The Fairy Tale Castle Orphanage always smelled faintly of soup and sadness.
Tom was five years old, quiet, and often hungry. But one night,the whole Orphanage was poisoned. In a vivid dream,at the brink of death Tom remembered—
He wasn't just Tom, the orphan. He was a transmigrator.
This is the world of Toriko.
The Gourmet Age, where hunters fight beasts the size of mountains, where chefs change nations…
Flashback – The Pact with God
Tom remembered it clearly.
A void, endless and quiet. A voice calling itself God spoke to him.
"You will enter a world of savagery, where men eat mountains and beasts swallow oceans.
Three gifts you shall take with you."
The wishes Tom chose came instantly, instinctively:
1. An adaptable body – able to resist and grow stronger against poisons, environments, even attacks.
2. Haki – Armament, Observation, and the rare "Voice of All Things.", Conqueror's haki
3. A Status Window – to track his growth in a world where power was measured in strength and appetite.
"Go, child. This world will not coddle you."
And with that, he opened his eyes again… inside the body of the five-year-old orphan, moments after the mass poisoning incident had taken the other children.
Tom woke up with his heart pounding.
His body was adapting to the poison and hunger.The police came,took records. No one knew what the future was for Tom and Ootake who were still alive.
At dawn, he gathered what little he had—torn shoes, a cracked bowl, and a stubborn will—and left the orphanage. Ootake shouted after him:
"Where are you going, Tom?!"
Tom didn't turn back. "To train. Don't worry, I'll survive."