explaining what he knew until they were rescued.

Armin organized a risky plan to blind seven Titans and have seven soldiers strike their napes, while Su Yang fought the growing Titan horde outside Trost and began testing Nen-powered blade attacks. The trainees lowered their armed lift into the supply hall and waited for the Titans to come within firing range.

• Jean found rifles under the Military Police Brigade's jurisdiction, and Armin proposed using them to blind seven Titans while seven soldiers attacked their weak points.
• Reiner, Annie, Marco, and Mikasa supported Armin's plan as the trainees prepared to descend into the supply room.
• Su Yang, alone after the vanguard was wiped out, fought the Titans outside Trost and severed one Titan's neck with crescent-shaped Nen energy waves.
• Thirty to forty trainees descended by rope lift toward the seven Titans in the gas storage hall while seven soldiers waited above on the beams.
• Armin and Marco urged the trainees to hold their fire until the Titans were close, and the group waited with the Titans less than two meters away.

The trainees lured the Titans close and killed them, with Mikasa and Annie rescuing Sasha and Connie when they failed to finish their targets. As the survivors prepared to withdraw, Mikasa and Armin watched the Black-haired Giant being pinned down and eaten, wondering whether it could still regenerate.

• Marco ordered the trainees to fire at the Titans from close range, then they jumped from the beams and attacked their napes.
• Mikasa killed the Titan threatening Sasha, while Annie cut down the Titan attacking Connie.
• The trainees thanked Mikasa and Annie, resupplied their Omni-Directional Mobility Gear, and prepared to rendezvous with the main force.
• Marco praised Jean's judgment and leadership, reassuring him that his understanding of the weak had helped keep everyone alive.
• Mikasa and Armin saw several Titans eating the Black-haired Giant, and Armin questioned whether it could still regenerate.

Eren emerged alive from the Black-haired Giant after it fought several Titans in Trost, leaving Armin, Mikasa, and Reiner stunned by his recovery. The story then shifted to an earlier Survey Corps expedition, where Su Yang watched Levi and Hange lead the force beyond the walls into Titan territory.

• Reiner urged the others to save the Black-haired Giant, and Annie suggested it could become a powerful ally.
• The Black-haired Giant killed or battered nearby Titans before collapsing from its injuries.
• Armin recognized Eren at the Black-haired Giant's nape and brought him to a watchtower, where Mikasa and Reiner examined him.
• Armin found that Eren's arms and legs were intact despite having been eaten, while Jean wondered whether Eren had killed the Titans in the street.
• The story shifted to the Survey Corps preparing to leave on an expedition, with Su Yang watching alongside Mikasa, Armin, and Eren.
• Levi teased Hange about her excitement over Titans as the Survey Corps rode beyond the walls, where one pawn was caught in a Titan's jaws.

Su Yang awakened the God-Tier Sign-In System while defending the gates of Trost District and learned that a massive boulder would appear there as part of a King-level sign-in. Meanwhile, Levi and Hange fought Titans as the battle continued.

• Su Yang's system finished awakening and announced a King-level sign-in tied to a massive boulder that would appear at the gates of Trost District.
• Su Yang chose to hold the gates and slow the approaching Titans after the vanguard squad beside him was killed.
• Petra arrived with reinforcements, and Levi ordered her to protect the soldiers while the others supported the right side.
• Hange dodged a Titan's grab, maneuvered behind it, and cut its nape.
• Levi killed two Titans with precise maneuvers, then wiped blood from himself and his weapons.

Levi comforted a dying soldier before Erwin ordered the Survey Corps to retreat because Titans were heading toward the city. Meanwhile, Eren awoke surrounded by Garrison Regiment soldiers, who put him on trial and demanded to know whether he was human or a Titan.

• Levi promised a dying soldier that he would make the Titans extinct, and Petra confirmed the soldier had heard him.
• Erwin told Levi that Titans were moving north toward the city and that Wall Rose might have been breached, then ordered a retreat.
• Eren regained consciousness beside Armin in a waterway and found Garrison Regiment soldiers surrounding them with blades drawn.
• Hannes reassured wall soldiers that Su Yang and the other trainees were likely alive, while they prepared cannons against the Titans below.
• The Garrison Regiment commander accused Eren of emerging from a Titan and demanded that he reveal whether he was human or a Titan.

Su Yang and Mikasa raced to stop Eren and Armin from being executed, while Su Yang explained his theory that Titans were transformed humans and that Eren might be able to transform at will. Eren insisted he was human as the commander questioned his identity.

• Su Yang finished killing the Titans outside Trost District, and Mikasa arrived to tell him Eren was about to be killed.
• Su Yang and Mikasa headed back with extra gas reserves, and Su Yang suggested using Nen ability to power their Maneuver Gear.
• Su Yang told Mikasa he had seen a human body inside a Titan’s nape and concluded that Titans were transformed humans.
• Armin threatened the soldiers with a powerful blade strike, while the commander’s adjutant warned that killing Eren or Armin could turn Mikasa and Su Yang against them.
• Eren recalled his missing memories and apparently regrown arm as the commander demanded his true identity, then shouted that he was human.

Eren remembered his father's instructions about the basement and transformed to protect Armin from an explosive cannon shell. As the soldiers struggled to understand what had appeared, Marco tried to stop a traumatized comrade from taking his own life, while the soldiers on the other side of the wall noticed the smoke.

• The commander ordered the Garrison Regiment soldiers to fire their explosive cannons at Eren and Armin despite Armin's attempt to conceal them with Psychic Power.
• Eren remembered his father's key and orders to reclaim Wall Maria and reach the basement, then bit his hand as a shell approached.
• Eren transformed and blocked the explosive shell with his enormous palm, leaving a skinless Titan upper body surrounded by Steam Smoke.
• Marco stopped a distressed soldier from trying to kill himself while Sasha complained that her stomach hurt and Yō reflected on surviving the battle.
• Soldiers near the wall heard the cannon blast and spotted smoke rising inside the wall, then wondered what had happened.

Eren emerged from the Titan that had protected him and Armin from a cannon blast, while the Garrison Regiment prepared to attack. As the Titan skeleton crumbled, Eren planned to reach his home’s basement and proposed that Armin try persuading the soldiers that he was not a threat.

• Reiner, Bertholdt, Annie, and Jean climbed to higher ground and saw Armin beneath a half-formed Titan, with Su Yang and Mikasa arriving soon after.
• Eren emerged from the Titan’s nape and told Armin he did not know why he had transformed, while Armin recalled that the Titan had shielded them from the cannon.
• Eren thought about his father’s hidden basement and punched through a Titan rib as the Garrison Regiment held its position and readied its cannons.
• The Titan skeleton broke apart, and Eren told Armin he intended to become a stronger Titan, cross the wall, and reach the basement despite his worsening condition.
• Armin offered to accompany Eren and use his Nen ability, while Eren suggested trusting Armin to persuade the Garrison Regiment that he was not dangerous.

Armin tried to prevent Captain Wilman from ordering Eren’s execution by arguing that Titans treated Eren as prey, but Wilman remained suspicious until Commander Pixis intervened. Pixis agreed to hear them out and brought Eren and the others to the inner gate wall of Trost, where he considered the Titans below.

• Armin removed his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear and stepped out of the fog to argue that Eren was not humanity’s enemy because Titans had attacked him.
• The soldiers lowered their weapons as Armin’s argument swayed them, but Wilman ordered them to prepare to engage again.
• Armin saluted Wilman and urged him to consider Eren’s tactical value in reclaiming the city.
• Commander Pixis seized Wilman’s arm, stopped him from giving the order, and told him to command the reinforcements while he heard Armin out.
• Pixis took Eren and the others to the inner gate wall of Trost District and studied the Titans gathered below it.

Commander Pixis approved a plan to retake Trost District by having Eren use his Titan power to seal the gate, despite the soldiers’ fear and doubts. As the troops began to lose morale, a black-haired soldier urged dissatisfied Garrison Regiment members to use the commotion to leave.

• Pixis questioned Eren and Armin about the plan, and Eren agreed to try sealing the gate.
• Pixis ordered his staff officers to draw up a battle plan to retake Trost District.
• Eren told Armin that Pixis likely understood the enemy was not only the Titans.
• Daz panicked and denounced the operation, while Marco tried to stop him and an officer threatened him with death.
• A black-haired soldier encouraged dissatisfied Garrison Regiment members to leave, and Jean asked what he meant.