"..."
The whole world seemed to fall utterly silent at that moment.
Ye Chuan pointed once more at the roasted snake, which still gave off an enticing aroma, and again invited his five thoroughly intimidated guests.
"I'm just a gourmet passing through."
"Would you like to sit down and enjoy some good food now?"
In the end, amid that peculiar atmosphere.
Toriko, Coco, Sunny, Zebra, and Ichiryū, the five monsters who stood at the pinnacle of all Gourmet Hunters in the Human World, cautiously sat down after all.
Then they began tasting the roasted snake Ye Chuan had cooked himself.
"It's so delicious-!!!!"
The instant Toriko tasted the snake meat, a torrent of happiness filled him.
"...I'm full."
He sighed from the heart.
"This is the most delicious roasted meat I've eaten in my entire life!"
Hearing this, Ye Chuan merely smiled faintly, put the last piece of snake meat in his mouth, and spoke in a matter-of-fact, placid tone.
"That was only the appetizer."
He slowly rose from the enormous snake skeleton, then uttered a name that was enough to make everyone present tremble violently.
"Next..."
"I'm going to capture the Jewel Meat."
"Wh... what?!"
The instant Ichiryū heard the words "Jewel Meat," shock appeared on his aged face!
"Young man!"
His voice grew somewhat hoarse from sheer shock.
"Do you know what you're saying?!"
"That's the legendary ingredient inside the Ligur Mammoth!"
"That mammoth's capture level far exceeds this Devil Serpent's!"
"It's the king that inhabits the Ligur Plateau on the First Continent!"
"Every breath it takes raises a terrifying hurricane! Every stomp causes a tremendous magnitude-ten earthquake!"
"And the Jewel Meat is the most precious organ in its body! The difficulty of extracting that meat from its body is simply..."
Ichiryū could not even find suitable words