Toriko 122

[Toriko 122 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Melk: See here? This rock...
it's called a "Speaker Stone"... [Speaker Stone in bold.]
Side: The first generation explains the truth!!
It's a miraculous stone that can be harvested from the vocal chords of a *"Stone Condor". [Stone Condor is big/bold.]
Asterisk: *Zafu Prefecture's 井町侑久-kun's work!
Melk: It has the effect of magnifying nearby sounds many times over.
This guy here's a "Scorpion Demon Bull"...
A rare species that has lived in this cave since long ago...
Scorpion: Aa...
Melk: This guy's still a kid, but he's already got unrivaled strength for this "Heavy Hole".
If you'd fought him as you are now, there's no way you could've handled him.
Toriko: J... Just what are you doing..
in this place...
Title: "Toriko"

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Melk: I'm doing a certain very important job here.
"Scorpion Demon Cattle" are very intelligent, so... I was able to tame him.
And he's kept watch for me to make sure no one interferes with my work...
Toriko: Im...
Important...
Job...
What on earth...
is it...?
SFX: GOGOGOGO
SFX: GOGO
SFX: GOGO
Toriko: The stone! Use it, please!!
SFX: GONIYORI!

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Title: Gourmet 122 The "Real" Melk!!
Toriko
Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi
Komatsu: Me... Melk-san...
you're undeniably a real sharpener!!!
Side: Komatsu's big objection to the 2nd's negativity!!
Melk: Che...
Chef Komatsu......

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Komatsu: Th... Things like you being a woman...
or whether or not you're strong...
don't matter, do they!!?
The previous generation is the previous generation!!
And Melk-san is Melk-san!!
Melk: .............
But...
Komatsu: The last generation might have been amazing, getting all his materials for knives by himself, and all, but...
Melk-san,
I don't think you should be trying...
to be him!!
Melk: .............
Komatsu: And more than anything else...
it's an undeniable fact that you've...
made first class "kitchen knives", isn't it, Melk-san!!? [kitchen knives is bold/white]

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Melk: -------...
SFX: GUIH
Melk: ......
At...
At first...
I thought he would be right back...
Just like always----
But...
No matter how long I waited......
Master never came back...
But even without him there...
the requests for sharpening didn't stop coming...
And I...
started to have...
one major worry...

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Melk: Did something...
happen to Master----!?
Could it be true...?
Even to master who was so strong...
SFX: BAH
Melk: And once again...
I lamented my own lack of power......
I could not get close...
to the place Master was going to...
All that...
I could do was...
Until Master returned...
to protect the name of "Melk"...!! [Melk in white/bold]
The "faith" in Master's knives...
using the sharpening skills I had learned up until that point...
I could not let it be lost----!!

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Melk: ..............
But...
Pochiko...
always
stood there like that, waiting for Master to return...
Animals sure are honest, aren't they?
I wasn't good enough for her...
And with them not being Master's knives...
the cooks who have been sending the requests, probably really...
aren't satisfied...
Komatsu: ..........
Melk-san...
Would it be all right...
if I borrowed a few knives?
Melk-san...?
Melk: Eh?

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Komatsu: And the ingredients in the basement refrigerator,
could I borrow those?
SFX: Tattatta
SFX: Tottatta
SFX: GAPAA
Komatsu: One of these...
and this...
Mm...
And one of these.
And this...
Melk: .............

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Komatsu: An "Eight-Color Pointed Carver" and a "Power Vegetable Knife"...
And also a "Revitalizing Meat Cleaver"... And of course, I'll need a "Thousand Virtues Knife"...
That and...
TL Note: Eight-Color Pointed Carver = Hasshoku Deba, Power Vegetable Knife = Power Nakiri Bouchou, Revitalizing Meat Cleaver = Sosei Gyuutou
SFX: ZAKUH
SFX: ZAKU ZAKU ZAKU SAKU ZAKUH ZAKU ZAKUH
SFX: ZUGAN
SFX: SU... SU...
SFX: BASHUUUUU KAH KAH
SFX: KOTO KOTO
SFX: JYUUUU
SFX: HOKU HOKU

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Komatsu: Come on, Melk-san!! [Come on is written big.]
Let's eat!!
SFX: ZUDOOOOON!!
SFX: HOKU HOKU
Melk: !!
Th...
This is...
Chef Komatsu...
Komatsu: How about first,
we have a hearty meal!?
Toriko: Okay...
Now it should be fine...

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Toriko: Now,
Melk: .............
Toriko: You can go ahead and say as much as you want.
First Generation Melk.
Melk: Huhu...
You're just the man "Ryuu-san" described, Toriko...
Toriko: Huh? Well I dunno what the old man said about me, but...
I'm actually quite surprised about you, you're nothing like what I expected, Melk.
Melk: Now what you expected...?
Toriko: I heard you were a silent and shy person, but
now it looks like you talk quite a bit...
Melk: Huhu, I've always talked a lot... I think it's just because of my appearance...
I tend to get ignored by those around me a lot, for some reason... Huhu.
Toriko: ......Eh?
............
You get... ignored?
N... No, could it be...?
Um, Melk-san...
Melk: Hm?
Toriko: That "stone"...
How long have you been using it?

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Melk: This is something I found quite recently.
When I use it it makes the "Scorpion Demon Bull" move very quickly.
Toriko: I knew it----
This guy isn't silent or shy or anything...
His voice is just so tiny that nobody could hear him, isn't it!?
S... So that's why the second was so uneasy...
Melk: Mu?
The Second?
SFX: Haa...
Melk: Toriko, you met my daughter...?
How is she? How's her work?
Huhu... Isn't she amazing?
It's incredible, six years ago when that girl was just 15...
she had sharpening skills no different than mine... Huhu, that girl's a genius!
Toriko: Daughter... huh?
Melk......
Um, six years ago...
what did you say to the Second before you came here?
Melk: Hm?
I told her I was coming here, but...
Toriko: To mine a whetstone?
Melk: No...

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Melk: I took a request for a knife from Ryuu-san...
For salad from "Bishokushin Acacia"'s "Full Course" Menu, called "Air",
to make a knife to handle it.
When I received that request, I actually decided to retire.
For that knife, you needed to use a large amount of "Melk Stardust"......
And on top that, it requires many long months until it's finished.
Toriko: Melk Stardust----...
Melk: That knife is most likely...
going to be my life's final work.
Toriko: ............
Does the second generation...
does your daughter know all of this?
Melk: Of course. I explained all of it to her in detail.
And also...

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Melk: I said "I entrust to you the title of 'the Second'".
to her!!
Toriko: .........
I don't think she could hear any of that.
Melk: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!?
(In Bubble): Why!?
Toriko: Because you've got such a quiet voice.
Melk: H... How could this happeeeen!!?
Toriko: The Second Generation Melk...
That's why from the beginning, she seemed reserved somehow...
And that's why I didn't sense the bold spirit and calmness of a first-class artisan.
Though she may have the skills...
She didn't think she was entrusted to be the "Second Generation"...
So she was never able to gain perfect confidence...
Melk: Haaah... Were those times when she was little and I thought she was being playful and affectionate...
all her actually trying to hear what I was saying...?
(In Bubble): Tohoho
Toriko: .............
But now, here...

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Toriko: I can't ask him that much...
I can't get in the way of the greatest and final work of his life...
The one to plant confidence in the second................
I'm counting on you,
Komatsu!!
Toriko: ...But don't worry...
Your daughter has been doing fine work...
Melk: R... Really!?
Toriko: Yeah.
Somehow or other, she's being
an incredible second generation!
By the way, Melk
SFX: HOH
Toriko: I have a reason for coming here, but
the "Second" also wanted that... ["That" in italics.]
and also I have a request from the old man...
Melk: Huhu... Yeah, I've heard.
Come with me, I'll show you.
The location of the "Melk Stardust"...!!

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SFX: Kacha
SFX: Mogu mogu
Melk: D...
Delicious!
Komatsu: I'm glad.
It's Lily Oyster Chahan
TL Note: Lily Oyster Chahan (Chinese Fried Rice) = Yuri Gaki Chahan
Melk: Heeeh... I never knew Lily Oysters had such a strong flavor.
Komatsu: If you handle them with their shells closed, using a small opening, then the taste gets better.
I couldn't have prepared this without your original "Black Small Pointed Carving Knife". [Black Small Pointed Carving Knife in bold.]
TL Note: Black Small Carveing Knife = Kuro Kodebana Bouchou
Melk: !
Komatsu: Try some of this, too.

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SFX: Suku...
SFX: MOMU MOMU
Melk: Amazing! It doesn't have the smell of Smoke Jellyfish at all!!
Komatsu: Cutting at a fixed speed with the "Revitalizing Meat Cleaver" you made, none of the smell escapes.
For this, I used your original masterpiece, the "Rebellion Chinese Chef's Knife".
And this one, too. Without your original "Infinite Paring Knife" I couldn't make it.
TL Note: Smoke Jellyfish = Smoke Kurage, Rebellion Chinese Chef's Knife = Ran Chuuka Bouchuu, Infinite Paring Knife = Mugen Petty Knife
Komatsu: This is the kitchen knife work of art, "Plumage Usuba Knife"...
This is the knife boasting the greatest sharpness in the world, the "Single Blade Sashimi Knife". [All the knife names are in bold.]
TL Note: Plumage Usuba Knife = Hagoromo Usuba, Single Blade Sashimi Knife = Ittou Yanagiba
This is...
SFX: BORO...
Komatsu: Melk-san...

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Komatsu: Every one of these...
are cooking that could ONLY be done with the knives you made, Melk-san. [Only in italics.]
Even if you search the whold world...
the only ones that can cut this way...
are "Melk Kitchen Knives"... ["Melk Kitchen Knives" is white]
Melk-san...!!
I think the "faith" people had in the previous generation...
hasn't been lost by you at all!!
Famous chefs all over the world
have always held it since long ago!!
And still do...!!

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Komatsu: Melk-san, you are without a doubt...
upholding the name of "Melk Kitchen Knives"!!
Side: There was real proof, among the cooking, tongues, and words-----
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 122
/ End
Next issue, will the Stardust finally be gotten!?
And how will Komatsu's knife be made!?