Volume 2 of Crazy Food Truck starts with Gordon and Arisa escaping Gordon's former subordinate, Lieutenant, I'm sorry, Major Kyle. It briefly seems like this might become a manhunt story, but because Arisa acts in a manner never before observed in the "dolls", Kyle requests to back off and just observe for the time being.
What that means in practice is most of this volume is still short adventures of Gordon and Arisa making different kinds of food out of the bizarre wildlife. A trip through the remnants of an old volcanic eruption nets them some crabs. It also nets Gordon a cold, which carries over into their attempts to capture a "camelpig." That story's notable in that Arisa looks after him while he's sick, furthering the behavior that intrigued Major Kyle, and Gordon starts teaching her how to prepare food rather than just inhale it.
Ogaki also devotes one chapter to what Major Kyle and his second Tanaka get up to when they aren't chasing a general that's supposed to be dead. They're part of some larger organization that insists its job is to manage, not control (at least, that's how the Major defines it.) This seems mainly to be charting possible resources and trying to troubleshoot with hostile communities.
Added to their little troop is Myna, Arisa's younger sister. Ogaki writes her as very serious and thoughtful, possibly because people treat as the young child she (chronologically) is. But she's also undergone extensive learning since she was 2, including over 1,000 hours of 'simulated tree and mountain climbing.' Which also neatly hints at what her life (and Arisa's, prior to escape) must have been like.
The two groups meet up again at the end of this volume, after Gordon and Arisa's quest for sushi runs afoul of a small kingdom that doesn't welcome outsiders. But that conflict won't be resolved until volume 3.
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