Beneath Wall Sina

Underground City

A city below the city, where people without papers live and never see daylight.

Underground City
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Beneath the district inside Wall Sina lies a city that was once meant as a refuge and now serves as a rubbish tip for people: anyone without citizenship ends up here.

There is no sunlight, hardly any work and a great deal of violence. Levi grows up there after the death of his mother; Kenny Ackerman teaches him to fight and disappears the moment the boy can fend for himself.

Erwin Smith later brings Levi up to the surface. That contrast — the Underground City and the Wings of Freedom — runs through everything Levi does afterwards.

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