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Someone once said...
That there is a kind of tuna with a harsh hit-or-miss taste
that's used in games, like you would use for trump cards but for gambling,
Trumpuna.
That there is a peafowl with 21 different patterns in their feathers
that taste like sweet black chocolate,
Blackjacks.
( A pun on the game blackjack with the Japanese word for peafowl, "kujyaku". )
The world is in the Gourmet Age.
The age of seeking out yet-unknown tastes.
In order to get their hands on Ichiryuu's training ingredient, the Meteor Garlic,
Toriko, Coco, and Komatsu headed to Gourmet Casino in the Jidar Kingdom.
They're selling toxic Puffer Whales here!
The kingdom was flooded with illegal ingredients.
Match and his other members of the Gourmet Mafia, which had come to exterminate the illegal ingredients, appeared before Toriko and the others.
Then Match told them about the mastermind that controls Gourmet Casino.
The boss of the Underground Cooking World, Livebearer.
A dark chef that currently acts as a dealer in the casino.
Now, Toriko and his comrades enter Gourmet Casino!
Appearance!
The Boss of the Underground Cooking World, Livebearer!
This is all part of the casino?!
Amazing!
Toriko-san, Coco-san, Match-san! C'mon, let's hurry down!
Ooh, Gourmet Roulette!
If you win, you get ingredients.
Even or odd? Odd or even?
Odd-or-even dice.
These are all super high-class ingredients.
It's 17! 17!
Snack Jack?
Ah, grape 8! Aw, geez...
It's so huge!
And there're so many games!
This is the general floor that anyone can enjoy.
So on the surface it's a sound and legal casino.
Did something happen?
Yes. Heavenly King Coco has come again,
and this time Toriko is with him as well.
Coco and Toriko?
Now then, today's prizes are...
Fried Rock
Color Seaweed
Safire Melon
Shark Pig
Fried Rock
Jyanjyan Noodles
Ooh! There're some good ingredients here, ain't there?
Not only are they not illegal, they're all highly-valued and delicious looking ingredients.
If there aren't any narcotic ingredients,
there's no point of gambling here.
What should we do, Match-san?
Most likely, they handle the narcotic ingredients in the VIP area.
We have to find it and infiltrate it.
H-Hey, you guys...
First we need to gather some playing funds.
You're intending to play in this area?
Well, there are some tasty looking ingredients here.
There it is!
The black card with the unlimited credit rating!
I'll put 100 million yen on my Gourmet Credit Card...
What an enormous amount of coins...
It's 10,000 coins, each worth 10,000 yen.
Isn't that a bit excessive?
The more playing funds we have, the better, right?
Check out this lustrous, glossy, shine.
That a Gourmet Coin for ya.
Gourmet coin?
You see, this coin is actually delicious.
Itadakimasu.
Yum!
Ah, can I have one, too?!
Here.
Yum!
It's sweet, like high-class chocolate!
And this consistency is incredible, too!
The higher the denomination, the better they taste!
Really?
Please don't eat our precious playing funds.
I'm all right with just getting a one million yen coin.
A million yen Gourmet Coin?!
Lemme just taste it!
That's not happening.
Just one bite, please?
I said no.
Just let me lick it then.
No.
Then just let us smell it.
No!
It's Toriko.
Heavenly King Toriko.
Okay, let's go!
Go!
Just one six left!
Six!
All right! I finally got all three!
Now we get a Matching Numbers Fruit, huh?!
And because we got three matching sixes, we get six times our bet.
We bet one million, so that makes us six million.
Yep, sounds right.
Ah, but we had huge losses before that.
You lost 20 times in a row.
Sheddep.
Sorry.
Boss. We've been looking around, but we can't find the VIP area.
I see.
Toriko, Komatsu-kun, how are you two doing?
Woah, Coco-san, is that filled with coins?
Yes.
He's winning like crazy.
I guess so.
But is it okay to just be doing this?
It feels like we're just playing around.
Just doing this will be fine.
I see.
Listen up, guys. We're going to win like crazy in this area, too.
Ah, okay.
Y-Yes sir.
Now, why don't you have some fun, Komatsu?
O-Okay!
He put all of his funds in.
A manly bet on 1.
Just what I'd expect from Match-san.
Go in!
A-A spiritual push from exhaustion!
He moved the ball with his spirit!
That's our boss all right!
Okay, one more try!
18 Ren Kugi Punch!
1
8
Ren
Ku
gi
Pun
ch!
18 Ren Kugi Punch!
Well, if I try 18 different times, some of 'em have gotta be a wins, right?!
Huh?
Sir, I'm afraid that...
Huh? Is this not allowed?
Okay, we'll now begin!
Even or odd?
Now, even or odd? Odd or even?
My fighting spirit... I'll put my fighting spirit into it. Even?
Odd?
Even?
We have ten coins for odd, five for even.
Okay. I'll go for odd, then.
Winning, Komatsu?
W-Woah!
Toriko-san! What did you...?
With that young man going for even, we've got everyone!
Now then, we have...
3-1, even.
W-Wh... It's an even number.
I did it!
I won thanks to you, Toriko-san!
I'm so happy! This is my first win!
What, just three coins?
Your reaction totally doesn't match the number of coins.
That's the face for raking in 100 coins.
What're you talking about? A win is a win!
Aw, come with me a sec.
We'll go for a more high-earning game.
What is this?!
This gigantic slot machine?!
It's Gourmet Casino's famous 100-Face Slot.
100-Face?
Yes.
100 faces vertically, 100 faces horizontally.
There are 60 types of pictures.
They rotate at speeds from 100 to 150 meters a second.
Lining up even three slots sounds hard, but 100?!
There's no way that's possible!
Huh? Well, yeah, guess so.
Then, how about I give it a try?
Ooh, that man looks like he's gonna try it.
Coco-san, don't tell me you've been gathering coins at this machine?
No. I've just been observing it.
That man is Heavenly King Coco-sama.
It's really Coco-sama!
You operate it at this table.
First you insert coins.
The upper limit for betting is a 1 million yen coin.
So you're betting 1 million yen?
Now then... Switch on!
It-It's so fast!
I can't even tell what's what!
You can check what the slot pictures are on the monitor here, but...
it's easier for me to look at the drums directly.
It's perfect!
Wh-What is this? It's beyond incredible!
As you go towards the right, the speed of the drums increases.
And the number of pictures with large multipliers decreases, but at this speed...
to Coco, they look like they're practically standing still.
All that's left is...
the last column!
Coco-san!
You lined them all up!
You did it, Coco-san!
Of my many years of coming here, this is my first time seeing someone line up every column!
Replay what we just saw there.
Yes, sir.
He's just pushing them all perfectly, it doesn't look like there's nothing we can object to.
Heavenly King Coco...
He has come here in the past,
but he didn't play any games then.
But we can't ignore his history as a fortune teller.
If he keeps this up, he'll walk out of here with quite a lot of rare ingredients.
Perhaps we should let him through... to that place...
Boss. There seems to be first-rate customers here.
Heavenly Kings Toriko and Coco, eh?
I've got to add them to my collection.
A mountain of delicious looking ingredients!
Just how many are there?!
They all look so good!
With that 1 million yen coin, he got 1 trillion yen's worth of prizes!
What a massive amount!
Congratulations.
It would seem that lady luck has smiled down on you this evening.
Thank you. But it wasn't luck, it was skill.
He's got that same stinging way of speaking as always.
Then sir, perhaps you'd like to test your skill
on some even more enjoyable games?
Enjoyable games, huh...?
Now then, come right this way...
You've hooked them, huh?
This is what you were aiming for, wasn't it?
You kept on winning in the general area until they would be at a disadvantage to let you stay.
That way, the Gourmet Casino guys
would guide you to the high-stakes casino where they'd wring every coin out of you.
That's the VIP area. You're half right.
What's the other half?
Please rest easy.
We have taken responsibility for all of the ingredients you've won and transported them.
Go ahead, right this way.
This hallways leads to the exclusive VIP area.
Generally, VIP member customers
or customers that have played above a certain threshold in one year are allowed to enter.
But this is a special exception.
You're not just letting us into the VIP area because we won a lot, right?
Yes. You fulfilled one other qualification needed to get into this area.
The ingredients we posses, right?
Yes, sir.
Ingredients we possess?
There are some games where you bet ingredients.
In the general area, you bet with coins you exchanged actual money for.
But in the VIP area you play the games by betting the ingredients you, yourselves have brought in.
So that's what you meant by half right?
You didn't just win in order to draw attention to yourself.
You did it to win ingredients to play in the VIP area.
Pretty much.
In the VIP area, the only thing a customers loses and wins are ingredients.
So there aren't any games where you bet money, just ingredients?
That really sounds like what the VIP room of Gourmet Casino would be.
Well, there is something past the VIP room.
Past it?
Now then, this way.
I went for too many long-shots!
He's been poisoned by a Poison-Poison Apple.
So some ingredients here are even illegal ones that have deadly poison in them?
Giant watermelon-splitting, ladies and gentleman!
Who will split?
Now, here we go!
So this is the Gourmet Casino VIP area?
Oh my. Who'd ever have thought that apple would have poison in it? Too bad...
Well then I'll be taking the ingredient you had bet, the Sunshine Egg.
Okay, I'll just go for another game.
I'll make sure to win this time.
Do you think that robber is gonna get away?
Or you think he'll be shot with a gun and that'll be the end of it?
There's no chance he'll get away.
Let's bet on it.
So those were VIP customers?
Th-The VIP area...
Do people use their lives as something to bet with in the VIP area?
No need to worry.
Those people participating are all
people who've evaded payment on large debts to the casino.
On conditions for quickly paying back their debts,
they volunteered to participate in the games.
But isn't this is a game where you bet ingredients on games...?
In the natural world
even humans make great ingredients, don't they?
Ingredients...?
Match-san. Over there.
Prize Names
Poison Eye
Neli Jelly
Contagion Jellyfish
Trance Snake
Jet Hooligan
Yeah. They're all narcotic ingredients.
We've got to win every last one and dispose of them.
For that, we'll need Coco's power.
Those are Gamble Berries.
Gamble Berries?
Their taste is superb,
but one in every ten berries will kill you within five minutes of eating it.
They're deadly poisonous berries.
How about it? Would any of you like to place a wager?
Or perhaps
you would like to take on the challenge of eating them yourself?
You'll make more money than you would betting on someone else.
By participating in a game where you risk your life,
you can taste even more stimulating thrills and gambles.
Give it up.
I'm not betting on that.
Because that poison won't work on me, you see.
Huh? It won't work?
Then maybe I'll give it a try.
Match-san, that's...
I'll be fine.
You saw Coco's gambling strength earlier.
We can trust it.
We won plenty of ingredients in the general area, too.
We'll entrust all of these ingredients we won to you.
So please...
bet on me.
In that case...
why don't you bet something even better?
Let me invite you...
to the place beyond the VIP area.
Owner!
He's strong.
Boss of the Underground Cooking World, Livebearer, huh?
This person is...
Yes, welcome.
How about we both bet some even tastier things?
Gourmet
Fortune
Telling
This week's Gourmet Fortune Telling!
It's time for the heaping helpingly accurate Gourmet Fortune Telling.
We're using cameras this week, too, so make sure you get them ready.
Now then, choose your favorite from among these.
Inside them are ingredients that will determine your luck for this week.
The higher the Capture Level, the better the Food Luck!
Now then, let's begin.
A heaping helping...
unveil!
The best Food Luck for this week goes to...
A Gorgolops Capture Level 42
everyone who chose A!
Things just might go the way you think they will.
B Elephantsaurus Capture Level 17
The next best Food Luck goes to those that chose B.
The thing you've been looking for forever might just pop up where you least expect it...
C Shakurenodon Capture Level 4
I'm sorry, last are the ones that chose C.
You might lose concentration while you're fatigued.
Pay a heaping helping of attention not to lose anything.
Now then, as usual, we have Gourmet Charm Photography Time.
All ready?
Gourmet Charm Photography Time
Take a picture of the screen that's about to appear,
and if you keep it with you as a charm all week it'll up your Food Luck!
Okay, here we go.
Here's the chance for a scoop!
Three heads are better than one!
That means if you combine the power of three people,
you may gain better wisdom!
Now, let's see if Ram, Shin, and Louie are going to be active next week!
What they're betting are memories of food?
With their entire gourmet lives on the line,
the curtain is drawn on this hell gamble!
A Card Game With Your Life on the Line!
Gourmet Tasting!
Next time will be a heaping helping of fun, too!