March! Ice Continent!

The Gourmet Hunters' gathering place, the BAR shack.

At that moment, Leiyin and Natalie entered.

But nobody recognized them. They merely thought the two were ordinary Gourmet Hunters.

Meanwhile, Machi, the deputy leader of the Gourmet Gang, and Takimaru, a member of the Gourmet Knights, were still bickering.

Machi looked at him provocatively. "Kid, don't push yourself. You don't want your face to end up like Uncle's, do you?"

Takimaru showed no fear at all. "Only the weak get hurt. Your defensive skills are terrible, Uncle. That's why you got hurt, right?"

Machi's anger flared at those words, and he was just about to draw the sword at his waist.

"Hey! You two aren't allowed to fight in here!" a roar rang out from the tavern, shattering the tense atmosphere. "Everyone, settle down! Mr. Carnel is about to arrive!"

The speaker was the tavern's owner, whom everyone called Old Man Sen.

Sure enough, not long afterward, a group of people in black uniforms rushed inside.

"Mr. Carnel has arrived!"

Everyone was startled. They stopped what they were doing, and then an old man less than a meter tall appeared behind the men in black uniforms.

He was so short that it was hard to believe he was Carnel Mokoi, the Gourmet tycoon and chairman of the "Gourmet Feast Association."

He was the client who had commissioned this mission.

"I'll pay ten billion. Please complete this mission beautifully."

Carnel's words shocked all the Gourmet Hunters.

However, some people still seemed to be questioning his identity.

"Is this person Mr. Carnel?"

"The chairman of that company with annual sales of twenty trillion?"

"The company that purchases huge amounts of ingredients from the Gourmet Department Store every day?"

"He's the one who summoned everyone for this mission?"

The Gourmet Hunters erupted into an