When she woke up, Elena found herself lying in a godforsaken place full of trash. Insects and flies buzzed everywhere, and a strange stench filled the air. Even taking a deep breath made her feel like she might choke to death.
Elena: Cough, cough. This has to be a dream.
She pinched herself hard. “Ouch!” She could feel pain, so... she wasn't dreaming!
As she covered her nose and mouth and tried to make sense of her life, a light blue System panel appeared in front of her: Congratulations, you've successfully bound the Gourmet Hunter System!
In this world, there are many Gourmet Hunters who venture into deadly places and risk their lives to capture rare delicacies.
Every Gourmet Hunter's life goal is to use ingredients they caught with their own hands to complete a personal menu of eight dishes: appetizer, soup, fish, meat, main course, salad, dessert, and drink.
If you use ingredients from the ingredient list catalog to perfectly complete the personal menu you have in mind, you'll get one chance to make a wish, and the System will do everything it can to grant it.
Elena: Thanks, but this place is full of trash. I almost can't breathe, and you want me to go catch ingredients for an eight-course meal of appetizers, fish, salad, and dessert? Do you want a starter made of dead batteries, canned fish made of soda cans, glass-shard salad, or dessert made of old plastic?
The Gourmet Hunter System, which seems to have picked the wrong world and bound itself to the wrong person: ...Small problem. I'll give you a back door.
Elena: OK! Tiny Gourmet Hunter, tiny personal menu, here I come!
The Gourmet Hunters from the Hunter Association all blinked their beady eyes. Huh? How come we never heard about having personal menus?
Elena: That's because your ambitions aren't high enough. →_→
The Gourmet Hunters: ! Shocked and suspicious.jpg. Is it because our ambitions aren't high enough? Then, um, maybe we should make personal menus too?
Reader's Guide:
1. Warning: Characters may be out of character. Aside from ordinary ingredients, most of the ingredients come from Toriko. They are only described in terms of how their appearance affects the characters. The story does not follow Toriko's plot, so please look elsewhere if that's what you want.
2. The writing is stream of consciousness, and the original timeline will be adjusted, causing some time skips.
3. This is not a female-empowerment story. The heroine is an ordinary person and isn't particularly strong. Once she completes her mission, she'll return home.
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Theme: Even the most barren land can grow a flower of hope
Although Chuuya has never appeared, his shadow is everywhere hahaha 🐶
The "harmful guy" is a big bug for the author~