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The first rookie hunter who had greeted Kazuki left the table, no doubt to get his gear, but just as he was settling down and thankfully receiving one of the bowls of Pin Tuna Soup from the Chief, two more fellows walked in. The elder recognized one of them off the bat, so he was probably another rookie, and Kazuki recognized the big fellow from the boat--they had both boarded the trading galley at Port Tanzia, though he had only seen the man here and there and hadn't really interacted with him much. He too, it seemed, was a Hunter.

The Quest their predecessor intended to send them on was a simple culling quest; after they got their first taste of battle and learned the basics, most Hunters focused their efforts on the larger, stronger, and ultimately more valuable monsters. But small monsters--the ones his Master had always called trash--could be troublesome for the environment and for humans if they overpopulated. So Kazuki, Clara, this Edon, and the two others whose names he didn't know, would be off to hunt fifteen Ioprey...and if they felt confident enough, they could even try to take on the Iodrome.

But...wait...

"Um...isn't it against Guild regulations for a Hunting party to have more than four people, unless a full-scale subjugation has been commissioned?" Kazuki asked Cyrus. For some of the Elder Dragons, sometimes the Guild fielded entire armies or fleets of ships. But normally, to reduce the damage that Hunters did to the monster populations and keep the ecosystem stable, Hunters could normally only form parties of four at a time.