It's late at night and Minazuki has been given his own room to stay in at the palace, thanks to his new position as Esdeath's personal 'Love Adviser.' The boy looks at the bed, but doesn't feel like sleeping in it, since he usually slept on the floor while Leone had the bed. Seeing no alternative, Minazuki simply finds a spot in the corner, facing the door, and labels that his sleeping area. "I can't risk taking this mask off for even a moment. I have to remain in character for as long as I'm within one hundred feet of one of these Jaeger guys. Good thing Izunaga taught me all this monk stuff, or my ass would be cooked, or probably frozen in this case.", Minazuki thinks to himself as he seats himself in the corner.
As Minazuki sits there, looking at the wooden floor, Esdeath's words ring in his mind, "You shouldn't leave this room for any reason tonight. The guards haven't been made aware of your staying here, so they'll likely kill you on sight. I know you're powerful, but these elite guards are likely beyond your level. Please, for your own safety, remain in your room until someone comes to get you in the morning."
"I guess Tatsumi's on his own for this one. Hopefully he can at least survive one night with Esdeath.", the boy thinks to himself, praying for his friend's survival.
Up in Esdeath's chambers, Tatsumi sits on the large, queen sized bed as he waits for the General to finish her shower, which she's taking in the nearby bathroom. "How did it turn out like this!? I can't even move, I'm so tense! I need to calm down! I know I can convince her to become an ally if I try hard enough! I need to be a man, like Bulat believed I could be. I need to just go for it!", Tatsumi thinks to himself as he continues to nervously twitch on the bed, trying not to focus on the woman's shadow on the glass door.
When he hears the bathroom door slide open, Tatsumi turns to see General Esdeath in nothing but a slightly unbuttoned dress shirt, revealing her wonderful figure to him. "I'm sorry, I made you wait, didn't I?", Esdeath says with a slight smile aimed at the boy, her gaze focused entirely on him.
"No! Not really, you didn't really!", Tatsumi frantically spouts as the blue haired woman sits down next to him.
"Would you like anything to drink? Some water? Wine maybe?", Esdeath kindly asks the boy as she looks to a small table holding two glasses and multiple adult drinks.
"No! I'm fine, thanks! I'm just fine!", Tatsumi quickly answers as he waves his hands dismissively at the beauty before him.
"Are you nervous, Tatsumi?", Esdeath asks the boy as she turns to look at him with a kind smile.
"N-no...Not at all...", the panicked brunette replies, clamping his clammy hands together and holding them close to his chest as the woman leans towards him, eyeing him up from head to toe.
The woman tilts her head and lets out a slight chuckle at the sight of his now blushing face before saying, "You're so cute."
Hearing the General's kind words, Tatsumi loosens his grip and instead starts to only somewhat nervously tap the tips of his fingers together before muttering, "Hey...Esdeath..." The half naked woman turns to him with a curious look and Tatsumi says, "I'm...sorry if I hurt your feelings earlier. I just kind of spook easy sometimes when I zone out. I'm sorry."
In turn, Esdeath smiles at her lover's apology and says, "It's fine Tatsumi. I guess that's the price I pay for being...well, me. I scare people. When I walk down the street, I see people walk across the street just to avoid being near me. I'm used to it..."
There's a short moment of awkward silence in the room before Tatsumi speaks up and says, "Oh, there was something I'd like to ask you, Esdeath..." "Do you...really like me? Like, you're certain you don't want someone taller or better looki-", the innocent boy begins to ask before Esdeath silences him with a passionate kiss to the lips.
As she kisses him, Esdeath pins the powerless boy to the bed with one hand as she runs her fingers on the other through his brown, silky hair. Through the whole kiss, the passionate woman's eyes are peacefully closed while Tatsumi's are wide open and filled with fear. After breaking the kiss, only doing so for a fresh breath of air, Esdeath asks, "If I didn't like you, we wouldn't be in this position, would we?" Granting the boy a small amount of space, the woman sits down on his legs, warming his lap as she looks to him with loving eyes.
"Then I'd like you to hear something! A request!", Tatsumi blurts out in a panic as her bare thighs touch his pant legs.
"Hm? What is it? You have my complete, undivided attention.", the General replies as she looks down at Tatsumi's reddened face.
With a gulp, Tatsumi swallows the spit welling up in his mouth from the tense situation before remembering the words of advise Minazuki left him after their training. The masked boys voice echoes through Tatsumi's mind as he remembers his friend say, "There are three things you need to remember when you're lying. One, never make a lie too big. If you make some giant lie that you can't back up, it's doomed to fail from the start. Second, the best lies are the ones half full of truths. If you're partially telling the truth, it'll be harder for someone to tell if you're actually lying. And third, and most importantly, never make up a lie that you can't believe. If you can't even believe your own lies, you shouldn't expect anyone else to."
"Let's just hope that advice works on one of the Three Elemental Generals, or I'm dead!", Tatsumi thinks to himself before taking a deep breath and letting it all out with a great sigh. "I hate this Empire as it is now! And I want it to change!", Tatsumi passionately proclaims to the woman as she sits in front of him.
"Well, of course, many people believe the same thing. What of it?", Esdeath calmly replies with a slightly confused look.
"If I'm to fight at your side, I don't want it to be for the Empire! I'd rather not fight in this bloody war, but if I had to choose a side, it'd be with the Revolutionary Army!", Tatsumi shouts, trying to express how he truly feels about the issue to the General without giving away too much. "I've lost a lot to the corruption in this terrible Empire! I lost my friends, my family, everything! I want to change this place for the better, not watch it fall further into the abyss of darkness it's in now! So, would you join me if I were to defect to the Revolutionary Army!? We could save so many!", the boy passionately continues as he radiates an oddly confident aura, causing Esdeath to believe every word from his mouth.
Before he can continue the boy is met with a hot slap to the face as Esdeath shouts, "What are you thinking saying such things to a General of the Empire?! Are you out of your mind!?"
Tatsumi just holds his burning cheek, internally smiling to himself before saying, "I know what I'm saying is stupid, and to a point down right crazy. But, as it is, I can't fight for this. I can't fight for the monster that is this Empire. I'd rather stay home and watch the world burn before I raise a finger in the name of this Empire. And I don't want to lose you in the process. I want a world where you can walk in the streets and people won't try to avoid you. They'd bring their kids up to you and show them the Great General Esdeath, fighter for the People."
As she hears those last words, the Ice Queen feels her now warm heart skip a beat. "H-he's worried, about me. He's not worried about the fact that the Empire would have him tortured for years for his crimes.", Esdeath thinks to herself, her face slightly flushed from the thought of Tatsumi thinking of her so passionately. "You don't have to worry about me, love. All you need to do is stay here by my side, and that's all I'll ever need.", the worried woman replies as she embraces him with a hug. "I understand the pain you had to endure to get this far in life. But from now on, I won't let anything bad happen to you ever again.", Esdeath adds as she rubs her cheek against the one she slapped. As she releases Tatsumi from her clutches, Esdeath grant the boy a foot or so of space before sitting on her knees and looking to him as she says, "Also, as my lover and not my property, you are the only one I see as a man. And I'll never let you feel lonely ever again, Tatsumi~"
Tatsumi sits back a little when he hears this before putting his knees to his chest as he curls up into a ball and says, "I'm really happy you feel that way about me... Nobody really has before, and it feels nice to hear you say those nice things, but still..I..I just can't. If I were to stop caring now and only care about what I wanted, I'd be no better than the corrupt people of this god forsaken world!"
"What is it that troubles you so much, Tatsumi!? Just name who it is you're trying to protect and they'll be placed under my protection!", Esdeath proclaims as she crawls over to him, worried about the sad look coming across his face.
"It's not that...I...I had a dream once... A dream of a country where everyone could live happily. Without having to worry about whether or not they'd be thrown in jail for a crime they didn't commit or murdered by some assassins for just having an opinion! And as rotten to the core this damn Empire is, my dream will never come true here...", Tatsumi passionately replies until the end where he slowly becomes cold and distant.
"...Tatsumi...", Esdeath mutters under her breath as she tries to gently lift his head from his knees.
"Imagine if we met under different circumstances. You were a young woman coming of age in a village and then one day you met me. Our hearts felt for one another, we knew as soon as we met eyes that we were meant to be, but in this society without any real public security, plagued by poverty and hunger... we'd likely never be able to act on those feelings... Too afraid that once we did, it'd all fall apart right from under our feet.", Tatsumi passionately explains as he continues to bury his face in the sanctuary of his knees. "Do you understand now!? That is the Empire I'd love to fight and die for! Not this pile of shit we have now!", the distraught boy finishes as he leaves his head in his knees, patiently waiting for her response. "She's not gonna buy it! I'm going to die here, aren't I!?", Tatsumi thinks to himself as he begins to panic on the inside, but on the outside, he keeps his depressed looking figure.
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I still don't understand.", Esdeath replies as her disheartened voice calls out to Tatsumi. The boy lifts his head up to see the desperate woman grabbing at her heart as she says, "For so long, I've believed that the law of the world was always 'Survival of the Fittest,' yet...that monk, he made me question everything in just a few sentences. Now, I don't know what to believe."
Seeing this as the perfect opportunity to strike his final blow, Tatsumi quickly takes her cold hands into his and tells her, "Then let's figure this out together! We don't have to join the Revolutionary Army if you don't want to, but if we leave the Empire now, we might have a shot later in helping rebuild! We can help shape this world for the better, for the people who'd find their destined partner and under this cruel Empire, would never be able to share their feelings with one another! Let's leave this evil place and never look back!"
Esdeath looks up into his eyes and sees that they're burning with all kinds of emotion while thinking, "That expression is...so nice..but still.." Much to Tatsumi's surprise, Esdeath finally speaks up and says, "That's not going to happen." The icy General gives him a quick glare before growling to the boy, "My duties come first! I may be a woman and I may be your lover, but above all else I'm a General of this Empire. I'm not going to be changed by you, understand? I'm going the one who's going to mold you into becoming a great General like myself one day! Nothing else matters!"
Tatsumi releases his hold on the Ice Queen's hands and turns away from her before defiantly growling back, "Fine, say what you want about changing me, but this dream of mine isn't going away so easily! Even if you torture me!" "Wait, why did I say that last part!? Why am I giving her ideas!?", the panicked boy begins to think without losing his cool, defiant shell.
Esdeath lets out a slight snicker as she witnesses Tatsumi's reaction before saying, "You're just so stubborn, just like me. I guess that's just one of the few things that draws me to you, Tatsumi~" "I guess that stubborn attitude of his is also how he can keep that happy smile of his. I want to see that smiling face so bad, these feelings, I want him more than anything. I'll have to keep his opinion in mind from now on...", the woman thinks to herself as she looks at her lover longingly with his back turned toward her. With a heavy yawn, Esdeath stretches her arms into the air and says, "Well, I'm tired after today's events and that conversation. We'll talk more about this another time. But for now, shall we go to sleep?"
Slightly baffled by her innocent response to his rebellion, Tatsumi looks at the smiling woman with a confused glance as he thinks, "So, did I win or did I lose? I don't get it. Maybe it's a draw? I don't understand these things." His gaze shifts over to the nearby couch and as he starts heading toward it he says, "Then I'll go sleep on the couch. You got an extra blanket?"
Before Tatsumi can leave her side however, Esdeath grabs his arm and says, "I'm not mad about what you said! I'm...I'm actually taking everything you said into careful consideration, Tatsumi! Now, please, sleep in the bed with me!"
Tatsumi's left amazed by what he just heard her say, his eyes widening in complete astonishment as he thinks, "Taking into consideration? Does that mean...I won!? I won over Esdeath!? YES! That crazy bastard was right!" "I just need to take a quick shower first! Then I'll be right out, okay?", Tatsumi say as he gently pats Esdeath on the hand and calmly heads to the bathroom with a smile.
As she sees his smile, Esdeath's once frozen heart warms up and starts to beat erratically. "There it is, the smile I love so much! Monk, your advice really did work after all. I just have to listen to what he says and take it into consideration. I'll win Tatsumi's heart!", the loving woman thinks to herself as she watches the man she loves walk into the bathroom and close the door behind him. As the door shuts behind him, Esdeath mutters to herself, "Maybe we should've showered together? Would that have broken the ice a little better? No, I don't need to rush things." Laying flat on her back, Esdeath's gaze falls upon the ceiling as she rests her head on one of her pillows before thinking, "All I need to do is trust in the Monk's advice and I'll find my way through this jumbled maze of love. And at the end, is Tatsumi's heart~"
The next morning, Minazuki is sleeping soundly in his room. As the door slowly creeks open, Seryu and Run glance inside to see the monk sleeping on the floor with his back against the wall.
"How strange, but I guess that's how monks prefer to sleep.", Seryu quietly notes to herself before walking into the room, causing the blonde boy behind her to slightly tense up.
"Seryu, be careful, his body might react in his sleep.", Run whispers to the orange haired girl as he tries to warn her, but she innocently waves off his worry.
"It's fine, I'm just gonna tap his shoulder. He can clearly sense my love of justice and won't atta-", Seryu begins to say before going to touch Minazuki on his shoulder.
But much to the guard's surprise, the monk's body reacts almost on instinct and as his left hand grabs her mechanical arm, his right pulls back a fist ready to hit her. The deadly fist nearly reaches the poor girl's face before Run desperately exclaims, "Monk! Awaken!"
Minazuki's eyes shoot open to the sound of shouting and he sees Seryu with her eyes tightly shut, waiting for the punch to connect. Minazuki glances over to his other hand to see it holding her metal arm before releasing his grasp on her and simply patting Seryu on the head. "That was very dangerous, Child. You almost got hurt. Don't you know not to wake a monk with just touch?", the Monk warns Seryu as he ruffles her hair.
The righteous girl opens her eyes as she feels her head being patted and says, "I'm sorry, I didn't think you'd react that way to me."
"It wasn't exactly me, it's muscle memory. My body has such good reflexes that it sometimes acts on its own.", Minazuki kindly corrects the girl, trying to make it feel like it wasn't her fault. "What was it you needed, Children?", Minazuki asks as he looks over to Run, who's still standing in the doorway.
"General Esdeath wanted us to wake you. She said she wanted you in the meeting room right away. It's the red door down the left hall on the left side.", Run explains as he wipes the sweat from his brow. "Seryu almost got turned into paste. I'd best make sure everyone knows just to shout for him instead of trying to wake him up like that.", Run thinks to himself as he and Seryu leave the room and go down the hall to have breakfast with Bols.
Minazuki pulls himself off of the ground as he thinks, "Damn, that was close. If I would've hit her, they would've figured out that I'm actually wearing an Imperial Arm! That could've ended badly."
After quickly composing himself as he looks at his own reflection in the window, Minazuki heads out into the hallway only to find a half-dressed Esdeath, still fixing her belt. "Ah, Monk, I hope you slept well.", the General happily calls out to him as she motions for him to follow.
"Yes, I did. Thank you for asking. But it seems I almost hit one of your subordinates when they tried to wake me up with a tap to the shoulder. Luckily, I woke up before anything bad happened.", the monk replies, rubbing the back of his neck as he tells her about the last part.
With a slight groan, Esdeath fixes the buttons on her dress shirt as she says, "I knew I should've told them to just ring a bell or something. It doesn't matter now." To the monk's surprise, Esdeath suddenly stops in her tracks as she puts on her white jacket and asks, "Monk, may I ask you something?"
Stopping just as abruptly as she did, Minazuki glances over to the General and replies with a question of his own, asking, "Isn't that what you brought me here for, my advice?"
The woman only chuckles at his response before asking, "How far should I go with Tatsumi?"
"How far should you go?", Minazuki echoes back to her with a confused tone.
"Yes, how far should I change myself to help him love me better?", Esdeath growls with a slight glare as she scolds the monk for answering with another question.
When he hears this, Minazuki lets out a light sigh of relief before saying, "As far as your heart tells you to, General. If you truly believe that Tatsumi is your destined soul mate, then you should try everything in your power to make him yours, including changing the very way you think."
"Ah, I see, thank you again.", the icy General replies as she starts to put on her arm warmers and continues down the hallway.
As the duo heads down the hall, Minazuki sees the red door leading to the meeting room that Run described. With her uniform only halfway complete, Esdeath opens the door and says, "Tatsumi~ Where are you~" The woman's gaze finally falls upon the boy when she sees Tatsumi sitting with Wave, Phi and Kurome. "There you are, and it seems that our group is all here for this mission.", Esdeath notes with a smile aimed at Tatsumi.
"Mission?", Wave asks with a raised eyebrow as he looks to his commander.
Esdeath nods to the blue-haired boy and says, "We're heading to Fake Mountain to hunt for a few days. This will give me some time to truly understand Tatsumi's and the Monk's fighting abilities." The General pulls out a map from her jacket pocket and lays it out on the table for all to see as she says, "Fake Mountain is the perfect place to stage an ambush, so keep your eyes open for any enemy activity while we're hunting and watch each other's backs!"
"Roger!", Kurome, Wave, and Phi all reply in unison.
Esdeath fixes her shirt's slightly crooked collar and slips on her boots before saying, "Until evening, we'll be hunting for Treeman Cells. Once we get there, Kurome, Phi, and myself will search the East side while Wave, Tatsumi and the Monk search the West side." With her nimble fingers working their magic, the General quickly laces up her boots and places her hat on her head before saying, "One more thing, I didn't get to see much of your Imperial Arms yesterday, Kurome and Phi, so as your Captain, I need to make sure of your abilities."
"Huh? Does that mean you already know mine then, General?", Wave asks, slightly hurt by his Commander's comment.
"You happened upon a great teacher. Your strength is perfect, that's why I'm trusting you with Tatsumi and my Love Adviser.", Esdeath explains to the thickheaded with a smile as she fixes her hat.
A confident smile comes across the boy's face as he hears this and when Tatsumi and Minazuki see it, they know they've just been given their escape on a silver platter. "With this guy watching over us, we'll be able to escape without any effort at all.", Tatsumi thinks to himself with a grin on his face.
Minazuki however is fixated on Wave's Imperial Arm, Grand Chariot. "That Imperial Arm, it's Grand Chariot if my memory serves me right. It's an armor type just like Incursio. It's stronger and faster, but its Trump Card is less impressive to say the least.", Minazuki thinks to himself as Wave catches him staring at his Imperial Arm.
"What seems to be the matter, bud?", Wave asks with a confused look on his face.
Minazuki lets out a kind chuckle before saying, "It's nothing, Child. I can sense the strength within you and your Imperial Arm, and I'm impressed." As Wave seems to buy his response, Minazuki suddenly senses someone watching them from out in the hallway. He fakes adjusting his mask so he can close his eyes to get a better look and when he does, the monk sees they're being spied on by Doctor Stylish.
"At dusk, Tatsumi will go with me while the rest of you setup camp.", Esdeath orders, causing Tatsumi to flinch a little.
"I have just one question.", Minazuki notes with his finger raised slightly.
"And what might that be, Monk?", Esdeath asks with a curious look on her face.
Minazuki then points over to Doctor Stylish as the man hides in the shadows of the doorway and asks, "Why is Doctor Stylish stalking us from the hallway?"
Everyone turns to where the monk is pointing and they all sense that Doctor Stylish is in the hallway, observing them from afar.
Esdeath scowls toward the doorway and shouts, "Stylish, in here, now!"
The confident Doctor struts his way in with a slightly displeased frown on his face before saying, "My, my, I thought I was masking my presence pretty well. You're pretty good, for a monk."
"My training allows me to sense even the faintest of heartbeats. The fact that you're alive gave away your location.", Minazuki lies, but everyone believes him and they're all mesmerized by it.
"Wow! What amazing training! I want to learn how to have senses like that!", Wave exclaims, beyond impressed by his skills.
"Alright, we're off then! And Doctor Stylish, if you happen to follow us, I'll make sure to deal with your punishment personally.", Esdeath says before letting out a wave of her murderous intent to scare Stylish into submission.
Stylish however simply leaves the room with his elbow in one hand and the side of his face in the other. As he takes his leave down the hallway, Stylish thinks to himself, "That monk, somethings odd about him... It's so...stylish! I'll have to keep my eyes on him~"
Later that day, Minazuki, Tatsumi and Wave are walking along a rocky path to the top of Fake Mountain on its Western side. Wave looks around at the earthy terrain in amazement before noting, "I know all the danger beast species that live in the sea, but as for the mountains, I'm completely clueless."
Minazuki lets out a slight sigh before telling the ill-informed seaman, "Most of the beasts here use camouflage to setup surprise attacks. Keep your guard up, or you're dead."
"O-okay..!", Wave nervously replies at the sudden change in Minazuki's personality.
Tatsumi looks around a bit and thinks, "I knew it, or maybe I should say I was expecting it. Coming here reminds me of the time I spent training here with Bro."
"Hey, why didn't you bring that up when we were back at the palace?", Wave asks Minazuki with a slightly concerned glance aimed at the monk.
"Because the General already knows this area. Since she's with the others, she's likely already warned them of the uniqueness of the beasts that live here. I just thought it was necessary to inform you in case you weren't aware, since you are more of a man of the sea than land.", Minazuki says in a kinder tone than before.
"Most of the monsters here just look like trees and rocks. If you keep your eyes out for those, you should be good, Wave.", Tatsumi reassures the boy with a slight smile.
"T-thanks. You two might not have any Imperial Arms, but you sure do know a lot. You probably have all kinds of skills of your own, right? If anything happens to show up, I guess I should turn to you guys for some advice.", Wave replies to the duo with a smile.
"You're welcome. That's okay though, I'm used to being treated like I know nothing.", Tatsumi replies as they continue up the path.
"I kind of feel where you're coming from. You kind of, somehow, remind me of myself, Tatsumi.", Wave says with as the seaman rubs the back of his head anxiously.
"Yourself? What exactly reminds you of yourself?", Tatsumi asks as he smells himself and checks the rest of his body for similarities.
"It's hard to say exactly, but it seems to me that you're familiar with the same problems I have.", Wave says as he puts his face in the palm of his right hand and thinks about his new teammates.
Tatsumi grabs his head and lets out a light sigh before saying, "You can stop, I get it. I kind of get what you're saying, so that's enough.", as he thinks about all the members of Night Raid.
Suddenly there's a shift in the wind and Wave shuts his eyes for a second to take in the cool breeze while saying, "Well, anyways, let's get along since we're in the same boat, right?"
Tatsumi and Minazuki suddenly lock eyes with one another and nod without looking at Wave, to which Tatsumi starts to draw his sword.
When Wave opens his eyes, he sees Tatsumi charging head first at him, prepared to attack. The seaman goes to defend himself with his sheathed blade, but much to his surprise Tatsumi moves past him and slices a Treeman tentacle clean in half with his sword, Incursio's key.
"You saved me! I owe you one!", Wave shouts as he prepares to fight, drawing his blade from its sheath as he takes his stance against the beasts.
While Minazuki rushes past the two boys, Tatsumi shouts, "Don't mention it!"
The monk leaps into the air and growls, "I'll end this.", before punching the Treeman straight in its eye, putting a hole straight through its brain and killing it.
"W-woah! What power!", Wave shouts, impressed by Minazuki's raw power.
The monk retreats back to the two boys and says, "We're surrounded.", before more Treemen and Rockmen erupt out from the earth.
"Attacking in groups, huh? You definitely don't look as tasty as the monsters of the sea.", Wave comments as he readies his blade.
"These guys aren't very strong individually, but they attack in large numbers, be careful.", Minazuki warns the cocky boy as he takes his fighting stance.
"Okay! Let's clean out this area and turn them into firewood!", Tatsumi shouts and they all attack at once.
After the dust clears from their battle, Wave wipes the sweat from his brow and says, "Phew, that was a hard one, right Tatsumi?" The seaman turns around to see Tatsumi's missing and asks, "Hey Mister Monk, have you seen-", and before he can finish, he notices Minazuki is gone as well. Thrown into a panic, Wave desperately looks for any trace of the two, but finds none.
Off far away from the panicking seaman, Minazuki and Tatsumi are using their Imperial Arms to make their escape as Tatsumi explains the events of last night to him. "Good job Tatsumi. You might not have convinced her to join the Revolutionary Army, but it's a start.", Minazuki commends the boy with a nod.
Back with Wave, he still can't find Tatsumi or Minazuki and growls to himself, "Damn it, where'd they go? Don't tell me they, got kidnapped by the enemy!? This is bad! I wasn't paying attention and now Night Raid probably has them! I have to rescue them! And to that, I have to use IT!"
Back with Tatsumi and Minazuki, they hear the sound of a beast roaring and Minazuki says, "That must be Grand Chariot! I'll hide underground and follow you by digging my way through."
"Hey, you can't just hide like that!", Tatsumi shouts as Minazuki hides underground. "Damn it! Now this is a real mess!", Tatsumi thinks to himself before he senses an incoming attack and dodges on instinct. The armored boy turns back to see a blue armor type Imperial Arm that resembles his own. "That must be Wave and Grand Chariot. An Armor Type Imperial Arm...?", Tatsumi thinks to himself as Wave walks out of the dust cloud he just made.
"Hey hey, seems like I was right! Tell me where you took Tatsumi and the Monk and I might have mercy on your life, Night Raid!", Wave shouts as he points at Tatsumi.
"This isn't good. He thinks that Tatsumi kidnapped us. You better think of something fast, Tatsumi.", Minazuki thinks as he sees no weak point in the Grand Chariot Armor.