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He had wanted to stop them back then but lacked the power. The Red Nitros had been little more than slaves. The cosmic gap between the two races was just too vast.

"No, there is still a way to restore it. Can I copy the Food Luck on you?"

Midora looked at Yuuki. The moment Yuuki looked at him, he saw a look of determination in his eyes. He realized that he already had the will to die. The most update n0vels are published on novęlfire.net

It made sense. Froese had been his reason for living. When she was gone, guilt had kept him going. When he learned the truth, that guilt turned to hatred.

Now, with it all gone, he had no reason to stay. He wanted to go to the World of Souls and find her again. For him, death was a welcome path to reunion.

But first, he had one last thing to do. He knew what he had done to the Human World was wrong.

Now, with the Earth in this state, he would use his final moments to atone.

"Copy it if you can."

Yuuki shook his head. It didn't matter if he agreed or not. Midora's ability was copying, not stealing. He could copy the Food Luck regardless.

Of course, the Food Luck he copied couldn't match the real thing. It could only serve as a one-time weapon against enemies. But even that was incredibly powerful.

At the same time, as if responding to his intentions, massive amounts of CENTER began erupting from the cracks in the ground. This had to be the planet's entire reserve—stored deep in the Earth's core.

The sheer volume was staggering, covering nearly half the planet's surface. With this much CENTER and Midora's abilities, restoring the Earth was entirely possible, just like at the end of the original story.

"Have you really decided, Midora?"

Jiro and Ichiryu naturally also saw his decision. From a brother's perspective, they didn't want to see this happen. But seeing his determined eyes, they also knew that their persuasion was useless.

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"I've already done so many wrong things. I should at least pay some of it back. Just consider it atonement. Also, having you two as my brothers is also my luck!"

Midora rarely smiled.

The next second, he opened his mouth wide, and countless Gourmet Spices came pouring out alongside the CENTER covering the ground, bombarding the entire planet.

As Midora's Gourmet Spices exploded across the Earth, the planet—which had already expanded to its breaking point—began rapidly healing under this wave of culinary power.

Dead lands burst back to life as new plants and animals sprouted everywhere these forces touched.

The Human World, reduced to a barren wasteland, was revitalizing under this energy—not just recovering, but becoming more abundant than ever before.

Of course, this abundance was purely natural, not human civilization.

After this massive transformation, the Human World would need to be completely rebuilt. But for humanity, this was actually fantastic news.

The Gourmet Spices' impact was enormous but harmless to people. Trading some buildings that got overgrown by plants for restoring the entire Human World to an even more fertile state than before?

That was an incredible bargain.

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"What is going on now? The land of the Human World has actually recovered!"

The people who'd been surviving on ingredients from the Gourmet World stared at the revitalized landscape in complete shock.

Land that had been completely barren was now bursting with plant life.

They could actually see fruits and edible crops growing everywhere.

In disbelief, they picked some and tasted them—these were real, genuine ingredients. This miraculous change sent the entire Human World into celebration.

After all, having their world return to normal was the best possible outcome.

Sure, they still had Billion Birds and ingredients from the Gourmet World, but nothing compared to their own home being restored. Every scar on the Earth had been healed, and the planet's fragmentation was now a thing of the past.

Of course, this meant the "baton of deliciousness" would remain on Earth—and as long as the planet didn't shatter again, it couldn't be reorganized to produce new ingredients.

But the people of Earth weren't Blue Nitro.

Being able to protect their home was enough. Nobody cared about some cosmic ingredient cycle—especially since the universe was already rich with ingredients after the Gourmet Spices spread.

As for Midora, his body had already faded into nothingness, dissolving completely into the air.

That final wave of Gourmet Spices had consumed everything he had left.

Yuuki didn't feel sorry for him. Considering everything Midora and his followers had done, this was just paying his debts.

Ichiryu and Jiro didn't wait around for the ingredients to emerge.

Instead, they went directly to Froese's burial site and laid him to rest there as well. Jiro also took care of another matter—relocating Acacia's grave.

He didn't destroy it, but this place held their family's memories, and Acacia's grave had no right to be here anymore. He'd proven himself worthy of NEO, but not of them. He could no longer be considered part of this family.

So Jiro moved his grave elsewhere.

Time passed, and eventually, all the ingredients trapped within NEO's body were finally released. As for NEO itself, once it expelled these ingredients, its form collapsed.

The reason was simple—Acacia was gone.

In the original story, Acacia had initially consumed NEO. It appeared they'd fused together, but that was an illusion. If they'd truly merged completely, the ingredients in NEO's body could never have been freed.

So when the White Demon's final strike defeated Acacia, he really did die. But in his death, he allowed NEO to devour him, achieving complete revival.

After releasing those ingredients, NEO's very nature changed.

Instead of feeding on emotions, it could actually taste food. NEO would no longer consume despair—it could eat normally.

This transformation was why NEO survived. Otherwise, Toriko and the others would never have allowed such a dangerous entity to live.

But now, Acacia never got the chance to let NEO devour him—he'd been killed too quickly. This meant NEO's revival was only temporary.

"Although its essence had transformed, the time limit on its resurrection had expired. So after releasing all those ingredients, NEO simply faded away.

Perhaps in the future, NEO would manifest in someone's Gourmet Cells again, but this reformed version wouldn't be nearly as terrifying as before.

Of course, given its massive appetite, whoever got parasitized would need to be incredibly strong. But that was a problem for the distant future.

Yuuki couldn't be bothered worrying about it.

During this time, besides waiting for NEO to release the ingredients, he'd been exploring the area. This was the Blue Nitro's home base—so he figured there might be something valuable lying around. And he wasn't disappointed.

The spaceship the Blue Nitro had used for interstellar travel was still here. It really drove home just how arrogant these creatures were.

They had their own advanced spacecraft but refused to take Joie and the others along, forcing them to build their own instead.

It was like they considered humans beneath them—not worthy of sharing the same air.

The spaceship brought by the Blue Nitro contained their entire technological database.

Their tech was genuinely impressive—after all, they could travel between universes. While they lacked raw power, their eternal lifespans had given them absurd amounts of time to develop technology that was off the charts.

Yuuki was actually grateful for the Blue Nitro's arrogance now.

These guys had felt so untouchable on Earth that they hadn't bothered encrypting anything—leaving their entire tech library wide open for him to browse through.

Of course, most of their technology didn't interest him.

He only cared about two things:

Interstellar travel technology and the Gourmet Satellite.

Mastering space travel could let him visit other colored universes in the future.

But the Gourmet Satellite? That was something else entirely.

This device was absolutely mind-blowing.

In the original story, it could observe the entire universe—and had even managed to capture a glimpse of the Gourmet Gods themselves.

Just for an instant, but the Gourmet Satellite had actually detected this higher-dimensional being:

A colossal life form measured in light-years, an entity so massive it used entire galaxies as dinner plates.

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