User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E6 -Known By It's KRAAAW - Impressions/Recap/@comment-26397825-20171122003657/@comment-25936766-20171122021603

They're not all dead, Gundam.

Most Huntsmen were just busy with other missions, or had put missions on hold (and if they did that, it'd be for a reason). Or in cases like Umbra, had just finished a mission and would rather rest than inmediately go on another mission.

Considering that some of those missions could take multiple weeks, I think their rests would last similarly long.

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If anything, they're not being hunted down, but Lionheart was right. Remember his words in V5E1:

Lionheart: ''There was nothing to check in about before the fall of Beacon, but since that day, Mistral has been in chaos! Vale wasn’t the only Kingdom to suffer that night. Everyone was watching. Every house in every Kingdom saw that poor girl ripped to pieces, saw monsters crawling over the city, Atlesian Knights attacking citizens…  and then nothing. You could feel the dread in the air. With all that negativity, you can imagine what it was like when the Grimm came for us. Mistral’s territory is the widest reaching in the world, you know, and that makes it infinitely harder to protect. We lost so many great Huntsmen, teachers from this very institution. And it’s only gotten worse.....''

''.....This Kingdom is in shambles. “As soon as possible” does not mean tomorrow. It means, as soon as I can convince the council that I need Huntsmen more than they do. Unfortunately, bandit tribes aren’t very high on their list of priorities when the threat of war is just on the horizon''.

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Everyone isn't dead, Gundam. But everyone is busy.