lunamugetsu: I do not own Toriko
Previously:
"Fry Gaeshi" the Rockdrum was sent back throwing up dust and rocks making everyone duck for cover.
"What's your attack range, Sani?"
"Huh? That's right... about 25 meters"
"It sure has grown, your Dining Kitchen" Toriko said before grabbing Kimiko and running for cover. Kimiko and Tina watched in amazement as Sani used his Fry Gaeshi and Hair Lock to subdue the Rockdrum.
"Sani is incredible" Kimiko said making jealously rise in Toriko
"The delicacy known as Rockdrum has been captured by Bishokuya Toriko and his comrades" Tina said to the camera as she reported at what had just transpired
"Sani, want any of the Rockdrum's meat?" Toriko asked
"I don' need any meat with no nutritional value like that. Act'lly, I'm gonna take this shell with me and head back now." Sani said
"Head back? What about the Regal Mammoth?" Rin asked
"Doesn' matter. Not compared to gettin' this into the hands of a beaut'ful artisan as fast as possible and beaut'fully getting this processed into a beaut'ful marble"
"Big Brother, that's so totally selfish!" she yelled, then the ground started to shake causing everyone to see a Rockdrum charging towards them in rage.
"The first one Sani sent flying came back!" Toriko said
"Ah, the one I sprayed with Battle Fragrance?! It sure is looking vigorous!"
"I forgot ta use Knocking on it" Sani said, making everyone yell in alarm. That was when the Rockdrum then kicked Sani, Rin, Toriko, and Kimiko into the air separating the group. Sani and Kimiko were kicked towards the Mushroom Forest while Rin and Toriko were kicked to the White Forest.
Sprint, Regal Island!
Find the Jewel Meat!
"KYAAAAAAAAH!" Kimiko yelled as she was falling to the ground with Sani.
"Hairnet!" Sani said as the net caught him and Kimiko from face planting into the ground
"Thank you very much, Sani-san" Kimiko then tried to get out of the net only for her to fall and land on her behind.
"Ouch" she said as she rubbed her bottom
"That was quite an un-beaut'ful landing, you" Sani commented as he set himself on the ground, "'Nyhow, the Rockdrum. I suppose you've gotta expect that from Capture Level 27. Guess I underestimated it. But I can't believe I got shot all the way to the Mushroom Woods."
"Mushroom Woods?" Kimiko looked around to see that they were surrounded by different mushrooms that were the size of trees.
"Woah, Cream Matsutake Mushrooms!" she exclaimed as she looked at the cream colored mushrooms.
"What?! You sure recovered quick!" Sani exclaimed
"Woah, this is my first time ever seeing Cream Matsutake Mushrooms, Sani-san!" she squealed and then another item caught her attention, "This is" she picked up a dark pink colored octopus that was waving its tentacles around
"Ah, disgustin!" Sani yelled
"It's a Vinegoctopus. It's one of the flavored octopi, the octopusauses, that wander through seas of trees. The one that expels a vinegar sauce, the Vinegoctopus." she said as Sani slowly started to back away from it
"Beauty,-100!. D'sgust 50,000!" he exclaimed Kimiko then saw different octopusauses and picked them up making Sani freak out a lot.
"Here's the one that expels Worcestershire sauce, the Worcoctopus" she gestured to the brown octopus, "and the one that expels salsa, the Tacotopus!" she motioned to the red one. "And there's even a soy sauce Shoyuctopus that would go great with the Cream Matsutake!"
"GET THOSE D'SGUST'NG THINGS AWAY!" Sani yelled
"Okay" Kimiko said as she was chopping the Cream Matsutake Mushroom on a leaf while Sani watched
"That's a pretty good kitchen knife, there. It's beautiful" he said getting her attention
"Eh? Oh, thank you"
"Not you, the knife" Sani said
"Well, I'm still happy," Kimiko replied, "Even more than if you meant me" she then proceeded to grill the mushroom then readied the shoyuctopus
"That Shoyuctopus." he said making Kimiko look at him, "It's a disgustin' octopus that squirts top-class shoyu from its disgustin' mouth, but wouldn't an even more disgustin' adult octopus be able to disgustin'ly give you more matured tamari soy sauce?"
do you really have to say disgusting that many times? Kimiko thought
"Yeah, but there's no way I can catch an adult Shoyuctopus"
"Well, it's Capture Level 5, righ'? Despite how disgusin' it is" he stated
"You're saying 'disgustin' too many times Sani-san" Kimiko muttered as she squeezed the sauce from the Shoyuctopus onto the mushrooms making a pleasant smell .
"The smell of the Cream Matsutake with the fragrance of the shoyu added to it gives it even more depth." she stated, "Let's eat it together, Sani-san!" giving the man a small smile
"Idtadakimasu" she bit into the mushroom, "Amazing! The creamy texture, and this smell! i knew using natural products like this would make a world of difference!" that's when a gigantic octopus was placed in front of her.
"Here's an adult Shoyuctopus. Just caught it. That's go better with the Cream Matsutake" Sani said
"Oh, thank you Sani" Kimiko gave him a bright smile making him blush lightly and then coughed
"You're called Kimiko, right? Even though you were suddenly flung into a danger zone like this, the fact that you're looking at high-class ingredients and frolicking like a child is completely disgustin'" Kimiko blinked confused, "But I'm kinda wondering why you're carrying such beaut'ful cookware with you. the moment the knife was in your hand, the ingredients gleamed. All at once, everything was in harmony. I'll just say this once. The sight of you cooking is beaut'ful"
"Thank you" Kimiko smiled brightly making the man blush again and started to cover his blush by coughing
"Sani-san! Are you okay?" she asked
"I'm fine" he answered and then composed himself. "Ah, sorr' I just licked your cheek a bit" he mumbled
"Huh? What did you say" she asked
"Nothing. Let's hurry and eat those Cream Matsutakes" he said
"Sani-san, you didn't do anything weird to me right?" she cried
Meanwhile with the others. Tina was riding on Terry who was searching for Toriko, while Toriko was fighting an Obasaurus with Rin's help
"All the Shoyuctopus matured shoyu, Cream Matsutake, and everything else! These are pretty nice souvenirs" she said as they were walking through a wasteland that had dead trees everywhere
"Miko, taking ingredients from a biotope without permission is prohibited" he said," and a felony "
"It is!" Kimiko yelled making Sani look back at her
"Hm? Is that the latest model Gourmet Case?" he asked
"Uh, yeah. It's the Take-Out 1000 Portable Type. It has data for how to store 1000 different types of ingredients in it. It's the Gourmet Case that can keep things warm, cool, or vacuum packed!"
"The silhouette is lovely. Er, beautiful. Yeah. If you take the ingredients home in that, I guess it'll be okay"
"As long as I have them in a container?" she questioned
"It's okay because they're beaut'ful. Actually it's okay because I say it's ok. Don't you agree Miko?"
Didn't you say that it was a felony a moment ago? she thought
"Oh we're here, Miko" he said as he stopped
"Sani-san since when did you start to call me 'Miko'?"
"It's the Swamp of Antiquity." Sani said as they surveyed the swamp
"Swamp of...Antiquity?"
"A great number of gourmet ingredients from ancient times rest here. It's nicknamed the 'Food Museum'"
Kimiko watched in horror as a Mao Dragon was eaten by a Swamp Moral Eel who was then eaten by a Snake Leech which was then eaten by a Crocodile Shark.
"What's going on?" she managed to say
"The competition for gourmet ingredients. The food chain is really booming" he said indifferently, "So, why don' we take part as well?"
"Eh?" Kimiko answered
"Let's take part in this battle of the food chain" he said
"You don't mean crossing the swamp do you" Kimiko asked horriffed
"Of course" She looked at the swamp in fear
"You don't mean we're going to swim are we?"
"No way! That's completely disgustin'!" He then floated over the swamp. "Cold!"
Cold? she thought before she was lifted into the air,
"Sani-san!" she cried in alarm
"It's the surface tension." he said, "It's not pleasant to touch a little unclean mud, but it's much better than my body itself touching"
"Since you're using your Touches then it's kind of like the same way a water strider moves across the water" she said
"This is a bottomless swamp. Be careful that you don't fall in. The temperature's no more than five of six degrees" he informed her
"So your Touches can sense temperatures?"
"Yes, my blue hairs are the ones that measure temperatures, pink senses warm temperatures, the heat point. Green perceives the feeling of push or pull, the pressure point. White has the ability to sense pain, the pain point." he explained
"So your different hair colors have different uses" she concluded
"It's very easy to understand isn't it" he said but then stopped
"Is something wrong, Sani-san?"
"Something's odd about the swamp. I can't find most of the gourmet ingredients that are supposed to be found in the swamp. Far from it, there are barely any wild beasts in it at all." Sani told her
"Now that you mention it. I was wondering why no beasts were trying to attack us" Kimiko said, Sani looked at the other end of the swamp to see a dead corpse of an animal
"Hey, hey, what the hell's that?!"
"Why on Earth would someone do something like that" Kimiko watched in horror
"Is this the work of the Bishokukai, those Gt Robos?" Sani asked
"Probably, but why would they do something like that" She asked
"They're trying to have all the world's gourmet ingredients under their control" Sani explained as he started moving them towards land, "They'll do what they want as much as they want, and just gather up gourmet ingredients as much as possible trying to up the level of their gourmet Cells a lot at once"
"Gourmet Cells? Chief Mansam mentioned them. But what exactly are they?"
"A kind of special all-purpose cells. They were collected from a phantasmal jellyfish that lives in the deep sea. Gourmet Cells have an excellent regenerative faculty and life force. If Gourmet Cells meld well with other cellular tissues, they will extend the strong point of that tissue tremendously. A juicy apple will become even more juicy. Delicious beef will become even more delicious. Miko, what do you think would happen if Gourmet Cells were bound to humans. It would grant them overwhelming power, turning them into supermen. And their raw power would level up the more delicious things they ate."
"The more they eat delicious things?"
"By the way, Toriko, Coco and I all have Gourmet Cells in our bodies. The Chief and Rin too. So Toriko-san and the others are..."
"But the risk is huge. If the cells don't bind will, your body will lose to the power of the Gourmet Cells, and in the worst case, you die"
"I think I understand the reason why you, Toriko, and the others have such monstrous strength." Kimiko sighed
"Call it beaut'ful strength!" Sani sighed "Monstrous?"
"Um, Sani-san" she asked getting his attention, "What you said about the Bishokukai trying to collect more delicious ingredients that means"
"Yes, the Bishokukai of course have Gourmet Cells, as well. But they're a gang of low-life disgustin' villains in the first place. With the Gorumet Cells, Their wickedness is even more prominent, and their 100 times more disgustin' Well, none of that really matters to me All that about the battle with the Bishokukai." Sani said as he set himself and Kimiko on the ground
"But this is really just beyond cruel. They didn't even make it into food or use Knocking on it. All they did was killed it" She said as she looked at the fallen beast
"I don't care about the battle with the Bishokukai or anything. But seeing something so unbeaut'ful." Sani clenched his fists "I can't smile. I can't smile, Bishokukai!"
Sani-san, Kimiko thought as she looked at Sani who was completely livid .
lunamugetsu: Finally updated. Sorry it took so long. Anyway thanks to SmileRen for being my Beta