Talk:Large-Scale Invasion Arc/@comment-17259909-20160627164949/@comment-28816488-20160710064307

Ashihara answered this himself:

"Q.252: Why couldn’t upper B-ranks like NInomiya squad or Kageura squad participate in the Large Scale Invasion? Did they travel far away on their time off? (multiple)

It seems I lost the chance to draw it in the story itself so I’ll write it here: ‘HQ Chief Shinoda gave the order that B-rank and lower agents are not allowed to participate in the fight until all members of the team are present’. It seems he was worried about agents acting on their own and getting captured by Rahbits. Of course, there are also teams like Kako squad who was late to the fight because their captain went out on a drive on her time off."

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