Gluttony Technique

"Golden Gong Whole Fish Banquet!"

"There's even Yellow-Spotted Turtle Hatchling Stew!"

Seeing such a lavish spread of food, Akimichi Toribo's mouth instantly began to water.

He had only eaten the Yellow-Spotted Turtle Hatchling Stew once before, at a Daimyo's Court Banquet in the Land of Fire. The memory was still vivid, which was why he recognized the famous dish immediately.

Moreover, they were on the front lines of a battlefield. To be able to eat a home-cooked meal was already satisfying. Faced with such a tempting delicacy, if he didn't trust his own strength, he would have thought he was under a genjutsu.

"Please!"

Umino Sasuke held out the bowls and chopsticks with both hands to his superior. The set was twice the size of the usual ones.

Akimichi Toribo didn't stand on ceremony. He immediately took the utensils and began to devour the food.

"Mmm! Delicious, delicious!"

Akimichi Toribo praised it without end. With such food before him, he simply couldn't stop.

"Let's all eat together."

Akimichi Toribo's mouth was full of food, making his words slightly slurred, but the way his chopsticks moved clearly indicated he wanted everyone to join in. As a seasoned foodie with high standards, eating alone was nowhere near as satisfying as sharing the feast with others.

"Alright!"

Umino Sasuke had been waiting impatiently. However, before he started eating, he secretly activated the Infrasonic Radar Technique. He specifically found a particularly fatty piece of turtle butt from the pot and placed it in Akimichi Toribo's large bowl before digging in himself.

Seeing the large, fatty piece of meat in his bowl, Akimichi Toribo's eyes lit up. He inwardly praised his subordinate for being so thoughtful and gestured with his chopsticks again, signaling the younger ones to start eating quickly.

"Wow! This is so delicious!"

The three children of Tejudo ate with great joy, and the Ninja Hound Akitaru wagged its tail incessantly, overjoyed.

At the table, there were no distinctions of age or rank. The five of them attacked the food with their chopsticks, scrambling to get their share.

The Yellow-Spotted Turtle Hatchling Stew, in particular, was incredibly delicious. As the meal progressed, Umino Sasuke couldn't help but continuously use the Infrasonic Radar Technique to pick out the most delectable pieces of meat to eat first.

However, he still couldn't compete with the gluttonous Akimichi Toribo. By the end of the meal, the four of them combined hadn't eaten as much as he had alone.

"Wow! I'm so full."

Tejudo lay on the grass, his belly bulging like a giant ball, feeling utterly content.

"Awesome! I haven't felt this satisfied in ages."

Akimichi Toribo patted his stomach, looking extremely pleased.

Tejudo envied Akimichi Toribo's incredible appetite and asked curiously, "Lord Toribo, is there a Sealing Scroll in your big belly? You ate so much food, but your stomach isn't even as full as mine."

Inuzuka Ryo, standing nearby, was also amazed but not surprised. He explained, "Lord Toribo is a Jonin of the Akimichi Clan, so his appetite is naturally huge. This is nothing. Once, I went to a barbecue restaurant in Konoha and saw Lord Torifu eating barbecue. His appetite was far more terrifying than Lord Toribo's."

"Huh?" Umino Sasuke's heart was filled with surprise and unease. He then realized that the Akimichi Clan's large appetite was common knowledge. However, being able to eat more than one's own body weight was somewhat unbelievable.

"What is this?"

Umino Sasuke's gaze sharpened, and his heart trembled. Under his Infrasonic Radar Perception Technique, he saw that some of the Chakra within Akimichi Toribo was stimulating the vagus nerve endings in his intestines, causing a massive secretion of gastric acid, bile, and digestive enzymes. This rapidly digested the food in his stomach and converted it into biological energy.

Then, through a Yang Release Secret Jutsu, this biological energy was stored in the body's fat.

No wonder he could eat so much. It turned out that the food was digested and absorbed in a short period, converted into biological energy, and stored as fat.

"This is truly miraculous."

Umino Sasuke was astonished. At the same time, his heart burned with desire. This Akimichi Secret Jutsu was almost identical in effect to the Yin Seal. If he could learn this secret jutsu, wouldn't it solve his severe Chakra deficiency problem?

However, he quickly calmed down, realizing he was being a bit too optimistic.

Secretly learning this Akimichi Secret Jutsu would be extremely easy to expose. This wasn't as simple as borrowing the Inuzuka Clan's Beast Mimicry Secret Jutsu, which could be passed off as a Transformation Jutsu if discovered. If he cultivated this Akimichi Secret Jutsu, he would inevitably be covered in fat, and it would be obvious he had stolen someone else's secret jutsu. It would be impossible to hide.

Stealing the secret jutsu of a ninja clan was a major taboo. If discovered, he would have no place in Konoha and would be forced to become a rogue ninja.

Becoming a rogue ninja was a path only for the strong. For an ordinary ninja like him, having the opportunity to be a ninja in Konoha was basically equivalent to passing the civil service exam and becoming a respectable person with a Konoha affiliation. As long as he didn't encounter a Ninja War, his life would be quite comfortable. Who would voluntarily become a rogue ninja, living at the mercy of others?

If he truly wanted to become a rogue ninja, he would first have to ask himself if he could get past Shimura Danzō, the Darkness of the Ninja World.

However, even if he were willing to pay any price to become a rogue ninja and steal this Akimichi Secret Jutsu now, he couldn't. He currently lacked the relevant knowledge of Yang Release and couldn't understand how the digested food energy was converted into body fat through Yang Release.

He also didn't know how to burn body fat to produce Chakra.

"I can't learn the complete Akimichi Secret Jutsu for now, but I can learn a thing or two from the Akimichi Clan's Food Digestion Technique."

Umino Sasuke's mind was made up. While the secrets of the Akimichi Clan's Yang Release were difficult to decipher for now, the Food Digestion Technique was relatively easy to learn and less likely to be exposed. Even if it were discovered, the problem wouldn't be too significant.

After all, the key to the Akimichi Secret Jutsu lay in the use of Yang Release, how to convert food energy into fat, and how to burn fat to produce a large amount of Chakra for the Expansion Jutsu.

As long as he didn't touch upon the Akimichi Clan's physique or their Expansion Jutsu, the risk would be minimal.

"My Shadow Clone is about to disappear. I have to go back now. Let's get together again sometime."

Akimichi Toribo, having eaten his fill, patted his belly and prepared to leave.

Clearly, he couldn't resist the temptation of the delicious food and had snuck over alone, even using a Shadow Clone.

"Lord Toribo, why wait for another time? Are you perhaps free tonight?"

Umino Sasuke put on a subservient act, his face full of flattery. Inwardly, he was anxious. The clairvoyant ability of the Infrasonic Radar Technique he had just used only gave him a rough understanding. He needed to conduct further research and comparative experiments to fully learn this Food Digestion Technique. He couldn't let this Akimichi fatty get away.

"Hey, of course, I'm free. I'm more than free."

Akimichi Toribo's face lit up with joy. He inwardly praised his subordinate for being so thoughtful and knowing how to please his superior, understanding his preference. He would have to take good care of such an excellent subordinate in the future; they were incredibly rare.