Toriko 166

[Toriko 166 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Live: Next it's...
my turn...
Insert Text: The gambling room is heating up!!
Middle Text: ☆"Toriko Gourmet Battle Figure Collection 3" goes on sale today! Capture them at any candy store~~!!
Side Text: Now taking place at Lagunasia, (Aichi Prefecture Gamagowari City)! Information on the "Toriko & One Piece Adventure"! There will be a present for those attending (1/1~1/5) and a special show (1/8)! Check Lagunasia's homepage for details!
Coco: Is it coming...?
The real match starts now...!!
Top Insert: ☆Every Sunday at 9 on Fuji TV, the TV Anime is airing exploding with food!!
Lower Insert: ☆Appearing in Saikyou Jump going on sale 12/3 (Sat.) Will be Shimabukuro-sensei's Toriko!! It's a 17-Page one-shot of them going after the Saikyou Ramen!! And that legendary leader will appear, too!!
Title: Gourmet 166 The Heart of the Game!!
Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi

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Announcer: It's Livebearer's 2nd turn!!
It's a *"Rockmadillo" 70 point hit!!
Asterisk: "Rockmadillo" (Iwamajiro) is Tokyo's Penname Hebigaeru-san's work!!
Narrator: And he beautifully takes down the high capture level Rockmadillo!
Cooking and eating complete----
Live: Uhu [Heart]
SFX: KACHA
Announcer: Moving on the *"Sanzu River Poison Lizard", a 150 point hit!!
TL Note: I've mentioned this river before, but it means "River of Three Crossings" and is a traditional Japanese Buddhist belief that you need to cross it to get to heaven.
Announcer: He has also marvelously cooked this poisonous special preparation ingredient and finished eating it!!
And furthermore---
Asterisk: *"Sanzu River Poison Lizard" (Sanzu Gawa Doku Tokage) is the Ibaraki Prefecture's 栗原拓也-san's work!!

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Announcer: There it iiiiis!! The big-hit card, the "Garlic Crab" for 200 points!!
Miraculously, Livebearer achieves 420 points on this turn!! With a total of 640 there's another turnabout!!
He's brought about a big gap between him and Team Coco Toriko Komatsu!!
Signs: Coco Toriko Komatsu
Livebearer
Komatsu: ...........
Toriko: Th... That bastard...
Another consecutive high-point card turn...
Match: Looks like he has perfect awareness of what all the cards are...
Just what kind of trick is he pulling...?
Komatsu: ..........
B...But...
That man is amazing...
Toriko: Hm?
Komatsu: The big-hit cards are a different story, but outside those he's gotten all difficult ingredients to capture and cook.
Especially the "Sanzu River Poison Lizard". To remove the poison for something like that takes considerable technique...
That man's skill as a chef is the real thing...

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Live: Of course...
They're all skills I've stolen from the brains of numerous chefs, though~~ Uhu [heart]
aAA~~~~
I wanna suck things up from your brain soon~~ [heart]
Toriko: Coco!! I'm counting on you to get us high point cards too!!
Whatever comes up, Komatsu and I will definitely finish eating them all!!
Coco: ............
This game...
At a glance, it seems like a battle for points, but...
That is not the case...
It's a battle to avoid the "big-miss" cards...

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Coco: Though the game is called nervous breakdown, the reason the cards are numbered
is to purposefully make the ingredients' locations easy to remember. (Of course, the card locations are moved and substituted for the purpose of preventing cheating, but...)
In other words, getting hits is a presupposed rule for this game...
Number 5.
Announcer: Number 5, "Electric Banana"!!
This is... a narcotic ingredient-----!!
Match: There one is...
An illegal ingredient...
Coco: .........
Number 54.
Announcer: Number 54
!!? Aah, this is an *"Atlas Crab", it's an out!!
This is the first out of either team so far this game!! The turn switches to Livebearer!!

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Toriko: Coco...!?
What's wrong?
Komatsu: Coco-san...
Coco: .............
Live: He purposely...
got out, huh...?
Did he make a mistake on his first draw? Or did he do it simply to check the point value?
Regardless, even if he knows which cards are hits, he doesn't know the cards' details...
That means divulged information about yourself...
The reason he went so far as to miss on the second card...
Heavenly King Coco... It would seem that you've understood the point of this game...
Yes... The heart of this game
is how to avoid retiring mid-way though...!!

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Live: The cause of defeat for every team that's challenged me to "Gourmet Tasting"
is not from having the lower point total after all of the cards were drawn,
it's from drawing big-miss cards mid-way through the game and retiring..
The reason up to 10 people are allowed is to stave off retiring as much as possible...
Seeing the first card was "Electric Banana" and judging it would be difficult to eat completely,
he purposefully avoided a hit...
But knowing that...
You all's chances of winning are nil. [Heart]
SFX: KAH
Live: "Trick contact lenses"----
SFX: UOOOO
Live: They're specially manufactured for the cards in "Gourmet Casino".
The trick contact lenses are set in the eyes, and constructed so by seeing the cards through them, the contents are the cards appear in the air as a 3D image.
That's why it's obvious to me at a glance which are big-hits and big-misses. [Heart]

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Announcer: It's Livebearer's 3rd turn, a 60 point *"Rock Potato".
Asterisk: *"Rock Potatoe" (Ishi Jyaga) is Shizuoka Prefecture's 上岡純一-san's, and "Brain Urchin" is Fukuoka Prefecture's 葛西貴紀-san's work!
Announcer: And next *"Brain Urchin" 30 points,
and furthermore
they just keep coming!! A big-hit card, a *"Numblemon" 200 hit and complete eating!!
Asterisk: "Numblemon" (Shibiremon) is Tokushima Prefecture's Penname Capture Level Infinity-san's and "Dynamidragonfly" is Nara Prefecture's Penname Jyuraki-san's work!!
Signs: Coco Toriko Komatsu
Livebearer
Announcer: With a 290 point gain this turn, he has a total of 930 points!! The gap in point values has stretched even furtheeeer!!
The turn switches to Team Coco Toriko Komatsu!!
Coco: Number 51
Number 51 *"Dynamidragonfly"!
Coco: Number 19
Announcer: Number 19 "Rock Lizard", oh my, it's another out!!

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Live: Nooooow, all at once
As I thought----
He can't tell what the contents of the cards are.
let's decide the victor [heart]
Announcer: Livebearer gets the 40 point *"Taste Ant"
*"Bubble Fruit" 20 points
and another big-hit!! *"Gold Shrimp" with a point value of 200!!
Giving him a total of 1190 points!!
Asterisk: *"Rock Lizard" is Tokyo's 鴇亮太郎-san's, "Taste Ant" (Aji Ari) is Gifu Prefecture's 青山袷史-san's work!
*"Bubble Fruit" (Awa Bi) is Kanagawa Prefecture's, 辻居大輝-san's, and "Gold Shrimp" is Oosaka's Penname Dragon-san's work!
Announcer: The difference in score is 880 points!!
There are 20 cards remaining (10 types)! Coco Toriko and Komatsu are in a tight position!!
Toriko: ..........
Signs: Coco Toriko Komatsu
Livebearer
Toriko: If the point difference gets any bigger, we'll be in trouble, Coco!
Komatsu: Coco-san!
Coco: Since the beginning of the game, he's been able to predict what would get him points efficiently...
Seeing me get outs, he plunged into getting big hits even more...

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Coco: The problem is here...
The cards he's intentionally avoiding...
Most likely, those are the worst big-miss cards...
Our way to prevail is there----!!
Now for the order...
Number 1, please.
Announcer: Number 1, "Atlas Crab"!
Komatsu: This is... the ingredient that came up before, Coco-san!!
Coco: We'll be taking this one...
Toriko, Komatsu-kun, I'm counting on you.
Number 54!
Announcer: Number 54, "Atlas Crab", a hit!!
Toriko: Oookay, leave it to me!

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Toriko: Dang.
For having relatively low points, this was a tough sucker.
I need you to do the cooking, Komatsu.
Komatsu: Okay! Leave it to me.
SFX: GUH GUH
Announcer: Eating cooomplete!! And 30 points earned!!
Toriko: Keep it rolling, Coco!!
Coco: All these skull images...
The cards he's avoiding are these...
I'll have to verify it...
Number 21.
Announcer: Number 21,

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Announcer; !!
Th... This is...
A *"Poison Potato"!! A big-miss card!!
Asterisk: *Saitama Prefecture 大河原駿-san's work!!
Coco: -------!!
A...
A super special preparation ingredient----!!?
Komatsu: Poison Potato... That's the super-poisonous potato that no one in history has yet to successfully detoxify.
There's no record of even National Treasure Setsuno-san successfully detoxifying it...
Toriko: Hmm...
So you can't eat it?
Coco: Yes. It's impossible.
The poison potato's poison is said to have 20 times the lethality of the Puffer Whale.
It's a lethal poison even I don't have the antibodies for it.
Komatsu: And look. This is only 10 points...
It'll be impossible to detoxify the Poison Potato and eat it completely in just 10 minutes.
Coco: Truly a "miss" ingredient...
Toriko: Yeah...

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Live: Oh my~~ That's an ingredient you really don't want.
I think even I'll abstain from that one.
Coco: .............
Match.
Number 24, please.
Match: !
No way...
You don't intend to make this a hit, do you, Coco...?
!!
This is...!!!
Announcer: The "Joker Card"!! It's the "Nitro Cherry"!! And what's more, this ingredient is also a super special preparation ingredient!! [quotes in white.]
Komatsu: Ni... Nitro Cherry... That's the cherry that'll explode with just a slight stimulus...
It's an ingredient that, if not cooked precisely right, there's an extreme danger of it exploding inside the body after being eaten.
Coco: And what's more, this card is 10 points...
A big-miss "Joker Card".
Announcer: Team Coco Toriko Komatsu get an out, and so the turn switches.
Live: Uhu, finally.
The cards we're choosing have gotten difficult.
Number 18 please.

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Announcer: Number 18!!
And now another one has appeared!
A Joker Card!! The *"Wisdom Panda"!! [quote in white]
Coco: W... Wisdom Panda...?
That's Capture Level 80!! They even have something like this prepared here...!!? [First sentence big/bold.]
Asterisk: * "Wisdom Panda" (Hannya Panda) is Yamagata Prefecture's 阿部祐太郎-san's work!!
Announcer: However, this "Wisdom Panda" is a 250 point ingredient!!
It's a a Joker Card with points suitable for its capture difficulty!!
Live: Hmph.
How troublesome.
Number 12.
Announcer: Number 12!! *"Troll Cheese"!!
This is an out!! The turn switches!!
Asterisk: *"Troll Cheese" is Nagano Prefecture's Penname MAO-san's work!!

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Komatsu: Th... That "Troll Cheese" just now... It's a cheese that releases such a powerful stench that you won't even be able to breathe.
It's an incredibly stinky inedible ingredient... And that's 10 points... I guess that was a big-miss card, too...
Toriko: So, he didn't make the "Joker" a hit.
Coco: He has a drastic lead in points right now.
There's no real merit for him to purposefully hit the joker card and doing a trade.
But more importantly, Troll Cheese, huh...?
And the Wisdom Panda...
Number 11.
Announcer: Number 11!! *"Sea Urchin Rat"!!
Asterisk: "Sea Urchin Rat" (Uni Nezumi) is Tokyo's Penname 界嶺 Hidenori-san's work!!
Announcer: This, too, has a high capture level, but is a big-miss card with only 10 points!!
Coco: ..........
Number 27.
Announcer: Number 27, *"Caesar Snake"!!
It's an out!! And this, too, is a big-miss card!!
Asterisk: *"Caesar Snake" is Niigata Prefecture's 渡近啓-san's work!!
The turn switches!!
Komatsu: Sea Urchin Rat and Caesar Snake are both strong wild beasts over Capture Level 50, but with only 10 points...
With them, now every type of card has appeared, but... All the remaining cards can't be handled using ordinary methods...

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Komatsu: If we do actually hit them,
I'll be able to cook them, right...?
Coco: There are 9 remaining types of cards...
And the point difference is 850...
In order to cause a turnabout against him here...
Live: Numbers 11 and 21 please.
Announcer: Number 11 is "Sea Urchin Rat" and Number 21 is "Poison Potato", it's an out!!
The turn switches!!
Live: Uhu. You must be lost as for which you eat, huh~~? [Heart after the "Uhu".]

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Toriko: That guy...
Purposely getting outs...
Coco: ..........
As I thought...
Having the advantage in points, he won't meaninglessly put himself in danger...
The first one to go out was me...
If I keep getting out, I'll get 10 outs first and lose...
But at any rate, I need to hit some card first or else.
Toriko.
Toriko: !
Coco: You're getting in on the match.
Toriko: Finally, huh?
Coco: Numbers 18 and 35!
Announcer: There it is! The "Joker"!! It's a hit on the "Wisdom Panda"!! [quotes in white.]
SFX: ZUN

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SFX: DON
Toriko; This is the first really strong enemy I've had in a while.
It'll be just right for getting the ball rolling for an upset...!!
Live: Sure is~~ Because besides aiming for the Jokers
you have no way of causing an upset~~ Uhu [heart]
Coco: Komatsu-kun, I have something to talk to you about.
Komatsu: Eh?
Insert Text: Has it appeared!? The road to a come-from-behind victory!?
Bottom: ...Gourmet 166
/ End
Next issue, what will come of Toriko's battle!?
And what is Coco's secret plan!?