[ Maybe for someone like Eren, the world itself was a cage. Maybe he got too obsessed with his idea of freedom that could never exist in reality. But that way, the freedom became a kind of shackles too, didn't it? ]

[ He was probably more free here than he's ever been back home. ]

[ Not that Levi can talk, really. For a while, when he'd just started at the Corps, he'd think back to the Underground as simpler times, but he doubts there's a single person there who didn't feel trapped the entire time. Maybe... maybe now, with the titans gone, he'd finally be done, be unbound from his duty, have some semblance of freedom, but he hadn't exactly stuck around to find out. Oh well. ]

Can't pull anything more convincing out of your ass, you mean. [ Well, at least he's being honest. That's probably good. ]

[ But Levi is willing to let this be right now, because there's just... nothing else really to be said about it. There's no real threat he can hold over Eren's head anymore, and no matter what Eren says Levi isn't going to be okay with what he did. Neither of them can change the other's mind, that is if they can even understand their own feelings at the moment. ]

[ The only thing to do is wait, and react. ]

[ I'll be keeping my eye on you. He doesn't need to say it, does he? It's obvious enough from the fact that he's hanging around. ]

[ He finishes his tea, pausing with the cup still next to his face when he hears about the newest technological marvel, and side-eyes Eren sceptically. ]

A machine doing laundry? [ Whatever he's imagining is more on par with Hange's Executioner than anything that would fit inside an apartment. ] That doesn't sound efficient.

[ Just you wait, Levi, you're about to have your whole worldview shook. ]