Lunamugetsu: I do not own Toriko
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A bustling street can be seen as people started to crowd around themselves. The mass of people tended to kongregate towards a certain station. The Gourmet Central Station to be exact. It's a train station that has an average daily use of over 25,000,000 people, which is appropriate for the Full-Stomach Metropolis which houses the giant station. In this crowd a people a certain seven foot two man with blue hair wearing a white tux could be seen maneuvering through the crowd with ease.
"Be careful Kimiko. It'd be terrible if I lost you in this crowd." Toriko said and then stopped as he didn't hear an answer.
"Kimiko?" he looked around only to see that his friend wasn't in sight. "Kimiko!"
"Right here." Toriko jumped as he heard a soft voice right behind him. A young woman with her hair tied up in an elegant bun. Her dress was hidden from sight because of the tan trench coat she wore over it. She clutched onto her backpack as the people kept on brushing past her.
"Where did you go?" Toriko asked making Kimiko blush.
"I kind of got, swept in the crowd." Kimiko responded and then said, "But that doesn't matter we're in the full-stomach metropolis, Gourmet Town!" Her eyes sparkled as she saw towering building of different restaurants and scents of different foods
"This is wonderful! This is the first time I've been here!" she shouted with a large smile on her face
"Eh!? It's your first time? I would have thought you would have already came here, since your food is so amazing" Toriko said driving Kimiko out of her stupor.
"Well, I decided that I'd go when I'm more qualified. All of the restaurants here are ten star restaurants, and my restaurant doesn't even have any. Even so, the Gourmet Tower here, is so amazing!" she went back to marveling.
"No doubt the restaurants on the top floor mostly wouldn't allow unfamiliar customers," Toriko said and then saw Kimiko's face become depressed at the sentence, "Maybe next time we're here, I'll introduce you."
"Really!" Kimiko's face lit up and then gave him a smile, "It's a promise, Toriko-san"
"Yeah," Toriko said giving her a small smile.
"HAHAHAHA! So this is Gourmet Town! It's been awhile since we visited" A loud voice boomed through the crowd.
"Zonge-sama, this is our first time coming here"
"Shut up! I've gone to plenty in RPG's!" the voice yelled, "Hey you!"
"Huh?" Toriko said while looking around to see a hairy man pointing at him
"You're from that time! The pretentious bishokuya!" the hairy man said
"Oh, it's you!" Toriko said, "Zobev?"
"Who the heck is that?" the man yelled
"Oh, was it Zombie?" Toriko guessed, clearly not remembering the man's name.
"It's Zonge!" the man yelled, "By the way what happened to that ghost lady that was with you last time?"
"Ghost lady?" Toriko repeated
"You know the one that popped out of thin air" Zonge said
"I'm right here," Kimiko said making the hairy man jump along with his minions, "Let's go Toriko-san, the line is moving"
"We're checking your Gourmet ID. Please swipe your card and enter inside" the person behind the counter said.
"Wow, you need to confirm the person just to go in?" Kimiko said
"It's a security system the citizens have paid to impose. People without a card can get in, they just have to pay a high entrance fee." Toriko said as he walked through the gate after Kimiko
"A vending machine" Kimiko said, "Toriko-san, do you want something to drink?"
"Are you sure about that vending machine?" Toriko asked
"Huh, why?" that's when kimiko looked at the prices
"100,000 yen, so expensive!" Kimiko exclaimed
"That's fair for a three star vending machine" Toriko pointed out making Kimiko look at the three stars, "The more stars there are, the more valuable the drinks that are sold."
"That makes sense, is that why there's so much security" Kimiko asked
"Yup, with all these ingredients, there'd be all sorts of people trying to steal them. That's why security will come flying in seconds after a dine-and-dash, they can go to jail, depending on the ingredient." he explained
"What's Gourmet ID?" Zombie yelled
"If you don't have a card than you can, pay the entrance fee" the person behind the counter said
"Entrance fee! Who do you think I am!" he banged his fist on the counter
"I'm calling security."
Toriko and Kimiko watched as a group of police started to charge towards Zombe and tackled him to the ground as he started flailing
"So anyway," Toriko said and turned to a different machine, "So a machine that doesn't have any stars, means that you can buy something cheap"
"10 yen!" Kimiko exclaimed as she saw the price and ordered a can.
"Heavy" Kimiko said as she started to lug the gigantic can around.
This feels like I'm carrying a five gallon jug of water, she thought while she carried the can.
"C'mon Kimiko. This is just the entrance, Gourmet Town is this way" Toriko said as he started walking with Kimiko following behind him.
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"Welcome, welcome, mysterious bird gerold kebabs!" a vendor shouted
"Oooh, that looks delicious!" Toriko said as he started drooling
"Would you like a plate?" the vendor asked
"A plate. I'll take one whole thing!" Toriko exclaimed.
"Toriko, you should slow down, or you might choke." Kimiko said as she saw Toriko ripping into the gigantic piece of gerold meat on the metal pole that it was resting on from the stand.
"I'll be fine Kimiko," Toriko said while eating and then started coughing.
"Water" he gasped, Kimiko put the gigantic can she was drinking from into his hand and watched as he proceeded to chug the entire thing dry.
"Thanks, wait isn't this yours?" Toriko said as he noticed what he was drinking
"Yeah, it was the closest thing I had on hand." she responded. "Oh! Don't worry, I'm not sick, so you don't have to worry about getting ill or anything like that."
That's not what I'm worrying about, Toriko thought as he looked at her
"Get them hot!" a vendor said making the couple look at stand that was housing grilled fish.
"Ah! It's boneless mackerel pike" Kimiko pointed
"I want some! Give me all of those!" Toriko pointed to all of the fish that were currently on the grill.
"All of them?!" the man exclaimed
"This is yummy. Boneless mackerel pike is best when chargrilled." Kimiko said as she bit into the fish
"Yeah, this is delicious" Toriko said as his mouth was full of fish.
"Toriko-san" Kimiko said making the man look at her, "What's this?" she pointed to a machine that resembled a mushroom.
"Oh, that's a Gari box." he said
"Gari box?" she repeated
"It's a flavor erasing ginger. It's a free service. Gourmet town is a food amusement park there's a flood of restaurants which are like the attractions, while you're walking and eating you can reset the taste in your mouth from the previous store when you're going to the next one. They're all over the place." Toriko explained
"I see, so that way all of the stores can compete fairly." Kimiko said
"Oh Shakure Ramen! Let's go Kimiko!" Toriko shouted
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Toriko sat still as he looked at the bowl of ramen. He took a spoonful of broth and swallowed it.
"Haa. Delicious" he sighed, he then picked up the chopsticks and promptly inhaled the rest of the ramen.
"Yeah, it's delicious, isn't it" Kimiko said and then saw that Toriko was breezing through the ramen like it was nothing.
"Your total comes to 5,250,000 yen" the chef said
"Here you go." Toriko said as he handed him a black card
"Um, could I have an autograph" the chef said
"Come on, Kimiko, let's go to a sushi shop!" Toriko said as he was signing a piece of paper
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"Keep them coming, just make the whole menu!" Toriko said as he kept on cleaning out the plates of sushi that came his way.
"Toriko-san" Kimiko sighed as she watched him eat
"The bill comes to 12,640,000 yen"
"Put it on the card" Toriko said
He's at the tens of millions, Kimiko thought
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"Fuu" Toriko exhaled a cloud of smoke as he pulled a cigar branch from his mouth
"Lately there's been a lot of no smoking shops. The only place I can smoke are at these buildings." he said as he laid back in his chair.
"Toriko-san, you've been paying with a card all this time," Kimiko said
"Yeah, I don't carry cash. I always use Gourmet Credit." Toriko showed her a black credit card.
"Isn't that a credit limit-less black card, isn't it?" Kimiko said
"Yeah, but I lose it a lot, though" Toriko said as he put it back into his wallet.
"What happens when you lose it?"
"That's when I put it on a tab."
"There are shops that let you make tabs for tens of millions of yen?" she asked
"Yup," he answered and then looked outside the window.
There are a lot of bishokuyas around, he thought
"Um, Toriko-san, why are we in Gourmet Town all of a sudden?" she asked bringing Toriko out of his thoughts.
"Oh, we're meeting up with a certain person." Toriko said
"Certain person?" she repeated
"Before we go, you're wearing something fancy right?" he asked
"Yup, you told me to. I'm only wearing this coat because Miketsukami-kun wouldn't let me leave until I wore it." she said and then took off her trench coat, "The dress isn't that bad is it?"
Toriko was left speechless as he saw that she was wearing a strapless lavender purple dress leaving her shoulders bare. The dress hugged her torso, pushing up her chest and then spanned out until it reached above her knees. There was a dark purple ribbon tied around her waist which ended with a bow at her back.
"Toriko-san? Do I look bad?" Kimiko said bringing him out of stupor.
"You look great! Beautiful!" Toriko exclaimed and then blushed
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Meanwhile at Kimiko's restaurant
"KIMIKO-SAMA!" Miketsukami screamed as he tried to head for the exit, but was being held back by all of his coworkers.
"You can't go Miketsukami, nya. You promised Kimiko that you'd stay here!" Kikumaru said while trying to pull Miketsukami back.
"No! I do not trust that man Toriko, alone with Kimiko-sama! Especially when she's dressed so beautifully!" Miketsukami cried.
"Quick, get the knockout gas" Kakashi whispered to Watanuki
"Kimiko-sama!" Miketsukami shouted before Watanuki released a can of knockout gas in his face prompting him to collapse.
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"Um, Toriko-san," Kimiko said, "If we have enough time. Could we go to the Gourmet Department Store?"
"Sure, we have time to kill. Let's go" Toriko said and handed her, her coat
"Great!" Kimiko replied putting her coat back on
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"This is amazing!" Kimiko said as she marveled at some pots and pans. "It's the Kuriboh Pot. It's said it can keep a stew at thousands of degrees continuously for half a year and it won't warp at all."
"A pot made by the ultimate pot artisan Kuriboh" Toriko said as he looked at the pots
"For us chefs, his brand is the best, since all of his pots and pans can't be broken by cooking those high-class ingredients we've seen. Although, it's so expensive." Kimiko said as she all of the zeros on the pricetag. That's when another item caught her eye.
"Oh! Melk Carving Knives!" Kimiko exclaimed, "I could stay here forever!"
"You're acting like a kid in a candystore" Toriko said, "Why don't you buy one?"
"Please don't put me together with you, Toriko-san. I don't make nearly enough money to even get one of these." Kimiko said as she kept a envious gaze on the knives. That's when the two heard a couple of people running and turned their attention towards an elderly man with a group of employees from the store pushing a cart holding a towering pile of merchandise behind the man.
"I'll get that, and that, and that." The man pointed as the employees assisted in taking the merchandise.
"That man sure is a heavy spender," Kimiko mumbled
"Probably because a lot of rich men come to Gourmet Town's department store and mall, not just a large adult amount, a rich man's amount." Toriko said
"Oh, that's right! There's something I wanted to buy today!" she exclaimed
"Really? What is it?" Toriko asked
"A Gourmet Case Data Card." she said, "There's a limit to what ingredients the restaurant's refrigerator can preserve. Even so, the giant model Gourmet Case is expensive. With preservation data cards for refrigerators the companies come out with, new storage data can be loaded into the refrigerators, but as you would expect, they're inferior to the amount of ingredients they preserve and quality they do it with compared to the gourmet cases."
"Oh! There they are!" Kimiko exclaimed as she went to a wall that had a bunch of packets hanging.
"You can buy preservation data for individual things?" Toriko asked
"Yeah, by ingredient the price has a huge range, but the cheap ones are 1 yen."
"Kyaaaah!"
"Thieves!"
"Eh?" Kimiko said turning her attention towards the commotion.
"Security!" a man yelled as a group started to flee.
"A gourmet robbery group?" Toriko said and then saw the group get knocked down to the ground.
"Boy oh boy." an elderly lady's voice said. " I'm still in quite a dangerous world eh."
"Ah." Toriko said as the elderly lady came into view showing an old lady with pink hair that was tied up, wearing a pink outfit with an apron over it while she was walking with a cane.
"Old lady Setsu!" Toriko exclaimed
"You're late, Toriko" She said, "Even though your training ended a long time ago."
"Huh? Is it already the time we planned to meet?" Toriko said and looked at his wristwatch.
"Toriko-san. By old lady Setsu. Does that mean that this person is." Kimiko said as she looked at the elderly woman.
"Yup."
"She's one of the Gourmet Living National Treasures! Chef Setsuno-san!" Kimiko exclaimed
"Kimiko," Toriko said grabbing her attention, "Today, we're going to be able to eat the Legendary Soup"
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Lunamugetsu: Hello, my fellow readers, I know I haven't updated in awhile. My life has been very hectic. Do not worry, I'm not giving up on the story, you just have to wait awhile. Anyway I've been thinking of making another Toriko story, but with it just being a bunch of drabbles of Kimiko and the Heavenly Kings. Tell me if you want that to happen or not! Anyway, please
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