Hello everyone and welcome to the third installment of My Hero Characters react to "Izuku the Reincarnated Chef". With me again is the author of the story, JoySeeker101.

Joy:Hello! Glad to see you again here!

And you as well. Did you bring our guest character for this chapter?

Joy: Why not?

"I let my co-host bring in a guest to do the disclaimer every other chapter. That is in the story already.

Joy: Directly from Toriko! The mistress of Hormones! The cutest Tomboy this side of Anime/Manga! The great! The awesoooome.... RIIIIIIIN!

(Wild applause)

... Normally, I use the characters that have appeared in the story, not before... But I'll let this slide for now.

Rin: (Walks in) "Good, I wasn't sure if I was to come in,"

Joy: I blame our intern.

... We don't have an intern...

Joy: Then get one and then fire them. It's OBVIOUSLY their fault!

Rin: "... Can we just get on with this so I can meet with my husband and the others...?"

Joy: Sure! Sure! Go ahead!

Rin: "Ah-hem! Not Angel, nor Joy nor Xara own the rights to My Hero Academia, Toriko, Gourmet of Another World or anything else that appear in this story. They are just Three Chumps having fun! Please support the official release!"

Thank you Rin. Now, onto the story!

Joy: Good reading!

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Chapter 3: Watching Episode Two, "The System"

After the new guests were told abbott what was happening, the ones that watched the first episode went to take a break so the others could catch up.

Toriko then noticed something. "Hey... Was Rin teleported with us when we got here? I don't think I heard her at all."

"Rin-san! Oh God, I think she was left behind!" Komatsu answered, scared.

Toriko facepalmed. "Gah! That's right, we were on an ingredient hunt, and she saw a rare one, and ran after it! Right when we were teleported here! So Light must have just missed her!"

"I'll take her here." Joy said.

"NO!" everybody else yelled.

"Too late! The Eye answered... And he just opened a side door to let Rin in. "You expected something weird, didn't you?" All he got were flat looks.

Rin blinked, looking confused. "What the... This isn't food storage..." She was still holding her catch; A rare Golden Buttered Phoenix. (A/N 1) She then sees Toriko, and glares at him. "So this is where you've been! Why'd you up and ditch me like that!"

"That would be my fault, actually, your being away from the group made it so my summoning circle missed you. My apologies." Light answered.

Rin looked to the angel, and sighs. "Fine, I guess I did run off on my own. But still, does anyone want to tell me what's going on?"

One explanation later...

"So we are basically here to assist three deities-like beings recording what happens in another world?" Rin asked.

"Basically." Coco answered.

"You never stop getting into strange situations, Komatsu-kun." Melk said with a chuckle.

"Yeah..."

"Same with you Izuku," Melissa said to said green bean.

"Not willingly." Izuku answered in a mumble.

"Me neither." Added Komatsu.

"But still," Melk looked at the two girls. "I might be able to work with these two here. I do sense a strong will to create~"

"Oh~ New way to make babies~!" Mei shouted in joy.

"Huhuhu! I specialize in knives though, but from what I gather, that IS a branch of creativity that has been left a bit aside in your world, so I guess that it is my turn to try some Revitalizing, I hope Teppei-san won't mind." she answered with a short and somber chuckle.

"Do you really think I can get powers from this food though?" Melissa asked the Toriko group.

"It is our theory at least. I can see electro-magnetic waves thanks to my Gourmet Cells, and ever since your group started eating food prepared by a Chef with skills from our world, your Waves have changed drastically. Setsuno-san has theorized that this food is unlocking your True Potential, and since that usually coincides with Quirks as well, from what you told us, it stands to reason that a latent or dormant Quirk may manifest if we unlock said potential." Coco answered.

Melissa then started to cry in both joy, sorrow and happiness. "I-I could finally have a power of my very own...?"

Izuku started freaking out. "M-Melissa, are you okay...!?"

"D-Dear, it's alright," David tried to comfort her.

"I-I am okay, I just...I am so relieved." the girl answered, hiccuping.

"Let it all out, it's your right." Izuku answered, rubbing her back to help her.

She did, and cried on Izuku, letting all her pent up feelings out. Izuku just hugged her to comfort her.

Some of the girls didn't know whether to feel happy for her, or jealous of who she was hugging with. They decided to be happy for her. For now.

"It's okay, child, nobody will judge. Now, if every question has been answered, I say we can start." Xara answered.

"Uh, the new guests need to catch up, remember," Light reminded his friend. "We'll let the ones who watched it take a break and talk to each other."

"How good is the food?" Fat Gum asked.

"Shota had an orgasm while eating." Mic answered with a straight face.

"I DID NOT!" He shouted, using his capture scarf to strangle him.

"SORRY... SORRY..." Mic whimpered out. "I WAS JUST... MAKING A JOKE..."

"But it is amazing," Kirashima stated to him. "I know you'll love it Fat Gum-Sensei~!"

"Some of the best I have ever eaten, and it was still Training food! Maybe this time we will taste the real good stuff!" Nemuri said with starry eyes.

"Careful you don't get fat~" Mt. Lady teased her with a shit eating grin.

"No fat, but younger-looking sure, I know I lost some crow feet after eating that." Recovery Girl answered, chuckling.

"Well, we should let you eight catch up," Toriko stated.

"If you don't mind, I still feel a bit lost." Rin answered.

"Then, this way for the projection. You others instead, we have a lounge down there, go relax, use the bathroom, smoke or whatever. We will call you once we are done." Joy answered while a side door opened by itself.

"There are all kinds of things to do, there's a snack bar, arcade, training room, living quarters for sleeping and freshening up, a kitchen to cook, and meeting rooms for discussions," Light counted off.

"Sounds nice! We'll be in the next room then!" Toriko said with a thumbs-up.

Mina looked at the girls. "Meeting room?" she asked them all.

"Meeting room." Jiro answered.

"Should we bring Tamaki with us?" Momo asked them, knowing what this was about.

"I don't really-" he started, trying to back away.

"Yep! We do!" Toru answered for him, and started dragging him by the arm.

"Why...?" he groaned out.

"Icchan." Tsuyu said.

All he did was lump in defeat.

Kirashima walked over to Zebra. "Hey, Zebra-Sensei~!"

"Who the fuck you call sensei now?" the Heavenly King asked, irritated.

"Well I was wondering if you could help," he answered. "I feel like my Unbreakable Mode has gotten stronger thanks to IzukBro's cooking, but I feel something else. But I need a push to help me unlock it." He bows to him. "So please will you help me!?"

"So you want me to kick your ass until that something pops-up? Yeah I can do that." Zebra answered.

"Just don't kill him." Sanni said.

"I'll try, don't sweat the small stuff!"

Kirashima had stars in his eyes. "So manly~! Thank you Zerbra-Sensie~!"

"I fear that Thank you, won't be what you will be saying once done." Toriko muttered with a sigh.

"If he believes he can take it, it's his funeral." Sanni answered.

Lunch Rushi, Sato, Kinoko and Izuku were talking to the cooks from Toriko's world.

"While we're on break, can we do some cooking to improve, shroom?" Kinoko asked them.

"I can't see why not! Can we?" Izuku asked.

"Have fun! And don't worry, Xara will clean up." Joy answered.

"... So glad I have my one Nobody troops to help with that," he stated.

"This way then," Izuku said, guiding the ones interested towards the kitchen.

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(Meeting Room)

The group of Izuku admirers were sitting at a round table, ready to talk about what they need to do; dating Izuku and what to do?

"So first order of business," Momo stated. "I believe we're all clear that we like Izuku."

"Our being here is a dead giveaway." Jiro answered dryly.

"I still think you guys are overthinking it, kero," Tsu stated bluntly. "We all know Izuku would take care of all of us equally."

"That's because he would feel guilty about leaving one of us behind. If ever, we need him to WANT this, not just to get along with our request." Toru answered.

Ochako nodded in agreement. "He does have that about him."

"... He could take us on dates one at a time to get to know each other..." Tamaki stated, a bit quietly.

"That could work, provided we break through YEARS of conditioning about him being worth nothing, or next to. He may deny it, but he does have a very low self-esteem for somebody like him." Itsuka answered.

"I think he should date Tamaki first then." Pony and Mina stated at the same time.

"... Why me...?" he asked.

"You two are a lot alike," Yui stated bluntly. "It would help him have someone that he can confide in."

"And it would be good for you too! You two need some serious injection of confidence!" Pony added.

Reiko nodded. "I agree, but there's another issue at hand," the psychic ghost girl stated.

"And that is?" Ibara asked, not sure why she was dragged here. "Also, why am I here? God looks down on polyamory."

"That may be true, but you also used his name improperly. Or was that OH GOD, IZUKU! I heard coming from your room last night, before coming here, about Buddah?" Setsuna asked.

"You heard that!?" she asked, blushing madly while her hair veins went everywhere. "... Okay... I do like him... but sharing him... It's Lustful to do something like that..."

"We'll come back to your crisis of faith, Ibara," Reiko stated. "What do we do if Izuku gets more people to like him?"

"I find it kind of unlikely." Ochako answered.

"But if it DOES happen? I saw how Ragdoll and Mandalay looked at him... Pixie Bob doesn't count, she lusts for every young man around."

"... I say we talk to them and see why they like Izuku..." Tamaki stated, being a good voice of reason. "If we think they're okay, we should let them join... If this is going to be a group thing, we all need to be fair, not only to Izuku, but to each other as well..."

All the girls looked at him, impressed at his reasoning. "... He's good, kero," Tsu stated in an impressed tone.

"He is a student of Aizawa, of course he has reason in spades!" Mina said, chuckling.

"So, all in favor that we all decide, that includes Izuku, on whom he dates, say aye," Momo stated.

"Aye" they all agreed.

"Now back to Ibara," Reiko stated.

"Are we doing this out of Love or Lust?" Ibara asked.

"What's the difference~?" Mina teased her.

"Besides being awful towards Izuku in treating him like a piece of meat?!" the girl hissed. "One is a SIN! It's Lust! Carnal pleasure just for the sake of pleasure! The other is LOVE! The connection between two souls, thus Holy and Pure! I can't join the first, but if it is about Love I can join the second and then ask for forgiveness from God!"

"... Wow..." Mina said in shock. "You really put a lot of thought into that..."

"I like her already," Momo stated, smiling at Ibara. "And yes, this is out of Love, not Lust. Mina just likes to tease, even if it's not a good time."

Mina pouted at them. "I was just trying to lighten the mood. I usually joke when I am nervous..."

"And now you are nervous?" Reiko asked, sounding skeptical.

"I am damn terrified. This is uncharted territory." she admitted, pushing her index fingers together. "... I may be a party girl... but I've never actually had a boyfriend before... okay...?"

"I think this is for all of us," Yui stated in her flat tone. "We'll just help each other as well."

"So what do we call ourselves anyways?" Pony asked.

"Green Angels?" Mina offered.

"A name less lame?" Setsuna asked, rolling her eyes.

Ibara pouted. "... I thought it was nice..."

"Cinnamon Roll Lightning?" Ochako asked.

"... That sounds like a boy band... Or a female rock group..." Jiro stated dryly. "... Would make a good album cover though..."

"Deku Avengers?"

"That sounds like a discount or bootleg version of a Hero Group." Ibara pointed out.

"I think we should leave the name for later," Momo stated. "In the meantime; let's just enjoy our break. Meeting adjourned or does anyone have anything else to add before we go?"

"I call dibs on his first time!" Ochako shouted as fast as lightning.

"OH COME ON!" the others roared in anger.

"Really Uraraka...?" Tamaki asked her in a flat voice. "Did you really need to shout that...?"

"You don't know them. I DO. And I was here first fawning over Deku-kun. You all came later...So I will come first."

"Badum-tish," Mina answered, unamused.

Momo just sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "Meeting adjourned..."

"Should we have Kinoko join next break?" Setsunas asked.

"She has a Secret shrine dedicated to Izuku. I guess we have to." Itsuka answered, huffing.

"She has a what...?" the 1-A girls and Tamaki asked in shock.

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(Kitchen)

"Then you add the spices...Like this..." Izuku instructed.

"Uh-hu! This is one of Zaus-san's recipes?" Kinoko asked.

"Yep!"

Kinoko smiled brightly. "Thank you for helping me Zuzu~!"

"No trouble~" Izuku stated, smiling back.

Sato was learning how to make better sweets with Setsuno.

"Lower the flame, let the sugar melt a little slower... Like this..."

"O-Okay." Sato muttered with his face scrunched in great concentration.

"Good! You may not hear the Voice of the Ingredients like Izuku-chan does, but you still have a natural talent! Now use the rest of the milk and add it to the other pan."

"Honestly, how can you others manage all this at the same time?" Lunch Rush asked, incredulous.

"Habits mostly." Zaus answered, still hovering behind Izuku to teach him.

"My Quirk allows me to help, but I still pale under you guys," Lunch Rush stated. "I had a hard time keeping up helping you heal All Might."

Zeus patted his shoulder. "I know you'll do great, I can tell you put a lot of work into your meals. Not a lot of good chefs do that nowadays."

Lunch Rush smiled. "Thanks. You think you can teach me a dish as well? I bet you can teach me and Midoriya at the same time."

"Hahahaha! Buttering me up, Youngster?" the ghost said, laughing.

"Hey, if you can manage a large kitchen by yourself, you can manage two 'brats' easily."

"I like your spirit, kid," Zaus stated, with a large grin. "What do you want to learn first?"

"Teach them the Century Soup." Setsuno suggested, laughing.

"I don't want them to quit!"

"That hard?" Kinoko asked.

"Hellishly so, so we'll leave it for the advanced class."

"What do you need for it?" Kinoko asked, looking curious.

"Everything," Zaus answered.

"Everything?" the four asked, looking lost.

"Pretty much. Basically, only the best Ingredients. It's a soup cooked with hundreds or even thousands of ingredients. The "Original" Century Soup was produced naturally when the Gourmet Show Window's ice melts over the course of one hundred years. The taste of the soup can also be reproduced with different ingredients boiled down so that the harsh taste is removed and only an extremely transparent liquid remains. The soup is so transparent that many have difficulty even seeing it. Even so, a "true" Century Soup produces a characteristic aurora."

"AND YOU WANTED US TO REPRODUCE THAT?!" Kinoko and Izuku shrieked as one, Lunch Rush almost fainted, just like Sato.

Setsuno was just laughing at their reactions.

"That is why I said it will be material for the advanced classes we will have at a later date." Zaus answered, he too enjoyed the horrified looks on everybody's face.

"Glad our torture is amusing to you..." they stated flatly, with a deadpan look on their faces, this only made them laugh harder.

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(Training Room)

Itzuka, Knocking Master, Zebra, Kirishima, Tetsutestu, Toriko, Coco, Vlad King, Aizawa, and, surprisingly, Monoma were in the training room. Kirashima was with Zebra in one part, while Istuka was in another with Knocking Master, after her meeting with the girls.

"COME ON! YOU WANTED THIS, RIGHT?! SO UNLOCK THAT SPECIAL POWER OR WHATEVER! COME ON!" Zebra said with a wild smile to Kirishima.

"I believe he would have more chances to do so if you stopped for a minute to use Tetsu-san as a mace to beat him up." Coco suggested, groaning.

Kirashima was in his Unbreakable mode, actually feeling each hit, but barely. He had his determined look on his face. He had been in his form for almost five minutes now, thanks to Izuku's cooking. "Is that your hardest Sensei~! I could barely feel those~! You need to push me to go beyond my limit~! PLUS ULTRA STYLE~!"

"Oh no..." Toriko groaned.

"ZEBRA NO!" Sanni said in panic.

"ZEBRA YES! VOICE MISSILE!" the Heavenly King answered to the challenge by shooting a sound cannon attack that buried Kirishima DEEP into the wall. "Like that?" he then asked.

Kirashima landed on his feet, a loud thud could be heard echoing in the room. They looked and saw that he had awakened his next mode. He had gotten a few inches in height and muscle mass, his jagged body having even a more rocky texture to it, and he seemed to shine like a diamond. "Red Riot! Indestructible Mode!" he shouted with a thumbs-up.

"HELL YEAH, DUDE! ME NEXT!" Tetsutetsu said.

"..."

"... Dude?" Tetsu asked once when he saw that Kirishima was frozen in the same position.

"Hello?" Aizawa asked, waving a hand in front of the boy's face.

Thump!

"And he fainted." Toriko said, sighing.

Kirashima's form reverted back to normal. He then sat up, groaning. "Ow... No... I just couldn't move like that... And I used all my energy to stay up like that and in that form..."

"He does turn to rock. I added pressure and made a diamond. Simple as that." Zebra said, smirking savagely.

"Do not justify yourself, you animal." Sanni said.

"Hey, don't yell at Zebra-Sensei like that," Kirishima defended Zebra. "I asked him to push my limits, that's the only way I could go PLUS ULTRA." He then pointed his thumb to his chest. "So if you want to yell at anyone, yell at me!"

"You brutes are all the same. All muscles and no savoir-faire." Sanni answered, annoyed.

"And you're not manly at all," Tetsutetsu stated flatly at the flamboyant man.

"I can cut you to ribbons with my hair, kid." the King hissed.

"Daaaamn! Okay, that's rad instead." Tetsutetsu admitted, sounding impressed.

With Itsuka and Knocking Master.

Itsuka was bowing to the Knocking Master. "Thank you again for teaching me the way of Knocking~"

"Eeh! You are a good lass. And it's not a big deal. I am dead anyway, besides teaching Teppei, I had no other students...Too boring." the old man answered.

"Well I think it's an amazing ability, I want to see what I can do with it with my Quirk," she stated, a determined look on her face.

"It's an ability based on precision and good intuition, other than eyesight. Never underestimate it, the same attack can both paralyze and kill." Knocking Master answered, actually looking serious about his warning. "Do you still wish to learn even knowing all that?"

Itsuka's determined look never wavered from her eyes. "Like our school motto goes, Go Beyond, Pulse Ultra. So I'll go beyond what I can and learn to master this fighting style and make it my own."

"Good. Before I forget, I can teach you how to stop the planet rotation with Knocking. Do you need that?" the old man asked.

"No... Th-That would be a bit too much Plus Ultra..." Itsuka thought for a second. "But learning to stop natural disasters would be useful at least. Help stop it and save people from them."

"That is a bit on the advanced stuff, if only to not have volcanoes exploding instead of stopping earthquakes. Tectonic plates are finicky like that. Baby steps, lass."

"Who are these people?" Vlad muttered in horror.

Itsuka shook her head to come back from her daydreams, and looked sheepish. "Sorry, you're right. I just wanted to be like All Might for a second there. He is the Number One Hero of our world. He's a big inspiration to a lot of us~"

"That noodle boy that we healed? Seems legit."

"Your standards are the slanted ones, not ours." Aizawa answered, bitter.

Knocking Master only laughed at Aizawa's comment.

With Monoma and Vlad King.

Monoma had gotten his voice back after Knocking Master returned it.

"Monoma, you know why we are talking, right?" Vald asked his student.

Monoma nodded. "It's about my rivalry obsession with 1-A isn't it?"

"Yes. It is becoming an obsession, I can understand using your wish to surpass them as a motivation, but you are becoming obsessed. I say nothing in front of the other teachers, but sometimes I am afraid that one day I will hear about how you assaulted another student and killed them."

Monoma sighed. "... It's a mask..." he stated.

"What?" Vlad looked concerned.

"That egocentric jackass... That's just a mask I wear to hide my fear and self loathing about myself and my Quirk..." Monoma stated, actually looking defeated. "You know how we copy Quirk users are treated in life, right sir...?"

"Basically Thieves. Or leeches. People with Power-Copying Quirks are seen as pretenders, mostly, and time ago many believed that continuous exposure would risk the original Quirk to be stolen. So, yes, I can understand what you fear." Vlad answered.

"... I was scared that the other would be the same way... like that of my old school, where they said I'd only be a hero riding on the coattails of others..." Monoma stated, looking dejected. "But Izuku's cooking... It reminded me of my mother's cooking, when I was a kid and happy, when I was with my powers and my good times with my family. They still believe I can be a hero. So I wanted to show everyone I wasn't some useless copier, but can be as good as everyone else here... I guess I just left the mask on for so long, I believed my own lie of who I was..."

"You can keep the mask on, if it makes you feel safe."

"Uh?"

"Just remember that it is in fact a mask, not the real you. You can start slowly slipping it off whenever you feel safe enough, and slowly return yourself. Your class loves you when you do not fall into your spiel, they can SEE the Monoma you keep hidden deep inside, let it out some more, and one day, maybe you won't need the mask anymore."

Monoma started to cry again. He then wiped his tears away, and stood straight. "T-Thank you Vlad-Sensei, I promise, I'll make you and my family proud of the hero I'll become. And I think the first thing is saying something to all of 1-A when we get back to the theater."

"Let me guess, an apology?" Vlad asked, knowing that it would be it.

"You'll just have to wait and see sir~" Monoma started with a kind smirk, with a bit of cockyness in it.

"Monoma...Forget it. I kind of like that too in the end, somehow." the teacher answered, ruffling his hair.

"Hey, like you said, I'll keep the mask, but I still want to push myself to reach 1-A, with my class as well~"

"Yes, yes. Losing Battle and all that."

Both of them laughed at this.

Just then the speakers came on. "Alright everyone," Light called thought the speakers. "The group has caught up, you can all return to the theater."

"Looks like time is up," Toriko stated.

"Come along, better hurry up. The sooner we start, the sooner this will be over." Aizawa added, yawning.

"... We need to make you something to wake you up fully..." Sunni stated to the man.

"Try that and die a thousand deaths at once." he hissed.

"Hn! No manners whatsoever."

"And you are irrational to the same level as All Might."

The two glaring at each other, sparks seeming to come from their eyes.

Toriko and Vlad grabbed their respective cohorts by the collars of their shirts, dragging them.. "We don't need you two fighting..." They stated, flatly.

"Let me go! Unhand me this instance!"

"You too, Vlad! I will not be treated like a child!"

"Then act like an adult, Shota/Sunni!" both shouted at them.

Itsuka looked at the Knocking Master, and bowed. "Thank you for teaching me as much as you can in such a short time, Sensei~"

"Eeeh! It was fun, don't think too much about it. You made me feel young of a couple decades, AH-HA!" he answered, happy.

The two followed the others.

"Thanks again for helping us Zebra-Sensei!" Kirashima and Tetsutesut shouted their thanks. "You really helped push us past our limits! You're the manliest~!"

"Whatever, just don't scream all the time...What the fuck did I get myself into, bunch of masochists, there is no fun in beating somebody if they enjoy it." Zebra muttered to himself in annoyance. But, he did have a ghost of a smile, actually liking their company and helping them. It felt weird... but in a good way. 'Never had anyone thank me for training them,' he thought. 'I might keep an eye on those two.'

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(Theater)

Everyone had made it back and saw that Fat Gum and Mirko were picking their teeth with toothpicks.

"SO? Is the food good?" Joy asked.

"I am one stuffed and satisfied bunny," Mirko stated.

"It was the best I've ever had," Fat Gum stated, happily. "Might have the kid intern with me to use his food to the fullest."

"All Might won't like that."

"Screw him."

"Hey, if it's for heroics it's fine," All Might stated. "He can teach my student to be a better hero."

Ryuko was holding her gut. "So good... Couldn't stop..." she groans out. "This was just the start?" she asked them. She got nods. She just leaned back in her seat.

Melissa was looking happy. "I think I'm starting to feel something~!"

"That's a good sign! ... I hope you won't mind if I run tests later, sweetie." David answered.

Melissa nodded her head to him. "I don't mind dad~! I do feel a weird connection to technology for some reason though..."

Light summoned some parts for inventing. "Try and see if you can manipulate these."

Melissa looked at the items and felt something. She then held her hand out... and the items started floating and connecting to each other.

"It worked! Hahaha! This changes a lot of things!" David said in excitement.

Melissa's smile of awe and wonder that could brighten the whole room. "I have a Quirk... I HAVE A QUIRK~!" She finished the build and it looked like a power enhancing gauntlet. She then floated it to herself looking at it. "A triple strength multiplier gauntlet with other functions, like a holo map and communicator." Melissa blinked. "... How did I know that? I just looked at it, and the information came to me."

"Oooh! I am going to have fun with this!" Mei said with sparkling eyes.

"I think you gained a Technomancer Quirk," Izuku stated, in awe.

"Want to help me study it?" she asked.

"Yes~!" both Mei and Izuku answered at once.

Momo whispered to the others. "Add Mei and Melissa to the next meeting as well. It's only a matter of time." The others nodded.

"Alright everyone, time to start the next chapter," Xara stated.

Toriko looked at his wife, while they went to sit down. "So what did you think of the kid's cooking?"

"Huhuhu! He was very good for a beginner! And he had just started using Zaus-san's knowledge! I wanna see how far he goes, maybe he can cook with Komatsu for our next anniversary?" she asked.

"We can try!"

Komatsu looked to Melk. "So what are your thoughts on the girls? They have any talent in your eyes?"

"The blond one, Melissa, certainly does...The other, Mei, kind of jumps from an idea to the other without control too often, like a hurricane, and it may be a problem for the more precise side of Knife Making, where a millimeter off can ruin the entire blade. But if they work together? I have no doubts they can go far, one just needs to let herself go more often, while the other needs to take a breath and slow down. So they balance each other."

"That's good to hear at least," he agreed with a nod. "He will need knives as good as yours if he wants to be the best in his world."

"Definitely, I don't want to be rude, but even by video I could see their knives... They are bad. Really, really bad. My father would have tossed them all into the furnace to recover the metal instead of letting anybody use them." Melk answered, grimacing.

Komatsu winced hearing that. "Really that bad, even the ones they're trying to forge on that I-Island place?"

"Those I still need to see, but you know how I see technology in knife making... I grew-up using the old-fashioned way, so I will wait and see before judging." she answered, shrugging.

"Take your seats, people! Time to start!" Rumi said, apparently eager to see, and probably eat, more.

"Wait," Monoma called out, getting everyone's attention. "There's something I want to say to Class 1-A."

Katsuki rolled his eyes, not wanting to hear any of his ranting. "Oh what smart remarks do you have this time you damn Copy-"

"I want to apologize for all my rude behavior to all of you," he apologized to Class 1-A, interrupting Katsuki.

"...Okay, that was unexpected." Katsuki admitted, eyebrows shooting high.

Monoma sighs, looking away and rubbing the back of his head. "Yeah... I guess you wouldn't..." He looked at them again. "I shouldn't have let my obsession get too far like it did..."

"Are you being serious about this? Because it's kind of coming out of the blue," Mezo asked with narrowed eyes.

"You are free to not believe me, but at least I know I got it out of my chest," he answered.

"You and us share a LOT of bad memories, between insults, jeers, verbal attacks and much, MUCH more." Tokoyami added.

"...I know."

"A chance? I assure you he is a decent human being when he is not doing...That." Itsuka asked.

"...Final chance." Tenya declared, once studying the faces of his friends.

Monoma shrugged. "Eh, I'll take it." He then gave his cocky smile, but it was more playful than annoying. "I still won't lose to you guys, me or my classmates. But we can still work together to show those we can be heroes when others thought we couldn't."

Katsuki gave his challenging grin. "I'll take that challenge, Damn CopyCat Bastard."

"I hope so, you short fuse pomeranian," Monoma shot back, both shaking hands in respect.

"... Did Monoma gain Katsuki's respect...?" Denki asked in shock.

"I can do that whenever the fuck I want!" Katsuki said in annoyance. "Hey! Nerd! High five!"

Clap! Both Izuku and Katsuki's hands met with a loud smack.

"See? EASY!"

"I'm more surprised Monoma apologized," Kosei stated, still not believing it.

"Hating and being hated is tiring." Monoma answered. "Also a good meal helps with bringing out your real emotions, it seems."

"That food fixed Monoma too?!" Kinoko said in awe.

"That and probably Tomoko-san's Quirk... Probably." Izuku answered. "It did give one to Melissa after all..."

Ragdoll's eyes widened. "B-But it was stolen! H-How would it-!?"

"I-I believe that All For One doesn't take all of a person's Quirk," Izuku stated. "That would drastically change a person on a fundamental and mental level. Have you lost any of what you liked before? Anything you liked that is now not interesting to you? Those sorts of things." Izuku listed out. "Also, I think there are parts of a Person's Quirk that are ingrained into a person's DNA, that if you can reactivate it, a person can gain back their Quirk. So All For One Just takes most of the Quirk, not all of it." (A/N 2)

"A Quirk is a mutation of Human DNA, had All for One taken everything away, at the very least Tomoko-san would have had near-fatal health issues. There is a very faint chance her Quirk can indeed be reactivated and regenerated if even only a spark was left." David confirmed, having studied Quirks enough himself to try to help Toshinori.

Everyone's eyes widened. That was true.

"I also believe that the reason some people can't adapt to another Quirk, is like the same way when you put a wrong blood transfusion into a person," Izuku added. "It's like if you put B- blood into someone who's A+ blood, it'll try and reject it, causing all kinds of problems."

"That is a possibility..." David agreed, pondering over what Izuku said.

"Come on girl, try!" Pixie Bob said.

"I..."

"Try!" Mandalay prompted.

"..." Nobody could tell if she actually did manage to use her powers, but they guessed her Quirk was indeed back when she hugged Izuku as hard as she could and cried, the ugly way.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"H-H-Happy to help, Tomoko-san:"

"D-D-DHANK YOUUUU!" the woman howled in tears.

Izuku just patted her on the back, trying to comfort her. "F-Feel better now...?" he asked her.

"Y-Yesh."

"Blow that nose, Ragdoll, you look ridiculous." Pixie Bob said, smirking.

"Shut up! You have your Quirk taken and then come back and we see how you feel!" she yelled at her teammate, tears still rolling down her eyes.

"Shut up and come here, you whiny baby! Wild Wild Group Hug!" Mandalay ordered with a wide smile. All four teammates hugged each other, all crying tears of joy.

Koda looked in awe. "Deku is so cool~! He helped Auntie Ragdoll~!" he cheered.

Sir Night Eye fixed his glasses. "I think I'm starting to see why you chose him, Toshinori..."

"Actually, I didn't really choose him. One for All did." Toshinori answered, chuckling.

"I think it's time to start the show, don't you think? We are here to have fun and eat good food after all!" Nana suggested, she too was happy for Ragdoll's recovery.

"Ah, I say give them a few more minutes," Banjo stated, waving her off, but smiling. "They deserve this win over that bastard~"

After a few minutes, everyone calmed down and took their seats. The lights turned down and the next episode started.

A Chef's Rebirth 2:

The System.

Yaoyorozu Household -

It was a day of celebration for the obscenely-rich family, their only daughter Momo had just been accepted into the recommendation entrance test for the prestigious Hero School UA and will soon start her career as a Pro Hero, something that brought no little pride to both her parents.

POP! POP!

The Family Chef had even brought along a few party amenities and decorated the entire kitchen in an over-abundance of streamers and banners.

"Your parents look to be very proud of you!" Ochako said, moved.

Momo had an embarrassed smile on her face. "Yes, but they can go overboard at times."

"... The System...?" Tamaki muttered, thinking to himself, tapping his chin. "Why does that sound familiar...? I swear I've heard it before..."

"Uhn?" Nejire looked at her friend in curiosity, but said nothing.

"There is no need for all this," Momo said with an embarrassed smile.

"There is! There is!" Rei answered, smiling proudly at her daughter.

"The Test is one year away, I don't even know if I will pass it," the young woman replied.

"With all the strings I had to pull to make you jump ahead of the queue, you better!" her father, Saito, answered with a smirk.

"Darling, don't make her feel guilty!" Rei chided him in answer.

"That's not very nice!" Nemuri said, chuckling.

Momo just sunk deeper into her seat, her covered face that was blushing atomic red at this point.

"Your family is very sweet, young Momo. Don't be ashamed. We all can see they love you very much." Inko offered with a kind smile.

"But they can be too much at times..." she muttered out in embarrassment.

"Hey, just be happy they care," Rin stated, shrugging.

"Just kidding! Just kidding!" the man of the house answered with a childish, cheeky raspberry.

"Thank you all the same for helping me, dad." Momo said while hugging the man tightly.

"Aaah...You are growing-up so fast! It seems just yesterday I was reading you bedtime stories and helping you dress-up in the morning!" her father replied, crying.

"Me too! You never wanted to eat your eggs when you were a kid!" the family Chef added, he too was sobbing heavily.

"Not you too, please, Takeshi-san!" Momo begged, chuckling.

"Aaaw!-SORRY!" Izuku first looked stricken by the cutesy image, then noticed, covered his mouth and apologized loudly for the slip-up.

Momo just went nuclear, whether it was from embarrassment, or from Izuku thinking she was cute was up in the air.

"Kid's a real charmer, isn't he~" Sunni teased.

"Natural talent!" Rin answered.

Mineta was chewing on one of sticky-hairballs in frustration.

Dling-Dlong!

"Uh?"

"Ah! This must be young Midoriya! He said he had a surprise for you to celebrate!" Saito said once seen Inko enter the house accompanied by their butler.

The short, and adorably plump (don't you dare lewd her), woman was as always dressed perfectly whenever visiting the Yaoyorozu house, and this time she was bringing with her a carefully folded paper basket of some home-made confectionery...The strange thing was that for some reason her son was nowhere to be seen.

"I have a bad feeling about it." Ochako admitted in dread.

"That's one of Izuku's dishes Inko is carrying in the basket, isn't it?" Hound Dog asked, already knowing the answer.

"I wonder what it'll be~" Fat Gum wondered, already anticipating the next meal.

"Please be a dessert! Please be a dessert! Please be a dessert!" Mirko pleaded. "Carrot Cake. Please let it be Carrot Cake if it is~!"

"How can you still eat after everything we had?" Ryuko asked in shock to her friend.

"It all goes into these bad babies here~" Mirko stated with a smirk, slapping her strong thighs.

Zebra whistled at her powerful legs. "You got some power in those legs, I can tell~"

"Everybody does, ah!"

"Down with the ego, girl." Ryukyu said, chuckling.

"You also have the air of a battle junky as well, I can respect that," Zebra stated. "What are your thoughts on cocky people?"

"Need a good kicking in the face," she answered.

"Bwahahahahaha!"

"God... There's two of them now..." Toriko muttered in dismay.

"Don't you mean three..." Coco stated, pointing at Bakugou, also having a look of dismay as well.

"Augh...." the man groaned louder, soon with Rin trying to comfort him.

"Someone as lovely as you shouldn't be so brutish," Sunni scolded Mirko. "You'll set a bad example for pretty people everywhere."

"Who's the shiny woman here...?" Mirko asked the other members of Toriko's group, pointing her thumb to Sunni.

"I'M A MAN!" Sunni shouted in outrage, his hair waving everywhere.

"Debatable." This only mad Sunni's eye twitch in irritation.,

"But she does make it look endearing..."

MANY eyes whipped towards Izuku for that comment.

Izuku looked lost. "What? I respect her for showing that girls can be just as strong as guys even with a "Cute" Quirk like hers. That's how she got her position as the number six hero. She's an inspiration to women, like All Might is to everyone."

Mirko smiled at him. "I like this kid~" she stated, pointing her thumb at Izuku.

"Eeeh! If only you were a bit younger, isn't it? He does remind me of a guy you said you met in school." Ryuko teased.

"Who was it?" Rin asked them.

"MIND YOUR BUSINESS!" Rumi shrieked.

"Good evening." she offered with a small bow.

"Good evening, Inko!" Rei answered, still giddy at her daughter's success.

"Congratulations for your acceptance into AU, dear. I know it's not much...But we kinda made this for you," Inko said with a tiny smile.

"My father has made things bigger than they are, as usual. I did not enter AU, I was just told I will be able to take part in a special form of Entrance Exam next year, nothing more. My getting into the University is still up to debate." Momo answered while gratefully accepting the small thing.

"Oh! Well, it is still worth celebrating!" Inko answered with a small chuckle.

It was honestly impossible to hate the woman, she and her son had been as unobtrusive as possible while Izuku taught Rei the basics of cooking, and especially by showing a godly level of patience during the lessons.

"Oh my, thank you." Inko said, blushing.

"You are too nice, mom." Izuku answered.

"Pot meet kettle," Gran stated.

" ... We're not that bad, are we?" both Midoriyas asked.

"Being nice never is bad, if you ask me." Rin answered.

"At least you are not a Wimp!" Rumi added.

"Yep!" many others agreed.

"Would you take him as an apprentice then~?" Nezu asked Rumi. "He can keep up with you~"

"No partners!" she roars at the chimera.

"I'll put it in the maybe column then," Nezu answered, unfazed.

"Why don't you like working with people?" Zaus asked her.

"Pride, mostly. She is afraid people will think she is weak." Ryukyu answered.

"SHADDUP!" she roars at her friend. "I don't need any weaklings holding me back. If you can't beat a Villain on your own, then you're weak."

"It took all 4 of us to TRY and beat the Final Villain of our world. And in the end we won just out of sheer dumb luck." Toriko admitted.

"There are battles you can't win alone, girl. You are old enough to learn this lesson," Gran Torino added, rapping Rumi on the head with his cane.

"Hey! Stop that, you old geezer!" Rumi shouted at him. "Alright, alright! I get it, geez!"

Flashback – During the First lesson -

"Let's start with the basics, shall we?" Izuku asked with a gentle smile.

"O-Okay!" Rei answered, and used the silent thumbs-up of both Saito and Momo to steal her resolve.

"We'll go slowly, starting with Peeling and Cutting, since preparing Ingredients is the first and most important step. And remember, until you feel secure about handling a knife, always use the Cat Paws while cutting."

"Cat Paws?" Rei asked, confused.

"Fingers folded, like a cat paw...You know? Nyan!" Izuku answered, smiling sweetly while moving his hands up and down and even mewing a little.

"ARGH!" Toru and Pony were heard gasping as they grabbed their chest in pain.

"Midori..." Mina said.

"Y-Yes?"

"Do that. Here. Now." she demanded.

"D-Do I have to...?" he asked, sweating.

"DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!" the girls chorused.

Izuku was blushing hard. He then did what his counterpart did. "N-Nyan!"

"Fuck!" Rumi's curse rang like thunder in the theater. The kids' ears being covered again.

"Perfect." Tsuyu said once done filming it. "Thank you, we can continue now. kero."

"Wait, you record that!?" Izuku asked, shocked and blushing madly.

"Why do you think we asked? This thing cures depression." she answered.

"Can I die now...? Please?" Izuku begged, ashamed.

Ragdoll looked at her team. "Should we have him join~?"

"Down, girl. I am usually the one hunting down boys." Pixie Bob answeed, laughing.

"So it's a no?"

"It's a yes, but get in line I saw him first!"

"I don't think she meant it like that...'' both Tiger and Mandaly stated dryly.

"Potato-patato."

"Good God, that's adorable." Saito thought in wonder while his wife and daughter turned beet-red at the cutesy scene.

Luckily beside that small incident things continued smoothly, and with how SLOW Izuku was forced to go to make sure Rei could not create another disaster of hers, as they all tragically discovered through trial-and-error, Saito was actually happy the lessons were free, because it was clear it will take a while before Rei would turn from a 'Lethal' to a 'Decent' Chef.

"Decent would already mean she improved immensely," Momo admitted, sighing.

"Trust your mother's abilities, it's clear she is trying hard." Setsuno said.

"Things like these take time to cultivate," Toriko stated. "With the proper care, anything can become amazing."

"When did you get so philosophical~" Rin teased her husband.

"I blame Komatsu." he answered, grinning.

"Ow, come oooon!" Everyone laughed at this.

Present time -

"I don't see Izuku with you, though. Where is he? Is everything okay?" Momo asked.

"Oh!...He...He is still busy training in his Chef skills, nothing wrong! He is actually sorry for not being here today." The family noticed how the woman stiffened a little before answering, but did not push the issue as a form of respect.

"He wants to become a great Chef, so training is a must, isn't it?" Rei asked.

"Y-Yes. Again, I apologize."

"Don't worry, don't worry!" Saito, recognizing the situation was making her uncomfortable, switched the focus on the small package the woman took along.

"What happened? He was fine last episode." Aizawa asked with a grunt.

"... I think I know..." Izuku stated, having a gut feeling.

"... Should we ask...?" Hound Dog asked, starting to think of scheduling a lot of the students for counseling.

"This version never awakened a Quirk, he is Quirkless. In a world that LOVES Quirks and Quirked." Izuku answered. "I have a stockpile Quirk that allows me to manipulate energy in different ways. He doesn't."

"Please don't tell me we are talking discrimination." Nighteye asked with a groan.

"Yeah, I got lucky finding out I had a Quirk I never knew about..." Izuku stated.

"What is it?" he asked.

"O-Oh! S-Some Italian dessert...T-Tira-Tiram...Something? Tiramiso?" Inko tried saying.

"Tiramisu! Ah! He knows you are a coffee freak, Momo-chan! So he made you a coffee-based dessert!" Rei answered, amused.

"I-I-I am not a coffee freak, mom!" Momo immediately countered with an ashamed expression.

Momo blushed in embarrassment again. "Is it Pick on Momo Day, or something...?"

"I love coffee too, don't worry." Izuku offered, kindly.

"Coffee freak." Inko muttered with a fake-cough.

"You are getting a bit too much ahead, Yaomomo." Mina said with a deadpan.

"And coffee is the best~" Mei agreed. "Helps me keep working on my babies~!"

"It's true," Iida agreed. "I drink a lot of Orange Juice, because it helps me and my engines."

"I prefer juice, but I understand how some of my classmates can't wake-up unless they shot espresso directly in their veins."

Just then, said treat appeared in front of everyone, with some coffee or tea to go with it if people wanted it.

"Perfeeeeect~!" Pony sang, happily accepting both dessert and a huge mug of coffee.

"Americans...Coffee in a mug...Ugh!" Momo muttered, preferring a normal cup.

"I like tea to be honest," Ibara stated.

"Some people hate coffee..." Light stated. "I'm one of them, too bitter for my taste."

"I NEED Coffee instead. Especially in the morning. Otherwise I am a serial killer." Joy admitted.

"Tea is better," Xara stated.

"You love two drinks, honey: Tea and coffee. You have a caffeine dependency." Saito said with a wink.

"I can stop whenever I want!" she replied, a tad lamely.

"Suuuure!"

"Daddy!"

"Huhuhuhu!" Inko could not stop a soft laugh from escaping her, further reddening Momo's face in embarrassment.

"Inko-san! Please! At least you!" the young woman begged.

"I am sorry, dear. But I really must go, I still have some errands to run. Congratulations again for your quasi-admission, Icchan and I will cheer for you when the time comes." Inko answered, bowing a little to the family before nearing the door again.

"You are running away, lady. It's evident." Hound Dog said, humming.

"... I just want to be there to help my son..." Inko admitted.

"There is nothing wrong in asking for help."

"... Like people helped him when he needed it the most...?" she asked dryly, a hint of anger in her voice.

"Tread carefully now..." Toriko whispered to Hound Dog. "You just entered a land mine zone just now..."

"Yeah, that's dangerous territory you're going into," Mic added.

"I admit help was lacking back there. But admitting defeat doesn't help."

Inko sighs, looking sadder now. "I know... I just feel like I'm the only one who could protect him... I feel like I even failed at that... when he asked if he could be a hero..."

"You may have made a mistake, but you do regret it," Hound Dog stated. "You are one of his pillars in his life. That's how he's kept himself so strong. You did help him, now he has actual friends, and people that will support him. So, be happy for him, and know we heroes will help him as well."

"Thank you." both Midoriya said as one.

"Miss Midoriya?" Saito called-out while accompanying her out.

"Yes?" she asked.

"..." the man simply checked that his wife and daughter were distracted by the dessert, and the blissful expressions both had cemented their being elsewhere at the moment, and closed the door behind them both.

"Saito-san?" Once it was clear they were alone, Inko looked at the man with a curious expression.

"What's wrong? Is Izuku all right?" call it a businessman's sixth sense, but Saito could tell Inko was trying to bullshit him, and he instantly got worried.

"Everything is fine, don't worry. We are just extremely busy lately." Inko answered.

"Midori...No...Inko, please tell me." Saito asked again.

"Go celebrate with your daughter, Saito. Today is her day and her day only. We'll be fine, have no fear, we Midoriya's always bounce back." Inko answered with a gentle smile, a bow, and then silently walked away.

"...You are not fooling me, my friend." Saito muttered, sighing.

He saw how her smile dropped as soon as she turned around, making the smell of bulls*** he had sensed before grow one-hundred-fold in power.

"What is he waiting for? Chase her!" Nemuri said.

"You are getting a bit too much into this," Mic answered.

"Hey, it's a good show," Sunni stated.

"You are talking about my life...Kinda." Izuku said.

"Details."

Returning inside he could see the small dessert being reduced to a tiny slice his wife, daughter and personal Chef has left him just for manner's sake, since the thing was so thin you could almost see through it...And the three assholes had at the very least the decency to turn around and not look at him while wolfing down the huge slices they took for themselves.

"Thank you for leaving me some..." deep in thought on the 'Inko Problem', Saito only gave a half-hearted remark before tasting the thing himself.

There were laughs going all from the comedic moment.

"A-Alright everyone," Izuku got out through some laughter. "Time to enjoy the meal~!"

"Finally, I may add!" Sado added, excited. He wanted to see how far he needed to go in his baking.

"It ain't carrot cake, but it's good~" Mirko stated.

"So fluffy!" Ibara gasped.

"Uhm...HEY, Kiddo!" Rumi said.

"Y-Yes?" Izku answered.

"Will you cook like this soon?"

"Yes?"

"Good. Be useful and make me a carrot cake, and in exchange I will give you some tips on kicking and stuff."

Izuku smiled happily. "Sure~!"

"Good, you want something, Ryukyu? May as well get something in exchange."

Ryuko shrugged, eating her cake. "Not sure, something with meat and shines like gold, my Quirk makes me like things that are you know."

"Basically Jewel Meat then. Bit hard to come by in your world," Zaus answered.

"... There's something that's actually called Jewel Meat in your world?" Ryuko asked, surprised.

"Oh! You'll see! There are plenty of amazing dishes you will see being prepared!" Joy answered.

Light nodded in agreement. "I think it may be your favorite," he told her.

"If it is as shiny as you imply, definitely!" Ryukyu answered, laughing.

"Literally like a jewel," Xara stated.

To be fair, the dessert was amazing: the cream was fluffy and delicate, with the taste of both Mascarpone and Fresh Eggs mixed together to perfection, while the ladyfingers biscuits had been soaked in just the right amount of coffee to not crumble into a sludge when sliced and yet melt into the flavorful espresso taste once entered the mouth, making it so that the sweetness of the cream and the faint bitterness of the coffee could playfully battle for dominance in one's palate in perfect balance.

As Saito and his family had learned to expect from the boy's dishes: Pure Bliss. That was why Saito felt there was something strange if the boy was not present and his mother seemed to be shouldering some immense weight; both mother and son were now friends of the Yaoyorozu Family, and that meant Saito felt honor-bond to discover what was happening.

"You okay, dear?" Rei asked, once seen his thoughtful expression.

"I am just trying to taste whatever crumbs you ingrates left me with. It's not easy to taste something if it's smaller than the nail of a pinkie finger!" Saito answered sarcastically while pretending that nothing was out of the ordinary.

"I wanted to share it properly, but my mother insisted on cutting it differently." Momo tried saying, still with a bit of chocolate powder on the tip of her nose.

"I will forgive you because it is your special day, today. But I am very disappointed in your mother." he answered.

"I am so sorry, Darling!" Rei said immediately, eyes sparkling just as she could do on command whenever she knew she was being naughty.

"Sorry, Boss. It was really good." the family Chef added.

"You especially. I am the Boss of this house! You should not steal my food!"

"Sorry, sir..."

"I'll forgive you,"

"Thank you Boss!"

"...IF you make me a giant Tiramisu just as good as this one was." Saito added with a malevolent smirk.

"F***!" the Chef swore loudly in dismay.

"Come on! That's evil!" Katsuki said, laughing in amusement at the cruelty of the thing.

"I don't think he'll be able to do that," Sado stated. "I can tell it would take me multiple times to even come close... to even getting halfway close to getting to this."

"He can be vindictive when someone gets on his bad side..." Momo stated, with a sweatdrop, still eating and drinking.

"Hey, wouldn't you be the same with something as good as this?" Yui and Tsu asked her bluntly

"I would!" Setsuna admitted, laughing.

"I mean, me too, but giving an impossible task is a bit too much." Fat Gum added.

"Let him go PLUS ULTRA~" Rumi smirked wickedly.

"True~" Mt. Lady agreed.

"Theres girls are ruthless," Melk stated. "I'm impressed~"

"I am worried instead. They will eat Izuku-san alive." Komatsu admitted.

"I'd say the other way around~" Zebra stated.

"Eeeew!" Sanni said in disgust.

"Seriously, what's your problem?" Zebra asked, honestly confused.

"I think Sunni is Asexual," Toriko stated, shrugging.

"Or he just finds it too dirty, he is a germaphobe, remember." Coco said.

Sunni just huffed, sticking his nose in the air.

Two days later – Midoriya Household -

Inko was sitting on the sofa nursing a cup of tea while her husband was spewing fire at the phone, both figuratively and literally.

"YOU LISTEN HERE, YOU BRAIN-DEAD QUIRKIST! MY SON DOES NOT NEED A DAMN QUIRK TO COME THERE TEACHING A LESSON TO THE SPOILED BRATS YOU CALL 'PROMISING STUDENTS'! WHAT?! YOU BELIEVE ONE NEEDS A TAIL OR A SECOND SET OF EARS TO COOK!?"

"..."

"MORON!" Hisashi roared like a beast before closing the call.

"Here is the problem then," Aizawa said, sighing.

"Never seen dad that angry." Izuku admitted, shocked.

"He only get's like that when someone does something extremely stupid," Inko admitted.

"So there is still that much discrimination there, things must have not changed much since Quirks started being widespread then, at least in their version of our world," Nezu said with a calculative gaze.

"You think that there are still Meta Liberators out there?" Snipe asked the chimera in a whisper.

"Wouldn't surprise me. The fact that we haven't seen open propaganda is a miracle, seeing how they are refusing Midoriya for a lack of Quirk. That kind of madness must be very widespread."

"... You don't think heroes are with them, do you...?" Gran asked, afraid of the answer.

"I fear that there might be..." Nezu stated, not liking the answer either. "I want everyone to be careful when we get back." All the heroes nodded.

Zebra was trying to crush his armrest after seeing what happened.

"That's not okay, it would be like if we discriminated against people without Gourmet Cells or without Appetite Demons, it's not something they can control, it's a matter of birth, and that is not something you can be discriminated for." Toriko muttered in distaste.

Knocking Master looked very upset.

"... Maybe I should test my new knives on these people...?" Melk the second stated, with a way to sweet smile that didn't fit her at all.

"Now, now, Melk, there's no need to be drastic," Komatsu tried to calm her down.

"That's so unmanly!" Kirashima and Tetsutetsu shouted in anger.

"Unfortunately scenes like that were common back in the days, before it was the Quirked to be mistreated, seen as Abnormal, then Quirks became more and more diffused and soon Quirkless took that moniker. In our world then things evened out and that kind of discrimination is at an all time low... there instead things are still in "Phase 2", so to speak." Nighteye explained.

A lot of the students didn't like it, but couldn't do much about it now.

"He will bounce back, I know myself. He will find a way." Izuku said in determination.

'With a little help,' Light thought, 'seeing' his two friends watching this, waiting to join.

"Apparently Samui's little friends took offense to their beloved buddy having a mental breakdown because of Izuku, so they made it their mission to stop any attempt of his to get into any possible school for aspiring Chefs." Hisashi answered, snarling.

"And as a bonus, several Food Critics too have been asked to strong-arm Restaurants into not taking him in for Apprenticeship. Everything is hushed, but I called a couple guys specialized in intercepting calls and mails. If it is about Food, except with sub-par shacks, every venue have been sealed-off for Izuku." the old man answered, sighing.

"And of course if there are queues to get into any University, and no matter what specialization, Quirks get pushed forward in line," Inko added, tears ready to spill from her eyes.

"I have a Question!" Mina asked.

"Yes?" Aizawa answered.

"... Why?!"

"Heroes, especially young ones, are a resource. Get lucky and one of your students may become the next Number 1, and that means a LOT of publicity. So the greater number of Quirked students, the greater the chance that one of them will be a huge hit." Nezu answered.

"And the Quirkless in that case?" Monoma asked.

"They get the shaft." Izuku answered, bitterly.

"Okay, I'm looking into these places to see if they are run by the Meta Liberation Army..." Nezu stated, his smile gone, and scaring everyone. He knows what it's like, being experimented on.

"... I'm not the only one scared, right?" Light asked his partners.

"Saw him do pretty horrible things, so the knowledge of how deep he can go is pretty damning." Joy answered.

"Note to self... Don't be on his hit list..." Toriko and Rin stated in unison.

"I feel like I'd have trouble with him..." Knocking Master stated.

"The world is not a nice place, I fear." the old man replied.

"You don't know anybody that can help him, Sir?" Hisashi asked.

"My contacts would have helped had your son decided to go into Analysis, Mathematics, Science, Physics, Programming...Hard Lab Science, so to say. Even I-Island does not have Food-Oriented sections, even if Izuku's abilities have started to interest several colleagues of mine already. I can try to see if I can help him become a researcher and join I-Island once older and ready...But as a Chef? I can't help him, I am sorry."

"That might change after what Izuku did with Ragdoll and Melissa," David stated.

"And maybe me as well," Mirio stated. "Remember, my Quirk was 'erased'."

"Try later, last thing we need is others think you are an exibitionist that likes to go around naked. There are kids too." Nighteye whispered.

"You think I can use my Quirk on my clothes as well if I awaken more of my Quirk's aspect?" he whispered back. "Maybe make some sort of Intangible field around me?"

"Remind me to test that later then, I am actually curious." Nighteye admitted. "You might be able to use it on others as well, but if you touch them..."

"I am actually afraid of that, we would need to know if even with them the walls and ground spit them out, otherwise they would remain stuck, and that doesn't sound like a good time."

"Have Izuku test it with you, he can just blast his way out if it doesn't work," Nighteye stated, fixing his glasses. "Besides, he'd like to know what it would be like."

"Yes," Izuku admitted, sheepishly.

David looked to Zaus and All Might. "You think he can also work for me? He has a good head on his shoulders." He then gave his friend a playful smirk. "Much better than you at times, Toshoi~"

"What do you mean?!" Toshinori asked, he looked hurt. In a Childish way.

"If the boy's memories are anything, you go in fist cocked and have no plan," Zaus stated, teasing him as well. "That needs to be changed for Izuku, he can still go in head first, but he'll need to think on the fly as well."

All Might just grumbled he wasn't that bad.

"You can turn a skyscraper into rubble with one punch, yes, but that is not a justification for being reckless, brat." Gran Torino and Recovery Girl answered to that grumbling.

All Might just looked dejected, making Nana hold back her giggles.

"It would still be a respectable job," Hisashi conceded, sighing.

"Does it really mean that Icchan can't chase his own dreams? That he can only let others decide for him?" Inko asked, heartbroken.

"If I could give Izuku my Quirk I would do it without a second thought, but I am not All for One." Hisashi answered.

"Not in this universe." Joy said, chuckling.

"JOY!"

"WHAT?!"

"I am not apologizing."

"Please don't spoil anything..." Xara stated, glaring at the eye.

Joy just grumbled, saying they were no fun.

"Besides knowing that out there somewhere in another Reality my husband is also that monster, I have to share the pain of that Me. It's unfair that in our world, that one and who knows how many others, a Quirk really decides what you can or cannot do." Inko admitted.

"I may understand not being a Hero, no matter how limiting that requirement is, but anything else? Even for cooking or just being a simple clerk, there should not be a need to have any form of superpowers." Coco added.

"Same here, all this fanfare for Quirks is still a mystery to me. Besides needing two pairs of glasses and seeing in the dark, mine never made me feel all-powerful." the old man from I-Island answered with a shrug while the secondary pair of eyes he had on his forehead briefly opened to look at the parents, before he closed them again with a grimace.

"Jesus...The headache I get when using them is still unbearable." he then muttered, wincing.

Knock! Knock!

"I'll go see who it is." Hisashi said, opening the door to see Saito Yaoyorozu look at him with a saddened expression.

"Yes? What can I do for you?" Hisashi asked, gulping a little.

"Can I see him?" Saito asked.

"...You know?" Hisashi asked back, sighing and letting the man enter.

"Dad has always been good at knowing when one of his employees are having a hard time," Momo stated.

"That is a very sharp sixth sense! Amazing!" Izuku admitted in awe.

"You think your family could help mine...?" Ochako asked Momo, looking sheepish.

"I thought you would never ask, I know you hate pity and similar forms of help... But we are friends, I WANT to help you." Momo answered with a kind smile.

"I know... but me and my family like to make sure we can do stuff on our own to show we can do it," Ochako stated, looking determined. "That's why I want to help them, for all their support~!"

"Asking for help takes just as much strength as doing things alone. Luckily you have both the skills and the mentality to be a good Heroen." Nana answered, proud of her words.

"Thanks, people always say that I just need a good Quirk to make it, but I want to show I have much more to offer!" Ochako answered, a fire in her eyes.

"And to be fair, your Quirk is impressive, and not simple in the slightest, maybe you can change gravity, not just take it away," Ryuko stated. "With the food, it might be possible for it to evolve further."

"What do you mean?" Ochako asked, looking confused.

"Well, you could increase a person or object's weight, even your own for harder hits," Izuku pointed out. "Or change the gravitational pull, so you can fight on wall or ceilings,"

Mirko whistles. "That would be a good workout, under higher gravity."

Izuku nodded in agreement. "And when she is lighter, her normal punches and kicks will be stronger, and add that to her amplified gravity weight, her hits would be as strong as mine~!"

Katsuki looked impressed. "Dang, Round Face, you were already a challenge, but what the nerd says is true, you'll be a better one to face against."

"Thank you," Ochako answered, turning shy at the praises she was getting.

"We'll have to test them out after the episode," Aizawa stated.

"I made a couple of calls to a few people I know, so I guess I have a small inkling of what happened. No Schools for Chefs want him?"

"No schools, Academia, private tutors or even decent restaurants. And we suspect that should he try to open one himself, half the Food Critics of Japan will purposely destroy his reputation." Hisashi answered.

"Of course, Heaven forbid somebody dares shake the pedestal the great Samui sits his arse on! Bloody morons." Saito answered, rolling his eyes.

"...British ancestors?" Hisashi asked with a weak smile.

"No. My father forced me to study in England...Few things stuck." the other replied with a scrunched nose.

"Huhuhu! Yes, my father does fall into cliche British curses when nervous. That is true." Momo admitted with an adorable chuckle.

"Do you do that as well, Yaomomo~?" Mina asked in a tease.

"No, I have more self control, thank you."

"She did scream Bloody Hell that one time we ran out of coffee." Toru answered.

"It was an isolated incident!" Momo shouted, blushing madly.

"Huhuhuhu!"

"Don't laugh, Icchan!" She yelled.

"..."

"What did you call me?"

"Uh..." was all Momo could get out, her mind frying by her accidental slip up.

"So we can start calling him like that? Goodie!" Toru said, happily.

"Finally!" Pony echoed.

"Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!" Ochako hissed.

"Eek!" that was Izuku.

'HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Toriko was laughing at his predicament.

"Don't- snort- Don't be mean to the kid Toriko," Rin tried scolding, but her attempts to hold back her laughter made it hard to take her seriously.

"Dang, kids getty charm," Kami stated, knowing all too well how that is.

"I smell some secret development! You girls are planning something?" Nemuri asked, greatly amusing.

"... That is a problem." Tomoko whispered with narrowed eyes.

"We'll win, we'll win. We are WAY beyond them." Pixie Bob answered.

"Oh, dear..." Mandalay added, sighing in dismay.

"Good evening, Saito." Inko said with a small wave once both men walked back inside.

"Good evening." The old man also welcomed the new arrival.

"Hello, Inko, how's he?"

Sigh! "Honestly? Dead in a sense, the last spark was used to make that dessert for dear Momo...Now he just lies in his bed all day, hiding under the covers." she answered, sighing in despair.

"He took it that badly?"

"He was furious, the rage of a beast. Then I guess he just lost himself in sadness once done burning through the anger. Too many hands stacked against him for things out of his control, he just got fed-up with it, I guess." the old man answered with a helpless expression.

"It's not his fault if he is Quirkless and if he has a great talent for cooking!" Inko hissed angrily.

"We know, Inko. We know." Saito answered, sighing, and trying to knock gently on the door to Izuku's bedroom.

"We all have a breaking point, but there is always darkness before light." Zaus commented.

"True," Izuku agreed, nodding his head.

Knock! Knock!

"..."

"Izuku? It's me, Saito!"

"..."

"...Izuku?"

"..."

"...Just...I just want you to know that for us nothing will change. Rei still wants you to teach her and Momo still wants your help to revise her notes and Takeshi still insists on challenging you in a cooking showdown at least once. You still have friends in the Yaoyorozu family. Your family and mine have not abandoned you, you are not alone..." Saito said to the door.

"..."

"Remember: you are not alone. You will find a way, I believe in you." he said before taking a few steps back.

"..."

What not one of the adults in the living room could know was that the boy was not merely asleep, but actually going through what could be described as an out-of-body experience.

"What is happening?" Ochako asked, already worries sick

"He is-"

"NO. SPOILERS!" Light roared, silencing the Eye. "I know you like your fun, but this is something I don't want, got it...?" he asked, being serious.

"..." he got the thumbs-up he hoped for.

"The boy is safe, he is just meeting an old acquaintance of ours and one of its Champions. Izuku is safe."

Somewhere far away from Japan -

Izuku had no idea when exactly he fell asleep, only that he found himself shifting from curling into a ball under his covers to standing in front of a small, unassuming restaurant hidden in a secluded, smallish alleyway in an ancient city he did not recognize.

"Fang Fang Little Store?" he read aloud the store name with an unsure tone.

"Okay... why does that name sound familiar...?" Tamaki asked, more to himself than anything. "I swear, I should know these... but from where...?"

"That is what happens with the Multiverse. Some things are WAY different following each version. Should you remember, we will explain, promise." Joy promised.

Tamaki shrugged. "It might come to me."

"Uh?" with a sleepy grunt answering him, the boy finally noticed the slim and tall man slouching on a chair in front of the entrance and basking in the sun with his eyes closed.

"Rmmrf..." the very fat dog sleeping next to him instead just gave a guttural huff and briefly looked at the kid with only a single eye before returning to sleep.

The guy sitting on the restaurant front slowly got up to lazily stretch while looking at Izuku with half-lidded eyes and a face utterly inexpressive. He just tied his long black hair in a ponytail with a silk rope and stood with his crossed arms looking at him.

"Ehm...Hello?" Izuku tried saying with a weak smile.

"So it's you. Come in." the tall man muttered with the corners of his mouth faintly pulling up in something resembling a smile before signaling him to follow inside the store.

"Family member of yours? Same Tired of Existing expression and demeanor." Knocking Master asked once looked at Aizawa and that guy.

"You are not funny." Aizawa answered, huffing annoyed. Knocking Master just laughed at his reaction.

The restaurant was simple, neat and tidy. With an area of ten square meters and a few sets of tables and chairs, it was indeed a small, homely restaurant; curiously the plates listed on the wood tablets on the wall were priced in gold coins and crystals, but at the Owner's imperious gesture, Izuku ignored it and sat at a table under a strange tree giving off a soft light...And if Izuku's ears were not malfunctioning, a very faint chime-like sound whenever the wind from outside made its luscious green leaves flutter a little.

A Strange woman with jade skin and extremely long, silky black hair and black dress was sitting on top of a small boat resting in a corner of the restaurant and looking at him with unfazed eyes while she dangled her feet back and forth.

"W-Where am I?" he finally asked.

"My store." the Owner answered, his voice coming from the small squared window connecting the kitchen to the main room.

"...Okay?"

"I am Bu Fang," the guy added after a long silence, as if too lazy to even introduce himself.

"Bu Fang... No way..." Tamaki said with shock on his face. "If this is what I think it is..."

"You know them?" Nejire asked him.

"If I'm Right, Izuku's going to have a powerful ally on his side."

"How powerful?" Mirio asked.

He points to the three deities. "'Them' powerful."

"Yeah, but we are merciful, that's a plus on our side!" Joy said.

"We also know restraint. That Thing doesn't." Xara added.

"Hey, if you're going to be the best, you have to go beyond~" Light stated, smirking.

'PLUS ULTRA!" everyone shouted.

"Izuku Mid-"

"I know." he cut him off.

"...How?"

"..."

"...Bu-san?"

"..."

"The System told me." the man answered.

"The System?"

"This is the Gourmet System. You have been chosen to become the System's Host in the Hero World and become the God of Cooking of the Hero world." a metallic voice resounded inside the store.

Tamaki shot up, pointed to the screen, awe on his face. "I knew it, Izuku is getting the power from one of my favorite stories~ "Gourmet of Another World"~!" He looked like he was a kid in a toy store, seeing his favorite thing.

"Is that like the manga, "Restaurant to Another World"?" Denki asked, looking lost.

"Before you answer, I'd like to introduce my two partners," Light stated. "And no worries, they've been watching, so you don't have to stop in the middle of the show." Just then, two beings walking in from the shadows. "I'd like you to meet Gaia, Mother of Earth, and the one who created [The Gamer] of her world, and the Gourmet System, they have a different form, so they can be seen without people going mad."

Gaia looked like a mother figure that had plants around her body to look like a dress. Her eyes were closed, but gave off the sense she was watching even with them closed. Her hair was that of different vines from all over the world, with flowers growing on them.

The Gourmet System looked like a mass ball of different color energy, forming from one color to the next, giving off a rainbow color to them. They almost looked like the Kaleidoscope.

Gaia looked at the three. "Thank you for having us Light~" she thanked, her voice mature and full of warmth.

"It is no trouble, Lady Gaia," Light stated back to her.

"The System can not see why there is the need for it to look like a Kaleidoscope," The Gourmet System stated in its robotic tone. "Could you have not chosen a different form?"

"It is to not have their brains melt." Joy answered.

"The System fails to see why this should be an issue."

"Do you want to fry your new host?" Light asked him. "I think Gaia would be upset to have to fix him before he gains, [Gamer's Mind]"

Gaia gave the ball a warning mother's smile. "And you know I'm as strong, if not stronger than you are~"

"The System finds this challenge illogical. The second Host Izuku will of course be safe. Others are not as important, unless said value is determined by the Host himself."

"You still see them as hopeless, while I see them as a way to help him get stronger," Gaia stated. The two looked like sparks were shooting at each other.

"Logic vs. Emotions," Xara stated. "Those two never did get along at times."

"We were planning an idea to have Shirou Emiya be our next host," Gaia stated warmly. "You wanted to get back at the Alaya for having him lose his nature of the First Magic, by forcing it to mutate with Auther's sheath."

"The System was okay with this until you went against the Harem. Hosts need good offspring, and more wombs is time-saving."

"I wasn't against it," Gaia stated. "I just don't want girls that want to use him as a tool. Heavens, that's as wrong as you can make it. Alaya did it to him already to make him her puppet... Says she does it for humanity's safety... but she only wants her ideal of Humanity... Do you want him to be like those versions of himself, System...?"

"The Host's safety is paramount. Of course the System would erase any pesky Entity attempting that. Deity or Demonic."

"Good you agree~ She's messed up his birthright, I will not let him be a puppet to her. I will let him have the First Magic. Will you help me with that, System?"

"The Request is acceptable. Once done here the System will offer its assistance for the new Host." the System answered.

The System let out a tendril of rainbow color, for the two deities to shake hands.

"Will you mind if Zelrich and Merlin help? They'll butt in anyways."

"Only if the person known as Merlin stays quiet the entire time."

Light coughed, getting the two's attention.

"Girl and...Stuff, can we get back on topic?" Joy asked.

"Yes," Light agreed. "What do you two think of this Izuku?"

"This Izuku shows enough potential to become a Host as well, once done here the System will test him." the thing answered.

"Yes~" Gaia agreed. "He will do wonderful as a new [Gamer]~"

"Then we'll give him our blessing after this," Xara stated.

"Why me?"

"Because it's logical. A Linchpin is perfect Host material as Fate protects them." System answered.

Gaia nodded in agreement. "Yes, I've seen what you can do, and you are the best choice."

Izuku only blushed, holding his head in his arms.

Gaia giggled while the System just floated to join the other three. Gaia joined in as well.

"What it said." Bu Fang added while delivering a plate of braised meat to the boy.

"What is the System?"

"The System is the System. It will aid the new Host in his mission to become the God of Cooking of the Hero world.

You will be given a Restaurant to manage, a training regimen to follow and Missions to complete to further your growth.

The closest similarity the Host can use to help understanding is to follow the logic of what you call 'Videogames': Each Yen you will gain will be translated into Experience Points, as you 'Level Up' your body, spirit and senses will become stronger and you will be permitted to use better Ingredients from other worlds and better Equipment from one of the various 'God Of Cooking Sets' of other Worlds.

Host Bu Fang has already ascended to the title of 'God Of Cooking of the Fantasy World', it is now the turn of Host Izuku to Ascend." the metallic, gender-less voice of the System explained.

"Is that what you were going to tell us?" Denki asked Tamaki. "Or what the story was about?"

"Basically...I just wasn't done reading it though...So, no spoilers, please?"

"I don't think there will be," Melk stated.

"I think this is more on this Izuku's story," Tina stated.

"That's fine then." he stated, letting out a sigh of relief.

"Why? And Why me?"

"Because the System deems you worthy and because every world needs a God of Cooking."

"I see...did you really say Ingredients for other worlds?" Izuku asked, shocked.

"The Best ones." Bu answered while serving him the meat.

"At the current Level, Host Izuku will only be able to utilize Ingredients from his original world unless specifically asked by the System to use Ingredients from other worlds. The System will take care of delivering Ingredients and Instruments. Host can rest assured, nobody will find anything out of the ordinary. Host Izuku only needs to focus on cooking and furthering his skills as a Chef, the System will take care of all the rest."

"The rest?"

"Equipment, Security, Ingredients, Location and everything else."

"Security too?"

"A Whitey will be already waiting for you in the new Restaurant along another Blackie."

"Uh?"

"A robot and a Lord Dog." Bu Fang answered while pointing at the tall robot with a protruding belly behind him and at the very fat dog sleeping outside.

"A free baby!? Can I disassemble it?!" Mei asked immediately.

"No..." the System stated, making her pout.

"Ah, come now dear, let her have one to test out," Gaia stated, being motherly to Mei.

"Denied. The schematics of a Whitey are reserved."

"What if you test her to see if she's worthy?"

"... Later. IF the Host requests it."

Mei turned to him,giving him the full force puppy eyes look. "Please Muscles~? I would be so happy~"

"O-O-Okay. I-I will ask."

"Can you ask for me as well?" Melissa asked as well.

Izuku sighs. "I'll check as well..."

"Not any normal dog. They asked the most vicious of this Lord's Sons to play security. Eh! They really want you to be safe!" the Dog answered with a deep, masculine and cultured voice worthy of a King.

"So...So I just have to focus on cooking?" Izuku asked.

"Isn't that what a Chef is supposed to do?" Bu asked back.

"I want to bring smiles to people with my food, to make them happy...Not just cooking. I want people to enjoy my dishes enough to brighten their day."

"Well said." the man answered with a small nod of approval.

"Very well said!" Setsuno approved, nodding.

"Yes!" Komatsu echoed with a wide smile.

"Uh... No one is going to point out the talking dog...?" Mineta asked.

"Eh," Denki shrugged. "Pass it off as a Quirk."

"Even just to avoid headaches." Sero added.

"I do think it would be a nice pet to have," Jurota stated, fixing his glasses. "I feel like they'd be good conversationalist."

"Then Host Izuku, please prepare for your Test!" the System said.

"Test?"

"In one year the System will test you, should you pass, you will be formally recognized as a Host of the System and be given the Restaurant and everything else. In the meantime the System will take care of preparations and make sure nothing will interfere with the Host should he pass the Test. Work hard, young man!" the voice declared.

"I can see why you said they're really harsh," Aizawa stated. "I like them more already."

"A Test of worth is Logical. Wasting resources and Time for an unworthy Host is counterproductive." System answered.

"It is irrational for that, yes, I agree," Aizawa agreed, nodding his head.

"A match made in grumpy heaven." Mic commented.

"What was that...?" both asked, unamused by Mic's comment. Mic just gulped in fear.

"LET'S CONTINUE, PLEASE?!" he shrieked.

Jiro covered her ears, glaring at him. Mic just looked sheepish.

"..."

"This may be your last chance before losing another dream." Bu tried saying.

"My last chance?"

"So I was told. They will try to make your dream impossible back home, but by personal experience, I can vouch that the System can help. Whenever it is not acting too stingy or demanding."

"My last chance to be a Chef...I...I'll do it!"

"Good. Congratulations."

"I'll become a damn good Chef again! I did it once as Zaus, I can do it again as Izuku!" Izuku said while taking a bite of the so-called 'Red Braised Meat' dish he was served, and as everything faded away, the boy had only one thought crossing his mind.

"Goddamnit, this tastes amazing!"

When Izuku said that, the meal he tried appeared in front of everyone. "I know this isn't Izuku's cooking, but I want to show how far he has to go. You don't mind, do you, System?" Light stated, then asked The System.

"Acceptable. Contrary to what is cooked by Host Izuku, Host Bu Fang cooks with a different method that makes consuming his food inadvisable for people of a different worlds. The System will remove that issue."

They all took a bite of the 'Red Braised Meat' and were amazed by it.

"This is surprisingly good! I am impressed, that boy is indeed a master chef." Setsuno admitted, extremely impressed.

"Man, if this is how far Midoriya has to go, it's going to be hard..." Tetsutetsu stated in awe.

"I bet he'll make it," Monoma stated, taking another bite. "He's proven himself time and time again."

"..."

"What?"

"Sorry, it's that... Nice You is still a novelty." Tokoyami admitted.

Monoma huffed, sticking his nose up. "I can be nice if I want to, I just like to get people riled up to make them go all out~"

"And there's the Monoma we know," Rei stated, with a cheeky smile.

Real World - Midoriya Household -

BANG!

The four adults jumped in fright as the bedroom door was kicked open by Izuku as he marched towards the stove with a determined expression.

"Icchan!"

Some in the audience jumped in surprise as well.

"Come on! I don't like being jump-scared by a door!" Setsuna said with a whine.

"Hey, it was unexpected," Sato stated. "You tend to jump when something unexpected happens."

"...I'll be a Chef, even if I have to go against God himself to do it!" the young man declared while turning-on the stove and grabbing the knives and pans the guys of I-Island created for him.

"It will be hard, you know?" Saito said, sad.

"Then watch and be amazed!" Izuku answered, smiling in determination as a fat salmon appeared in his hands.

"Uhu?!"

'It really happened, I asked for the salmon I was tasked with preparing and it appeared. It means that the System really exists...I have one year to prepare for my Exam. I can't fail!' Izuku thought once he'd studied the perfect example of Salmon in his hand and the recipe that had been downloaded inside his head as the first exercise for his new training regimen.

"That is the System too?" Nighteye asked, eyes widened in shock.

"Correct. Every Host has the power to connect with a Dimensional Storage offered by the System. Able to hold all they need indefinitely." the System answered.

"Sounds almost like the [Inventory] of [The Gamer]," Gaia stated. "Anything can be put in it, and be just as fresh as it was put in."

"Each User or Provider can give that power a name they prefer. The System creates a fold in Reality to use as a storage by the Host without Time and Space getting in the way."

Gaia looked impressed. "Useful~"

"Do the Laws of Physics mean so little to you all?!" Tenya asked, actually sounding offended at the idea.

"... We're gods..." All five stated flatly, yes even the System.

"They got you there Iida..." Ochako stated, rubbing the back of her head, sheepishly.

Apparently the System had a very strict set of requirements for its Acceptance Exam, one even he as Zaus or Setsuno herself would have been hard pressed to meet, and Izuku had only one year to meet said insane criteria, along a series of Techniques/recipes he was supposed to master before the Exam came, and He won't slack off!

"Watch me, you fools out there! I was the King of Chefs once, now I will Ascend again to the top even without a Quirk!" With a knife twirling at high speed in his hands, Izuku started cooking with a fervor even superior to his previous life as Zaus.

Behind him, Saito, his parents and the old man watched in awe as Ingredients kept appearing in his hands out of thin air for him to prepare, along dishes of insanely-high Quality being prepared at high speed by him.

"...No tastes?" Pony asked.

"Not this time, soon." Light answered.

"Next cooking, promise." Xara added.

One Year Later

Day of the Recommendation Exam for Momo and 'Gourmet Exam' for Izuku

Yaoyorozu House – Kitchen -

It had been a tiring year for the boy, an insane year of sleepless nights where he would revisit whatever memory as his life as Zaus he could call upon together with the encyclopedia-worth of basic knowledge the System pretended him to Master and Memorize to prepare for his Test.

"... Why does this feel familiar..." Izuku asked, remembering his training with All Might.

"Because you are being dumped head-first into a GIANT mountain of info and exercises and left to figure things out by yourself." Nana answered.

"...But it worked..." Toshinori muttered with a guilty voice.

He was hit over the head by Gran Torino and Recovery Girl.

Izuku's life had thus been reduced to a very strict schedule: Get up, Breakfast, Cutting Training, High School, Lunch, Carving training, Homework, Cooking Lessons with Rei Yaoyorozu (If it was Monday), Seasoning Training, Dinner, Meditation to recover Zaus' memories/Special Cooking Techniques Training, sleeping. Rinse and repeat every single day.

And each and every training exercise came from the strict guidebook the System gave him, and every single exercise was ALWAYS done in live streaming so that Hisashi and a couple of trusted pals his father's Boss hand-picked could study him, because apparently what were 'Normal Skills' for a Chef like Zaus, in Izuku's original world were...Absurd, to say the least.

The boy was unaware that I-Island had taken an unhealthy interest in him, and knew even less of how 'Influential' the guys in those secret labs actually were.

"So he is mimicking Komatsu's own typical day," Melk said, chuckling.

"I just want to get better," he sated, pouting at his wife.

"Me too! I do the same!" Izuku confirmed.

"You two REALLY need to learn how to relax." Mina answered.

"Hey, we have to work hard to keep up with everyone," Izuku stated.

Komatsu nodded. "You try keeping up with him," He stated, pointing his thumb at Toriko.

"Or to be worthy of being his successor." Izuku added, pointing his thumb at All Might.

"Now we put the pie in the heated oven, and we wait." Izuku instructed while closing the oven front panel to look at the raw dessert bask in the angry-red produced by the heat inside the thing.

"I am so nervous!" Rei admitted while nervously patting the flour from the apron she was wearing.

"You were amazing during preparation, Rei. I never helped you, you did it all alone!" the boy answered with an encouraging smile.

"Except when I almost used salt instead of sugar..." the woman said, sighing.

"Beside that," Izuku conceded, sweat-dropping.

"Melk almost did the same once." Komatsu admitted with a fond smile.

"I WAS JUST NERVOUS! It was my first time cooking for you!" Melk shouting, her face bright red.

"And sometimes, people will put small printed labels on items," Momo stated, knowing from time to time she had to squint her eyes to see.

"I did see that happen too, that is why where I work labels are big." Komatsu answered.

"I will make the labels on the jars bigger still, don't worry." Takeshi, the personal Chef of the Yaoyorozu family, conceded while rolling his eyes.

"And I almost forgot to put the sliced apples in it..."

"That too doesn't matter."

"And-"

"Let's not focus on that! You made a wonderful pie to celebrate Momo's passing her Test, and you did it all alone! When she comes back, she will find your very first dish waiting for her." Izuku forcefully cut the woman off before she could start a new downward spiral of depression about her lackluster cooking abilities.

Jiro looked at Momo. "... I think I'm starting to see where you get your doubt from..."

"It does run in the family, in a way." Momo admitted, sighing.

"Hey, you do your best," Izuku stated.

"Take a room you two," Mineta hissed.

"What about No." Ochako hissed.

"Are you sure she will pass?" Takeshi asked, unsure.

"We are talking about Momo here, if she doesn't pass, who will?" Izuku answered.

"You hold my daughter in high regard, don't you?" Rei asked with a devious smile.

"She has a very sexy brain, more I won't say." Izuku, overly-focused on cleaning the kitchen top they worked on, answered without looking at the woman.

"Oh-Oooh!...Only her brain is sexy?" Rei pushed forward, her smile predatory.

"I won't confirm nor deny that your daughter is also a very gorgeous young woman, my lips are sealed and no amount of nagging will force me to talk!" he answered, flashing her a challenging smile.

"Do not underestimate my Nagging Powers, boy! No secret remains so if I, Rei Yaoyorozu Nee Katsuragi, want to know them!" the woman replied haughtily.

Izuku and Momo were blushing madly at what was said on the screen.

"Is it me or the air got heavy all of a sudden?" Mic asked.

"Mic, hush. Don't make sudden movements..." Aizawa whispered in alarm.

"Hide behind me, Komatsu..." Melk suggested once seen the ANGRY looks the girls sent Momo.

Ochako didn't know whether to be happy for Momo or jealous of her.

"You are welcome to try..." Izuku's answer faded into a whisper once he heard a gender-less metallic voice ring inside his head.

"One year has passed. Host please get through your Initiation Test right now." the System said.

"Right now?!" he asked.

"Izuku? You okay?" Rei asked, worried at seeing him pale to unhealthy levels.

"Icchan? What's wrong?" Takeshi also asked, just as worried.

"Right now, Host. Please move behind the counter and prepare the required dishes following the recipes provided." the System answered.

Gaia looked at the System. "You have a bad habit of ruining the mood, you know that...?"

"The System gave a time limit. The time limit expired and The System started the Test, that is all."

"She is not wrong." Aizawa answered.

"Shota stop siding with the Eldritch Abomination." Nemuri hissed.

"Why? He and I see eye to eye?"

"Eye to billions of eyes."

"Joy, this is not the moment." Light answered.

"I...Uhm...I was wondering if I could prepare something myself to celebrate..." Izuku asked with a forced smile.

"You forgot to get a present for Momo-chan, didn't it?" Rei asked, smiling mischievous.

"Y-Yeah. S-So I was wondering if I could prepare your dinner myself...A-A-As a present. S-She will surely be very hungry after using her Quirk to pass the Test." Izuku answered.

"Oh! Do you mind, Takeshi?"

"...Nah! Fridge is full to the point of bursting, if neither you or Mister Saito mind, I can sit one dinner out for once." the family Chef answered, shrugging.

"Good save there Midoriya," Kosei complemented.

"Good way to hide your being tested by...That." Kinoko added, pointing to the System.

"And it helps you wooing your future girlfriend." Toriko added.

"Kyaah!"

"TORIKO-SAN!" both Izuku and Komatsu yelled as one.

"Well one of them~" he added with a cheeky smile.

"Damn right!" Toru and Yui admitted, shameless.

"UNFAAAAAAAIR!" Mineta howled in insanity.

"T-Thank you!" Izuku answered with an overly-elated expression that made both adults laugh.

Tying a green bandanna on his head, the young man started collecting Ingredients from the giant fridge, although from his point of view, the stuff he was about to cook was FAR from normal.

From Izuku's point of view -

As soon as he tied the bandanna on his head, the kitchen of the Yaoyorozu family disappeared and an endless white space appeared around Izuku; nothing beside the cooking area prepared by the System and a giant fridge was there, the young Chef was alone in the middle of a pure-white Nothing.

The Test was simple: 'Prepare a Full Course Menu', Meaning:

Hors d'Oeuvre

Soup

Fish Dish

Meat Dish

Main Course

Salad

Dessert

"WOOOOO! I can't wait! That will be nice to eat!" Toriko exclaimed in happiness.

"Bwahahaha! Some good food finally," Zebra added, smiling like a psycho.

All the Heroes and Hero students looked up in hunger.

"Will we try it all?" Tetsutetsu asked.

"Of course." Light answered. "Both normal and special."

"Special? As in Special Preparation Ingredients?!" Komatsu asked immediately.

"All of them are."

"I can't wait!"

"Please prepare the First Dish: Hors D'Oeuvre. Ingredient: Puffer Whale" the System asked.

"Puffer Whale...An Ingredient from the Gourmet World of Zaus..." Izuku muttered in dread as a small and long pure-white fish appeared on a plate in front of him.

A Puffer Whale was a deep-sea fish normally around six meters in length, but as it switched habitat and moved deeper underwater, the water pressure of the sea would compress its body to the size of a normal puffer fish.

It was a small, pudgy-looking white fish with a round body, thin fins, small beady eyes, and large blue lips.

As a result of the deep pressure, the tastiness of the fish would become highly concentrated but would also cause the huge amount of waste produced by its body to become highly concentrated as well, forming what was known as the fish' 'poison sack'.

"That thing is poisonous?!" Mina asked.

"Extremely so, and yet in the Black Market badly-prepared Puffer Whales with the body already ruined by the poison are still sold, it is still so delicious people are ready to die to eat it." Coco explained.

"And he has to prepare it as the very first item for his test, System-san is merciless." Komatsu commented.

"But it'll be all the better when he does pass it~" Momo stated, looking ready to enjoy the food.

"Done properly, it tastes amazing, trust me." Toriko said.

Its poison sack resembled a small gooey purple blob whose position in the body constantly varied between Puffer Whales. When the fish gets startled, a chemical reaction would cause the release of its poison, causing its body to turn into a dotted dark purple color that shows off its intense toxicity.

Izuku watched the thing with scared eyes, because while he still had his Transmigration lifetime's worth of knowledge as Zaus', his original body was not as trained, as his trembling hands could testify.

"To ensure the Puffer Whale is safe to eat, before any further steps can be taken, someone with keen senses must first ascertain the location of the poison sack. Afterwards, extremely precise cuts must be made to open the Puffer Whale and reveal the poison sac, if the handling is off by even a millimeter the poison sack will instantly rupture and render the fish unsafe for consumption." Izuku mumbled aloud while recalling word-for-word the teachings of Zaus' old cooking teacher.

Complicating this step was the fact that the location of the poison sac was completely unique from fish to fish, meaning there were at least over a hundred variations of cuts needed to expose the poison sac.

Likewise the Puffer Whale's body was deceptively dense for its size due to the extreme compression it had undergone, making the precise knife work needed that much more difficult.

"I am glad to know that the people I taught how to prepare the Puffer Whale really decided to share the knowledge with their own students, I admit I feared those fools would have tried hoarding the knowledge." Setsuno said in relief.

"You discovered how to do it?" Ibara asked.

"Among other things, I did give some contribution to the world of cooking." the old lady answered, coy.

"She changed it forever," Komatsu corrected her with an expression of awe.

"Hohohoho! Just a bit, maybe."

"Hey, it's helping that other me," Izuku stated, smiling at her. "So thank you for the help~"

Once the poison sac was exposed, it could only be removed with bare hands, during which the sac must be constantly rotated whilst simultaneously removing the mucus membrane; it was no surprise that many Chefs of the Gourmet World put preparing that Ingredient on the same level of disarming a bomb.

"As an incentive for the future God of Cooking of the Hero World, Host Izuku will be permitted to use one piece of the 'God of Cooking Set' for the duration of this Test. Temporarily unlocking the knife of the 'God of Cooking of the Abyssal World': The Silver Sea Dragon kitchen knife."

"Uh?" What appeared in the young man's hand was a humble-looking kitchen knife with a long and thin blade giving off a faint light similar to moonlight, both blade and the handle were made of pure-white bone, with the handle carved in a delicate recreation of dragon scales.

"Created with the bone of a one-thousand-years-old Silver Sea Dragon, the Goddess of the sea that rules unopposed the deepest oceans of the Abyssal World." the System explained.

"And I can use it to cook?" Izuku asked.

"Host, the Dragon herself that was used to create the knife resides in another world and is a being that has ascended to Godhood. In this world the Host currently lives in, there is nothing that cannot be cut by this knife."

"Holy... Is that true?" Mirko asked the System

"The System doesn't lie. Each piece of every Good of Cooking Kitchen Set is indeed created with Divine parts and materials." the System answered.

"Oh, yes. Bu Fang's Wok was indestructible in the story." Tamaki confirmed.

"I must see it!" Melk demanded.

"Only if Host allows it," the System stated.

"Please?" Komatsu asked.

"I'll ask..." Izuku stated, feeling like he was going to be saying that a lot.

"Nothing?" he asked, gulping.

"Nothing, its supreme sharpness will also count as a Test for the Host' cutting and carving knowledge."

"I...I will start then. I will prepare Puffer Whale Carpaccio." Izuku answered, and loudly chose the recipe between the ones the System suggested for the Test.

"Good. Please start at once."

Real World -

Rei and Takeshi were unaware of what Izuku and the System were talking about, they only saw the young man grab a fat fish from the fridge and start carefully palming it as if to study every inch of its body.

"He is treating it like a bundle of lit dynamite." Rei muttered, unsure by the overly-focused light in Izuku's eyes.

"I did the work of Puffer Whale myself. Lit dynamite has nothing on it." Komatsu admitted, sighing.

"That hard?" Sato asked, surprised.

"One of the hardest things I did when I started traveling with Toriko-san and the others," he stated firmly.

"The poison sack can burst just by blowing gently on it, having firm hands is a must." Setsuno said.

All of them winced at the level of difficulty.

"He must really want to do a good job for Miss Momo." the Chef answered, thoughtful.

"You don't say..." the woman replied, smirking.

"Yes, he normally is at least a bit chatty when cooking, but now? He is so focused I think he wouldn't notice if we shot him with a rifle." the Chef answered, smiling just as mischievously.

In the meantime they watched Izuku finally open the fish belly to remove the guts inside with slow and very tense movements, as if actually afraid those innards would blow-up; in truth from his point of view he was actually managing to remove the poison sack from the special fish.

"...Since he is working so hard...Shouldn't we also invite him and his mother? I would feel bad if he works this hard and doesn't get a taste." Takeshi muttered.

"...True. Pass me the phone, I will ask Saito-kun if he is okay with having two guests for dinner." Rei answered after a short pause of thought.

"Sigh..." once the innards of the other two fishes as well went safely removed, they watched Izuku relax visibly, and start carefully removing the fins and head with a more calm disposition.

"Strange for the fish meat to turn gold in the real world." Komatsu said.

"The System values secrecy. Any Visual Effect produced by your world Ingredients or any other is immediately removed to hide the Ingredients' Alien appearances. This is unless the Hosts ask otherwise."

"What about worlds where that's normal?" Mina and Pony asked.

"In those I guess they would, but in yours? Century soup produces an aurora, Jewel meat SHINES gold, Billion Bird's Egg looks like molten gold. Is all this normal in your world?" Zaus asked.

"No," they stated. "We were wondering if they hide it in worlds like that."

"No, if it is something that can be common in a world, the System doesn't hide it."

What the two did not know was that as soon as the poison sack and skin was removed, the System switched the fish that used to be in their fridge with the Puffer Whale Izuku was actually preparing, surprising the Chef with how fresh and gorgeous said fish flesh looked.

"Daaamn, that is one nice Ingredient, we got a good batch this time." he admitted.

"Considering how much we spend every time you go out for groceries, it was a given!" Rei answered.

"Now the cutting..." they heard Izuku mutter while lightly raising the knife in his hand and...

"And?" Mina and Toru asked, leaning forward.

SWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

"HOLY F***!" Both cursed in awe as a blurry of motion gave the impression the young man's hand managed to split into hundreds of copies of itself to slice the fishes into hundreds of extremely-thin slices at every swing of the knife, so fast air itself went shredded.

Satisfied by the slices being all of the same thickness, Izuku dared to show a tiny smile while taking out two wide plates, and once gently slapped each and every slice of fish with the flat side of the knife, he composed the two dishes by positioning the slices like petals of a flower and with each layer alternated so to create the image of two giant pure-white translucent lotus flowers.

"There you are, Zaus-chan! The Hudred-Knives-in-one!" Setsuno said, laughing aloud.

All the hero's jaws dropped at what happened.

"Woooooo!" Izuku gasped in awe. "Can you do that as well, Lunch Rush-san?"

"... Eeeeehm...." was his only response. "Maybe... If I train...?"

Katsuki's coughing fit sounded suspiciously like the word "Bullshit."

He finished the two dishes by mixing olive oil, herbs, vinegar and lemon juice to season the carpaccio by gently drizzling the resulting aromatic oil all over it.

"Hors d'Oeuvre is ready." Izuku muttered, elated, while adding a tiny pinch of pepper and rock salt and putting a single tiny cherry tomato carved into a rose in the middle of each plate.

"Wow, he turned a tomato into a rose...That's not mere carving..." the family Chef muttered in bitter envy.

"Soup...I need to make the Soup next..." Izuku muttered while moving to grab a big slab of meat from the fridge.

"Please use this Boulder Armadillo meat to make the soup dish, and Host Izuku should remember the method the System taught him to tenderize its otherwise steel-hard meat into a dish good for human consumption." After a Test about handling delicate Ingredients, it was time for the System to test the young Chef's knowledge in boiling and stewing.

Once removed the topmost layer of fat, Izuku moved the slab of meat on the chopping board and easily cut what to him felt like an ingot of steel into cute little cubes he then moved into a tall pot he filled in cold water.

"This knife is really sharp," he muttered while putting the pot of water with the meat cubes on the fire to boil.

"Boulder Armadillo... Sounds like our Iron Turtle." Komatsu muttered.

"The heck is an Iron Turtle?" Jiro asked, hearing him.

"A three meters tall carnivorous turtle with a skin tough enough to sustain continuous fire from a tank squadron. But once cooked properly you can use it to make a stew to die for!" Komatsu answered.

"Sounds like something that could help me," Tetsutetsu stated, thinking it would help his Quirk. "I need iron for my Quirk you see."

"If this Izuku is recognized as a worthy Host, he will get access to those and many more Ingredients." The System answered.

Tetsutetsu pumped his fist, muttering "yes!".

"I sharpen them everyday, thank you." Takeshi answered, puffing-out his chest in pride.

"Down with the Ego. What's he doing?" Rei asked.

"He is blanching the meat, he covered it in cold water and put it on the fire, as soon as it will boil the meat's scum will float to the surface like a foam, he will then skim that foam away, rinse the meat and use fresh water to repeat the blanching until all the scum is removed. Like that the soup will have clearer broth, so it will be more pleasing to the eyes." Takeshi answered.

"Ooh! Nice!" the woman answered, intrigued.

In the meantime the two watched how once blanched, the small cubes of marbled meat got seared in olive oil and then gently braised with garlic and onions to then be submerged in a wine-based broth before being moved in the oven, where the meat would become meltingly tender.

"Two hours in the oven before it's done...I can move to the Fish Dish in the meantime." Izuku muttered, grimacing, as the next test was about Steaming.

Shoda looked lost. "Didn't he make one with Puffer Whale Carpaccio?"

"One is an Appetizer, this is a main dish for the menu. Those two things are different as an appetizer can be made with fish, meat, vegetables or even fruits." Izuku answered the 1-B student.

"Huh... Who knew...?" he said, not used too fancy food.

"I am loving the smell of the food though~" Awase stated.

"Same," Mt. Lady agreed.

The young man first squatted down and took out a few succulent fishes and various kinds of herbs and spices along with a bottle of white wine from the fridge and a few sheets of parchment paper from a near cupboard.

"The scales have to go," Izuku muttered, and just like before, the kitchen knife in his hand moved at shocking speed to remove the scales on both sides of the fishes, bringing to light the pristine and unblemished meat under it.

Just as with the Puffer Whale, every time Izuku started preparing a dish in the white Nothingness that was the System's Testing Ground, in the real world the Ingredients used were switched with those special Ingredients the System provided, everything without Rei or Takeshi noticing.

As the kitchen knife began to dance gracefully in Izuku's hands, the blade made a clean cut on the fat fish's bellies, and with a swoosh, their fillet was delicately removed and set aside.

"The bones..." Izuku muttered as he grabbed a pair of pliers with one hand and used the other to gently slap on the fish meat with the flat side of the knife, and once heard whatever sound cue he needed, his hand started moving back and forth at high speed to remove each and every bone from the mount of fish meat in front of him and then separating its skin from its flesh once done.

He placed the meat into a porcelain plate and covered it with thin slices of herbs and spices.

"Spices..." Lunch Rush muttered while taking notes.

"Copying the recipe?" Nezu asked.

"Yep."

"I can just give you it," Zaus stated, smirking.

"Yes, please."

Zeus holds out his hand for the notes, which Lunch Rush gives. He then writes it down at high speed, and gives it back. "Here you go."

"Thank you," he thanked, taking it.

"Cooking freaks..." Mineta muttered in disdain.

Once the stir-fried sauce and other side ingredients were prepared, the young Chef cut the various sheets of cooking paper into a heart shape.

"Oh, look...a heart...What a surprise!" Takeshi muttered with a knowing look.

"I know, who would have guessed he would have used a heart shape to prepare a dish for Momo!" Rei answered, just as amused.

Unaware of the two joking at his expenses, Izuku spread the paper wide open and went ahead to grab the skinned fish meat once finished spreading a good spoonful of the stir-fried sauce on the hearts, once placed the fish fillet above the prepared sauce he added few more strips of herbs on top of the fish fillets to completely cover them.

After that, he uncorked the wine bottle and poured a small glass of it over the fish's meat, preparing to wrap it once using some egg white as glue as he slowly wrapped the paper inch by inch around the meat until a cute-looking paper ball emerged as the final product.

"Curious recipe." Takeshi admitted, amused, and watched the various wrapped fishes being put inside a steamer and the thing added to the oven together with the still cooking stew.

"Almost done..." Izuku declared with a sigh, he was completely drenched in sweat, but the light in his eyes was still burning fiercely, he had many dishes still to prepare.

"How can he be that sweaty?" Kaminari asked, confused.

"Those are all Special Preparation Ingredients, cooking them requires an insane quantity of Stamina and concentration, and he seems to be infusing the dishes in Gourmet Energy too, that too must be draining him a lot." Coco said with narrowed eyes.

"Gourmet Energy?" Ochako asked.

"The Power Source of the Gourmet Cells." Sanni answered.

"Geez, is all your food this hard...?" Kinoko asked in shock.

"Oh, no. Some are even way harder! There are Ingredients that explode with the power of a grenade if handled improperly, others that require tens of years just to clean, some that melt even iron if cooked too long and many more. Those he is using are all easy ones." Setsuno answered.

"Shees! Your world sounds crazy..." Death Arms stated.

"It is, but that is also why Chefs in our world are considered even more valuable than Politicians or religious figures. Chefs turn nightmares into dream food for everybody." Toriko answered.

Two Hours Later -

"I am home." Momo declared with a tired sigh as she entered the huge house, she looked tired and emaciated, meaning that the Recommendation Exam forced her to give 110% of herself and pushed her Quirk, and so her own body, to the limit.

"WELCOME BACK!" To her surprise, not only her parents and the family Chef Takeshi were present, but Izuku and Inko as well, with the young man looking just as dead tired as she was.

"O-Oh! I-I did not know we had Guests! I am not presentable!" The poor girl said once seen her own disheveled look in a near mirror.

"It's okay, Momo-chan! You have worked hard so it's a given!" Saito answered while hugging his daughter as hard as he could.

"Come, I will help you freshen-up a little, like that dear Izuku will have enough time to FINALLY finish cooking." Rei offered with a kind smile.

"Him?" Momo asked.

"I may have gone a little overboard, I hope you don't mind." Izuku answered, smiling weakly, he too looked pale and drained since the Main Course Dish he had been tasked with preparing demanded him to infuse it with the Gourmet Energy from the Gourmet Cells he brought back from his Isekai as Zaus.

Izuku considered cooking by infusing the Dishes with Gourmet Energy cheating, the System preferred calling it 'Evening the Odds against Quirks'.

"I-"

GORORORORORORORORO!

"Noooooooo!" Momo whined in horror.

"Oh come now," Ochako stated, trying to comfort her. "It's not that bad-"

Just then, Momo's own stomach let out the same growl, causing her to blush madly.

"Food will arrive soon, have no fear. If not, I will prepare something myself, promise." Izuku answered.

"THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE...!" she shouted in a moan of embarrassment.

"A grumbling stomach is nothing to be ashamed of! It can even sound cute!" he answered.

"Try to kiss her stomach, maybe it will calm down," Zebra suggested, smiling cruelly.

"ZEBRA!" the other Kings yelled, appalled.

Momo went atomic, steam coming off her in waves. Izuku wasn't doing any better.

Momo's answer was cut short by the inhuman gurgling sound that echoed from her stomach, with her face burning bright red right after.

"I am so sorry! Please ignore that!" the young woman begged, mortified.

"It's okay, for a Chef, that's music to the ears." Izuku answered, smiling gently.

"That doesn't help!" Momo replied, distraught, and walked away behind her mother on the notes of everybody's laughs.

Momo just culled up into a ball.

"It is not exactly wrong, we chefs do like hearing that, it means it is time for us to shine," Komatsu explained.

"YOU'RE NOT HELPING!!!" Momo shouted at the chef.

"It's okay, it's okay." Izuku offered, rubbing her back in small circles.

And the other girls HATED Momo's shameless purrs and happy smile. Some thought it was cute though, and they thought they saw cat ears on her head.

"She is getting too many sweet moments." Pony hissed in distaste.

"We will win in the end, she can get ahead a bit, but we will catch up." Ibara answered.

"Uh..." Tamaki stated, getting the girls' attention. "Didn't we agree to share him...?"

"Share equally, yes. But if this keeps up Momo may become a Leader of sorts, and that is not good." Itsuka answered. "Equality is a must in this case."

"True... but she's getting embarrassed the most right now..." he countered. "Doesn't that balance it out? And would he do the same thing for everyone then?"

"But in exchange she gets cuddles!" Toru answered, whining.

"... Okay now you're just grasping at straws there..." he stated flatly, with an anime sweatdrop.

Once everybody was seated, Izuku helped Takeshi serve the various dishes he made for his test, having been informed by the System that those were indeed the same plates he prepared for his Test and was now free to eat as his prize. And apparently, another prize was being able to use Puffer Whale as an Ingredient even without the proper Level.

"Host has passed the Test with a final score of 100%. Congratulations! You are deemed worthy of becoming a Host of the Gourmet System, your journey to become 'The God of Cooking of the Hero World' will start tomorrow at the delivery of the Restaurant. You will be given the precise address tomorrow and will find everything ready for use and the Restaurant already decorated and furnished to your specifications, congratulations! Your path to greatness is now open! Work hard, young man!" the System declared with a happy sounding fanfare once every dish had been brought to the table.

Everything was simply amazing: the raw fish of the carpaccio had a slightly-springy texture that made it bounce lively a little at each bite, with the meat seemingly never losing taste no matter how much one chewed.

"Time to eat, kids! Fooooood's heeeeeere!" Joy declared, summoning the entire full course menu for everybody. Normal and Special.

"Oh good, a snack~" Sunni stated, looking happy.

Mirko looked at the two full course meals. "I don't know which one of the two to choose to start to eat..."

"Okay, when you guys eat, I want you to tell me which dishes are the normal one, and which are the Gourmet world ones, winners get prizes," Xara challenged.

"Ooh boy! I like this! I like this a lot!" Toriko admitted, pumped-up.

"What is the prize?" Monoma asked.

"Random for each person," Gaia answered.

"Oh, no...HYPE! My only weakness!" Setsuna said in horror.

"Holy...You improved again..." Inko said in awe.

The stew had a dense broth that felt like silk while traveling down one's throat and the meat had turned from hard as steel to buttery-soft to the point of melting on the tongue, filling the mouth in thick meaty aroma at every bite.

Same goes with the paper-wrapped fish mixing perfectly the gentle taste of fish with the astringency of the wine or the giant steak right after, a steak that while very thick and resembling a piece of marble thanks to it's thin lines of fat, was instead perfectly cooked to be juicy and tender.

"You still up to challenge him, Takeshi?" Saito, uncaring of his mouth being completely covered in oil, asked with a smirk.

"F*** no!" the family Chef answered from the kitchen counter while wildly shaking his head, causing a new round of laughs to ring around the main table.

"Can't blame him..." Rush admitted, bitterly.

"... Sorry...." Izuku apologized.

"Don't, it's both humbling and inspiring. A worthy opponent helps you grow faster."

Izuku smiled. "Thanks."

"Still no idea which one is the Gourmet world one?" Knocking Master asked with an amused smirk.

Jiro thought about it. "I think I might know," she stated. Just then a pen and paper popped out for her.

"Please write your answer and name, and after we have everyone, we'll call the winners," Light stated.

"I'm so going to guess it better than you other chumps." Katsuki said.

Jiro rolled her eyes, and wrote down her answer, 1: Gourmet World food, 2: normal food. It then flew to the deities.

Others started to eat their food as well, loving it all, and wrote down their answers as well.

"Okay so everyone has given their answers," Gaia stated smiling. "And we have our winners. Izuku, Katsuki, Jiro, Momo, Itsuka, Reiko, Lunch Rush, Aizawa, Tamaki, Nejire, Mirio, Hitoshi, Mt. Lady, Kamui Woods, Death Arms, Sir Nighteye, Eri, Kota, Hound Dog, Midnight, Melissa, David, Mei, Smipe, Toriko, Sunni, Zebra, Coco, Komatsu, Melk, Ren and Tina."

"We'll start with Jiro," Xara stated, summoning a Flying V guitar. "This is Clementine, from the Brutal Legend univers. This guitar can summon fire and lightning when played, and has other powers that it can do when played."

Jiro looked at this guitar in awe. "Y-You're really giving me this...?"

"I think Eddie would love a rocker girl like you to have it and use it to make awesome metal music," Xara stated. "I'll give you the chords for the summoning and empowering later."

"For Ren, spices throughout the multiverse," Light stated, summoning a spice rack that had hammer space in it. Ren's jaw dropped to to floor in awe.

"For Tina, an indestructible camera and mike set that you can use in any environment," Gaia stated, giving her them. She looked like she hit the jackpot.

"For Snipe, Fortune's Rail Gun and Ocelot's Revolvers from the Metal Gear universe," Joy stated, summoning them for the gunslinger.

Snipe whistles. "Nice~ These will come in handy for work~"

"The Systems unwillingly gives Melk and Mei the blueprints of how to make Knives and Untensils of the God Set, and the workings of Whitey," The System got out, sound like it didn't want to do this. Both girls looked in awe at the blueprints they got.

"Was that so hard?" Gaia asked.

"Yes..."

"You lost the bet saying they wouldn't get it right," Xara stated.

"For Melissa, the blueprints of Tony Stark's Armors, Arc Reactor, and Element he created for the core," Light stated, summoning them.

"So many babies to build~!" Mei shouted in glee.

"For Momo, the chemical formulas for other minerals thought the multiverse," Gaia stated, summoning a tablet with every known item in the multiverse.

"For Midnight, a Kamui from the Kill La Kill universe," Joy stated, a uniform falling on the woman's lap.

"Not really that special looking," Midnight stated, not really impressed.

"Oh, you'll see what it can do when you test it~ The only caveat is that it's very M-18. VEEERY Stripperrific." Joy said, looking a little too happy.

Midnight actually looked like she wanted to try it on. "Not now..." Aizawa growled at her. She just pouted.

"For Komatsu, any one free food item in the multiverse to use in a dish," the System rewards a coupon falling on his lap.

"For Toriko, a travel pass through the multiverse to gain food ingredients for your chef friend," Light summoned an inter-multiver passport.

"Alright, new food to try out~!" Toriko roars in joy.

"Sir Nighteye, you get the ability to alter the future when you use your Quirk," Xara stated, snapping his fingers, and Nighteye clutching his head.

"For Zebra, the power to summon any animal he's eaten to be summoned as a familiar," Gaia gave. "You can also set them free to bring back animals you made extinct as well~" Zebra just shrugged.

"Izuku, you will have the God Knife piece of the set unlocked," the System stated, shocking Izuku.

"For David, technology blueprints from the multiverse that can help in the medical field," Light gifted him, the blue prints appearing.

"For Sunni...Is a skin forever perfect good enough for you? Unblemished, smoother than silk. Forever."

"Yes, that would be enough for me~"

"For Coco, poisons and cures from all over the multiverse to add," Gaia gifted. Coco just took the case that was given to him, nodding.

"For Aizawa, the strongest coffee a human can drink," Xara gave to him. Aizawa gave him a flat look.

"Don't try me. I will drink that." he answered.

"Tamaki, a full multiverse collection of Chineses Stories that'll keep adding to itself," Gaia gifted, summoning a bookcase that had hammer space and a device for the book he wanted to summon to read.

"Only the good ones." Joy added.

"OH THANK GOD! No more trash novels!" Tamaki yelled in relief.

"For Kota, two signed action figures of Water Hose that your parents wanted to give you for your birthday before they passed..." Light summoned two action figures of Water Hose, and gave them to Kota. They read, 'To Kota, so you'll always have a part of us looking over you, always~'.

Kota started crying tears of happiness and sadness. "Mom... Dad..." He hugged the toys, feeling their love from them. "Thank you..." Everyone smiles at the boy.

"For Eri, adoption papers, fully signed for her to be with the Midoriyas," Xara summoned said paper, making her Eri Midoriya now. Eri had the biggest smile on her face.

She then hugged the two Midoriyas. "Papa~! Grandma~!"

"Good to have you, Eri-chan." Izuku answered, hugging her back just as hard.

Inko hugged the girl as well.

"For Nejire..." Light started then stopped. He looked at the others. "What should we give her?"

"A D&D full game kit and books?" Xara asked. "She is creative..."

"Oh, oh, that sounds fun~" Nejire stated, and said TRPG Kit and Books appeared on her lap, all latest editions.

"For Lunch Rush, cookbooks from all around the Multivers," Xara stated, giving the cooking hero multiple cookbooks from all around the multiverse.

"For Mirio, cloths that'll turn intangible with you until you get your intangibility aura under control, and a joke book call, "How to not jump in front of bullets"," Joy gave him.

"I did it to protect Eri-chan," Mirio stated, still smiling. "But it might be a fun read~"

"For Katsuki, some of the best hot sauces throughout the multiverse to help with your Quirk," Gaia stated, summoning another hammerspace spice rack. "Careful, even for you, some may be a little too hot, read the warnings of how much to add for each one."

"If any are as strong as what these guys tease in food is," Katsuki stated, pointing his thumb at Toriko's group, "I will. Don't want to go too far in Plus Ultra."

"For Itsuka, different fighting styles throughout the Multivers for you to study," Xara gifted, giving her scrolls and tomes of different fighting styles, and a book on how to use Aura and Ki. She bows to them.

"For Reiko, all of the best horror stories and movies throughout the multiverse," Light gave another bookcase/moviecase that had a hammerspace like Tamaki, same features as well.

"Oh~ I'll love watching these~"

"For Hitoshi, you get a replica model of the Batman's utility belt, with all the bells and whistles to go with it, should help you keep up with the others," Xara stated, summoning the belt on the boy's waist. He also got instructions on what's in what and how to use them.

"For Hound Dog, a book of the best counselor advice from the multiverse's best counselors," Gaia stated, giving him the book.

"May come in handy," Hound Dog stated.

"For Mt. Lady, comics of all the most well known heroes that have growth and shrink abilities throughout the known Multivers," Joy stated, summon tones of different comics and manga. She looked intrigued.

"For Kamui Woods, comics on some of the best plant manipulators abilities throughout the known Multivers," Xara stated, summoning said comics and manga. One that had a lot more volumes was a manga series called Naruto.

"And finally, Death Arms, you get some of the best strength enhancing gear from the multiverse," Gaia gifted, small armor piece forming on his body.

Everyone took some time to look over their new gifts. After a while, they decided to wait until the next break to use them, and continued the show.

"It's a shame you still can't find a Restaurant to work in, Izuku. Your Skills are simply unreal." Momo said with a saddened expression while helping herself to more Seafood Risotto, Izuku's Main Course of the System's Test Menu.

"Actually...I may have found one." Izuku admitted with a low voice.

"UH?!" the entire table uttered as one in surprise.

"Really?!" Rei asked.

"Apparently a business group is trying to enter into the world of restaurants to broaden their horizons and needed a young Chef to take care of cooking in their first restaurant. I apparently was deemed good enough and so they offered me the job, tomorrow they will call me and tell me where the restaurant is." he explained while pulling out of his pocket the business card the System prepared for him to show if asked.

"Can I?" Saito asked.

"Sure!"

"...The System Incorporated? Never heard of it. Do you mind if I dig around a bit? Just to be sure it's not a scam." he offered.

Gaia looked at the System with a dead pan. "... Couldn't you come up with a better name for your company then that...?"

"The people of that world have no knowledge of the System's existence. Using a more complex name would have been redundant, thus illogical. And there are 23 different Corporations in that world possessing a name considered just as 'Silly'." the Entity answered.

"Still, it's just so bland..." Mina stated, unpressed. "You should be more creative at times~!"

"The System operates at a level your mortal mind cannot comprehend. Why should the System do that then?"

"Because it sounds like a computer software company..." Juzo stated, with a flat look. "Not something for cooking..."

"The System's cover story is about Import-Export centered around food. Why are you asking?"

"Just drop it, I fear that you will be blocked into an endless circle-jerking otherwise." Vlad suggested with a sigh.

The students shrugged.

"Feel free to accept, Host Izuku. Everything has been taken care of." the gender-less metallic voice of the System answered.

"S-Sure! At least I will be sure they are not trying to pull one on me." Izuku answered.

"Good. I'll keep this if you don't mind then." Saito answered while pocketing the plain business card.

"When will they call?" Momo asked.

"Tomorrow in the evening,"

"A bit too close, but I should be able to dig something up by then. Just in case we can accompany you, so you and Inko won't go there alone." Rei offered.

"Oh, nononono! I don't want to impose!"

"No can do!" the woman answered.

"I am sorry, Izuku. My parents hardly stop when they set their mind on something, my apologies," Momo offered with a small smile.

Sigh! "It's okay..." Izuku answered, sighing in defeat.

"Let's just focus on the dinner for now, Icchan. What about dessert?" Inko asked, trying to cheer her boy up.

"RIGHT! My Lemon Meringue Pie and Rei-san's Apple Pie! I will take them here immediately!" the young man gasped in horror before hurrying back to the kitchen to take out the dessert.

Just then, both pies appeared in front of everyone.

"You want to test what your mom's pie tastes like with some hard work?" Izuku asked Momo.

Momo took a gulp, a bit fearful, but took a bite of her mom's Apple Pie. When she did, tears fell from her eyes. She could actually feel the love and comfort her mom put into it. "I-It's actually good..."

She had the most blinding smile on her face, that made everyone look away, and a lot of the girls thinking, 'She's too cute!!! How can we compete against that?!'

They ate their pies, liking Izuku's better, but liked Rei's as well.

The Next day – Yavin Street -

Yavin street, also called 'Gluttony Street' as it housed the greatest ensemble of restaurant in the entire city, was a very long and straight street with restaurants of every type on both sides, from traditional Japanese restaurants to cheap sushi bars to Italian, Chinese, Mexican, American, Thai, Greek restaurants and so on so forth, it was said that if one wanted to eat everything planet Earth had to offer, they only needed to visit Yavin Street and just eat their way through it.

At number 4 stood a brand new restaurant called 'Green Cloud Restaurant', a small restaurant with an area of twelve meters squared, neat and tidy, with walls painted pure white decorated with tiny cute green clouds and few tables adorned with comfy seats with plush emerald-green cushions; on the opposite side of the entrance there were two smallish trees framing the window connecting the kitchen to the main room and a dull glass panel acting as door to the kitchen. Two giant windows at both sides on the entrance made sure the people passing by on the street could see clearly everything that was happening inside.

From outside nothing looked out of ordinary, and even the other restaurants around and in front of the small new one seemed to accept its existence without too much of a fuss, partly thanks to the Chef being a well-mannered and friendly young man, but there were actually three strange things about the 'Green Cloud Restaurant': its Chef was extremely young and talented, there was a strange tall robot with a plump belly and a shining bald head acting as security and a big black dog with luscious fur could be seen sleep in front of the restaurant, right next to the entrance door, at every hour of the day no matter what happened.

"So he has a guard dog too? He doesn't look strong, though... Just lazy." Kaminari said, unsure.

"Haven't you ever heard the saying, 'Don't judge a book by its cover'?" Mirko asked the lightning boy.

He just shrugged. "I'll believe it when I see it."

"How much do you want to bet his brain fries from how powerful the dog is?" Jiro asked in a whisper.

"I will be honestly disappointed if the dog is not a Monster." Shoto admitted.

"Same," Zebra agreed.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

A tiny bell chimed happily from above the door as a new customer entered the small new restaurant.

"Welcome! What can I do for you?" Izuku, wearing a green chef attire, asked while surfacing from the kitchen to welcome the new Guest.

The Path towards becoming the King of Chefs once again was long, Izuku knew that, but he was ready to do whatever it took to reach his goal.

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They were all shown what Izuku's new restaurant looked like before the screen turned off.

"So what did you all think?" Light asked them.

"If that Izuku designed that restaurant, Mon Dieu, he has good taste!" Aoyama commented with a pleased smile.

"I agree, it has a nice serene atmosphere to it~" Sunni agreed as well.

"The food was amazing," Toriko and Fat Gum stated, the two high fiving.

"I did like the gifts we got," Jiro stated, getting nods from all the winners.

"That's good," Xara stated. "We'll be taking a thirty minute break to get the next episode started, and have people do their business and try their new toys."

Everyone nodded and head back to the lobby.

To be continued...

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And that's the third chapter. What did you two think?

Rin: "I liked it, and the food we got. Also lover the new spices to test out~"

Joy: I am liking how this story is coming along, it manages to be both its own thing AND a reaction story, it has found the right balance between the two things, and I love it.

Speaking of, I was wondering if you could find someone to do a reaction to one of my other stories?

Joy: I can try, no problem. Maybe the ones that didn't do one for mine, will make one for yours, you cover more Fandoms than me, so if we are lucky they will be interested in the thing.

Thanks. And on that, we'll see you all next time.

Rin: "See ya~!"

Joy: BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - Inhale! - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! And remember to leave a kudos too!

Yes, and we'll see you all next chapter.

Please R&R

(A/N 1) Not sure if this is a real thing... but it fits so well in their world, doesn't it?

Joy: It does!

(A/N 2) I mean... I can't be the only one to see it, am I?

Links to my Co-Writer's pages:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/JoySeeker101/pseuds/JoySeeker101

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4123328/