Chapter 3: Level Up - 3

<p>I have been trying to use my appetite energy for around 4 hours now, taking small breaks from time to time to replenish my calories by eating the random beasts that come around but sometimes I need to go further to find more calories, as of right now no progress on my appetite energy, I can't even feel it<br/><br/>At least my combat skills have improved, my gourmet cells also leveled up in a sense but are still very far away from evolving, even though I didn't get anywhere close to my goal this training was very useful in getting myself more used to my new body as well as helping me level up my gourmet cells all in all a good day<br/><br/>I moved back towards my bike and as I started to move I could tell that I had already become twice as fast as my bike was now as fast as some cars out there, which I could see damage it a bit<br/><br/>———<br/><br/>As I returned home I put in the garage code and put my bike in the garage before going in my house, my dad just as expected had yet to come back home, from what I could see from Noah's memory's his relationship with his dad was well lackluster mainly because after his mother's death he shut himself in his room only coming out when he needed to go to school or something <br/><br/>I mean I don't really blame him if I saw my mom getting killed and eaten in front of me I would probably shut myself in my room as well, the entire house had become an eerily silent place after her death, and his dad was almost always at work maybe it was his way of coping with his wife's death?<br/><br/>But personally I liked this, now what I mean by that is not the whole dead mother, absent father and depression + trauma thing but the free time i have because of this, sure my mom might be dead and I have undiagnosed depression + trauma but hey look on the bright I have a shit ton of free time, god that sounds depressing <br/><br/>Well whatever, you win some you lose a lot, it is what it is, life might or might not be daijoubu, after that whole depressing flashback I just cooked a small meal, cleaned everything, went to my room and did a shit ton of push ups, squats and sit ups until I got tiered and went to sleep<br/><br/>———<br/><br/>When I woke up it was pretty much the same as yesterday but with a lot less depressing stuff, my dad already went to work and left me some breakfast but this time it was actually enough to satisfy me, mainly because yesterday I was like a fat kid at a golden corral, after that I went back to the beach and just kind of relaxed and also trained a bit<br/><br/>I have 77 days before school starts again and makes me wast my time like always, but at lest this worlds school is a little fun due to the fact they will teach you how to optimally stack a burger like an episode of food theory in one class and then next class will be the most generic and boring class in existence, wonder how long that will be funny <br/><br/>—Time skip—<br/><br/>It has been a week since I was reincarnated into toriko and I had made an almost insignificant amount on my appetite energy training, I did manage to manifest a bit of it once but that was by sheer luck so that doesn't really count<br/><br/>Right now I'm at a wall no matter how much I eat or train I can't seem to grow, even my skills growth have started to slow down considerably I even tried looking at and copying martial arts but that did next to nothing<br/><br/>So I decided that I needed to go far away from my safe town filled with low capture level beasts to find something much tastier, but where exactly would I go to find these higher capture level creatures?, well a quick search showed me the perfect location<br/><br/>It was a forest the size of a small city that mainly had low 1-3 capture level beasts but some in the center could go all the way to capture level 8, and that's where I would find my pray a crab pig the only reason these things have such high capture levels is because they are fast and can tank most hits, but their attack was basically nonexistent <br/><br/>Luckily for me I can hit like a truck literally and of course run at 130 km per hour for several hours with max calories, so i ate as much food as I could during the day and at 1:30 am exactly I ran towards the direction of the forest at max speed<br/><br/>———<br/><br/>It took me around 2 hours mainly because I had to go around a couple lakes and stuff as well as the fact i got bored multiple times and just kind of ate for a while before getting back on track, if I had stayed completely focused on my destination it would have probably only taken me an hour and twenty minutes <br/><br/>Anyways right now I'm about a kilometer away from the forest, the reason I didn't get closer to it is because there is a pretty big concrete wall blocking my way of course I know exactly why it's here, to stop the lower level beasts from escaping and to alert the guards when higher level beasts break out<br/><br/>The reason I was so far back was so I could build up speed and jump the wall which was from my estimate a bit over 10 meters tall, quite tall but compared to the IGO ones this was minuscule in size <br/><br/>I got into a running position not because I needed it but because I thought it would be cool after a tense couple seconds I accelerated for 0 to 130 km in a matter of seconds before quickly jumping as high as I could reaching a height of 16 meters easily jumping over the wall and making an almost perfect landing <br/><br/>The jump didn't hurt me at all and as soon a I stood up I ran towards the center of the forest at max speed arriving there I saw nothing, but after looking around the area for a bit I found a crab pig just peacefully sleeping with nothing else around<br/><br/> I made my way closer to it's face before I hit it with all I had which did a lot of damage but didn't kill it and instead it woke up and run away at max speed, seeing it run away at high speed I chased after it catching up in an second and unleashing a barrage of punches not stopping until it stopped moving<br/><br/>After killing the pig I looked around to find a less noticeable place to cook it and after searching for a bit I found an empty cave with a skeleton in it, it might be the home of a strong beast but that's a risk I'm willing to take so I quickly started a fire and began to roast the pig over it<br/><br/>Sure I could have seasoned it a bit but everything in this world basically comes pre seasoned so what's the point unless you have some spices or melk stardust, both of which I have none of currently but talking about cooking I seriously need to work on my cooking skills<br/><br/>I may have been a home cook in my previous life but in this world that's the equivalent on graduating middle school which I'd you didn't know isn't very impressive, after around 5 minutes the whole pig was done and as soon a I took a bite I could feel my cells leveling up <br/><br/>I soon devoured the pig until there was nothing but bone, and I was getting ready to go back home when I sensed multiple beasts running towards me, they weren't particularly strong but there were a lot of them so I quickly got out of the cave to see the beasts that were coming towards me<br/><br/>As I looked at the direction they were coming form I could see around 15 or so baron tigers, which was weird considering most of them stayed on the outskirts of the forest near the beach, so what made them come all the way here<br/><br/>I didn't have much time to think as one of them rushed towards me with its mouth fully open looking like it was starving, I of course punched it as hard as I could breaking its skull and instantly killing it, after that I made sure to kill each of them as quickly and efficiently as possible <br/><br/>Making sure i didn't not damage their fangs or fur because if they were in good condition I could sell them for hundreds of thousands of yen, after killing them I skinned them and took any fangs I had not damaged, I might not be able to sell them right now due to my age but if I didn't take them it would be like burning money<br/><br/>I did try to eat them as well but even with my ability I couldn't make them taste any good so I just burned the corpses and quickly got rid of all the blood and stuff on the material before I ran towards my house at max speed which had increased significantly <br/><br/>———<br/><br/>When I got back home it was around 5:00 am it was a bit longer trip then I expected but hey the extra profit didn't hurt, I quickly placed the material I had gotten in the most secure location I knew of under my bed, after that I just went to sleep as normal but the dream I had was anything but normal<br/><br/>I found my self sitting down in a pitch black void, as I got up and looked around I saw that there was nothing here other then my self, also the fact that there was no sound at all was pretty weird, but this silence was quickly broken as I heard an unknown voice say<br/><br/>"Hello there, you must be the host that man told me I need to help get stronger, though I'm a bit disappointed how long it took for us to meet"<br/><br/>As I looked at the direction of the creature that just spoke I saw a jet black figure with a silver outline that was jacked as all hell, but as shocked as I was with how he looked I quickly asked "are you my appetite demon?" to which he simply answered yes<br/><br/>After that we talked for a bit he explained to me a bit about his past, how he was once the most powerful creature across all of the universes, but he aimed a bit to high and tried to time travel all the back before even the gourmet big bang so he could challenge the gods<br/><br/>But he messed up and was originally gone be erased from all time and space but god saved him and gave him a deal ether be erased or become my appetite demon and help me become as strong as possible, obviously he accepted and that's how he got here<br/><br/>After that I felt like I was gone wake up soon so I said goodbye but right before I woke up he told me that the next time we would meet will be when I evolve my gourmet cells, with that last message I woke up in my bed once again but this time with a strange feeling of being super energized</p>