Toriko 345

[Toriko 345 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Insert: Who is this woman----?!
Title: Gourmet 345 The Truth About the Project!!
Woman: Welcome, Komatsu-kun.
I've been waiting fore you...
Komatsu: Huh?!
------...
SFX: SUU...
Komatsu: Ah!
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi

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SFX: ZAH
Guys: !?
Komatsu: ...Huh?!
...?!
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA (Murmuring)
Komatsu: That person just...
Guy: What's wrong, Komatsu-kun?
Komatsu: Um... Just now, there was...
Someone: Hey!
Komatsu: !

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Guy: Who are you, youngster?
Only those authorized are allowed beyond this point...
Guy: Hihhihhi. He's a work applicant.
He's here to participate in the country's project.
Guy: A work applicant? There are actually people that want to do that...?
Well you can come with me, then.
Did he get through the "selection"? [quote bold]
Guy: It's all right. Both his mind and body are perfectly healthy.
Komatsu: Who was...
that person...?
Her voice sounded nostalgic...
like I'd heard it somewhere before...
SFX: GOUN GOUN

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Mom: Just one minute, Chako...
I'll take that blindfold off.
Chako: ...........
U-Um...
Who are you...?
Mom: Shh! Keep quiet.
Listen closely, Chako.
I want you to put on this mask and get on the line for the red pot.
Chako: Huh?
Wh-Why...?
Mom: It will be all okay, just do exactly what I tell you.
Come on, quickly.
Okay? No matter what you’re told, do it with confidence.
You’re
already 12 years old now.
You’ll
be okay, Chako. I’m sure you can do it.

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Guy: Hew, what's going on over there?!
Are you slacking off?!
Woman: Sorry, we'll be right there!
Guy: What's with him?
Woman: It seems his eyes aren't adjusted yet.
Guy: I see. He's a recent replacement, is he? ["replacement" in italics]
Okay, come right this way.
Which time is this for you? What work were you doing last time?
Chako: Ah... Um... I was at the red pot......
Guy: The savoriness boiling, then.
Mom: Chako...
You can do it...
Uu...
SFX: FURA (Shake)

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SFX: GUIII
Komatsu: Mister...
What is the "selection"? What are they selecting? [quote bold]
Guy: Ah... the selection.
When citizens of the slums are forced into labor
they are first split into two groups.
Those seen as having abnormal 'bodies'
and those as having abnormal 'spirits'.
The "trading of souls" occurs with those who are seen as having abnormalities in their 'spirit' . ["trading of souls" white]
Also, this of course also goes for those that are utter dimwits or constantly lazy....
but it also includes those who are very violent or have no education...
Their souls are replaced with the souls of those that were excellent to begin with
and then they do things like participate in the project as a chef.
Sometimes they are allowed to open a shop in the city depending on their skill.
The 10-shell Five are representative of such people.

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Komatsu: I think Chako said that the 10-Shell Five are heroes of this country.
Guy: Their souls have been resurrected dozens of times...
And as a result, they have all the more life experience and their skill as chefs continues to be refined.
They feel as though they've lived for thousands of years.
Komatsu: In the selection....
what happens to the people that...
have abnormal 'bodies'?
Guy: While still alive, they are turned into fertilizer...
to become the savoriness for the Full Course...
So in other words...
they're killed...
...Huh?
K-Killed...?
Guy: If they're lucky...
and their physical abnormality is judged to be slight, they will be sent into labor just as they are...
But, I suppose that can't be called 'lucky'...

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Guy: No matter what path, what awaits them is brutal labor...
We are being forced into the same thing that our ancestors which were laves to the Nitro were...
Daruma: The ancestors of our civilization...
were once kidnapped by the "Four Best"...
and made into slaves of the Nitro...
Guy: Okay, we're here.
This is the 'First Kitchen'.
SFX: UIII
Guy: The revival and cooking of an ingredient called 'air' is happening here. [quote white]
Komatsu: UWAa!
Amazing!! Those are 'Air' fruits!!
And there's so many of them!!
Though they're a lot smaller than real ones.
Guy: Hm...? You've seen Air before?
Komatsu: Not only have I seen it...
I've cooked it...
and eaten it!!
Guy: .........You...
In that case, you are carrying an abnormality in your 'spirit'...
Or perhaps that is just a bad joke?

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Guy: 'Air' is a phantasmal ingredient that Soul Saiseiya "Judge of the Afterlife Ika"-sama
spent many years to successfully reproduce.
Compared to the other items on the Full Course, it takes less time to prepare. But it is still a Super Special Preparation Ingredient that takes several years to cook.
Someone like you could not cook it so simply.
Komatsu: .........
Oh, I see...
So that's how it works, huh...?
Cooking the items on the Full Course takes time...
Dozens or hundreds of years...
So unless you revive souls over and over again,
us humans...
not only can't eat it, we can't even see its cooking to completion...
So all this labor with no end in sight is also for cooking that...?
Guy: That's right...
For that goal, we must get as many skilled individuals as possible...
By the way, in order to cook this 'Air' ingredient, first the air inside it must be let out little by little while the fruit is cooled.
Komatsu: No, it's not!
Guy: !
Komatsu: The true way to cook air...
is not like that...
Guy: What did you say?

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Komatsu: This 'Air' looks like it's ripe and could fall at any moment...
I'll...
SFX: SU...
Komatsu: I'll get
this project finished!!
Narration: 'Soul Hill'-----
Damala: Chef Jiji......
Would it be correct to consider
the 'Back Channel' and the 'World of Souls' as the same place?
Jiji: Hm... Well, the flow of time in each one is different, but they mean pretty much the same thing.
In a broad sense, the "Safe Zones" in the Camping Monsters are in the same general category.
The 'World of Souls' is the deepest space of the "Safe Zones"...
The place on Earth where Another first arrived
you could call the "Ultimate Safe Zone"...

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Jiji: The "savoriness" that flows in all of Gourmet World's seas
is produced by none other than Fish Treasure Another. ["Fish Treasure Another" in white.]
Another is a fish that has top-class savoriness even among Acacia's Full Course.
Seeking that savoriness, many predators from all over the world rush towards 'Area 6'.
And at the zenith is the member of the Eight Kings, Whale King Moon. ["Whale King Moon" white]
Moon is a demon that swallows every sort of object.
The extreme-gravity that Moon possesses even swallows light and never lets it escape.
That is why the Black Triangle is always dark.
Long ago, in order to escape from Moon,
Anotheer is said...
to have managed
to surpass the speed of light.
The place where Another surpassed the speed of light... ["place" in italics.]
became a warp in space time. A special kind of space that no one could recognize.
That was the entrance to the 'Back Channel'.
Within it was a world which made it seem like time was stopped...
When you are within the 'Back Channel', with time moving slower,
you go through a sensation that makes you feel like you've warped through space...
Handwritten: Back Channel
SFX: PAH PAH

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Yuda: Hm... During my cooking dual in the Stadium,
the space created by Condor Window must have been one of those spaces...
Condor: Warp Kitchen
Yuda: No wonder he cooked so fast...
Jiji: Yes... "Warp Kitchen" is a type of 'Back Channel'.
As is the "Warp Road" we just came though.
Yuda: There is one thing I that does not make sense.
I heard that only souls can enter the 'Food Spirit Gate'...
So how is it we were able to go through the 'Back Channel' with flesh and blood bodies?
Jiji: The warping of space-time in artificially created 'Back Channels' are weak.
The flow of time is slower, but time certainly passes in them.
It's safe to enter that sort of space with a flesh and blood body.
However, while in the 'Back Channel' there is almost no flow of time, ['almost no' in italics.]
there exists a world called "Time Zero". [quote white.]

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Jiji: That is the 'World of Souls'-----
In that place alone, even the concepts of space and time do not exist.
It is a special world that only consciousnesses can reach.
Yuda: So its entrance is that 'Food Spirit Gate', is it...?
Jiji: That place is said to be where Another passed the speed of light.
There are several places like that in 'Area 6'.
Rin: Hey, uh...
how is it you guys can make those 'Back Channel' things artificially?
Condor: Thanks to the Full Course...
Allow me to explain. This way...
From here you can see all of our cooking locations.
The "Eternity Kitchen" is this country's project.
The place where we...
are cooking Acacia's Full Course...!!

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Guys: Ooo!!!!
Guys: That's incredible!!!
These are all kitchens?!!!!
SFX: GOUN GOUN

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SFX: GOUN GOUN
SFX: GOUN GOUN
People: This cooking is on such a massive scale...
This is... the place where Acacia's Full Course is being cooked!!
Jiji: Yes... By the way, this is almost the same as what the Blue Nitro have been doing since long, long ago.
Condor: To start with, over there is the 'First Kitchen'.
It is where the 'Air' Fruit, Acacia's Salad, is being...
Hm?
!!
UoH!
SFX: DOFFOOOOH

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Guys: Wha...
What was thaaat?!
All of the sudden there was a blast coming
Side: This is Komatsu...!!
Condor: coming from the 'First Kitchen'?!!
Nono: Ah!
Aaaaah!!
That's...!!!
Komatsu: This is 120 percent savoriness!!!
First...
The true cooking of 'Air'...!!
is compleeete!!!
Nono: Chef Jomatsu!!!
Condor: What...?!
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 345
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