Board Thread:Manga/@comment-29900084-20160913010312/@comment-29958651-20160913130420

Erwin was a different case. Isayama killed him in order to give Hanji (commanding skills) and Armin (strategic skills) more space. I think Erwin was meant to die like a hero long ago, since he had lost his arm. I was just waiting when he will lost the rest of his body. Please, don't get me wrong, I really liked Erwin, but his death was necessary. With even Erwin on their side, the Warriors wouldn't have even chance to win this conflict. Now, after Erwin's death, the Survey Corps (but especially Armin) are put under big pressure of replacing his authority. Hanji and Armin have to lead the Corps to the Outside world, which would be a whole new experience for them and for the walled humanity itself. So chapter 85 is for Survey Corps something like a beginning of new era (with new concept of the world, with new goals, with new commander).

On the other hand, Levi is also pretty hard to be killed. It would take a very skilled fighter to overpower Levi. As for now, the only one, who seems to fit this description, is Zeke (well, against the Corps he showed just his baseball skills, but Reiner described him as far more powerful than Humanity's Strongest Soldier and we still don't know how he had beaten Reiner so easily). So the nearest chance to kill Levi would be in another big battle against the Warriors (or maybe some deadly misfortune coincidence :-). As it seems, in the next chapters we are going to explore (the basement, the Outside world, the Grisha's hidden history), so for the next confrontation with Hometowners we have to wait for a while.