Chapter Summaries

Eren adjusted to life in the Survey Corps while Yago and thirty-one other recruits officially joined. The recruits began preparatory training for an expedition, and Mikasa worried about Eren under Levi Squad’s watch.

• Eren recalled how Commander Erwin secured his place in the Survey Corps after Captain Levi beat him at his trial, and how he was assigned to Levi Squad.
• Oluo asked Eren whether his classmates wanted to join the Survey Corps, and Juda mentioned that Yago had killed twenty-one Titans in Trost District.
• Yago arrived without a uniform because the Survey Corps had not prepared enough, then watched Nile’s horse Charlotte bite Nile’s headscarf.
• Nile announced that the recruits would start preparatory training for an expedition beyond the walls, with formal training beginning the next day.
• Mikasa worried about Eren being watched by Levi Squad, while Yago asked the recruits for a spare uniform and Annie decided to keep hers.
• Thirty-two new recruits officially joined the Survey Corps.

Yago learned how the Survey Corps' Long-Distance Scouting Formation worked while worrying over Annie's sudden withdrawal from him. After the recruits reunited with Eren and received their uniforms, Annie continued to keep her distance from Yago.

• Nile explained the Long-Distance Scouting Formation and told the recruits where they would be positioned on the expedition.
• Yago took Annie's hand to comfort her, but Annie pushed it away and resolved to keep her distance so she would not involve him in her mission.
• After class, Annie left without Yago, and she walked away from him again when he tried to approach her among the recruits.
• Yago joined Eren and the others, who discussed which recruits had enlisted in the Survey Corps and Military Police Brigade.
• Nile called the recruits to collect their uniforms, and they put on their Survey Corps cloaks.

Before the 57th Expedition Beyond the Walls, Yago realized he loved Annie and confessed to her at the Trost gate. Annie gave no answer before the Scouts prepared to depart.

• During the final scouting drill, Nile praised Yago’s fighting skills and urged him to confess his feelings to Annie before the dangerous expedition.
• Yago searched for Annie at dinner, while Annie sat alone on the headquarters rooftop and examined two rings.
• Jean urged Eren to live up to humanity’s hopes, and Yago watched as the recruits prepared for the expedition.
• At the gate, Yago stopped Annie and told her he liked her, then asked her to consider going out with him; Annie blushed but did not reply.
• After the Garrison announced that the Titans outside the Walls had been cleared, Erwin ordered the troops to prepare.

During the Survey Corps’ fifty-seventh expedition, the formation encountered more Titans than expected, and Annie attacked an Abnormal Titan in the right wing. Yago killed another Abnormal Titan threatening Nile’s unit, while signals from the right warned of a larger attack.

• Commander Erwin led the Survey Corps through the gate and ordered the troops to form the Long-Distance Scouting Formation beyond the ruined district.
• Yago spotted Titans approaching but trusted the covering squad to handle them as the main force advanced.
• Annie left her horse to attack an Abnormal Titan, and Squad Leader Qiluo fired a warning flare when more than twenty Titans charged toward his unit.
• Yago used his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear to evade an Abnormal Titan’s strike and cut its nape.
• Yago rejoined Captain Nile’s unit, and they noticed signal flares rising from the right.

Yago rushed to aid the right-flank scouting unit after spotting signals of a Titan attack, but arrived to learn Annie had been swallowed by the Female Titan. Grieving and carrying Annie’s ring and remains, he rode off alone to pursue the Female Titan.

• Nile ordered Heath and the Elite Combat Squad to reinforce the right flank, but Yago rode ahead when he learned the unit was in danger.
• Yago encountered a blond Female Titan leading a group of Titans; she abruptly changed direction, and he fired a red signal flare before continuing toward the right flank.
• Qiluo and his Scouts defeated the remaining Titans and told Yago that the Female Titan had swallowed Annie, leaving only her severed arm.
• Yago took Annie’s ring, wrapped her arm in the bloodstained cloak, and rode off in pursuit of the Female Titan.
• Heath arrived with the Elite Combat Squad, while Nile worried that Yago had gone after the Female Titan alone.

Yago pursued the Female Titan toward the Giant Tree Forest while Armin deduced that she was a human shifter targeting Eren. The Female Titan survived an ambush and continued toward the forest, leaving Yago wondering why she had not attacked the Scouts herself.

• Yago saw Black Signal Flares and charged toward the formation’s center, suspecting that the Female Titan was a human shifter heading for headquarters.
• Jean saved Armin from a Titan, and Armin concluded that the Female Titan was deliberately searching for Eren.
• Armin, Jean, Bertholdt, and Reiner lured pursuing Titans toward the Giant Tree Forest as the Levi Squad received orders to enter it.
• Aito and Zoe ambushed the Female Titan, but her hardened nape broke Aito’s blades and she injured both Scouts before continuing toward the forest.
• Yago learned that the Female Titan had not attacked Scouts directly and began to suspect why she was using the Titans following her.

Erwin's ambush trapped the Female Titan in the Giant Tree Forest, but she escaped her restraints and raced toward Eren. As a lightning bolt descended in front of Eren, Yago was also pursuing the Female Titan, seeking revenge for Annie.

• Erwin split the Survey Corps into three groups and ordered the center squads and wagon escorts into the Giant Tree Forest while the other units went around it.
• After a black flare signaled that the Female Titan had entered the forest, Yago borrowed Armin's horse and raced after her, determined to avenge Annie.
• The Female Titan attacked the soldiers pursuing the Levi Squad, and Levi told Eren that the squad's mission was to protect him.
• Erwin's concealed troops fired steel-cabled anchors into the Female Titan and pinned her in place, but she tore free and launched a figure from her nape toward Eren.
• Erwin shouted for the soldiers to protect Eren as a dazzling bolt of yellow lightning descended in front of him.

The Survey Corps pursued the Female Titan after she captured Eren and bit off his legs, while her roar summoned abnormal Titans to obstruct them. Levi and Mikasa failed to breach her crystal-protected nape, but Yago blinded her and confronted her as she crashed into a tree.

• The Female Titan seized Eren, bit off both his legs, and fled as Oluo and Juda were injured trying to stop her.
• Erwin ordered the Scouts to pursue the Female Titan, and Levi left Petra and Eld to care for the wounded while Mikasa raced after Eren.
• The Female Titan roared and summoned a horde of abnormal Titans, so Erwin sent some squads to hold them off while the others continued the chase.
• Levi and Mikasa attacked the Female Titan, but their blades broke against the crystal protecting her nape, and Levi urged Mikasa to help immobilize her.
• Yago blinded the Female Titan with a strike to her eyes, causing her to crash into a tree, then leaped down and faced her.

Yago helped Mikasa and Levi recover Eren from the Female Titan, then refused to retreat and stabbed himself in the heart to transform. He became the seventeen-meter Fate Titan and charged the Female Titan as Levi and Mikasa withdrew with Eren.

• Yago, Mikasa, and Levi found Eren inside the Female Titan’s mouth, and Yago caught him after she hurled him away.
• A Scout reported Erwin’s order to retreat because many Titans, including Abnormal Titans, were approaching.
• Yago refused Levi’s order to retreat and asked Mikasa to take care of his mother if he did not return.
• Yago stabbed himself in the heart with his broken blade, triggering a transformation that revealed he was a Titan.
• Yago transformed into the seventeen-meter Fate Titan and charged the Female Titan while Levi and Mikasa escaped with Eren.

Yago’s Fate Titan savagely attacked Annie’s Female Titan, then was overwhelmed by a swarm of Titans. After Annie emerged from her nape and was nearly eaten, Yago regained enough strength to save her and flee through the forest.

• Yago’s Fate Titan smashed the Female Titan’s head, tore off her arm, and repeatedly stomped and punched her while Yago raged inside.
• More than thirty Titans swarmed the Fate Titan, tearing off both arms and leaving him badly wounded as other Titans attacked the motionless Female Titan.
• Annie emerged from the Female Titan’s nape, and Yago briefly regained his awareness when he saw her pale blue eyes.
• A five-meter Titan seized Annie and bit her arm, but Yago’s Fate Titan surged up and knocked the Titan away.
• The armless Fate Titan took Annie into his mouth and ran into the forest with several Titans pursuing them.

Yago survived the battle with Annie, while Erwin and Levi learned that Yago could transform into a Titan and focused on protecting Eren. As the Survey Corps withdrew, four recruits, including Yago and Annie, were listed as missing, and Bertholdt panicked while Reiner stared at Christa.

• Yago rested in a tree with the unconscious Annie in his arms as Titans devoured the fading remains of his Titan body and her bitten-off arm began to regenerate.
• Levi told Erwin that Yago could transform into a Titan, and Erwin ordered the Survey Corps to retreat and prioritize Eren's protection.
• Mikasa told Armin that Yago was the Red-Eyed Titan, then checked on the still-unconscious Eren as his legs regenerated.
• Erwin told Hange, Levi, and Mike that the King had ordered the Survey Corps to bring Eren to the Capital, and Mike reported four missing recruits.
• Erwin saw that Juan Ojeda, Javier Calleja, Yago Norman, and Annie Leonhardt were listed as missing.
• Bertholdt worried that Annie had failed and Eren had returned, while Reiner stared at Christa as she helped the logistics squad.

Yago, an Eldian orphan surviving on the streets of Marley’s internment zone, met Annie Leonhardt after she rescued him from Gray and his lackeys. Annie walked away after giving Yago her name, leaving him eager to follow her.

• Yago stole and ate a baker’s black bread, then wandered to the internment zone’s guarded exit and wondered about the world outside.
• Yago found Gray and two other children bullying Annie Leonhardt and demanding her money, so he confronted them.
• Gray and his lackeys beat Yago and pinned him down, but Annie knocked Gray unconscious and quickly defeated the others.
• Yago praised Annie’s fighting and asked her to teach him, but she told him not to follow her.
• Annie gave Yago her name, and he called after her with his own.

Annie endured her father’s harsh training while Yago watched and tried to get close to her. After Yago started delivering desserts for work, he met Dr. Ebson, a Marleyan scientist who showed interest in him.

• Annie threatened Yago for following her, but later let him watch her train and shared desserts with him.
• Annie’s father, Mr. Leonhardt, pushed her to crack a wooden post and demanded she crack two the next day.
• When Yago asked about becoming a Warrior, Annie said orphans were not accepted, then offered to teach him a roundhouse kick.
• Toss Leonhardt watched Annie and Yago together and privately questioned his resolve.
• Yago fell while delivering pastries, spilling them onto a Marleyan man’s trousers, but the man introduced himself as Dr. Ebson and asked about Yago’s parents.

Annie and Yago grew close over three years as he brought her sweets and encouraged her before the Warrior candidate selection. Meanwhile, Yago continued assisting Doctor Ebson in a basement laboratory, where Ebson's unsettling behavior hinted at a change in his experiments.

• Annie missed Yago during his absence, then listened as he described working for Doctor Ebson and visiting places outside the Eldia Internment Zone.
• Yago told Annie that Doctor Ebson had given him the surname Norman, and the two grew closer over the next three years.
• Yago gave Annie a ring engraved with both their names and apologized for being unable to watch her Warrior candidate selection.
• Yago joined other Eldian orphans in Doctor Ebson's basement laboratory, where Elusa bound them to their beds before the usual blood draws.
• Doctor Ebson smiled strangely and declared that science was the ultimate answer.

Dr. Ebson injected Eldian orphans with black liquid in a failed attempt to awaken Titan Power, and Yago was the sole child whose transformation appeared to stabilize. Yago escaped briefly before Ebson injected him again; afterward, Ebson left with his father while the orphans’ bodies were sent toward the island of devils, and Annie hurried home with news for Yago.

• Dr. Ebson injected the orphans, whose bodies convulsed and burned as they died, until only Yago remained alive.
• Yago broke free, stabbed Ebson with a scalpel, and tried to escape, but Ebson caught him and forced another syringe of black liquid into his arm.
• Ebson’s father ordered him to abandon his Titan Power research and prepare to meet the head of the Tybur Family, then Ebson left with him.
• Bill arranged for servants to remove the orphans’ bodies, including Yago’s, from the basement.
• Annie returned home wearing her Warrior candidate armband and a ring, eager to share her news with Yago.
• Bill watched as a ship carrying the orphans’ bodies sailed away from the harbor.

Coris secretly rescued an amnesiac Eldian boy named Yago from a sack aboard a Marleyan ship, but the boy was discovered when the crew exiled Eldians on Paradis Island. The chapter left Yago transformed into a fifteen-meter Titan and running into the distance, while Coris watched in horror.

• Coris found Yago inside a sack and hid him in a disused cabin instead of reporting him.
• Coris kept Yago concealed from Captain Moses, who led Marleyan soldiers transporting Eldian Restorationists to Paradis Island.
• Captain Moses ordered the Eldians injected and kicked off a platform, transforming them into Titans.
• A Marleyan soldier found Yago, and Captain Moses gave Coris a syringe and ordered him to inject the boy.
• Yago thanked Coris for the bread before another soldier forced Coris to inject him, and Captain Moses kicked him off the platform.
• Yago transformed into a fifteen-meter Titan and ran into the distance as Coris stared on.

Yago recovered Annie’s memories, learning how she became the Female Titan and how Reiner and Bertholdt breached the walls. The memories strengthened Yago’s Titan Power, and he realized he had gained the Female Titan’s power.

• Yago relived Annie confronting Dr. Ebson about him and learned that Annie had believed Yago was dead.
• Annie inherited the Female Titan’s power, joined Marley’s mission to reclaim the Coordinate, and promised her remorseful mother she would return alive.
• After Marcel was eaten, Annie and the surviving Warriors continued to Paradis, where Bertholdt breached the wall and Titans killed many people.
• Annie spotted Yago among the Training Corps recruits and recognized him by his familiar face.
• Yago identified Reiner and Bertholdt as the Warriors who destroyed the wall and discovered that Annie’s power had strengthened his Titan Power.

Yago and Annie reunited after Yago recovered his memories, and he promised to stay with her despite her limited lifespan as a Titan shifter. After revealing that he was the Fate Titan, Yago transformed to fight the Titans below while Annie joined him as the Female Titan.

• Yago woke beside Annie, embraced her, and asked her to promise never to leave him again.
• Yago returned the ring to Annie, apologized for breaking their old promise, and vowed to stand by her despite her seven years left to live.
• Annie asked whether Yago was the Founding Titan, and he revealed that he was the Fate Titan.
• Yago promised to reunite Annie with Mr. Leonhardt, kissed her cheek before she could answer his confession, and jumped from the tree.
• Yago transformed into the strengthened Fate Titan, and Annie transformed into the Female Titan to help him fight the Titans below.

Erwin explained to Stohess's leaders why he had kept Eren and the other recruits away, warning that enemies capable of transforming into Titans were likely hiding among them. Meanwhile, Yago and Annie gathered supplies, Eren learned their suspected identities, and Erwin secured Military Police support for a counterattack.

• Erwin told Stohess's leaders that Eren and the other recruits were stationed at Survey Corps outposts, and Nile asked where Eren was.
• Yago and Annie reached a Survey Corps supply station, replenished their gear, and Yago tied Annie's hair into a bun.
• Eren learned that Yago was also a Titan and that Annie was suspected of being the Female Titan; Armin withheld another suspicion.
• Erwin told Nile and the district chief that Titan shifters were likely hiding among the recruits and that he had stationed them under guard.
• Nile agreed to deploy the Military Police Brigade, and Erwin declared that humanity would strike back.

Erwin learned that Titans had appeared in southern Wall Rose and ordered the Military Police and Garrison to prepare to support the Survey Corps. Earlier, Mike had spotted a large Titan group approaching the recruits’ base, while Yago and Annie set out to find Eren before Reiner and Bertholdt did.

• A Garrison soldier reported Titans in southern Wall Rose, and Erwin ordered Nile to mobilize the Military Police while the Garrison prepared for a possible breach.
• Reiner warned Bertholdt that the recruits were being watched and offered to help Connie sneak away from the Survey Corps base.
• Sasha sensed vibrations beneath the ground, and Mike confirmed that a large group of Titans was approaching from five kilometers south.
• Nanaba ordered the recruits to evacuate immediately, alarming Connie because his home lay to the south.
• Yago and Annie discussed the Beast Titan, then activated their Omni-Directional Mobility Gear to search for Eren.