Toriko 346

[Toriko 346 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Top: Sudden development in Gourmet World! Jump Comics Volume 37 goes on sale December 4th (Fri.)!!
Side: IGO, the Bishokukai, NEO, and the Blue Nitro... With delicious food on the line, their motives intersect---!!
Insert: ★White-hot battles!! They now approach the mysteries of Area 6!! A center color page!!
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi

[After that is a fan art page. Just skip this I guess.]

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Guy: Hey, what's that?!
That explosion!
It came from the First Kitchen!!
Title: Gourmet 346 To the Golden Cookware!!
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA (Talking)
Guys: Apparently a cook that showed up out of nowhere
cooked 'Air' in no time flat!!
What'd you just say?!
He cooked the same 'Air' we've been taking years to cook in an instant?!
Side: Komatsu's power-----!!
Guy: They say he's a chef from Human World
named Komatsu!!
Komatsu?!
Chako: ...
Huh...?
Komatsu...?

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SFX: ZAKU ZAKU
SFX: KACHA
Whoever: Th...
This is...
Jiji: Oh dear. It seems there's a big uproar in the cooking areas.
So, how is it?
Guys: !
SFX: GACHA
Jiji: That 120 percent savoriness 'Air'...
Is it the real thing?

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Condor: I've honestly got to take my hat off to him!
I never imagined you could cook 'air' this way.
Yum.
Guy: So it was Chef Komatsu?
Asarudy, he's the one you had your eye on, wasn't it?
Whoever: Asarudy has good eyes... He had his attention on them ever since they made landfall at this country.
Jiji: Well then, if Komatsu-kun passes,
who else shall we bring with us to the 'Soul World'?
In the Cooking Match, the score ended at an even 2 to 2.
Asarudy and Chiru's match didn't finish, but...
I think it's okay to say they had similar levels of ability.

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Asa: Actually... As we can use "Warp Kitchen" [quote white]
and listen to advice from Food Spirits, we had the advantage in those matches.
In terms of cooking skill.....
it pains me to admit it, but theirs is undeniably better.
May: Perhaps because we were so busy with 'ingredients that were delicious to begin with'... and 'having an infinite amount of time'...
that at some point we forgot our appreciation towards food
and the spirit of seeking out tastes...?
That may be why we lost...
Kaki: An on top of that, they were definitely not their best members.
That chef called Chiyo that arrived later was clearly a cut above the rest of them.
And that Chef Komatsu they were expecting the whole time wasn't there...
Jiji: Then shall we take all of them, then?
We could really use all the chefs we can get.
But in that case, there's a problem.
We don't have enough "Golden Cookware". [quote white]
Not in the least.
Condor: Geh?

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Nono: Chef Komatsuuu!
I'm so glad you're all right!!
Chiru: We had quite a close match in the cooking battle without you, Komatsu-san.
Komatsu: Er... Um... I'm sorry.
But... There's such a thing as routes you can take through the 'Back Channel', huh...?
It took me about an entire day to get here by train.
But you all had already arrived...
Yeah... So you were all in that Cooking Battle, so...
Jiji: So you understand the 'Back Channel'?
And the necessity of it...?
Koma: Ah!
W... Would you happen to be...
the Ten-Shell Five?!
Asa: 'Air'...
had an exquisite taste unlike anything I've had before.

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Komatsu: Th...
Tha...
Thank you so much! Could you please sign this?!!
Asa: Huh...?
Jiji: I thought you'd say that, Komatsu-kun.
So I got some for you.
Paper: Asarudy
Komatsu: No way! You're the one that wrote those, aren't you, Chef Jiji?!!
Though I'd actually like your autograph, too...
Hadnwritten: Look!
Asa: Anyhow, it looks like there's quite the commotion here.
Chef Komatsu's sudden appearance made all the cooking grind to a halt.
We'll need to get them started again fast...
Match: I didn't get all the details...
but I heard the truth about this country's project from Komatsu.
Is it true that to cook the Full Course,
you're sacrificing the lives of the inhabitants of the slums?
Asa: It's true...
Because that is the "recipe". [quote white]

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Asa: The recipe for "God"-----!!
Yuda: .........
How is it...
that God, the main dish of Acacia's Full Course...
is in this country......?
Asa: It's not the original...
Over many long years, Don Slime was able
to gather seeds and fragments of the Full Course little by little.
And by working together with King Enma Ika, he was able to successfully revive and reproduce them.
T/N: Apparently they intend to use "Enma" as a name as well as "Ika", so I'm just not going to translate it. The name refers to "King Enma" or "King Yama", judge of souls in the afterlife in Buddhism.
Yuda So back at the stadium when Don Slime said 'nope',
Don: Nope.
Yuda: he meant that it was the original Full Course ingredients that weren't here, then?
In Bubble: How confusing.
Match: And who's this King Enma guy?
Yuda: Yes, where did Don Slime go?
Komatsu: A recipe that uses humans as fertilizer......?
I saw one a long time ago in the notebook I found in Gourmet Pyramid.
That was a recipe Chichi-san, Kaka-san, and Chef Jiji created, huh?
Jiji: That's right.
Komatsu: I never expected that would be...
a recipe used for God...

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Jiji: To cook God, a very large amount of energy is required.
God itself is a powerful ingredient that can even absorb a chef's life.
Originally, we used the lives of various different creatures as fertilizer,
but they were quite inefficient...
It was around that time when the animal known as
humans appeared.
Humans are weak... Yet, they are clever... They breed quite a bit as well...
That made them ideal for use as slaves and fertilizer for cooking the Full Course.
So then you created the Four Beast...?
So it would gather many humans... just before God appeared...?
Jiji: That's something that happened only a few tens of thousands of years ago.
In terms of the history of cooking the Full Course, that's quite recent.
Match: The reason the Blue Nitro spent so many years to cook the Full Course
was to find and revive the demon inside Acacia, correct...?
So why is it the Full Course is being cooked here in this country?

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Asa: It was to revive......
----Don Slime, but...
Match: Was? ...So now it isn't?
Asa: I'm not sure... You should ask him yourself...
Cond: He's not here...
Komatsu: U-Um...
Are you sure that in order to cook God...
you need to sacrifice the lives of living creatures...?
Is there... any other way...?
Jij: Long ago, there was one person...
that brilliantly cooked God without sacrificing almost anyone.
Komatsu: Huh?! Wh... Who was it...?
Jiji: Chef God
Frohze.

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Guys: Frohze...?
The chef that was in a combo with Acacia?!!
Komatsu: So... then...
it is possible...!!!
You can cook God...
without sacrificing people!!
Jii: Mm... That's true, it is possible... But that used techniques we Taste Hermits even the Blue Nitro do not know...
Also it requires considerable stamina... If someone tries to cook it on their own, their life would suddenly be sucked out and they would die.
Chin: Can you use "Food Immersion"? [quote white]
Ji: !
Chin: If there's plenty of food to replenish my energy...
I can take the place of fertilizer for several hundred people.
Guys: Master Chin!
Chiru: We'll help, too!
Yuda: I shall do whatever I can!
Match: Me, too.
I'm not really interested in Don Slime...
But cooking the Full Course was the reason we came to Gourmet World.
But still, we don't have the techniques to cook and we don't have the strength to oppose the Eight Kings...

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Match: But if our lives can be of any help,
then we'll be fertilizer or whatever you need us to be.
Rin: Me, too!!
Ah, sorry, I don't think I can die for this, though.
Jiji: Hohhohho. That's quite reassuring.
All right......
Fortunately, here were are just cooking a fragment of a fragment of God...
We may be able to make it through with a few people doing Food Immersion...
But we have to cook the entire Full Course... ["entire" in italics.]
The truth is, the truly dangerous thing is not God.
And that is where there is something we must do in a hurry.
Hm?
Something we must do?
Somebody: It takes time to cook a Full Course.
And the one that takes the most time is none other
than the one that dwells here in 'Area 6', Fish Treasure Another----!!
Condor: The amount of time it takes to cook Another is...
approximately 600,000 years!!!
Guys: S...
Six hundred thousand years?!!

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Komatsu: Fya~~~~ That's...
beyond mind-bogglingly long...
Jiji: What we will be using for that is the 'Soul World'.
If we use the 'Soul World' where time's progression is nearly zero,
we can drastically reduce the cooking time.
----But...
the problem right now is the "tools". [quote bold]
There is no pot or kitchen knife in this world that can be used continuously for tens of thousands of years...
No matter how magnificent the tools are, over time
they will wear, rust, and deform.
Not to mention they cannot even be brought into the 'Soul World'...
The only tools that can be used there...
are the "Golden Cookware"!! [quote gold]
Yuda: Golden...
Cookware...?!!

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Yuda: Aren't those the seven tools said to be able
to handle "Spirit Food"...?!! [quote white]
Jiji: Yes. In order to handle Another,
we need as many chefs as we can entering the 'Soul World'.
But the most crucial part is we lack the tools.
We must gather the "materials" to make them as soon as possible
and create the Golden Cookware.
Komatsu: Where are they?
Those materials...?
Jiji: They can be gotten from the coral and shells that live in the sea here in 'Area 6',
but they cannot be taken with ordinary means...!!
They are powerful monsters known as the "Seven Beasts". [quote white]
SFX: GOPO GOPO

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Jiji: First, the material for the "kitchen knife" is the teeth of *Shark King 'Raizame'... ["Kitchen knife" bold, "Shark King 'Raizame'" white.]
Asterisk: *Raizame is Ishikawa Prefecture's 森田博之-san's work.
T/N: The kanji under Raizame read "Electric Attack Shark".
Jiji: The material for the "pot" is a rock from *Turtle King 'Pandora'... ["Pot" bold. "Turtle King pandora" white.]
Asterisk: *'Pandora' is Nagano Prefecture's Penname HARU-san's work.
Jiji: The "chopping board" is the body of Coral King 'Corgolem'... ["Chopping Board" bold. "Coral King Corgolem" white.]

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Jiji: The "frying pan" is the scales of Scale King 'Atlantis'... ["frying pan" bold, "Scale King Atlantis" white.]
Asterisk: *'Atlantis' is Fukuoka Prefecture's 垣副広之-san's work.
Jiji: The "ladle" is a leg from *Octopus King ''Yamatako Orochi'. ["ladle" bold. "Octopus King 'Yamatako Orochi" white.]
Asterisk: *'Yamatako Orochi' is Kanagawa Prefecture's Komegura Takeru-san's work.
T/N: Yamatako Orochi's name comes from the mythical creature "Yamata no Orochi", or "Eight-Branched Giant Snake" combined with "tako" meaning "octopus".
Jiji: The "apron" is the skin of *Sea King 'Ocean'. ["apron" bold. "Sea King 'Ocean'" white.]
Asterisk: *'Ocean' is Shiga Prefecture's 玉木誠-san's work.

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Jiji: And the 7th item, the "spatula" is here in Blue Grill... ["spatula" bold.]
It is taken from minerals from Clam King 'Giant Shell'. ["Clam King Giant Shell" white.]
Yuda: What...?
One of the materials comes form this gigantic shell as well...?
Jiji: That's right.
The truth is, this Giant Shell is actually where Another originally lived.
In ancient times when this shell was much smaller, Another used it as a nest to hide from Whale King Mood.
In that time, the endless "savoriness" that flowed from Another turned the material in the shell into a special "savoriness mineral" ... [quotes bold]
And at some point, Another is said...
to have surpassed the speed of light in here and disappeared into the 'Soul World'...

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Jiji: Ever since then there has been a warp in space-time inside this Giant Shell.
The shell itself became a 'Back Channel'.
And the "savoriness mineral" in here is a mysterious material that can be brought directly into the 'Soul World'.
Somebody: You're saying that the Giant Shell itself...
is a 'Back Channel'...?!
Jiji: Yes... By the way, it is equipped with the ultimate Safe Zone that even Whale King Moon cannot swallow.
That is because this is the place where Another surpassed the speed of light...
The other Seven Beasts are the same...
They all used to be nests for Another and are places where it surpassed light speed...
That is why the Seven Beasts are the only things in 'Area 6' that can oppose the Whale King.
Match: So Another, a creature that can swim at the speed of light......
wasn't even afraid of being attacked by the Seven Beasts...?
So it chose the strongest beasts it could find to be its habitat...
Rin: Kinda like how clown fish make nests in sea anemone?
Ji: It will be no easy task getting the materials from those mighty beasts.
Ai: We'll go.
Jiji: !

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Somebody: Gourmet Knights!!
Taka: We've got exactly seven people, too...!!
Ai: We'll go retrieve those materials!!
No, we want you to let us go get them...!!
Please... let us risk our lives for this cause as well...!!
Somebody: Aimaru!!
Krui: Then I'll work on makin' em...
I'll make yuh tha ultimate pot!!
Somebody: Kuribou!!
Melk: And I'll...
sharpen the knife!!
Koma: Melk!!
And of course, I'll handle the cooking!!
I'll use those tools to cook Another...!!
And the rest of the Full Course!!!

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Jiji: Hohhohho.
My oh my, how reassuring!!
Handwritten: All of you!
Narration: The 'Food Spirit Door'-----
Side: They seek to compress 600,000 years... And the limit is approaching...?!
Don: Is that...
True, Enma-chan?
Enma: There is no mistake, Don!
It seems that "Neo" could revive at any time. ["new" in white.]
You had best hurry...!!
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 346
/ End
The goal is slowly becoming clear!
Next issue, cooking in the Back Channel!