Toriko, Chapter 323: The Truth of the Nitro
Kaka explains that Earth has been constantly being cooked ever since the Gourmet Cells arrived on the planet several million years ago. I mean, we know that the Gourmet Cells have expanded and, like, changed the Earth since Coco realized it back before the timeskip, but now Kaka explains stuff with more clarity. And apparently things like ice ages, volcanic eruptions and the Gourmet Solar Eclipse are just methods to bring out the Earth's full flavour. Coco then remembers the energy he saw back when he was fighting with Grinpatch underground, and notes that that is the 'good taste' of the world itself, being amplified by the Gourmet Cells.
Kaka estimates that the planet is still expanding because of the Gourmet Cells, being 659 times the size of its original area, and some of the cooks compare it to yeast fermenting bread. And Kaka explains that every few hundred years, part of the 'good taste of the Earth' ferments and comes out into the surface, becoming one of the Eight Ingredients in Acacia's full course... or the full course of the world.
Toriko asks who has been cooking the world for so long, and Kaka explains that it's the Blue Nitro, the Gourmet Nobles, and their slaves, the Red Nitro. Toriko is surprised that the Nitro have existed that long, and Match asks a question we've all been itching to ask. What the fuck is a Nitro? Kaka explains that the Nitro are 'Monster Trolls' born out of gourmet cells, and Nitro, well... it's a play on Japanese words. 'Ni' as in two, and 'tro' as in troll. Kaka says that Nitro either means two kinds of trolls, or trolls with two legs. And the Nitro are monsters born out of appetite.
Toriko then asks what we're all thinking after reading that page of explanation... are the Nitro similar to the gourmet demons within Toriko and the others? Yes, Kaka says, despite Toriko and company calling them demons or oni. So the Nitro are basically the appetite demons. Toriko asks if the monsters within everyone are divided into two types, red and blue... but Kaka doesn't know. Nor does she know if there are only two types of Nitro. Well, considering at least Toriko has two sides to his Appetite Demon and arguably Sani does too, I'd say it's a safe guess for now.
Livebearer asks if the only reason the Nitro are cooking the world is to eat it... and Kaka mentions that there is another reason. She and the other members of the Three Chefs -- Chichi and Jiji -- all betrayed the Blue Nitro because of that reason. Chichi, you ditz, you're a freaking rebel. Jiji looks weird and old and shit and we never saw him before. Of course, Kaka doesn't explain the actual goal of the Blue Nitro, and opens with a backstory and since it's a manga she gets interrupted before telling us the main information. But we do get a bit of the backstory, which is interesting.... and Acacia looks sinister and shit.
Anyway, the one that brought the Blue Nitro's goal to the surface was Acacia, and we get confrimation that each Blue Nitro has a codename that is the same with the ingredient they're in charge of. And we know that Acacia met up with Pair, a.k.a. the Nitro that Toriko met waaaay back when in the sky gardens. We get a reiteration of how the previous Monkey King had drank all the Pair that gushed out of the earth, and how Pair-the-Nitro, in an attempt to obtain Pair-the-ingredient, had failed to eat another beat of equivalent level. The dying Pair had a chance meeting with Acacia, himself wounded by a Sandoriko flower. They attacked each other, and that's how they obtained Pair-the-ingredient. Well, that backstory about how previously they needed to eat each other gets to become a factor sooner than I thought.
But Pair the Nitro was made aware of the Gourmet Cell Demon lurking within Acacia's body when he ate part of him. Kaka talks a bit about how the Nitro don't know where they come from beyond the fact that they are vessels for Gourmet Cells, how the appetite trolls or demons inhabit 'vehicles' (either Nitro or human) to eat and eat delicious ingredients, and if their vehicle or host dies, the appetite trolls will become food spirits and wait for a time to revive. And the Blue Nitro's main goal? To revive the monster within Acacia, and they've been readying delicious ingredients for that purpose. Why revive the monter within Acacia?
We don't know, because Kaka, despite being a food spirit, gets stabbed straight through the chest... by this mysterious thing with long flowing white hair and scary eyes and sharp teeth. I thought for a moment that she is Joa's demon form, but no. Acacia, perhaps? But mystery person speaks about how the Food Spirit has spoken too much, and just kind of disappears since they can't be touched. Mystery Person does welcome them to the next area to obtain Acacia's fish dish, "Another", at the Kitchen of Food Spirits. Well, I guess we're setting off for another area to rescue an ally stabbed through the chest. Deja vu, anyone? Also I'm guessing this is the 'place where only spirits can enter' that was foreshadowed by Mappy way back before.
All the revelations are pretty satisfying this time around, though. And of course I stil have lots of questions, but finally we get some actual answers and it feels good. Definitely was not expecting answers regarding the Blue Nitro and appetite demons and whatnot, but damn.
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