After a few minutes of Jester, Akemi, their teammates and Miyuki exploring the jungle while fighting and defeating some more shadows, found and obtain more useful items from treasure chests along the way, they stopped, opened and went through another metal gate to the next area only to stopped in their tracks when they see a T-Rex FOE standing in front of them.
"GRRRROOOOOOOAR!" roared the T-Rex FOE loudly at them.
"Oh no! Another one!" gasped Akemi with a worry look on her face.
"AAAAAAH! Whatdowedo!?" yell Skull in fear to them.
"Crap! Retreat!" said Yosuke worriedly to them before they quickly turned around and left the area.
"Well, NOW what do we do? We can't go any further without passing through there…" said Panther as she shake her head a little.
"I haven't seen any electric gates in the vicinity. I doubt we can trap it somewhere." said Fox.
"Great. So how are we going to lured it away?" said Paladin.
"Ooh, I know! Why don't we use somebody as bait and sneak past it while it's distracted?" suggested Chie.
"Oh, are you volunteering, Chie?" said Yukiko.
"Huh? M-Me!? C-C'mon, shouldn't it be someone who, uh… looks more delicious than me?" said Chie before she glance at Teddie.
"Chie-chan!? Why are you looking at me!?" said Teddie with a shock look on his face at Chie looking at him. "Don't tell me… You're not all going to gang up on me, are you?" added Teddie.
"Mmhm, I agreed that we should feed the dinosaur." said Yukiko with a small nod of her head to Teddie.
"Nooooo… Don't you have any mercy!?" wailed Teddie before he fell on his back and started shedding tears.
"Of course we won't gang up on you and feed you to the FOE, Teddie." said Akemi reassuringly to Teddie before she scowled at both Chie and Yukiko. "Also, will you 2 stop saying and volunteering Teddie as bait to the FOE? Because that's quite cruel of you two." added Akemi sternly to both Chie and Yukiko (which make them look down in shame).
"Huh? Oh no, I didn't mean Teddie! I mean that we should used some kind of actual food." said Yukiko as she shake her head.
"Is that so? Then next time, be more specific with your words, Yukiko-chan." said Akemi.
"I see… a plan to bait it with an appropriate meal." said Naoto.
"Carnivores eat meat …So, when around here could we get some?" said Chie with a pondering look on her face.
"Have you forgotten about the storage unit, Chie?" said Jester.
"Oh, you're right and do you really think somethin' like that in this jungle would have anything in it that ain't spoiled." said Skull.
"Well, since those electric gates are still functional, perhaps the food storage units are running properly as well?" said Crow.
"…Oh, you mean that freezer container we saw earlier! Yeah, we could rustle up something useful in there." said Yosuke.
"Our company freezes plenty of meats and they turn out just fine, so I imagine those containers work the same way." said Noir.
"Good idea! And luckily for us, there's one of the containers close to where we are." said Miyuki.
"Yeah, you're right, Miyuki." said Spade as he nodded at Miyuki.
"Leave it to the Phantom Thieves to check it out! We'll go right now!" said Panther as she smiled at Miyuki.
"All right! Let's go swipe up some frozen meat!" said Mona, smiling as well before he and the others turned and make their way back to where the storage unit is.
"We made it! Well then, let's begin the hunt!" said Panther.
"Right, Panther." said Jester as she nodded at Panther before she and her teammates went toward and into the storage unit and they came out a few minutes later carrying and bringing a huge chunk of frozen meat in their hands.
"Whoa, look at this meat! It's… the meat to end all meat!" said Chie with a happy look on her face at the huge frozen meat.
"It is a really big one, Chie." said Akemi with a surprise look on her face.
"Chie, are you actually drooling?" said Yosuke.
"Eheheh… I can't help it when something this delicious-looking is right in front of me." said Chie with an embarrassed look on her face.
"Well, if Chie-senpai's a fan of it, I bet it'll attract that carnivore real easy." said Kanji.
"Let's try placing it a safe distance away from that dinosaur and see if that lures it from the path." said Queen.
"But, this meat's still frozen-is that okay?" said Panther.
"I remember hearing that carnivores have well-developed senses of smell for sniffing out their prey… I believe our probability of success will significantly increase if we heighten the scent, so we shouldn't use it frozen." said Naoto.
"In that case, why don't we defrost and cook it to heighten the scent?" said Jester.
"Oh, good idea, Jester." said Crow as he smiled at Jester.
"If we did that, it would indeed be more fragrant… but, considering how big it is, defrosting is going to take a lot of time." said Noir.
"Even so, I'm sure that the dinosaur will come straight towards the delicious, meaty scent once it's done defrosting and cooking by you all!" said Miyuki.
"There were cooking utensils in the freezer container with the meat, so we ought to make use of them too." said Queen.
"Those scientists and geneticists even left behind the cooking utensils with the meat? How lucky for us that they left them behind." said Paladin as he shrugged his shoulders.
"By the way-where are we gonna cook? I haven't seen a kitchen in this jungle." said Skull.
"Um… Back in the movie theater?" suggested Panther.
"No! If we let them cook in an enclosed space, we'll all end up dead!" protested Yosuke.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean, Yosuke!?" snapped Chie as she glared at Yosuke.
"I mean, well, you know… U-Uhhhh…" stammer Yosuke as he scratch his head and look away.
"I think what he meant is that it's dangerous to grill this huge chunk of meat in the theater. Furthermore, the theater doesn't have a kitchen." said Jester.
"That's true, Jester made some good points. There were no gas ranges or anything of that nature in the movie theater…" said Crow in agreement with Jester.
"Yeah yeah! We can't even do it there anyway, so wouldn't an outdoor setup be better?" said Yosuke in quick agreement with Crow. "Plus it'll be easier to run away, too…!" added Yosuke in a small tone of voice to himself.
"Still, cooking outdoors includes the risk of starting a forest fire…" said Fox concernly to them.
"In that case, we may want to do this near a river, so we can douse the fire immediately if it gets out of hand. Let's look for a spot around here near a water source where we can cook." suggested Queen.
"You've a point, Queen. Let's look for it now, everyone." said Jester as she nodded at Queen's suggestion before she gave her order to Akemi, their teammates and Miyuki and they began searching for a spot near a water source where it's safe for them to defrost and cooked the meat.
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After a few minutes of Jester, Akemi, their teammates and Miyuki walking and searching around the jungle for a cooking spot near a water spot while bringing and carrying the huge chunk of frozen meat and the cooking equipments with them, they finally found a perfect spot for cooking near a water spot and they put down the frozen meat and the cooking equipments on the ground.
"This spot seems good enough for us to defrost and cook the meat safely, everyone." said Jester as she glance and smiled at Akemi and the others.
"Hm, you're right, Jester. This place does seem good and safe enough for us to defrost and cook the meat." said Fox in agreement with Jester.
"It's an open area, there's a water spot nearby… I'd say it's indeed as safe a place to cook as we could hope for." said Naoto with a small nod of her head. "We may have found only a pot to cook in, but we should be fine, so long as we have a heat source for it… The only thing is that we have no recipe to work from. Will that be a problem?" added Naoto concernly to them.
"Naoto-kun, new discoveries are always waiting to be made in cooking. We just need to believe in ourselves!" said Yukiko confidently and reassuringly to Naoto.
"Mmhm! Improvising a tasty dish with a minimal number of ingredients is a useful cooking skill, too." said Rise in agreement with Yukiko.
"Alright, I'm getting fired up! Time for us gals to bust out our culinary skills! Let's get to it!" said Chie excitedly to Yukiko, Rise and Akemi.
"Uh, Chie-chan. I know that you, Yukiko-chan and Rise-chan wanted to try cooking the meat but why don't we just let the guys do it instead?" suggested Akemi.
"Yeah, Akemi's right. Since this meat is huge, shouldn't we get a more reliable-I mean, less experimental cook?" said Yosuke in agreement with Akemi. "Us guys will handle the cooking part of the bait, and you girls can, uh… I know! You girls can go out and look for other ingredients for us to use! Please!?" added Yosuke desperately to them.
"Wow, just when I thought he couldn't get anymore desperate and freak out of their cooking. Is their cooking really that bad?" thought Jester sarcastically in her mind at Yosuke.
"You're kinda freakin' out there, Yosuke-senpai-I get it, though…" said Kanji.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean!? Does our cooking really upset you guys so much!?" snapped Chie angrily at the guys.
"Alright, that's enough now! The guys will do the cooking and I'll be counting on you girls to go and gather the ingredients." said Jester sternly and seriously to Chie and the other girls.
"Wha!? Uh, you mean, like, you're counting on them to gather a lot of ingredients, right!?" said Yosuke as he glance at Jester.
"Yeah, that's what I just said to them." said Jester as she scowled at Yosuke.
"Huh? You're not coming with us, Jester?" asked Chie in confusion to Jester.
"Nope. I've decided to stay here, watch and helped the guys with the meat." replied Jester.
"Very well then, I'll stay here too and don't forget. You guys need to start a fire to cook the meat, right? That's why we feel most suited for the cooking part of this." said Akemi.
"You too, huh, Akemi?" said Yukiko.
"Looking for ingredients does sound fun… I feel like we can find lots of new and interesting ones here." said Noir with an interested look on her face.
"Ooh, I wanna do that too! What say we leave the cooking to them and us gals go on a little hunt?" said Panther.
"Hm, sure, why not?" said Jester in agreement with both Noir and Panther.
"You make it sound like an adventure… That seems more to my taste as well." chuckled Naoto.
"Guess it's settled then. Us guys shall do the cooking while you girls search for additional ingredients?" said Spade.
"Sounds all right to me. We'll leave the cooking to you guys-this time." said Yukiko as she nodded at Spade.
"Okay, off we go-in search for new meats!" said Chie excitedly to them.
"Um, we already have the meat, Chie-chan. So why don't we look for… other ingredients for flavour-like seaweed and shark fin?" said Yukiko.
"Huh? Seaweed and shark fin? Are you serious?" said Akemi as she glance in shock at Yukiko.
"Don't tell me we're walking all the way to the ocean to forage… At any rate, we should get going." said Queen.
"Well then, let us be off, girls!" said Miyuki happily to them before she and the other girls except both Jester and Akemi turned and went searching for ingredients.
"Whew, it worked… Excellent job, Yosuke!" said Teddie in a relief tone of voice to Yosuke.
"If we'd have left the cooking to them, we wouldn't end up with bait-we'd get a chemical weapon…" said Yosuke as he briefly scratch his head a little.
"Dude… Are the girls on your team really that bad at cooking?" asked Skull.
"Nope, Akemi's the only one who can cook and don't even ask… There are things in this world you're better off not knowing." replied Yosuke.
"But have no fear! Our sensei is a master cook!" said Teddie happily to them about Akemi's cooking skill.
"Oh? I'd bet Jester's skills stack up with your sensei…? After all, she's lodging at a café, when it comes to cooking curry, she can't be beat!" said Mona.
"Come on, Mona. You don't have to tell them that." said Jester with a slight embarrassed look on her face.
"That's great to hear. Let's work together so we can make sure this turns out well." said Akemi as she nodded at Mona before she glance and nodded at Jester.
"Yeah, I know." said Jester as she nodded at Akemi.
"Ohhh, Sensei and Jester's prides as chefs has been ignited like a bonfire!" said Teddie with a surprise look on his face at both Jester and Akemi.
"It seems that we can expect something great from them. I can't wait to taste what they make." said Fox with an excited look on his face.
"While you're droolin' over there, may I remind you that we're doing all this to make dino bait, not Fox food?" said Skull as he rolled his eyes at Fox.
"Enough chit-chat and let's get to defrosting the meat, you two." said Jester as she scowled at both Skull and Fox before they began cleaning and defrosting the meat together.
