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Toriko: Canon Storyline. Chapter 7: Kabe

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Mathew walked through gourmet town. His visit to Life had certainly be rejuvenating. But now, after all this hunting, healing and eating, he needed some new clothes, as his old ones had torn during his week of hunting. Blitz was with him as well, but flew over the streets, to not upset the people. As Mathew bought food at certain stands, he always bought for two. He ate one himself, he tossed the other into the sky. Blitz would dive down and catch it to eat it.

as he walked by a restaurant, Mathew took a ticket from his pocket. He could show this ticket in that restaurant and they would get him a private table. Seto had given him that ticket, in case he would ever want to eat in the restaurant where he was the head chef; the golden duck. Mathew nodded, put the ticket back in his pocket and would come for a visit after he had gotten new clothes at the weaving spider; the biggest clothing shop in town.

as he arrived, he received a free thunder peppermint tablet. Eating those refreshed you and would shake your brain awake like the sound of a thunderbolt, but more effective. He also tossed one up for Blitz and although it was small, the growing dragon managed to catch it. as Mathew looked around by the clothes for hunters, a shadow fell over him, from a two meter tall man with four arms. Mathew grinned, ‘where are my manners, I should have come to say hello first.’

he turned around and looked into the blue eyes of Kabe Kurōrā, the owner of the shop, a former fellow trainee under Suramo with him and a good friend. Kabe had long messy brown hair and slits on his forehead, which were extra eye lids he kept closed. Kabe had four arms, as well as four legs. Along with his size and form came also an amazing strength, as well as the ability to climb up any surface with ease and the ability to shoot three webs from any of his four lower arms.

Kabe chuckled, grabbed Mathew with all four arms and pulled him into a bone crushing bear hug. Or in his case; spider hug. After Kabe put him down, the weaver said, ‘nice of you to drop by again Mathew. what has it been? Six months since we last saw each other? I must say, you’re stronger now than before, healthier too. Did you eat Lyneria’s full course menu?’ Mathew nodded, ‘as sharp as always. Did you quickly open those six extra eyes you keep closed?’ Kabe shrugged, ‘I may have peaked, a little. My eyes see normal, poison, heat and cold, as well as flavor. The latter shows you’re shining, meaning your gourmet cells must be lots stronger than before, more active as well.’

Mathew nodded, ‘what can I say old friend; I went hunting for a week, day one nearly cost me my life. After that week I went to Life, where I got an earful and an excellent treatment from Lyneria, as well as a meal. I’ve now taken two days of rest as she advised. And now I’m here, as I need some new clothes for my work.’ Kabe nodded, ‘well, you’re in luck pal. I just received some nice new materials. I can fix them into something special for you, before using them in a field test.’ Mathew tilted his head and Kabe replied, ‘the IGO asked me to go and capture some beasts with strong hides. They want some armored uniforms and some new armor for their tanks and planes. I was thinking; we go hunting together, like we used to. We catch, I skin, you prepare, we eat, I make armored clothes for the IGO.’

Mathew nodded, ‘nice and simple logic, I like that.’ Kabe nodded and signed Mathew to follow him into his work room. Mathew did so as some sales women helped other customers decide on the clothes they would buy. Kabe pulled some materials out of closets and from shelves and walked to a unique sewing machine. As Kabe sat down opened two extra eyes on his forehead. He started running cloth by the machine, forming it with his remaining hands.

Mathew leaned against the wall, ‘so, you heard any interesting rumors? Talk of some good eating?’ Kabe shrugged, ‘oh I’ve heard quite some things. Toriko seems to have gotten his hands on some Bb corn in the Wul jungle, worth a visit I think. Also, the head chef of hotel gourmet managed to get his hands on the wul star sauce fruit. Rumor has it the sauce and the wul volcano ash salt make a perfect combination with any meal.’

Mathew nodded, ‘yeah, I’ve heard of those rumors. The sauce draws out flavor and the salt halts the salting progress at the right moment, while also adding its own flavor. I think I will pay a visit to the Wul jungle some time, getting some sauce, salt and some Bb corn while I’m at it. if Toriko wanted to eat it, I’ll have some too.’ Kabe chuckled, ‘oh my friend, you haven’t heard yet. Toriko apparently likes it so much that he made it his hors d’oeuvre course.’ Mathew nodded, now he really wanted to taste it.

Kabe continued, ‘another rumor is that our old friend Valen has managed to get his hands on some steel bamboo. As much for personal use, use as a whet stone for cutler Melk and training since it’s located at a dangerous spot.’ Mathew nodded, ‘that’s true. The steel bamboo forest is inhabited by the Hannya panda. They like to use the bamboo to sharpen their fangs and claws, as well as use it as a snack.’ Kabe nodded, ‘speaking of snacks, Valen brought a panda with him. so this rumor’s been confirmed by yours truly. We had a nice meal and I got a nice skin out of it as well.’

Mathew grinned, ‘sounds like our big friend has been keeping himself busy. There are quite some of those wise and monstrous pandas there. To be able to cut some of that bamboo and take down a level 80 Hannya panda, he’s been bulking up.’ Kabe nodded, ‘he sure has. But you know how he is; he refuses to lose. He’s even crazier than you in that regard. That will to win has seeped into his gourmet cells. And so long as his will to win and live remains strong, his gourmet cells keep on pumping life into him. the more intense the battle the better, he says. So, speaking of high level ingredients; what’s the highest level you’ve been after?’

Mathew chuckled, ‘well that would be the level 50 milk bee nectar on the back of a lion turtle. But with a week of hunting added, as well as healing in Life and eating Lyn’s full course menu, including her food from the gourmet world, I feel ready for a high level as well.’ Kabe nodded, ‘that’s the spirit my friend. Your clothes are almost ready and the two creatures we’re going after afterwards are of level 70 and 75.’

Kabe finished Mathew’s new clothes shortly after, having made him three new jackets, four new shirts, six new pairs of pants and two pairs of gloves. Mathew quickly changed into one of them and Kabe went to change into his hunter clothing; a black shirt with four arm openings, a green jacket, grey blue four legged pants and four brown boots with red straps around the wrists of his first pair of arms. Kabe and Mathew went to the roof where not only Blitz was waiting, but Kabe’s animal partner; Timmy, as well.

Timmy was a special breed of spider; a Metallo spider. The spider was gigantic, big enough for four people like Kabe to ride on its middle back. Its body seemed to be armored. It had eight large eyes, big fangs, a large mouth with sharp teeth and eight long, strong legs. Kabe stepped onto Timmy’s back and patted his big friend on the head before giving him a snack. Mathew stepped onto Blitz’s back and Kabe told Timmy where they were going.

Mathew had no idea what Kabe had said, as his weaving friend had been clicking his tongue and jaws, similar to how Timmy clicked his fangs. It seemed the two both spoke the spider language. The spider first started walking, than jumping from roof to roof, eventually hitting and outside street before starting to run. And the spider ran at an incredible speed. Blitz flew through the sky and had to fly pretty fast to keep up with Timmy. As they reached the shore, Mathew saw how fast Timmy could really go. The spider stepped onto the water and kept on running, not sinking in at all. Even though it was a gigantic beast, heavy to, its speed and strong legs kept it going.

after about an hour they reached the next shore line. Timmy stopped running and the spider seemed exhausted. Blitz landed next to the spider and the two hunters stepped of their animal partners, before walking inland. Mathew kept up with the long strides of his four legged friend, ‘so tell me Kabe, what are these beasts we’re hunting?’ Kabe chuckled, ‘oh I think they’ll be to your liking; a capture level 70 phoenix turtle and a capture level 75 dragon tiger. As I remember from our training days, your gourmet cells responded especially well to any of those four particular beasts, no matter what the variety was. the better the flavor, the stronger the reaction. So these two beasts, with a burning  turtle shell and a dragon scale hide will provide great armor and shields and a good meal for the four of us.’ Mathew looked back at Timmy, who had lain down to rest, while Blitz went to hunt something down for the two of them.

Mathew looked back at his friend, ‘that’s true, glad you remember. And as memory serves, your gourmet cells always responded well to special preparation ingredients. Which is why you have the gorgops and unicorn Cerberus on your full course menu of life.’ Kabe nodded, ‘that’s true. Gorgops made into a burger and the unicorn Cerberus as my meat dish. And what about you? how’s your full course menu of life going?’

Mathew shrugged, ‘oh it’ll be completed soon enough. at the moment I am working on my hors d’oeuvre course. For it I have a spicy bun bread base, ketchuptopus sauce, jewel meat, mineral cheese and neo tomatoes. I still need something more. And with your talk about the wul star sauce fruit and wul volcano ash salt, I know the second sauce for the burger, as well as the salt.’ Kabe nodded, ‘good, sounds really tasty. With those two chosen, added when captured, all that remains is a form of lettuce.’ Mathew nodded, ‘yup. But that’s for another time. Right now, that big guy in front of us needs our attention.’

Kabe and Mathew looked ahead of them and saw a large turtle beast with large strong bird legs. Feathers stuck out of its shell and on the sides it had wings. It had a turtle neck and head, a beak with teeth and feathers atop its head. As the beast saw the two humans, it screeched and stormed toward them. for a turtle beast, it was incredibly fast. Mathew and Kabe both grinned and their intimidating aura started tu surround them. Kabe’s was green in color. Kabe’s intimidation was a large demonic spider with waving white web like manes. Drool leaked of its fangs and the skull sign shows on its big lower body seemed to roar as well. Mathew’s white demon with black face and claws stood next to the spider. But something new was happening. Four of six skulls on the wings, the top four, had flowing red eyes. Those four skulls roared along and they were surrounded by an aura as well.

the top right wing had a blue aura and showed a menacing blue dragon. The aura on the top left wing was orange and showed a growling yellow tiger. The middle right wing had a red aura and showed a burning phoenix. The middle left wing was surrounded by a green aura and showed an angry turtle. Kabe had never seen this before; an intimidation having intimidations of his own: four of them!

Mathew felt the different level in power his intimidation had since his last hunt. Was this because his gourmet cells had evolved, or was it because of the gourmet world food he had eaten? Or was it both? Whatever the case, the phoenix turtle was stopped in its tracks. It was definitely surprised by the six intimidating spirits staring it down. Than it continued its attack, spitting fire at the two hunters from its beak.

Mathew and Kabe jumped out of the way and attacked the beast from both sides. Mathew drew back his right arm, charging it up, wanting to see how far he could go. And Kabe pulled back all four of his arms. Mathew threw a 20 spin drill punch to the side of its neck, while Kabe launched a spider canon, launching all four of his arms forward in a spider punch. One spider punch increased the strength in one arm times ten. With all four arms thrown forward together, mixing with the drill punch; the shockwave went through the beast’s body, spinning and twisting the beast in mid air, before dropping it to the ground. Mathew looked at his arm. At the end of his week of hunting, his maximal had been 14. With the rest he had gotten and the meal he had gone up six.

just as Kabe finished skinning the beast of its shell and scales and Mathew had started prepping, a large blue dragon dropped from the sky, landing on its strong legs and paws. Its blue scales were covered by black stripes and its whiskers, three on each side of its snout were turned into mustache tendrils. The beast opened its jaws and roared. The roar was powerful enough to shake the land and break rocks and push the hunters back. Mathew knew Kabe wanted the scales intact as much as possible; so no cutting it.

Mathew looked at the large turtle shell and remembered the turtle shield he had used for his defense. How about he now used it for offense? Kabe attacked the beast’s lower belly and Mathew jumped to its head. Mathew placed his hands on the beast’s paw as the beast swung it, before pushing himself into the beast’s face, pulling back his left hand. His white aura formed around his left arm, with a slight shade of green, before forming into a turtle leg; ‘turtle stomp!’ Mathew hit the dragon tiger on its head with the turtle stomp, while Kabe launched four separate spider punches into the beast’s gut. The dragon tiger’s head was smashed into the ground and its belly going upward before following the head became the cause that broke the beast’s neck.

Mathew was amazed at how quickly Kabe could skin a beast and how precisely he could do it. and as Kabe began making armored suits out of the scaly skin and turtle shell, Mathew began cooking the large beasts to the best of his ability.

after one hour, both men were ready. Kabe clicked loudly as Mathew whistled and Timmy came running and Blitz flew after the spider. The two beasts stopped as they reached their partners. The men put their hands together, Timmy crossed his front legs and together with Blitz bowed his head as the men said, ‘we give humble thanks for the vast bounty that this world provides. Now let’s eat.’

Mathew had not prepared all of the two beasts. He thought Markus could use some of this high class meat in his store at the world market and some of the rest could go to the golden duck restaurant. Mathew and Kabe, working together, had not expended as much power as they would normally have; had they faced these beasts on their own. Mathew looked at Kabe as they ate. The weaver, while making clothes, still had to fight pretty tough prey to be able to go after such high capture levels. It showed Mathew wasn’t the only one who had been doing some good eating. The food really hit the spot and was well received by Mathew’s gourmet cells.

as the two headed back, Timmy carried the skins, scales and shell parts, as well as the already finished suits. And Blitz carried, in a net below him, the remains of the meat. Today had been a very productive day.
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