[ To be fair, it takes quite a lot to make Erwin shake in his boots. Certainly he has fears, but the things that terrify him the most tended to be confined within himself; his nature, his ambition, the difficult decisions and gambles. Erwin Smith is less afraid of individual men than the consequences of his own desires.
The response makes him chuckle, genuinely amused himself. Erwin's quite sure he's seen plenty of it; they'd had him in chains, after all. ]
Is that so? Well, I'm glad my efforts had the intended effect, then.
[ He didn't suffer through being beaten and risk execution just to be nothing more than a minor irritation, after all. ]
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The response makes him chuckle, genuinely amused himself. Erwin's quite sure he's seen plenty of it; they'd had him in chains, after all. ]
Is that so? Well, I'm glad my efforts had the intended effect, then.
[ He didn't suffer through being beaten and risk execution just to be nothing more than a minor irritation, after all. ]