True Devil, False Angel
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He will outlive most of his men by his rank alone. The unfairness is only tolerable if he lives in utter denial, and so he focuses most of his energy on his plans and there is little else left to give to friendships, or to partnerships. On occasion, he’ll have a girl at the brothels in town. Even they are too close for comfort, their warmth a reminder that, underneath it all, humans are just skin and bones and teeth and blood.
Still, he is not as well-practiced as a stone. Sometimes, he feels, and those feelings overwhelm him, pushing his head under water until he is gasping for air.
Levi is one of those things Erwin feels. Levi, worth a hundred regular soldiers on his own. Levi, with his small, compact frame--his sharp, steel gray eyes.
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- Part 1 of True Devil, False Angel
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There are no pathways that lead up from Underground. It’s a simple fact. Levi crawled out of that coffin by the skin of his teeth, and he is kept safe above it by the richness and importance of other men. Men who use him. Men who make him into pretty stories and coin. Men who want to own him, to own his body. To make him a hero.
Levi has never wanted to be anyone’s hero. He doesn’t believe in heroism, or altruism, or the good of mankind. He doesn’t want to be put on high. All Levi has ever wanted was enough to eat and a warm bed. No riches or anomalies. No miracles.
Except that, sometimes, when he is standing beside Erwin Smith, Levi can’t help but think: this is a miracle.
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- Part 2 of True Devil, False Angel
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Erwin shakes his head. He doesn’t know how to make Levi understand. With Marie, things had been simple. She had asked him what he could offer, and he had told her the truth: nothing. He was a soldier, a scout. A man drowning in his own debt.
I owe this to my father. I owe him my heart, he’d told her.
She’d married Nile within a month.
Levi persisted. No matter how many times Erwin showed his hand, Levi went all in. Even if Erwin was cruel, and pigheaded, and arrogant. Even though Erwin had dragged him up from the underground, had stolen his freedom. Had killed his friends.
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- Part 3 of True Devil, False Angel