Chapter Summaries

After the Colossal Titan breached Trost District, Arthur and the cadets prepared to fight while residents fled toward the inner gate. Kitz assigned Arthur and Mikasa to rear evacuation duty, leaving Eren, Armin, Christa, and the others to intercept the Titans.

• Residents panicked and fled after the Colossal Titan breached Trost District, and Arthur sent Christa, Mikasa, and Ymir to headquarters with him.
• Arthur found Eren, Armin, Sasha, and the other cadets safe, and Eren said the Colossal Titan had vanished during their fight.
• Kitz learned that the advance force had been wiped out, rallied the soldiers, and assigned their missions.
• Arthur protested being assigned to evacuation duty, but Kitz ordered him to obey; Arthur then urged Eren and Armin to act carefully in the vanguard.
• Christa left with her squad, while Arthur and Mikasa flew toward the inner gate and escorted fleeing residents along the way.

Arthur and Mikasa found a merchant’s oversized wagon blocking Trost District’s inner gate and forced him to move it so civilians could evacuate. They restored the crowd’s hope, then continued their mission determined to reclaim the district.

• Arthur and Mikasa escorted residents to the inner gate and found it crowded because a merchant’s wagon blocked the passage.
• The merchant refused to move his cargo and insulted the civilians and a Garrison soldier who tried to reason with him.
• Arthur and Mikasa confronted the merchant and threatened him until he ordered his men to move the wagon.
• The residents passed through the cleared gate and thanked Arthur and Mikasa, who promised to retake Trost District.

Arthur and Mikasa searched the devastated front lines for Christa, Eren, and Armin, finding Christa and Ymir alive before joining the surviving cadets. The chapter ended with Armin in shock and Eren still missing.

• Arthur and Mikasa fought their way through Titans toward the area where Eren and the others had been assigned.
• Arthur and Mikasa found Christa and Ymir on a rooftop, and Christa clung to Arthur as she mourned their dead squadmates.
• Arthur learned that Headquarters had fallen, leaving the soldiers without supplies, and he and Mikasa shared gas with Christa and Ymir.
• Arthur, Mikasa, Christa, and Ymir reached a rooftop group that included Reiner, Bertolt, Jean, Connie, Sasha, Annie, and Marco, but Eren was absent.
• Arthur and Mikasa found Armin sitting in shock, while Jean and Connie tried to reach him.

After Armin reported Eren, Thomas, and Mina’s deaths, Arthur helped Armin overcome his guilt and rallied the cadets to attack Headquarters. The chapter ended with Arthur leading the group toward the Titans surrounding Headquarters.

• Armin told Arthur, Mikasa, and the others that Eren, Thomas, and Mina had died, then blamed himself for Eren’s sacrifice.
• Arthur urged Armin to live on and honor Eren’s convictions, then asked the cadets whether they would fight their way to Headquarters.
• Arthur killed a fifteen-meter abnormal Titan and two other Titans in under a minute, restoring the cadets’ fighting spirit.
• Jean, Sasha, Connie, Reiner, Marco, Bertolt, Annie, and many others joined Arthur’s assault.
• Arthur led the group toward Headquarters as they roared and moved out.

Arthur led the soldiers toward headquarters, but his gas ran out and forced them to stop and redistribute their remaining fuel. Their journey was interrupted by a strange fifteen-meter titan that attacked and killed another titan, leaving everyone stunned.

• Arthur and Mikasa led the formation through a group of titans, while Armin worried that Arthur was using too much gas.
• Arthur's gear ran out of gas midair, but Mikasa caught him before he fell; Christa gave him a replacement canister.
• Armin shared some of his gas with Mikasa, and Reiner reported that many soldiers were running low on fuel.
• Sasha spotted a fifteen-meter titan with long black hair, and Arthur sensed that it was dangerous.
• An eight-meter titan appeared, and the strange titan charged at it and smashed its head, shocking Arthur and the others.

Arthur and Mikasa discovered that the strange Titan attacked other Titans but ignored humans, then used it to clear a path to Headquarters. Arthur led the group into the building while the Titan distracted the Titans outside.

• The strange Titan destroyed several Titans, including a six-meter Abnormal Titan, while the soldiers watched in amazement.
• Mikasa proposed using the strange Titan to clear the Titans around Headquarters, and Arthur agreed to test whether it would attack humans.
• Arthur and Mikasa approached the strange Titan, confirmed it ignored them, and returned to tell the group.
• Armin helped convince the others to guide the Titan toward Headquarters, and Arthur led the guiding team as it attacked Titans along the route.
• Arthur ordered everyone to follow the cleared path, then led them through Headquarters' windows while the strange Titan distracted the Titans outside.

Arthur and Mikasa cleared five Titans from Headquarters’ supply room, allowing the survivors to replenish their gas and blades. Arthur then led everyone onto the roof to look for the abnormal Titan, where they saw something shocking.

• Jean found the supply soldiers hiding under a desk and confronted them, but a female soldier explained that Commander Kitz and the guards had fled, leaving the supply room overrun.
• Arthur learned that five Titans were inside Headquarters and went with Mikasa to clear them out.
• Arthur and Mikasa lured the Titans into a brighter area and killed all five.
• The survivors reclaimed the supply room and replenished their equipment.
• Arthur led everyone onto the roof to see what had happened to the abnormal Titan, and they saw something shocking.

Arthur and the others watched the dying Abnormal Titan battle the Titan that had eaten Thomas. After both Titans fell, Arthur discovered Eren alive at the Abnormal Titan’s nape and brought him back to the rooftop, leaving the group stunned by Eren’s apparent transformation.

• Arthur, Mikasa, and the others discussed the Abnormal Titan’s strength and whether it could be captured as the evacuation bell rang.
• A twelve-meter Titan approached, and Armin recognized it as the Titan that had eaten Thomas.
• The Abnormal Titan charged the twelve-meter Titan, killed it by tearing out its nape, and then collapsed.
• Arthur spotted a human figure at the Abnormal Titan’s nape and found Eren alive and unconscious.
• Arthur and Mikasa carried Eren to the rooftop, where Armin embraced him and the others reacted with disbelief.

After the Garrison discovered that Eren could transform into a Titan, its soldiers aimed their guns at him, Arthur, and Mikasa. Arthur and his allies returned to the wall with Eren under the captain’s orders, leaving the dangerous situation unresolved.

• A Garrison rescue squad arrived and learned from the soldiers that Eren had emerged from a Titan’s nape.
• The squad leader ordered his soldiers to surround Arthur and the others, and two Garrison soldiers aimed their muskets at them.
• Christa, Armin, Ymir, Jean, Sasha, Connie, Marco, Reiner, Annie, and Bertolt stood between the guns and Arthur’s group.
• Captain and his soldiers arrived, heard Norton’s account, and ordered everyone to return to the wall for further consideration.
• Arthur carried Eren back to the wall while Mikasa and the others followed.

Arthur, Mikasa, Armin, and the unconscious Eren were held at gunpoint by the Garrison, where Kitz threatened to execute them over Eren’s Titan transformation. Eren woke with no memory of transforming, and the chapter left him recalling his father’s key and instruction to return to the basement in Shiganshina District.

• Garrison soldiers seized Arthur, Mikasa, Armin, and the unconscious Eren after they entered Wall Rose, then surrounded them with muskets and a howitzer.
• Arthur prepared Mikasa to break through if necessary, while Rico persuaded Kitz to hesitate by citing Arthur’s record and Pixis’s support.
• Eren relived fragments of a memory in which Grisha injected him and told him to return to the basement and stop someone whose name began with “Ar.”
• Eren woke in Armin’s arms, and Armin explained that Eren had transformed into a Titan after being swallowed and had killed the Titans around him.
• Kitz demanded to know how Eren became a Titan and threatened to blow them apart, while Eren insisted he was human and remembered that his limbs had been bitten off and regrown.
• Eren pulled out the key from his chest and recalled Grisha telling him to return to the basement in Shiganshina District.