New Life - 2

As soon as I woke up I was bombarded with memories of my new life, which caused me to get a small headache and become a bit dizzy but shaking my head a bit got rid of most of the problems, I was now 10 years old Noah Okui, I'm as of right now 148 cm tall and on the skinnier side with not a lot of muscle mass, I have black hair and blue eyes, and I'm currently living with my single dad as my mom died when I was 7 from an beast attack

I live in a small town that is known mainly for being quite close to the sea and the fact most restaurants in it are incredible at cooking fish beasts, my dad works at one of these restaurants, the most popular one in fact as the head chef, he was even luck enough to once cook a capture level 20 mermaituna for some rich guy

But enough about my dad right now the year is 490 GA and considering Toriko was born in 475 GA and the story starts when he's 25 that means I have 10 years to prepare before the plot starts, of course even with 10 years to prepare it would probably still not be enough

So it's a good thing that God's special gift to me was to give this new body of mine gourmet cells, this made things a lot easier for me as now I don't have to worry about acquiring them in the first place, but even though I have gourmet cells they are incredibly weak right now and I would probably need to eat multiple mountains of food as well as train like Goku before i become even close to as strong as beginning of series Noriko

But all that talk about eating and training can wait as right now it's 3 am and I'm fucking tired, so I'm going first go to sleep then think of all my plans when I have enough mental energy and don't feel like my brain is turning to jelly every time I try to think up any plans

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It was now 11:24 am and as I woke up again I felt nothing but hunger, I quickly did my normal morning routine before running downstairs to see that my dad had already left for work, he had left me a small breakfast that I quickly ate but it was not enough

I opened up the giant fridge and saw a massive amount of ingredients, "perfect" was all I said before I started cooking, having a professional chef as a father had its pros and cons, he might not always be able to be there for me because of his work but I did have enough food in the fridge to keep myself fed for like a month

"You win some you lose some," I said with a small smirk as I finished cooking and plated everything, sitting down on the dinner table I began to furiously eat the food, but as I slowed down with every bit of the food I began to enjoy the food even more enjoying every bit of flavor that entered my mouth to the fullest

It seems that just like how each of the four heavenly kings had one of their senses that was way better than the others my taste was way better than any of my other senses, with each bite I could easily break down each of the the flavors, not only that but I can focus on individual flavors of the food no matter how small it is and either experience more or less of that flavor

It was a truly great ability that let me change the entire flavor profile of food or enhance already good foods, I don't know exactly why my taste was enhanced so much other than me being lucky I guess but hey it's a very useful ability so I'm not complaining

Now that my belly is full I can get on with the planning, first of all, I'm going to be both a gourmet hunter and chef mainly because I want to be able to compete with Toriko, and I know for certain that there is no chef in the world as good as Komatsu, except maybe that one guy but he's important to the plot and if I interfere I might mess up the whole timeline and accidentally destroy the entire world

Second I need to learn and master all the useful abilities such as knocking, instinct, food honor, and many more as soon as possible, third I need to learn how to use appetite energy and develop my moves, and finally get as jacked as possible so that I no longer look like a wet spaghetti noodle

After planning out my goals I decided to first try and learn how to use appetite energy, of course, I couldn't do this in my house no matter how weak my gourmet cells are I could still destroy this house and that probability increases dramatically if you add on that I don't know how to fully control my new power

After a bit of looking through my memories, I found the perfect location, a smaller part of the beach close by that almost no one went to and was well hidden, a place Noah found in his childhood and goes to everyone in a while to cry or whatever else

After figuring that out I made my way to the garage and used the bike to make my way to the beach area, even though I was on a bike and only 10 I was going incredibly fast because well you know super strength and speed that made me the equivalent of an Olympic athlete on super steroids

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I arrived there to find a space with only a couple of beasts around, it was just what I needed I began by practicing some simple punches and kicks, and even though I had never done any martial arts in my past or this life before the movements felt very natural and smooth almost as if I had done them for my entire life

It felt like what I was born to do, like all my life I had known nothing but fighting, and with each attack, my body became faster and faster my attacks became more precise and powerful, and before I knew it I had done nothing but punch and kick the air for 10 minutes straight

I stopped myself as soon as I realized how long I had been doing it I could also feel just how much my skills had grown in such a short amount of time, but I also realized that I had lost quite a lot of calories so I went closer to the water and grabbed a random crab

It had a layer of hard sugar shell similar to an M&M and as I bit into it I found that it was pretty much a bigger and much tastier M&M, it felt weird eating something alive but hey it's a new world with new morals and that weird feeling went away as soon as I tasted even more of the crab

I guess I also inherited the previous Noah's previous taste buds, as in my past life I wasn't much of a fan of chocolate well except a bit of dark chocolate, anyways I was not satisfied with just one of these so I began to look around the beach for more of them and I found a couple of them that I swiftly ate filling up my calories again

After that I went back to training energized by the delicious chocolate and large amount of sugar I just had, normally I might get a bit sick because of the large amount of chocolate and sugar but my gourmet cells made me immune to stuff like that

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Sugar armor crab

Type: Crustacean

Capture level: below 1

Length: 25 cm (max)

Weight: 2 kg

Price: 1500 yen

Fun fact: it is very popular among children and teens, with tens of thousands being sold every day
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Took longer than expected because I scrapped the original chapter for being too cringe, also I was going to make the Mc a goody too shoes but decided to make him mainly neutral but mainly leaning towards the good side