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Kittie
Someone once said...
That there are lotus roots that will taste good or bad depending on the timing it's stopped with.
The roulette-like lotus root,
Roullotuses.
That there are coral reefs that are like complete meals, Coraleals,
which have whales that spout 600 million yen's worth of high-class ingredients,
High Clales.
The world is in the Gourmet Age.
The age of seeking out yet-unknown tastes.
In order to obtain the training ingredient requested of him by Ichiryuu, the Meteor Garlic,
Toriko went with Coco and Komatsu as well as Match's group into Gourmet Casino.
They made a killing in the general area casino
and were guided to the VIP area where illegal ingredients were being used as prizes.
And then the casino's owner appeared before Toriko and the others,
the boss of the Underground Cooking World, Livebearer.
Let me invite you...
to the place beyond the VIP area.
A Card Game With Your Life on the Line!
Gourmet Tasting!
Let's bet some even tastier things.
Some even better things.
All of the ingredients we won in the general area are rare and valuable.
Things that surpass even those...?
Welcome to the Underground VIP Area.
Underground VIP Area?
Only the most special among the VIP customers are allowed to enter this room.
And of course, you all fulfill the criteria.
Especially Toriko and Coco.
I can't believe that tastes like this existed in the world...
So good! So good!
Another serving! Bring seconds right away!
Wh-What's going on with him?
Give them back. Give them back.
I'm begging you, give them back.
My... My memories of food!
You didn't even lose any particularly great memories.
Bring us some snacks.
Yes, sir.
Give them back.
Give my back my Food History!
Food History?
I can't believe the rumors were really true.
They're probably betting them in the casino.
The memories of food they've eaten in the past.
A personal food record, their Food History.
Their Food Histories?
Just what I'd expect from Heavenly King Coco.
You are quite knowledgeable.
When I was in Jidar before today, I was searching for information on a certain ingredient.
I happened to hear about it.
Is that right?
You've come to Jidar before, have you?
So? Were you able to find information on that ingredient?
No.
Oh, that's too bad.
By the way, what is that ingredient?
Atom.
Atom?!
Yes. The drink of Bishokushin Acacia's Full Course.
It's an ingredient I'm aiming to make a part of my Lifetime Full Course.
I see.
It's quite rare to see information on that ingredient.
But you may be able to find a hint in the Underground VIP Area...
from someone's memories.
Oh. There's someone having their memories taken right now.
Would you like to see?
The VIPs eat a great deal of valuable and rare ingredients that are captured by first-class Bishokuya.
So they're filled to the brim with delicious memories.
Stop!
My daughter's birthday!
S-Stop...
No point in interfering, Toriko.
Don't.
If we interfere now, it would actually just be dangerous.
Yes. There would be a possibility of destroying his spirit.
Well, eating is closely related to people you hold dear and commemorative events.
If those memories disappear,
the heart could...
break down.
S-Stop.
Please, stop.
His memories now belong to me.
This is just too horrible!
Horrible?
He tried his luck in a game here at Gourmet Casino, seeking food data, and lost.
That's the result of a game.
Memories are nothing more than a signal sent to the brain.
As are tastes.
We remove the signal of "delicious"
and load it into a different brain.
So you're saying that a person can taste something another person originally sensed?
So that's what that unsavory thing on the back of your head is for.
There are quite a lot of VIPs that want to get the memories gathered here.
That's why they bet them in games. Their own memories of food.
Memories are a mountain of treasure.
Extinct ingredients or illegal ingredients that were once popular.
If you have the taste data,
it is possible to even restore powerful narcotic ingredients of the past.
You abomination...
So what do you say? Do you have the courage to lose your delicious memories?
C'mon, bet your ingredients and have a match with me!
The Meteor Garlic.
Do you have that as a prize?
I do.
The taste data is inside my head, that is.
So is that what it is, old man Ichiryuu...
That game or whatever where we need to bet our memories,
how about we give it a shot?
I thought you might say that.
W-We're gonna do it?
Toriko-san, our memories might disappear!
Toriko-san!
Our memories... All of our tasty memories!
Oh, if you're going to say you quit now, it's too late.
You've already thrown the dice.
Welcome to the Gourmet Tasting Arena.
Gourmet Tasting?
It's a simple card game.
You know the of game "concentration", yes?
The game we're about to play is food concentration.
Okay, pay attention.
I'm going to go through the rules quite quickly, so listen closely.
We'll be using these Gourmet Tasting Cards.
The backs have numbers
and the fronts have an ingredient and a number of points.
The one to gather the most points wins.
If we take this card for example...
Celebabeef is 10 points, you mean?
That's right.
First we randomly shuffle the cards and place them face down.
A player then flips over two cards.
If the picture on the two cards don't match, that's an out.
The turn then switches to the opponent.
If you get the same ingredient picture, that's a hit.
So it's basically the same as concentration.
Yes.
But here's the big difference.
One who has hit a card has to eat the same ingredient as the one shown on the card.
If they finish eating it completely, the points written on the cards go to the eater.
For the Celebabeef, that's 10 points.
Ooh! You get to eat what's pictured on the cards? This game sounds awesome!
Well, yes, however...
If you can't finish the whole thing...
those points go to your opponent's side.
And the card-flipping turn also switches to the opponent.
So even if you match the cards, if you can't finish the ingredient, you can't get points.
Not only that, they become the opponent's points.
That's the gist of it.
I see.
If you can't finish eating something twice in a row, at that point, you lose.
You'll also lose by not matching cards 10 times in a row, thus getting outs,
so do be careful.
If this is the same as concentration,
then if you guess the cards right and finish eating the food, then you get another turn to draw cards, yes?
Yes, but there's a limit of 3 consecutive turns.
If you get hits and finish eating three times, it becomes the opponent's turn for choosing cards.
That's a rule to get both players to eat more ingredients.
I get it. So how many of those ingredients are there in total?
There will be 28 types in total.
What, is that all?
I wouldn't say that.
It would be best if you didn't take this lightly.
Because there are also two varieties of joker ingredients among them.
Joker ingredients?
Yes.
Every challenger works very hard to finish eating those.
If they are able to do so, they become able to trade any one variety of their cards with one of their opponent's.
In other words, if you can finish the joker ingredient,
you can capture one high-point ingredients the opponent has.
Yes.
However, you need to make sure to finish eating the ingredient you traded with the opponent.
Well, to make a long story short,
you match cards, eat all the food,
and the one who has more points at the end wins, right?
He summarized it so smoothly.
Yes, pretty much.
Now then, shall we decide the card level?
Level?
Yes.
Just like how restaurants have a certain number of stars, the cards have levels.
The higher the level, the higher the class and rarity of the ingredients.
But in exchange, there are more difficult to eat ingredients.
Well if we're doing this game anyhow, we'd might as well go with the tastier ingredients.
Indeed.
The level of cards changes depending on the memories you're betting, though.
This time we'll undoubtedly be going with the highest level, then.
Now then, we have several thousand varieties of card sets.
Chose one of these and we will use that for our game.
Hold on.
Can you prove that these aren't cards that would give you an advantage?
Th-That's right!
I cannot prove it.
However, I am a chef, as well as Gourmet Casino's owner, and a dealer.
Understand?
I have my pride as gambler.
I would not do something as low as that.
And there would be nothing entertaining about winning through cheating.
Don't make me laugh.
Now, shall we get the game started?
Toriko-san, I think this really is too dangerous.
Our opponent is an expert at this game.
The idea of losing the memories of what I ate with you and everyone is... is...
is something I really don't want!
The past doesn't really matter, does it?
The only thing I'm looking at is the future.
Always.
And there's no way we're going to lose.
Right?
Toriko-san!
And so...
we're counting on you, Coco.
So in the end you're just relying on me?
After you said those cool things?
I'm entrusting our future to you.
Oh, I really don't mind if all of you participate.
Really?
Then allow me to participate as well.
But not as a player.
As the dealer.
We're on the Underground Cooking World's turf.
Please allow us at least this.
Th-Then I'll...
cook the ingredients we hit to make them tastier to eat.
That'll be my job.
And of course, I'll do the eating
of the ingredients Coco guesses.
Yes. I'll draw the cards.
Splendid!
Come at me together!
Now, we will finally get food concentration, Gourmet Tasting, underway!
There's a live announcer?!
We're finally playing our fun little game, don't you want to heat things up?
Challenging the boss of us and the whole Underground Cooking World, Livebearer-sama,
are the Heavenly Kings Toriko and Coco as well as Hotel Gourmet's Chef Komatsu.
Livebearer, are you okay with playing alone?
Of course. I've always played my games alone.
By the way, to this point I have 214 wins and 0 losses.
Of all my guests, I've left every last one's brains completely empty.
Let me just give you some advice.
You had best not group us together with the guests you've had previously.
Is that right?
You've got quite some confidence.
Where does that confidence come from?
You'll soon find out.
We'll determine who goes first.
It's a coin toss.
Choose heads or tails for the coin I throw.
Well this is the underworld, so I'll go with tails.
Coco, are you okay with heads?
Neither.
Neither side. That is my choice.
Coco-san?
Okay, here we go!
Now, the coin which the player's fate is riding on has been tossed!
The coin has quite some force.
It's fallen to the table and is rolling!
Which will it be? Heads? Tails?
It-It's tails!
Oh my!
What? The coin has righted itself!
It's...
Neither heads nor tails.
Ah?
It stood!
The coin has stood up!
What an uproarious start!
Who could have predicted this?!
No, wait, it was predicted!
I just tossed the coin normally, but he...
Coco-san, that was so amazing!
Are you all right with me going first?
Go ahead. This is interesting.
You do indeed seem to be different from the guests I've had previously.
Please pick two numbers.
I'll flip the cards.
Number 8.
First up is Team Coco-Toriko-Komatsu.
It's the exquisite cherry with the taste of an apple's sourness and sweetness added to it,
the Cherrapple has been unveiled!
That's a high-class cherry ingredient!
If he can flip over another Cherrapple,
that means we'll earn 10 points.
It won't be that easy.
First there will be a lot of draws where both players get outs,
because we have to check which cards go with which numbers.
Number 29.
Ooh! The Cherrapple!
We have a hit right off the bat!
My oh my.
That's so amazing, too!
Please eat this Cherrapple completely.
Now, Team Coco-Toriko-Komatsu
are already at the actual eating time!
I'm counting on you, Toriko.
I've got this!
I don't need any cooking for this, either!
Okay, just go ahead and enjoy them as they are.
I give thanks to all of the ingredients in this world...
Itadakimasu!
Yum!
Coco-Toriko-Komatsu
Livebearer
Team Coco-Toriko-Komatsu has earned 10 points!
You did it!
Now, shall we keep going?
Sure!
A coincidence?
No, that's not it.
This man knew he was picking a hit.
This looks like the first really fun game I've had in quite a while.
Today's
Gourmet Tasting
Lecture
I'm your newscaster, Tina.
Gourmet Tasting has finally begun!
In this corner we'll be checking in on the flow of the game today and give a heaping helping of an explanation.
I really wish I could do the live announcing for the game, but...
The casino is in a country that's not a member-state of the IGO.
So there's really no way I could do it. Oh well.
Ah, excuse me!
Okay, the first turn of the game went to Team Coco-Toriko-Komatsu.
Coco showed us the miraculous feat of drawing two Cherrapple cards in one shot
and Toriko finished eating them splendidly.
Toriko's team gets 10 points.
Coco-Toriko-Komatsu
Livebearer
Now for today's Kruppoint!
Kruppoint
The lowest value in the game
is 10 points!
The truth is, the lowest amount of points you can earn is 10 points.
Coco-Toriko-Komatsu
Livebearer
So there can be a quick comeback after that.
Now, what kind of move will Livebearer pull?
A heaping helping exciting, isn't it?
Now then, on to the next corner.
Electromagnetic waves versus bizarre abilities.
Heavenly King Coco shows his skill.
And a gigantic mountain of pudding appears before Toriko?!
Dead Heat!
Coco VS Livebearer
Next time will be a heaping helping of fun, too!