Recaps

Eren’s group opened his father’s basement with Yago’s Titan power and discovered a photograph among Dr. Grisha’s belongings. Yago learned that Scott had died saving Floch and blamed Zeke, while Annie tried to calm him.

• Eren broke the key to the basement, and Levi kicked apart the wooden door to reveal an iron plate behind it.
• Yago used his Titan power to break through the iron door, surprising Eren, Historia, and Levi while Hange examined his Titan arm.
• Eren entered the basement and studied a photograph of Dr. Grisha with an unfamiliar woman and child.
• Yago took Annie to the Logistics Squad to refill their gas canisters and asked Floch where Scott was.
• Floch told Yago that Scott had died saving him, and Yago clenched his fists and cried out Zeke’s name.
• Annie covered Yago’s bleeding fists and urged him to calm down.

Zeke met Yago and Annie in a dead forest, hoping to learn Yago’s intentions and discuss the Eldia Euthanasia Plan. Yago revealed that he had inherited the Fate Titan, leaving Zeke stunned.

• Zeke waited on a boulder with coffee as the Fate Titan approached, then Yago and Annie emerged from it.
• Yago gave Annie his coffee and challenged Zeke about the Eldia Euthanasia Plan.
• Yago claimed that Eren had sealed the Founding Titan’s power for three years, shocking Zeke.
• Yago suggested that countries opposed to Marley could help Eldia gain leverage.
• Yago revealed that he had inherited the Fate Titan, a power outside the Nine Titans.

Yago and Zeke negotiated an alliance to strengthen Paradis Island and advance the Euthanasia plan, though Zeke refused to surrender Reiner and Pieck. They agreed to keep the plan between themselves and sealed their partnership, while Zeke resolved to meet his younger brother, Eren.

• Yago told Zeke that Paradis needed technology and military strength while the Founding Titan's power was sealed, and said he supported the Euthanasia plan because he and Annie had limited time to live.
• Zeke offered Hizuru's and the Marley Volunteers' help in developing Paradis, explaining that Hizuru wanted the power source of the Omni-Directional Mobility Gear.
• Yago asked to visit Marley, keep Annie's situation secret, and take Reiner and Pieck; Zeke agreed to protect Annie's secret but refused to hand over the two Warriors.
• Zeke learned that Eren Jaeger held the Founding Titan and reacted to discovering that Eren was his younger brother.
• Zeke asked Yago to keep the Euthanasia plan between them, and they agreed to work together.

After the battle, Eren admitted to Yago that he liked Mikasa, unaware that she had overheard him and promised to wait for him. Meanwhile, the Scouts inspected the captured Marleyan weapons, and Coris recognized Sasha carrying a sniper rifle and learned she was an exceptional sharpshooter.

• Eren asked Yago why he had stopped him from attacking the smiling Titan, but Yago asked Eren to trust him instead of seeking answers.
• Yago pressed Eren about his feelings for Mikasa until Eren admitted that he really liked her and asked Yago to keep it secret.
• Mikasa overheard Eren's confession from behind the wall and vowed that she would always wait for him.
• Jean and Connie examined the captured firearms while Moblit stopped Historia from taking apart a rifle, and the Scouts kept the Marleyan prisoners under guard.
• Coris spotted Sasha carrying the sniper rifle he had discarded, explained what a sniper rifle was, and learned that Sasha was a skilled archer.

The Survey Corps returned to Trost District after reclaiming Wall Maria, bringing the remains of 117 fallen soldiers and receiving a jubilant welcome. The chapter ended with the surviving Scouts celebrating their victory as their families and supporters greeted them.

• Yago rode with the returning Scouts and reflected on how many more soldiers had survived than in Big Eren's memories.
• A-Wu announced that the Survey Corps had reached Trost District, where the gate opened to let them enter.
• The Military Police, Garrison Soldiers, nobles, and residents saluted as wagons carrying the fallen soldiers passed through the city.
• Erwin entered Trost District and declared the Survey Corps' total victory in the Wall Maria Reclamation Battle, sparking cheers and gifts from the crowd.
• Marlo celebrated with the Scouts, Yago took Annie's hand, Jean spotted his mother and Mark, and Mikasa took Eren's hand.

Magath welcomed the defeated Warriors back to Marley, where Reiner returned to Liberio and encountered Selina, an Eldian Restorationist. Selina suspected Ebson had betrayed the resistance and planned to confront him, warning Jack to rescue the children if she did not return.

• Magath met Zeke, Reiner, and Pieck at the pier, then summoned Zeke to explain the failed operation and gave Reiner half a day to visit his family.
• Reiner walked through the Liberio Internment Zone and accidentally collided with Selina, who recognized his red armband and hurried away.
• Selina brought medicine to the Restorationists' safe house, where she told the blind Jack that Marley's Warrior Unit had failed on the island.
• Selina blamed Ebson for the resistance's losses and decided to confront him the next day, telling Jack to get the children to safety if she did not return.

Zeke and Magath persuaded Marley’s leaders to preserve the Warrior Unit, but a Middle Eastern declaration of war redirected Marley’s attention from Paradis. Ebson received the Warrior Unit report and, while reviewing it, noticed something that shocked him.

• Naval Commander Ance urged Marshal Calvi to dismiss Magath and strip the Marley warriors of their Titan powers, but Magath argued that the current unit was exceptionally strong.
• Zeke explained the Warrior Unit’s losses on Paradis, and Marley’s generals debated whether to attack the island before its Eldians mastered their Titans.
• A staff officer reported that the Middle Eastern allies had declared war and captured Heron, Wadin, and Gasharyak Fortress.
• Calvi ordered Marley to prepare for war, while Magath secured the Warrior Unit’s deployment and Zeke gained approval to send warships to monitor Paradis.
• Bill delivered Ebson the Warrior Unit report, and Ebson stopped in disbelief while reading it.

Ebson uncovered a possible connection to the failed experimental subjects dumped at sea and ordered that hidden Eldians be protected, while Reiner faced Porco’s anger over Marcel’s death. At the Warrior camp, Koslow told the young candidates, including Falco and Gabi, that Marley would send them to fight in the war against the Middle East.

• Ebson questioned Bill about the failed experimental subjects and learned they had been dumped into the sea after Marley’s Navy was bribed.
• Ebson told Bill to protect and supply the Eldians they had found in hiding, while a document on his desk displayed the name Yago Norman.
• Selina sensed she was being watched on the Louis Estate road and found a tall, burly man standing in front of her.
• Porco punched Reiner and blamed him for Marcel’s death, but walked away after telling him to give up the Armored Titan’s power.
• Colt prepared Falco, Gabi, and the other Warrior Candidates to meet Magath, then Koslow announced that they would be sent to fight the Middle East.

Humanity used cannons, the Titan Meat Grinder, and Thunder Spears to defeat a swarm of Titans with few losses, raising morale inside the Walls. Erwin and Yago acknowledged that the world beyond the Walls posed a greater threat, and Yago’s proposed parliamentary system gained support.

• Sasha defended her Sniper Rifle to Jean and later shot the rope that had jammed Jean’s Titan Meat Grinder.
• Floch lured Titans into the hardened trap while the Garrison Regiment fired cannons and the Scouts prepared to attack.
• Nile led the Scouts in using Thunder Spears to kill the remaining Titans, and the soldiers celebrated their victory.
• Marlo offered Floch a break after his repeated Titan-luring missions, but Floch rejected his concern.
• Erwin told Yago he had read the Marleyan information and the report on contact with Zeke, while Yago warned that humanity faced enemies more frightening than Titans.

Erwin, Zackly, Pixis, Historia, and Yago provisionally agreed on a parliamentary system that sharply limited the monarch, nobility, and military’s political power. Yago then explained the hostility of the outside world and ended by identifying the Rumbling as the reason other nations had not attacked Paradis outright.

• Erwin presented a proposed parliamentary system in which the public elected the Lower House, the nobility formed the Upper House, and the Lower House elected the Prime Minister.
• Zackly welcomed the proposal’s limits on the nobility, Pixis approved of the military’s political independence, and Historia accepted her reduced power and freedom from interference in the nation’s functioning.
• The group provisionally settled the parliamentary system and turned to the question of contact with the world beyond Paradis Island.
• Yago showed the others a world map and explained that hundreds of nations existed beyond the island and that almost all hated Eldians.
• Yago disclosed his cooperation with Zeke and the Founding Titan Power while withholding further secrets, then named the Rumbling as the reason the outside world had not attacked Paradis.
• Outside the meeting room, Levi killed a rat and wondered what the leaders were discussing under such heavy security.

Selina left to infiltrate Marley’s military despite Jack’s concerns, while Ebson recovered a mysterious liquid and began a secret experiment. Yago suffered a sudden vision of his fate titan before recovering, and Ebson arranged to meet the Tybur Family.

• Selina told Jack she would infiltrate Marley’s military and warned him that she did not trust Ebson.
• Ebson found a labeled bottle in his abandoned laboratory, burned the site, and mixed the liquid with another substance in his hidden lab.
• Yago collapsed in sudden agony and saw his fate titan wrapped in eerie black lines.
• Yago recovered and kissed Annie, leaving the others to mistake his pain for a prank.
• Ebson asked Bill to arrange a meeting with the Tybur Family, his eyes briefly flashing red.

Porco was summoned to a secret Marleyan camp and made to assist Doctor Ebson Louis with an experiment that transformed into a giant figure. Meanwhile, the Survey Corps began its first campaign beyond Wall Maria, and an unseen black thread appeared around the Fate Titan in Yago’s subconscious.

• Porco struggled with the prospect of inheriting Reiner’s Armored Titan power because Marcel had sacrificed himself to save Reiner.
• Koslow took Porco to a guarded camp, where Captain Magath introduced him to Doctor Ebson Louis and ordered him to cooperate with an experiment.
• Ebson led Porco into the rear of the camp as a well-dressed man watched from a tower and the soldiers kept the experiment secret.
• A yellow flash erupted at dusk, and a curved object fell from the sky before vanishing into a deep pit as Ebson watched an enormous figure unfold.
• After Historia honored the Survey Corps for reclaiming Wall Maria, its soldiers began their first campaign beyond the wall against the titans.
• Yago felt a brief unease while riding with Annie on the formation’s left flank, as a black thread appeared around the Fate Titan in his subconscious.

After humanity reclaimed Wall Maria, Yago and Annie began sharing a room, but Annie asked to take things slowly, leaving Yago exhausted after a sleepless night. Lucia fussed over the couple while Yago left early, and Annie joined her for breakfast, still unaware of what Lucia assumed had happened.

• The Survey Corps cleared every Titan from Wall Maria and used Shiganshina District as a staging ground for further operations.
• Yago woke beside Annie, carefully moved her limbs aside, and went downstairs for breakfast.
• Lucia teased Yago about his relationship with Annie, while Yago recalled that Annie had asked him not to rush things and had cuddled him in her sleep.
• Yago hurried out after Lucia lectured him, and Annie came downstairs to a lavish breakfast prepared by Lucia.
• Annie asked where Yago had gone, and Lucia suggested that Annie tell her if she felt uncomfortable after the night together.

Yago visited the bunker holding Marleyan prisoners and freed Bertholdt’s face from the hardening that sealed him. Bertholdt woke and spoke with Yago, who reflected that he and Reiner had changed greatly since their days in the 104th New Recruits.

• Yago greeted A-Wu while visiting the bunker and asked him to invite A-Yi to Annie’s gathering; A-Wu agreed to pass on the invitation after she returned from going out with Hange.
• Yago passed the Marleyan prisoners, whose treatment and care from the people within the Walls had begun to undermine some of their beliefs about Eldians.
• Yago showed the Scouts Erwin’s letter and entered the deepest cell, where Bertholdt was sealed inside hardening beneath heavy chains.
• Yago cut his palm and formed a hardened claw, then scraped away part of Bertholdt’s crystal until his face was exposed.
• Bertholdt woke coughing and greeted Yago, who remarked that Bertholdt and Reiner had changed greatly since the 104th New Recruits.

Yago confronted Bertholdt about Ili’s death and the destruction of the Walls, and Bertholdt defended his actions as a Marleyan warrior. Yago took a sample of Bertholdt’s blood but left the Colossal Titan’s power unclaimed, uncertain what would happen if he acquired it.

• Yago asked Bertholdt to remember Thomas and Ili, prompting Bertholdt to recall Ili discovering the warriors’ secret in Trost.
• Ili confronted Reiner, Annie, and Bertholdt about destroying the Wall, and Reiner killed him to protect their identities.
• Annie tried to save the unconscious Thomas, but Reiner stopped her, and the three warriors fled as Titans approached.
• Bertholdt told Yago he could kill him and take the Colossal Titan’s power, but Yago hesitated over who might inherit it afterward.
• Yago cut Bertholdt’s forehead, collected drops of his blood in a vial, and chose not to acquire the Colossal Titan’s power yet.

Yago sealed Bertholdt in a crystal after revealing that he and Annie had known each other in Liberio, then confronted Paradis Island’s inability to reproduce Marleyan rifles. Meanwhile, Sasha impressed Coris with her marksmanship, and Yelena and Onyankopon sailed aboard the Courage as the situation around Zeke’s plans changed.

• Yago stopped Hardening long enough to tell Bertholdt that he and Annie had known each other in Liberio, then sealed him inside a crystal.
• Yago visited Lynch at the firing range and learned that Paradis’s craftsmen could not reproduce the springs and cartridges needed for Marleyan rifles.
• Sasha fired five shots through the same bull’s-eye, astonishing Marleyan sniper Coris, and asked him what the sea was.
• The Courage left Marley’s port on a course away from the First Fleet’s battlefield, with its captain drunk and Onyankopon at the helm.
• Yelena asked Onyankopon whether he had contacted Zeke and said the situation seemed to have changed.

Marley’s Eldian troops suffered heavy losses in an assault on a Middle Eastern fortress until Marley’s Titans broke through its defenses. Meanwhile, the Survey Corps reached the ocean, leaving Armin excited to see what lay beyond it.

• Selina rescued a wounded Eldian soldier, treated his leg, and rejoined the charge against the fortress.
• As Eldian casualties mounted, the Armored Titan, Cart Titan, and Porco’s clawed Titan attacked and breached the fortress.
• Zeke wondered how Porco had acquired Titan power, then transformed into the Beast Titan and picked up a boulder.
• The Survey Corps advanced across the grassland and spotted the ocean on the horizon.
• Yago told Armin that the blue expanse was the ocean surrounding Paradis Island.

The Survey Corps reached the sea, where the soldiers explored the shore and Erwin asked Yago what lay beyond it. As Eren and Mikasa promised to see the world together, Yelena prepared Ruth to make contact with the Eldians on Paradis Island.

• Armin and the Survey Corps stepped into the sea, while Sasha tasted the salt water and Jean tricked her into thinking she had drunk foot-washing water.
• Hange got a crab caught on her finger, and Annie leaned on Yago as Erwin and the recovered Mike joined them.
• Erwin asked Yago what lay across the sea, and Yago replied that the world lay beyond it and that people were not necessarily allies.
• Armin described the wonders beyond the sea, and Mikasa took Eren's hand and promised to go see them with him.
• Yelena gave Ruth a signal pistol and sent him by speedboat to contact the Eldians on Paradis Island.

Yelena and Onyankopon seized control of the Marley frigate Courage as it approached Paradis Island, using a false report to send Marley soldiers ashore. The soldiers met Yago and other island forces at sea, where Yago welcomed them to Paradis.

• Captain Jeff berated Niccolo for being late with breakfast, and Yelena told Niccolo to prepare plenty of food for the ship's arrival.
• A lookout spotted apparent Marley soldiers waving from the port wall, prompting Jeff to order the Courage to slow down and headquarters to be contacted.
• Yelena reached for her pistol, but Onyankopon aimed at Jeff from behind, and Yelena knocked Jeff unconscious.
• Yelena's orders sent more than thirty unsuspecting Marley soldiers toward the port in three speedboats while the Courage slowed to dock.
• A purple flare signaled the plan's success, and Yago revealed himself to the Marley soldiers in an approaching boat and welcomed them to Paradis Island.

Yago’s Fate Titan seized Marley’s speedboats while Yelena and the Marley Volunteers took control of the Courage, allowing Eren to transform and force the crew to surrender. Niccolo reached shore with the supplies, where an unknown person held a blade to his throat.

• Yago transformed into the Fate Titan, overturned three speedboats, and carried them and their supplies to shore.
• Yelena revealed that the Marley Volunteers had replaced the deck soldiers’ ammunition with blanks and demanded the crew surrender.
• Eren transformed into the Attack Titan aboard the Courage, and Yelena shot the Marley captain when he refused to surrender.
• The Marley soldiers aboard the Courage dropped their weapons as the Scouts waited at the dock.
• Yago pulled Niccolo off a speedboat and set him on the shore, where someone pressed a blade against his neck.

The Survey Corps took the Marley Volunteers and their ship, and Yelena explained that they wanted to cooperate against Marley. After Niccolo’s food caused a frenzy among the Scouts, Yelena gave Yago Zeke’s intelligence, which left him shocked by news of a new Titan.

• The Survey Corps captured the Marley soldiers and inspected the supplies aboard the speedboat as Hange eagerly searched through them.
• Yelena told Erwin that the Marley Volunteers wanted revenge on Marley and offered weapons, specialists, and technical help.
• Hange dragged Onyankopon away to help her understand the equipment, while the Scouts crowded around Niccolo as he cooked.
• Sasha rushed forward and devoured Niccolo’s food, prompting the other Scouts to join her.
• Yelena gave Yago Zeke’s intelligence, and Yago reacted with shock and anger at the report of a new Titan.

Yago learned that Hizuru planned to send a delegation to Paradis Island, then discussed the sealed Founding Titan power and the Euthanasia Plan with Yelena. He planned to use Hizuru’s ship to travel to Marley and retrieve Annie’s father, while Annie grew angry after seeing him with Yelena.

• Paradis Island’s leaders delayed producing Lynch’s new pistols after learning Hizuru wanted to establish relations and might be seeking iceburst stone.
• Yelena told Yago that Marley’s new Flying Claw Titan had surprised the world, and pressed him about when the Founding Titan power would awaken.
• Yago insisted the power would remain sealed for three years and warned Yelena not to interfere in Paradis Island’s internal affairs or the Euthanasia Plan.
• Yago told Yelena he planned to travel to Marley to bring Annie’s father back from the Liberio Internment Zone, and she offered help from the Volunteers there.
• Annie saw Yago leave Wall Maria and, after he casually pinched her cheek and invited her to eat, became even angrier when he walked away to train Eren.

Kiyomi Azumabito arrived on Paradis Island to negotiate with its leaders, revealing Hizuru’s history with the Eldian Empire and asking about the island’s iceburst stone. The talks began with both sides recognizing the island’s resources as central to their interests.

• Kiyomi Azumabito arrived aboard a large ship, and Paradis Island expanded its harbor to receive her delegation.
• Kiyomi entered Wall Maria and was struck by its height as she considered the potential of the Rumbling.
• Historia, Eren, Yago, and other leaders gathered in the palace while the Hizuru delegation arrived.
• Kiyomi bowed to Paradis Island’s representatives and explained Hizuru’s former alliance with the Eldian Empire and its decline after the Titan civil war.
• Kiyomi showed the representatives a piece of iceburst stone and asked whether it came from Paradis Island.

Paradis Island agreed to supply iceburst stone to peaceful, cooperative nations as Kiyomi Azumabito offered Hizuru’s support. Kiyomi discovered Mikasa’s connection to the Azumabito family crest, but Mikasa refused to leave Paradis, while Yago spotted a blonde girl waiting outside.

• Kiyomi Azumabito proposed an exclusive iceburst stone partnership, and Erwin replied that Paradis would supply resources to nations maintaining peaceful, friendly relations.
• Kiyomi brought Mikasa to the meeting and recognized her resemblance to the shogun, then showed her the Three Interwoven Samurai Swords crest.
• Eren pointed out that Mikasa’s wrist bore the same mark, and Mikasa unwrapped her bandage to reveal it.
• Yago teased Eren about the meaning of Mikasa showing a boy her crest and reminded him to ask Kiyomi about it.
• Mikasa refused Kiyomi’s request to return to Hizuru, choosing to stay on Paradis with the person she cared about most.
• Yago looked through the meeting room window and saw a blonde girl in Omni-Directional Mobility Gear waiting on a rooftop with a dessert.

Yago, Annie, Hange, and Moblit traveled from Paradis Island to Hizuru aboard Kiyomi Azumabito’s ship after talks between the two sides. Kiyomi questioned Yago about rejecting the Founding Titan Inheritance Plan, and the chapter ended as a fleet of warships appeared ahead of them.

• Yago suffered from seasickness while Annie gave him salted lemonade aboard the ship carrying Hizuru’s delegation home.
• Yago recalled how Armin, Historia, and others had asked him about the outside world, while Hange and Moblit explored the ship.
• Kiyomi Azumabito asked Yago why Paradis Island had rejected Zeke Jaeger’s Founding Titan Inheritance Plan, and Yago said they had their own plans and would not sacrifice Historia.
• Hange and Moblit examined the ship’s engine before meeting Yago and Annie on deck.
• The ship’s horn blared as a fleet of more than ten warships appeared ahead, with a large white shape beneath the water nearby.