Time Flies Part 1 - 6

I was now 11 years old and had grown incredibly well I was now around 170 cm tall and even though that seems like a good thing it really wasn't, I just had too much attention on me and I definitely couldn't handle it add on the fact I was pretty muscular and well now everyone was looking at me 24/7

At lest I wasn't a mountain of muscles like zebra as I was much more lean in terms of muscles similar to Sung Jinwoo so it wasn't as bad as it could be, my reputation in school went for a nobody to someone almost everyone wanted to be friends with especially after I started playing sports

I just wanted to be a bit more active at school and was planning to be as mediocre as possible but even when I wasn't trying at all still felt like prime Michael Jordan playing against a bunch of children, well the only thing I can do now is just try to embrace and make the best out of it

I also got a birthday gift from my dad it wasn't an expensive or fancy one but it was just a nice kitchen knife, it seems he doesn't really know what the average 11 year old would want for his birthday but luckily I wasn't an average kid and enjoy his gift

I also went to the restaurant he worked at called Fisshuparadaisu or Fish Paradise a couple of times, most of the time everyone was busy working but sometimes I got the chance to talk to some of them, after 5 or so visists they got pretty used to me

In terms of power I have mastered life erase it took me a while but I managed to master it and I must say it's quite an powerful technique that allows me to get past the weaker and inedible beasts easily, I managed to get the basics of knocking but I have zero clue how to get to the advance stuff similar to toriko

My gourmet cells have leveled up a bit and have hit another wall that I'm planning on braking through by going through the mountain to find higher capture level ingredients that are hopefully edible this time around as most of the ones on the lower levels are completely inedible

I have also started injecting myself with poisons to build up an immunity but as of now I have only succeeded with one poison, of course the more poisons I get immunity to the easier it becomes for me to acquire more so I can only go up from here

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It was pretty surprising when my 12 birthday came around mainly because I was so focused on training and eating as much as possible, it was a bit bigger then last years and as for my birthday gift it was a small trip to gourmet town

When we arrived there I was bombard with many incredible and delicious dishes and seeing that my mouth was already watering my dad didn't waste any time and we quickly visited a bunch of restaurants, my dad was quite stunned by how much i ate but considering he already saw the damage I did to the fridge at home he just laughed it off

In our 3 day stay there I ate over 1 million yen worth of food alone almost 1% of all the money in my dads bank account and well saying I over ate would be an understatement, I'm around 180 cm now and although I tried my best to keep my muscles lean they're starting to grow out of control

And as you could have guessed that got even more attention form people which even after 2 year felt weird but at lest I have gotten used to the constant staring, my popularity at school only continues to grow and considering I'm an straight A+ student thanks to my enhanced learning abilities I'm basically the king of the place now

My strength growth has started to slow down as leveling up has become more and more difficult and I barely managed to hit another one of the walls before the years end, I have been trying to learn more about the advance techniques of knocking but so far I have only small bits of progress

Instinct is an ability that I really want to learn but I have hit an giant wall with it, if I could just see someone use it I should be able to learn it fully learn and master it but for now it's impossible, I also want to learn food honor and routine but I know for a fact I will need to learn them from other people

As of now though I need to focus on breaking this wall and I know the perfect ingredient for this, the ingredient that made my dad no this entire town famous and one of the hardest ingredients to prepare in the human world Mermaituna the princess of the deep sea

Of course this dish only exists in some very pacific locations but luckily for me one of these locations is the beach next to the town or I guess just a few kilometer away from it, normally for this ingredient you would need to get a really expensive submarine because Mermaitunas usually live in places over 10 times deeper then the Mariana Trench

But for me who has prepared for this hunt in advance by not only training my self for deep sea exploration but also buying a bunch of expensive shit to help me reach that point, that fucking oxygen tree leaf took almost all the money I had saved up since I was 5 and it was still not a good quality one but I wanted to do this I needed to be as prepared as possible

I planed it out so I would go on this hunt when my dad was having an extremely busy week so that he wouldn't have time to check up on me or anything as this hunt would take me at lest a day or so of nothing but but swimming, as my hunt began the first couple hours were pretty easy but soon I felt the gravity increase

It felt extremely weird and messed up my movements for a while but I got used to it and pushed on but with slower swimming speed I could still see at the level I was on but soon that changed, again the gravity increased but this time I was prepared and went on as normal but I was no longer able to see so I had to turn on the flash light I put on my swimsuit

This pattern of gravity increasing and light being less plentiful went on for a while before I felt that my body could no longer handle the fact I hadn't taken a breath in like 9 hours so I quickly put on the oxygen mask and kept going, after a long while of nothing but swimming I started to feel extremely tiered but I kept pushing

This whole situation felt like hell I don't know how long I had been swimming and my entire body was being pushed it's absolute limit not only that but I just couldn't mentally handle it at all I feel like giving up and just going back up, I mean I still had a ton of oxygen left so it was definitely possible

But something kept driving me to go deeper, like an light at the end of the tunnel maybe it was mental thing from not seeing natural light in many many hours but it kept me going so whatever, it would best to just accept the thing for now

And just like that before I knew it I was at the bottom and what awaited me was a surprise beyond my wildest dreams it was like a giant unreal coral reef, it had so many ingredients and I had never even read about before and I was insane enough to go through an entire library's worth of food knowledge

Did I actually just discover like a 100 new ingredients this is nothing compared to the heavenly kings but it definitely a start, but after looking around and collecting ingredients like crazy I found my prize a couple of them in fact and compared to getting here capturing then was as easy as walking

After taking a short break I made my way up and soon landed on a secluded part of the beach again, after drying up and making my way home I found out I was gone for a day and a half, I quickly made a bunch of meals and ate as much as possible

I may have forgotten my extreme hunger due to sheer excitement but now that was gone and I was left with nothing but hunger, I also made sure it cook up as many of the new ingredients I had found as possible and most were failures but some I did manage to succeed at cooking

After that i made sure to hide Mermaitunas as I need to let them rest for 7 day before I started cooking for it to reach its peak, hiding them from my dad was a bit difficult but I managed and after a full week they were ready there were 8 of them which means I had 8 attempts to cook them perfectly

Of course before this I made sure or grad seasonings and such but turns out the mythical wulstar sauce fruit didn't exist, guess only some non canon garbage from the anime and movies were good enough to make it into this version of the world and yes I just insulted the anime like any good toriko fan should

Anyway the first one bursted into bubbles half way through it was soul crushing, I moved on to the second which turned into bubbles while I was almost at the end this time I took a small break before going back too cook them them fully energized and focused, the third one was successful and so was the forth and everything else as well

I guess third times the charm is an correct phrase, but now is not the time or think but the time to eat so I quickly seasoned all of them until they were literally glowing and as I took the first bite it felt as if I was biting water itself, needless to saw this was TENDER as shit

Take that A5 wagyu you suck ass compared to this, every bite felt like a new experience and by the end my cells had definitely broken through the wall only one left to go now before I get opportunity to evolve, and with that all done I went to deep sleep smelling like fish and loving every second of it

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On my 13th birthday my dad got me a new knife sharpening set, I also invited a couple of kids in my school that I'm good acquaintances with as my dad asked me to do it, apparently having a birthday with only you and your dad is seen as weird especially for a kid

Guess he's probably been reading parenting books or something though he still has a lot to catch up on considering the stuff he lets me get away with, my school life has been going on as normal well normal for me at lest, as for my powers

I have made no progress with any of them as I have either mastered or haven't even started with them but my appetite energy has definitely increased heavily and it seems unlike the last couple times I have yet to hit the wall, of course this is not because I got lazy but just a showcase of how hard it has become to level us as I need higher and higher level ingredients

I'm thinking about breaking the next wall before going back to practicing my chef skills, also there is a small thing I have noticed about my gourmet cells compared to someone like toriko my gourmet cells seem to be way more hungry in a sense

As in they require more and higher quality ingredients to get to the same level as the others but there are benefits to this, my strength is actually higher then where it should be but that's only one of the smaller benefits, the big difference is the fact my cells are just way more adaptable clearly shown when I swam to the bottom of the ocean

A feat that even a toriko that had already fought the four beasts would find difficult, something that should be impossible with my current strength but I managed to still do, I have also began to question more about my cells

It may seem weird I'm only questioning them now but I was just way too focused on raising my strength and skills to care about something as trivial as the color or my cells or who my Appetite Demon actually was considering I didn't have the resources to answer any of those question and I had more important things to do

Next time I meet him I will definitely question him a lot more

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I keep procrastinating on this stuff and forcing my self to do it at night which up ruins my sleep and makes me tired all the time, I seriously need to fix this problem of mine

Anyways I'm thinking about making another fanfic where the Mc is forced by the person who transported him in the Pokemon world to only use bug types in an kind of realistic Pokemon world, what do you guys think of the idea?