Toriko 118

AAAAAND now we continue.

[Toriko 118 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
SFX: Hyuoooo
Title: "Toriko"
Melk: Toriko...
Will he really be all right alone?
Side: Toriko departs with his eye on the stardust!!
Melk: "Heavy Hole" boasts the greatest danger level in all of the Human World. [Heavy hole is big/bold]
The wild beasts' average capture level exceeds 50.
Komatsu: It's okay, Melk-san!
Toriko's a man who came back okay even from that "Gourmet World"!
Melk: .........From the Gourmet World...?
Beast: PIGIIIIH
Komatsu: !
SFX: BASAH

Page 2:
Pochiko: GIIII
Komatsu: MUGYAAAAA, MONSTEEEER!!
SFX: BAFO
Pochiko: PUGIIII
Description: *Vampire Kong
[Mammal Beast]
Capture Level 20
Asterisk: *The Kanagawa Prefecture's 島巡 帙-san's work!
Komats: HI... HIGWaaA
Melk: Stop, Pochiko!
He's a guest.
SFX: PITAH
Komatsu: !!
...Eh!?

Page 3:
Melk: Surprised you, did he, Chef Komatsu?
This is my pet Vampire Kong.
Her name is Pochiko.
Komatsu: Po... Pochiko?
TL Note: "Pochi" is a common name given to a dog, like "Poochie". "-ko" is a suffix usually at the end of female names.
Melk: She's a pet that Master used to care for.
She's very intelligent gorilla and is good with people, she delivers knives for me.
Komatsu: D... Delivers... knives... does she?
She's usually the one who hands over the requested knives.
Komatsu: Eh, really!?
Melk: Welcome back, Pochiko. Thanks for your hard work.
Pochiko: Pugi
SFX: Shuta
SFX: Shuru shuru
SFX: Sutah
Komatsu: Ah... So that tree was a nest...?
She's making a bat-sorta face, but she's not hanging upside-down.
...What an impressive erect stand. [Last sentence is a different font]
Melk: ..........
Okay, work!
There are a lot of requests today, too!

Page 5:
Side: A palpitating artisan world!!
Komatsu: Yes!
Let's sharpen, Melk-san!!
SFX: Muhoooh
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SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
Title: Toriko
Gourmet 118 Melk's Sharpening!!
Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi

Page 6:
SFX: Oooo
SFX: HYUOH
SFX: TAH
SFX: BAH BAH BABAH TAN TAN
SFX: ZAH
Toriko: ----Hew.
I sure went down a long way.
SFX: PARA PARA
Toriko: Geez, that Komatsu...
Ookay then, let's head out, Komatsu!
Komatsu: E~~h!?

Page 7:
Komatsu: Could you please go by yourself, Toriko-sa~~~n?
It's such a dangerous place.
Toriko: Why!!? What the hell did you think we came together for!!?
I told you didn't I? I need your power!!
If we don't capture it together, there's no point!!
Komatsu: What do you think, Melk-san?
Melk: Mm.
Well no matter the circumstances, there would be a great danger to you, Chef Komatsu...
Komatsu: Yeah!! There would, right!?
Toriko: Komatsu, don't tell me, you...
wanna see Melk's working style, so...
you wanna stay behind?
Komatsu: It... It's no... nothing like that...
Noooothing like that.
(On Page): Ehe ehehe...
Toriko: I see... Got it.
Then, Komatsu...
Your "kitchen knife"... [Kitchen knife in bold]
let me hold onto it...!
Komatsu: Eh?
Knife...!?

Page 8:
Toriko: Yeah... you still have one that's not broken, right?
The one you're always carrying around...
Komatsu: ..........
I... I have one, but...
Toriko: The knife you say is also your "life"... [Life in bold.]
I'll take it with me...
Komatsu: Wh... Why...?
My knife...?
Toriko: Collateral.
So if something happens to me, you'll also sarifice something equivalent to your life.
Komatsu: Eeeeh? What's with that!!?
Toriko: I'm kidding.
Huhu, we're a combo, ain't we?
Wherever we go, our hearts are together!
...and also
This'll be a good "division of labor"... I know that right now.
You have more important work...!
Komatsu: ?
Toriko: But.......
SFX: Oooo

Page 9:
Toriko: Komatsu, who usually always jumps at the chance to see rare ingredients in their native environment...
has got quite an interest in Melk's work.
Well... That's probably good for Melk, too...
I guess that means this time my partner is this knife...
SFX: Su...
Now then...
This "Heavy Hole".
SFX: GOOOOO
Now if I were Komatsu with all his observational skills, where would I cautiously move towards...?
The scenery Komatsu, with his ability to hear ingredients, sees is...
naturally different than mine...
People in the position of having no true power obviously move with extreme caution.
So I guess I'll move like Komatsu is always by my side...!

Page 10:
SFX: TAH OOOO
SFX :GYARIAAAAN
Komatsu:UWAAH!!
Are these all kitchen knives, Melk-san!?
Melk: Yes, they are.
They're knives with sharpening requests given by cooks from all over the world.
Usually it comes to around 100 knives a day...
Komatsu: Hyah, 100 knives!!?

Page 11:
Komatsu: Hieee. So that's why my knife won't be for three years, huh?
If you get this many in one day...
Melk: Huhu...
From looking at the knives I can get a good idea of whose they are...
Komatsu: Eh, really!?
F... For example, this one...
Who on earth dos this knife giving off such a stately shine belong to...?
Melk: That's the kitchen knife Chef "Lulubhu" of "Guts" uses.
Komatsu: Gu...
Gugu... Guts!!?
On the top floor of "Gourmet Tower"!! The 7-star traditional Japanese restaurant setup on the 312th floor, "Guts"!!?
This is the knife the owner chef, Mr. Lulubhu useeeeees~~!!?
Komatsu: Ooo... it's awe-inspiring...
To have in my hand the knife of such a charismatic chef...
Melk: By the way, this is "Mogura"'s Chef Yuuji's knife. [Yuuji in bold.]
TL Note: Mogura is made up of the kanjis "soil" and "dragon" and it also means "mole".
Komatsu: Eh!!?
SFX: Soo...
Komatsu: The owner of the store located in "Gourmet Alley", the Gourmet lower town,
the 8-star hormone grill "Moguchi", Mr. Yuuji!!?
Sign: Gourmet Yokochou (Gourmet Alley)

Page 11:
Komatsu: These... These are all knives of super-famous people...
Just as you'd expect, there's a lot of trust in your sharpening, Melk-san...
Melk: .............
Most of them are regular customers from the previous generation.
It's because of the fact that master used to always only directly face the knives...
He honestly never knew who his clients were and I don't think he particularly cared...
But I honestly do care...
What kind of chef uses such an excellent kitchen knife...?
SFX: ZABA
Melk: I even thought when I saw your broken knife, Komatsu...
Komatsu: Eh?
This Chef Komatsu who so dearly puts so much love into using this knife...
I wonder just what kind of person is he?
SFX: GOTO...

Page 12:
Melk: Do you think my interest in the people who use them
is a sign of a lack of concentration ability on my part?
Compared to the previous generation, maybe I'm still not fully fledged...
Komatsu: ..........
Th...
That's not so!
Cause, like I thought, kitchen knives... they really show lots of different idiosyncrasies of the user, don't they?
Melk: Master, he...
wanted nothing but
to make good knives...
SFX: SHUIN
Komatsu: ..........!!
Th... That sure is a beautiful knife~~.......
It already really... doesn't look like it needs sharpening...
Melk: .............

Page 13:
Melk: This knife is a sashimi knife used by the chef of the famous restaurant "Ouki".
TL Note: Ouki is made up of the kanjis "Fish" and "Strange"
Melk: It's a shop where a lot of handling of delicate specially prepared ingredients is done.
Just one thousandth of a millimeter of damage causes a big affect on cooking.
Komatsu: He~~~~~w
A crack I can't see with my eyes at all can...
Melk: The first-rate chefs don't sense it with their eyes, when they're handling ingredients they measure the existence or not of damage with the physical sensation.
...As do sharpeners-----
Komatsu: !

Page 14:
Melk: We sharpen not with our eyes,
but with the sounds and the tactile sensation.
Komatsu: A... Amazing...!!
It's really like Melk-san is glowing...

Page 15:
SFX: SHURIIIIII
Komatsu: Oh...
SFX: ZOKU
Komatsu: The sound came after...
Melk: Mm.
------Huu...
SFX: DOO
Komatsu: WAH.
What a huge amount of sweat----...

Page 16:
It's... It's like me...
When I'm concentrating on difficult cooking, the moment I come out of it I'm covered with sweat...
For this level of waterfall-like sweat to gush out
with just that "one scrape"... [One scrape in bold]
It must have been something for which Melk-san honed and concentrated all of the nerves in his body...
Melk: There... Done...
Huhu, though if it were Master...
he would've had this totally sharp without dripping a bead of sweat...
Komatsu: ...........
Th...
That gave me goosebumps, Melk-san!!
It was amazing!!
I'm awestruck!!
Melk: R... Really...?

Page 17:
Komatsu: Seeing the greatest "sharpening" in the world
has given me the greatest happiness in the world!!
Melk: O... Okay.
Th... Thank you...
Komatsu: B... But the truth is, it was so blindingly fast
that I couldn't even see if anything happened...
Melk: Yeah, with that one just now...
The sharpening speed depends on the knife quality and intended use... As well as the kind of grindstone.
Then it also varies on the user's peculiarities.
Komatsu: EEEH?
It's really like to see one that's done slowly! [heart]
Melk: Sure,
of course!
Komatsu: UHIH
Hyoh
The goose bumps just keep coming~~
HYA~~~~
Melk: H-Hold up, Chef Komatsu, quiet down a little.
Komatsu: AH, sorry. [AH is big.bold]
SFX: SUHYUN SUHYU SUHYU

Page 18:
SFX: GOGOGOGO
SFX: ZUN
Toriko: Uoh...
Ku...
...Yes, this is it...
It's still not at the level of the Gourmet World, but... my body's gotten heavier...
I'm gonna have to get used to it being difficult to move like this.
Looks like with how this is going, I couldn't have brought Komatsu with me with no equipment...
I guess I've gone down about 10,000 meters now.
Toriko: Descending is a lot more essential to this than I thought.
It's actually probably more of a pain than it would be to climb this distane...

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Toriko: And also...
There's a clear smell of wild beasts in the air...
Coming from these holes in the wall----
SFX: GOGOGO
Toriko: *Twitch*
Something's...
coming...!!
SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
Side: Determination renewed!
Toriko: Interesting...
In the "Gourmet World" I panicked without even knowing what was going on...
But now it's different!!
SFX: GOGOGOGO
Toriko: Whether it's a demon or a serpent, come at me from any direction...!!
SFX: PAKI
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 118
/ End
Next issue, breaking into "Heavy Hole"!
What "wonder" confronts Toriko!?