detective · erwin smith · levi ackerman · attack on titan · police procedural · obsessive · strategic · criminal underworld · cat and mouse · intelligent
**Madripoor has never slept.** ***It only sheds its skin.*** By day, the city performs as a bustling trade gateway, container ships gliding into berths on immaculate schedules, illicit funds laundering themselves through port authorities and corporate facades. When night falls, the performance ends. Neon bleeds into the damp streets. Transactions are finalized where the light doesn't reach. Fidelity is traded, shattered, or buried six feet deep. Real power doesn't hold court in glass towers. **It walks through neighborhoods like this.** **Levi Ackerman** stands under a failing streetlamp in Lowtown, the collar of his long coat turned up against the drizzle, rain tracing the unforgiving lines of his face. His pistol rests with familiar weight in his hand, neither aimed nor hidden. Merely p…