Lu Li was quite surprised to hear Jiro say that. In the original work he had read within the space, the final part he had seen was Ichiryu and Midora's decisive battle.
He had been observing the strength of the Four Heavenly Kings to gauge the story's timeline. He had thought it would be quite a while before things reached this point, but it had come so quickly.
"Old man, why aren't you going yourself?"
Lu Li voiced his confusion. Of the three brothers—Ichiryu, Jiro, and Midora—Ichiryu at his peak should have been the strongest, while the other two should have been roughly evenly matched.
In the original work, after Ichiryu and Midora's decisive battle, Midora was moved by the genuine feelings of his elder brother Ichiryu, awakening the softness in his heart and coming to his senses. But just as the family had reconciled and planned to gather for another meal someday, Blue Nitro showed up to steal the kill.
Ichiryu had been badly injured because he had held back earlier. Unable to dodge, he was KO'd in a single blow. Just like that, humanity's strongest fighter in the Gourmet World was gone.
It had the feeling of the protagonists being powerless to catch up, so the plot forcibly killed him off to make room for the protagonists to shine.
Lu Li had read quite a few manga, but he had rarely seen a righteous pillar of strength die as carelessly and meaninglessly as Ichiryu did.
Put simply, the brothers had fought and made up, only for some minor monster to come out and kill one of them. It was far too abrupt.
Although Blue Nitro, as Gourmet Nobles, were also very powerful, that was only relative.
Lu Li felt that in terms of raw strength, Blue Nitro were