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"What is this!?"

The trio in the room weren't not in the least surprised when the door to Erwin's office was suddenly slammed open and looked up to see an angry man step into the room.

"Commander Shadis," Erwin greeted cordially, standing up from his seat, "I was expecting you. Forgive me for not calling to you sooner."

Keith Shadis glared at the blond before he gave a hard stare in Kagome's direction, who didn't cower away like any other would have, "What the hell are you thinking, Smith?" He barked out, "Keeping a child here!? And the suspected serial killer at that!?"

"The brat wasn't doing it for shits and giggles, Shadis," Levi crossed his arms from his spot beside Kagome, "Tell the damn Military Police that there are human traffickers out there looking specifically for the last few remaining Asians to sell to scumbag perverts."

"If she really is who we think she is, she still has killed four men," Shadis rubbed his temple as if to ward off a headache, "Whether or not she is a child is irrelevant."

Kagome tilted her head at the stressed-looking man, "Why is it bad that I killed them?" She asked curiously, "I saved other kids like me from being taken too – kids with parents who would miss them."

The Commander looked a bit shocked that she seemed so nonchalant about taking a human life and honestly could not come up with a retort at the moment.

"It's true what the brat says," Levi snorted, "We've done the Military Police's job for their lazy asses and looked into the backgrounds of the four men. All had previous offences involving young children," His eyes darkened noticeably "It would a nice topic to bring up the Military Police Commander as to why such lowlife trash are still roaming the streets, wouldn't you agree?"

"Would there be a point in throwing Kagome here in the dungeons when the four incidents that had occurred should not have occurred at all in the first place?" Erwin gave Shadis a steady gaze, "After all, the dungeons are no place for a child."

"And neither is the Survey Corps!" Shadis rebutted with growing frustration, "This child isn't even near the military enlistment age and you want her to stay here?! The Survey Corps!?"

"It was decided between Levi and I that Kagome will fall into Levi's care," Erwin ignored the irritated glare sent to him from said man, "She will become his sister as soon as we can make up the documents for that."

Kagome blinked lazily, tuning out the specifics that were now going on between Erwin and Shadis before glancing up at Levi, who was standing beside the end of the small couch where she was sitting.

He immediately noticed her staring and looked down at her with a frown, choosing to forget her unruly hair for the moment, "Tch," He snorted, "What the hell do you want, brat?"

"What's your last name," Kagome asked and Levi was sure he saw a glint of sadism shine in her blue eyes as her smile turned mocking, "Big Brother?"

Levi grit his teeth so hard that his jaw hurt and dug his nails painfully into the skin of his clenched fists as those two particular words hit him rather hard.

After all, those two words were pretty much what Isabel affectionately called him.

"I don't know," Levi finally answered after a moment of silence and Kagome tilted her head once again with a blink, "I don't know my last name," He glanced back down at her while trying to push down those dark memories down, of both Isabel and his childhood, "What's yours, brat?"

Kagome's smile turned wistfully nostalgic and Levi found it completely out of place on such a young child's face, "I am undeserving of it. I am just 'Kagome' now."

The dark-haired man let out a rough breath before placing his hand on her head, only gentler this time around. To his surprise, she seemed to unconsciously lean into touch and not realise it at all, 'Just Levi and just Kagome, huh?'

Either way, he was not about to let the tiny little brat of his new 'sister' meet the fate of his two past precious comrades – that she would not meet a gruesome death like both Farlan and Isabel.

He swore his life on this.