On the Ligarou Plains, where the average capture level was well over twenty, there was a place commonly known as the Devil's Courtyard. After battling a group of monsters and winning decisively, Annie, Uncle Toriko, and the others finally arrived at a grassland covered in black grass. It was commonly known as the Black Carpet.
At that moment, nearby, Gourmet Hunters Toriko and Sunny, Komatsu, Rin, and a certain young reporter were having a picnic beneath a large tree. They were eagerly pulling up the black grass and gulping it down with juice squeezed from some strange fruit growing in the tree.
"Annie, don't you want to come have some?"
"It's delicious!"
Beneath the tree, Rin pulled up a clump of grass and waved it at Annie, urging her to hurry over and join them.
"No!"
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"I'm not eating grass!"
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That was right. Although everyone said this black grass growing from the ground was incredibly delicious and could be eaten as a salad, Annie wasn't about to eat it like some of those people. She was a carnivore who preferred meat, and she was just waiting for that Jewel Meat to satisfy her craving.
Besides, in her eyes, the way those people were eating was no different from the horses and cows in the distance. She wasn't about to do something like that!
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"You don't want to eat grass?"
"Annie, don't be so ungrateful! This isn't ordinary grass. It's Black Grass, found only in the First Gourmet Reserve!"
"Outside, a bundle like this would cost at least hundreds of thousands of yen. It's the perfect ingredient for salad, and there's so much here that you can eat as much as you want. And you're turning your nose up at it?"
"And another thing!"
"There's a tree