Food Wars: The Fishing System

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Just like that, the group split into two teams. One team took the ingredients back to the Human World, and Yuuki's team went to the Fifth Continent to capture NEWS.

Setsuno and the others returned to the Human World by the old road. After returning to the Human World, Setsuno directly gave a part of ANOTHER to Ichiryu.

After getting the ingredient, Ichiryu sent the rest to Midora.

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"ANOTHER was also captured by you? I have to say, that guy named Yuuki is really amazing."

For ANOTHER to be captured, Midora had nothing to say.

The difficulty of capturing these ingredients—while he didn't have a precise understanding, just thinking about Froese's condition back then told him it would be incredibly challenging. Yuuki and the others had actually secured two of them in such a short time. That was the most shocking part. And they'd even bypassed PAIR entirely.

Midora was crystal clear that Acacia's Full Course Menu couldn't be bypassed.

But Midora didn't waste any words. After eating ANOTHER, he also shared some with Starjun and the others. Midora had no interest in recovering forgotten memories whatsoever. The memories he'd lost were all painful ones. Being born just to serve as food—who would want to remember something like that?

So, although Midora had remembered these memories, he had also forcibly made himself forget them again. This kind of memory was useless to keep.

But one person was very concerned.

After eating ANOTHER, Starjun suddenly looked at Komatsu.

"Starjun, what's wrong?"

Starjun's actions and the change in his aura immediately caught Midora's attention. Ichiryu looked over with some confusion.

"I..."

Starjun didn't know what to say.

Should he say this world was very small? As the son of Acacia and Froese—he had actually been drawn into this organization by Acacia's student.

This made him a bit emotional.

This world was really too small. At the same time, his inner guilt reached its peak. After all, he had been able to be born smoothly back then because he had absorbed Toriko's nutrients and Food Luck—

—As a result, Toriko, because of the lack of nutrients and Food Luck, had still spent a lot of time before he was born. And because Toriko's Food Luck was very poor at that time—he had appeared in a war-torn area.

At that time, Toriko couldn't eat his fill at all, a world of difference from Starjun.

To be born by absorbing everything from Toriko—and yet he had previously captured his own brother's partner.

If the dishes Komatsu had made hadn't satisfied Midora, Komatsu would have died here. This was equivalent to him almost killing his own brother's partner. Although he hadn't known before—at this moment—Starjun's guilt had reached its peak.

He didn't know how to face Toriko anymore...

Ichiryu and Midora were very surprised. The emotion Starjun was showing at this moment was too obvious. It was a kind of guilt, a guilt that had reached its extreme. But why would Starjun feel guilty?

And why was he feeling guilty towards Komatsu?

"STARJUN, WHAT DID YOU REMEMBER? TELL US!"

Midora said.

He was quite worried about Starjun's situation. After all, Starjun was the last pillar of the Gourmet Corp, and someone he genuinely respected.

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"Alright... Because of ANOTHER, I've remembered things from my past—memories from the moment I was born. My father is Acacia, my mother is Froese, and my younger brother... is Toriko."

Starjun laid it all out, and the bombshell silenced the room.

Komatsu and Otake were completely speechless, but even Midora and Ichiryu were caught off guard for a moment.

As far as they knew, Froese and Acacia had never had children. How could this be possible? And for the other one to be Toriko?

Ichiryu knew all too well that during the Gourmet Festival—Starjun and Toriko had fought to the death. Starjun had even kidnapped Toriko's partner, Komatsu.

The animosity between them was practically at its peak.

And now, they were supposed to be brothers?

"I know it sounds insane, but it's the truth—it's buried deep in my memory. Toriko and I drifted at Sea for centuries before we were unsealed. I was born first because I absorbed his nutrients and his Food Luck."

"The deepest parts of my memory... I can still recall some of it..."

Starjun recounted what he could remember—Froese sealing them away, setting them adrift on the ocean. It was a desperate, dangerous move, but she had blessed them with an immense amount of Food Luck—allowing them to survive their centuries-long journey and be born more than five hundred years later.

Back then, Froese couldn't bring herself to tell Acacia about the pregnancy. She knew that he, consumed by his grand ambitions, was willing to sacrifice anything—including his own children. Acacia would never have tolerated a complication like a child interfering with his plans. So Froese had sent them away.

What he was doing might have been for the Good of the universe, but for Earth and every living thing on it, it was an unmitigated disaster.

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"So Lady Froese had children back then... What in the world is Master Acacia planning? To make her so afraid that she wouldn't even allow herself to be revived, to the point of sending her own newborn children away!"

Ichiryu's brow furrowed.

He didn't know the full extent of Acacia's plans—but for Froese to be that terrified—it meant Acacia was no longer the man he once knew.

"You still call him 'Master'? From what Starjun has said, and from all the intel you have, that man is a lost cause."

Normally, Midora would have held the utmost respect for his master, but seeing what Acacia had done now, he could only say one thing:

Froese had chosen the wrong man.

But Food Luck was a strange thing. In the end, Starjun had been brought to Midora, while Toriko had ended up with Ichiryu. It was all because of Food Luck. Although Starjun had absorbed Toriko's Food Luck, it would recover over time. That was why Toriko's childhood had been so miserable.

But later, he had met Ichiryu—that was because his Food Luck had recovered to a certain extent.

"Boss, I want to take Komatsu and find Toriko."

Just as Midora finished speaking, Starjun spoke up. Toriko was his brother. He couldn't run from what he had done. He had to find him.

Starjun truly owed Toriko a great deal. At birth, they should have been unsealed at the same time. But because Starjun had absorbed Toriko's Food Luck and nutrients, Toriko's birth had been delayed, and his childhood had been miserable. That was on Starjun.

Even if he hadn't done it intentionally, the fact remained.

And later, when they were capturing ingredients, they had fought several times. He had almost never been at a disadvantage—it was always Toriko who suffered.

During the battle at the Gourmet Festival, he had even torn off Toriko's arm and leg. If Toriko's Appetite Demon hadn't emerged to save him, Toriko would have died at his hands. Even though he had survived, he had still taken his partner. After this series of events, Starjun felt as if his world was collapsing. He didn't even know how to face his brother.

So now, his only thought was to take Komatsu back to Toriko, to return what he had taken.

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"Even if you want to, that Gourmet Hunter Toriko has already entered the Gourmet World, right? The Gourmet World is huge. Where are you going to find him?"

Otake couldn't help but point out.

From Ichiryu, he had learned that Toriko of the Four Heavenly Kings had already entered the Gourmet World and was looking for Komatsu. No one knew where he was now. Finding a single person in this world was incredibly difficult—especially in a place like the Gourmet World.

If it were the Human World, you could find someone quickly by checking specific information. But finding someone in the Gourmet World was harder than finding a needle in a haystack.

"That's not a problem. This little guy's Food Luck is very strong. We just need to let him lead the way."

Ichiryu said with a smile.

Komatsu's Food Luck was second only to Yuuki's and one other Gourmet Hunter in the Human World—So, his Food Luck would guide them to Toriko. In the original story, although Toriko had said he had found Komatsu by following his nose, Food Luck had also played a huge role.

So now, all they had to do was let Komatsu lead the way, and Starjun could easily find Toriko.

At this moment, after learning that Starjun was Toriko's brother, Komatsu no longer insisted on waiting here for him. He also hoped the relationship between the two brothers could be reconciled.

So, Komatsu immediately agreed to Starjun's decision.

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