Before nightfall, Annie and the gourmet hunter, Uncle Toriko, searched the Forest of E for most of the day. After beating to death or crippling a whole pile of dangerous(?) plants and animals with unknown capture levels, they finally found the legendary "snack noble," the BB Corn.
The process itself had not been particularly complicated. A certain troublesome little girl had simply grown impatient after searching for so long and wanted to see just how large this forest was. So, just as she had done with Hank's Rirabird, she flew to the very top of the forest, where the dense branches and leaves formed a roof, intending to look down and see how large the forest really was.
Then, the BB Corn growing atop the canopy, miraculously sprouting from the wood while absorbing the nutrients of the entire forest, was found by her just like that.
Naturally, after receiving the definite news, the excited Toriko, together with his stupid dog Terry, impatiently began climbing the tough, crisscrossing vines and branches of the forest.
"An, Annie..."
"Ha!"
"Ha! Ha!"
"You're sure..."
"That BB Corn is really above the forest?"
After climbing for a long while, he had only made it a few hundred meters. Toriko, panting with exhaustion, looked up at the forest canopy that covered the sky as tightly as a roof, then glanced down at the dizzyingly tangled roots below and asked again, somewhat uncertainly.
As the saying went, climbing up a tree was easy, but climbing down was hard. He was genuinely afraid that after reaching the top, he would discover that this was merely the little one's prank. By then, with hunger and exhaustion weighing on him, he had no idea how he would safely return to the ground.
"Who'd bother lying to you?"
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"Wouldn't you