On the very first day of junior high, Eren oversleeps and is woken up by Mikasa. While rushing to school, he runs into several of his classmates. When they arrive at school, everyone except Eren notices something is odd. They realize that they walked into the Titan side of Attack Junior High School, and are later introduced to their class 1-4 properly by Hannes. They attend the entrance ceremony, only to find that their principal unleashes Titans to crash their entrance ceremony.

Eren and Mikasa are sent to collect a club admission form from Armin, who has secluded himself at home all winter for fear of the cold. On the way, a Titan attempts to steal their gifts of food, but is defeated by Levi, who then steals Armin's futon. In an attempt to recover the futon, Eren and his classmates track down the Attack Junior High Scout Regiment, a secret, unapproved club. There they meet Eld, Oruo, Petra, and Gunther. Levi arrives with Armin's futon, which he had stolen in order to mend a tear it had developed, and accepts all of them into the club.

Eren and the others are forced to join the Wall Cleanup Club since the Scout Regiment Club is an unapproved club. There, they are tasked with cleaning windows by Rico. Impressed by their work, she agrees to teach them how to use the club's secret equipment, the omni-directional mobility gear. Eren, however, fails the test because of an equipment failure. Hannes, the club's advisor, arrives to show him how it is done, but crashes into the Wall due to being drunk. This allows Rico to save face by blaming the broken equipment on Hannes. Two Titans then appear, and the club watches in horror as they vandalize the Wall. Rico explains that this is why the Wall Cleanup Club was originally founded. Outraged, Eren attacks the Titans, only to end up covered in paint.