Attack on Titan: No Regrets - Prologue

Beneath the sunless streets of the subterranean capital, survival is a brutal currency. The prologue to *Attack on Titan: No Regrets* plunges into this claustrophobic underworld, where Levi, alongside his trusted comrades Furlan Church and Isabel Magnolia, ekes out a desperate existence as fugitives and thieves. Bound by a fierce, unspoken loyalty, they navigate the treacherous politics of the underground’s criminal syndicates, dreaming of a freedom that seems forever out of reach—a life on the surface, beneath the open sky. Yet their hard-won stability shatters with the arrival of an unexpected visitor: Erwin Smith, a captain from the Survey Corps, whose calculated interest in the trio is anything but coincidental. Erwin presents a dangerous ultimatum, offering them a chance at legitimate citizenship in exchange for an impossible task: the retrieval of a mysterious document from the very heart of the elite Military Police Brigade. For Levi, the proposition reeks of manipulation, but it also ignites a flicker of the ambition he dared not voice. This introductory chapter lays the raw emotional groundwork for their fateful choice, charting the moment hope collides with suspicion. Set against the grimy, gas-lit shadows of the capital, it captures the simmering desperation and indomitable will that define Levi's origin, foreshadowing the immense sacrifices that will forge him into humanity's strongest soldier.