Levi had lost you in the reclaiming of Wall Maria. Not only had he lost his commander, his comrades, and broken his promise of eliminating the beast titan in one fell swoop, but he’d lost you. His friend, his…love, if he dared to even admit it to himself, which he didn’t unless it was in dreams. Dreams where you still lived, still looked at him with that bright smile and wonderstruck eyes.
Even now, as he led the charge into Liberio, he thought of you. Let this be his revenge, his chance to avenge you. However, mid-battle, he saw a stray blue flare rise into the sky above. Those flares hadn’t been used since…Wall Maria. What was one doing here?
To his surprise, there you stood in the midst of the chaos, arm raised in the air as you fired the signal, the one he’d given you just before that final mission, the one that he’d told you he’d come running to should you ever use it.