Chapter Summaries

The Survey Corps found Yago Norman alive inside the nape of a strange Titan after it saved Vig and Giso from an ambush. Yago woke up with no memory of how he arrived, and Vig took him along as they returned from the expedition.

• A strange fifteen-meter Titan attacked the Titans ambushing Vig’s squad, then collapsed and began evaporating.
• Giso found Yago alive inside the Titan’s nape and nearly killed him, but Vig stopped him and decided the boy might help reveal the Titans’ secrets.
• Vig and Giso carried their fallen comrades’ bodies back while Vig rode with the hungry Yago in front of him.
• Yago told Vig that he only remembered his name, Yago Norman, and avoided explaining his hazy memories of another world and a golden flash.
• Vig began explaining the world beyond the walls to Yago as the survivors continued their journey.

Vig and Yago encountered Titans while traveling toward the Survey Corps’ main force, and Giso was killed when an Abnormal Titan ambushed the wagon. When Vig was badly injured defending Yago, Yago transformed into a fifteen-meter Titan and fought back against the attackers.

• Vig took Yago toward the Survey Corps’ main force, but several Titans appeared and he fired a purple flare to call for support.
• An Abnormal Titan ambushed Giso’s wagon and killed him, while Vig fired a black flare and fought the creature with his blades.
• A Titan cornered Yago, and Vig rescued him before the Abnormal Titan seized Vig’s cable and slammed him into a tree.
• As Titans attacked the injured Vig, Yago’s grief and rage triggered a transformation into a fifteen-meter Titan.
• Yago’s Titan punched through one Titan’s head, then threw the Abnormal Titan to the ground after it bit him from behind.

Yago’s Titan form killed the Titans attacking Vig, but Vig died after urging the Scouts to protect Yago. The Survey Corps took in the orphaned boy, who vowed to become a Scout and avenge Vig, while the failed expedition left the Corps badly depleted.

• The Yago Titan killed the three Titans, then collapsed when the wounded Vig called Yago’s name.
• Hange heard Vig’s last request to protect Yago, and Erwin ordered Scott to care for the unconscious boy despite Levi’s suspicion.
• Three days later, Yago grieved over Vig’s death and blamed himself while Hange tried to comfort him.
• Yago asked Erwin to let him join the Survey Corps someday so he could avenge Vig, and Erwin agreed he could train to become a Scout.
• Erwin and Hange discussed finding Yago a home with Vig’s wife, Lucia, while Yago kept Vig’s cloak and noticed his strength and reflexes had improved.
• The expedition survivors returned to the Walls, with more than half of the over two hundred Scouts who had gone out dead and fewer than ninety making it back.

Yago returned to Shiganshina with the battered Survey Corps and learned that Uncle Vig had died saving him. After Aunt Lucia adopted him and urged him not to blame himself, Yago resolved to protect her and what Vig had fought to protect.

• Yago entered Shiganshina with Scott and the Survey Corps, where grieving civilians watched the soldiers return with heavy losses.
• Moses' mother received her son's severed arm, and a Scout confessed that the expedition had uncovered nothing despite the soldiers' deaths.
• Scott brought Vig's body to Lucia, who learned that her husband had been killed in action.
• Lucia adopted Yago and told him that Vig had saved him willingly, urging him to live without guilt.
• Yago went to buy eggs for Lucia and resolved to protect her and everything Vig had sought to protect.

Yago spent the day with Eren, Mikasa, and Armin before the Colossal Titan breached Shiganshina District’s gate. As Titans invaded and the city fell into panic, Yago saved Lucia from a falling rock but was crushed and left gravely wounded, while Lucia called herself his mother.

• Yago delivered Aunt Lucia’s sponge cakes to Dr. Grisha’s family and joined Eren, Mikasa, and Armin after Mikasa and Yago frightened off Eren’s bullies.
• As Yago and Lucia walked home, the Colossal Titan appeared above the wall and kicked a massive breach into Shiganshina District’s gate.
• Titans and falling debris flooded the district, and Eren ran toward his home while Mikasa pursued him and Armin was swept away by the fleeing crowd.
• Yago shoved Lucia clear of a huge falling rock, but it crushed him against a house and left him unable to feel his legs.
• Lucia frantically tried to free Yago and called herself his mother, and Yago welcomed the thought as he lay dying.

Yago transformed into an incomplete Titan and saved Lucia and Carla during the Titans’ attack on Shiganshina, then reunited Carla with Eren and accepted Lucia as his mother. As the refugees escaped, Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie planned to breach the wall, and the Colossal Titan appeared before the Garrison Regiment.

• When a Titan attacked Lucia, Yago transformed into an incomplete skeletal Titan, knocked it away, and caught her.
• Yago toppled the Titan holding Carla, then Garrison soldiers helped him evacuate both women to the ferry landing.
• Eren and Mikasa reunited with Carla, and Lucia told Yago he could call her Mom.
• Yago concealed his transformation from the others while Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie discussed breaking through the wall.
• The Garrison Regiment fired its cannons and lowered Wall Maria’s gate as the Colossal Titan appeared.

The Armored Titan breached Wall Maria, forcing the surviving Garrison soldiers and civilians to retreat toward Wall Rose. At Trost, Eren declared he would join the Survey Corps, and Yago joined him as the refugees struggled to survive.

• The Armored Titan broke through Wall Maria while Yago suffered another painful headache and vowed to use his Titan power to protect humanity.
• The Shiganshina Garrison commander ordered the surviving soldiers to retreat after most of his troops were killed and several squads were wiped out.
• Eren told Mikasa and Armin he would join the Survey Corps, and Yago said he would join too; the ferry carried them toward Wall Rose.
• At Trost, Eren struck a Garrison soldier who insulted the refugees, and Yago stopped the soldier from hitting Eren.
• Carla slapped Eren after he insulted his friends and demanded that he apologize, so Eren apologized to Mikasa, Yago, and Armin.

In 848, Yago woke from a nightmare and went with Eren, Mikasa, and Armin to enroll in the Training Corps. They were all accepted, and Yago felt a secret warning that someone was watching him as they left with their uniforms.

• Yago dreamed of a pillar of light, a bound figure, and voices urging him to save someone before waking in a panic.
• Yago recalled how Grisha had disappeared, Carla had been injured, and Armin had lost his grandfather in the Wall Maria Reclamation Battle, leaving the families to live together.
• Eren rushed Yago, Mikasa, and Armin to the Training Corps enrollment office, where Yago used his strength to get application forms for them.
• Yago sensed someone secretly watching him, but he could not find the watcher in the crowd.
• Yago, Eren, Mikasa, and Armin passed their interviews and received Training Corps uniforms before heading home.

Yago attended the 104th Training Corps induction ceremony, where Keith Shadis intimidated the recruits and tested their resolve. Yago revealed his unusual strength when he caught Keith’s punch, but Keith knocked him down with a headbutt.

• Keith Shadis began the induction ceremony by declaring that the recruits would train to fight Titans, while Yago became distracted by a girl eating a potato.
• Keith questioned Armin Arnold, who said he had joined to help humanity win, and intimidated recruits including Jean Kirstein and Connie Springer.
• Keith challenged Yago after hearing him laugh at Connie, and Yago introduced himself as a recruit from Shiganshina District who wanted strength to protect what mattered to him.
• Yago caught Keith’s punch and resisted his attempt to restrain him, but Keith headbutted him and reminded him to respect his instructor.

During training, Yago impressed the recruits with his stamina and helped Armin finish the running test. Annie, who recognized something unsettling about Yago, drew Reiner and Bertholdt’s concern as she continued to approach him, while the two reaffirmed their mission to find the Coordinate Power.

• After Keith praised Yago for trading blows with him, he asked Annie Leonhart to introduce herself, and Annie watched Yago with unease because he seemed to resemble someone she knew.
• Keith caught Sasha Blouse eating a potato, ordered her to run fifty laps, and assigned the other recruits ten laps for boys and eight for girls.
• Yago led the recruits through the run, then stayed with Armin for an extra lap and helped him finish; Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie also showed strong stamina.
• Annie approached Yago after the run, and he awkwardly offered her his waterskin before leaving with Armin; Annie quietly thanked him.
• Reiner and Bertholdt warned Annie not to get close to the recruits, but she told them to stop meddling and went to the Girls’ Dormitory.
• Reiner told Bertholdt their mission was to find the Coordinate Power, while Bertholdt privately doubted the Marley Government’s claims that the islanders were devils.

Yago and the other recruits watched Sasha endure hours of running, while Eren described the Titans and clashed with Jean over their military ambitions. After Sasha finally collapsed, Christa and Yago helped feed her, and Yago reaffirmed his goal of joining the Survey Corps.

• Yago told Connie that Eren and Armin had seen the Colossal Titan, and Eren described its appearance to the recruits.
• At dinner, Eren and Jean argued about joining the Survey Corps or the Military Police Brigade, then shook hands and apologized.
• Jean complimented Mikasa's hair, then overheard her agree to cut it short after Eren said it was too long.
• Yago brought bread for Sasha, and Annie gave him bread and a waterskin to repay him for his help.
• After Sasha finished running and collapsed, Christa offered her bread and water, and Yago brought her more bread despite Ymir's suspicions.
• Yago reflected on his place in this world and declared that he intended to join the Survey Corps.

Annie remembered the people she had lost before attending a Training Corps history lesson with Yago. After Yago startled her and earned her anger, he apologized with a drawing, and Annie asked him to teach her how to draw.

• Annie woke from memories of her father, a supportive boy, and Norman, then joined Hannah for training and helped her fasten her gear.
• Yago arrived late to history class and discovered Annie was zoning out beside him.
• Yago startled Annie, causing her to shriek and a spike to spring from her ring; Annie then stepped on his foot beneath the desk.
• Yago passed Annie a detailed portrait and a chibi drawing asking for forgiveness, making Annie laugh.
• Annie praised Yago's drawing and asked him to teach her, then carefully folded the picture and put it away.

At the Training Corps, Yago excelled at the balance simulator and helped other cadets before overhearing Reiner and Bertholdt discuss becoming warriors. The word triggered a painful fragment of memory, leaving Yago with a sudden headache as Reiner and Bertholdt worried that he might have overheard their secret.

• Instructor Keith ordered the cadets to prove they could stay balanced on the aerial simulator, and Yago quickly steadied himself on his first attempt.
• Mikasa also passed, while Mark struggled through several attempts before learning to stay steady; Yago offered guidance to cadets who needed help.
• Ymir accused Yago of reaching toward Christa, then took Christa away to teach her herself.
• Yago approached Reiner and Bertholdt as they discussed their destroyed hometown and their goal of becoming warriors.
• Hearing the word "warrior" gave Yago a painful, confused memory fragment and a headache, so he left.
• Reiner and Bertholdt feared Yago had overheard them and agreed to stay alert and retreat if anything seemed wrong.

Eren repeatedly failed the balance exercise and searched for advice, while Yago endured a yearly bout of painful Titan-related torment in secret. The chapter left Eren determined to try again and Yago returning to the dormitory exhausted, with Reiner sensing that Yago was dangerous.

• Keith watched Eren fail the balance exercise as Jean and other recruits mocked him.
• Mikasa, Armin, and Yago stayed with Eren, who later sought advice from the other recruits but learned only that success came down to talent.
• Eren recalled a hazy memory of his father mentioning a key, a truth, and a power that was not a curse.
• Yago endured his annual nighttime torment and suspected that he was a weapon connected to Titan Power.
• Armin, Reiner, and Bertholdt joined Eren on the mountain to encourage him, while Reiner sensed that Yago was dangerous.
• Yago offered Eren a few words of encouragement, returned to the dormitory, and fell asleep from exhaustion.

Yago arrived late to class, taught Annie to draw, and rushed to lunch, while Eren succeeded at balance training and won permission to remain a recruit. The chapter left Yago struggling to balance on the apparatus despite having excelled the day before, as his fellow recruits watched with concern or suspicion.

• Yago overslept, missed breakfast, and sat beside Annie, who reminded him of his promise to teach her to draw.
• Yago coached Annie through a sketch of him, and she blushed at his praise while Jean, Mikasa, and Bertholdt watched and reflected on their own feelings.
• Yago raced to lunch, lost Eren's leftover bread to Sasha, and accepted a piece Annie offered him.
• Eren balanced successfully on the training apparatus, and Instructor Keith confirmed that he could become a soldier after checking his straps.
• Yago began swaying on the apparatus, then tried to steady himself by tensing his muscles as Annie and the others reacted.

Yago impressed the recruits by enduring training with a damaged belt, then took Annie to the Back Mountain to roast a rabbit. Annie remembered her lost childhood friend Norman and decided she would not lose Yago again, while the recruits shared his leftover meat.

• Yago held on during training despite a damaged belt buckle, and Instructor Keith sent him to replace his equipment while praising his potential.
• Yago teased Mikasa about her feelings for Eren, while Annie watched him and planned to investigate that night.
• Yago ran into Annie after leaving the dormitory and took her to the Back Mountain to catch and roast a rabbit.
• Annie remembered Norman, the boy she had lost after he was experimented on, and resolved not to lose Yago again.
• Yago and Annie shared the rabbit, then Yago brought the leftovers back for Eren, Armin, Sasha, and the other recruits to eat.

During a month in the Training Corps, Yago speculated to Annie that Titans might be intelligent humans, unsettling her as she concealed her mission. The recruits competed to catch Yago during a run, while Instructor Keith wondered what Eren and Yago would become.

• Yago asked Annie whether Titans might be intelligent and suggested they could once have been human, making her visibly uneasy.
• Yago invited Annie on a picnic during their upcoming leave, but she declined because she had something to do.
• Reiner confronted Annie about getting close to Yago and reminded her of their mission; Annie said she would investigate Wall Sina the next day.
• Instructor Keith offered recruits ten evaluation points for overtaking Yago, and Yago ran at the front to avoid being punished for holding back.
• Instructor Keith watched Eren run with determination and wondered whether Yago might become another Levi.

Yago tested his Titan transformation in the forest, discovering that he could control the Titan but could only sustain it for about two hours. After Garrison soldiers arrested two smugglers, Yago found an opportunity to take Omni-Directional Mobility Gear.

• Yago entered the forest and transformed into a fifteen-meter Titan, smashing trees as he tested his strength and control.
• Yago emerged from the Titan’s nape and estimated that he could remain transformed for about two hours, less if he fought.
• Yago hid when a carriage arrived carrying an elderly driver and a red-haired young man who began burying muskets and Omni-Directional Mobility Gear.
• Garrison soldiers ambushed the smugglers, arrested them, and praised a child who had tipped them off.
• Yago watched the soldiers leave and turned his attention to the crate of Omni-Directional Mobility Gear beside him.

Yago recovered a set of Omni-Directional Mobility Gear from smugglers, only to discover it was broken, and took it somewhere to dismantle later. At home, he joined Eren, Mikasa, and Armin for dinner, where his teasing about Eren and Mikasa having a child left them flustered and Eren promising to wait until they had driven out the Titans.

• Yago alerted the Garrison soldiers to the smugglers, then took their Omni-Directional Mobility Gear as recovered equipment.
• Yago tested the gear and found its trigger broken despite its blades and gas still being usable.
• Yago carried the gear home, avoided bringing it inside, and hid it elsewhere for later dismantling.
• Yago returned for dinner with smoked meat and told Lucia he had traded a squirrel with a butcher.
• Yago teased Eren and Mikasa about having a child, and Armin volunteered to be the second godfather.
• Eren told Mikasa they should wait until they had driven out the Titans, while Carla and Lucia discussed the children growing up.

Yago took Eren, Armin, and Mikasa on a picnic and invited Annie to join them. As the group spent the afternoon together, Annie reflected on her Marley mission and her feelings for Yago, while their sunset conversation ended with Annie punching him after he pulled off her hood.

• Yago teased Armin about looking like Christa, and Armin complained about the others making fun of him.
• The group spotted Annie at the market, where she was petting a kitten and thinking about her mission from Marley.
• Yago invited Annie to the picnic and led her to join Eren, Armin, and Mikasa.
• The group picnicked in a clearing near the forest, and Annie felt more at ease when she watched Yago.
• At sunset, Yago encouraged Annie to smile more, then pulled off her hood and was struck by her appearance.
• Annie punched Yago in the chest after he stared at her with her hair loose.