Gourmet Capital's Floating Bar

In a private room at the Gourmet Grand Hotel in Gourmet Capital.

At that moment, the usually taciturn Rapp spoke. "On the chairman's orders, we've been monitoring and studying Nitros up to now, and we've discovered a fourth terrifying aspect. That is its food level."

"Food level?"

Rapp explained, "When it comes to the amount they eat in pursuit of delicious food, they're no different from other animals. But Nitros possess the wisdom to deeply process ingredients, and their overwhelming appetite completely surpasses that of humans."

Natalie suddenly remembered something. "Right, that mural we found in the Gourmet Pyramid—"

Mansam added, "They may want to steal human technology. Recently, there have been successive incidents of famous chefs being captured by Nitros. Or perhaps they simply want to eat them after cooking them."

"Huh?" Natalie shuddered at those words.

Director Rin also said, "Although we're isolating and monitoring Nitros in District Zero, there have been cases like the one mentioned earlier, where they awoke from hibernation in undiscovered locations. So our Defense Bureau can't grasp the whole situation or properly defend against it. By the way, although Zebra killed one in the Gourmet Pyramid, another one escaped alive, and we still haven't caught it."

Upon hearing that, Zebra grew agitated. "What? There's another one? I really don't understand. Director, what else are you people hiding from us? If you don't tell us right away, I'll kill every last one of you!"

Mansam sighed. "Gourmet Corp has also gotten involved in this matter."

"Hm?"

"This creature called Nitros has possessed an instinct to seek out delicious food since ancient times. It knows how to obtain GOD."

"You—you're saying what?!"

Mansam's words shocked everyone.

Natalie was even more unable to conceal her astonishment. "The, the legendary ingredient—the main ingredient of Food God Acacia?"