To everyone's astonishment, after the camping picnic ended and they had finished eating all the roasted whole pigs, just as they were preparing to set off in search of the Hankrila Bird, they suddenly discovered that the formidable little one—the little girl Annie, who had felled all the roasted pigs with a single lightning strike—had vanished.
No one knew where she had gone. Everyone searched the surrounding area, but in the end, they found nothing.
There was nothing they could do. After waiting a long while without seeing the slightest trace of her, and considering the little one's terrifyingly powerful strength, they decided she surely was not in danger. At Luffy's insistent request, and after Nami and the others discussed it, they unanimously decided that the gourmet hunter Toriko would finally lead everyone on their journey to find the legendary ingredient, the "Hankrila Bird."
The journey was far from peaceful. The island was nowhere near as safe as Nami and the others had imagined—at least, its level of danger was far beyond what they had expected.
For example, along the way they encountered terrifying One-Horned Bears whose flesh was as hard as steel and iron, as well as herd-dwelling Horn Lions whose manes were made of cake cheese. Those ferocious gourmet beasts left Nami and the others in a sorry state, and finally made them understand why Toriko, besides being a gourmet, also carried the title of gourmet hunter.
Clearly, to eat those delicious foods in this Gourmet World, they had to fight those ferocious gourmet beasts. Without a hunter's skills and a thorough understanding of the habits of various gourmet beasts, the difficulty of obtaining those delicacies was truly beyond what ordinary people could imagine.
Regardless, after enduring all sorts of hardships, Nami and the others finally encountered the