A grin adorned Ryo's face as he held a small bit of ice cream in his hand, after dealing with the upstairs he had finally earned a proper lunch, though he didn't really have any money to buy food. Just as he was considering on looking for scraps on the table one the ice cream vendors approached him with an ice cream, apparently as thanks for cleaning up around their place. He wanted to refuse it but his stomach betrayed him in the crucial moment and any kind of food was better than nothing, so he took it with thanks and decided to browse the mall to see if anything was on sale for payday...which was still quite a bit away.
"Man that lady is the best. I gotta pay her back sometime," Ryo said putting the spoon in the ice cream. "It's just Vanilla but it's going to taste so good."
Just as Ryo was going to take a bite he stopped as a few voices reached him.
"Wha- 10 million Zeni?!"
Ryo froze glancing over at a few youth's sitting at a nearby table, one of them was wide eyed staring at the smiling face of his friend.
"You mean the Martial Arts Tournament right...that's the prize?!" The surprised youth exclaimed.
"Yeah man and that's just top, you get money just for being in the top five, I think the lowest is a Million Zeni" the other youth said. "We should enter this year, that top prize of 10 million...imagine what we could do with that."

Ryo stared at the youth's his brows arching a bit, 10 million Zeni just for top...but he doubted he could make it to the top...still money for the top five and the least amount you could get was a Million. If he had a million Zeni that would solve a lot of his current problems, but he tended to keep his fighting habits a secret, he even kept his Ki hidden away constantly. He knew of the threats that had come to this place in the past from the news and his old apartment was destroyed during one of the incidents, thus why he was in a more expensive one now.
[i]"A fighting tournament...I might need to look into this...I couldn't enter the last one...I don't have to win if I can just come in the top five then-"[/i]
Ryo thoughts were stopped as he bumped into someone his ice cream falling from his grasp staining the person before hitting the floor. A scream came from Ryo as he fell to his knees at his spilled treat.
"Gah! My ice cream! I haven't even tasted it yet! Why?!"
Ryo quickly raised his gaze to the person only to see it was a woman with long somewhat spikey hair, standing next to...an extremely scary man. He was pretty sure meeting the man's eyes was making his life flash before his eyes. Ryo quickly bowed deeply slamming his head into the floor a small 'ow' escaping from him in the process.
"Ahhh I'm so sorry! I wasn't paying attention! Please don't complain to the boss I need this job! I have mouth's to feed! I mean that's a lie...but I'll-I'll pay for the Dry Cleaning! Please forgive me!"