Atleast the smell of freshly cooked chicken could take Rins mind of the recent failure even if the cooking process nearly scared Rin to death. "im sorry about all that i really didnt think it would be that hard". Rin said as he pulled his collar straight and grabbed a chicken leg from his companion.
"just out of curiosity im guessing you wouldn't want to go back inside to carry on the research would you?" He said as he turned away and messed around in his bag almost like he knew what James would say.
While rummaging through the bag Rin did realize he was running low on parchment, mainly due to the fact its very flammable and his companion has tendencies with fire.
However they were not too far from a town and with the "NOZ" it wouldn't take them long to get to a market but night was falling and a midnight snack after that ordeal sounded like the best plan.