Chapter 4: Appetite Energy - 4

<p>As I got up from my bed I could see a kind of black aura thing covering me, I don't know exactly what it could be but my best guess is that this is either appetite energy or intimidation that I somehow activated, I'm leaning towards appetite energy though, mainly because I don't think my gourmet cells as evolved enough to even intimidate anything<br/><br/>But the only way to figure out what this is would be to test it, so I ran to the beach and began to do anything and everything I could think of to maybe activate it or something, but nothing worked after almost 30 minutes of doing whatever the aura did nothing<br/><br/>But then I remembered that appetite energy is the physical embodiment of good taste and the desire for food so instead of just trying to force the energy out of my body towards nothing I directed it towards something I want to eat<br/><br/>I quickly tried my hypothesis by punching at a crab that I wanted to eat and it worked sending a blast of apatite energy towards it and destroying the crab as well as creating an explosion, it's a good thing there was no one around but I should try to lower the amount of destruction it causes<br/><br/>After using my apatite energy a couple of times my understanding of it increased a lot, and after the first one I don't even have to want to eat the thing I'm shooting at anymore, It looks like the desire to eat something requirement is just a handy cap for when someone first uses apatite energy <br/><br/>But looks like using apatite energy depletes my calories quickly as I only had around 25 thousand extra calories in my body now, so I decided to just go home for now as it was already pretty late and I didn't want to wake up at like 1:00 again<br/><br/>———<br/><br/>As I got into my empty home again I decided to just sit down on the sofa and watch something on the TV and as I turned it on a news channel popped up that had some pretty interesting stuff, it looked like my little trip to the jungle wasn't as secretive as I thought it would be<br/><br/>They found the charred bodies of the baron tigers I killed quite recently, only an hour ago in fact and they easily found out it was a human who did it, though on the good side, they have zero clue who could have done it and most people think it could be a rough gourmet hunter or something similar to that<br/><br/>Of course, the people in charge of the operation like anyone else decided to heavily increase the security of the place, so I probably won't be able to go there anymore, which isn't that bad considering I only went there because it would be safer then the mountains and other areas with much more dangerous beasts<br/><br/>Oh I haven't even looked at a map of this place I might need to check that out later after I finished looking at the news I made myself some food to replenish my lost calories and went back to my room and looked at a map of my general location for a bit there before I went to sleep<br/><br/>———<br/><br/>When I woke up I did what I would normally do, today I wanted to explore my appetite energy more as well as make my battle techniques like torikos famous fork and knife <br/><br/>But as I made my way to my usual beach spot I sensed a couple of people there, and as it turned out the explosions I caused did attract a lot more attention than I thought, I probably should have expected this<br/><br/>This is a bit annoying but I was already thinking about a more dangerous location to rain as even though I have a lot of power I don't have much experience, I usually hunt beasts with low capture levels or ones that don't fight <br/><br/>So even though theoretically with my current gourmet cells I should be strong enough to kill even a 100-year-old gala gator, I have such a small amount of experience it would be a miracle if I did manage to kill it<br/><br/>So after going back home to look at a map, wait let me first explain where I actually am, right now I'm in a small city but it would be more accurate to call it a large town <br/><br/>this town is mostly rural with little to no factories or anything of the sort, as well as being far away from any major cities, a kilometer or so away from it is a very popular beach, after that, the only other geological features that anyone cares about would be the mountains <br/><br/>Most of them are barely explored as they are filled with high-capture level beasts and are hard to traverse, after that are a lot of forests, like an absolute shit ton forests surround the entire town making it even more isolated from the other cities<br/><br/>Anyway I'm just going to get some cooking equipment from the basement that my dad doesn't use anymore and go to one of the nearby mountains so I can find a nice quiet and flat place to train<br/><br/>———<br/><br/>After a bit of traveling and fighting random beasts I made it to a relatively calm location next to one of the mountains which allowed me to fight both low and high-capture-level creatures beasts, after finding the location I began to train my appetite energy to increase its flexibility and power<br/><br/>After a while, I began to run low on calories again but this time I came prepared, and after setting up the portable kitchen I went out to hunt some beasts, as I looked around I found many low-level but still delicious beasts that I quickly killed and took back to my small base of operations <br/><br/>I kept training my appetite and hunting beasts to replace my lost calories but after a couple of hours I began to stagnate, so I decided it was time for me to gain some actual combat experience by going up the mountain and fighting whatever was up there<br/><br/>As I made my way up the mountain there wasn't much in on the foot of it, most were low-level beasts such as a couple of barbarous as well as a random goat beast I didn't know about, but as I got out of the foot and towards the middle point I got attacked by a group of turnips<br/><br/>One of them lunged towards me and I managed to dodge it quite easily but right after 3 more came towards me at max speed, I barely managed to dodge this time and contoured with a ball of appetite energy which damaged one of them significantly but it got up after a long second and continued its assault <br/><br/>As the battle continued I was forced to go on the defensive and was barely able to attack my normal punches and kicks do injure them but not enough to make them stop, I would like to use my appetite energy more but I don't think I have enough to kill all of them<br/><br/>I need something that can take all of them out at once like an aoe spell basically, so right now in the middle of combat I'm trying to create my technique, it may seem stupid but it's the only way I'm going get out of this situation alive, these things would probably chase me through an entire country to kill me<br/><br/>As I looked through everything I had learned about apatite energy through practice, which forced me to be even more defensive and gave the turnips opportunities to hit me, which hurt like absolute hell I think they might have even broken a bone and the only reason I'm not crying like a child is because my gourmet cells are forcing me to adapt to the feeling of pain or something <br/><br/>after maybe ten minutes or so of pure pain I finally managed to come up with a technique, By looking at my purist appetite desire I was able to manifest my appetite as a cast iron skillet, there wasn't anything special about it other than the fact it hit hard but that's all I need to kill these things<br/><br/>After using the move two times I almost depleted all my extra calories but I did kill all of them so I ran down the mountain like my life depended on it because it did,e the only reason I survived that was because I was lucky, thinking about this whole situation made me feel like an idiot that severely overestimated my abilities <br/><br/>100 year old galala gator nah I would be lucky to kill a 10 year old, right now I'm way weaker than I thought I was, to the point I was struggling to fight best start of the series Toriko could probably beat hundreds and I almost died to 10 of them<br/><br/>It was sad to the point if anyone saw what I was thinking just a couple of hours ago they would laugh at me for hours, but I guess there is no use crying over spilled milk right now I need to grow even more so that this kind of humiliating situation never happens again<br/><br/>———<br/><br/>Don't worry guys I have a perfectly good explanation as to way this chapter was not only late but also a bit rushed at the same time, I started playing fgo. that is all</p>