The group of four flew to the cave using the same system as they had before with Ao flying solo on Shiro and the other three lumped together on Kiss.

With the speed of the White Dragon and Emperor Crow they soon arrived at the cave where the Puffer Whale would surface for breeding.

And then that annoying reporter from before just had to show up and poke her nose, and camera, into their group.

"Toriko! I knew you'd be coming, huh? The Heavenly King Coco? And the Gourmet Queen Ao?! Such a gathering is one delicious scoop!" Tina gushed.

"Will you stop, please?" Coco asked a harsh edge to his otherwise polite tone "I'm sorry i don't like being filmed" Coco said looking away casting an awkwardness around the group.

"Tina-san, are you filming all by yourself again?" Komatsu asked defusing the awkwardness.

"Well yeah, even though this is and amazing chance to see something that happens only once in ten years the rest of the staff were too afraid to come" Tina said.

"Only the best of the best is here" Komatsu commented.

Ao scoffed at that "Most of those bums are poachers waiting for a chance to steal from hard working Bishokuya" she said.

"There's still a chance we'll leave out of here alive right?" Komatsu asked turning to Toriko.

"I can see all of their imminent deaths" Coco said ominously.

"I knew this was going to be scary!" Komatsu yelled.

"There is something in this cave that will take their lives" Coco added, even more ominously, possibly to mess with Komatsu more. 

"Well then, shall we get going?" Toriko asked already stretching out.

"Yes" Komatsu simply said and so the gang traveled into the cave.

~~~~~

"Hey Komatsu-kun, don't stray too far from my side" Coco warned once the group made it past the mouth of the cave.

"Okay" Komatsu said before being immediately distracted by some Snap Mushrooms, which had a capture level below 1, but they did bring an interesting texture to any dish.

"Really?!" Toriko exclaimed and immediately rushed to eat a few of them and even Ao went to gather a few into a storage container.

"The snap crackly texture of this mushroom is the best!" Toriko exclaimed.

"Coco-san! There are tons of them sprouting around here!" Komatsu said calling the gentleman over.

"I told him not to stray from my side" Coco muttered.

"Oh lighten up Coco, you're too uptight sometimes you know, then again it's no wonder with that metal rod up your ass" Ao said, smirking a little.

Coco sighed "You're still teasing me about that?" he asked, slightly embarrassed.

"Yup, and i will continue to do so for as long as you still get embarrassed about it" Ao told him "Don't get me wrong though, it's not that i don't approve of your preferences, it's just you're fun to tease" she smirked at him.

"And also because out of the four of you i thought Sunny was the most likely to be into that, but for it to be you, well it's just surprising" she added.

~~~~~

The group made their way deeper into the cave, only now they had gotten rid of the media.

"It's gotten very narrow in here huh?" Komatsu asked.

"Yeah but there's no mistaking that it's here, it's faint but i can detect the smell of salt water" Toriko said coming to a stop as Coco continued on ahead with Ao following shortly behind him.

"As always you have a perfect sense of smell, even though there isn't much light Coco-san is still able to easily take the lead" Komatsu commented.

"Coco can see parts of the spectrum that regular human's can't, from the infrared to ultraviolet, he can see them all" Toriko explained.

"Huh?" Komatsu asked, to which Coco made a sudden stop, which made Ao run into him, which made her slip and fall with a yelp before Coco caught her and helped her up.

To which Toriko narrowed his eyes at, Coco had dropped out so why was he being all buddy buddy with Ao?

"As you may know eyes contain cells that take in light called photo receptors, my photo receptor cells are much stronger than the average person's, so even in this pitch black darkness i'm able to see things as bright as day" Coco added to the explanation.

"But that's not all, Coco can also see electromagnetic waves, which regular humans can't" Toriko added further.

"Yes that's true, my vision allows me to see changes in the shape and color of the electromagnetic waves that people emit which allows me to see their futures" Coco said finishing the explanations.

"Well, please look into my future, will i become a successful chef?" Komatsu asked, hoping around backwards and not using the light on his helmet to see where he was going and thus inevitably almost falling into a pit if Toriko hadn't saved him.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"I'm sorry" Komatsu said, then a strange sound echoed from the bottom of the out "I can hear something" Komatsu said and screamed as Toriko pulled him up.

"Scorpion Cockroaches dissolve their prey with a deadly poison before they eat them" Toriko stated matter of factly, to which Ao sweatdropped at him.

"I'll take the lead" Coco said taking off the green wrapping around his neck as well as his headdress and covering himself in poison before jumping down and scaring off the Scorpion Cockroaches.

Then Ao jumped down followed by Toriko with Komatsu on his back as Coco turned off the poison on his skin and fixed his neck scarf and headdress.

"I'm sorry if i scared you, my powers tent to have that effect" Coco said.

Ao put a hand on his shoulder and smiled at him in reassurance, he just nodded in return.

"Bishokuya will artificially create antibodies within themselves in order to oppose foes that carry poison or venom"

"So how many are you protected against?" Komatsu asked him.

"I'd say around seventy, Ao's has fewer mostly against the ones that kill instantly but Coco has antibodies for over 500 species, even among Bishokuya he's special" Toriko said.

"500?!" Komatsu asked, shocked at the absurd number.

"I can encounter any type of poisonous beast and chances are i'll have immunity, but antibodies can only be created by injecting small amounts of poison, i've done this so many times to myself that the toxins have formed a new poison which i now carry in my pours, this poison is so potent it scared off most creatures but it has it's cost, i'm a poisonous man, a man living a solitary life" Coco said taking a moment to lament his lonely exitance.

"Well, shall we go?" Coco asked as he walked away, Ao quickly joined his side and talked with him in hushed whispers trying to cheer him up.

"I had no idea" Komatsu said, frowning.

"Coco is hunted by scientist that are aiming to create new antitoxins from his blood, there have even been some who've tried to have Coco himself isolated as a top class dangerous creature, so he left his job as a Bishokuya in order to escape having any ties with them" Toriko said.

"That's why, he hates cameras" Komatsu muttered.

"It's actually because their electromagnetic waves hurt his eyes, like a light that's too bright" Toriko said.

"Toriko! There's a hole here that goes straight down at least a hundred meters" he said.

Toriko and Komatsu walked over "Since i can see in the dark i'll go down first" Coco said setting up the rope pulley system, with Ao's help.

"Then i'll go with Coco-san, that's okay right?" Komatsu asked jumping onto Coco's back with a smile.

"But my skin is poison" Coco argued concerned for the little man.

"Don't worry i'll be fine" Komatsu smiled.

Coco sighed "Suit yourself" he said shrugging it off before climbing down the rope with Komatsu on his back.

Toriko smirked lifting Ao into his lap and wrapping the rope around them both and following Coco and Komatsu down the rope.

~~~~~

"Fireflies! There are Fireflies!" Komatsu exclaimed.

"Yes, Sea Fireflies, capture level 1, they must have slipped into the cave from the sea" Coco said.

"Beautiful aren't they Coco-san?" Komatsu asked in awe of the sparkling fire flies.

"If there's Sea Fireflies that means we're closing in on the beach" Toriko said sliding down the rope with Ao holding onto him tightly.

Then they heard a scream from below "A Bishokuya?" Toriko questioned coming to a stop a little ways above Coco and Komatsu.

"Not a very brave or strong one from the sound of it" Ao said looking down over his shoulder, her cleavage coming into his line of sight and in the dim light of the fireflies he could see that clearly making him blush and try looking anywhere else.

"Something's coming, Toriko! Ao!" Coco yelled up at them.

"Yup we're going straight down! Hold on tight Ao" Toriko smirked.

Ao nodded "Right" and tightened her grip around his neck a bit more.

"Whatever you do, don't let go of me" Coco told Komatsu.

"O-okay" Komatsu said a little unsure but had no time for second thoughts as Coco let go of the rope and dropped down.

Toriko soon followed and Ao held on tightly as they too dropped down, thankfully all of them landed with no scratches.

Ao let go of Toriko and stood next to him "Thanks for the lift Toriko" she smiled and kissed his cheek.

Toriko blushed and scratched his other cheek "N-no problem" he stuttered a bit which made her giggle a little.

Except internally she was hiding an almost sadistic smirk, oh how she was enjoying playing with him.

Then a flock of Swallowtail Bats, a mammalian beast capture level 2, came flying towards them.

Coco stepped forward and used his Poison Dressing to paralyze the bats "I hit them with my poison but they'll be able to fly again soon enough" he said.

"They're timid creatures that hardly ever attack, what could've made them do it?" Toriko asked.

"They weren't attacking, they were fleeing from something, something big" Ao said.

Coco gasped realizing something "Where's Komatsu-kun?" he asked, only to see that he was missing.

The two men started calling out for him while Ao contemplated why he came along in the first place, however before they could go off to search for the little man a Devil Snake appeared behind them.