The next morning, on the road outside the gates of IGO's Eighth Ecological Zone.
"What a nostalgic courtyard."
Sitting in an open-top SUV, Toriko had a lightly smoldering Cigar Tree branch clenched between his teeth. "I can barely remember when I was last here..."
"Wait, buddy, why did you come along too?"
Fang Mo couldn't help complaining at the sight. "I remember Komatsu only invited us yesterday. Damn it, this thick-browed guy really did betray us."
Komatsu was initially stunned, then hurriedly explained, "It's not like that, Mr. Fang Mo. You and Mr. Toriko are both incredible Gourmet Hunters, so I respect you both very much. Something as precious as a Rainbow Fruit should be shared by everyone—that's when it's happiest, isn't it?"
That was right.
At this moment, the group was already on their way to capture the Rainbow Fruit.
As mentioned before, it was the director of the IGO Affairs Bureau who had approved Komatsu's trip to handle the Rainbow Fruit.
So what exactly was this so-called IGO? The answer was that it stood for the International Gourmet Organization.
At first, it had merely been a small institution under the United Nations of Earth in the Toriko Universe. But after Gourmet Cells, that clump of Alien Yeast, fell from the sky, the world entered the Great Gourmet Era. The organization grew larger and larger, eventually declaring independence outright. In the end, the number of countries joining it actually exceeded the number in the United Nations.
This organization had always been dedicated to protecting and regenerating ingredients.
Even the concept of Capture Levels for ingredients had originally been proposed by this organization.
To protect ingredients on the verge of extinction, IGO had established eight enormous primitive ecological zones in the Human World, along with related research institutes, specifically to