Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu used Annie’s roar to draw the surrounding Titans toward her, then fought them off while the Survey Corps watched. He carried Annie away after signaling the others, but a huge explosion and golden lightning erupted behind them.

• Annie roared on Bai Yu’s command, drawing Titans from across the forest toward her.
• Bai Yu fought the charging Titans with his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear while Annie waited in her Female Titan form.
• Bai Yu told Annie to come out of the nape, then flew away with her as the Titans attacked the Female Titan’s abandoned body.
• Annie chose not to transform or flee, and Bai Yu fired a signal flare.
• A huge fireball exploded behind them, and Bai Yu shot into the sky as golden lightning appeared.

Annie transformed into a Titan to help draw nearby Titans toward Jay’s Colossal Titan explosion, and Bai Yu led the group back to the Survey Corps. The Corps charged toward Shiganshina District, but when Bai Yu reached the wall, he discovered it was missing.

• Annie transformed into the Female Titan and caught Bai Yu, who trusted her and helped her recover before carrying her toward Jay’s explosion.
• Jay emerged from his Colossal Titan after the explosion wiped out the gathered Titans, and Ming and Kali helped him retreat.
• Bai Yu reassured Annie that he had trusted her not to attack, and she held on to him as they returned to Erwin.
• Erwin ordered the Survey Corps to mount up and resume its advance toward Shiganshina District.
• The Survey Corps charged through the remaining Titans, reached the wall, and began resupplying and clearing the area.
• Bai Yu climbed onto the wall and was shocked to find that it was gone.

Bai Yu and the Survey Corps sealed the breach in Wall Maria and announced its reclamation, then prepared a plan to clear the remaining Titans. Bai Yu gathered Eren and Historia to test the Founding Titan’s Power, and golden lightning flashed when Historia touched Eren’s hand.

• Levi and Bai Yu discovered that the wall in Shiganshina had vanished and found enormous footprints leading away.
• Erwin ordered the soldiers to clear nearby Titans while Bai Yu’s squad sealed the breach in Wall Maria.
• Annie used her Female Titan hardening to close the breach, and Bai Yu signaled that the operation had succeeded.
• Erwin announced that Wall Maria had been reclaimed, and Bai Yu proposed using Annie, the Colossal Titan, and Little Fish to eliminate the Titans inside it.
• Bai Yu secretly brought Eren and Historia together and had them place their hands together, triggering a flash of golden lightning.

Bai Yu tested whether Eren could recover memories, and Eren saw visions of Titans advancing and himself committing atrocities. Historia learned that her older sister had held the Founding Titan and was killed by Eren’s father, leaving the group to return to their ordinary plans.

• Bai Yu separated Eren and Historia after their hands touched and asked Eren what he had seen.
• Eren recalled visions of himself killing children and Titans, including hundreds of Colossal Titans, advancing amid explosions; Bai Yu suspected the scene showed a future battle.
• Historia asked about the older sister she remembered, and Bai Yu explained that she had inherited the Founding Titan before Doctor Jaeger and Eren.
• Eren asked whether his father had killed Historia’s sister, and Bai Yu told him not to blame himself for his father’s actions.
• Bai Yu urged Eren to share any information he discovered, then took Historia and Xiate to resume their Legend of Christa plans.
• Bai Yu invited Annie to get food, then flicked her forehead when she doubted that he had been considerate.

Bai Yu laughed at the exaggerated legend he had written about Historia, then discussed her decision to become queen with the others. He went to a mountaintop with Xiate and Annie, who remained under his supervision.

• Bai Yu laughed at the embellished account of Christa in his book, and Historia punched him for mocking it.
• Bai Yu joked about his title and Historia's future rule until Xiate dragged him outside with Annie.
• Historia told Kali that becoming queen was her own choice and that she would resist anyone who tried to make her a puppet.
• Bai Yu walked to a nearby mountaintop with Xiate and Annie, then settled onto a rock Annie had carried up in Titan form.

Bai Yu visited Ymir in the Paths, questioned her about the Colossal Titans, and later prepared to begin clearing Titans and reclaiming Wall Maria. He left Annie in Levi’s custody, telling her he would visit later.

• Bai Yu rested with Xiate and Annie, then returned to the Paths and found Ymir making sand sculptures of Titans.
• Bai Yu asked Ymir whether she controlled the Colossal Titans, and she shook her head.
• Bai Yu woke after about an hour and told Xiate and Annie they would begin clearing Titans the next day.
• Bai Yu asked Annie whether she would deal with Reiner if they found the Titan with royal blood, but she stayed silent.
• Bai Yu told Annie she was no longer his responsibility and left with Xiate.
• Levi and the others restrained Annie, and Bai Yu warned her not to transform before promising to visit later.

Bai Yu coordinated with Levi to oversee Annie’s transformation and draw nearby Titans together for Jay’s explosion. Annie’s gear failed in the blast, and Bai Yu rescued her but twisted his ankle during the landing.

• Bai Yu asked Levi to watch Annie while he was occupied, then told Xiate he would join the Titan cleanup.
• Bai Yu and Levi discussed a plan and a notebook before Levi ordered Annie to begin.
• Annie transformed into the Female Titan, roared to attract the Titans, and climbed out of her nape after nearly a hundred gathered.
• Jay flew away with Hange’s glider and detonated an explosion that swept Annie into the air when her gear failed.
• Bai Yu caught Annie and slowed their fall, but twisted his ankle when they landed.
• Levi blocked Annie from approaching Bai Yu and ordered her back to the wall.

Bai Yu and the Survey Soldiers used Annie and the Colossal Titan to clear Titans while searching for the Titan with royal blood. After several days, Bai Yu returned from an expedition with a captured blond Titan, whom the higher-ups planned to give the Armored Titan power.

• Xiate brought Bai Yu back onto the wall as the Colossal Titan crushed the remaining Pure Titans, and Bai Yu explained that his Omni-Directional Mobility Gear had malfunctioned.
• Bai Yu reminded the squad to capture the blond Titan believed to have royal blood without killing her, and Oluo boasted about his Titan kills.
• Levi urged the withdrawn Annie to eat, then discussed with Petra how the squad would keep watch over her and stop her if she tried to escape or kill anyone.
• Over the next few days, Annie lured Titans toward the wall with the Female Titan while Bai Yu and the squad cleared them with the Colossal Titan and searched for the royal-blooded Titan.
• Bai Yu returned from an expedition with a captured blond Titan whose limbs had been cut off, and the higher-ups decided to give her the remaining Armored Titan while leaving Historia alone.

Annie transformed and fed Reiner to the Titan called Dina, then returned to human form and accepted Bai Yu’s offer to take responsibility for her. As Annie clung to him and cried over her father, Bai Yu comforted her while the others retrieved Dina.

• Annie agreed to transform, became the Female Titan, and carried the unconscious Reiner to Dina.
• Annie fed Reiner to Dina, and Bai Yu welcomed Annie back as she emerged from the Female Titan’s nape.
• Bai Yu told Levi he would take responsibility for Annie, while Kali went to retrieve Dina and cover the person who emerged from her Titan form.
• Bai Yu asked Annie to give him her power, and she agreed without hesitation.
• When Bai Yu asked about Annie’s father, she broke down crying, and he held and comforted her.

Bai Yu’s forces cleared the Titans from Wall Maria, and Eren and Dina began testing whether they could use the Founding Titan’s power. They found that they could temporarily prevent Annie from transforming, but they still had to test whether they could control Pure Titans.

• Bai Yu and Erwin led separate Survey Corps forces in sweeping Titans from Wall Maria, and the troops eventually reclaimed the territory.
• Dina’s royal blood, past as Grisha’s wife, and mastery of the Armored Titan came to light, and she agreed to experiments with Eren’s Founding Titan power.
• Eren and Dina entered the Paths and asked Ymir to gather the Titans outside the walls, but she refused after touching the tree of light.
• Bai Yu had Eren and Dina try to stop Annie from transforming, and Annie was unable to become the Female Titan until a minute had passed.
• Bai Yu, Eren, and Dina reached Wall Maria and prepared to test whether they could make the remaining Pure Titans lie down.

Eren and Dina failed to control the Pure Titans, so Erwin planned to clear the island and develop its technology while Bai Yu considered how to face the nations overseas. In the following days, Bai Yu devoted himself to studying, and Armin asked Annie why she had come to the island, but she refused to explain.

• Eren and Dina could not control the Pure Titans, and Bai Yu joked about defecting before warning that the island could not fight every enemy nation at once.
• Erwin proposed clearing Titans from the island, monitoring the surrounding waters, and using Titan powers while advancing the island's technology; Bai Yu agreed and promised to explain ways to fight their enemies later.
• Bai Yu decided to study and conduct experiments while asleep, and he planned to visit Marley after the Titans were cleared.
• Armin found Annie reading near a sleeping Bai Yu and asked why she had chosen to come to the island, but Annie said the matter had nothing to do with him.
• Bai Yu fell from a tree, Annie caught him, and he thanked her before climbing back up to sleep while Annie returned to her book.

Armin spent time drinking cider with Ming and learned why Ming had joined the Survey Corps. Ming then asked Armin whether he liked Annie, leaving Armin unable to deny it.

• Armin joined Ming for cider after Ming said Bai Yu had bought it for him.
• Ming told Armin that Bai Yu wanted a drink when he was in a bad mood, though no one—not even Xiate—could tell when he felt that way.
• Ming explained that his parents had abandoned him after borrowing money, and that Bai Yu had persuaded him to join the Survey Corps instead of the Military Police Brigade.
• Ming asked Armin whether he liked Annie, and Armin could not bring himself to deny it.

Ming explained to Armin why Bai Yu was protecting Annie under their agreement, and Armin asked to speak with Ming again. Two days later, Bai Yu and the Survey Corps began their seventy-fifth Expedition Beyond the Walls to follow Titan tracks, with the Support Squad riding out under little pressure from the dwindling Titans.

• Ming told Armin that Annie had to give Bai Yu her power in exchange for his protection, and warned that he would kill her if she broke their agreement.
• Ming explained that he was protecting Annie because Bai Yu needed a reason to trust her, and Armin admitted he understood the decision.
• Armin thanked Ming and asked to visit him again, and Ming gave him a bottle of cider before leaving.
• Bai Yu set out with Ming, Xiate, Kali, and the Survey Corps on the seventy-fifth Expedition Beyond the Walls, carrying the improved Little Fish launchers.
• Bai Yu chatted with Nanaba and Gilgar during the expedition, and Kali reminded Gilgar that he had lost their previous drinking contest.

Bai Yu's group rescued Eren and Armin from Titans in the forest, but a Scout Squad member died while saving Mikasa. After resting, the Scouts continued toward the island's shore and the platform mentioned in Grisha's book.

• Bai Yu ordered the Scouts to enter the forest, and a flare and explosions revealed that Eren's group was under attack by Titans.
• Ming rescued Armin from an Abnormal Titan, while he, Kali, Xiate, and Mikasa fought the Titans surrounding Eren.
• Bai Yu found the corpse of a fallen Scout inside a Titan, placed it on a tree branch, and appointed Mikasa temporary squad leader.
• The returning Scout Squads reported that only a few Titans were in the forest, and the group rested before setting off again.
• Bai Yu considered the island's enormous size and questioned how the Rumbling could destroy the world before the Scouts continued toward the shore.

The Survey Corps reached the sea, where Eren, Armin, and Mikasa saw it for the first time. The next morning, they found a stranded iron ship, and Bai Yu discovered a skeleton in Marleyan clothing inside.

• Bai Yu and the Survey Corps crossed the desert and reached a platform overlooking the sea, where Erwin ordered everyone to rest.
• The next morning, Armin spotted fish, and Kali caught one with her Omni-Directional Mobility Gear.
• Bai Yu told Annie that he felt uneasy as the group prepared to leave the shore.
• Ming pointed out something in the distance, and Erwin led the group toward it on horseback.
• Bai Yu climbed onto a stranded iron ship and found a skeleton in a small room; Annie identified its clothing as Marleyan.

Bai Yu and the others explored a stranded Marleyan warship, learning that its crew had been killed by Titans and salvaging its cannons, radio, generator, and records. They headed back with the equipment, while Bai Yu worried over the island’s defenses and the many political and economic tasks awaiting them.

• Bai Yu explained that the scattered bones belonged to the warship’s crew, who had apparently resorted to cannibalism before Titans wiped them out.
• Bai Yu and Hange examined the warship’s cannons, and Bai Yu described how their firepower could threaten Titans and people alike.
• The group collected records showing that the ship had been part of a Marleyan landing mission before an attack drove it ashore, where Titans killed most of the crew.
• Bai Yu had Annie remove the cannons and salvaged the ship’s radio, generator, and other equipment for the wagons.
• Eren and Aunt Dina admitted they still could not control Titans, and the group returned with the salvaged materials.
• On the ride back, Bai Yu worried about defending the island and preparing for Historia’s ascension, while Nanaba pointed out that people across the sea kept trying to destroy them.

Bai Yu used the System Training Ground to analyze a warship as he prepared to research Marley, then woke and discussed weapons research and Historia’s approaching coronation. Historia arrived to take him on an inspection of the people’s living conditions, but he began drawing anti-aircraft gun plans while she watched.

• Bai Yu disassembled and analyzed a warship inside the System Training Ground, studying its structure and machinery.
• Annie waited for Bai Yu to wake, while Xiate stirred beside him and later served him breakfast.
• Bai Yu told Xiate he planned to make a cannon and then work on balloons, and Kali said Historia’s coronation was scheduled for the day after tomorrow and her popularity was strong.
• Historia arrived and reminded Bai Yu that he had promised to inspect the people’s living conditions with her.
• Bai Yu asked Ming for his notebook and began drawing detailed anti-aircraft gun components while Historia watched and Xiate fed him porridge.

Bai Yu sent Ming to deliver anti-aircraft gun plans to the Research Department and asked Kali to check on Eren and the others. As Bai Yu traveled with Historia, Xiate, and Annie to inspect a residential area, Xiate worried about his growing sleepiness, while Ming watched the researchers eagerly begin work and spotted Eren's group in the distance.

• Bai Yu gave Ming detailed plans for an anti-aircraft gun and instructed the Research Department to wait for him before testing it.
• Bai Yu asked Kali to check on Eren and the others and oversee the Survey Newspaper.
• Bai Yu traveled with Historia, Xiate, and Annie to inspect a new residential area, then fell asleep on Historia's shoulder; Xiate said he had been sleeping more than usual.
• Nadina took the plans from Ming, announced that they were blueprints for an anti-aircraft gun, and rallied the researchers to start building it.
• Ming went to his usual hillside lookout and saw Eren and the others in the distance.

Ming spent time with Armin and let him tie back his long hair, then wondered whether to cut it or learn to style it himself. Armin offered to teach him, though he questioned whether tying back a boy’s hair was strange.

• Ming greeted Armin, Eren, Mikasa, and Hange as they came to visit the Research Department and look into its Titan spinal fluid research.
• Hange took Eren, Mikasa, and Armin to the Research Department, but Armin later returned to sit with Ming.
• Armin pointed out that Ming’s hair had grown long and suggested tying it back instead of cutting it.
• Armin tied Ming’s hair, then told him he looked pretty, leaving Ming puzzled.
• Armin gave Ming back a bottle of wine he had received from him and offered to teach him how to tie his hair.

Armin asked Ming whether he had ever deceived anyone, then wondered aloud whether Ming was really a boy. Meanwhile, Bai Yu helped Historia visit villagers and discussed her coming queenship, leaving him to face research and government work in the days ahead.

• Ming told Armin that he thought he had deceived someone before, and Armin asked whether he was really a boy.
• Bai Yu arrived with Historia at a village and advised her to ask about the villagers’ needs and promise future policies to support settlement and trade.
• Historia visited villagers, listened to their concerns, and later complained to Bai Yu about becoming queen.
• Bai Yu teased Historia about having a child to inherit the throne, while Xiate and Annie joined their conversation.
• Bai Yu said he would handle the research department before Historia’s coronation and urged her to learn to manage affairs herself.