Tatsumi awoke to the sunlight piercing his eyes. His hair, more messier then it had ever been; his coat wrinkled and messed up. He leaned forward to take a look around him. He was in Esdese' bed; he managed to scan around the room to see the singular vase in the corner of the room, tables and the same sofa he remembered trying to sleep on when he first met her. He came to a quick realization and swiftly reached into his pocket and pulled out the book he "borrowed" from the library yesterday. Then it came to him. Yesterday? How long has he been asleep? It couldn't have been night when Esdese forced him in here, it was merely afternoon. That didn't seem to faze him for long however; as he opened the book up back to the page that talked about the life Teigu.

As soon as he saw the fishy text once again, memories rushed into his head. He remembered the swear he had to endure when he talked about a Teigu that could bring people back to life in front of Night Raid. Najenda yelled at him, making himself stop talking in an instant. They seemed to have given up hope of finding a Teigu that could bring others back from the dead, simply accepting the fact that Teigu's simply don't have the power to do so;considering they were apparently forged by one Emperor a long time ago. He browsed over the familiar handwriting, moving himself to hang his legs off the end of the bed, still holding the hunk of leather and paper in his lap.

A certain ending piece of the explanation caught his eye. It was something abnormal to him. The text that was written below the paragraph for Trakunikiss:

Within a town, where the sun goes down,

this flute lye-

The inking on the paper looked like it was scraped off. It looked like somebody was held against their own will while writing it, scribbled down like a five year old getting a hold of a quill he/she wasn't supposed to. Thinking aloud, Tatsumi wondered about it, trying to decipher exactly what it meant. He wanted to get to finding this Teigu as soon as possible, so he wasn't bound to any possibilities of figuring it out. Once he would get up and get dressed, he would try to find Wave;hoping to find out if he knew anything about it.

Sliding the book down to the right onto the messed up sheets, he got up, and looked around to spot his coat in the corner;seamlessly tossed into the sharp space of tile. He remembered that last night, Esdese, she was very, very forceful. He reached over to his side to feel bruises. She really brings a whole new meaning to tough love; he thought. He began scanning the room for Incursio, quickly spotting it in on the floor next to the door. Esdese seemed to have thrown everything off of him;she must have been very hell bent on him last night.

Walking out the door, Tatsumi immediately felt a breeze from the small open window at the end of the right hallway. He continued his way down this hallway to find the room where Wave and the Jeagers would possibly be waiting. The squeaking sound of the wood echoing throughout the hallway made its debut as he walked through the archway entrance to find Kurome eating cookies like always, Wave in a chair, chilling out it seemed like.

Wave took a quick glance at Tatsumi, motioning a wave. Tatsumi went over to wave, and reluctantly sat between him and Kurome, pulling up a chair, closer to Wave then he was Kurome. The aura that she emitted was enough to send Tatsumi flying to the moon. She was just so...omniscient. It made him cringe inside a little, expecting her to strike any moment;at any given time, and Tatsumi had one glint of thought every time he saw her eat one of the cookies...he thought that maybe he would die by one of those cookies. She has that sort of look. He admits that at one point, those cookies will kill him. He doesn't know now, or when, but they will kill him at some point.

Tatsumi put the now cleaner grimy book down on the table, opening it to the page explaining Trakunikiss.

"So, Wave. I found this book in the library, and it has some scripture of a Teigu. This Teigu, is said to bring people back from the dead, what do you think about it?" Tatsumi asked.

Wave looked over the small text on the book, reluctantly glancing at Tatsumi.

"Bringing people back to life...huh."

"Look I know its a big stretch, Wave, but I really think there is something here, man."

"I don't know about all that noise, Tatsumi. I mean, if this was in the library, it was obviously searched for, and then lost."

"Why would you say that? What if this thing is still out there?"

"It probably is, but think of how many people have probably looked for that and failed. Is that what you are planning to do? Look for this thing, Tatsumi?"

"As a matter of fact, yes. I am going to look for it."

Wave proceeded to get up out of his chair and aggressively look down at Tatsumi.

"You shouldn't."

"And why is that?"

"Because every single time somebody has gone on a wild goose chase like this, they never returned."

"You think I won't return? I look at you guys with major respect. I would never just abandon you or Esdese."

"Really? Did you have that same mindset when you left after she managed to get a hold of you again? When you nearly killed me with that damned Incursio?"

Tatsumi started to get a sense of anger swelling inside of him. His fist's clenching as he rose up from the seat to stand his ground, Kurome behind him, wearing a surprised expression;wondering why Wave was as tense as he was. They were both essentially sick of the Capital and it's officials; even seemingly tearing at their souls every day they wake up.

"Its in your best interest to not bring up the past, Wave."

"So you're threatening me now, are you?"

"Maybe I am. I've dealt with that talk enough already."

Wave let out a huge sigh, as he sat back down and glanced at the book.

"Just don't go to far or get captured, please. I'm asking you as a friend, its a request from me, I don't want to endure the torture from Esdese again. I thought we would have established a certain level of trust as comrades but she still tortures me, even after all this time."

"I won't Wave, all I wanted to do was ask you about it."

"And I gave you what I thought about it."

"One more thing."

"What is that, Tatsumi?"

"There is a small riddle like quote hidden under-neath this Trakunikiss description. Was wondering if you knew anything about it?"

"Let me take a look."

The tension in the air started to fade away as Tatsumi let Wave reach his hands over to pass the book over to himself, his eyes looking hardly for the small words that Tatsumi spoke of.

"In a town where the sun goes down? Yeah. I've heard of that before."

"Really?! Where from, and how?" Tatsumi excitedly asked.

"It was an old Sailor's chant that a group I got caught up in used to say all the time. It went like: In a town where the sun goes down, where the hounds dig mounds, and the crown falls fierce upon the living stone."

"Um...Uh...I'm not going to lie, I didn't expect you to know anything about it." Tatsumi started laughing, jotting down a mental sticky note as the words that Wave spoke made their way into his brain.

"I guess I still have some surprises left in me."

"Wave, I'm not going to lie...this riddle might just be the most idiotic thing I've heard of in a long while."

"Hey, those jingles are nostalgic."

Tatsumi started to contemplate asking Kurome anything, but decided against it as he made his way towards the exit, hoping to get ready for his departure to find out more about this town.

As Tatsumi made his way around the Capital market, he saw tons of unique faces. He saw dancing women, extending invitations to him, asking for gold, drunkard people lazing around, asking people to date. There were even people trying to give speeches;talking about how to make the capital great again. It was severely crowded, to the point where shoulder length proximity wasn't even uncommon. As he made his way through the crowd, trying to find a map salesman, or something similar to that extent, he stopped; dead in his tracks.

He exchanged a few glances with two girls in the crowd, but he didn't expect what he saw when he looked to the right of the girls. He saw Akame. Akame was...in her normal outfit, but her eyes...her eyes were missing. In place of her pupils were just white dots...

Tatsumi felt himself swallowing saliva swiftly as he reached his hand up to rub his eyes. Once he succeeded in doing so, she was no longer there. He brushed it off as nothing more then a hallucination, and kept searching for the map.

With a triumphant smirk on his face, Tatsumi sat down on the sofa in Esdese' chambers, facing the bed. He pulled out his newly acquired map, and started to compare the riddle to the way his map was set up. The map he received had weather-like prediction patterns, all be it newly introduced techniques, Tatsumi had a good feeling about it. He compared the first part, In a town where the sun goes down, trying to find a point in the map around the Capital where the sun seemed to shine the most.

No areas around the Capital seemed to have brushed the surface of the text, but he did find a symbol on the map that seemed to be too transparent. It had some sort of light emitting off of it. Considering the map was a piece of flattened wood paper, it didn't have the kind of translucent feeling as something like cloth or fabric did.

Upon further inspection, Tatsumi noted that it seemed to be a day or two's journey away from the Capital.

Sealing this as his only lead, Tatsumi planned to head out in the morning, after getting a good nights sleep. He didn't want himself to be so abrupt, and he also wanted to be cautious in looking for this Teigu, but there was this feeling inside of him that just told him he needed to go. If this Teigu was existent, that would mean he could bring all of his friends back. That is what he kept telling himself when he had any doubt in his mind.

Deciding to put the items up for a while, Tatsumi went back to the room where Wave was stationed, hoping to train a bit before he hopped into the shower.