Toriko 352

[Toriko 352 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Komatsu: Thank you all so much...
for the long, long time you've helped me.
SFX: ZAZAAA
Title: Gourmet 352 They're Back!!
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi
Side: They say goodbye to their "long" stay in Area 6.
Koma: The time we spent here in Blue Grill...
was more than the entire rest of my life...
I've never had such a valuable experience as a chef.
Guy: We should be the ones saying thank you.
Not only did you finish this country's project,
but by cooking Another,
you restored all of the lost memories
of this country's citizens.
We could never thank you enough.
Koma: Mister....
Guy: I...

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Guy: I'm the father of Chako's mother...
In other words, Chako's grandfather...
I even forgot that...
It feels like I've been brought back to life...
It's true what they say...
'Better one day in this world than a thousand in the next'...
Mom: Compared to an eternity without Chako,
this limited time, today,
where I can see Chako's face...
has all the value in the world for me.
I don't know how to thank you, Chef Komatsu...
Koma: M'am... What a cute face Chako has, doesn't he...?
With that little round nose.
Mom: Yes, he sure does...
Chako: Yeah, well you've got those gaping nose holes!!
Jiji: There is no longer a 'Food Spirit Gate'...
We won't be able to resurrect any of this country's citizens again either.
Guy: It doesn't really matter...
I've had enough extra portions of life.

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Guy: Dissatisfaction and reluctance produces a lot of heat...
Compares to uninterrupted emptiness...
we should be able to live out the rest of our years with passion and significance.
Quish: Yes... I remembered an emotion I'd forgotten a long time ago.
It's been centuries...
Maybe I'll try...
...falling in love. [Heart]
Melk: Huh?
Um... I...
Quish: Huh?! You're a woman?!
Oh, well, I don't mind.
Koma: Chako.
There are no seconds when it comes to life...
but we have plenty of seconds of food!
So someday,
come up to the surface! To Human World!!
To my restaurant!!
Chako: Okay!
U-Umm... Chef Komatsu...

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Chako: Could I have...
your autograph?!
Komatsu: Of course!!
Well, time to head back to the surface for the first time in decades!!
Let's shove oooofff!!
Guys: Be careful on your way back!!
I'll see you again someday, Komatsu!!
You guys take care, too, 10-Shell Five!!
SFX: ZABUUU WAAAAA

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SFX: GOBO GOBO GOBO GOBO GOBO GOBO
SFX: SHUN
SFX: SHUUUUUH
Komatsu: UWAa!
Look!!
There's a stardust river
around the Giant SHell!!
SFX: KYURAA KOPO KOPO (Bubbles)

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It looks like the new Anothers...
are seeing us off.
Thank you,
Anothers...
Thank you...
Blue Grill...
SFX: KOPO KOPO KOPO

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Don: UOOOO! So this is the taste of "raw" ingredients, eh?!!!
Bring me more!! This ain't enough!!
Komatsu: You sure have quite an appetite, Slime-san.
Don: More!!
I need much, much more!!
Jiji: This is probably because it's been so long since he revived.
It's been some hundreds of millions of years... he sure seems happy.
But that body was revived from Asarudy's cells.
They won't hold out long with Don Slime's incredible energy...
And the amount of the Full Course he ate was small as well...
Koma: So... he's going to disappear again?
Jiji: That's right.
Komatsu: Um, one thing...
So Slime-san can revive with anyone's body?
Then could he create a copy of himself and then switch over to that...?
Jiji: It's not that simple.
It's the same with us Nitro...

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Jiji: Just like us, Don Slime was originally an actual "Gourmet Cell"...
A physical demon formed from appetite energy.
Gourmet Cells are relentlessly selfish beings.
Two or more demons cannot exist in one Gourmet Cell.
Even if they are the same type and the same family of demons...
They'll destroy each other and the cell will die in moments.
In other words, demons can't go into demons.
Though on rare occasions...
there are mighty ones with several demons coexisting within one cell.
Komatsu: But... then how is it Slime-san can revive using Asarudy's body...?
He entered his cells, didn't he?
Jiji: That's simple.
The demon that Asarudy's cells originally had
was Don Slime.
Komatsu: Huh?

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Jiji: And not just Asarudy.
Don Slime originally lurked in the cells of most of Blue Grill's citizens.
That's the reason all of the citizens recognize and revere Don Slime, someone they can't see, as the country's king.
Koma: Th... The citizens are all his hosts?
Jiji: Only someone with the enormous amount of energy that Don Slime has can do it.
Well, he got "insurance".
Komatsu: Insurance?
Jij: While his main body was being housed inside Ichiryuu's cells
he was keeping surveillance to make sure no one at the country's Full Course project before him by dwelling in the citizens.
After Ichiryuu's death,
Don Slime returned his body, now in limbo, back here to Giant Shell.
It seems he changed the goal of the project to reviving 'Ichiryuu' rather than 'himself', but...
it seems that quite a lot happened to him in the 'Soul World'...

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Jiji: And when it was finally decided that the one to eat the Full Course would be Asarudy,
all of the energy dwelling within the citizens drew towards Asarudy and met at Don Slime's main body where he revived.
Komatsu: Hew... So that's really possible...?
Jiji: Keep in mind this is a rare case......
Part of it is the fact that Giant Shell itself is a 'Back Channel'.
It may only be possible because it's a special sort of space directly connected with the 'Soul World'...
In the regular world, souls cannot transfer...
nor can the main body of Gourmet Cells all meet up together suddenly like that...
Love: Yes. So because of that, out souls...
went back to our original bodies, huh?
Bubble: Well, they were forced there.
Koma: Love-san!

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Koma: I'm glad you're okay!
Love: Huhu. It's been quite a while, Komatsu-chan.
Rala, another member of the 0th, is okay, too.
Gourmet Astronomer Rala-sensei!!
Love: But he's staying behind at Blue Grill.
He's going to research the Giant Shell to see if he can use it as a new space ship.
And...
it seems that there's just one week left...
until the "Gourmet Solar Eclipse".
Komatsu: O-One week?!!
Already...?!
!
SFX: GASHAN
Koma: Slime-san?!
Don: SPeaking of which... right before I revived...
something quite remarkable flowed into the 'Soul World'. [Quite remarkable in italics]

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Don: Moon must've eaten it.
I'm sure of that.
Acacia has...
Neo has become active...!!
We must hurry...
We have to stop Acacia...
before GOD appears!
SFX: SHIWAH (WRINKLE)
Komatsu: !!
Huh?!
HUuUU~~~H?! WHaat?!!
Our bodies...
suddenly aaaged?!!
SFX: SHIWAAAA

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Match: Wh... What's going on here?!
HAndwritten: Match
Jiji: Hohhohho!
Seems that because you were in the 'Back Channel' for so long
your bodies are reacting to suddenly returning to your original world.
Melk: Hu~~~h? Reacting...?
Handwritten: GYAAA
Yuda: What is this? Even our clothes are all beaten up!
Jiji: You only spent 3 years in Blue Grill,
but you all perceptively spent far more than that in the 'Soul World'.
Your bodies are balancing that time out.
Guys: WHAAAAT?! It's like we opened the treasure chest after returning from Ryuuguu Castle...!!
T/N: This is from a Japanese legend where Urashima Tarou stays at an undersea palace for 3 days and returns 300 years in the future. He then opens a treasure chest he was given which makes him suddenly age.
Guys: Even our hair grew!!
Jij: From my calculations, only 3 weeks should have passed on the surface.
So your bodies should return to that state of '3 weeks later' before long.
SFX: YORO YORO YORO (Wobbling)

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Koma: E... Even my nose kinda...
went back to how it used to be~~~~~!!
Back to the nose Chako was talking about.
SFX: ZABUUUN
Guys: Here we aaaaare!!!
After decades down there...
we've arrived at the surface 3 weeks lateeeer!!
SFX: GOOOOOO

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Komatsu: So that's basically it, Toriko-san!!
SFX: OOOOOO
Koma: We're heading there, tooooow!!
Rin: Torikooo [Heart]
Koma: Can you hear me, Toriko-saaan?!!

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Toriko: That was one loooooong flashback!!
What kind of crazy stuff have you guys been getting into?!!!
Well whatever. Get here fast, Komatsu!!
Something really bad is going on with the Earth right now!!!

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SFX: OOOOOO
Don: KYAAAAH!
SFX: DON

Page 18:
SFX: BAKIN BAKIN
Jirou: HIHHI
HIH
SFX: DODODO DODODO

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Midora: Is that all...?
It looks like you have no more orbs to die in your place...
You're next.
Insert: Now!! To the battle the world is riding on!!
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 352
/ End
I sense a huge battle...!!
Next issue, it bursts onto the scene!!!