Toriko 342

[Toriko 342 Translation by Kewl0210]
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SFX: GUJURU GUJURU
Side: That day-----
SFX: GUJURU GUJURU
Description: *Rock Mimic
(Crustacean Beast)
Capture Level 2700
Asterisk: *Mie Prefecture Penname Uretsu-san's work!!
SFX: SHUBABA
Title: 'Toriko'

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SFX: ZAH
Narration: 2 years earlier----
Gourmet World
SFX: HYUOOO

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Tori: Over there, huh?
SFX: BAH
Narration: He was frantic...
Concentrating harder than he ever had before
Toriko raised his sense of smell, already specialized to begin with, to its limit.

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Narration: It easily
illuminated his destination for him.
Toriko: Here I come,
Komatsuuuuu!
Narration: Toriko...
did not seem to even fully realize it himself.
In the year and a half
from when he had left Human World when he brought back Komatsu...

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Narration: he was constantly
releasing his most powerful aura...
When he inhaled, information from all over the world became "scent" and poured into his mind.
It was so bewildering that he had to put plugs in his nose when he was resting or he couldn't sleep.
His feelings of protecting Komatsu at risk to his life...
prevented Toriko from selecting dangerous routes...
However, Toriko and Komatsu did not always pass through safe zones...
Many of the powerful beasts in Gourmet World
avoided Toriko...

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Later on, Midora...
spoke about Toriko as he was then... ["as he was then" in italics.]
Midora: If...
If at that time...
I had not simply handed the youngster over...
what do you think would have happened, Star?
Star: ...
Midora: He would have been taken by force, yes...?
Huhu...
Even I may have not gotten through that unscathed...
Not against that man as he was then...

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Midora: That is the level of drive...
and resolve I sensed...
Though I can't say for how much the man himself was aware of it...
Star: ..........
That is...
Nothing more than lip service...
Midora-sama...
Someone: No one could have blamed me for giving such an answer...
I had actually fought Toriko half a year before then, after all...
SFX: GOGOGO
Midora: But now... I can tell quite clearly...!!
Though they were half flattery...
Midora-sama's words were not false...

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Star: This is...
the Toriko... that Midora-sama had commended back then!!
Insert: Unlimited Potential!!
Title: Gourmet 342 Toriko, Switch On!!
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi

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Toriko: I smell it...
I can smell it now...!!
It's coming to me...
like the gravity of a gigantic planet...
All of the events going on around the world right now...!!
One after another, the items of Acacia's Full Course...
are starting to let out a birth cry...
This is turning into something really big...!!
Finally, now we just have to wait for the "Eclipse" [quote white]
and for "God" to appear...!! [quote bold]
The endgame...!!
Starjun!
My nose is telling me something!!
Star: !

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Toriko: "God" is without a doubt...
going to appear somewhere nearby!!
Star: .........
What...?
Toriko: 'Area 2' is an area with a collection of all kinds of different environments...
Climates, ecosystems, everything. Completely different worlds are scattered all over.
But at a glance, this island with nothing unusual about it at all is the one giving off the most intense smell!!
Ain't that right, Battle wolf?!!
Even you, the member of the 'Eight Kings'...
is here on this island, right?
No... The truth is, you......
Narration: The Battle Wolf...
was confident...

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Narration: That awakening 2 years earlier----
That "throb" that all members of the Eight Kings reacted to was this man...!! [quote bold]
A presence that seemed as if it could cause a natural disaster.
And an energy that pulsated like magma that the Battle Wolf felt...
Toriko: It's actually not you, is it...? The real member of the Eight Kings...
You're the number 2 of the pack... The young boss, right...?
You came to scout this tasty-smelling island...
Your boss with its overwhelming power... The current active Wolf King...
SFX: ZUN

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Toriko: was you, wasn't it...?
SFX: AAAAA
Description: Wolf King Guinness
(Battle Wolf)
----One of the Eight Kings----

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Narration: Just like how large-scale changes in the earth's crust have no "malice" [quote bold]
Toriko of course had none either...
Naturally, neither did Guinness...
Bot of them stepped forward... in order to fight...!!
Even natural disasters, things with no will, have causes...
They happen as the result of a number of interacting forces....
As is the fact that Toriko had obtained a gigantic power......
and that he remembered that power at this moment.
Right now, powers......
like two meteorites were approaching each other.
And the fact that the two were about to collide...
was an inevitability that was surely the result of many overlapping causes...
But if there was...

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Narration: a clear "switch" [quote bold]
for both of their actions...
SFX: PIPIPIPIPI
Narration: That was-------
SFX: GOH

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Narration: "Appetite"-------!!!
SFX: AAA
Toriko: For a fight to eat God,
you don't need any other reason!!!
Let's go at it with all we've got, strongest of the wolves!!!
Right, Battle Wolf?!!!
SFX: PIPIPIPI
Toriko: And the one that always...
flips my main switch is...!!
SFX: PIPIPIPI

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Toriko: Komatsu!!!
Man, you sure took a while!!!
How's it going over there?!!
Narration: 'Area 6'----
SFX: ZABUA
Komatsu: !!!
Toriko-san!!!

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Komatsu: We safely completed the cooking of "Another"!!!!
We're all about to head over there, okay?!!!!
And we're taking Slime-san with us!!!
Sline: 'Ey now...
Make sure to say 'Don' first... Well, actually, never mind.
Perhaps it's best...
to think of me as simply a disaster... Huhu...
However...
A "natural disaster" [quote bold]
that is filled with "malice". [quote bold]
Toriko: Slime?
Insert: Danger?! The demon of Ichiryuu's Gourmet Cells!!
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 342
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