Hrm... Guess I'll stake my claim on the dungeon. Tengu boy's gotta pay off this debt of his somehow, and it seems comparatively safer than... Killing things with no way to fight. Or gang wars.

Edit: oh right, Med, would you mind if I had Takeyoshi spend this timeskip learning the written language and getting a minor infodump in some library of sorts in the city? Just enough to get a grasp of... Well, what the infodump you gave us did.