Trays is different from other barrier towns. The barrier doesn't actually extend to the entire thing as only the inner quarters are covered by it. They also have an outer town which is protected by a standard stone wall.
Rika takes a deep breath as they enter the barrier. "The fresh air of no monsters." Rika says happily.
"Actually we got pretty lucky without being attacked." Dante adds. "It was pretty boring." Kaito says, making Dante look at him. "Why do you want to be attacked you're still healing!" Dante shouts.
Rika waves to them. "Alright boys, I'll see if I can find my guild around here!" She says before they hear a click.
Rika shakes a Polaroid before putting it into her book. "You're taking pictures?" Dante asks. "What's a picture?" Kaito asks.
Rika shows them the book. Inside they come to find she has been taking photos since they first fought the hunter. "I've been scrapbooking our adventure." Rika says.
Kaito smiles looking at the pictures. "It's like we're stuck in time!" Kaito says happily. Rika nods. "Alright stay in town, i'll see you around!" Rika says before she jogs off.
Dante and Kaito wander around Trays. Dante is happy to be here it's his first town outside of his own. He isn't counting the den of thieves. That place made him deeply uncomfortable his duration there.
"Hey Kaito you wanna get some food?" Dante asks. Kaito nods happily he's never one to turn down a meal. The duo chooses a ramen shop. They walk inside and the shop is depressingly empty.
"Maybe they're closed?" Dante questions. As he says that a head springs from behind the counter. "Customer!?" The young man shouts. He sprints toward them and falls to his knees.
"Please tell me you guys happen to be adventurers!" He screams. Dante's a lil uncomfortable with the guy. "Uhm yeah were adventurers." Dante responds.
He pulls Blastie out of his pocket. "Listen, I wanna get my shop up and running but I feel like my ramen bowls suck, I need something new, something big, something grand, something to blow my competition away!" He begs.
Kaito helps him off from the ground. "Sure i'm always happy to help out, especially another chef." Kaito says. "But first what's your name?" Kaito asks politely.
The young man had forgotten that he never introduced himself. "I'm sorry excuse my rudeness. I'm Tamakawa." He introduces. Kaito and Dante also introduce themselves.
"What do you need from us?" Dante asks. "I need you guys to go and get this massive rare boar! She's just outside of the barrier and with it I can make the best bowl ever!" Tamakawa explains.
Kaito and Dante leave the ramen shop Dante a bit bummed. "I wanted to eat ramen, now we have to hunt something." Dante sadly says.
Kaito smiles. "But at least we get to help someone, right hero!" Kaito says and Dante smiles back. "Right." As the boys walk away someome taps them.
They turn around and Rika is behind them pouting. "You guys are about to leave without me!?" Rika complains.
"What happened with your guild?" Dante asks her. Rika shakes her head. "Don't ask, I'll be with you guys for a while." Rika says. Kaito gets excited hearing this. "Good, I like having you around!" He simply says buy it makes her happy.
They catch Rika up with what's going on. "Ouu a ramen quest!" Rika's mouth waters. "Excited to help?" Kaito asks her. Rika shakes her head. "Heck no! I could care less about the guys shop but ramen is my favorite!" She smiles.
They make it to the field and spot the boar. It's in a giant herd. "The big ones gotta be what we're after." Rika says. Dante sweats a bit. "How're we gonna get to it?" He asks. Kaito smiles. "These boar can't see too well, so if we get low then we can just go right up to it." Kaito says.
Dante doesn't seem too sure about this but he goes with.
They move quietly and low to the ground. Dante is shivering through this. "I don't think I like this." He says. Rika is also scared but the promise of money is keeping her moving. "Try to relax Dante everything is fine." Kaito says to him. Dante slows his breath. He begins nodding in agreement. "Yeah you're right Kaito this is fine." Dante says but he accidentally steps on a boars tail.
Kaito and Rika stare at him. The herd of boar begins to freak and they all look at the kids.
"Nice piggy's...." Rika says. The boars begin to chase after them and the three run away. As they're running Rika freaks out. "You've killed us icy!" She yells as she continues running. "It was an accident!" He yells back at her.
Before the kids realize they've begun running in the direction of the town.
A man at the gate resting notices the ground rumbling. "Hmm?" He looks up and sees the herd chasing the three. "Ahhh!" The man shouts and ducks out of the way. The herd stomps through the city waking everyone up looking at the commotion this early in the morning.
Kaito notices this and realizes it's bad. "Guys we gotta get them back out of town." Kaito says that. "Dante come up with something!" Kaito yells at him. Dante looks confused. "Me!?" He yells back. "Split up!" Rika yells as she hops on her boomerang and flies away on it. A group follow her. Kaito looks at Dante and then he also splits.
Dante freaks out even more and then he runs faster. Rika uses her boomerang to safely travel above the ones chasing her and makes an illusion of a predator to chase them away. "Hehe stupid boars." She giggles. The illusion works a little bit too well and the boars go after Kaito. "Whoops." She says as she watches.
Kaito sees them coming from the other direction so he flips into the air and lands onto the big one. "Let's use you!" Kaito says as he grabs it's tusk and turns it around and the herd follows it. Kaito sees Dante running away and he grabs him by his shirt pulling him up to him. "Oh Kaito thank you so much!" Dante yells to him.
The man back at the gate is cleaning up and he notices the herd running through town again. "Oh no." He says as he dives back out of the way and they make it past him again. Kaito crashes the big one into a tree knocking it down and he creates a barrier around himself and the boar blocking the others. He pulls out his dagger.
Kaito kneels down to kill it but the boar cries making him hesitate. "What're you waiting for?" Rika asks him. Kaito looks around and sees the crying boars and connects the dots here. "You're just a momma trying to protect her babies." Kaito says before he puts his dagger up and pets the boar instead to soothe it's crying.
He rubs it on the nose. "It's ok we're not gonna take you from your family." He says as he stands up. Rika's jaw is dropped. "What are you doing! It's just a stupid monster!" Rika yells at him. Kaito looks sad for it. "This just doesn't feel right. Killing is only necessary when it's for food, killing this momma would feed us but all her babies would die." Kaito says sadly.
Rika holds her boomerang in the air. "Move then I'll kill it morals won't stop me." She says. Kaito looks at her seriously. "No." He says and Rika immediately backs down. "O-ok, but how're we gonna complete our mission?" Rika asks him. "This is pretty noble of you Kaito." Dante says. Kaito looks at a lone adult boar. "I know how." Kaito says as he hunts the other boar instead.
He kneels in front of it. "Thank you for your sacrifice." He says. He carves some meat from it and he heads out back to the shop.
Kaito and his friends arrive back at the shop. Rika smiles. "Ah I get the plan here we're gonna hand this random slab of meat in and claim it's from the rare boar, not a plan I thought we were going with." She says as they ring the little bell on the counter. Yamakawa comes from the back and then gets happy to see them.
He hops over his counter again. "So did you guys get it?" He asks them happily. Rika steps first. "We sure di-" she starts but Kaito stops her. "No, we didn't." He says and Yamakawa seems confused. "So what're you doing here?" He asks them. Kaito pulls out the regular slab of boar meat. "The rare boar isn't needed to make your shop popular and killing it just for money isn't right." Kaito says to him.
Tamakawa is more confused by this. "How else do I get my name out there?" He asks Kaito. "With great food, just a rare meat isn't enough, you've gotta put your everything into making a good meal!" Kaito says passionately. "Let me show you." Kaito says as he walks to the kitchen with him. Dante and Rika come to follow and Kaito stops them. "Wait for me at the table." Kaito says.
Rika and Dante shrug at each other and go to sit down.
Kaito shows yamakawa cooking techniques and he makes a dish from the boar. "It's finished go ahead and try." Kaito says as he lays it in front of him. "Ok?" He says as he picks up his fork and takes a bite. Yamakawa's face lights up with the joy of a child. "This.. this is delicious! How did you do this?!" He asks Kaito.
Kaito smiles. "With honest cooking young man." He says as he places his hand on his shoulder. "This recipe would do great! Here take the reward!" Yamakawa says but Kaito stops him. "No not yet." He says to him.
Kaito uses more of the boar meat to make ramen. For Rika and Dante. He comes out and places the bowls in front of them. "You can really cook right?" Rika asks him. Kaito nods. "I'm sure it'll be good." Dante says also. They both take a bite and they both seem throughly surprised. "This is amazing!" Dante shouts.
Rika's mouth waters. "Amazing noodles!" She says as she devours it all. "Now, just one more thing." Kaito says and they both look at him. He looks and smiles at Rika. "Rika can you bring a lot of attention to the shop?" He asks. She smiles back at him. "The trickster is amazing at drawing attention." She says.
When night falls the shop is illuminated by bright lights shooting into the sky. "Grand opening of tama Dinners! All you can eat!" The sign reads. The lights draw the attention of nearby people and some come to check it out. Dante walks around the nearby people that aren't as interested and gives free samples. "Curiosity of tama dinners." He says to everyone that he goes too.
Before they know it people begin flooding to the door in heaps. Rika is at the door. "200 Blastie entry fee gentlemen." She says collecting fares. The people rush in and Tamakawa is surprised at the numbers. "This is the busiest I've ever been!" He says. Kaito smiles at him. "Then it's time we get busy." Kaito says. The night stays lively and the four of them work hard to keep up with customer demand.
At midnight they close up shop and they made a surprising. 20,000 Blastie! "This is so much Blastie!" Tama shouts. Rika's eyes turn into money symbols. "Well we'll take our share!" Rika says. "Right you guys did such a good job, you deserve way more then what I promised!" He says as he begins to count out more money.
Kaito stops him. "We don't need extra we'll take what was promised." Kaito says. Dante looks at Rika and he takes a few steps back. Rika grabs Kaito's collar. "Listen here buddy! I won't let you turn down extra money! We did a good job and we're getting PAID!" She yells at him. Kaito laughs a little bit afraid. "But Rika we did good help that should be enough." He says.
Rika straight faces him. "No, Blastie is worth way more then that." She says. Tamakawa laughs. "I think 5000 Blastie should be good?" He asks her. "Six." She says. He laughs at her. "Here you are." He hands her 6000 Blastie. Her eyes light up with happiness. She passes Dante and Kaito some but keeps most of it. "Alright boys today was a job well done!" She says happily as they head out.
Tamakawa comes up to them. "I never got your names." He says to them. "I'm Dante." He says simply. Rika is gawking at her money. "I'm the trickster." She says never taking her eyes off of it. "I'm Kaito." He says as he shakes Tamakwa's hand. "I hope to meet you all again, next time I might already be famous though." He laughs.
Kaito smiles. "I'd like to see it." He says to him. They leave and get a room at the inn. and shut in for the night.