"Whoa~!"
(⊙o⊙*)
Annie was leaning against the plane window, looking at the scenery outside and exclaiming in amazement.
After leaving the Puffer Whale Cavern, Toriko and Komatsu, along with Annie, who had been waiting outside for quite some time, were quickly invited by the International Gourmet Organization, or IGO, to board a large helicopter. They were now heading to a certain destination to carry out a gourmet hunting mission.
Before boarding the plane, Annie hadn't told Uncle Komatsu or Uncle Toriko about meeting some crotchety old man named Jiro on the beach or catching two or three hundred Puffer Whales. She'd simply given them one cleaned Puffer Whale to share.
Even so, it had given them quite a shock.
Fortunately, they were both easygoing enough not to ask any questions. They accepted Annie's gift without fuss, split the Puffer Whale in half, and each took one half. They didn't mention that they'd also caught more than a dozen and had successfully prepared one, which they'd eaten together.
"Annie?"
"Is this your first time on a plane?"
Seeing the troublesome little girl shouting excitedly beside him, Toriko, the big-nosed man, naturally assumed it was just as he'd thought.
"Of course not!"
(¬д¬.)
"I've ridden spaceships so many times I'm sick of them. How could this be my first time on your slow, junky contraption?"
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"Then why are you shouting the whole time?"
With nothing else to do, Komatsu asked curiously.
"I just saw a flock of giant eagles flying across the sky in the distance. They looked like they'd be really tasty, so that's why!"
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"Eagles?"
"They were probably some kind of migratory bird or geese."
"Eagles are powerful predators in the sky. They wouldn't fly in flocks. It's like how a mountain can't hold two tigers—unless it's a