The next day, Saiba heads to the lobby, but Lily is nowhere to be found. Saiba walks out and starts wandering the city.
He comes across some stalls selling food. Saiba checks the price and then checks the amount of money he has. He decides not to buy anything so that he doesn't go broke. He calls out,
"Lily! Where are you!"
Saiba keeps searching for his partner. He stumbles upon a petting zoo and notices something familiar. In the corner, Lily is there petting a goat. She looks completely entranced by the animal.
Saiba menacingly walks up behind her and grabs her firmly on the shoulder. With a similarly menacing look, he asks,
"What are you doing here?"
Lily slowly and nervously turns her head back and sees Saiba. She awkwardly answers,
"Looking for a ride...?"
Saiba replies,
"A ride huh..."
He completely changes his attitude and begins shouting,
"This thing? It's so small and scrawny! What will the people think if their hero is riding with a small thing like this! It probably can't even carry us both!"
Lily argues and says,
"But it's so cute!"
She begins petting the goat and talking to it like a baby. The goat makes a goat noise back. Saiba grabs Lily by the collar and drags her out of the petting zoo.
Lily gets back up and regains her usual self. She brushes off the dirt on her and says,
"Alright then! Time to look for a ride."
Lily leads the way to a stable with a variety of animals. Sounds of loud animal noises can be heard all around the two.
While walking, Saiba feels something brush up against his shoulder with a loud neighing noise. He looks over and expects a horse, but is instead met with a green reptilian with scales that cover its body. The animal is wearing a name tag that reads,
[Scaled Horse]
Saiba gets freaked out and quickly gets away from the animal. He can hear sad neighing from behind him.
He looks back and sees that Lily has once again been distracted by a goat. As Saiba moves closer to drag Lily away, the goat stares at him and his eyes become bloodshot. With the next step, the goat suddenly grows into a big and buff goat. Its legs are large and toned and its face has become very chiseled. It lets out a deep goat noise which makes Lily jump and hide behind Saiba. Lily tugs at Saiba cape to signal that she wants to leave. Saiba takes the hint and walks away like nothing happened.
As they reach the end of the stable, they are met with a brown cow with white spots. It also has large curved horns. Saiba realizes that this is the last animal in the stable and says,
"This is it? Is there really nothing else?"
He decides and shouts,
"Alright! I guess we'll go with this one then!"
Frantically, a worker at the stable quickly shuffles over to Saiba and explains,
"Um, sir... This animal actually isn't on sale... We're preparing it for a feast in a few days..."
Surprised, Saiba replies,
"Huh? Really? But I already decided that I wanted it!"
He adds,
"Can't I get some special pass since I'm the hero?"
The worker suddenly changes his attitude and says,
"Oh! You're the new Hero!? I apologize for not realizing it earlier! We can provide you with the animal and any other resources you need for your journey! All free of charge of course! It's the least we could do for the sacrifice you've made for us!"
The worker begins preparing the cow to become a ride and he also asks,
"Is there anything else you may need, Mr. Hero?"
Lily chimes in and says,
"Yup! We need a wagon, spare wheels, some food and water, food and water for the cow, and some extra cooking utensils should be good too!"
The worker replies,
"Yes ma'am! Right away!"
Once all the items are prepared, the worker leads them back out of the stable. Outside of the stable, there's the cow and a wagon that's filled with all kinds of provisions.
Saiba gets excited and quickly checks out their new ride. He runs back and pats the worker on the back while saying,
"Thanks buddy!"
Saiba gets back to the wagon and gets on the cow. Lily follows and heads inside in the wagon. She inspects the provisions and decides that they're all good.
Saiba takes the reins and starts heading to the exit of Axium City. While travelling, Saiba asks,
"So what should we name this thing? I was thinking something cool like 'Brown Destroyer' or 'Cow Man'!"
Lily replies,
"What? That sounds so dumb! It should be something cute like 'Brownie' or 'Chocolate'!"
They begin listing different names, hoping to find one that will stick. Saiba shouts,
"[Ooushimaru] (Great Round Cow)!"
The cow moos very happily in response. Saiba notices and says,
"I think he likes that one!"
He says it again,
"Ooushimaru!"
Like last time, the cow moos happily. Saiba adds,
"We can call him [Uma] for short!"
Saiba thinks to himself,
"Wait that's kinda mean... We're calling an ushi (cow) an uma (horse)..."
He disregards his previous thoughts and mumbles to himself,
"Nah, he's not gonna know anyways!"
Saiba begins to say Uma's name repeatedly as Uma moos back each time. They continue on with their adventure as they leave the busting Axium City behind and head back to Hogback Town.