Toriko: Gourmet Chat Group

"Mr. Kenji, what is it that you desire?"

As the Bishop of Schicksal, Otto stood respectfully before the desk. Kenji sat in the Bishop's chair with his legs crossed, while his two "guardians," Elysia and Himeko, stood on either side of him. It was a complete role reversal. Though he was the great Archbishop of Schicksal, he had not a shred of his usual authority at this moment. His eyes were fixed on Murata Himeko.

How can she possibly be alive?

At this moment, a tempestuous storm was raging in his heart. Even though he was using a soul-steel body, he felt as if his heart were about to leap out of his chest.

Kenji played with the Void Archives and said with a playful smile, "How about you defeat the Honkai with the smallest possible price, using all your power?"

To handle Otto, Kallen was more than enough. He wanted to see what kind of ending Archbishop Otto could achieve if he went all out.

"Defeat the Honkai?"

Otto thought for a moment, then looked at the living Murata Himeko and nodded seriously. "I understand. I will defeat the Honkai."

For Kallen's sake, from this moment on—Honkai, between you and me, only one can survive.

The golden cube was silent. Its base logic was to defeat the Honkai, but seeing Otto like this... it was hard to describe. Tsk, Kevin is obsessed with one woman, Otto is obsessed with another.

After settling a few matters, Kenji and his group left the planet. Otto was a smart man who knew what to do. Otto looked at the Void Archives and began to think. To unify all available forces, Anti-Entropy had to be dealt with first. Before, I couldn't be bothered to deal with you, so I let you jump around. Now, it's time for you to exit the stage of history. Either merge with Schicksal, or go to jail.

Gourmet World, Fifth Area, the Forest of Appetite. A giant forest located on the back of the Deer King, Sky Deer. The average Capture Level of the beasts here reached 4000. The original species of the Devil Orochi, with a Capture Level of 5100, could be found here. This was, without a doubt, a nest of monsters.

The meat course, News, was in the Forest of Appetite. One needed to eat the fish course, Another, first in order to taste the flavor of News, which in turn allowed one to use the Back Channel.

"Be careful. If the Deer King gets angry, the consequences will be severe," Atashino said cautiously.

"Don't worry. The Deer King is usually very gentle," Kenji shook his head. In the manga, the Deer King had activated its Back Channel ability twice: the first time was because a NEO clone was feasting rampantly in the Forest of Appetite, and the usually gentle Deer King directly activated the Back Channel. The second time was against the powerful enemy, Acacia. In terms of overall ability, the Deer King could rank among the top few of the Eight Kings.

"The Sunlight Tree. It's so magical."

The vegetation was so dense that not a single ray of sunlight could penetrate through. But the light in the forest was ample, all thanks to the Sunlight Trees that could be seen everywhere. The Sunlight Tree could absorb the sun's rays through its leaves, and then its trunk would emit a bright light, bringing illumination to the dark and terrifying forest.

"Atashino, do you know how to prepare the Sunlight Tree's fruit?" Kenji asked, looking at the small suns hanging from it. They didn't emit a terrifying heat, unlike the Heat Planet.

"Let me think..." Atashino recalled the cooking notebook. "...I remember now. It needs to be picked at high noon, when the sun's rays are at their strongest, and you only have a one-second window."

Kenji nodded and began to sense the stars in the cosmos. It was almost noon. Time passed quickly.

"Now!"

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—

Kenji moved like an afterimage, and in just one second, he had picked more than a dozen Sunlight Tree fruits. Even after being detached from the branch, the fruits continued to glow like lamps. They could probably be used as indoor table lamps for a long time.

"Crunch!"

He took a bite. The texture was incredibly crisp, and it was full of juice. It had a sweet taste similar to a pineapple, and an immense energy flowed through his body, a warm feeling, as if he were sunbathing. "Delicious. The Sunlight Fruit contains a lot of energy converted from sunlight."

Its Capture Level was probably around one or two thousand. The Forest of Appetite was very dangerous, and the Capture Levels of some ingredients in the Gourmet World were influenced by their environment.

[Star Forger]: @Crash-Test Pilot Daigo, if you use this Sunlight Fruit when you transform into Tiga, does it count as light?

Kenji shared the Sunlight Fruit with the group members. If Tiga's light energy ran out, he could just pull out a Sunlight Fruit and recharge himself.

[Crash-Test Pilot]: It probably doesn't count, right?

Daigo's mouth twitched. Can Tiga absorb any kind of light?

[Earth Wrecker]: I can replenish my energy just by standing on the ground.

[Lifts-Bemstar-With-One-Hand]: I can create energy recovery items with my bare hands.

He could even develop a portable version of the Plasma Spark, but there was no need.

[Monkey D. Kizaru]: Kenji, you were right. That Straw Hat brat really did cause a prison break. So many vicious pirates have escaped.

Kizaru looked very troubled. With his Glint-Glint Fruit, his mobility was the strongest in the Marines. With so many pirates escaping, who knows how many more people would die. The Monkey family really loved to stir up trouble. And to think I kindly let you go back then, for the sake of the favor Dragon will do for me in the future.

[God's Tongue]: Isn't the Straw Hat boy more of an adventurer? He does things like this?

In any world, if serious criminals escaped from prison, they certainly wouldn't turn over a new leaf. They might even become worse.

[Ghost of the Uchiha]: A pirate is a pirate. Even if they don't burn, kill, and pillage, they can't remove the label of 'pirate'.

[Star Forger]: Kizaru, what are you going to do? Are you going to arrest them directly?

[Monkey D. Kizaru]: I'm a Marine. Of course, I have to arrest pirates.

Although he was an Admiral, with so many pirates, some would inevitably slip through the cracks and escape. The destruction of the underwater prison was a great loss. As for Monkey D. Luffy, he would just arrest him first and see how Sengoku and the others dealt with him. He couldn't be taken to Marineford for execution. If that happened, things would really get out of hand. That man Dragon would definitely come, and the situation would become uncontrollably chaotic.

BOOM!

"What the— Phew! It stinks!"

An astonishingly foul odor erupted from the distance, as if a hundred latrines had exploded at once. Kenji and Atashino were caught off guard and both made pained expressions. Kenji quickly used his starlight energy to form a force field, which finally blocked the spread of the stench.

"That must be the C4 Stink Beetle, a self-destructing stink bug. It's not uncommon in the Gourmet World." Atashino's brow was furrowed tightly. The smell shot straight to her scalp, making her feel the urge to just die. It was a mixture of gases like thiols, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia.

The explosion of a C4 Stink Beetle was as powerful as a large amount of C4 detonating, and it was accompanied by a nauseating stench, making it infamous for its "foul" name.

"This is definitely not edible," Kenji said, with absolutely no intention of eating that thing, even if it could be eaten after processing.

"Only bizarre food enthusiasts would choose to eat something like this," Atashino agreed, also not planning to eat it.

It was a good thing this was the Deer King. Its body was 60,000 meters long, so the smell couldn't spread too far. If it had been any other beast, it probably would have gone on a rampage long ago.

After a while, the trees in the forest came into play, directly absorbing the stench, and the air became fresh again. Although the poisonous gas wasn't lethal, an ordinary creature wouldn't be able to stand it.

"Let's keep going. We still haven't seen any beasts in the three to four thousand level range yet."

They would save the meat course, News, for last. For now, they would taste the other ingredients.

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