"Found you, Joya..."
After spotting that somewhat familiar icon on the small map, Fang Mo slowly opened his eyes.
That had actually been mentioned long ago. Toriko had always felt rather special to Fang Mo. Though it was also a hot-blooded mainstream anime, it differed from Death Fire Sea because Toriko did not really have villains in the true sense... Everyone basically fought just to eat.
Even Gourmet God Acacia, the final villain in the Original Plot.
His original intentions could not exactly be called evil.
That was because his Gourmet Cell Demon was extremely unusual. It was called NEO, a monster made of Black Cells.
It could not control its urge to eat and constantly devoured everything. In the end, it destroyed the universe inhabited by the Gourmet Nobles, the Blue Nitros. Even it itself died, transforming from a Gourmet Giant Monster into a Gourmet Cell Demon and falling dormant inside Acacia.
And because NEO had eaten many of the Blue Nitros' kin.
The conflict between both sides had grown increasingly severe.
In order to completely deal with it, several surviving Blue Nitros followed the clues to find Acacia and told him the entire story.
The Blue Nitros hoped Acacia would consider the safety of the entire universe and cooperate with them to completely eliminate the Appetite Demon named NEO. However, the plan was very dangerous and required Acacia's sacrifice to be carried out successfully.
As for the principle behind eliminating NEO, it was actually quite simple.
The predecessors of Gourmet Cell Demons were actually a special species known as Gourmet Giant Monsters.
They were formed from Gourmet Energy and Gourmet Cells born during the Big Bang. They were powerful but incapable of reproduction. After death, the remnants of their spirits became Gourmet Cell Demons.
And as everyone knew,