Chapter Summaries

Yago spoke with Annie about which military regiment they would join, then experienced a strange vision in which Eren called him the Fate Titan and urged him toward the future. He woke with no memory of the encounter, though he instinctively believed that he was the Fate Titan.

• Yago asked Annie which regiment she planned to join, and she said she would probably choose the Military Police Brigade.
• Yago told Annie he planned to join the Survey Corps, and Annie said the Scouts sounded appealing before leaving.
• Yago woke chained in a dark room, where a man told him he could not transform and called him the Fate Titan.
• The man spoke with another voice behind Yago, said goodbye to Eren, and the darkness shattered into light as Yago saw someone before him.
• Yago woke the next morning with a headache and no clear memory of the vision, but he instinctively thought that his Titan was the Fate Titan.

Yago slacked off during hand-to-hand combat training until he was paired with Annie, whose skill soon overwhelmed him. After he accidentally pulled her down on top of him, Annie beat him relentlessly, and training ended with Yago pleading for help.

• Yago wandered the training grounds after Armin left to spar with Mina and met Annie, who agreed to pair with him when the instructor approached.
• Annie quickly knocked Yago off balance, and their spar drew a crowd as she evaded his powerful attacks.
• Annie caught Yago's arm and hooked his leg, but he pulled her down with him to avoid falling alone.
• Yago awkwardly tried to explain himself while Annie stood up, then she attacked him with renewed fury.
• Instructor Keith sent Sasha and Connie to run fifty laps, while Annie repeatedly knocked Yago down and Eren and Armin ignored his plea for help.

Yago trained in hand-to-hand combat and attended a lesson on Titan behavior, where he questioned whether Titans could be intelligent. He suspected that the Colossal Titan and Armored Titan were humans who could transform, and resolved to keep his Titan power as a last resort to protect his family.

• Yago apologized to Eren for leaving him to be beaten, and Mikasa insisted that she should train Eren instead of Annie.
• Yago improved rapidly under Annie's hand-to-hand combat instruction, while Eren trained with Mikasa and learned from Yago's techniques.
• An instructor taught the cadets about ordinary and abnormal Titans, their behavior, and the nape as their only known weakness.
• Yago asked whether Titans could be intelligent and whether the Colossal Titan and Armored Titan counted as abnormal Titans, but the instructor had no clear answer.
• Yago privately concluded that other people might be able to transform into Titans and resolved to save his Titan power to protect his family.

The 104th Cadet Corps began training with Omni-Directional Mobility Gear as Instructor Keith issued the equipment and explained its functions and dangers. Yago proudly strapped on his gear, eager for the training to begin.

• Instructor Keith announced that the cadets would begin Omni-Directional Mobility Gear training, and the recruits pledged to dedicate their hearts.
• Yago led Squad 34, including Eren, Armin, Thomas, Mina, Ili, and Maddie, to collect their gear.
• Eren asked why the gear had no gas canisters, and the instructor explained that the recruits could not safely use the equipment before learning how it worked.
• An instructor demonstrated the gear's blades, cables, controls, harness, and gas-driven mobility, while warning the cadets about its limits and risks.
• Yago strapped on his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear and proudly drew one of its blades.

Yago showed exceptional skill with Omni-Directional Mobility Gear during training but was punished with fifty laps for disobeying orders. The exercise left many cadets injured and two dead, and Yago ended the day sharing a meal with Annie, who quietly warned him to be careful.

• Yago launched himself into the woods without permission and maneuvered through the trees with remarkable skill.
• Instructor Keith ordered Yago to run fifty laps, then let the other cadets begin their training, where several were injured and two died.
• Yago met Eren and Mikasa after training and learned that Armin had been taken to the infirmary with a head injury.
• At dinner, Yago found Annie unharmed and joined her; she warned him not to act impulsively because it was dangerous.

Jean took a shortcut during a training run and got lost in the forest, where Mark joined him while searching for him. Yago led a search party, and Eren eventually found both trainees; Jean and Mark returned to face Keith’s punishment.

• Jean slipped away from the training group to take a shortcut, but lost his way in the forest.
• After the trainees reached their destination, a recruit told Yago that Mark and Jean were missing, so Yago organized a search party.
• Mark found Jean while looking for him, and the two spent the night lost together, reaffirming their friendship and their shared dream of joining the Military Police Brigade.
• Eren found Jean and Mark with a torch, and Keith reprimanded them and sentenced them to a month of toilet cleaning.

Yago led Squad Two through wilderness march training, where he helped the cadets endure the desert heat and hunted rabbits for dinner. After Ili cooked a meal for the squad, Mikasa sensed that something was wrong, leaving Yago unaware of what might lie ahead.

• Instructor Keith warned the cadets that the wilderness march was a battle and stressed the need to stay alert.
• Yago led Squad Two toward its rendezvous with Mark's squad, and the boys gave their jackets to struggling girls to shield them from the sun.
• Yago chose a forest clearing for camp, then used his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear to kill two rabbits.
• Ili cooked the rabbits into soup, and the cadets ate it; Mikasa told Yago she had a bad feeling.
• Yago asked Ili about his past dream of becoming a chef, but Ili declined to explain why he had joined the Training Corps.

Yago caught two arms-smuggling thieves stealing the cadets’ Omni-Directional Mobility Gear and stopped them with help from Annie. After learning their accomplices were attacking Mark’s Class, he led a rescue party into the forest.

• Yago woke as two thieves tried to steal Omni-Directional Mobility Gear, then broke one thief’s wrist and threw the other to the ground.
• One thief took Bertholdt hostage at gunpoint, forcing Yago to release his captive.
• Yago told Bertholdt to duck and struck the armed thief with a stone, while Annie cut down the other thief’s gun hand; a shot grazed Yago’s neck.
• Annie checked on Yago, and he warned the cadets that the thieves’ accomplices were targeting Mark’s Class.
• Yago organized the cadets into groups and led Squad 2, including Mikasa and Annie, into the forest to help Mark’s Class.

Yago and Class Two found Mark’s Class cornered by thieves who had taken Christa hostage. Yago and his classmates rescued them, and the authorities arrested the thieves and uncovered a larger gang.

• Yago’s search party spotted a green flare near Odru and hurried toward it.
• Eren, Armin, and the others faced armed thieves who demanded their Omni-Directional Mobility Gear while holding Christa hostage.
• Yago had Bertholdt shoot the lead thief’s knife hand, then subdued four thieves as Class Two disarmed the rest.
• Mikasa checked on Eren, Annie checked on Yago, and Ymir fussed over Christa after the trainees were safe.
• The Garrison Regiment and Military Police Brigade arrested the thieves and learned of a larger gang; the Garrison squad leader recognized Yago.

After Yago fell ill, he confronted a mysterious girl and a gigantic Titan in a vision, then awoke with steaming, healing hands and clues about his lost past. He was left wondering who he had been and how to explain his soaked blanket without revealing his Titan Power.

• Annie asked Armin why Yago had missed class, and Armin told her he was resting in the dorm after going to the infirmary.
• Annie returned to her seat, unfolded two drawings from her notebook, and wondered whether to bring Yago something.
• While Yago lay in bed, he entered a desert vision and approached a pillar of light guarded by a barrier, where he saw a little girl piling up sand.
• The girl became a towering Titan, and a whisper warned Yago that fate could not be changed; Yago shouted back, making the vision disappear.
• Yago saw a figure in a white lab coat call him Norman and describe him as a perfect creation meant to make Marley regret its actions.
• Yago awoke with steaming hands that healed their wounds, wondered about his past and Marley, and worried that others would think he had wet the bed.

During winter training, Yago separated from the cadets as his body began reacting to the Titan Power. When an avalanche rushed toward him, he transformed into the Yago Titan but was buried beneath the snow.

• Yago deliberately fell behind the squad during the winter march, while Eren and Armin assumed he would meet Thomas at the rear.
• In the blizzard, Reiner urged Annie to search the Royal Capital for information and implied that Yago could be harmed; Annie agreed to try once more.
• Yago hid in the woods as the squad moved on, then felt the Titan Power surging through his body and collapsed beneath a tree.
• Christa dragged the injured Daz on a stretcher through the storm, and Ymir stayed with her despite urging her to abandon him.
• Yago awoke as an avalanche thundered down the slope, transformed into the Yago Titan, and was swallowed by the snow.

Ymir confronted Christa about her hidden identity and her apparent wish to die while trying to save Daz, then left her in a snowbank. Yago returned to camp carrying Christa, who had seen him emerge from a Titan but was told she had merely knocked herself unconscious.

• Ymir accused Christa of wanting to die and revealed that she knew Christa was the nobleman's illegitimate daughter living under a new identity.
• Ymir urged Christa to choose to live, then tossed her into a snowbank and went to deal with Daz at the cliff.
• Christa saw a Titan emerge from the snow, screamed, and knocked herself out by running into a tree.
• Yago emerged from the Titan's nape, found Christa unconscious, and carried her back to camp while claiming he had simply found her in the snow.
• Ymir rushed to take Christa from Yago, while the others gathered around them and Annie watched Yago intently.

After a year of training, Yago encountered Survey Corps logistics squad leader Scott and joined him on a trip to Wall Sina to inspect damaged Omni-Directional Mobility Gear. Hearing about Levi’s achievements made Yago eager to challenge him, while Levi remained unaware of Yago’s plans and ordered his squad to clean again.

• Yago met Scott while shopping with Lucia, and Scott explained that he was taking damaged Omni-Directional Mobility Gear to Wall Sina.
• Lucia agreed to let Yago travel with Scott and the two Survey Corps soldiers, who hoped the top cadet might join their corps.
• Yago examined the damaged gear during the journey and ate the Survey Corps’ rations at noon.
• Yago asked Scott about Levi, and Scott warned him not to mention the captain’s height before describing Levi’s feats against Titans.
• Yago privately resolved to surpass Levi if he joined the Survey Corps, while Levi sneezed at headquarters and made Petra and the others clean a room again.

Yago studied Omni-Directional Mobility Gear with researcher Lynch Seda and learned about its history while visiting a research estate in Wall Sina. After leaving with a rotating mechanism and a better understanding of his broken gear, Yago spotted a dessert shop and decided to go inside, thinking of someone who had eaten all the cakes at a picnic.

• Yago stayed at the Omni-Directional Mobility Gear research estate while Scott went to a Survey Corps meeting, and Lynch Seda showed him the equipment.
• Lynch explained the gear's components and history, including its role in humanity's first Titan kill by Kuklo.
• Yago found two blade handles in the discarded equipment and asked Lynch to make him a rotating mechanism.
• Yago learned where his own Omni-Directional Mobility Gear was damaged, then left the estate with the mechanism.
• Yago noticed a dessert shop across the street and decided to visit after recalling someone who had eaten all the sponge cakes at a picnic.

Yago spotted Annie following Kenny Ackerman and hurried after her, only to find her trapped in a fight with the dangerous man. As Kenny advanced on the injured Annie, Yago appeared at the alley entrance.

• Yago recognized Annie following a suspicious man and chased after her.
• Annie confronted Kenny in a dead-end alley after he caught her tailing him.
• Kenny fired at Annie, then dodged her attacks and dislocated her wrist when he struck back.
• Annie reset her wrist and prepared to use the power she feared would expose her identity.
• Yago arrived at the alley and called out to Annie while facing Kenny Ackerman.

Yago protected Annie from Kenny, who suspected Yago was an Ackerman and nearly drew his guns before Scott arrived with Survey Corps soldiers. After Kenny vanished, Yago and Annie returned home, where Yago wondered about her secrets and his possible connection to the Ackermans.

• Yago stepped between Annie and Kenny, fought back against Kenny's attacks, and tried to conceal his Titan abilities while Annie prepared to defend him.
• Kenny suspected Yago had Ackerman blood and hesitated to kill him, but reached for his guns as Yago and Annie braced to reveal their powers.
• Scott arrived with two Survey Corps soldiers, and Kenny disappeared while they helped Yago and Annie leave.
• In the carriage, Annie admitted she was keeping a secret from Yago but said she could not reveal it yet.
• Yago gave Annie a fresh basket of sweets and brought the damaged sweets home for Eren, Armin, and Mikasa, wondering whether Mikasa was special because she was an Ackerman.

In their third year of training, Yago and the 104th Cadet Corps prepared for graduation as Yago reaffirmed his intention to join the Survey Corps. The chapter ended with Instructor Keith looking forward to the cadets’ future.

• Yago watched the cadets train and demonstrated his skill with his custom leg-mounted blades, while Instructor Keith worried about his plan to join the Survey Corps.
• Annie challenged Yago to spar, then told him about a simulated attack exercise in Trost that Commander Pyxis would observe.
• Yago encouraged Annie to impress Pyxis, though Annie privately feared Yago’s Survey Corps plans would put his life at risk.
• After Sasha and Connie teased them for slacking off, Yago and Annie returned to training, and Yago rapidly cut down the Titan models Jean was targeting.
• Eren struggled to free his blade from a Titan model as Mikasa stayed near him, while Armin talked with Mina and Reiner searched for Christa.
• Instructor Keith watched the cadets and reflected that it was time for the 104th Cadet Corps to move forward.

During the 104th Cadet Corps’ simulated Titan attack in Trost, Yago led Squad 27 in an impressive assault while Commander Pyxis watched in a drunken stupor. The exercise continued as Keith noticed Squad 21 abandoning its rear-guard post, and Pyxis set out to inspect the cadets.

• Instructor Keith briefed the 104th Cadet Corps on the Trost exercise, which Pyxis would observe.
• Yago, Thomas, and Bertholdt joined Squad 27, and the cadets traveled into Trost before preparing for the drill.
• After a green flare began the exercise, Yago led Squad 27 off a tower to attack the Titan models.
• Keith watched Yago, Thomas, and Bertholdt perform well, then spotted Squad 21 abandoning its rear-guard post.
• Miniko woke Pyxis and tried to stop him drinking, but Pyxis ignored her and spoke with Keith.
• Keith praised the cadets, and Pyxis agreed to go inspect their performance.

Jean and Sasha settled their dispute over stolen training points with a cooking contest judged by Commander Pyxis, while Pyxis privately questioned Yago about his unexplained past. Jean won the contest and reconciled with Sasha, but Yago remained troubled by the sense that he was under suspicion.

• Jean challenged Sasha to compete for more points in training, but Pyxis intervened and ordered them to settle their rivalry with a cooking contest.
• Pyxis took Yago for a walk along Wall Rose and confronted him about the Garrison Regiment finding no record of him in Shiganshina before the Survey Corps returned.
• Pyxis said he had wanted to meet the person Erwin took an interest in, leaving Yago shaken by the commander's scrutiny.
• Sasha's group served wild boar at the contest, but Pyxis declared Jean the winner after tasting his omelet.
• Jean helped the disappointed Sasha up, resolving their misunderstanding, while Yago remained worried.

The 104th Cadet Corps graduated, and the top ten cadets were given the choice to join the Military Police Brigade. As the cadets celebrated, Yago brooded over his mysterious origins and the chapter ended with three figures slipping through the darkness.

• Keith reviewed the 104th Cadet Corps roster, which ranked Yago Norman first and Mikasa Ackerman second.
• At the graduation ceremony, the instructors explained the three military branches and reserved the Military Police Brigade choice for the top ten cadets.
• Eren resolved to join the Survey Corps, Mikasa intended to follow him, and Jean looked forward to joining the Military Police Brigade.
• Yago reaffirmed his intention to join the Survey Corps while questioning his Titan power, his memories, and the white-coated figure who had called him a failure.
• The cadets celebrated their graduation with food and alcohol, while three figures quietly slipped through the darkness.