Scream (Chapter)

Cornered by the Titan that devoured his mother five years earlier, Eren Yeager relives Carla's death while Mikasa Ackerman shields him despite her injuries. Hannes arrives and throws himself at the creature, eager for the chance to avenge Carla at last. Elsewhere the Armored Titan keeps hurling Titans at the soldiers, knocking Jean from his horse, while Ymir wavers over which side deserves her loyalty. Historia climbs onto her and pleads with Ymir to quit sacrificing everything for others and finally choose herself.

Hannes is bitten in half before Eren and Mikasa's eyes. Eren breaks down, laughing and crying at his own helplessness, but Mikasa quietly thanks him: for being with her, for showing her how to live, for the scarf. His hands healed, Eren rises and swears he will wrap that scarf around her as many times as it takes. When his bare fist connects with the Titan's hand, an unknown force awakens. Every Titan in the area converges on his mother's killer and tears it apart.

Reiner recognizes the Coordinate and moves to seize Eren, but Eren's shouted warning redirects the horde onto the Armored Titan, buying the soldiers their escape. To everyone's shock, Ymir breaks away from Historia and joins Reiner and Bertolt instead. That night the three rest atop Wall Maria in ruined Shiganshina. Ymir admits she came along as something they can hand over, since returning to their hometown empty-handed is not an option, and tells Bertolt she saved him because his breach of the Wall freed her from an endless nightmare. Reaching toward the moon, she decides being a goddess does not feel so bad.

Hannes battles the Smiling Titan to defend Eren and Mikasa and is killed, mirroring Carla's death from five years before.

Mikasa thanks Eren for the scarf and for showing her what it means to live, and Eren answers by facing the Titan with his bare hands.

Eren's punch triggers the Founding Titan's command ability for the first time, sending the surrounding Titans to devour the Smiling Titan and then to swarm the Armored Titan.

Ymir chooses to leave with Reiner and Bertolt, sacrificing her own freedom so the two Warriors have something to bring home.

Japan reprints the chapter in color within volume 3 of Attack on Titan: Full Color Edition; American readers can find it in volume 2 of The Best of Attack on Titan: In Color.

The closing rooftop scene with Ymir, Reiner, and Bertolt on Wall Maria was absent from the original magazine printing in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine and was added for the volume 12 release.

The chapter's Japanese title is 叫び (Sakebi), and the anime adapts it under the identically named episode Scream.