Levi was explaining to Mikasa about what to expect on the out-of-school activity that she was to go. Throughout the whole conversation, Mikasa just stared at Levi without saying a world.

"Oy, are you even listening to me?" he asked.

"Hai."

"Sigh," Levi sighed as he rolled his eyeballs. "Do you not even respond? I am tired of having to talk all the time without people listening to me."

"Eh?"

Levi started to talk how Hange always disregard what he say, and how Erwin always seem to look past through him like he did not exist.

"And this afternoon, he disregarded my rant against Hange because he had to attend to a clan war!" Levi complained.

Mikasa let out a light laugh, just a little one. Levi, however, was astonished. So, this girl can laugh too?

"What's so funny?" he asked tartly.

"Nothing, Sempai," she replied calmly as before. "It's just that, my classmates too, play Clash of Clans and often argue, especially the guys."

"The guys, eh?" Levi asked. "Well, I don't play that. I am too fabulous to play. I like black tea, cleaning up, and cursing. But if fencing can be considered a game, then I am good at it."

Mikasa smiled a bit as she grabbed her cup of green tea latte. Levi eyed her as she took some small sip with her drink.

"How about Jaeger? Does he join those clan wars too?"

Mikasa put down the cup on the table and looked at Levi, "No. He is busy listening to music and practicing with his guitar to play online games."

"Wow! Impressive!" Levi let out a less-than-impressed response while clapping slowly and dramatically. "I'm glad I'm not the only one who's not addicted to social media and online games. If he can be a guitarist someday, I will totally support that brat and brag to my colleagues that that guitarist is my kouhai in high school."

Mikasa turned to see Eren playing some songs. Unlike the previous ones, it seems Eren had less life.

"If he becomes famous, I am afraid of what fame can bring," she told him solemnly.

"Oh?" Levi asked, trying to be distant yet curious at the same time. "So, what are you afraid of?"

"Loss," the kouhai replied with a sad tone on her face.

"Excuse me?" Levi asked, leaning forward. For sure, he had heard her right. "Loss? Of what?"

"Fear of losing Eren," Mikasa said, while earning her another sigh from Levi. And she turned to him. "Doushite, Sempai?"

"You fear losing him, did I get you right?" Levi asked as he got his cup of black tea from the table. "To whom? To fangirls? To what? Ackerman, I already told you that you are not his f***ing guardian, you hear me? Let the guy grow, if that makes him happy! Let him live a life! Don't go chasing after him. Don't restrict him. Don't go saying you'll protect him from the world. Don't even go following him as a manager or something like that kind of s***. Let him find his own path, and find your own."

Mikasa's eyes started to glimmer. With tears trying to betray her calm exterior.

"You're family right? Though for one moment, I don't f***ing believe the two of you act like one," Levi told her after sipping from his tea. "I am sure that both of you will still fix it somehow, and eventually, the two of you will get back together like how real siblings would. Unless… both of you will have a major conflict that you two can't fix."

Mikasa nodded, though she did not want to believe such a thing.

"You make your own choices, but do not go forward regretting them afterwards. We make them, not knowing the outcome. Just let it be our lessons," Levi said before enjoying more of his tea. "Ah… Why do I have to advise hormonal brats?"

As the two sat in silence, Eren and Annie ascended the stairs of the mezzanine and greeted the sempai.

"Have a seat," Levi said. "Leonhart, beside me. Jaeger, beside your girlfriend."

The three first year students stared at him. Levi did not mind calling the other two as a couple. Hashtag, everybody knows. Nevertheless, Eren and Annie were obliged to sit down as instructed.

"Coffee, you like?" Levi offered as gallantly as he could.

"Caramel macchiato," Annie replied shamelessly. It would be the second time she was having that this day.

Eren was not sure what to get, so he pointed at Mikasa's drink. "I'm having the one she has."

Levi smirked as if to taunt Mikasa, "So, the two of you really are inseparable. Okay, that makes a caramel macchiato and another green tea latte."

Levi hailed a waiter again, and ordered the same food he had, and the two drinks that the students ordered. The whole time, Levi was talking about Hange's misbehaviour while taking notice of how the other students react to each other. Since witnessing Annie playing the drums with Eren, it was visible to Levi that Mikasa didn't like her at all. It was beginning to interest him.

"And clan wars?"

"I play it too," Annie replied in her usual sleepy tone. "My clan wins in every fight that we have because I like the rush of winning."

"Oh well, I can't care less," Levi said. "Just listen to me when I speak, okay?

The three students nodded in response.