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Akiko couldn't help but smile as the man's stomach growled as if to say yes to the offer for a free meal. She listened as he explained who was in the veiled platform and then glanced back over at it, with more of a curiosity in her bright blue eyes now, for a moment. When she turned her attention back to the two before her the man was walking off, she smiled at the woman and said, "Please join us," and with that she was off to follow the man. He hadn't given her his name but she decided that it wasn't deemed necessary to. A few minutes later the man entered a small restaurant. It was a quaint little tea house, common in this area of Japan, that served food along with tea. There was only one other party in the restaurant, a group of men with swords as well, "I didn't know so many people here could wield swords...." she thought as they were being lead to their seats.

"Order what ever you two would like, it's no trouble at all," she said to them as a server girl came up to them to ask them what they wanted. Akiko ordered eight steamed dumplings and some tea and waited for the others to order. Once they did and the server girl left she backed up slightly and bowed to both the man and woman again, "I didn't properly introduce myself earlier, I am Akiko Tatsuhashi, a traveler from Okido, I'm honored to meet both of you," she said with a smile. Moments later the server girl was back with their drinks and then gone again. "What brings you two to Tokyo? Or do you both live here?" she inquired hoping that it wasn't out of place for her to ask such a question.