...so he somehow passed him without noticing him as he left the dojo?

Lugia, edit. It doesn't make sense for him to be so tired that he can't even check his surroundings and yet be able to tell the exit, otherwise he'd be bumping into pillars.

Besides, I don't want to make an entire IC post where I have to follow your character AGAIN. That was the point of my last... five or so posts; just hanging around the dojo and waiting for Spruce to finish up.