Sani had taken down the Rockdrum

"Sani,want of the Rockdrum's meat?"Toriko asked.

"I don't need any meat with no nutritional value like ,I'm gonna take the shell with me and head back now."Sani said.

"Head back?What about the Regal Mammoth?!"Rin asked.

"Doesn't compared to getting this into the hands of a beautiful artisan as fast as possible and beautifully getting processed into a beautiful marble."Sani said. I could give him the name of the best artisan I know.

"Big Brother,that's so totally selfish!"Rin said as the earth began to shake. I looked and saw The Rockdrum that Rin sprayed with Battle Fragrance was charging us.

"A-A Rockdrum?!"I yelled.

"The first one Sani sent flying came back!"Toriko said. "Ah,the one I sprayed with Battle Fragrance?!Er,it sure is looking vigorous!"Rin yelled.

"I forgot to use knocking on it."Sani deadpanned. The three of us screamed. How the hell do you forget to use knock on something that could kill us you dumb-ass! It kicked sending us flying. Sani and I were falling when luckily he used Hairnet to catch me from being a pancake.

"Thank you very much Sani-San."I said quacking before I land flat on my face in the dirt.

"That was quite an unbeautiful landing,you."He said. You could have put me down gentle I'm a young lady know jackass.

"Anyhow,the Rockdrum...I suppose you've gotta expect that from a capture level 27...Guess I underestimated I can't I got shot all the to the Mushroom Wood."Sani said as I got up.

"You know I'm a woman you could have been gentler with the catch."I deadpanned brushing the dirt off my face. I looked around saw a group of mushrooms.

"Whoah,Cream Matsutake Mushrooms!"I said happily. They're great in big brothers favorite shop.

"Wha?!You sure recovered quick!"Sani yelled in shock.

"Woah,this is my first time seeing ever seeing Cream Matsuke Mashrooms in the wild, ,Isn't that...?!"I asked grabbing a small red octopus looking creature.

"Ah,disgusting!"Sani yelled.

"It's a 's one of the favored octopi,the octopusauses,that wander through the seas of trees."I said walking closer to him with a childish grin.

"The one that expels a vinger sauce,the Vinegoctopus."I said happily.

"Beauty -100!Disgust 50,000!"Sani yelled. I ignored him and gasped I grabbed four more. I stood up and giggling like a little girl. Sani screamed and stumble back.

"Here's the one that expels Worcestershire Sauce,the Worcoctopus,and this one that expels salsa,the there's even a soy sauce Shoyuctopus that would go great with the Cream Matsutake!"I said like a kid on a sugar-hi.

"O-Out of everyone,Why'd I have to get shot out with her!?"He said.

"Hey I have ears jackass and for you informention I don't want to be with you either.A wild beast would make better company."I huffed.

"And the names Kimiko use it."I added. Man I wish I gotten with Rin or Toriko at lest I don't want to punch their face in. I don't think Terry got punted by the Rockdrum. I walked away from him and pulled out my kitchen knife. I figured I should cook out my bad mood.

"That's a pretty good kitchen knife, 's beautiful."Sani said. I looked over the him.

"Oh,thank you."I said.

"Not you,the knife."he said.

"I know but I'm still kind of more then if you meant me."I said I don't get called beautiful often. Pretty? you but beautiful was almost always resevered for my mother and aunts. I started a small fire and grilled the mushrooms I gathered earlier.

"That 's a gross octopus that squirts top-class shoyu from it's gross mouth,but...Wouldn't an ever more disgusting adult octopus be able to disgustingly give you more mature tamari soy sauce?"Sani asked.

"Yes,but I can't catch an adult Shoyuctopus."I said more it be very hard since it's capture level is almost out of my connection zone(her connection range is below 1 to 6 as adults as kids she can connect to any level)

"Well,it's a capture level 5,right?Despite how gross it is."Sani said.

"For a while now you've been saying 'gross' way too much."I said squeezing the octopus which relessed its soy sauce.

"What a nice smell!"I sighed.

"The smell of the Cream Matsutake with the fragrance of the Shoyu added to it givesit even more 's eat it together, ."I said eating one.

"Amazing!The creamy texture,and this smell!I knew using natural products like this would make a world of difference!"I yelled then a giant red octopus fell in front of me causing me to gasp.

"Here's an adult caught 'd go better with the Cream Matsutake."Sani said.

"Yeah...Thank you very much."I said hiding my blush.

"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 max I'm kinda wondering why you're carrying such beautiful cookware with moment you took that in your hand,the ingredient at once,everything was in harmony.I'll just say this sight of you cooking is beautiful."Sani said.

"Oh...Thanks."I said shocked and very happy.

"My Aunt use to say when you cook you let the world know your soul and the more delicious the food the more beautiful the soul was that prepare it."I said quietly and sadly.

"Ah,Sorry.I just licked your cheek a bit."he said.

"Eh?What'd you say?"I asked.

" 's hurry and eat those Cream Matsutakes."Sani said.

"Did you just do something to me?!"I asked willing myself not to blush.

"Not really."He said. we eat then left.

~One Long Quiet walk later~

We were walking in an eire forest.

"All the Shoyuctopous matured shoyu,Cream Matsutake,and everything else!I've got a lot of souvenirs to take back with me to the Hotel."I said.

"Miko,taking ingredients from a biotope without permission is a felony."Sani said.

"Is that true!?That's a real shock..."I said. I was going to make my brother's favorite soup and send him some. I have feeling he's not feeling so great.

"Hm?Is that the latest model Gourmet Case?"Sani asked.

"Ah,yes!It's the Take-Out 1000 Portable has data for how to store 1000 different types of ingredients in 's the Gourmet Case that can keep things warm,cool,or vacuum packed!"I said.

"The silhouette is , .If you take the ingredient home in that,I guess it'll be okay."Sani said.

"It's okay as long as I have them in a container?"I asked.

"It's okay because they're ,it's okay because I say it's 't you agree,Miko?"he asked.

"Is that so?Then what about it being a felony?"I asked.

"Oh,we're here,Miko."He said.

"It looks like at some point my name 'Miko'..."I said.

"It's the Swamp of Antiquity."Sani said.

"Swamp of ... Antiquity?"I asked.

"A great number of gourmet ingredients from ancient times rest 's nicknamed the Food Museum."Sani said then a Mad Dragon eaten a Swamp Moral Eel.

"A Swamp Moral Eel!A Snake Leech!"I yelled as a Crocodile Shark eat them all.

"Hey,uh, what's going on?I don't understand..."I said scared.

"The competition for gourmet food chain is really ,why don't we take part as well?In this battle of the food chain."Sani said.

"By take part ,do you mean cross the swamp?"I asked walking up to him.

"Of course."he said. I looked over water.

"You can't mean swimming,can you?"I asked because there's no way in hell I was swimming a swamp.

"Who the hell'd swim in a swamp like this?"Sani asked. You don't want me to answer that. He jumped over the water.

"Wah,it's cold!"Sani said.

"Cold?"I asked as I felt something pick up. What the hell?

"Hey,what's going on?I'm floating!"I yelled.

"It's the surface 's not pleasant to touch a little unclean mud,but it's much better than my boby itself touching."Sani said.

"You're using your Touches on the swamp? And say,surface tension...That's kind of like a water strider,huh?"I said.

"This is a bottomless careful that you don't fall temperature's no more than 5 or 6 degrees."Sani said.

"You can even sense water temperature?"I asked.

"My hair has different points of the tactile sense depending on the ones that temperature are the blue can sense temperature lower than the skin can,the cold senses warm temperatures,the heat preceives the feeling of push or pull,the pressure has the ability to sense pain,the pain point."he said.

"So your different color hairs have different roles?"I asked.

"Easy to understand,isn't it?"he asked. We stopped.

"What's wrong?"I asked.

"Something's odd about the swamp.I can't find most the gourmet ingredients that are supposed to be found in the from it,there are berely any wild beasts in it at all."he said looking around.

"Hey,hey,what the hell's that?!"Sani asked. I looked the shore and saw a mangled corpse.

"It's terrible..."I said.

"Is this the work of the Bishokukai,those GT Robos?"Sani asked.

"Why would they do something like that?!"I asked.

"They're trying to have all the world's gourmet ingredients under their they'll stop at nothing to do '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."Sani said.

"Gourmet Cell?Chief Mansam mentioned them, what exactly are they?"I asked.

"A kind of all-purpose to be collated from a phantasmal jellyfish that lives in the deep sea,Gourmet Cells have an excellent regenerative faculty and life Gourmet Cell meld well with other cellular tissues,they will extend the strong point of that tissue tremendously.A juicy apple will become even more beef will become even more ,what do you think would happen if Gourmet Cell were bound to humans?"Sani asked. I looked at him.

"It would grant them overwhelming power,turning them into their raw power would level up the more delicious things they ate."Sani said.

"The more they eat delicious things?"I asked.

"By the way,Toriko,Coco and I all have Gourmet Cells in our Chief and Rin, too."he said,

"So Toriko-san and others are..."I gasped. Well makes sense now why Toriko eats so much.

"But of course,the risk is the cells don't bind well,your body will lose to the power of the Gourmet Cells,and in the worst case,you die."he added.

"I think I kind of understand the secret of how you,Toriko-San and the others have such monstrous strength."I said.

"Call it beautiful strength!Monstrous...?"Sani said. I chuckled inside. We were getting closer to shore thankfully.

"Sani-San,what you said about the Bishokukai trying to collect more delicious ingredients,that means..."I said.

"Yes,the Bishokukai of course has Gourmet Cells,as they were a gang of low-life disgusting villains in the first the Gourmet Cells,their wickedness is even more prominent,and their 100 times more ,none of that really matters to that about the battle with the Bishokukai."he said the we landed on the shore.

"But this is really beyond didn't even make it into food or use knocking on they did was kill it..."I said holding back my sadness and anger.

"I don't care about the battle with the Bishokukai or seeing something so unbeautiful...I can't smile.I can't smile Bishkukai!"Sani yelled. I was scared.

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