"St... stuck..."
Hearing Fang Mo's mockingly interrogative tone, a burst of intermittent noise came from the damaged mechanical bird head.
"God, your mouth is harder than Cosmic Neutronium."
Hearing Starjun's explanation, Fang Mo honestly burst out laughing. "Just you wait until I get the chance. Once I find the I Wanna world, I'll toss you in there and make you suck on those spikes..."
"I am indeed not your opponent."
Ignoring the mockery, Starjun's calm voice soon rang out again. "But if my opponent is Toriko, I will absolutely not lose."
"Then why are you down to just a head now?"
Fang Mo asked cheerfully, "Stuck? Lagging? Or do you have some other excuse? Don't tell me Toriko shamelessly used the Colorless Skill behind your back?"
"This GT Robot's strength is too low."
Starjun's rather serious voice came from the mechanical bird head. "Toriko can mobilize Gourmet Cells and perform Self-Eating, while I cannot activate the power of Gourmet Cells at all... and I even have to fight through enormous latency."
Starjun did have a point, actually.
At least here in the Toriko Universe, the power of Gourmet Cell Demons was still incredibly important.
To Gourmet Hunters, Gourmet Cell Demons were practically like the relationship between Contract Demons and Devil Hunters, Pokemon Trainers and Pokemon, or Stand Users and their Stands...
Toriko was already stronger than he had been in the original story. With the power of his own Red Ogre, he could nearly fight Starjun's GT Robot to a draw. If Coco had not been overly drained, allowing the two GT Robots to gang up on him two-on-one, Toriko would not have been beaten so badly.
So, all things considered...
The reason Starjun could not swallow this humiliation was precisely because of that.
After all, Toriko had been using