[Toriko Episode 106 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Templant Shimane Prefecture Takeru-san's work!
Someone once said...
that there is a plant from which crunchy tempura grows,
a Templant.
That there are hyenas which raise juicy pineapples,
Hyenapples.
Hyenapple Wakayama Prefecture Suzuri-san's work!
The world is in the Gourmet Age.
The age of seeking out yet-unknown tastes.
It's All About Appreciation!
The Essentials of Food Honor!!
Oh, you're such a glutton, Toriko-san.
This meat is so tasty. Seconds! Seconds!
Wha?!
Good morning, gentlemen.
G-Good morning.
Um, what was that sound?
The gong marks the time to get out of bed.
Huh? But it's still dark outside.
Yes. We get started bright and early here at Shokurin Temple.
Please put these on and meet me at the dojo.
I'm feeling kind of psyched.
Well, clothes make the man.
We will begin your real training today.
A special menu where I will be giving constant supervision and guidance.
Special menu?
Yes. As per Master Chin's instructions.
That's perfect.
The faster we become Food Honor masters, the faster we'll capture the Bubble Fruits.
Glad to be working with you, Assistant Master.
Then we'll get started without delay.
We will be starting with Food Meditation
Food Meditation?
( The word "Food Meditation" is a homophone for the word "appetizer" (Shokuzen). )
A day at Shokurin Temple
Food Meditation (Shokuzen)
starts not with zen meditation, but Food Meditation.
Food Meditation is an exercise of preparing one's heart to give thanks towards food.
You must first calm your heart, then you focus you ears on the pulse of your own life.
So it's that "state of perfect selflessness" thing, right?
No, it is not.
Huh? It's not?
Selflessness, unselfishness, or in other words, the state of wanting nothing,
means the desire for nothing.
In Food Honor, this falls under the category of worldly thoughts.
Anyhow, expressing gratitude is the foundation of Food Honor.
The clearing away of all worldly thoughts and giving thanks to all.
Gratitude, huh?
Do you know what the objects sitting in front of you are?
Um...
These are those horsetails that burn like torches. Torchorsetails, right?
These are no ordinary Torchorsetails.
If they sense any thought besides those of appreciation, the flames will extinguish.
Master Chin enhanced them for the purpose of training.
Now, with the goal being to keep the flames from going out,
focus purely on thoughts of appreciation.
Appreciation...
First, please try to maintain the flames for 30 minutes.
When you have finished, we will eat breakfast.
Breakfast.
Toriko-san, you had your worldly thoughts right out in the open!
And just how strong was it to make mine go out, too?!
Sorry.
That was quite fast.
If you display thoughts of gratitude, the flame will relight.
Really try not to let it go out this time.
We finally got it, a total of 30 minutes.
Though I don't think the flames ever lasted for more than 5 minutes.
It's amazing how hard showing gratitude towards food is.
You really need persistence.
Okay, let's have breakfast.
All right!
Rice
There is rice in that pot.
Take all you want and put it in your bowl.
Then we'll cook it.
You sure?
I might not be able to fit enough in that bowl!
But the tools you'll be using to take it
are the chopsticks on your tray.
TIG (Tamago Iri Gohan) (Rice Containing Eggs)
This is TIG, Rice Containing Eggs.
There are small eggs within each grain of rice,
and when boiled, they make a scrumptious boiled egg with rice.
That sounds delicious!
But before boiling, they are as fragile as raw eggs,
so you must pick them up gently with the chopsticks one by one.
I thought I'd seen the worst of it when I had to take those beans with 5 meter long chopsticks yesterday...
Just how irritating can they make these meals?
This is probably part of the training, too, huh?
Aw man, it broke!
Ah! They're all starting to break!
When they break and the contents spill out, they become ordinary grains of rice.
By the way, when one grain breaks,
the broken fragments will cause the grains of rice around it to break as well, so do be careful.
Tell us stuff like that sooner!
It's causing a chain reaction so they're all disappearing!
Our breakfast!
What a noisy lot.
Now that you've fortified yourselves with a meal,
we'll move on to the next part of the training.
Eh, I dunno about that. We barely even ate anything.
What are all those holes...?
Komatsu-san.
Ah, yes?
Do you know what the fundamental posture of Food Honor is?
Is it hands together and bowing?
Yes, precisely.
For this training, we will be learning the proper form for putting our hands together and bowing.
We're always putting our hands together and bowing, aren't we, Toriko-san?
Yeah. Whenever I'm about to eat a meal.
With thanks to all of the ingredients in this world...
Itadakimasu!
What? A cactus?
Appreciacactus (Kanshaboten)
It is an Appreciacactus.
Please try your utmost to not stray from the proper form.
Or you could be gravely injured.
Ouch!
Quickly, hands together and bow.
Itadakimasu!
I'm bowing with my hands together already!
As I said, if you don't use the proper form...
We'll be gravely injured?
This is more like a dull pain.
Well, I think it's plenty threatening to my life.
All right.
Then let's have a meal and end today's training.
It's over already?
Yes.
What are these?
Rose Ham Seeds (Rose Ham no Tane)
They are Rose Ham Seeds.
A rose-like Ham Flower grows from these seeds.
Ham Flower?
Yes.
Please watch over these until they bud and bloom.
Day and night, nonstop.
Watch over them all day and night?
And try your best not to forget the ideas of gratitude.
What is this?
Just when the hell is it gonna sprout?
All right!
It finally sprouted!
Congratulations.
But for it to take all night to bud...
I should mention,
the flower of the Rose Ham blooms faster the stronger the thoughts of appreciation are.
Huh? It does?
Work hard at your appreciation.
Because otherwise...
you will never eat another meal.
All right!
They bloomed!
Looks like you'll finally be able to have a meal.
Ooh. It's just like a ham sandwich.
Yes. That's a Sandwicherfly.
Ooh! The Ham Flower!
Yes. Ham Flower petals are that butterfly's favorite food.
Assistant master, would you please stop leaving out important things like that?!
Ah, go away!
This is my dinner!
Or, uh, breakfast? Or is it lunchtime now?!
What a dull training...
Can we really learn Food Honor by doing this?
Bubble Fruits...
Still no good, huh?
They're right in front of my eyes, but I just can't...
It's really hard for me to believe that I'll be able to capture these fruits after such a training.
I thought you might be here.
Komatsu?
Are you worried about the training?
What do you think about it?
I... think it's fun.
I mean, what we're doing is certainly subdued, and pretty difficult.
But I'm having fun.
I'm getting to walk alongside you and grow with you, Toriko-san.
That makes me happy.
Well, I hope we are growing, anyhow.
I was...
when you lost to Assistant Master Shuu,
I was kinda... really frustrated.
I know how pathetic it sounds, but I was at the verge of tears...
I'd never felt like that before.
Then in the julienne match against the Assistant Master,
I honestly wanted to get revenge.
I ended up getting outright beaten, though.
Komatsu...
Toriko-san, let's learn Food Honor together and next time, let's beat the Assistant Master!
And then, we'll capture the Bubble Fruits!
Yeah, that's right!
Thanks, Komatsu.
We'll definitely get our hands on those Bubble Fruits!
It seems you've cleared the task of maintaining the flame for 30 minutes.
We finally did it!
Yeah...
It normally takes a month to be able to maintain a Torchorsetail for 30 minutes.
And they did it in 3 days.
Incredible.
I never knew constant appreciation could be this exhausting.
You need quite a bit of stamina, don't you?
Eventually, you will be able to do it like it's the most natural thing in the world.
So then, starting tomorrow, we will increase the Food Meditation time to 1 hour.
After that, we'll increase the number of Torchorsetails.
You should know that the more Torchorsetails there are,
the more they will be searching for idle thoughts.
For breakfast, we'll be having Icefish Soumen.
( Soumen is a kind of thin white noodle. )
Icefish Soumen (Shirauo Soumen)
Itadakimasu!
Woops, huh?
The surface of Icefish Soumen are quite slippery and hard to pick up.
Also, the chopsticks are made of a very slippery material taken from an Ice Tree.
So considerable concentration will be required.
I can't pick them up at all!
Augh! This is so irritating!
It seems you two have learned the basics of putting one's hands together and bowing.
So...
Pudding Camel Hump (Purin Rakuda no Kobu)
We will be adding a portion of Pudding Camel Hump pudding.
While balancing this on your heads, you must maintain your Food Honor posture.
That pudding is extremely delicate.
Moving just a few millimeters will cause it to collapse.
Please concentrate.
Toriko-san?
For today's lunch...
we'll be using 10 meters.
Toriko-san, please calm down.
With that level of gratitude,
the Ham Flower will not bloom very soon.
It seems you'll be postponing today's dinner as well.
Oh! It all came out at once!
The Sandwicherfly!
Perfect!
Send your feelings of gratitude towards the Sandwicherfly.
Why do I gotta give gratitude to a thing that's eating my flower?!
If it knows it is being appreciated by someone,
it wouldn't do anything cruel to that person, would it?
Anyhow,
you can drive it off with thoughts of gratitude.
This is also part of the training.
But I could drive the thing off with one wave of my hand!
The hell kinda training is this?!
Every part of it is dull and makes no sense!
Can we really... Can we really learn Food Honor by doing this...?
Toriko-san!
What was that?!
By repeated gratitude towards food,
your power of concentration towards objects is increasing.
Elevating the power of concentration brings you swift movements as well as better precision.
In other words, you are now able to unleash your techniques
while eliminating useless movements and using the absolute minimum power and form.
It's true that I was just trying to bat the butterfly away just then, but...
it had such a force.
If you fire it with the feeling of appreciation,
it would of course have greater power.
Simply relying on power is no match for using proper form.
If you embrace thoughts of appreciation and perform more efficient movements,
you can use your energy more effectively.
Toriko-san, that is the true power of your technique.
This is... Food Honor?!
It is merely the entrance to Food Honor.
Eventually, you will be able to unleash even more explosive techniques as easily as you would normally blink or breathe.
R-Really?!
For that, more training is necessary.
Seeing as you still cannot drive off the butterflies.
Or rather, perhaps next time you should try it with thoughts of gratitude.
Okay! The training is dull, but the results are incredible!
Yeah! It's beyond amazing!
That goes for you as well, Komatsu-san.
A Puffer Whale?!
It has had Knocking applied to it.
You've prepared these before, haven't you?
Yes.
I have, technically.
But the Puffer Whale is a special preparation ingredient,
and the location of the poison sack is different for each one.
So each one has to be handled differently.
Komatsu-san, please try to prepare this one.
B-But...
It will be fine.
What... is this sensation?
Komatsu, you...
I know. I know!
I know the procedure for preparing it instinctively!
You detoxified the Puffer Whale in an instant!
I can't believe it. I'm as surprised as you are!
Your power of concentration towards ingredients increased through the training,
combined with your vast cooking experience and knowledge,
has allowed you to know intuitively how to prepare it
so it can be enjoyed most deliciously.
Intuitively?
H-Hold on a second.
Look!
It hasn't turned gold!
Even though I removed the poison sack!
That is because the Puffer Fish still has not realized it has been handled and has had its poison sack removed.
That is due to how delicate and fast your knife work was.
This is your true skill after having pruned off useless movements, Komatsu-san.
M-My...
One who has become a master of Food Honor
can remove a poison sack from a Puffer Whale that is still swimming and has not had Knocking applied to it.
And there are certain masters that could handle huge fish
that didn't realize it at all and continued to swim for many years.
There are records of such things.
C... Could I be able to do things like that someday, too...?
Yes. I'm sure you will.
All right, Komatsu!
Let's train even harder and master Food Honor!
Okay, Toriko-san!
Their training seems to be going well.
This may be my last job here in the Human World.
I'll need to fill my stomach.
Find Yun!
Run, run, Yun!
Yun will be hidden somewhere in the image we're about to show you.
Try to find him!
Capturehide Level
Today's Capturehide Level is 12!
The time limit is 10 seconds.
A heaping helping of a start!
Seconds
This seems to be Regal Plateau from the 1st Biotope.
There are so many wild beasts, this one has a heaping helping of difficulty.
Here's a hint!
He seems to be in quite a daring hiding spot.
Yun is... here!
You say that's no way to hide?
Hands together and bow...
I'm sorry.
But this corner will have a heaping helping of a challenge next time as well, see you then!
Oh, and it seems there's a surprise in store for Toriko and the others next time, too!
They're coming!
Something dangerous is on its way to Shokurin Temple!
What is that?!
It's the end of the world!
An Approaching Threat! Hurry, Toriko!
The Road to the Bubble Fruits!
Next time will be a heaping helping of fun, too!