Toriko 143

This... chapter... has... words...

[Toriko 143 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Toriko: Ch...
Chief Mansam!!!
Bureau Chief Ray!!!
Hm?
Insert Text: Some major players arrive!!
Bottom Insert: "Toriko"
Mansam: Youngster, did you just call me
handsome? [Obscured by the next bubble]
Ray: He did not.
Chief.

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Title: Gourmet 143 Living Explosives!!
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi
Insert Text: ☆Every Sunday at 9 on Fuji TV
The TV Anime is airing, exploding with food!!
On the 12th is the dash to Regal Island!!
The Obsaurus also makes its appearance~~!!
☆It's here~~! The Toriko PSP Game, "Toriko Gourmet Survival!" On page 16, a big present plan is now in operation!!

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Waiters: Ah... Two people at the IGO Bureau Chief class...
Wh... What on earth...
SFX: ZAWAWA... (muttering)
Guy: !?
SFX: NUH
Waiters: WAWAWA...
He... He's huge...!!
SFX: OOO...
Guy: We would like everyone but us...
to vacate the area.
Waiters: Y... Yes siIiIR!
Mansam: Toriko.
SFX: DODODODO
That creature you brought back with you... ["that creature" in italics.]
We'd like to take charge of it.

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SFX: SU...
SFX: GAPU
SFX: GYUUU
SFX: BACHIH SUPA SUPA BOH
Toriko: Huuuuu
Showing up all of a sudden like this...
what's going on here, Chief?
That creature...
do you know something about it?
Mansam: Well we need to take custody of it...
in order to find that out.
Ray: Rapp, secure it!
Rapp: Yes, sir.
It's in... the kitchen, yes?
Komatsu: Eh...
Ah...

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Zebura: Hold up, asshole.
Rapp: !
SFX: ZAH
Zebura: That thing's my prey.
Who the hell said it was okay for you to just take it?
Rapp: ..............
SFX: OOOO
Zebura: Say, who the hell are ya?
I'll kill you.
Mansam: Cut it out, Zebura.
You won't be able to win.
Zebura: Ah?
Mansam: He's "Rapp". ["Rapp" in white]
A staff member at the 0th Biotope.

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All :Z...
0th Biotope!?
Toriko: I thought the IGO "gardens" only went from 1st to 8th?
[WHO SAYS THE BIOTOPES ONLY GO FROM 1 TO 8!!!???]
Mansam: Only in the Human World. ["Human World" in italics.]
The 0th Biotope exists in the "Gourmet World". ["Gourmet World" in white.]
Komatsu: G...
Gourmet World...!?
There's an IGO "research facility" in the Gourmet World...!?
Mansam: You betcha.
And naturally, the ingredients they handle there are from the Gourmet World.
And he's one of their staff.
Toriko: In other words...
He's someone who's overcome the environment of the "Gourmet World"...
I didn't think there were people of that kind of true power still in the IGO...
Mansam: No,
they're not the IGO's people.

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Mansam: The people that work at the 0th Biotope are all the best of the best, a small elite chosen among private citizens. And when they're normally in the Human World they wear the face of other kinds of workers.
Their number is less than 20 in total, and they're all warriors personally referred by the "President"...
Among them is a person controlling the one road between the "Gourmet World" and the "Human World".
At the Wak Continent "Three-Way Road", just one man holds a turf war, holding back beasts that wander here from the Gourmet World. ["Three-Way Road" in bold.]
TL Note: The Three-Way Road (Sanzu no Michi) is based off a Buddhist concept of the three realms of suffering after death. The realms of hell, hungry ghosts (preta), and animals. I probably should've mentioned that earlier.
Mansam: The "Gourmet Gang Leader" "Guemon"...!! ["Guemon" in bold.]
TL Note: The kanjis in Guemon's name mean "Foolish" "Defense" and "Gate".
Toriko: !
The "Three-Way Road"...!? I'm pretty sure that's where Sani said he was going.
I wonder if he met that guy...?
Mansam: Among others, the "Saiseiya" "Yosaku" and "Sharpener" "Melk" are secretly staff members of the 0th. [The names are in bold.]

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Zebura: Whaa~~? Yosaku?
That cocky as hell Saiseiya?
SFX: PIKI
Mansam: Zebura, you know how strong Yosaku is, don't ya?
Zebura: Keh. I wanted the Old Man (the President) to save face, so I purposely got captured.
Mansam: Rapp's still young, but he's got quite some true power.
Zebura: Heh, is that right...?
I was thinking that next, I'd make sure that Saiseiya's own blood ["own" in italics]
got splattered all over him...
But this'll be fine.
You're gonna be my opponent instead.
I'll see how much true power you've got.
Okay? Come get me.
Rapp: ............
Heavenly King Zebura,
You are just the man the rumors describe you as...
Zebura: Is that right?
Rapp: Let us stop this.
I do not think I would get through it unscathed, either.
Zebura: ............
Honest, ain't 'cha.
The one telling lies...

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Zebura: Is you, Chief.
Mansam: When Toriko asked his question,
Toriko: That creature...
do you know something about it?
Zebura: You blood pressure and heart rate made your voice print blur a little...
Ray: Chief, please.
Mansam: ...Hmph.
Damn Hell Ears.
Toriko: Me and Komatsu even saw something like it once in the sky.
When I mentioned it to the Old Man, he just gave some random evasive answer...
SFX: DOBON DOBON
Toriko: Tell me.
What the hell are those things?
Mansam: I'll tell you, but even we only know a little about those guys.
Komatsu: E... Even a little... Please, you have to tell us...!!
Mansam: Huu...
Zebura, if we talk about this here and right now...
Zebura: Don't worry. There's nobody listening besides us.
Mansam: ............
Nitro...

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Mansam: Those things are called "Nitro" ["Nitro" in white]
They were discovered by Bishokushin Acacia about 600 years ago, and he gave them that name.
It's classification is unknown. It has no genitalia. It's method of reproduction is unknown.
The number of them is incredibly small, and their life span is maddeningly long.
It is unknown for how long they've lived on this earth, but
According to certain geologists, fossils similar to these guys were discovered in a rock layer dating back to hundreds of millions of years ago.
Komatsu: H... Hundreds of millions of years ago...!?
From the ancient time of the dinosaurs...!?

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Ray: The Nitro have several fearsome qualities about them.
The first is their "life force". ["Life Force" in bold.]
Their appetite is quite hearty to begin with, but
When they have a shortage of food, like if their habitat deteriorates,
they enter a state of dormancy and stopped metabolism called "cryptobiosis". And it is possible for them to sleep continuously in that state for thousands of years.
Narration: ■In the real world, there are animals called Tardigrades or "water bears" that go into "cryptobiosis" and come to a state of apparent death. In that time, they can endure temperatures from 150 degrees Celsius all the way down to -273 degrees, absolute zero. And they can even survive vacuums, dryness, 6000 atmospheres of pressure, and even radiation.
Box: Water Bear
Ray: There are actually records of idle Nitro found in rock layers several thousands of years old that have been given water which revived them.
Using this method it is within reason that the Nitro could repeat this from hundreds of millions of years earlier, and overcome danger that could cause them to face extinction.

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Toriko: I see... So the one in the pyramid was in "cryptobiosis", too...?
Komatsu: Hah.
Maybe...
Because I swung the Melk Kitchen Knife and the underground water from the desert got into the pyramid...
that guy was revived...
Mansam: The second fearsome point about them is their "ferocity". ["Ferocity" in bold.]
They have such a brutal and ferocious nature that they'll attack any formidable monster without hesitation.
That level of danger and the difficulty to handle them makes them just like the substance that will explode from just a slight stimulus, "nitro glycerine".
The reason Acacia named those creatures "Nitro" is because of that dangerousness.
Zebura: Hmph. From my perspective, they're perfectly sound.
Probably because all my prey lately's been too soft.
Ray: And third is...
Their high "intelligence". ["Intelligence" in bold.]
There is evidence that the Nitro, despite their few numbers, since ancient times have formed civilizations numerous times.
Even in the Gourmet Pyramid where our investigations are not complete, there are traces of their civilization.

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Toriko: High intelligence... huh?
It's true that...
that one in the sky who was able to imitate how to eat the "Ozone Herb" from seeing us do it just one time...
I could definitely say it was intelligent...
But back then, I didn't feel the "ferocity" that these guys are talking about...
Rapp: We are under the President's orders to observe the "Nitro" in the Gourmet World and came here in order to progress our research, but...
Here we have the Nitro's fourth fearsome point...
That is...
It's degree of "Gourmet". ["Gourmet" in white.]
People: G...
Gourmet!?
Ray: Simply the desire to seek out gourmet foods is naturally found in other animals, but...
The Nitro also possess the knowledge of how to cook them.
Coupled with that overwhelming appetite, their affinity to the gourmet now even surpasses us humans.
Komatsu: ----...! Th... That makes sense...
In the Gourmet Pyramid, I found some interesting wall paintings...
And...

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Komatsu: They had written on them the way to prepare and cook "specially cooked ingredients"... ["Specially cooked ingredients" in white.]
Box: Komatsu understood----
that that book was something left behind by that creature...
And at the same time, he was somehow able to understand the reason that Chief and the others had come.
That was because in that book,
there may be information that could lead to hints about that one great phantasmal ingredient...
And...
recipes that wound send chills down someone's spine...
The information that came out of the Chief's mouth at that instant
was concerning the latter.
Mansam: The truth is, since a few decades ago, in this "Human World"
along with sightings relating to the "Nitro", a certain event has been happening more frequently...
Acacia discovered the "Gourmet Cells" about 605 years ago...
Because of this, the quality of food suddenly rose dramatically.
And so in the Human World, where the skill of chefs was high originally, the amount of delicious cooking increased as well, but...

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Mansam: It seems they may want to even steal the skills of humans...
Cases of famous chefs have been kidnapped by the Nitro have been happening one after another...
Or else they simply...
want to cook the humans
and eat them...
Komatsu: Recipes that...
would send chills down your spine---!!
Ray: Even in the 0th Biotope in the Gourmet World, the isolation and observation of Nitro occurs, but
because of the "cryptobiosis" I mentioned earlier, the Nitro may suddenly appear in a place without any sign of it in advance,
and thus we, the Defense Bureau, cannot catch them all and hold them back.
By the way, in the "Gourmet Pyramid", besides the one you took all took down,
there was one other Nitro that came out alive...
And we still have not located it.
Toriko: What?
There was still another one?

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Ray: Komatsu-san, even you, as a head chef of a 6-star restaurant...
Please be careful.
Komatsu: Ah... Yes...
Mansam: For the time being, the kid is outside the top 100 in "World Chef Rank", so no need to be worried.
Toriko: Hey, Chief, Komatsu's talent's the top level!
Zebura: Keh.
So that's why you came to take back the sample corpse with you?
I don't get you, Chief. You're still hiding something, ain't ya?
Now hurry and spit it out or I'll fucking kill ya.
SFX: GOROGORO
Mansam: The "Bishokukai" is involved in this.
Toriko: !
The Bishokukai!?
Why are they...!?
Mansam: The Nitro are creatures that since ancient times have instinctually pursued delicious ingredients...
The Nitro...

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Mansam: Now the way to obtain "GOD". ["God" in white.]
Toriko: ------!!
Go...
GOD!!!!
Komatsu: The phantasmal ingredient!!!
Acacia's Main Dish!!!!
Ray: Chief, maybe that's enough.
Mansam: They'll find out sooner or later.
No matter what path we take, when that time comes the power of the Four Heavenly Kings will be needed.
The "Bishokukai" Boss "Midora" got his hands on that information early on. ["Midora" is big white and bold.]
TL Note: The kanji that make up Midora are "Three" and "Tiger".
Mansam: He's got food from all over the world under his thumb, so he uses that as bait to get close to the Nitro and get hints on how to acquire GOD...
The fact that the "GT Robo" look like Nitro is also for that reason...

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Mansam: We can be sure that the "Bishokukai" are already using the Nitro to progress with some battle plan.
And even if they're not, when the creatures known as the Nitro start to get vigorously active
That is proof that the "Gourmet Eclipse" is getting close. ["Gourmet Eclipse" in white]
...And also
That a Gourmet War will occur.
Toriko: If we get GOD...
and we share it with everyone, it'll be fine...
If we can do that, then there won't be a war!
I'll definitely make that happen...!!
Side: With renewed determination...!!
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 43
/ End
Next issue, a new chapter starts!! What will be the next ingredient Toriko goes after......!?