"Sigh, you mother-con brat, you're such a headache." Acacia sighed and moved to meet Midora.
Jiro didn't watch the fight between Acacia and Midora. He released his own pressure points, his aged body regaining its youth, emanating an incredibly violent aura.
"In the past, I used Red Nitro as appetizers. You higher-class Blue Nitro, I've never tasted before."
Jiro licked his lips, his crimson gaze causing even the Blue Nitro to feel a flicker of unease.
But they quickly grew furious. This 'ingredient' was treating them like 'ingredients'!
At the same time, the Four Heavenly Kings fought GOD, Midora fought Acacia, Jiro fought the Blue Nitro...
Every battlefield radiated energy fluctuations potent enough to destroy Earth.
"Minority World - Planet Guardian!" Ichiryu did not join the fray, instead protecting Earth throughout to prevent it from being caught in the crossfire.
Setsuna stood idly by, his mind wandering slightly, 'Should I completely annihilate Acacia later?'
He recalled that this scumbag was even whitewashed in the original work.
Acacia killed his wife, his disciples, and even sacrificed all of humanity, just so his Appetite Demon, NEO, could experience the happiness of being full, thereby reforming it.
Compared to Acacia, Itachi and Obito almost seemed humane.
The battle progressed faster than anticipated.
After two years of training in the Spirit World, the Four Heavenly Kings' strength was no longer what it used to be.
In the heat of battle, they continuously stimulated GOD's potential, causing it to emit an irresistibly enticing aroma.
On the other side, Jiro overwhelmed the Blue Nitro with absolute power, defeating them all.
The fight between Midora and Acacia was also nearing its end.
Although Acacia was immensely powerful, facing a Midora who was completely enraged and even burning his life force, he gradually fell behind and was ultimately sent flying by Midora's [Hungry Tongue].
Acacia struggled to get up, only to find himself severely injured, his power rapidly draining.
He looked up and saw GOD suppressed by the Four Heavenly Kings, the Blue Nitro all defeated by Jiro. His plan, meticulously crafted over centuries, had failed at the very last moment.
"Impossible. To fall here... If I could eat GOD, if I could complete my final evolution..."
"I would surely become the true 'God' who controls all gourmet matters! Curse you all, you meddling bastards!"
Acacia's voice was filled with unwillingness.
Setsuna slowly walked before him, looking down at the former Gourmet God.
"Oh? You think eating GOD will make you a 'God'? Fine, I'll give you that chance."
With a powerful kick, like kicking a soccer ball, Setsuna launched Acacia towards GOD.
"What?" Acacia was stunned mid-air, completely unprepared for Setsuna to do this.
He instinctively glanced at the others. Surprisingly, no one stopped him.
Overjoyed, Acacia stopped pondering the oddity, his eyes fixed solely on his greed for GOD.
"GOD is mine!"
He roared, like a famished beast, pouncing on GOD. His mouth stretched to an unbelievable, physiologically impossible size as he frantically bit and devoured.
With every swallow, his body swelled, countless monsters seeming to writhe beneath his skin.
As the last morsel of flesh and essence was consumed, Acacia let out a pleasurable roar.
A dark shadow, radiating endless devouring desire, broke free from the Gourmet Space's confines and truly resurrected in the real world. It was Acacia's Appetite Demon, NEO.
The next moment, Acacia actually swallowed the resurrected NEO.
NEO did not resist, as if it had been anticipating this moment.
Acacia and NEO merged into a single, giant ape-like monster.
"Haha!" The monstrous Acacia let out a deafening laugh, the sound waves rippling space itself. "Power, power is surging forth endlessly!"
Feeling the terrifying power within him, capable of tearing apart stars and devouring the universe, his self-confidence swelled to its peak.
"The perfect fusion of Gourmet Cells and Appetite Demon! The ultimate catalysis of GOD's energy! I... am already a true God!"
He looked down, immediately locking onto Setsuna.
"To show my gratitude, I'll eat all of you, make you part of me. Let's start with you, you clever fool!"
His fist, wrapped in energy capable of destroying stars, tore through space, crushing everything in its path as it hurtled towards Setsuna.
"Die! Hahaha..."
Acacia's laughter quickly froze. He stared at Setsuna, who was stopping him with a single finger, his eyes filled with shock.
"What?" Acacia looked as if he'd seen a ghost. His full-power attack had been blocked by a single finger.
"So this is a god? A god so weak, this is truly a first for me." Setsuna grabbed Acacia, lifted him up, bent him over his knee, and snapped him in two.
"Ah!" Acacia barely managed a scream before being 'kneaded' by Setsuna into a massive 'star'.
This was precisely the planetary energy of millions of planets that NEO had accumulated from its devouring.
Seeing the fully resurrected NEO defeated so easily, the subdued Blue Nitro went mad.
That was the incarnation of [Ultimate Appetite], which even they, the Gourmet Nobles, feared above all else!
"Alright, the main course substitution is complete." Setsuna clapped his hands as if finishing a dish, then tossed this 'dumpling' towards the center of the [Minority World] that Ichiryu was maintaining.
Although his current strength far surpassed Ichiryu and the others, his cooking skills were still vastly inferior. Specialized tasks should be left to specialized talents.
"Ichiryu-senpai, I'll leave the final 'cooking' to you."
Ichiryu, quite emotional, received the 'dumpling'. He manipulated the power of the Minority World, guiding the ultimate energy torrent that had surged from Earth's depths after the eclipse, the essence of hundreds of millions of years of 'cooking', like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, pouring it all into that 'star dumpling'.
The 'dumpling' began to tremble violently, emitting a brilliant light, as if undergoing its final 'cooking' and 'sublimation'.
Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the sky, which had cleared after the eclipse ended, darkened again without warning.
An indescribable 'giant hand', reaching from deep space and blotting out the entire firmament, grabbed towards Earth.
That giant hand seemed composed of countless stars and nebulae. Its fingertips lightly grazing Earth's atmosphere triggered violent spatial tremors and gravitational disturbances across the entire planet.
The 'giant hand's' target appeared to be that 'star dumpling', but too lazy to distinguish, it prepared to grab Earth along with it.