Over on Naubaka Island, the Felyne Pansy was snatched away
by a Blighted Yian Garuga.
Lute and friends slayed the monster to rescue Pansy.
With Pansy back safe and sound, our heroes could finally relax!
That is, until...
This is terribly serious!
My precious pickle weight has been stolen!
Huh?!
What's happening on this island, anyway?
"Monster Hunter Stories RIDE ON"
"Episode 34: Rainbow Bridge Blockade!"
Okay, Ratha's over his seasickness. Let's look for that Kinship Ore!
Oh!
Hey! Avinia!
Where've you been?
The forest.
That black haze has spread a frightening amount
since we've arrived.
So there is one on this island!
Yes: a Kinship Ore.
And I believe it's likely to have been taken over by the Black Blight.
All right--let's find that Kinship Ore and purify it, fast!
All right--let's find that pickle weight and catch the culprit, fast!
Genius detective Navirou here, with an IQ of 726.
When word came that the chief's precious pickle weight was stolen,
Navirou sped right to the scene of the crime.
Why, you ask?
Cases don't happen on maps--
they happen on quests!
What'd you find, detective?
We're investigating this with everything we have!
Mmm.
Oh, dear, whatever shall I do?
Navirou...
Just relax, everyone.
Navirou'll find the chief's pickle weight!
After all...
He looks like a kitten,
but has the mind of a Wyverian!
His name? Detective Navirou!
There's always two donuts!
How wonderful!
Hey, what's all the fuss about?
Is something wrong?
Do you have to be so noisy? I'm trying to nap here!
Whoa!
Where'd this tape come from?!
This is an investigation!
An investigation?
Indeed: Naubaka Island's greatest crisis!
It's...
...the Search for the Naubaka Island Pickle-Weight Thief!
The... Pickle-Weight Thief?
The chief's purrecious pickle weight's been stolen!
It was there yesterday, but then today...
Why, I can't make my Poi Palloi Pickles without it!
What?! But those are so tasty!
You there! Boss!
Eh? B-Boss? Who, me?
Block all island transportation and search every last inch of the place!
Huh?
Listen, never mind the pickle weight--
we have a Kinship Ore to find!
No! The pickle weight comes first!
So which one's more important, the Kinship Ore or the pickle weight?
The pickle weight, of course!
Right?
Right! The pickle weight!
What?
Yeah, they're right! The pickle weight!
Not you, too?!
We Felynes grew up eating the chief's Poi Palloi Pickles.
That's how indispensable it is to us!
Yes--it's an island treasure!
That's right, Pansy.
Time to establish
the Naubaka Island Special Task Force HQ!
Yeah!
"Search for the Pickle-Weight Thief Special Task Force HQ"
A-hem!
Let's get this investigatory meeting underway.
Mmm... Smells great!
Could that be the aroma of Naubaka's very own royal Naubaka tea?
Uh... What's with the black tea?
Sheesh... Navirou's busy with this,
and Ratha may be over his seasickness,
but Frostfang can't handle the heat.
Oh, well. Guess it's up to us to find that Kinship Ore.
But where do we begin?
Kinship Ores look completely different from place to place.
The ones we've seen so far...
...were glittering, see-through, and big.
What could this island's Kinship Ore look like?
If we don't know, how can we look for it?
This island's Kinship Ore...
Kinship... Kinship...
Oh!
Aha!
The happy-couple rocks!
Eh?
Happy-couple... rocks?
Yeah!
See how they're all nestled up against each other?
Like they have really deep Kinship!
That's the Kinship Ore--no doubt about it!
I'm gonna go purify it!
Huh? Oh--Lute, wait!
Listen up, folks!
Investigations are all about pounding the pavement!
Split up and start questioning folks with this picture!
Yes, sir!
A pickle weight? Hmm...
I have seen something like it, yes.
Where was this?
Let's see...
Over there, maybe? Or was it over here?
Hmm...
♪ I saw it over yonder, mew, mew! ♪
Over yonder?
Where, exactly?
♪ Yes, that's right, mew, mew! ♪
Have you seen this?
Hmm...
Dunno.
Hmm.
Oh, well. This means...
...we'll have to wait for the culprit to appear.
Hey! Cut that out! Give it back!
It happens.
Navirou... if ya wanna do the right thing, go to the top.
Or something!
Was that Lute?
"Search for the Pickle-Weight Thief Special Task Force HQ"
Oh, come on. No way are those happy-couple rocks the Kinship Ore!
But married couples have deep Kinship, right?
So I just thought...
I've never seen or heard of any "Kinship Ore" on this island.
That's right!
Still...
Have you heard of any stone that's like a Kinship Ore,
even if it's not called that?
Not at all, I'm afraid.
The only stone with that kind of importance to us is that pickle weight.
All right, setting that whole thing aside...
Report on your findings!
Ahem! We'll go first, then.
According to our questioning,
a Felyne from outside the village spotted the pickle weight in the forest.
It was the right size, too: small enough to be lifted by hand.
Hmm. The forest, eh?
Hot!
But...
Strangely enough,
it seems this pickle weight ran right through the woods--whoosh!
The pickle weight ran?
Can pickle weights run?
They cannot.
Truth is, we got a strange eyewitness report, too.
This pickle weight was surrounded by a black haze, purr!
A black haze?
You mean the Black Blight's affecting the pickle weight now?
If I found it, I would bwow that bwack haze away wif my bweath!
Like this!
Zzz... Zzz...
He's asleep! So high-maintenance, purr...
Hmm...
Everyone's eyewitness reports are mysterious and all over the place!
My head's all full of mixed-up confusion, purr!
This case might just be unsolvable...
No--
don't give up.
In Granny's name...
...Navirou will solve this mystery!
Isn't this only complicated because you think it's all over the place?
Try bringing everything together!
Like these Well-Done Steak kebabs!
Bring... everything together?
Yep!
Get it all down to one...
...and it's a lot easier to eat!
These circles show where the eyewitness accounts came from.
And this mark here...
Oh! They're all connected!
Right.
The eyewitness accounts stop just beyond Rainbow Beach--
right at Aoba Valley.
What's past that point, anyway?
This mystery is solved!
The pickle weight...
...is in the Forbidden Cave!
You're really going in there?
Granny...
It's long been said
that frightful things would befall any who approach that cave...
We know!
But your pickle weight has got to be in there!
I'm curious about it, too.
If no one on this island knows anything about a Kinship Ore,
then it must be in this cave that everyone avoids!
I agree completely.
Say, Granny...
...can we go in?
It's all in the name of getting your pickle weight back!
And finding the Kinship Ore!
All right.
Thank you, Granny!
However!
You must proceed with the smallest group possible.
Everyone else stays here, keeping a close eye on Rainbow Beach.
Why is that?
If a monster shows up in the cave,
it'd be too dangerous with nowhere to run.
But if we block off Rainbow Beach here, in front of the cave,
monsters won't be able to sneak in.
Isn't that right, hmm?
Then Navirou will tackle the cave!
You can bet on him coming back with that pickle weight!
I'm going, too.
That Kinship Ore is in there somewhere!
I'll stay behind.
Okay, everyone who's staying here:
Time for a Rainbow Beach blockade!
Ride On!
Rathalos!
May the Kinship Ore purification go smoothly...
Hey!
--C'mon, Great Poogie, let me on! --Poogie, Poogie, Poogie, Poogie...
So this is the Forbidden Cave.
And inside, it's... Well...
Looks pretty dicey to me.
The haze just keeps getting thicker!
Listen, Lute: just trust Navirou, your leader.
If the leader's great, the organization can't be all bad.
Huh? What's this about an organization?
An organization is--
Oh?
A pitch-black stone!
Is that the pickle weight?!
No--it's the Kinship Ore, overtaken by the Black Blight!
No--that's the pickle weight!
It's the Kinship Ore!
There's someone here.
Whoa! Melynx!
So you're the ones who stole the pickle weight!
That is the Kinship Ore!
Huh?
They're acting strange.
Hey, Melynx... Are you all right?
Mew, mew, mew... I wanted to try Poi Palloi Pickles, too...
So I thought I'd make my own batch.
The thieving Melynx has started to confess!
We carried it here from the chief's house.
Carried it? More like you stole it!
--Heave ho, mew! Heave ho, mew!
--So that's why the weight looked like it was moving!
Heave ho, mew!
Oof, oof, oof, mew!
But once it was in place,
all this haze started coming out of the stone.
That black haze even got into the pickles!
Mew?
They tasted weird.
You didn't!
My tummy is really unhappy!
You ate them?!
Mew, mew, mew... Take the stone. We don't need it anymore.
Honestly. What a pain!
Resorting to crime just because he wanted to eat Poi Palloi Pickles?
We've got company.
Not a... a monster?!
No--it couldn't be!
Rainbow Beach has been blocked off!
Ho-hum.
I'm so bored that I'm starting to get all sweepy.
Be careful, Navirou!
What's that?!
This doesn't look good, Lute...
That's the Lord of the Seas: Lagiacrus!
"Blighted Lagiacrus"
Ride On!
Rathalos!
Ratha! Savage Fireball!
Lute! Aim for its back!
Yesss!
It's not moving?
No! It's not that--it's charging up power!
Here it comes: Lagiacrus's Thunder attack!
Ratha!
Dodge it!
Lute! Are you okay?!
Eh?
Hey!
Navirou!
Fly, Ratha!
Navirou! You all right?
J-Just fine...
You go on up, now. Navirou'll do his best back here.
Gack.
You're fine, all right.
This way, Ratha!
Huh? Did that Lagiacrus run away?
Ha-ha! Well, whaddya know! What a wuss!
That was over fast!
No...
...not yet!
Eeek!
Uh-oh, Lute--it's stored up way more power than before!
It's gonna use Double Fang!
Lute!
Thanks, Ratha!
Lute! Use your Kinship Attack!
Sky-High Dive!
You did it, Lute!
Oooh!
The pickle weight turned a pretty light blue!
Yeah. Who knew it was this beautiful?
I mean--hey! This is the Kinship Ore!
It's the pickle weight!
--The Kinship Ore! --Hmm... I think my tummy's all better meow!
--Pickle weight! --Hmm... I think my tummy's all better meow!
--Kinship Ore! --Hmm... I think my tummy's all better meow!
--Pickle weight! --Hmm... I think my tummy's all better meow!
--Kinship Ore! --Ours, too!
Hey!
Listen up, you thieving Melynx...
Don't do anything like this ever again!
We won't.
We're sorry, mew.
Please give that stone back to the chief!
Thank goodness. I can make my Poi Palloi Pickles again!
Score!
I never expected your pickle weight to be the Kinship Ore.
How does a Kinship Ore wind up as a pickle weight, anyway?
I'm curious about that myself! It's been around for ages...
No wonder my pickles turn out so tasty!
And that concludes
the Search for the Naubaka Island Pickle-Weight Thief!
Case closed!
So cool!
I'm worried, though.
If the Black Blight's come all the way to this solitary island
full of Felynes and one Wyverian...
...it'll be everywhere by now.
Oh!
If it isn't the Courier!
Here you go!
Thanks!
Hey, it's from Lilia!
Let's see...
"I found out more about the White Dragon. Come back to Gildegaran."
To Gildegaran?
Go on back to Gildegaran, Navirou.
Huh? But...
You're my...
No, you're everyone's hero, Navirou.
I'll wait for mew right here--
until the day the Black Blight is gone and mew come back!
Pansy...
Thank you.
Navirou! Our Kinship is forever, too!
That's right. Even though we're apart, our hearts are one.
The Numbers!
Wow, gang...
Navirou, are you sure about this?
'Course he is!
This practically-a-Rider will keep this island safe!
Say what?
I'm gonna stay behind--
me and my Monstie, the Great Poogie, that is!
Oh, uh, okay.
I'm staying here, too, Lute.
Huh? You, too, Avinia?
I'd like to know more about the island's historical sites.
And...
I'd like to help the island's monsters heal.
--Oh. So it's just me and Navirou. --Oh. So it's just Navirou and Lute.
Be careful out there, Navirou.
You bet, Pansy.
Navirou'll come back for you.
Promise?
Consider it kept!
See you later!
Pansy...
Eh? Did you say something?
Nope! Nothing.
Oh, okay.
Say, this whole white dragon thing...
What did Lilia find out, anyway?
According to the Redan legend,
when an ebon darkness is born upon the earth,
a dragon white will come forth.
So this white dragon should already be somewhere...
"Monstie Manual"
The Monstie Manual!
"Monstie Manual"
Navirou here will fill you in on some Monsties!
Get your Media Trigger smartphone app ready!
And you've got your egg with you, right?
Okay, time to form Kinship with your Monstie Egg!
And now, the moment of new life: awaken!
"Monstie:"
Our Monstie this time is Lagiacrus!
"Lagiacrus"
"Type: Power"
All hail the Lord of the Seas!
"Species: Leviathan"
It stores electricity in its back,
"Overall Length: 465.0 cm"
then releases enough current to make the oceans surge!
"Overall Height: 100.5 cm"
"Leg Size: 51.9 cm (forelegs)"
What's that? Navirou has a shock attack, too?
Ha! Not compared to this!
What Monstie will hatch for us next time?
"Next Episode Preview"
Lute here!
Now that we're back in Gildegaran,
we're exploring the Redan ruins with Captain Simone.
You'll never guess what we find!
Next time: "The White Dragon's Egg"!
"The White Dragon's Egg"
Ride On!