Toriko 338

[Toriko 338 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Jirou: Hmmmmm...?
What's this thing...?
Insert: Knocking Master Jirou encounters the creature that is devouring the world!!
Chi: Heh?!
Th...
That thing...
Title: 'Toriko'

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SFX: GABU
Guys: !!
Setsu: Jiro-chan!!
Jiro: Woah...
My back hurts...
Quite a shrewd one ya are...

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Jirou: Knockin'!!
SFX: URYU BARI
Thing: ..........
Jirou: It ain't stoppin'.
Narration: Jirou realized this in an instant----
Jirou: It's like the rotation of a giant planet.
The resistance is a furious energy
that's a real bitch to stop...
Not since one 'a the "Eight Kings" I thi~~nk
Narration: He established a provisional estimate of his opponent's physical strength.
SFX: BAH
Jirou: And the resurrected thing ["resurrected thing" in italics]
sensed the danger of the creature in front of it,
SFX: GUMU GUMU

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Narr: and changed its form----
Jirou: UNNUA!
SFX: GUMU GUMU
SFX: BOGON
Jirou: GAah
SFX: ZUN ZUN

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Jirou: KIIIiII
SFX: GIGIGI GIGIGIGI
Setsu: Don't hit the world with it, Jiro-chan!!
Jirou: Big Bang
SFX: DOH

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Title: Gourmet 338 Joa VS Midora!!
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi
SFX: DODODODODO
Insert: That form that so resembles his mother from long ago...

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Joa: Nice to meet you.
...Or actually, this isn't the first time we've met, is it?
Midora...
Narration: 0.01 Second
That is the amount of time Midora froze
from seeing Joa's appearance---
It was a slight trembling of emotion far off from what you could call being emotionally shaken.
That moment that could by no means be called an opening...

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Narr: Joa took advantage of
and attacked.
Joa: The "memories" of the Gourmet Cells...
have told us something.
Long ago, among gourmet ingredients, there once existed a prey...
that showed only a 0.01 second opening...
every 1 million years...
One would do nothing but wait, looking for that opening...
That instant that a human brain cannot even comprehend...

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Joa: That would be an extraordinary Capture Level
that you people of the IGO could not even measure, yes...?
By the way, Midora...
Do you perhaps recognize my face?
That mistake at the moment we faced each other...
was a fatal one, I'd say...
!
SFX: OOO
Midora: No...
I had the wrong person.
Joa: The attack...
didn't hit...

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SFX: PIKI
SFX: PARIN PARI PARI
Joa: !
SFX: ZAWA
Midora: The period in which you were attacking,
the full 0.01 seconds,
you were completely open...
I was able to take my time to launch a counterattack...
I see...
Those orbs were able to tale your place, were they...?
Joa: To be precise, these life orbs contain ["life orbs" white]
Food Spirits which act as the substitutes.
He destroyed 8 large-size ones at once...?
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA (Unease)

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Joa: Please calm down.
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA
Joa: It would be troubling
if this man...
went wild here and now...
Midora: Before I kill you,
let me ask you one thing.
Frohze's reincarnation is Joa...
You, correct?
Joa: Yes...
The one revived by Acacia's Full Course
and the hors d'oeuvre, Center, was me... ["center" in white]
SFX: MOKO

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SFX: ZABA
Midora: Acacia's hors d'oeuvre, Center...
made "Cure Water" well up to the surface of the ground...
I went there to draw that water many times...
Why is it that you, not Frohze...
received Frohze's body and was revived into this world...?

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Joa: Frohze's "soul"... Frohze herself refused to be revived.
Frohze feared the thing that lurked inside Acacia. ["The thing that lurked inside Acacia" in italics.]
It would seem that in the end, she could not approve of Acacia's goal.
Acacia gave up on Frohze and drew in my soul.
Midora: Where is Acacia?
Joa: What do you plan to do
once you find him?
Midora: I'll just ask...
what his goal is...
Joa: Acacia's goal is something absurdly simple.
To 'eat'----
We just want to discover yet-unseen "tastes"
by perusing the Gourmet Cells' "memories"... [quote bold]
We want to follow the cells' memories
and reach the place those cells seek.

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Joa: "The Farthest Land"----
Midora: What for?
Joa: What for?
I just told you.
To eat.
Right after most butterfly larvae hatch
they start to eat the egg shell they had been in.
That is because it is their first food "memory" which is etched into their DNA.
Memories also tell them what to eat next.
As well as where to go to eat it.
What stimulates them is their memories, which are appetite energy.
That appetite is the ultimate energy which dwells within Gourmet Cells.

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Joa: 13.7 billion years ago, one of the particles created with the birth of the universe was 'Gourmet Energy'.
That enormous explosion also called the "Gourmet Big Bag" was the 'birth of appetite'. [First quote white. Second quote bold italics.]
As that energy grew, before long it became the foundation for "Gourmet Cells". [quote white]
That foundation became Gourmet Cells which have told us [Gourmet Cells white]
their memories of forgotten foods
and tastes from an immeasurably long time in the past...
SFX: ZAWA
Joa: The appetite energy continues to grow even now.
It is a power that cannot stop...!!
That power itself is the "answer". The forever unchanging "truth"...!! [quotes bold]
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA
Joa: No emotions!!
They are not needed!!
All there is is "appetite"!! [quote bold]
Understand? This world...
is simply 'If you're hungry, then eat'!!
It is only humans which cause other things...!!
You cannot let your emotions take control of you
like that foolish woman that held Acacia back, Midoraaa!
You idiot.

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Midora: ......
That...
Foolish woman...?
Joa: Damn.
You said too much..
I told you to keep quiet...
Midora: Are you talking...
about Frohze?

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Joa: ..........
"Eating" is our goal...
and it's yours, too, isn't it?
Midora...?
Then why don't we go together
to the place our cells seek?
Moving as that unshakable thing, appetite, dictates.
I venture to say...
that I believe that is what Frohze wanted, as well.
Midora: ......
Don't get the wrong idea.
I am not getting emotional or anything like that...
However...
I will say one thing.
You people have long ago...
stepped on...

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Midora: the tiger's tail.
SFX: ZUH
Guys: !!
Teppei: This is bad.
Joa: Hmph.
SFX: DOPU
Joa: Tokage----

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Midora: Meteor Spice!!!
Insert: A direct attack on NEO headquarters----!!
SFX: KAH
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 338
/ End
Midora's rage pours down.
Can he prevent the revival?!