By animeninjaNIPPON

An hour later, after Tamao (now Tammy) and Manta (now Morty) were finished crying over their name changes, Jun was called upon to bail Ren out of jail. Anna was especially angry, because it would cost all of their first week's pay to fund his release.

"Just leave him," Anna said. "We won't need him until we start filming the third episode, and by that time they'll release him for free."

"But who knows what tortures they're subjecting him to in there!" Manta cried. "And that green-haired guy didn't seem too friendly..."

"It'll make a man out of him," Anna continued. "Look what this trip did for Yoh."

I still wasn't used to Yoh's puberty. And with Ponchi and Conchi (Tamao's allies) around, well... that didn't seem too good. And since Tamao secretly loves Yoh... well... you can figure the rest out for yourself. I wasn't trying to have a dirty mind, but this country turned an honorable monster trainer named Takeshi into a pervert, and I feared the same would happen to one of us.

"We're not paying for Ren, and that's final!" Anna concluded. "And it's your week to cook for everyone."

"Damn," Manta mumbled. No sooner had the word escaped him then an exec was on his case, yelling, "You can't use that word here!"

Then Manta was slapped with a 500 fine, to which he used a word that I won't repeat here. With that, he was hauled off to jail.

"See what happens when you defy me?" Anna said, as if she had sent the suits to detain Manta (don't tell her I said that). "We have to be very careful around here. We need that money to sustain ourselves- we can't afford to be bailing you out all the time."

Ryu, who hadn't said two words since he received his degrading new nickname, immediately began cooking dinner.

Just then I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around, and Yoh handed me a scrap of paper with Japanese writing on it. Immediately, one of the suits took a spray can to it, erasing the text but I'd had just enough time to make out what it said:

"Everything will work out."

End of part three