Well, that sounds like yet another avenue for preying on the weak, even if it's less despicable than what the rich fucks do in Mitras and below. Still, kids are being sold the promise of a better future at the cost of signing off their lives... some of them becoming part of the problem later on, no doubt.

Not that Levi knows about any of that at the moment.

Instead, he blinks in confusion and glances at Erwin with maybe the tiniest hint of fluster, because how can he possibly know that? He's never seen her!

You can? he almost blurts, but decides it's probably just the boy's way to comfort him by not arguing.

"You could see them anyway," he points out flatly, but he looks somewhat fascinated all the same. Imagine having time to just -- sit around and learn things all day and then, as if that's not a celebration in itself, you have a break from it by going out to play some more? What world is this? It kind of sounds amazing, actually. He's always been interested in new knowledge, even if it can be pretty sparse in his experience -- unless it's something related to fighting techniques or merchant routes in the neighborhood.

"...So when do you look for food?"