Funbari Hill and Yoh's relationship to it is basically a character in their own right. The scenery pages are from the chapter right after Goldva says all participants will never be able to return to the life they knew, and the cover page is an in-between moment of Yoh reaching the place where his fight with Ren will take place. There's a mundanity that underscores the first part of the story (and some points in the later half-- like every conflict ending in a meal of some sort!) that give the characters a strong sense of place. Maybe it also helps illustrate Yoh's preocupation with others' well-being and his empathetic nature, even people he doesn't know.
I did use a meme template for this one, see below. Because I wanted to recreate this meme so bad with the 5 warriors (feat. Manta and Ryu) when they reunited at the end of the main series.