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"World travel? So, when you were gone, you were in another world?" Alice was the first to break the silence, her brilliant, scientific mind racing to catch up with the impossible revelations.

"That's right. The chef ranking system you know, the higher levels of culinary mastery—I brought all of that back from another world."

Yuuki nodded. The Food Wars world was too weak, completely incomparable to Toriko world.

"No wonder you became so powerful. Another world... I'm really curious what it's like."

Megumi's eyes sparkled with a mixture of awe and curiosity.

"That's not the most important part, is it?"

Erina interjected, her sharp mind, as always, locked on the most practical and tantalizing detail. "The main thing is these 'Gourmet Cells.' They can make you stronger, and you can eat as much as you want without getting fat?"

Even just hearing the basic effects, she could tell this was a complete game-changer, a power that defied all known laws of biology and physics.

"So, just how strong can these Gourmet Cells make you?"

Alice asked curiously. Yuuki had mentioned superhuman strength, but that description remained frustratingly vague without specific metrics.

"How strong? Let me show you!"

With a mischievous smile, Yuuki activated his Mobile Kitchen, the strange, ethereal substance extending from his hands to envelop the three of them.

Suddenly, they found themselves in a bizarre—otherworldly space—floating in a protective bubble of pure energy.

"This is the Mobile Kitchen. It's a special space that will protect you. Your normal bodies wouldn't be able to handle what you're about to experience."

After speaking, Yuuki launched them skyward. In an instant, they'd left Earth behind, experiencing firsthand the view of their planet from space.

Protected within the Mobile Kitchen, the three didn't worry about vacuum exposure.

Yuuki's Mobile Kitchen differed crucially from the World of Souls—it lacked that grinding erosion. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare casually wrap people inside.

As for Yuuki himself, having consumed six ingredients, he'd long gained the ability to survive in space. His safety wasn't a concern.

"This is..."

Looking at the massive planet before them, the three stood speechless.

"Gourmet Cells make you stronger, but you need special ingredients to fuel their growth—"

Yuuki explained, his voice calm and steady in the silent expanse. "—Their power is measured by a numerical level. The higher the level, the stronger you are. To destroy a planet like the one below us, you'd need a level of over 3,000."

The Food Wars world's Earth was much smaller than Toriko's, lacking Gourmet Cell reinforcement—the planet was incredibly fragile. Anyone exceeding level three thousand could easily obliterate Earth.

Of course, Yuuki meant "easily." Lower-level beasts could still destroy the planet given enough time and continuous attacks—not particularly difficult.

"Hiss..."

Alice now desperately wanted to know Yuuki's level. In her mind, instantly bringing them to space meant his level couldn't be low.

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"As for my cell level... To be honest, I'm not sure. But it's definitely over 10,000."

Yuuki shook his head. He genuinely didn't know his exact level.

Once levels broke ten thousand, special methods determined capture levels—methods the Blue Nitro had developed.

While seemingly useful, Midora's words revealed their unreliability. After all, truly powerful beings constantly broke through their limits.

Take Midora himself—having eaten only six ingredients, he'd briefly held off Acacia, who'd consumed eight ingredients and fused with his Appetite Demon. So Midora considered capture levels a joke—reference material at best. Being deceived by capture levels could cost your life.

"Ten... thousand..."

All three were stunned.

They'd imagined Yuuki might have reached thousands, even several thousand. But casually dropping "ten thousand" was hard to accept.

Seeing their dumbfounded expressions, Yuuki smiled.

This was just an estimate—he only knew his cell level exceeded ten thousand, not by how much. Besides, cell level didn't equal combat power. Yuuki had pioneered new paths, his power control surpassing everyone on Earth. His combat strength was naturally more terrifying.

Without proper benchmarks, Yuuki had no way to measure his real power. All he knew for certain was that he'd surpassed late-stage Acacia and Toriko by a massive margin.

As for the White Demon, Yuuki wasn't certain.

That entity's power was too absurd. Even after Toriko fused with the Red Demon, reaching cell levels of tens of thousands, he could only withstand one White Demon strike.

If the White Demon moved too much, Toriko's body would still collapse.

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"I haven't tested it, but I did kill two beings exceeding level six thousand in that world."

Yuuki remembered Monkey King Bambina and Dragon King Derous—now part of his combat record.

"OVER SIX THOUSAND!"

This number shocked them again. Yuuki had casually killed beings capable of easily destroying planets—impossible to imagine such scenes.

"Fusing with Gourmet Cells has many benefits. You'll experience them soon."

With that, Yuuki brought everyone back to Earth. They needed quite a while to recover from their shock.

"Alright, who's fusing with Gourmet Cells first??"

Yuuki asked. The three exchanged glances before Megumi stepped forward. She was first to grow close to Yuuki. Despite her usual girl-next-door demeanor, Megumi showed remarkable determination in these situations.

"Then Megumi goes first. But first, some preparations."

Yuuki produced massive amounts of cuisine—all from Toriko's world. The capture levels weren't high, all below level 5 ingredients, but the quantity was enormous.

Yuuki's portions could stuff a thousand people.

"So much delicious food... slurp... Why'd you bring all this out, Yuuki?"

Alice wiped her drool before asking. The other two looked equally curious—these ingredients looked incredibly tempting.

The aroma was equally enticing. Fortunately, Yuuki had blocked the scent's spread—otherwise, countless people would've gathered here.

"After the fusion, your appetite will skyrocket. Your body will be undergoing a massive transformation, and it will need a huge amount of energy to fuel the process. You'll need to eat a lot."

With the explanation out of the way, Megumi stood before him, her heart pounding with a mixture of fear and anticipation. Yuuki took out ten vials of the perfected, extracted Gourmet Cells and began the fusion process.

Once Gourmet Cell fusion began, Yuuki monitored Megumi intensely, terrified of any problems. Though he'd tested countless times before, this was fusing Gourmet Cells into someone most precious to him. He had to maintain absolute vigilance.

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Under Yuuki's watchful gaze, the Gourmet Cells began their intricate fusion process. Megumi could feel the transformation rippling through every fiber of her being, each cell awakening to a new reality.

In the next instant, horror flashed across her face as her body began to wither, skin pulling tight against bone like parchment. A devastating hunger crashed over her—primal, overwhelming, threatening to consume her very consciousness.

"MEGUMI, THE GOURMET CELL FUSION IS COMPLETE! START EATING, QUICKLY! YOUR BODY'S ENERGY IS BEING RAPIDLY ABSORBED—IF YOU DON'T EAT NOW, YOU'LL BE IN SERIOUS DANGER!"

Yuuki's urgent warning snapped through the haze of hunger as he watched the successful fusion take hold.

His words jolted Megumi back to awareness. Without hesitation, she grabbed the nearest food and began devouring it with desperate intensity.

Gone was any trace of the gentle girl-next-door.

Food disappeared into her mouth at an alarming rate—she didn't just eat the meat, she crushed and swallowed the bones. Every morsel vanished with mechanical efficiency.

In mere moments, Megumi had demolished a portion meant for several people, then immediately began her assault on the remaining dishes.

The spectacle left Alice and Erina completely stunned, their eyes wide with disbelief—

By the time they recovered from their shock, Megumi had consumed food volumes that exceeded her own body size several times over. Yet her stomach showed no change whatsoever—as if everything she ate was being transported to another dimension entirely.

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"..."

"Is... is it really okay for her to keep eating like this?? She's already consumed so much!" Erina's voice carried genuine concern.

While Yuuki had warned them about the increased appetite that came with Gourmet Cells, she never imagined it would manifest like this—the sheer scale defied all logic.

"Don't worry about it. Someone who's fused with Gourmet Cells can easily consume food meant for hundreds of people, and that's just the initial fusion stage. At my level, I could literally devour the planet beneath our feet if I wanted to."

Yuuki's casual statement reflected his reality. He had unlocked entirely new dimensions of taste perception. Even though this world's Earth wasn't the same as the one from Toriko's universe, he could still taste it if he chose to.

Of course, this Earth's flavor would only match this world's culinary standards—completely incomparable to the rich, complex tastes of Toriko's world.

"EAT THE PLANET??"

Both girls exclaimed in unison, their minds reeling at the concept. Never in their wildest dreams had they imagined hearing someone casually discuss planetary consumption.

What kind of bizarre, niche fiction had their reality become?

"In that other world, absolutely anything can become an ingredient. After consuming something called ANOTHER, you unlock completely new level of taste."

"When that happens, anything you can physically bite becomes food—you can literally eat anything."

Yuuki's simple explanation did little to ease their disbelief. The concept of treating planets as meals remained overwhelmingly absurd.

If these words hadn't come from Yuuki himself—and if Megumi wasn't currently demonstrating the impossible by consuming several times her body weight in food—they would have dismissed it as pure fantasy.

The spectacle continued as everyone watched Megumi single-handedly devour food meant for a thousand people. Only then did she finally lean back with a satisfied sigh.

Her body had completely recovered—in fact, the Gourmet Cell fusion had enhanced both her figure and appearance beyond their already attractive baseline.

"Am I imagining things, or did Megumi just become even more beautiful?"

Alice rubbed her eyes, convinced that Megumi had somehow grown noticeably more attractive than before.

"That's no illusion. When women fuse with Gourmet Cells, part of the enhancement specifically targets appearance and figure."

Yuuki explained that he'd never seen a woman's Gourmet Cell activation result in becoming a muscle-bound warrior. Well, except for a few extremely rare exceptions who deliberately pursued that path.

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