[ Erwin's easiness doesn't fade, but the smile falls into an expression more neutral. ]

It's true.

[ It's not a boast or a scoff, just a simple affirmation. ]

Of course, I hardly did it single-handedly. My officer and I cornered him, while others captured his friends, which is what ultimately made him surrender.

[ Erwin is under no illusions that he would have eventually lost that contest of strength. He can still remember the intense ferocity of those eyes, so beautiful and deadly up close, the feeling of tendons moving beneath his palm as Levi dropped his knife, releasing his fingers one by one. The encounter had visited him in his dreams for many nights ever since. ]

They were all already very skilled with the gear by the time we found them. The MPs would never have had any chance.