Chapter 10
Fight Over the Jewel Meat! Cream vs. Kaguya
Someone once said...
There is a forest of full-grown, giant broccoli that stood as tall as the tallest tree in the world. Broccotrees!
And on the branch of the Broccotrees live a nest of canary bird with the most sweetest carrot for its beak. Carronary!
The world is in the Gourmet Age. An age where people quests for more unknown, yet delicacy delights!
Everyone watched in horror as Rin got stabbed by the hand of the black GT robot.
"RIN-SAN!" Komatsu cried out loud.
"Rin-san….!" Garry said, almost speechless as he looked horrified.
Cream was the same for a moment until she turned back over to the GT robot, looking very angrily.
"Rin!" Tina and Haruka sat down next to the collapsed Rin as she coughed up blood. At this moment, Toriko regained his consciousness before his pain started to fade away thanks to the Endorphin smoke that Rin sprayed.
"…. This is…. Endorphin smoke," Toriko said, looking over wounded Rin.
"To-Toriko…. At the very least…. I can ease your pain with this," Rin said softly as she was too weak to move or even stand up.
"Don't talk, Rin. You are hurt!" Haruka stated.
"Look…. The Endorphin smoke…. It can be used as a smokescreen," Rin said before she coughed up more blood. "Hurry. You guys use this chance to escape…. Please…. get out of here."
"Rin…. You're more worried about me and everyone else than yourself?" Toriko asked with a frown as Komatsu tried to run over to the wounded tamer before he was stopped by the black GT robot in front of him, which surprised him.
"Rin…." Tina said softly before her expression changed and stood up. "Kurupoo!"
"Kurupoo!" Her pet exclaimed as she and it ran off down the tunnel.
"Rin-san..." Komatsu said as he cried.
"It seems like one had escaped, Master. Shall I chase after her?" The crimson robot asked.
"Tina-san didn't run away." Komatsu spoke up. "She went to get help!"
"Ho, is that what you think?" The black GT robot asked. "Well, anyway, it doesn't matter as long as you don't get in the way, you won't have to die easily like the other two."
"Hey, who're you saying's dead?" Toriko asked, looking a bit angry at him. The black GT robot was a bit surprised to see Toriko even standing, even though he delivered the blow to him earlier. Then, Toriko punched the robot, sending him flying to the wall.
"Master Starjun!" The crimson robot called out as she looked over at Toriko and aimed for him until Cream stepped right in front of her and stopped her.
"What?" She said in surprise.
"Cream!" Toriko recognized the young female Gourmet Hunter saved him.
"Toriko, go to Rin's side and take care of that black GT Robot! I will take care of this one!" Cream stated.
Toriko nodded in agreement. "Thanks. I will!" he replied.
"Tch!" The crimson GT robot stepped back few times and then turned around to face the wall before she began cutting through the wall, creating an escape hole for herself.
"Garry, you stay behind with everyone. I will go and take care of this," Cream explained.
'Cream-san….' Gary thought to himself before he looked with a bit of frown and fist tightened into a grip.
"Cream-san!" She stopped for a moment and looked over her shoulder to her young friend. "Please come back alive! And don't you lose!"
She looked at him for few seconds until she smiled. "Ah! You can count on it!"
Cream ran off into the man-made tunnel that the crimson GT robot made and escaped to while Garry watched and stayed behind with everyone else.
Cream ran down the escape tunnel until she saw an exit ahead, which led into another tunnel inside the Regal Mammoth's body. When she did, the area was covered in thick darkness.
"What the heck?" She said herself as she began coughing. "What is up with this black smoke?"
Her vision wasn't clear to see anything in this strange, black smoke. She smelled it, and recognized the smell from somewhere. Suddenly, something moved fast that it sliced the back of her clothes, causing her to gasp in pain for a moment.
"Ah!" Cream cringed, but stayed focused when all of a sudden, she got cut again, this time on her cheek.
"Crap! Where are you?! Show yourself!" Cream called out.
If she didn't do something about this, she would just constantly get cut until she bleed to death. She decided to close her eyes and relied on her nose to find the robot. From her experiences with the first GT robot she fought back at the Coliseum, she remembered the smell of the titanium alloy that the body was made up of. She just had to focus on smelling the scent of the robot's body in order to find where it is.
As she was focusing on her smell, the crimson GT robot walked over to her very slowly without making any noise. It was at the moment when she caught the scent of the body's titanium alloy as she turned around and gave it a stove punch.
"Stove Punch!" Her right fist burned in flame as she punched the GT robot's face, hitting it into the wall.
"Tch! So you can see in the darkness," the crimson GT robot admitted.
"Not that I can see in the darkness, but I can smell you. I remember the smell of your robot's titanium alloy," Cream explained with a smirk.
"Hmph. You have a good nose," the GT robot said as she pulled up her knife. "Then, I better cut it off from your face."
"I like to see you try," Cream replied.
The crimson GT robot ran up to her. Cream dodged as she stepped back from the attack. She noticed that this GT robot was a bit different from the other she and others met so far. This one actually used knives for hands. Not only that, but this robot could move very quietly that it didn't even make any sound. This one was a very stealthy type of GT robot.
"I admit. You are an interesting one. I've never seen a GT robot with knives for hands. I'm guessing you're a new model," Cream said.
"That's right," the operator replied. "This model is Stealth Assassin model. Its purpose is in the namesake, but simply, it infiltrate the enemy's base and kills its target silently at almost 100% accurate than a human assassin. A perfect robot just for me."
"Ho, so you're assassin?" Cream asked.
"More than that. I am Master Starjun's greatest apprentice!" The operator exclaimed as she got into a battle pose.
Cream watched as the crimson robot moved her knife hands around as she made a battle stance.
"Two-Style Bread Slicer Shots!" She fired an array of long blade beam at Cream. Cream dodged, but got a cut on her left side and even some of her got partially cut without even noticing it until after it happened.
While she was surprised, the GT robot was standing face-to-face with her. "Santoku Stab Punch!" The crimson GT robot stabbed through. Cream gasped, realizing that she got stabbed. She stepped back with one hand covering her wound as blood dripped down and looked horrified.
"Gah!" Cream coughed up some blood.
"Hmph. You are tougher than you look. Usually, my Santoku Stab Punch would kill my enemy if I stab through a vital organ inside their body… correctly," the crimson GT robot explained. "I can just finish you right now, but my master ordered me that the Jewel Meat is high priority, so I don't necessary need to kill other people other than just fatally wound then. You will die with loss of blood in less than a minute."
The crimson GT robot turned around as she started walking casually, leaving Cream to die.
"W…Wait!" Cream called out as her vision becoming blurry and walking slowly. "Tell me…. what is your name?"
The crimson GT robot stopped for a moment and turned its metal face half-way around. "Why? You will die, so it's unnecessary."
"Just… Tell me your name…." Cream said as she sat down on her knee, holding over her wound as hard as possible.
"I am Kaguya," she answered.
"Kagu…ya…." Cream fell and fainted in her own pool of blood.
"Hmph. Stupid bitch. Why does she even wanted to know my name before she died? Oh well," Kaguya stated. "My master should've finished those pathetic, worthless lots by now. I shall go and check on him."
Deep inside Cream's mind, the young Gourmet Hunter remembered her times with Garry. All the experience and memories she had with Garry, and all the foods she ate on their journey together poured through her minds until a spark of light ignited within her.
"Wake up….Cream….The Jewel Meat…..You still have not taste the Jewel Meat…." A manly voice said inside her mind, which revealed to be her food demon.
The crimson GT robot walked causally until she stopped and noticed that the inner tunnel was starting to light up.
"What? Is the Inkoctopus's ink smoke already wearing off?" Kaguya asked herself, but soon the wall of the Mammoth's inward became brighter, so brighter than usual.
She felt strange and suspicious, so she turned the metal head around and watched with surprise on her expression if the robot could make an expression.
"What?! Impossible!" She gasped as she saw Cream standing right back up.
Her body glowed in a strange, yet warm fiery aura when all of a sudden, she looked up with her hair burned in flames as well as her eyes. The wound where she was stabbed healed itself until the wound was no longer there as if it was never even there.
"How…. How are you still alive?!" The crimson GT robot asked.
"GT Robot!" Kaguya felt a strange intimidation from Cream, and this one felt very different and new to her. So much that she called out to her, she stepped back a little as if she felt a sense of danger.
"You said that my friends pathetic and dead? Then, you know nothing about them! Everyone here came with conviction, even if it means life or death, but they didn't come here to die! We are here to get the Jewel Meat, so that we can all eat alive together! GT Robot, fight me seriously! Let me see if you are ready to die!" Cream pointed at her.
'What is this?' She thought to herself. 'What is this energy I am reading? Is this…. A sigh of her Gourmet Cell evolving?!'
"Hmmmm….Jojo!" She called to the man.
Back at the Gourmet Corp's branch HQ, Jojo watched over the members of the Gourmet Corp who were operating the GT robot currently, which one of them was Kaguya along with her master, Starjun.
"Yes, Kaguya-sama?" Jojo asked.
"Release the excess pressure limiters on my robot," she said.
"What?! But if the limiters turn off, any pain the robot experience will conveyed to your body and you will feel the same pain!" Jojo warned her.
"Just do it!" She ordered. "If you don't, I won't able to fight to my fullest and I will slice you to pieces if you don't."
"…. Yes, maim. As you command," Jojo succumbed to her command as he pressed some few buttons on the computer.
The eyes around the GT robot's metal face lightened up a moment.
"There. Now, I can able to experience any pain now, but I will admit you one thing," Kaguya stated, looking directly at Cream. "From here on, I will fight seriously."
"That's what I like to hear," Cream replied as she started to roar, making her food demon appeared.
Kaguya responded in the same way. Her food demon was a long black-haired spider woman with sharp fangs for the mouth, six red eyes, and two horns on the head. Her food demon was based on the Jorogumo, a type of Japanese mythical creature or Yokai that is half woman and half spider.
The metal face of the robot opened and instead of firing laser beam, it shot out a black smokescreen, covering the tunnel again.
'I see. So that is where the smoke came from,' Cream thought to herself. The entire tunnel was covered in thick darkness again. Suddenly, Kaguya attacked her from the back, but Cream quickly dodged to the side and grabbed her left arm with her arms.
"What?!" Kaguya gasped.
Cream began to throw the GT robot around and around until she released it, throwing the robot away to the wall.
"Damn you!" The GT robot began to prepare the laser beam, but was stopped when Cream punched her through the wall.
"600 Degree Fahrenheit Stove Punch!" Cream called out as she pushed through the GT robot through the wall until the crashed through into another tunnel. The robot hit to another wall, but soon stood back up.
"Two-Style Bread Slicer Shots" Kaguya yelled as she sent out an array of blade beam at Cream. Unlike the last time, the attack seemed to phase through her.
"Impossible! How can my Bread Slicer Shots pass through you?" Kaguya asked until she realized something. Cream's body was emanating a strange energy since this fight began. Somehow, her body was absorbing her attacks.
"Damn you! Die already!" The crimson GT robot opened its metal face and began firing the laser beam.
Cream began running towards the robot as the beam head to her direction. She had her right hand ready.
"500….600….700!" Her right fist began to heat up as the fire around it grew bigger and bigger. The laser beam hit her, causing an explosion, which the Regal Mammoth from outside cried in pain in response to it.
- Toriko -
About a minute ago, Sunny and Coco were resting outside when Coco noticed the strong electromagnetic waves releasing from inside of the Regal Mammoth.
"What is wrong?" Sunny asked the poisonous Heavenly King, who was looking intensely at the Regal Mammoth in surprise look.
"Something is happening inside the Mammoth's body!" Coco stated.
"Is it Toriko?" Sunny asked.
"No….This wave is different from his. I believe it belongs to Cream," Coco explained.
"Cream? You mean that half-red, half-blue haired girl?" Sunny questioned. "She must be fighting."
"Yes, she is. However, the strange thing is that not too long ago, her electromagnetic wave stopped emanating from the Regal Mammoth's body," Coco admitted.
"Say what? Then, how would it explain that you can see it now?" Sunny said doubtfully.
"I don't know, but somehow her wave is stronger than ever and not only that, but I can also see a strong heat wave coming from inside the body, too, and it is matched with Cream's electromagnetic wave," Coco stated.
"Really?" Sunny said before the Regal Mammoth cried out loudly.
- Toriko -
"Finally….You are dead…." The crimson GT robot said to herself until Cream came running out of the smoke with her fist ready despite upper clothes were burned away except for her bra.
"What?!" Kaguya gasped.
"800….900….!" Cream continued to run towards the GT robot.
'It doesn't matter what she does! Whatever that Stove Punch attack of her is, GT robot can withstand any extreme temperature. It can survive even inside the volcano! Her attack won't have any effect on me!' Kaguya exclaimed in her thought as she prepared for her attack.
"Two-Style Butcher Death Shots!" She called out as she attacked Cream. The attack was a big X-shaped shot that was sharped as a knife, but also thick enough to even chop a bone.
"1000 degree Fahrenheit Stove Punch!" Cream shouted as she connected her attack to the GT robot's attack. The Butcher Shot broke into pieces as Cream's punch went through, but she kept running towards the robot.
"No way….!" Kaguya looked in surprise before she was punched right through her stomach area. The flame from the punch burst through the GT robot, causing the inside of the body to burn, including the core antenna.
"If this was face-to-face, then you are dead," Cream said before the destroyed GT robot fell over its back. The fiery aura around her calmed down until it stopped. Cream fell to her knee as she was too tired to even get back up.
"I did it…. But, man I am hungry," she said as her stomach growled loudly.
"Cream-san!" She turned her head around to see Garry, Toriko, and others walking towards her.
"Oh! Garry!" Cream exclaimed as she then noticed the sparkling meat that Toriko was carrying in his hand.
"Cream-san!" Garry ran towards with tears in his eyes and snots coming out from his nose.
"Garry!" Cream ran towards Garry despite how tired she was from the fight.
"Cream-san!" Garry called out as he was about to hug, but Cream ran pass him, causing him to trip over himself and hit his face on the ground.
"Is that the ancient food treasure, Jewel Meat?!" Cream asked Toriko as she looked at the meat as her mouth was already watery.
"Yup! It is!" Toriko answered.
"Cream-san…." Garry moaned as he got back up with help from Haruka. "How cruel… She only noticed the Jewel Meat than me…."
"Well, at least she's OK," Haruka assured.
"Do you see this, Garry? It's the Jewel Meat!" Cream smiled as she drooled.
"Yes, Cream-san. I noticed," Garry sighed as he grinned before he noticed that Cream was just wearing a bra for her upper half of the body, which made Garry blushed a bit. "Cream-san, what happened to your clothes?!"
"Huh? Oh, this. It got destroyed while I was fighting that GT robot," Cream explained nonchalantly. "Why? You don't like my bra or something?"
"That's not the reason!" Garry scolded.
"Now that we're all reunited, let's get out of here," Toriko stated as they felt a wind blowing through them as it carried them back to the starting point.
"Wooooh!" Garry exclaimed.
Back outside, the Regal Mammoth suddenly roared and reared back on its hind leg.
"Woah, woah!" Sunny jumped, surprised.
"The poison seems to wearing off," Coco stated.
"What's happening to Toriko and the others?! What about Rin?!" Sunny asked, looking over at Coco, slightly worried.
"Isn't believing beautiful?" Coco replied with a sigh as he smiled back at Sunny. "There's no need to worry. Everyone is safe and they're coming out right about now." Just as the fortunate-telling Heavenly King said that, Toriko, Cream, and others came out when the Mammoth spit them out.
"Sunny! We need a cushion!" Toriko yelled down to the said man and Coco.
"Yeah! Hurry or else we will hit the ground!" Cream yelled, too as Garry cried in panic next to her.
"Hurry, Sunny-san!" Garry cried.
"Please do!" Komatsu added.
"Toriko! Cream! Rin! Matsu! Larry!" Sunny called back to them.
"And that is the Jewel Meat!" Coco added with a grin, noticing the glowing meat Toriko had in his hand.
"Oooh! I'll make the most beautiful, softest landing ever! Hair Net!" Sunny said quickly, making a net to catch the Jewel Meat before it hit the ground. Except that he only made the net for the Jewel Meat, not for everyone else, though it managed to slow down their descent, but some of them still hit the ground.
Toriko hit the ground with his head while Garry hit flat on his face again until he was hit by Cream when she landed on his back.
"Hey, why just the Jewel Meat?!" Toriko asked angrily as his nose was bleeding from the fall.
"Nonsense! I caught at least most of you," Sunny replied, before he looked up at the Jewel Meat, clearly mesmerized by it, but also noticed he caught Komatsu, Tina, and Haruka in the mix.
"Sunny-san, Rin-san is hurt!" Komatsu yelled down at him.
"What?!" Sunny gasped as he looked around and noticed Rin unconscious on the ground. "Rin!"
"Finally, you noticed," Toriko muttered.
"Hair Operation!" Sunny stated, focusing on helping his sister as he used his hair to perform surgery on her.
"Are you OK, Garry?" Cream helped with Garry to get back up.
"Yes I am fine, but still that hurts, Cream-san!" Garry stated a bit angrily at her.
"Sorry about that, but it's not my fault," she apologized as she laughed a bit.
"It's not funny, Cream-san," Garry muttered.
Komatsu watched curiously at what Sunny was doing as he tried climbing down the hair net.
"What is Sunny-san doing?" Komatsu asked.
"Sunny is performing a surgery with his 0.1 micron touches," Coco explained as he walked up to the chef.
"That's pretty amazing," Cream commented as she walked up to the poisonous Heavenly King.
"It is only emergency until full-on operation," Sunny added as he was just about finishing the operation.
"Would she be alright?" Tina asked, slightly worried.
"Do not worry. Rin-chan won't die," Coco stated, which Komatsu, Tina, and others smiled in relief.
'I don't see the shadow of death over Rin-chan. I don't see it on either Komatsu-kun, Garry-kun, or anyone else…. Except for two particular people,' Coco thought to himself as he looked over to Toriko and then Cream. 'It must had been Toriko and Cream. When they were inside the Regal Mammoth's body, their electromagnetic waves stopped, but then showed up again shortly. They must have experienced death, but came out through the valley of death and returned back, stronger than ever before.'
It was this moment when they noticed a creature with a lone white wolf sitting on coming over to Toriko.
"Oh! It's Terry!" Toriko exclaimed as everyone else noticed Terry riding on the back of Obasaures. "You're alright!" The blue-haired Gourmet Hunter gave Terry a hug as he rubbed his fur.
"You're safe, Terry and it seems like you made this Obasaures your own servant," Cream noted as Obscures roared in response.
"Wow, and after all the trouble it gave us. Geez..." Toriko muttered before the group heard a sound of the helicopter, which was led by Kiss. Following close behind was the child Regal Mammoth.
"Looks like Kiss is leading the Mammoth's child home," Coco stated as Toriko and Cream looked over at the adult Mammoth.
"You must be glad, huh? Parent Regal Mammoth," Toriko said with a smile.
"Your child is safe now and sorry if we caused all the troubles inside you," Cream said with a grin, which quickly disappeared when the adult Mammoth roared angrily and began stomping around them.
"Yikes! The Regal Mammoth is still mad!" Haruka yelled as everyone began running away from the angry Regal Mammoth.
"Here we go again!" Garry panicked.
"Sunny, use your Fry Gaeshi!" Coco yelled.
"No way! Your poison works better here, Coco!" Sunny yelled back as he was carry Rin in bridal style.
"It doesn't matter! Let's just run as fast as we could, so we can take this Jewel Meat back to the kitchen!" Toriko stated as he just smiled even during this situation.
"Right!" Komatsu agreed as he smiled too.
"It's time for dinner!" Cream exclaimed joyfully.
- Toriko -
Once the group got back at the facility, Rin was rush off to the infirmary to perform the operation. Fortunately, the operation was a success and Rin will live. Now, the group just waited inside the room where Rin was resting until she wakes up.
After 15 minutes later from the operation, Rin finally opened her eyes.
"Rin-san!" Komatsu smiled, relieved.
"Everyone..." Rin said as she looked around to see the entire group and Toriko. When she looked at him, she jumped out of her bed and launched at the man.
"Toriko!" Rin exclaimed.
"Wh..What?! Rin! You shouldn't move like that!" Toriko warned her, but she didn't even listen to what he said to her.
"Toriko, I am super thankful to you!" Rin said loudly. "If you weren't here, I would've totally died. It's because Toriko gave me that..."
"Just what is 'that'?" Toriko asked, looking confused as to what the young tamer was saying.
"Don't play dumb!" Rin said happily as the rest of the guys looked at them with confusion on their face.
'What is up with this?' They all asked silently before Sunny suddenly spoke up.
"Well, now that Rin is okay, let's throw the party with Jewel Meat on the menu!" Sunny said as others agreed. Rin smiled to that idea.
- Toriko -
Meanwhile, Chief Mansam was drinking casually in his room with a glass of wine when a guest arrived and entered the door.
"I see you are doing well, Mansam," the guest greeted.
"What's that? Did you call me handsome?" Chief Mansam asked as he turned around. "Oh! Shige-chan, it is you."
This muscular man was Shigematsu, the Vice-President of the IGO. As number 2 in the organization, he was a very important next to the head of the IGO, the President as well as super strong.
"This is quite a surprise to see you, the Vice President of IGO to come here. Is there something you would like to speak with me in-person? Perhaps about Zebra's release?" Chief Mansam suddenly asked.
"Haha, very funny and no, unfortunately not. You can't get that problem child released so easily. Director Gras forbids it despite the boss demands the request," the vice president replied.
"I see. It would have been easier if Zebra was here to help in capturing the Jewel Meat from the Regal Mammoth, but I guess not." Chief Mansam suddenly laughed. "So, I guess that you are here for another reason.
"Yes, in matter of fact it is. Actually, two things," Shigematsu admitted.
"Two?" Chief Mansam thought aloud.
"First is with the GT robot that didn't exploded. It's very likely that the Gourmet Corp will come and retrieve it back," vice president explained.
"They want to recover it? That makes sense," Chief Mansan nodded.
"The second reason I am here is tell you a message directly from the Director of GIA himself," Shigematsu said.
"What does the Director of GIA wants to say to me?" Chief Mansam asked.
"Actually, it is also on behalf of the boss's order. The Director said that his agents discovered the latest Intel on the ingredients and creatures smuggling into the human world from the Gourmet World and one of them is a very rare and precious creatures, an ancient rival to the Battle Wolf," Shigematsu explained.
"What? Could it be…?" Chief Mansam said.
- Toriko -
Back to Toriko, Cream, and others, they were at the huge, round dining table where the chef arrived with the main dish. Everyone also had changed their clothes to more formal except Toriko and Cream, who were wearing simple clothes with Toriko wearing a sleeveless dark shirt and orange shorts and Cream wearing a white T-shirt with pink heart and black shorts shorts.
"Sorry to keep you all waiting so long. The Jewel Meat is served," the chef said as he opened tray, causing a glittering light to be released under the cover. The whole dining area was lit up by the light from the Jewel Meat.
"This is Jewel Meat!" Toriko said excitedly with a smile.
"So this is the ancient food treasure when prepared!" Garry amazed.
"It's so lovely," Rin added.
"It's too beautiful…." Sunny said as he covered his mouth, clearly moved to tears.
"It's so bright that it looks like a daytime here," Coco commented.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Jewel Meat is finally here, ready for tasting!" Tina stated as she held her camera while filming it.
"Kurupoo!" Her pet bird flapped its wings happily.
"So, are we just gonna stare at it forever? Let's eat!" Cream declared.
"Yes, I agree!" Toriko agreed as he put his hand together, followed by everyone else. "I give my thanks to this bounty and all the delicacy in the world."
"Itadakimasu!" Everyone said at the same time before they started eating.
Wow. This is really the Jewel Meat…. ' Garry thought to himself as he admired at the piece of Jewel Meat on his dish. 'I learned in the Gourmet History class back at school that a great French king was able to defeat the Regal Mammoth with his army and ate the Jewel Meat that he became a super human. From then, France became a prosperous, peaceful country and he became the Sun King, Jewelouis the Fourteenth.'
He began to cut the meat and when he did, the juice came secreting out, like fireworks as he sniffed the aroma, making him feel so relaxed and sensed its taste even by its smell.
'Even the smell of its juice is so delicious! Even the juice came out like fireworks!' He thought as he stabbed a fork on the cut piece and put it into his mouth as he began biting on it.
'This is so delicious… Even with this beautiful appearance, my mouth is being filled with the taste of the meat. I don't know how to really explain it, but it has this both gentle, yet crunchy consistency.' The young lad enjoyed himself as he swallowed the meat, which caused his entire stomach to bright up and soon his entire body began to shine up, like the Jewel Meat.
"What the?! My body started glowing like the Jewel Meat! Is this what happen if you eat the meat?" Garry asked himself. "Hey Cream-san, how is your Jewel…..Woah! You are very shiny!"
"So good! Best meat I ever tasted!" Cream exclaimed as she shined even brighter than Garry.
"Oh, this is liver! It's got a texture like a liver sashimi, but the smell and fragrance are not like that at all," Toriko commented.
"Mmmm! This part is the rib! The texture feels like piled up meat and fat are coming apart inside my mouth. This is totally the best meat ever!" Rin said excitedly.
"Ho, this piece is sirloin. It melted just as I put it inside my mouth. There's a lot of grease to it, but it feels very smooth that it doesn't bother my throat, making it feels very nice in fact," Coco said with a smile.
"Jewel Meat has a perfect quality and variety of taste and texture! Like a carnival!"Toriko remarked with a huge grin before he turned over to see Terry and Obasaures. "Hey Terry, Obasaures, come here and try some for yourself, too!"
Terry barked happily as he walked over with Obasaures while Kiss went over to Coco.
"Here Kiss, try some, too," Coco said as he gave some cut pieces to his pet.
Toriko saw each and everyone with a big grin as they all enjoyed eating the Jewel Meat. That was the moment when he noticed Komatsu with a moving cart and something else he noticed on the cart.
"What are those, Komatsu?" Toriko asked.
"While eating the Jewel Meat, I thought up of an idea, so I decided to prepare something to make it even tastier," Komatsu explained as he had the Gourmet Spicer with him.
"Wait? You can make the Jewel Meat even tastier?" Cream asked as she watched curiously. Garry heard what Cream said and decided to see this for himself, too. He wanted to learn what Chef Komatsu thought up about.
"With some salt citrus and cinnamontail that I found inside the Regal Mammoth's body, I will create a new kind of spice that I think it would be a good match for the Jewel Meat," Komatsu said as he put the two ingredients into the Spicer and pushed it with the lever at the back couples of time.
He opened the spicer as the "hand" poured the new spice over the Jewel Meat steaks.
"Whada! Try some, Toriko-san," Komatsu suggested.
"Will do!" Toriko declared as he took the steak and ate it whole. "Mmmmmm! Umeeeeeee! The saltyness of the salf cirtus and the sweetness of the cinnamontail made the meat even better!"
"Let me try! Let me try!" Cream stated as she took the second steak and ate it, too. "Wow! This spice made the Jewel Meat even better!"
Both Toriko and Cream started to shine even brighter than before.
"Holy cow! They both become brighter!" Garry exclaimed as his eyes almost popped out from his face.
"Look at all this bountiful, folks. The Heavenly Kings and their guests are enjoying the Jewel Meat! I just wonder what it tastes like, but I bet it is a heaping helping of deliciousness," Tina commented as if she was on live at the TV station.
"This is going to be great on my blog! The best one ever," Haruka stated as she snapped some photos of everyone enjoying the meat.
"Hey, what do you two join in and try some, too?" Toriko suggested.
"Huh?" Both Tina and Haruka looked a bit sudden.
"Are you sure, Toriko?" Tina asked.
"Of course! Besides, I should thank you, anyway. If it wasn't for you to find this Jewel Meat and let me taste it, we would've even be here alive, eating it right now," Toriko explained.
Tina was moved with tears when Toriko said while Rin looked over at her with jealously.
"What's with so being nice to her? ….Then again, she did help a lot, so I will let her go this time," Rin said to herself.
"Come on, Haruka. Try some of them before they're all gone!" Cream stated.
"Of course," she replied as she joined in and began eating it. "Wow! This is really great!"
Toriko took a drink as he walked over to the balcony, looking over the fence as he sighed.
"Well… I've decided." He spoke up as everyone heard what he had just said.
"What did you say, Toriko? I didn't quite catch it..." Toriko turned over to look at Sunny, which he gasped to due to Sunny being the brightest of them all.
"Sunny-san, you're glowing very brightly! Actually, you are probably the brightest person here at the dining table," Komatsu exclaimed.
"Wow! I think you are right, Chef Komatsu," Garry added.
'Amazing… Sunny's electromagnetic wave is off the chart. It must be his Gourmet Cells so compatible with the Jewel Meat,' Coco thought to himself as he looked surprised, too.
"Hey, Toriko. You said about something you decided." Sunny called to the other man as he took another bite. "What were you going to say?"
"Yes, as I was saying..." Toriko said with a smile. "I just thought that this meat would fit perfectly."
"What do you mean by that?" Sunny asked with a straight face.
"I'm going to put the Jewel Meat for the meat dish in my Full Course!" Toriko announced as he could just pictured it now, his eight dishes on his Full Course. The cover for the meat dish was opening slowly as light enveloped from it.
"That's very nice, Toriko-san," Komatsu said.
"I agree!" Rin added.
"Wait a sec!" The cover suddenly closed up as Sunny just interrupted it.
"What the hell, Sunny?!" Toriko yelled back angrily.
"Uh oh…." Garry said to himself quietly. Coco was the only one who heard him and he looked over at him with a sigh of his own.
"Don't be so hasty!" Sunny yelled back.
"I am not being hasty at all!" Toriko argued back.
"Then, look at my hair! Look how radiant it is!" Sunny replied, showing off his long hair.
"Huh? Yeah, it looks cool. What about it?" Toriko asked with not so amused look.
"Don't you think the Jewel Meat had chosen me?" Sunny asked confidently.
"Sunny-san, don't tell me that you also decided that…." Komatsu spoke up as Sunny looked over to the young chef.
"That's right, Matsu. I've decided that I will put the Jewel Meat as my main dish in the Full Course!" Sunny announced as everyone was surprised, especially Toriko the most.
"I can see it now, along with my other six dishes..." Sunny said as he imagined with his Full Course as the cover for the main dish opening up.
"Hold it!" Toriko yelled angrily as he interrupted, causing the lid for Sunny's main dish to suddenly close. "Why are you making it your main dish?! I've already decided to make it my meat dish!"
"Hell no! The Jewel Meat would be perfect for my main dish to complete as one step towards to my perfect, beautiful Full Course Menu!" Sunny argued back.
Everyone except Cream, who was still eating looked at the two Heavenly King barking at each other like dogs.
"I've decided!" Cream spoke up, causing everyone to look over to her and made the two kings stop yelling at each other as they also looked.
"Cream-san, don't tell me you've decided, too?" Garry asked worriedly.
"What are you talking about, Garry?" Cream replied. "And yes, I decided to put the Jewel Meat for my meat dish!"
"OBJECTION!" Both Toriko and Sunny yelled at her, making her fly away comically.
"I found the Jewel Meat first, so I am the one who should have it on my full course!" Toriko argued.
"Hell no! The Jewel Meat chose me!" Sunny yelled back.
"Hey! I want the Jewel Meat to be on my full course because it taste so good!" Cream joined the argument.
"Why can't you all three share the dish?" Komatsu asked.
"NO WAY!" The trio yelled angrily as they went back to fighting. At this point, they would most likely fight over the night. Komatsu sighed as Garry couldn't help this.
"It's alright, Chef Komatsu," Garry assured.
"Thank you, Garry-kun." Komatsu said as he sighed at the trio.
"How about let's just finish eating?" Coco asked as his idea sounded better while the three Gourmet Hunters continued to fight and they decided to settle it with rock-paper-scissor.
Somewhere else, far, far away from Biotope #1, a night locomotive was running down the track through a valley. It was a long freight train. Inside one of the freight cars, a creature that looked like a tiger opened its eyes as it gleamed with bright yellow eyes and growled inside the cage.
Hello, everyone! I am back with another update and this time, a quick one!
I just wanted to post the new chapter and finish the Regal Mammoth arc because I was just motivated to do so.
What did you think of this chapter and overall the arc so far? As you know, I put a little teaser for the next story arc and for all of you who have been asking, when will Cream gets her pet, well let's just say the next arc may be about that. Just saying...
Anyway, what did you think of the chapter? Enjoy your day and if you are video gamer, this week is E3 convention, and a lot of new stuff had been announced, like the official releaste date of Finaly Fantasy 7 remakea and the new Avengers video game from Crystal Dynamics, the same company who made the Marvel's Spider-Man video game for PS4 last year. Today is all about Nintendo, so keep an eye on anything new for Nintendo.
Until next time, enjoy your rest of the day!