GA: Chapter 245: Kasumigaoka Utaha's Luck, and the Reason Ghouls Cannot Eat Other Foods
Boil Daigo into Soup (Daigo): "So what exactly is this?"
Richest Man in America (Tony Stark): "The Group Owner knows, Bai Xuan knows, and Dongfang Bubai knows too."
Richest Man in America (Tony Stark): "A product native to Huaxia?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "I bypassed the firewall and looked for it in Huaxia."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "I never expected it to be this kind of thing."
Boil Daigo into Soup (Daigo): "What is it?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "X Medicine."
Boil Daigo into Soup (Daigo): ""
Richest Man in America (Tony Stark): ""
Zhang Sanfeng: "Ah, this..."
Lin Fengjiao: "Old Heavenly Master's luck..."
Mortal Zhang Zhiwei: "Even this old Daoist didn't expect it."
How could he, the dignified Old Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain, Zhang Zhiwei, the one and only, draw something like this!
If it weren't because the item from the very first draw held immense commemorative value, he absolutely would not have kept it until now.
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Little Chef drew Cooking Talent, Zhang Sanfeng drew Guo Xiang's Donkey, and Zhang Zhiwei drew X Medicine."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "A pattern within the randomness."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Some items drawn are related to the drawer, and some might be related."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Forget it, I'm drawing now!"
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Whether I live or die depends on this one time!"
After speaking, Kasumigaoka Utaha fell silent and went straight to the draw.
Ice Queen: "Interesting."
Ice Queen: "I'll go draw once too."
White Rabbit: "I hope my luck is better."
As time passed, the three individuals did not show up for a long time.
Ordinary Group Owner: "Does drawing a prize take this long?"
Da Gu Boiled into Soup: "I guess their luck was bad, and they didn't draw what they wanted."
Ordinary Group Owner: "But still, they shouldn't be completely silent."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Although, but..."
In the Saekano World, Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at the item she drew with a mix of indignation and embarrassment.
Balenciaga.
Although she likes wearing Stockings, that doesn't mean she wanted to draw Stockings in the lottery!!!
Ordinary Group Owner: "As expected."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Those with good luck are always the minority."
Ordinary Group Owner: "So what did you draw?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "A piece of clothing."
Stockings count as a type of clothing, right? She wasn't lying.
Ordinary Group Owner: "Isn't that decent? Compared to what Daigo, Madara, and I drew, yours is pretty good."
Ordinary Group Owner: "@White Rabbit, what about you?"
Su Yunqing saw it was clothing and didn't pay much attention. After all, the scope of the lottery covered the worlds of all Group Members, and only drawing one piece of clothing among so many good items would make anyone complain. After offering a few perfunctory words of comfort, she shifted her attention to Kirishima Touka.
Seeing that it hadn't aroused anyone's curiosity, Kasumigaoka Utaha breathed a sigh of relief.
She felt too embarrassed to openly mention an item like Stockings.
White Rabbit: "I..."
White Rabbit: "It's actually quite good, just not suitable for me."
White Rabbit: "Image."
[Item: Tomato]
[Details: A vegetable (fruit) cultivated under dense Spiritual Energy. Upon consumption, it has a certain positive effect on the consumer's constitution.]
The item is good, but she is a Ghoul, so she cannot eat it.
Ordinary Group Owner: "This should be a product from Bai Xuan World and mine."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Actually, you could try it. Maybe you can eat it?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "If you can't eat it, just spit it out."
If she can eat it, that would naturally be best. It would also prove that food cultivated using Spiritual Energy can be consumed by Ghouls. Until Kirishima Touka completely resolves her Ghoul defect, this would be the only way she could eat something besides human flesh and coffee.
If she can't eat it, she'll just spit it out at worst. As long as she doesn't force herself, her stomach won't reject it too violently.
White Rabbit: "Then I'll try."
Kirishima Touka looked at the Tomato in her hand, which far surpassed an ordinary Tomato in appearance, resembling a ruby, and smelled its fresh aroma. She closed her eyes and took a bite.
Silence.
Kirishima Touka's body seemed to stiffen.
However, the next moment, Kirishima Touka frantically began swallowing the Tomato in her hand.
The Tomato, which was as large as an adult's palm, was quickly consumed, and she even licked the residual juice from her hand clean.
Her eyes were filled with enjoyment.
The first time!
It was the first time Kirishima Touka had tasted a flavor other than the mellow aroma of coffee and the taste of humans.
Besides the sweet and sour taste upon entry, there was a marvelous sensation of pleasure that made her soul tremble.
It was hard to imagine that this was merely a Tomato.
In addition, the weakening of her strength caused by long-term consumption of "expired" human flesh was being nourished and repaired by an energy called "Spiritual Energy."
After an unknown amount of time, Kirishima Touka finally woke up from the aftertaste, her face flushed red.
White Rabbit: "I can eat it! I can actually swallow it!"
White Rabbit: "So this is what a Tomato tastes like! The sweet and sour taste upon entry and the juice moisturizing my tongue made my whole being, along with my emotions, feel joyful."
White Rabbit: "It's so delicious! So tomatoes are such tasty things!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "She can actually eat it?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "What the heck is going on? Ghouls, who clearly cannot eat human food, can eat tomatoes cultivated under Spiritual Energy, just because of the added Spiritual Energy?"
Richest Man in America (Tony Stark): "Although you initially asked Kirishima Touka to try it based on a guess, your reaction after getting the answer looks increasingly strange."
Richest Man in America (Tony Stark): "However, judging from the current situation, it is possible that this special energy, Spiritual Energy, contains a specific substance only found in human flesh."
Richest Man in America (Tony Stark): "And this substance is the reason Ghouls eat human flesh."
Based on the memory instance, he has a theory regarding why Ghouls only consume humans and cannot consume other creatures.
That is, the human body possesses a substance essential for Ghoul survival!
This substance exists only in humans and in no other creatures.
Why does a Ghoul's body reject any food other than humans?
Human flesh may not necessarily be delicious to Ghouls; it's just that only the human body possesses that specific substance, which other creatures lack. What they obtain is just this substance, not the human itself.
They can only consume things that contain this substance; things that do not contain it are difficult for them to swallow.
If this theory is true, Kirishima Touka being able to eat the Spiritual Energy-nourished Tomato means that Spiritual Energy contains that substance, but there is one other possibility.
Richest Man in America (Tony Stark): "It is also possible that Spiritual Energy does not contain the substance necessary for Ghouls, but rather that Spiritual Energy can substitute for this substance and satisfy the Ghoul's needs."
GA: Chapter 246: Extreme Ice Phoenix, Esdeath and Chen Bing
Lighthouse Richest Man: "We've discussed the energy systems of various worlds before, and we've also wondered if there's a commonality between Natural Chakra and spiritual energy. In our research, spiritual energy is an all-purpose power."
Lighthouse Richest Man: "This isn't to say it can grant wishes if there's enough of it, but rather that it can perfectly integrate into any world system."
Lighthouse Richest Man: "Whether it's the Chakra of Uchiha Madara and Minato Namikaze, or Whitebeard's Haki, it can adapt perfectly."
Lighthouse Richest Man: "It's incredibly gentle and won't repel any substance."
Lighthouse Richest Man: "If Ghouls consume humans because human bodies contain the substances they need, then spiritual energy can replace the substances in human flesh to satisfy Ghouls."
Ordinary Group Leader: "What's the use of these analyses?"
Lighthouse Richest Man: "None."
Ordinary Group Leader: "..."
You've been talking for so long for nothing.
Lighthouse Richest Man: "shrugs"
Lighthouse Richest Man: "I'm just stating my opinion."
Lighthouse Richest Man: "Anyway, with the Angel Civilization helping her, whether the analysis is useful or not doesn't really matter, does it?"
Since Ghouls are a product of human technology, it should be an extremely easy matter for the Angel Civilization to resolve.
Before that, Touka Kirishima can completely buy ingredients nourished by Bai Xuan's and the Group Leader's world's spiritual energy. →
Anyway, the price isn't expensive.
Ordinary Group Leader: "That's true."
Ordinary Group Leader: "@White Rabbit, you can earn points by signing in first, or by hunting and recycling some Ghouls for points. Although I don't know if this tomato is from Bai Xuan's world or my world, it's not expensive either way."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Oh, wait."
Ordinary Group Leader: "There seems to be a mark on this tomato in the picture?"
Su Yunqing suddenly noticed a faint numerical symbol on the tomato Touka Kirishima posted. It was very light, easy to miss if you didn't look closely.
If she wasn't mistaken, that number should be 142?
Lighthouse Richest Man: "It seems there is. Does this tomato have some special meaning?"
Lighthouse Richest Man: "Special cultivation?"
According to the notes provided by the chat group, this tomato grew in a place with extremely rich spiritual energy, so it's indeed possible it was carefully cultivated.
Son of Nature: "This symbol..."
Bai Xuan looked at the 142 in the picture, paused, then looked at the tomato bushes carefully tended by Pikachu nearby.
At this moment, two more Pikachus were using marker pens to write numbers on the unripe tomatoes.
He lightly tapped the void with his index finger, and a bright red tomato fell into his hand, identical to the one Touka Kirishima had drawn.
"Pika?"
"Pikachu!"
Pikachu saw Bai Xuan take a tomato and scratched its head in confusion.
Thinking Bai Xuan wanted to eat tomatoes, they each picked what they considered the best quality ripe tomatoes and ran to Bai Xuan, happily offering them with their two small paws.
"Pika Pika."
"Thanks."
Bai Xuan didn't refuse, chuckling as he ruffled the heads of these Pikachus.
Because the small world was very large, he hadn't been stingy with points when buying Pokémon before, purchasing many of them.
The number of Pikachus was also considerable.
Although not every Pikachu liked sweet and sour tomatoes, the vast majority showed great fondness for them.
So he specifically planted tomatoes in one area of the small world.
Actually, it couldn't be called planting; he just scattered the seeds casually, and the spiritual energy would take care of the rest.
However, perhaps because they liked them, these Pikachus spontaneously started taking care of these tomatoes, and each Pikachu even had its own tomato seedling.
Number 142 belonged to one particular Pikachu.
Ice Queen: "Image"
Ice Queen: "A power even stronger than Demon's Manifestation! I can feel its terrifying potential!"
Ice Queen: "The energy in the air is constantly integrating into my body."
Ice Queen: "Though slow, my strength is indeed increasing!"
How long had it been? How long had it been since she felt her strength improving?
It wasn't that her potential had reached its limit, but rather that she had developed Demon's Manifestation: Demon's Extract to a very deep level. Further progress, even a little, would require a lot of time.
[Talent: Extreme Ice · Phoenix]
[Note: One of the strongest abilities born in the Spiritual Energy World. Even without special cultivation, it will reach the pinnacle of the world with the nurturing of time.]
Ordinary Group Leader: "What the heck?!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "One of the strongest abilities? Even without special cultivation, it will continuously grow stronger with time until it reaches the pinnacle of the world?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "You can't cheat like this, can you?!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Are you gambling with your life?!"
What is the concept of the pinnacle of the Spiritual Energy World?
Bai Xuan's world has just entered the spiritual energy revival, so let's not mention that for now. Even her world is only in the middle stage of spiritual energy revival, and the current top powerhouses are still far from their peak strength!
But even now, they can easily destroy planets and survive in the universe.
They haven't touched the planets in the solar system, but they have fought against powerhouses from other planets outside the solar system. During one such battle, they even destroyed a planet larger than Earth!
Although the world rules changed due to spiritual energy, leading to slow or even regressive technological progress, they don't have relevant videos to confirm the authenticity.
However, this is official information, a symbol of human powerhouses entering a new stage of strength.
If they can destroy planets in the middle stage, what will happen in the later stages?
Never mind the universe, exploding the solar system should at least be possible, right?
And such a talent was drawn by Esdeath in one go?
How enviable and jealous that luck is!!!
But she hasn't heard of this "Extreme Ice · Phoenix" ability in her world. So, is it from Bai Xuan's world?
"Chen Bing's ability, huh? Her luck is quite good."
Bai Xuan also raised an eyebrow when he saw the talent Esdeath had drawn.
Excluding him, whether it was Qin Tian, Chen Bing, or Huo Yu, their talents were among the strongest in the entire world.
In the future recorded in the Annals of Time, these three were also the supreme powerhouses of the spiritual energy era, besides Bai Xuan.
Not just humans, the future is an era of competition among ten thousand races, where countless races and different civilizations will appear.
Through long periods of exchange, battles, and integration, one race, based on the talents and strengths of all powerhouses, created a list. The list had only ten spots, and only the strongest of all races were qualified to be on it.
Chen Bing's name was prominently among them.
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