Richard's condition had basically stabilized, and everyone's spirits improved!
The combined boost to his health and Vigor was enough to offset the strain of Mountain Shaker!
Aside from still getting hungry easily, Richard had more or less returned to normal...
Everything else was fine, except that little Ginny kept looking at Richard and sighing, thinking he wasn't handsome anymore!
Once his body stopped feeling uncomfortable, Richard, being a human with normal taste, was actually quite satisfied with his current physique!
At 190 centimeters tall, with the fat gone, his bulging muscles made him look incredibly formidable.
It was much better than Kingpin's "devilishly monstrous mountain of flesh" build!
Just imagining Kingpin getting into a car gave you the impression that the car was being raped...
Richard's current condition really wasn't bad!
The only thing he wasn't used to was losing the look of admiration little Ginny had always given him.
Alvin thought it was great. His own daughter had always chased after some ugly guy, shouting, "You're so handsome!"
How was her genuinely handsome old man supposed to deal with that?
When his daughter said, "Dad, you're so handsome," was he supposed to accept the compliment or not?
This was much better. The world was back to normal...
Two cookbooks' worth of recipes, nearly 200 dishes, had mostly ended up in Shang-Chi's and Richard's stomachs.
Richard and Shang-Chi were now bona fide big eaters.
The difference was that Shang-Chi would be fine even if he didn't eat, but whatever he did eat was digested...
Richard, on the other hand, got hungry if he didn't eat, and digested however much he ate...
With Rune's help, every bit of outside nourishment let Richard store a little more energy.
The larger his body's reserves, the more easily he could handle Mountain Shaker's strain.