Toriko 147

Ok, maybe next week. I'm waiting on other people...

[Toriko 147 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
SFX: SHAKU
SFX: SU...
Toriko: AAAAAAH
Side Text: The taste of the shocking apple gotten last time is...!?
Toriko: -----Mm
SFX: SHUKU
SFX: SHAKU
SHAKU
SHAKU
SHAKU
TorikO: YUUUUM!!
Just as it's name says!
Its deliciousness is surprising!!
Title: Toriko

Page 2:
SFX: JIIIKO JIIIIKO
Toriko: See, that "Surprise Apple" I picked sometimes has a profuse sourness to it.
(In Bubble): But by how it looked, it seemed like it was a profuse speaker.
Toriko: If you put some "Sherberapple" on it, it makes it taste more refreshing and balances out the taste well.
TL Note: Sherberapple = Sherberingo
Asterisk: Kanagawa Prefecture's Penname 綾-san's work!
Signs: Sweet, soft bean-jam, tea, shaved ice
Komatsu: It sure is delicious~~
(On Page): It feels like my cheeks are gonna droop off my face
Komatsu: Putting adzuki beans on it makes it delicious, too, Toriko-san.
Ah, how about some beer, Toriko-san? ["Ah" is big.]
Toriko: Oh, could we make it sake? ["Oh" is big.]
Komatsu: Excuse meee, one sho bottle of sake and an apple juice, please!
Toriko: You're adding more apple?!
............

Page 3:
Toriko: So what is all this, Komatsu? You started being so thoughtful all of a sudden.
You look happy about something...
Komatsu: Eh?
D... Did you figure it out~~?
(On Page): Dehehe...
Toriko: Did something good happen?
(On Page): And your face looks creepy, man.
Komatsu: W... Well you see...
Waitress: Thank you for waiting.
Komatsu: Ah!
..........
Toriko: What is it already? C'mon, spit it out.
SFX: BEBEN BEBEN
Komatsu: Well, you see, I...
won...
Toriko: Won?
Won what?
Komatsu: I'll just say it...!
The "Gourmet Jumbo Lottery"!! ["Gourmet Jumbo Lottery" in white.]

Page 4:
Top Insert: ☆Every Sunday at 9 on Fuji TV
The TV Anime is airing exploding with food!!
In the episode airing on the 10th, Sani gets super-serious!!
Don't miss the hair battle!!
Insert Text: What will be the next pray...!?
Toriko
Title: Gourmet 147 Chiger Egg!!
Lower Insert: ☆With a nua~~n, applications are now being taken for wild beasts to appear in original episodes of the TV anime!!
For details on how to submit, go to the TV anime official site!
-> http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/toriko/
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi
Komatsu: Hey, when you say "Gourmet Lottery",
you mean the super-generous lottery with the first prize of 10 billion yen?
That's incredible, Komatsu!
Komatsu: Y... Your voice it EXTREMELY loud, Toriko-san.

Page 5:
Toriko: Haha. I guess the "Gourmet Shrine" we went to really did its job, huh?
Komatsu: N-Naw... Well, maybe my luck increased since then.
Toriko: ....So?
How much did ya win?
Komatsu: Ok, but don't be shocked when you hear it...
Somehow I got "8th prize"...
Of 1 million yen!!
Toriko: E... Eighth...?
That's low...
Komatsu: It... It is not low! It's 1 million yen! 1 million!!
Toriko: It is low! The 8th prize...? I guess in a way, I'm surprised!
Komatsu: This would even make the "Surprise Apple" pretty surprised!!
O... oh, right... I guess for you, Toriko-san, 1 million isn't that much but...
1 million is big money! When I took it, my hands were shaking...
Toriko: Ah, is that right...?
Yeah, a million's big money. Be careful how you use it.
Komatsu: U... Um... Toriko-san...
Then how about this...?

Page 6:
Komatsu: Today... uh... as thanks for what you always do...
I could treat you to a meal...?
Toriko: Eh, What?
You're treating, Komatsu?
Komatsu: Ah... yes, I mean you're always treating me, so...
So at least when I've got an extra buck, I could...
Toriko: Sounds great!
And I've got just the thing I want right now!
Komatsu: Eh...?
Something you want...?
Toriko: Yeah...
"land".
Komatsu: L...
Land...!!?
I... I can't do that... land...!!?
I can't buy that with 1 million yen!!
Toriko: ..........
Is that right...?
Komatsu: Toriko-san... Did you start buying and selling land at some point...?
Or is this actually a place you'd like to live?
Just how large is this area exactly...?

Page 7:
Toriko: Just "1 tsubo". ["tsubo" is bold.]
TL Note: A tsubo is 3.95 square yards, 3.31 square meters.
Toriko: There's a really good plot of land on the market right now.
Komatsu: ............
One...
Tsubo?
Hah
Narrator: A few days earlier----
Komatsu recalled there was a news article about a certain plot of land going up for auction
and the Gourmet News was treating it as a top story.
That it was in the center of a huge wasteland,
a "field" of just one tsubo----
and that its minimum value was
"10 billion yen"----!!
Komatsu: To... Toriko-san, you don't mean...
That...
Inside the giant duralumin case...

Page 8:
Toriko: Hm?
The chicken with an appearance like a tiger...
As is reflected in its name, bird beast *Chiger.
TL Note: Chiger = Niwatora. A pun on Niwatori and Tora.
The "egg" from which it is born is a super-high class ingredient.
The Chiger will absolutely only lay its egg in a place of its liking...
And that place it chooses is that field of land...
Komatsu: S... So that's why that plot of land has such an extraordinary price?

Page 9:
Toriko: It's nickname is the "Tsubo of Wealth"----
The owner is an old man named "Yocchi", but he's a pretty stubborn old man. ["Yocchi" in bold.]
Up until now, prestigious Gourmet Real Estate speculators and extremely wealthy people
Have been trying
repeatedly to buy out the land, but they’ve fallen
completely on deaf ears...
Apparantly the old man even turned leaders of the IGO away at the gate.
Komatsu: Then why do you think he's still never let go of that valuable land?
Toriko: I dunno...
Well, we can ask him in person.
Let's go visit old man Yocchi.
Menu: Menu 11.
"Chiger Egg"
Guy: Here...
I have 50 billion.

Page 10:
Yocchi: That's nothing!!
50 billion...
That's way too low, forget it!!
Pheh!!
SFX: KUKIIIIIIH
Guy: I still have more prepared.
If you could just tell me how much money you would like...
Yocchi: Get out of heeere!!
And don't come back! Not without 1 septillion!!
Somebody: It looks like even 50 wasn't enough...
It's not even an auction at this point.
It's like he's raising the price no matter how much anybody bids.
Toriko: Oh.
They're holding it.
It wasn't already sold, was it?
People: Ah, it's Toriko!
It's Bishokuya Toriko!
Toriko: Can I go in?
Guy: G... Go ahead....
Though it'll probably end up a waste of time...
Toriko: Hm?

Page 11:
Toriko: Hello----
Komatsu: E... Excuse the intrusion~~...
Heeh...
It seems kind of simple for a rich land baron...
I was sure he'd be living in a luxurious mansion...
Toriko: Oah!!
This smell is...!!
SFX: SUN SUN (sniff sniff)
Guy: !
Hmm...?
Toriko: So this is it...!!?
This is the smell of the Chiger egg.
Komatsu: Eh, you can smell it, Toriko-san?
Guy: ..........
......Hoh...
You've got a good nose on ya...
Yer... Bishokuya Toriko, ain't ya?
Toriko: Nice to meet ya, old man Yocchi.
I came here today to buy your plot of land, but...
more... import...antly...
I'd really like to eat that "egg"!! ["Egg" in white.]
It's mild but, it's a supple strong smell!! I can't take it!!
Komatsu: Eh, I'd like to try that egg too~~~~[heart]
Yocchi: .........

Page 12:
Person: It's mild, but it has a strong supple flavor...
It's truly delicious...
Yocchi: ............
Hmph.
It's really been a while.
Since I've seen someone who genuinely wants the egg...
All everybody who comes hear wanting the "land" wants is to make money.
Even Miiko the Chiger and that egg...
They all just want them so they can make money.
Toriko: ..........
Miiko?
Yocchi: Hup.
SFX: BAKI
Yocchi: Wanna...
have some "egg"!?

Page 13:
Toriko: Eh.
Old man Yocchi, you used to be a Bishokuya?

Page 14:
Yocchi: Yeah, but I retired from that way back in my youth.
Toriko: Might the whole taming of the "Chiger" and getting it to lay an egg have been your work, too, old man Yocchi?
Yocchi: Yep.
I found the a young chick in a field along time ago.
And that turned out to be a baby Chiger.
Toriko: You raised it from a chick!?
SFX: PII PII
Toriko: When "Chigers" grow to adulthood, they get violent and their Capture Level reaches no lower than 50.
They're pretty dangerous.
That's the reason nobody can take an egg from the "Tsubo of Wealth"...
Komatsu: ......Why would you raise a chick...
that would grow into something like that...?
Toriko: Guess you wanted the money after all, huh?
Yocchi: NOOO!! Watch your mouth, kid!!
SFX: ZUZU
Yocchi: It was because of what happened a year before that...
My wife passed away..
Toriko: !
Yocchi: It was back when I was still a full-blooded Bishokuya.

Page 15:
Yocchi: I was trying to cure my wife whom had fallen ill.
In those days I would work my ass off.
Trying to earn a lot in order to give my wife delicious food to eat
I took on every work request I got and immersed myself in finding ingredients...
But...
when I came back to reality, my wife's illness had worsened...
And when I came back home for the first time in awhile because of work...
it was already too late for her...
I'll never forget...
the words my wife squeezed out that day...
Wife: Rather than send...
so much money it could never run out...
I wish I could have...
shared a meal with him just one more time...
Yocchi: What had------

Page 16:
Yocchi: What had I done...
I'd just been going after money...
I'm...
The worst...
Toriko: You'd forgot that the means isn't the goal for a "Bishokuya",
that the most important thing is to not forget to enjoy the food...
Yocchi: ......When I thought back on it, the ingredient my wife liked was...
It's deplorable... I could only think of one thing...
That's the Chiger Egg...
My wife always looked so happy when she ate it...
And when I found the Chiger chick...
I thought it was "fate"...
Because the place I found it was...
the spot where my wife was resting.
I thought it was her reincarnated.
My wife's name was Miko... So I named the chick Miiko.
SFX: PII PII
Yocchi: And I decided to raise it......
And that this time...
This time I would dearly... dearly... never leave her, even for a moment...

Page 17:
Komatsu: So...
Even a violent Chiger got attached to you, huh...?
Yocchi: Haha... It's an old story from over 50 years ago, but... I'd retired from work to stay with the Chiger forever so
of course I had no income.
So I sold my land little by little until I was left with 1 tsubo.
Toriko: ..........
Land you held so precious...
Why are you trying to sell it this time?
Yocchi: It's simple...
Because I'm going to die soon, too.
Both: Eh!?
Toriko: Old man Yocchi... you're dying...!?
Yocchi: Huhu, don't be so surprised...
At my age, I know my life's almost at its end...
So I resigned myself to my fate and decided to hand it over to someone...
By the way, Toriko,
how much did you bring with you?
Toriko: We have... 1 million.
That Komatsu won in a lottery.
Komatsu: Eh...
No... Uh...
Guy: One...
One million!!?
Komatsu: D... Don't you have some in that suitcase you brought, Toriko-san?
(On Page): Money?
Toriko: Hm?
These are some souvenir apples from the old man.
Komatsu: E~~~H!?

Page 18:
Yocchi: Wahhahha!
That's a riot!!
Okay, I'll sell!!
I'll hand over my land to you two!!
Toriko: Eh!?
Really, Old man Yocchi!!?
Komatsu: B... But wasn't your lowest asking price... 10 billion?
Yocchi: Huhu... Yeah, guess so.
For those low bastards that only think about money, that is...
Komatsu: Eh...?
Yocchi: For me, right now money has no value to me.
People that get money just for the sake of getting money are even lower in my eyes...
Yocchi: ..........
Toriko...
Toriko: Hm?
Yocchi: The words you used to praise the egg...
Was the same thing my deceased wife said...
And for me, that......
has more value than anything...
For joy that money absolutely cannot buy...
Thank you...

Page 19:
Yocchi: How you guys...
use this land, I don't care...
Just one thing...
Once I'm dead and gone...
could you come once in a while to play with Miiko when she's lonely...?
SFX: ZAH
Komatsu: Ah!
SFX: PIII PIII
Narration: Now they could..
Komatsu: Amazing! She gave birth to a chick!
Toriko: Is this old man Yocchi reincarnated?
be together again...
Side: Feelings surround that food...
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 147
/ End
Next issue, a new development! What will be the next pray Toriko and Komatsu aim for......!?