Recaps

The Survey Corps and the Restoration faction gained prestige on Paradis Island after their victory in Marley, while Historia awarded Yago a medal at a public ceremony. Arno mistook Historia’s displeasure for a desire to become a true monarch and began considering how to restore the Eldia Empire, while Yago sensed a sinister gaze in the crowd.

• Paradis Island celebrated the Survey Corps’ victory in Marley, and the Corps became more popular with recruits than the Military Police Brigade.
• The public connected the Eldia Revival Army with the island’s Restoration faction, attracting support from some Imperialists.
• Historia secretly flicked Yago on the forehead with her ring while awarding him a medal, getting revenge for his decision to end their stay in Marley.
• Alex and Louise excitedly discussed joining the Survey Corps after seeing Yago at the ceremony.
• Arno interpreted Historia’s unhappiness as a desire to become a true Queen and considered restoring the Eldia Empire.
• Yago noticed a cold, sinister gaze from the crowd, but it disappeared when he searched for its source.

Yago spent the evening with Annie and the neighborhood cats before falling asleep and entering his consciousness space. There, he encountered Norman Russell, who called him his child, and Yago recognized him as his father.

• Yago returned home and found Annie playing with several cats, but a cow-patterned stray scratched his hand when he tried to pet it.
• Annie scolded Yago for provoking the cat, and he privately vowed to punish it by having it castrated.
• That night, Yago entered his consciousness space and found Founding Titan Ymir watching him in silence.
• Norman Russell appeared in the space, and Yago recognized him from the photograph at Russell Manor.
• Norman touched Yago's head and called him his child, prompting Yago to remember the voice from his childhood and call him Father.

Yago learned from Norman Russell that Norman was his father and that he had been involved in Ebson’s wrongdoing and the pursuit of Eldian power. After waking, Yago faced questions from Yelena about Zeke, while she secretly continued working to carry out Zeke’s euthanasia plan.

• Yago met Norman Russell in his mindscape, and Norman apologized for his role in Ebson’s actions and revealed that Yago was the Fate Titan.
• Norman disappeared, and Yago woke, reflecting on his father and the power to change fate.
• Yago recalled that Zeke was imprisoned and struggled with how to handle Zeke’s volunteers and their contributions to Paradis Island.
• Yelena asked Yago where Zeke was, and Yago falsely claimed Zeke might still be in the Marley Capital.
• Yelena left without returning home and vowed to help Zeke realize the euthanasia plan before an unknown figure approached her.

Ebson named a new Red Fire Titan and announced that the Far Eastern nations would declare war on the entire world. The chapter ended with Magath learning that Marley and every other country had received the declaration.

• Ebson appointed a muscular brown-haired man as the new Red Fire Titan, while Litt, Ivanor, and Bazel left without welcoming him.
• Ebson told representatives of the Far Eastern nations that he intended to declare war on the entire world and rejected their objections.
• The representatives accepted Ebson's order because the nations were under his control.
• A staff officer informed Magath that the Far East had declared war on Marley and every other country in the world.

Selina rejected Nack’s attempt to recruit her to the Imperialists and defended Yago’s leadership of the Restoration Army. As she prepared to leave, a violent confrontation next door suggested that a coup or arrest was underway.

• Yago told Selina he had trouble sleeping, then agreed she should return to the Marley Capital to oversee the Restoration Army’s forces there.
• Yago gave Selina advice and a written plan for managing the Marley Capital, and Selina suggested renaming the city.
• Nack invited Selina to tea and urged her to support the Imperialists, claiming Yago was too young to lead her.
• Selina condemned Nack’s attempt to undermine Yago and refused to involve the Restoration Army in the Imperialists’ power struggle.
• Selina heard Arno order guards to take Lord Lance away, followed by crashes and sounds of a struggle, while Nack’s expression turned vicious.

Arno and Nack captured Selina and her Restoration Army guards at a teahouse, then set a coup in motion to restore the Eldia Empire. As the Military Police seized key sites across the Capital and advanced on the Royal Palace, the city stood on the brink of upheaval.

• Nack urged Selina to join his plan to establish the Eldia Empire, but she refused and condemned the power struggle.
• Arno entered the teahouse, overpowered Selina, and knocked her unconscious after she attacked him.
• Arno told Nack to proceed, insisting their plan was a coup rather than a mutiny.
• Military Police officers arrested Selina and the Restoration Army soldiers, while Selina briefly saw a bloodied Garrison soldier before blacking out.
• More than half the Military Police Brigade marched toward key government sites and the Royal Palace as officers cordoned off the teahouse.

Arno launched a coup in the Capital, relying on loyal Military Police and Garrison Regiment troops while Yelena pursued her own operation. Alex and Louise overheard the plot and fled to seek help from Instructor Keith.

• Arno ordered his forces to seal the Capital, secure the Garrison Regiment barracks, lock down Parliament, and occupy the neighborhoods.
• Arno told Nack that he had recruited noble officers and stationed loyal troops in the Capital, and he claimed the coup would restore the Eldia Empire.
• Yelena met Arno and accepted his offer to send soldiers to support her rescue operation at the Survey Corps' barracks.
• Alex and Louise hid above a teahouse booth and overheard Arno's coup plans after the Military Police searched the building.
• Alex and Louise escaped to the Training Corps' quarters, where Alex demanded to see Instructor Keith.

As the Imperialists prepared to seize the Capital, Duke Vald tried to flee and Instructor Keith led the Training Corps instructors out to respond. At the Survey Corps base, Military Police attacked the guards while the captured Titan Warriors remained in their cells, and a commotion suddenly began outside the dungeon.

• Yago teased Armin about being on a date with Mina while their companions spent their leave visiting friends and family.
• Duke Vald told Lisa about the planned coup and urged her to pack, but she ran outside as he called after her.
• Alex warned Instructor Keith that the Imperialists planned to seal off the Capital, and Keith ordered the cadets to stay behind while the instructors moved out.
• Military Police officers arrived at the Survey Corps base and their leader kicked a guard down before the squad rushed forward.
• Zeke asked A-Wu for books to read, and a sudden commotion broke out outside the dungeon.

Arno led the Military Police in a coup, seizing the Parliament Building and detaining most parliamentarians. Lisa escaped to Orford District to warn her uncle Randy, while a clash between the Ackermans and Military Police erupted in the Survey Corps dungeon.

• Arno’s Military Police stormed the Parliament Building, detained Pyxis, and knocked Zackly to the floor before taking control of the building.
• Lisa reached Orford District and gave Randy a letter warning him that the Capital had been sealed off by a coup.
• Randy ordered the Garrison Regiment and Military Police in Orford District to prepare for combat and sent soldiers to contact the Survey Corps and Titan Warriors in Trost District.
• A-Wu and the other Ackermans attacked a squad of Military Police that broke into the Survey Corps dungeon, while Zeke, Pieck, and Porco watched from their cells.
• A stray bullet struck Pieck’s palm as she watched the fight, and she cried out in pain.

After learning of the Imperialists' coup, Yago headed for the Capital with Aili and Annie, while Yelena freed Zeke and renewed his resolve. Zeke left the dungeon with Yelena, refusing to take Pieck and Porco with them.

• Yago learned that the Imperialists had launched a coup and decided to return to the Capital with Aili and Annie, keeping Floch out of it.
• Yelena searched the dungeon beneath Survey Corps headquarters and found Zeke while Pieck and Porco watched from their cell.
• Yelena freed Zeke and reminded him that he was destined to lead them into the light.
• After hearing Yelena's plan, Zeke regained his confidence and agreed to help bring their plan to fruition.
• Zeke refused to bring Pieck and Porco along, and Pieck called after him as he left with Yelena.

Eren learned the Ackermans had uncovered an Imperialist coup and decided to stay in the Capital as a possible target to protect civilians. As Imperialist forces advanced on the Royal Palace, Selina awoke in a dungeon and began looking for a way to escape.

• A-Wu told Eren that the Military Police had attacked the dungeon, and Eren suspected the Imperialists were targeting him or Historia to seize the Founding Titan.
• Eren sent the injured Ackermans to safety and chose to remain in the Capital to draw the Imperialists' attention away from civilians.
• Keith reached Historia ahead of the Imperialists and urged her to leave the Royal Palace, while a large force of Imperialist Military Police advanced toward it.
• Selina woke in a dungeon, found her injured subordinates and the unconscious Lance, and resolved to escape before the Restoration Army noticed she was missing.

Randy Vald’s forces remained unable to breach the Capital’s defenses while Arno’s rebels seized the Royal Palace and confronted Historia. The Attack Titan appeared to disrupt the standoff, as Lance prepared to rally the Garrison Regiment from the Dungeon.

• Randy Vald’s soldiers reached the Capital but could not attack its walls without heavy weapons, so Randy waited for Yago and the others.
• Arno’s Military Police seized the Royal Palace and surrounded Historia, Keith, and the remaining Guards and Instructors.
• Historia confronted Arno and asked why the rebels had staged the coup, offering to step down if she had failed as Queen.
• The Attack Titan appeared in the Royal Palace, alarming the rebel soldiers, while Arno remained calm.
• Lance told Selina that he could rally the Garrison Regiment against Herman and the coup if he escaped the Dungeon.

Yago learned about Trost District’s fireworks festival and invited Annie to attend it with him. After they enjoyed the festival together, Annie fell asleep on his shoulder as the fireworks continued.

• Franz told Yago about the fireworks festival and showed him a new suit he planned to wear with Hannah.
• Yago bought a festival ticket and nervously invited Annie to go with him.
• Yago met Annie at the festival, where she criticized his ill-fitting suit, and the two entered together.
• Yago bought Annie sweets and joined her in playing festival games until they had spent the night enjoying the attractions.
• Yago and Annie watched the fireworks, and Annie fell asleep against his shoulder while her goldfish escaped into a pond.

Commander Randy tried to persuade the Military Police to abandon the coup while Arno Reiss's Imperialists captured Eren and attacked Historia inside the Royal Palace. Historia was left injured and unable to transform as Arno revealed the brutal history behind his Reiss name.

• Commander Randy urged the Military Police on the wall to remember their honor, while an Imperialist officer declared Arno Reiss the true king.
• The Military Police captured Eren after using his mother, Carla, to make the Attack Titan collapse.
• Historia demanded that Arno release Eren and Carla, but Arno revealed that he also had Reiss blood and claimed the throne for himself.
• Arno twisted Historia's wrists, and Herman severed her ring-bearing hand as the fighting left Keith, instructors, and Military Police dead or wounded.
• Arno told Historia and the stunned witnesses about his childhood in a brothel, his mother's death, and his hatred of both the Zot and Reiss surnames.

Arno offered Historia the choice to eat Eren and claim the Founding Titan, defying the Imperialists’ plan, while Yago and the soldiers approached the Capital. The coup’s defenses began collapsing, and Levi urged Yago to hurry to the Royal Palace to protect Historia.

• Arno told Historia about his hatred of Rod and offered her the freedom to choose whether to eat Eren and claim the Founding Titan.
• Nack protested Arno’s decision, while Herman hesitated over whether to intervene.
• Yago prepared to break through the Capital’s gate with Aili and Annie, but Garrison Soldiers unexpectedly attacked the coup forces on the walls.
• Randy ordered the troops to storm the walls, and Lance’s soldiers opened the Capital’s gate after the guards surrendered.
• Levi rode past Yago and urged him to come to the Royal Palace because the coup threatened Historia.

Yago learned that Imperialist Military Police had badly injured his mother, Lucia, while Arno forced Historia to choose whether to inherit the Founding Titan Power. Historia called Arno her brother and made him lower the syringe, but Yelena and Zeke then burst into the great hall.

• Miniko and Ian found Pyxis unharmed in his cell, while Zackly was rescued near death and the defeated Imperialist nobles were arrested.
• Yago learned that Lucia had been hospitalized after the Military Police beat her, and he vowed to kill those responsible.
• Arno freed Historia after her wound healed and demanded that she eat Eren, but she refused.
• Arno prepared to inject himself with Titan serum, but Historia called him her brother and pleaded with him to stop.
• Arno lowered the syringe as Historia explained that the Founding Titan Power could not rule the world.
• Yelena and Zeke led the Marley Volunteer Army into the great hall, shocking Nack.

Arno ended the coup by smashing the Titan serum and surrendering, but Zeke confronted Eren and revealed their family connection to Carla. As Yago and Mikasa rushed into the hall, Zeke touched Eren’s head, and the world fell silent.

• Arno smashed the serum and admitted defeat, prompting the rebel Military Police to lay down their weapons.
• Yelena shot Herman as he raised his pistol to kill Arno, and Carla was freed and rushed to Eren.
• Zeke told Carla that he was Eren’s older half brother, and Eren struggled to warn his mother away from him.
• Ymir, Mikasa, Yago, the Captain, Commander Randy, and other soldiers arrived at the Royal Palace.
• Yago charged at Zeke while Mikasa rushed to Eren, but Zeke pressed his hand against Eren’s head and the world went silent.

Yago entered the Paths with Zeke and Eren after stopping Zeke from touching Eren, then tried to prevent Zeke from carrying out his Eldian euthanasia plan. The chapter left Zeke summoning Ymir as Eren charged at him.

• When Zeke touched Eren, Yago forced his way through the frozen world and placed his hand on Zeke's.
• Yago arrived in the Paths, where he pulled Zeke's hand away from Eren and brought them both out of their frozen state.
• Zeke celebrated reaching the Paths and mocked Yago for claiming the Founding Titan power was sealed.
• Yago challenged Zeke's right to decide the future of all Eldians, but Zeke defended his euthanasia plan and recalled Mr. Ksaver.
• Zeke summoned Founding Titan Ymir, while Eren broke free of Yago and charged at him.

Eren, Zeke, and Yago encountered Ymir in the Paths, where Zeke tried to command her to sterilize the Eldians, but she ignored him and repaired his injured face. Ymir then turned her attention to Yago, leaving him alarmed.

• Eren punched Zeke in the face, and Yago struggled to stop Eren from attacking him again.
• Zeke and Eren chased each other across the Paths while Yago worried about stopping Zeke's Eldia Euthanasia Plan.
• The three saw tens of thousands of Colossal Titans made of sand and recognized the sight as the Rumbling.
• Zeke and Eren rushed toward Ymir and shouted competing demands, but Ymir transported them to her and ignored Zeke's command.
• Ymir repaired the hole in Zeke's face with wet sand, checked Eren, and then looked at Yago.

Founding Titan Ymir ignored Zeke’s royal blood and led Yago, Eren, and Zeke to a gathering of sand-made Intelligent Titans. She brought Yago and Zeke before the Nine Titans and nine Artificial Titans, then removed a purple light from Zeke and six colored lights from Yago.

• Founding Titan Ymir sealed Zeke’s mouth with wet sand after he repeatedly ordered her to obey him.
• Ymir compelled Yago, Eren, and Zeke to follow her to dunes filled with sand-made Intelligent Titans, including Mr. Ksaver’s ram-headed Titan.
• Yago and Eren followed Ymir toward two rows of Titans while Zeke mourned Mr. Ksaver and then chased after them.
• Yago recognized the Nine Titans and nine Artificial Titans, and suspected Ebson knew why the two groups matched in number.
• Ymir teleported Yago and Zeke to her, reached into Zeke’s chest, and pulled out a purple ball of light.
• Ymir opened Yago’s chest and pulled out six balls of light in white, gold, blue, green, brown, and yellow.

Great-grandma gave Yago the Beast Titan’s power and explained that she had guided the descendants into the Paths, where she revealed a future descendant had influenced her choices. She then transported the group away, while Ebson arrived in the Paths and celebrated his chance to become humanity’s god.

• Great-grandma pulled six Titan powers from Yago, combined them with the purple orb, and returned all seven to his body, adding the Beast’s power to his Fate Titan.
• Great-grandma shaped a pair of Sand Wings on Yago’s Fate Titan, leading Zeke to realize Yago possessed the powers of multiple Titans, including his own Beast Titan power.
• Ymir spoke directly into the group’s minds and explained that she had influenced the Imperialists’ actions but had not interfered with Arno’s final choice.
• Zeke demanded to know why Ymir had not obeyed his royal blood, and she said a descendant from the future had shown her different things, glancing toward Eren.
• Yago asked why Ymir had brought them to the Paths, and she enveloped the group in light and transported them away.
• Ebson staggered into the Paths, laughed at his discovery, and declared that he would become humanity’s god.

Yago, Eren, and Zeke watched scenes from the past in Shiganshina, including the fall of Wall Maria and the deaths and rescues that followed. Yago realized his younger self had saved Carla, while a mysterious figure’s interference in the smiling Titan’s actions remained unexplained as they were transported elsewhere.

• Their great-grandmother brought Yago, Eren, and Zeke to Shiganshina in 845, where they saw the Colossal Titan breach the wall.
• Yago and Eren watched Titans overrun Shiganshina and then appeared at Eren’s home as Carla lay trapped beneath rubble.
• The smiling Titan seized Carla, prompting Eren to panic and nearly transform.
• Young Yago emerged from a skeletal Titan, rescued Carla, and carried an unconscious Lucia to safety.
• Yago noticed a figure flash past just before the smiling Titan briefly froze, then the group appeared in a world filled with Hardening crystals.

Yago, Eren, and Zeke witnessed Grisha Jaeger’s true memories of the Crystal Cave, where he took the Founding Titan power from Frieda Reiss and killed the Reiss children. Frieda’s final glance seemed to reach them before she died.

• Yago recognized the underground altar as the Reiss Family’s succession site, while Eren and Zeke saw their father, Grisha Jaeger, confronting Frieda Reiss.
• Grisha placed his hand on Frieda’s head, briefly clearing the haze in her eyes, then withdrew it and repeated his vow to seize the Founding Titan power.
• Grisha transformed into the Attack Titan, defeated Frieda’s Founding Titan, and killed the Reiss children as Rod Reiss fled.
• Yago, Eren, and Zeke sensed Frieda’s final gaze sweep across their position as she died.

Grisha reunited with Eren and Zeke, confessed his failures, and told them he loved them. As he urged his sons to trust Yago and protect one another, Yago spotted Big Eren before he vanished with another figure.

• Grisha emerged from the fallen Attack Titan and wondered whether the future had changed.
• Grisha saw Eren and Zeke, apologized to both sons, and admitted how deeply he regretted failing them.
• Great-Grandmother made it possible for Grisha to embrace Zeke and Eren as he urged them to protect each other and trust Yago.
• Yago spotted Big Eren watching from the distance, and Big Eren vanished with another figure after signaling for silence.

Yago confronted Ebson in Paths and learned that Ebson had killed his father, Norman Russell, and his mother. After Ebson transferred a mass of white light into him, Yago rejoined Eren and Zeke and warned that war was coming, while Ebson prepared to deploy the assembled Far Eastern forces.

• Great-Grandmother sent Yago into Paths, where he met Ebson beside the pillar of light.
• Ebson reacted violently when Yago named Norman Russell and admitted that Norman was Yago's father.
• Ebson confessed that he had killed Norman and Yago's mother, provoking Yago to attack him.
• Ebson pulled white light from his own chest and pressed it into Yago, after which Yago's fate remained unknown.
• Great-Grandmother brought Eren and Zeke to Paths, where Yago warned them that war was coming.
• Ebson learned that the Far Eastern troops had assembled and ordered Bill to begin.