[ml1201]

"Alright, so do you want to meet back up in a couple hours to go over what we've learned? We can meet up there." She points to a shop not far from them that serves different kinds of food. "We can also talk over food about what we've discovered, bit of a change of pace for us."

Waving by to him she heads in the direction of the stalls and beauty salons in the market district, soon finding an area with several middle aged women standing about. Heading to a counter not too far away from the women she acts like she's browsing the merchandise being shown while she eavesdrops on them. The women are talking about a wedding coming up and they can't figure out what to get the bride as a present. They all start talking about what the girl likes, then begin looking through material items that don't have any real purpose but in the style they thought the bride would like. Sighing, Yasu goes over to them, and picks up simple wooden hair decorations in the shape of a lotus.

"I overheard what you all were talking about a bit, but I'm just going to say something more piratical would probably suit the bride better. Like that hair decoration you have there, it has been painted with beautiful colors with gold-leaf on it, but she will probably only wear it on special occasions to avoid having it stolen. Where as with this wooden one she can wear it as much as she wants and not have to worry about it stolen from her. She'll get more use out of it in the long run, and just give her something a little extra to go with it." The women look at her in surprise, not having thought of any of that, then they start bombarding her with questions for advice on other such things. Yasu panics a bit, stepping back away from them and slowly works through helping them one at a time.

[CycloneKira]

Akira went his way and started to look around for a pub. He had more than one reason for thinking of a pub. First, even at this time, there would be a few people hanging out in the bar, mostly homeless drunks. In Akira's experience, those were the people who knew things, probably much more than the regular vigilant townspeople. Second, he figured he could use a drink himself. Of course, going overboard was out of the question this time. He had a job to do. The best part had to be that at this time, there wouldn't be too many people. Less witnesses.

He took out his scarf and tied it around his face, covering most of it. He left enough uncovered so he could see. He then walked into what was easily the most shady pub in town. Perfect. Any respectable person would steer clear of this place. Feeling that this place might help him, Akira walked inside, making sure his face was covered.

[ml1201]

By the time they are to meet up, Yasu is exhausted, trying her best not to show how tired she is. However she was able to learn that the bandits in the area were trouble makers before becoming bandits, like stealing food and trinkets from the markets when their family could easily provide for them. Some of them even tortured those weaker than them and the animals around their town. Then finally the elders got tired of their antics and banished them from the town, but they now loot and pillage, no one strong enough to stop them. The downside is that no one seemed to know where the bandits' hideout was. When Akira meets up with her with her she's hoping that he might have been able to find that out, or at least have an idea where they will be.

While at the shop she had pointed out to Akira, she did notice someone watching them. Which could be one of the bandits since her actions earlier probably did earn their ire.