Thread:Ashleyien/@comment-918376-20150707020140/@comment-26580819-20150824040924

I have no clue why he was checking in with Souji since I'm pretty sure that even in the anime they said very few people knew. I don't think anyone knew where he was going and only his guildmates and Henrietta & Marie knew he was gone. I think there might have been something about Nyanta & Akatsuki covering for him or something. I can't remember. Someone was supposed to be covering for him and most people weren't even supposed to know he was out of town (since he spent so much time in his office, it probably wasn't that hard to do except for Round Table stuff... at least at first).

Did it mention in Vol. 6 that they were out of town? Or were they just absent from the volume with no explanation?

I'll read it eventually. I didn't get any of vol. 5 read tonight. I did finish the summary for ep. 14... that took me about 2 hours to do for some reason. :( I couldn't get any screencaps I liked either...or not many I liked. Oh well, not my favorite episode. It makes much more sense now that I know the story. It was also interesting with Elias vs. the Genius after reading what vol. 11 had.  Elias did seem to know what the genius were and seemed shocked/tramatised. One of the lines Papus says, right after the girl is killed, is "Did your companions fall?... Why do you not shut down?"... which knowing what happened to the other ancients, it seems to make a little more sense. That line about the companions I didn't get, but now I figure he means the ancients...

Now I need sleep... I'm going to be exhausted at work tomorrow.