[Hijikata was just striding past on the way to the nearest guild building, but then he slows down, and finally he backtracks. Isn't that..? Yeah, that's Levi and Hange's Commander! He first saw him here on Ellipsa during the festival to help the ghosts of the dead pass over to the afterlife, reuniting with Levi among countless candles, but once again, he can't help but also remember that memory of the battle against the Beast Titan. It was so godawful, and Levi's loss was so palpable... he felt terrible for him, then.

Before he can replace those memories with his more recent reasons to be pissed at Levi, Erwin notices him, smiles, and offers a flower, and it's frankly impossible to get mad under those circumstances.]

Ah... no, thanks, I'm on the way to, you know, fight the Darkness and whatnot. It'd probably get wrecked.

...

Erwin, right?

[That's what Levi called him in the memory, and Hijikata doesn't know his family name.]