Thank you very much for commenting - I'm glad you liked the story! :-) Particularly the OFC, because those are always a little difficult...

I wonder if Sanzo's irritated partly because he had to go through several town to find them?

I'm sure that's part of it! Not only is he saddled with these jokers, but he actually has to go *hunt them down* and listen to villagers prattling on, telling long-winded gossipy tales of scandal about them. Like Sanzo's *interested*, grr. ;-)