Lear had been captured by Team Break after losing to them in battle when they abushed him.

He was currently locked in a large room — that the Team Break leader (who was surveilling him through cameras in the room) had sarcastically called his "new castle" through the intercoms — in what seemed to be a cave warehouse, his only roommate being the Hoopa he had partnered with to make Pasio.

He was sitting against a crate, lost in self pity as he talked to the unconscious Hoopa, though he was really just talking to himself.