Author's Note: Oopsies, I have been gone for so long. I know I kept making those update chapters, which isn't what anyone wanted. XD Luckily, I finally managed to type something up, so I hope you ll enjoy this seriously late installment!
Tatsumi wakes up in a jolt.
"Lubba! Ah-" The brunette's eyes waver around the unfamiliar area. No, it was just the forest. "Why am I-?"
"Don't move."
He looks up at the sudden voice. Leone was heavily scarred, yet she gives Tatsumi a forced smile as she checks his arm.
"Leone..."
"You passed out again, didn't you? I don't see any combat wounds, even though those 'Wild Hunt' guys intruded the base," she says. At the sudden crestfallen expression from mentioning the base, Tatsumi dares to turn his head. There laid the crushed debris that was formally their headquarters; Their home.
"I see..." he whispers solemnly. Once again, he blacks out right in the middle of a crisis. If he had been awake... "Where did they all go? Did you guys...?" Leone shakes her head.
"We were only able to take down two guys. The ones that got away were... Dorothea, Cosmina, and Ishin. When the base came down, they all started retreated. We stayed back to look for you and Lubbo-"
"Where is he?" Tatsumi sits up hastily, feeling his heart pick up. When Leone had not answered, he turned to the rest of Night Raid, who all could not find a way to look into his eyes.
"Boss-" he looks to the white-haired woman, who had shut her visible eye.
"Tatsumi, I'm..." she falters on her words. "We are still looking for him-"
"Oh, not again," the male covers his face with both hand, falling back with a devastated expression. "This can't be happening.