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“Does anyone else know about this, Erwin?” Levi asks.
“No,” Erwin answers.
“This could kill you, Erwin.”
“I am aware of that.”
“Don’t you know what the proper treatment is for an illness like this? Surely you do. They call it—”
“I know what they call it,” Erwin interrupts, his words quick and sharp and full of warning, like the firing of a shotgun.
Harlot’s consumption, it’s often called. Passed on sexually, and yet paradoxically the most effective treatment against it is sexual contact. Raised in a brothel as a child, Levi knew it well. It was not the illness that claimed his mother’s life, but many of the workers there were chronically ill. Flowers were a rare sight in the Underground, where most plants did not grow, so his concept of one was limited to the context of such suffering. That the beauty and simple pleasure of flowers had been corrupted for him was something he did not fully realize until he came up to the surface to see them for himself in their natural form.
Series
- Part 9 of Stomach & Heart - Eruri