Chapter Summaries

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.

After the Imperialist coup was crushed, Paradis Island’s leaders began purging the conspirators and planning military reforms. At Parliament’s meeting, Yago demanded to become commander-in-chief and used the strength of the Eldia Revival Army to silence his opponents.

• Yago knocked Zeke away from Eren, while Mikasa reached Eren and the soldiers arrested the Imperialists.
• Pieck and Porco escaped the Survey Corps headquarters but left Reiner behind, then sought food amid the capital’s turmoil.
• Parliament and the military purged coup supporters, began planning a modern army, and made Pyxis prime minister after Zackly stepped down.
• Parliament debated the military’s future leadership, and Yago declared that he would serve as commander-in-chief of Paradis Island.
• Yago cited the Eldia Revival Army’s forces, captured resources, and role in training the new army, then challenged the senior figures to oppose him.

Yago ordered Selina to rebuild the Restoration Army and prepared to confront the threat Ebson had revealed, while consolidating his authority on Paradis Island. After a difficult day, he shared an intimate moment with Annie, leaving her father, Mr. Leonhardt, with an uneasy feeling.

• Yago visited the injured Selina and told her to return to the Marley Capital to organize and expand the Restoration Army, then left without explaining why.
• Yago avoided visiting his hospitalized mother, Lucia, and resolved to stop Ebson's plan with every force at his disposal.
• Connie and Jean told Yago that their search had located their targets in Dujiao Alley near the Underground City.
• Yago stayed up alone, worried about the island's divisions and the burden of leading its military.
• Annie came to comfort Yago, asked him to keep nothing from her, and kissed him after leading him inside.
• Mr. Leonhardt sensed that something unsettling had happened shortly after Annie left.

Yago recovered his resolve, reconciled with his guilt over neglecting Lucia, and brought homemade porridge to Selina and the other injured soldiers. Meanwhile, the chapter described how Historia’s government rebuilt the Underground City, where Levi thanked her for creating an orphanage for its children.

• Yago woke beside Annie, made breakfast, and went to visit Lucia at the hospital.
• Lucia comforted Yago, and Aunt Carla encouraged him to keep working for the Eldians alongside Eren.
• Yago brought his homemade rice porridge to Selina and Lance, who shared it with him.
• Queen Historia and Parliament supported a sweeping cleanup and reconstruction of the Underground City after the coup.
• The rebuilt Underground City gained sunlight, lively streets, and an orphanage for children who had lost their parents.
• Levi thanked Historia on behalf of the Underground City's children and let her lightly punch him in the chest.

Pieck and Porco hid in the Underground City after fleeing, but Yago and his soldiers found them. Yago drew Pieck’s blood and swallowed it, identifying it as the power of the Cart Titan.

• Granny Linda was knocked down by a cloaked figure who stole half her bread, and she worried that the hungry child was in trouble.
• Pieck returned to an abandoned courtyard with bread and urged Porco to eat, while he worried about their families and Falco.
• Yago appeared beside Pieck and Porco as A-Wu held Porco at blade point and armed soldiers surrounded them.
• Yago pinned Pieck’s shoulder and warned her not to resist, then cut her finger and identified her blood as the power of the Cart Titan.
• Yago swallowed the drop of Pieck’s blood.

Yago remembered that Pieck had helped him survive as a child in Marley, and he treated her more gently after realizing their past connection. When Porco blamed him for civilian deaths, Yago struck back by condemning Marley and revealing how its greed had led to Marcel’s death.

• Yago watched Pieck’s memories and recalled meeting her as a child, when she taught him to steal food to survive.
• Yago realized his childhood connection to Pieck explained why he had spared her at Wall Rose, and the Cart Titan’s cyan light joined the others around him.
• Yago offered Pieck and Porco porridge, then had A-Wu remove the blade from Porco’s neck.
• Porco accused Yago of destroying his hometown and killing innocent civilians, so Yago slapped him.
• Yago argued that Marley had caused the deaths of Paradis’s civilians and Marcel, and condemned Porco for serving Marley.