"...Do you know how painful it was for me, knowing I couldn't personally take part in the Grand Final Battle?"
Hearing Toriko's words, Fang Mo miserably wiped his face. "If it weren't for those blue ingredients, I could beat Acacia so hard he'd be spraying shit from every hole all by myself, okay?"
"Don't beat someone until they're spraying that kind of stuff!"
Sunny seemed unable to hold it together either. "Since we agreed to eat together, then just eat properly. Why bring up something so disgusting all of a sudden...?"
"Wait."
Unlike Sunny, Toriko froze instinctively upon hearing that. "You just mentioned blue ingredients?"
"Yeah."
Fang Mo nodded.
"What exactly are those?" Toriko immediately pressed him. "The other blue 'demon' inside me seems to have mentioned that term too. It doesn't seem interested in many of the ingredients I eat, and it says it lives in my second stomach... What does that mean?"
"A long time ago, the Gourmet Gods lived in a world called the Final Land."
Fang Mo thought for a moment before speaking. "Infinite appetite accumulated there, expanded, and finally erupted. That was the truth behind the Big Bang more than ten billion years ago, and Gourmet Cells were born because of it."
"As the universe expanded, the primal delicacies of the Final Land scattered in every direction."
"One of the Gourmet Gods made a move to protect some of those delicacies. Those became the Full Course Menus of the various planets today."
"After the Big Bang, that Gourmet Energy gradually influenced the taste preferences of Gourmet Cells over an unimaginably long period of time. Eventually, those ingredients came to be distinguished by spectral colors, forming several relatively independent universes... The remaining Gourmet Gods were responsible for protecting the Full Course Menus of those universes."
"That's