"I say, Malekith."
Hearing that, Fang Mo seemed to realize something was off with her attitude. "...What's gotten into you?"
Little Jade Spirit's state really was rather strange at the moment.
Unlike her usual scatterbrained self, she was sitting on the ground with her knees hugged to her chest, staring blankly at the campfire ahead. The flickering light illuminated her somewhat childish face, making her look like a quiet little cat.
"Boss."
Perhaps hearing Fang Mo's question, Little Jade Spirit finally spoke. "Tell me... can Komatsu's knife really be healed?"
"It should be possible. It did succeed in the original story, after all."
Fang Mo glanced at her strangely. "Melk collected a tooth fossil from an ancient Dragon King Dilous. No one knew where she found it, but if materials had ranks, that thing was practically top-tier in this world. Komatsu's new knife was forged from it."
Fang Mo was not exaggerating in the slightest.
After all, this Dragon King... did not spend every day spamming nonsense in this book's VIP group, nor did it constantly pull crooked-mouth faces in short videos.
It was the ruler of the Gourmet World's First Continent, the guardian of the place where Gourmet Cells had first descended upon Earth... in other words, the entrance to Continent Zero. It was also one of the Eight Kings of the Gourmet World: Dragon King Dilous, whose overall Capture Level reached a staggering 6590, the highest even among the Eight Kings.
Legend said that the Dilous race lived for over ten thousand years, and throughout their entire lives, they grew only one tooth. That single tooth was all they needed to defeat any opponent.
The kitchen knife in Komatsu's hand...
Had been forged from the tooth fossil of an ancient Dragon King.
By that logic, Komatsu's new kitchen