Episode 2

**Does It Seem Like the Boy Is Getting On Okay?** (あの子とはうまくやれそうかい?, *Ano Ko to wa Umaku Yaresō kai?*) is the 2nd episode of *Levius*.

## Characters

* Levius Cromwell
* Zacks Cromwell
* Masha Cromwell
* A.J. Langdon
* Bill Weinberg
* Natalia Garnet
* Floyd Anderson
* Malcolm Eden

## Synopsis

Levius's uncle Zacks takes him in after his mother is injured during the war. They struggle to connect until Levius shows an interest in boxing.

## Summary

Few years ago, during the battle in Green Bridge, Levius heads out to towards the hospital to find his mother. He hides as a machine comes carrying some children. Reaching the hospital, he finds it destroyed, but continues to look out for his mother. He manages to see it, but a machine had found them and shoots a blast at them, obliterating Levius' arm. He open his eyes to see his mother standing above him, only to again loose consciousness.

Five years ago, Zacks is waiting for Levius on the train station, but doesn't notice when he comes. As its been ten years since he had seen him, he reaches for a handshake, but Levius doesn't react. Back at their house, Masha wonders how is Levius and Zacks comments he is kinda cold as he didn't shake his hand, but she corrects him it maybe because his hand still isn't working properly and that it will take some time for him to get used. In the morning Zacks tries to cheer Levius and to get close, but Levius has no desire. He gives Levius a picture of his mother and father and comments that his mother was transferred to the local hospital. Hearing that, Levius insists they go visit her and Zacks agrees.

Seeing his mother's condition, Levius gets sad. He tells Zacks that when they found them, she had protected him with her body and he blames himself for going out to look for her as that led to the current situation. Later that day, he sees the girl that a machine abducted during Green Bridge attack and jumps out of the car chasing her. He ends up in the coliseum and sees mechanical boxing for the first time, making him interested.

Zacks tells Levius he used to box back in the days and takes out old gloves and instructs him on how to punch. Zacks then starts training Levius each day and they get closer to each other. He goes to Bill and manages to convince him to be Levius engineer and help him debut. Levius made his debut as G5 and quickly rise up to G3 in record time, becoming something people talk about.

Zacks buys a old factory to turn it into their gym, as they need a registered gym to be part of G3. Zacks informs him, his first opponent in G3 would be Natalia Garnet, which previously held the record for fastest rising before Levius broke it. Natalia reads about Levius in the newspapers and that he broke her record, making her angry. When they fight, she tries to mock him, but gets easily knocked out. She wakes up later to learn that she lost in just 27 seconds. Natalia then goes to Zacks Gym and states she will be training and living there. She doesn't believe he beat her by skill and that it was a lucky punch, so she will be staying there until she finds his secret. She starts training each day with Levius and Zacks gives her a proper room to sleep in.

After Floyd's game, Zacks receives a letter for a match with Malcolm Eden, former G2 fighter. Zacks freezes for a bit, as everyone Malcolm fought since he got demoted from G2, he ended up killing him.