Toriko 121

This chapter is so awesome I can't describe it.

[Toriko 121 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
insert: The boss of the earth's depths has come!?
SFX: OOOO
Title: "Toriko"
Description: *Scorpion Demon Cattle (Sasori Magyuu)
(Mammal Beast)
Capture Level 53
Scorpion Demon Cattle: Aa...
Asterisk: *Yamagata Prefecture's 阿部祐太郎-kun's work!
Toriko: ...You look strong...
After all, you're the master of this Heavy Hole place, aren't you...?
Under this gravity----
How long can I fight this guy...!!?

Page 2:
Toriko: Now, it's on----!!!
OoaA
SFX: GATA GATA GATA
Toriko: Ah?

Page 3:
Toriko: What's wrong?
Getting so scares so quickly?
Don't tell me you're that much of a fraidy-cat, right?
No----...
In this environment the gravity's nearly 5 times that of the surface...
Is my body already even more trained than I imagined...?
That a guy at this level...
could be frightened by my intimidation...
SFX: Biku
A beast scent----!!
No, that's not it-------!!
The one who this guy's scared of
isn't me!!

Page 4-5:
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Middle Insert: A manly warrior appears in the depths of the earth!?
Toriko: !!!
OwaaAaA
A!!!
SFX: GOOOOOOO
Title: Gourmet 121 The Two Melks!!
Toriko
Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi

Page 6:
SFX: GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO
SFX: GOGOGO
[Melk's lines are just little squiggles]
Toriko: His voice is tiny!!

Page 7:
Toriko: Eh?
What?
You could hear what he said just now!?
And you actually understood it!?
SFX: BABAH BISHI
Toriko: H... Hey, where're you going!?
Y... You...
SFX: DOKA DOKA
Toriko: No way...
are you...
Sharpener Melk?
SFX:GOGOGOGO
Toriko: His voice is so tiny!!

Page 8:
Toriko: ............
SFX: GONYO GONYO
Toriko: Aw man, what the hell!!
SFX: GONYO GONYO
Toriko: I don't have any idea what he's saying!!
SFX: GONYORI
SFX: GOSO... GOSO GOSO...
Toriko: He took out a rock and he's blabbing away about it---
SFX: GONYO GONYO GONYO
Toriko: What the hell!? Is he emitting ultasonic waves?
Dammit. If only someone like Zebura were here... [Italics on Zebura. AWWWW YEAAAH.]

Page 9:
Toriko: No waait!!
Hang on a minute!!
Why're you waving goodbye!?
You're the first generation Melk, right!?
I'm totally sure, it's you!!
I came here having some business with you!!
Melk: .............
Toriko: Yeah?
What, what?
What?
Could you speak loudly?
Melk: ............
SFX: BITA
Toriko: Hm?
SFX: DODODODO

Page 10:
Scorpion: AAAAH!!
Toriko: OWAAH, WHAT THE!?
(Small in bubble): He came back.
Toriko: !

Page 11:
Melk: A-----
A-----
Toriko: !!
His voice got bigger---!?
Melk: ............
...and so, it's like I said before...
So long.
Toriko: No, no, noo!!
HANG ON!
I told you, I didn't catch a thing you said before!!
One more time!!
Just one more time from the beginning!!
Please, from where you introduced yourself!!
And hey, what is that!? What stone that makes your voice louder!!?
And also, what the hell is that wild beast!?
I've got a ton of questions to ask!!

Page 12:
Komatsu: Eh?
Melk-san...?
SFX: KACHA
SFX: Zu...
Melk: Aah.
Delicious.
That really warmed me up, Chef Komatsu.
Komatsu: ............
......Wa....
Was that you're not the second generation...
true... Melk-san?

Page 13:
Melk: .........
To be exact...
Whether I was made his "disciple"...
was never exactly defined.
Komatsu: Eh...?
Melk: Originally, I...
Was just a body who had been left in the middle of nowhere, dying deep in the mountains..
And I was picked up by Master...
Having been abandoned as a child...
He found me by coincidence, took me in, and raised me...
At that time, Master was feared as "Ogre Melk"...
so no one in the world would believe he would take in a baby and raise her, but...
But I felt it...
I was the only one in the world who felt...
"Ogre Melk"'s...
love----

Page 14:
Komatsu: A...
A foster parent...
Melk: ...Natural, isn't it? For a child to take an interest in their "parent"'s work...
Only Master never let me into his workshop while he was working...
because of all the dangerous tools in his workshop...
But that just made me even more interested in Master's work.
And I secretly peeked in on the workplace a lot...
And once when I silently went in on my own...
And there was an accident...
Thinking back on it now----
I was glad...
Back then when I was so young, I was scared of blades...
and....
I was able to know beauty...
I stopped crying really soon...
and I saw that kitchen knife...
And starting then, Master...
little by little started to let me watch his work...

Page 15:
Melk: Master's sharpening was so strong...
and it had such brilliant intensity...
I was gradually being...
enraptured with knife sharpening...
Komatsu: So......
So you also took the "path of sharpening"...?
You had a wonderful master-student relationship, didn't you?
Melk: No... Master was the silent type, he never said anything...
At first, he never taught me anything...
Most of my sharpening and blacksmith skills, I only took from watching him...
Honestly, every year, nearly a hundred people came
trying to be taken on as disciples to master, but...
Not one person lasted even three days.
Komatsu: Th... Three days...!?
Melk: Master is essentially a silent and shy person, but...
The biggest problem keeping Master doing all his work alone was the supplying of materials for knives.
Because of the intensity of it, no one could come with him...

Page 16:
Melk: So I thought...
I had to become stronger...!!
Anyhow, if I didn't become strong...
I won't be able to become a first class sharpener like Master...!!
Komatsu: .............
Melk-san...
Toriko: Melk, I don't think...
you've got that much raw power...
Melk: We're going outside...!!
Right now...!!
Komatsu: So...
So that's why you're...
fixated over "strength"...
Melk: It was more important to me than anything...
Strength is "proof" of being the second generation...!!
.
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Melk: In order to wipe away the weakness within me...
I even threw away the fact that I was a woman...
...But that was...
just a short-lived resistance...
After all, my body is that of a woman's...
Someone strong like Master...
a stong, sturdy sharpener, I could not become.
Komatsu: I...
I don't understand...
Melk: !
Komatsu: As the "second generation", Melk-san...
you've done incredible work, haven't you...!!?

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Melk: I have yet to once...
receive recognition from Master...
I only took it upon myself to call myself the "second generation'...
I'm sorry, Chef Komatsu...
It's just like Toriko said...
I'm a fake...
Komatsu: That is not true!!!
You're "the real thing"!!!!
Melk: Eh?

Page 19:
Toriko: Ooh...
A... Awesome...
Side: This is where legends are born!!
SFX: GOGOGOGO
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 121
...End
Next issue, the shocking truth told by the first generation!!
And what is the legendary "technique"...!?