Food Wars: The Fishing System

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Soon, a large number of ANOTHER phantoms appeared on the dozen fish. These phantoms began to spread wildly outwards. This was the deliciousness of ANOTHER—and this deliciousness directly acted on the soul.

The deliciousness continued to spread and couldn't be stopped. The group, who had been prepared for a long time—also quickly rushed to the exit.

Because they had been prepared from the beginning, when they arrived—the deliciousness of ANOTHER hadn't spread to the point of shattering the exit.

Countless Food Spirits, overwhelmed by this incredible flavor, began to fade away from this world. At the same time, the people at Blue Grill on the Sixth Continent felt the same effect—all swept up by this overwhelming flavor.

After all, the passage was right here, so a part of the deliciousness clearly spread out.

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On the Ten-Shell Five's side, because Don Slime was personally leading the team this time, they didn't need to help. They just had to wait for the news.

This deliciousness at this moment immediately spread to the area where the Ten-Shell Five were.

"This... incredible flavor—could this be ANOTHER? And these memories..."

Several people fell into silence. At this moment, their memories were constantly recovering. They remembered their past selves. After living for so long, processing these returning memories wasn't easy...

"I see. So this is the reason I came back??"

At this moment, Asarudy looked at his hands. He remembered the promise he had made with his lover. He remembered the reason he had come back. Looking at his hands, his eyes were gradually covered with a layer of mist, and two lines of tears flowed down.

"The World of Souls is really frightening. It made me forget so much!"

Another old man sighed.

Then he removed the mask from his face. He'd worn it partly due to the rules here, and partly because they hadn't even known who they were. Living behind someone else's face constantly would create problems. But now they'd found themselves again. Even though they were still in borrowed bodies, there was no need to hide anymore.

"Asarudy, you're crying!!!"

The others looked at Asarudy and found that he was crying his eyes out. It was clear that his memories were definitely not simple.

"I have something to take care of. I'll be leaving first."

Asarudy didn't answer their questions but chose to leave directly. He was going to the Snow Church to find the person who had been waiting for him there.

In the Blue Grill, because there were many people gathered—different forces had clearly been born. The Snow Church was one of them.

Back then, he and his lover had agreed to meet at the Snow Church. He had sworn that he would definitely come back. After he came back, he would marry his lover at the Snow Church.

But because he had forgotten who he was after coming back from the World of Souls, he hadn't gone to find her. As for his lover—she had also entered the World of Souls after she died—but she had lost herself.

She hadn't even had a chance to come back before she was worn away and entered another layer of the world of death.

Asarudy, arriving at the Snow Church, spotted the figure kneeling before it. The Snow Church itself was a very small church, and Asarudy had been the main person in charge back then. After he died, the Snow Church had gradually declined.

In the end, only his lover was left to guard the Snow Church.

Looking at his lover's skeleton still kneeling in the Snow Church, and even in a praying position, Asarudy burst into tears.

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On the other side, after the group left the World of Souls, the gate of the World of Souls was soon shattered.

The connection between the World of Souls and the outside world was temporarily cut off. Of course, it wasn't a problem to contact the inside, but it wouldn't be easy to rebuild a gate.

"You're back so soon. But what's with the gate of the World of Souls? How was it directly destroyed??"

Jiji asked with some confusion, looking at the group.

"Because we used the ingredient guidance method, the deliciousness from cooking ANOTHER spread throughout the entire World of Souls. The sheer flavor was so intense it shattered the gate of the World of Souls."

Yuuki said.

After hearing this, Jiji's eyes widened again. He really didn't expect such a thing to happen. He was very interested in the new preparation method—

—Don Slime appeared directly in front of everyone. After all, the successful preparation of ANOTHER was good news. But the next second, Don Slime froze for a moment.

"Hm? What's wrong? Did something happen?"

Seeing Don Slime freeze for a moment, Jiji asked with some confusion.

"There's a problem with the Blue Grill. The deliciousness emitted by ANOTHER can make the Food Spirits remember who they are. Many Food Spirits have chosen to leave their original bodies. These bodies have been re-possessed by their original owners."

Don Slime said.

"That's not a problem, right? Stabilizing the situation is not difficult. It shouldn't be worth you being stunned, right?"

Jiji said.

This place was created by Don Slime alone.

In this place, no matter how big a commotion was made, Don Slime could handle it.

"Of course, it's not because of this. It's because of Asarudy. He has remembered his past. And he doesn't want to live anymore. He wants to give his body to me before he dies!"

Don Slime said.

Hearing this, Jiji was very surprised.

Asarudy's body was the most compatible with Don Slime's cells—at least, that was true before Ichiryu was taken out of the equation. Before Ichiryu showed up, Asarudy was the best option for revival.

But that 'best' was only relative to everyone else in Blue Grill. For Don Slime, it still wasn't the ideal choice. So Don Slime decided to wait and see what else might turn up.

Now that Asarudy had made this decision, Don Slime was stuck between a rock and a hard place. After all, he was still trapped in Ichiryu's body, and breaking free wasn't going to be easy.

Hearing this, Yuuki remembered this plot.

The world of Toriko had very few romantic storylines—it focused more on friendship, and some bonds even transcended what you'd typically call friendship.

But Asarudy's subplot was genuinely compelling. Even though he didn't get much screen time and his role was relatively small, the little we saw of this relationship was really well done. But it was precisely because of this that the impact of the love between Asarudy and his lover was very great.

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"That's a real problem. Your most suitable body is President Ichiryu's, but you can't use his body to resurrect now. That only leaves Asarudy. But are you going to resurrect at a time like this?"

Jiji asked.

In his view, this was a very troublesome matter. Don Slime was not an Appetite Demon from the Red Universe, so the conditions for his resurrection were very strict. For other Appetite Demons, the resurrection method was not so demanding.

"You guys handle ANOTHER first. I'm going to talk to Ichiryu."

With that, Don Slime disappeared.

Seeing him like this—Yuuki could tell he probably still wanted to come back to life. He couldn't be bothered with all that drama. Whether Don Slime got resurrected or not wasn't his problem. Right now, his priority was eating ANOTHER first.

Once he ate ANOTHER, he could unlock an entirely new sense of taste—the taste of the Red Universe. This ability was crucial. After all, human taste buds were fundamentally different from other creatures'. What humans found delicious might be completely unappealing to other beings.

What other creatures found delicious—for humans—might be a taste that was very difficult to swallow.

In the world of Toriko, there was a concept that everything was an ingredient, whether it was humans or other creatures.

In this world, 'ingredients' could mean anything—soil, stones, entire planets, galaxies, even the universe itself. But whether you could actually eat these things? That depended on whether you had the teeth for it.

For people with Gourmet Cells, they could even chew on stones like chocolate. But no one would eat stones. Besides those with a pica disorder, probably no normal person would like it.

But once you unlocked a brand-new Sense of Taste—then even stones would become as delicious as chocolate and meat.

You could eat absolutely anything.

To put it bluntly, even the most revolting things would taste incredible. The higher-level ingredients that came after also required this new sense of taste unlocked by eating ANOTHER. Without it, you'd still get the benefits from consuming them, but you'd miss out on experiencing their true flavor.

Besides filling your stomach, wasn't the purpose of eating to taste delicious food?

So, ANOTHER was very important.

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