~Ao~

Kaka told us the earth itself was being cooked and went to explain the history of Acacia and the blue nitro, some time in the past Acacia ate a part of a nitro and that same nitro ate a part of him, by doing that the nitro discovered a beast inside Acacia, she told us that nitro are merely vessels for gourmet cells, though their trolls were different from our demons.

Before she could tell us more something attacked her from the shadows and took her with them, i knew that face though "That was Joa"i said, Zebra nodded "There's no mistaking that transformed face"he said "Transformed? Was that a gourmet cell demon?!"Toriko asked "So was Kaka killed?!"Coco asked "Nah don't worry"we heard and turning over it was Kuribou.

I didn't know it back then but he's our spy in NEO, i'm kinda glad i didn't kill them back then anyway Kuribou told us the time limit was one month and then the world would be destroyed cause of the eclipse again, we agreed to split up and gather the ingredients in one month, well hopefully, we got a ride and headed to area six.

It seemed it would take a while cause the turtle was just so slow, a few of the chefs had come aboard too i pointed out a triangle on the map "This area is area six it's also called the black triangle, living there is ANOTHER and the whale king Moon"i said.

"The whale king?"Toriko asked "A species of black hole whale, anyway as the ANOTHER swims it makes an incredibly beautiful stardust road, depending on the season there's a lot of them but those belong to it's children, the adult shows itself every 100 years in the center of the black triangle"i said.

"How did you find it if it only shows up every 100 years?"Sunny asked "I didn't, i caught one of the kids but it still helped me gain more control of my demon"i said "Come to think of it since you caught PAIR years ago have you been able to see spirits this whole time?"Coco asked "There's not that many food spirits in the human world actually but yes i could see them"i said anyway with that Aimaru made a route to ANOTHER.

We ran into some tornadoes but made it past them and landed on some ground when a Namibouzu showed up but then it got shocked by electricity and Brunch showed up with Starjun then more Namibouzu showed up but then Jiji showed up on an island.

I sighed a bit just one crazy thing after another, anyway Jiji lead us inside and inspected each one deciding which ingredient each of us would go after Brunch, Zebra and i were sent after area fives the meat dish NEWS, Aimaru made some maps and gave us the one to NEWS and we were handed a riddle chapter too.

I decided to take care of the tray as we stepped inside a camping monster for sea use, our ride was the battleship pufferfish, anyway once we were set off i handed some drinks to Zebra "Quite some equipment our ship's got eh? Should be smooth sailing with this guy eh Brunch?"Zebra asked enjoying his drink.

"Fer real why am i stuck with you again? I told those guys i'd help out with capturing ANOTHER!!!"Brunch yelled "Just relax Brunch, come have a drink"i smiled offering him a drink too "Uh sure"he said a little unsure but relaxed as soon as he sipped the tea i made i giggled a bit sipping the tea myself as the trip continued smoothly, finally a chance to relax.

~skip~

We made it to area five and were walking around a forest when a sudden earthquake shook the whole forest, I yelped loosing my balance but Zebra caught me and held me as he used echolocation "This place isn't a forest! We're on top of somethings head"he said "I remembered, the king of this area the deer king Sky Deer has a forest growing on it's back"i said "Is that what we're on?"Brunch asked.

"So it seems, we need to be careful papa told me this forest that can make lose their sense of time, let's move quickly"i said, the two nodded and the search continued, we found NEWS pretty quickly actually it's the preparation that takes forever, however with Brunch and i working on that together we were able to prepare NEWS in no time at all.

"We've finished preparing NEWS, let's hurry and get out of this place"Brunch said "Wait Brunch, something's coming"Zebra said coming closed to me when Yun popped out of thin air, Komatsu opened a door and showed up, we were all surprised "Brat!"Zebra said "Komatsu!! You sure kept us waiting damn it!"Brunch said, with that we went inside Yun.

Komatsu explained what had happened and said there was less then a week before GOD would appear, i had totally lost track of time in that forest, but forgetting that we showed Komatsu the prepared NEWS "What an incredible presence!!! So this is Acacia's meat dish NEWS, it's so sparkly and marbled!!!"he yelled shocked.

"All according to plan then, you finished the capture and the preparation as expected of the heavenly king Zebra, the Tengu Brunch and Ichiryuu's daughter Ao, i was half expecting it to be impossible for them"Jiji said, i pouted a bit but said nothing as Brunch yelled at the nitro "This place has the strongest of all the beast in the Gourmet World honestly i was a little worried for you"Jiji said.

"Please, even i could of handled them in my present condition, though we didn't even have to fight them in the end"i said "Right as they were all about to attack they suddenly changed their target to something else, we took that opening to capture and prepare NEWS but it seems as though one hell of a ferocious creature has appeared"Zebra said.

"From what i could tell it had a presence similar to our demons, only it had no master and was only driven by appetite, i sensed it before when i was here all those years ago but it's on a whole different scale now"i said, Jiji nodded "So it appeared in area five as well, looks like Don Slime was right after all"he said.

"More importantly you punks had better have managed to wrangle up ANOTHER properly"Zebra said "Yes sir! All good and done Zebra!!"Komatsu said giving a weird look then went to explain what had happened "So the civilization decided to send them along with us, that's the gist of it? And the other members?"Zebra asked "They took part in taking ANOTHER to the human world"Komatsu said.

"They probably won't make it back in time but it's good to know we have back up"i said "Everyone we've arrived at area four! From here we'll be entering the cave that connects it to the Gourmet Garden!"one of Blue Grill people yelled, it was a huge cave that things age in at 200,000 times normal speed.

That worried me a bit, after spending three weeks, more or less, in the Deer Kings forest i was about three months pregnant, i had started showing a bit too, going through this time distortion stuff was way too dangerous for me, but thankfully we had the Blue Grill people who could use the Back Channel seemed we didn't need to though since Sunny and Livebearer met up with us.