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As the contestants continuously crossed the finish line, soon, the first match was over.
Next was the cooking duel. In this match, though there were some techniques that interested Yuuki, in his eyes, most of them were nothing more than a noisy mess.
So, he only paid a little attention to the subsequent matches and then didn't bother with them anymore.
As the competition continued, the auras of many creatures appeared in his perception.
These auras were undoubtedly from the Gourmet Corp. And now, the strongest one among them had already arrived at the venue.
This person was Starjun—his target was Komatsu.
In truth, Starjun didn't hold Komatsu in high regard. The reason he was targeting him was, on one hand, because the Gourmet Corp needed these Chefs.
On the other hand, it was because Komatsu was Toriko's partner. He had already considered Toriko his rival. This was because once in the wild, his GT Robo had run into Toriko again.
At that time, his strength had improved a lot, so he wasn't suppressed by the GT Robo. On the contrary, he had quickly taken care of it.
These two brothers were mutually attracted—so he had come to consider him his rival.
After these auras appeared, Yuuki used a technique similar to Zebra's to send a message to the IGO and his own people.
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"This is Zebra's move? Chef Yuuki even knows this one? That's scary... But since he said it, then there's no need to doubt it!"
Mansam immediately called the people in the venue and had them organize the crowd to evacuate.
This venue was very huge, and there were many shelters underground.
This was just in case. After all, there were over a hundred million people here.
The IGO naturally wouldn't build a place without a shelter. Anyone who entered the venue would be told the location of the shelter near them, and there were IGO staff around.
So, they could guarantee that the evacuation of hundreds of millions of people could be completed in an extremely short amount of time.
The IGO suddenly issued an evacuation notice.
The announcer Munageh didn't know what was happening, but he knew very well that since the IGO had said so, it meant there was danger.
So now was not the time for competition.
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"ARE THEY FINALLY HERE??"
Toriko clenched his fists.
He had been preparing for a long time. His Food Immersion had already reached his current limit. It was all to wait for Starjun to come and have a showdown.
He could have hidden with Komatsu. That way, Starjun wouldn't be able to find him. But he was also a person with pride. He couldn't retreat without a fight.
"I thought I could finally eat something good. I didn't expect these guys to start causing trouble again. What a bunch of arrogant guys!"
Zebra was very frustrated.
Facing the people from the Gourmet Corp, he wouldn't let them go. Zebra also hated evil. The people from the Gourmet Corp would often even attack citizens. As long as they got in their way, they would just clean them up.
And there were many perverts in the Gourmet Corp. While this was the Age of Gourmet Food, there were still serial killers.
This group of people had almost all gathered in the Gourmet Corp.
Sunny and Coco didn't say much—but they immediately entered a combat state.
The Chefs in the venue also took out their kitchen knives. While they didn't know what was going on, when faced with danger, they didn't want to just hide.
More of them intended to fight.
....
"Has it started?"
Seeing this, Setsuno found Granny Chiyo and met up with her. What they had to do was to protect the people here.
As for Yuuki, he used telepathy to tell Setsuno and the others about Zaus and Kousairou being controlled. He hadn't told them before because he hadn't seen these people. He had to see them to be sure.
After getting this news, Setsuno's face didn't look good.
Zaus was currently number one on the Chef Rankings. She never expected he would also be controlled.
And there was Kousairou. He was a member of Biotope 0th. The reason he had appeared at the Cooking Fest was to protect the people here.
In the original story—among the people from the Gourmet Corp who had come, there were powerhouses like Granny Chiyo. On the IGO's side, it wasn't just the younger generation—Kousairou and Kuriboh were there.
Kousairou was originally sent to deal with the powerhouses of the Gourmet Corp.
But in the end, he had already been controlled by Joie. In the original story, he and a few others had worked together to ambush Setsuno, and had even injured her.
To be ambushed and injured by a few brats... she had been quite angry at that time.
Of course, Kuriboh wasn't being controlled. Ichiryu had let him infiltrate NEO to gather intelligence. So that was why he had attacked her.
At that time, Ichiryu didn't know that Teppei would infiltrate NEO, so he had asked Kuriboh to do this—and in the original story, Ichiryu knew there was a traitor in Biotope 0th, but he didn't know why they had betrayed him, or who it was.
So, that's why Kousairou had appeared here.
Otherwise, if Ichiryu had known, he wouldn't have arranged for him to be in the Human World.
His move of absorbing calories could easily drain Toriko and the others.
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After learning that these two were traitors, Setsuno and Granny Chiyo exchanged a glance. Chiyo directly attacked Zaus, and Setsuno attacked Kousairou.
Their speed was very fast—and they were both powerhouses.
So with this one strike, Setsuno directly disabled Kousairou's ability to move. As for Chiyo, because her strength was weaker, though this move was unexpected, it only injured Zaus.
At this moment, he hadn't lost his ability to fight. He pulled out his spear-like knife and was about to counterattack. But the next second, a super-strong air pressure pressed down on him.
This was Setsuno's Pressure Cooker. This caused him to be temporarily controlled. Chiyo also struck again with her knife and made him lose his ability to move.
"Master, what are you doing??"
Seeing this, Chiru's eyes widened. She didn't know why Setsuno and Chiyo would attack Zaus and Kousairou.
"Is there something wrong with these two, Ms. Setsuno?"
Compared to Chiru's and the others' panic, Yuda was very calm.
Though he was very confused, he knew that they couldn't have attacked these two for no reason. There must be some reason... Or with their strength, if the two of them worked together, not ten of the Chefs here could escape.
But now, they had only attacked Zaus and Kousairou and then stopped. In that case, there was only one possibility: there was something wrong with these two.
"THEY ARE TRAITORS."
Setsuno said. She wouldn't doubt Yuuki's words.
As for Chiyo, she wouldn't doubt Setsuno. So the two of them had attacked without hesitation.
"How did you find out? Not even President Ichiryu found us!"
Kousairou, having lost his ability to move, asked weakly. Since they had attacked so heavily, it meant it wasn't just a suspicion—they were already sure.
"You don't need to worry about that. Now, you'd better just lie here quietly!"
Setsuno knew that these two didn't want to betray them but were being controlled. So naturally, she couldn't just kill them. Otherwise, she wouldn't have held back.
In this world, in a high-level battle, if you held back, the one who died in the end would very likely be you.
"They really are traitors!"
With Kousairou's one sentence, the others understood what he meant. This was already very obvious—it was a direct admission of the fact.
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While everyone was discussing, the people from the Gourmet Corp had also arrived.
A sky-covering swarm of insect-beasts attacked the venue.
The evacuation was almost complete. There was no need to worry about these people being threatened.
In the original story, while it wasn't said how many casualties there were in this battle, it definitely wasn't small. After all, the Gourmet Corp's attack was very abrupt, and they had brought a large number of beasts and insects.
Their main target was the Chefs, but they wouldn't overly restrain these beasts and insects. So the number of people who had died at that time was definitely terrifying.
But now was different—
—Yuuki had given an early warning. Although he couldn't say he could protect everyone and achieve zero casualties, it would definitely be much better than in the original story.
"Where is everyone? Did these guys know we were coming in advance?"
After entering the venue, Tommyrod and the others were stunned to see the situation inside.
It looked like there was no one here now.
"They probably got the intelligence in advance. But our target is still..."
Grinpatch was about to say that their target, the Chefs, were still here. They had come to capture the Chefs, not the civilians. But after seeing the situation on the scene, he shut up.
The reason was simple: Among this group of Chefs were Setsuno and Granny Chiyo.
Chiyo had joined the Gourmet Corp before, so they also knew her strength. Just one of her was not someone they could deal with.
Not many powerhouses had come with the Gourmet Corp this time. They had all gone to the Gourmet World to compete for ingredients.
So, seeing Setsuno appear here, Grinpatch felt that this operation had failed.
But now it was too late to leave.
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