The rejection doesn't seem to ruffle Erwin in the slightest; he merely smiles pleasantly at Levi getting up and retracts his hand, resting it behind his back.

"Now we leave this place," he says, because that had been the goal all along, ever since he first heard of a little thief giving the MPs a run for their money, saw Levi flying through the putrid air like a trapped falcon. He deserved so much more. He deserved the chance to breathe freely, to use his talents for humanity's sake, to be a bigger existence than a mere criminal stealing and killing his way to survival.

"Now, you will be a hero, Levi."