Episode 137

Charmy's Century of Hunger, Gordon's Millennium of Loneliness (チャーミー百年の食欲とゴードン千年の孤独) is the 137th Page of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover.

Summary
While the rest of the Black Bulls have been training to impossible their combat abilities, Charmy Pappitson has been working to improve her cooking and its ability to enhance her friends' mana. She creates a magnificent feast for her squad mates and it does indeed give them a massive boost in their magic power.

Magna Swing, Luck Voltia, and Noelle Silva, now overwhelmed with magic, actually lose control of themselves and start wrecking the base, despite Asta trying to stop them. Despite the impressive results, Charmy is not satisfied. She wants her food to do more, so she decides to go visit "him".

Charmy travels to the capital and meets with the great chef Jamo. She begs him to train her and, amazed by the glistening in her eyes, and in her drool, and on her forehead, he agrees. Jamo asks Charmy what her end goal is, and she explains that her magic allows her to make food that can restore and enhance the eaters mana, and she wants to make food that can put her friends magic in overdrive.

Jamo has Charmy undergo intense physical training, believing that she won’t be able to improve her culinary skills by training her magic alone.

Jamo sends Charmy on a quest to find three very rare ingredients; to the desert highlands to find the bulb of a Mentanpin Mandoradora Root, to the middle of the sea to find the No Ones Heard of This Sealacanth fish, and up to the snowy mountains to find the flesh from the rear end of a Surprise Yeti.

Charmy returns to the capital with all three ingredients in tow. She tells Jamo of her accomplishment and collapses into his arms out of exhaustion, but still manages to state her intention of using the special ingredients to make the ultimate meal for her squad mates.

That evening, Charmy presents her dishes, but they all look absolutely disgusting. As such, the Black Bulls all try to come up with excuses for why they can eat it. Though Asta acknowledges Charmy's effort and is willing to eat the dishes, despite how unappetizing they appear. Jamo begs the Black Bulls to eat, knowing what Charmy went through to make the dishes.

Before anyone can eat however, the three dishes come to life and join together to become a giant food monster. Finral Roulacase manages to get everyone outside the building before the meal monster can hurt anyone. Jamo refers to the monster as "Demon Food", a phenomenon that occurs when a massive amount of mana combined with the love of a devoted friend.

Yami Sukehiro arrives and tells his subordinates to destroy the monster, but the monster starts absorbing everyone’s mana. Yami tells Asta to handle the situation, since he doesn’t have any mana to absorb and because he has an Anti Magic Sword, but Asta is hesitant, knowing how hard Charmy must’ve worked on those dishes.

Yami decides to handle it himself, but Asta stops him. Asta charges toward the monster and starts eating it. The part that Asta bit into starts leaking mana back into the air and into the other mages. Charmy joins in the eating as well, not wanting Asta to be the only one who gets to enjoy the food.

The other Black Bulls, now rejuvenated, help eat the monster as well, but they all end up fat and tired afterwards. Asta tells Charmy that this food was different from what she normally prepares; normally he can taste the love that she puts into her cooking, but he didn’t taste it this time.

As Asta apologizes for sounding rude, Charmy and Jamo realize they forgot the most important thing about food preparation, making the eater happy with the meal.

Gordon Agrippa tries training with Asta, he goes all out, but is easily defeated, causing him to that he isn’t strong enough to fight alongside his squad mates. He remembers that before making friends with the Black Bulls, being alone helped him to be strong and stay sharp, so he decides to isolate himself. He leaves his creepy Black Bull voodoo dolls behind with a note that said "Please don’t try to find me".

He remembers that Mereoleona Vermillion conquered the Grand Magic Zone when she was younger and that helped her to become as strong as she is today. Gordon thought the Strong Magic Region might be a little much for him, so instead, he goes to the Forest of Poisonous Magical Beasts. At first, all is going well, until a couple of monkey-like creatures steal his backpack full of provisions. Three days later, Gordon realizes that he’s at his limit and decides it's time to return to the base. There is just one problem, he’s lost.

Gordon makes a campfire and carves new Black Bull dolls out of wood. He starts talking for them and fears that he is going insane. A large purple wolf appears from the shadows, Gordon tries to attack the beast, but his poison doesn’t even bother it. Gordon gathers up his dolls and runs away.

Gordon manages to find a lake full of clean water and refreshes himself while wondering about how his friends might be missing him at that moment and about the good times they shared.

Gorden hears a noise coming from the bushes. At first, he thinks his friends have come for him, but he is mistaken. Instead, the wolf from earlier had returned, and with another wolf many times larger that the first. Gordon quickly realizes that the bigger wolf is the mother. Back at the Black Bulls base, Yami holds up a piece of paper and tells his subordinates that they have to go before it's too late.

Gordon tries attacking the wolves, but his magic still has no effect and he fears the mother wolf is about to kill him. That’s when he realizes that being alone doesn’t make him strong, working with and protecting his friends are the sources of his strength. With this clarity came a second realization, that the wolves were actually tame and were just retaliating against his own attacks. He apologizes to them, acknowledging that they are as much citizens of the Clover Kingdom as he is and that attacking them was the worst thing he could do as a Magic Knight.

The wolves guide Gordon out of the forest and Gordon finally realizes why he couldn’t beat them with his magic; they are immune to poison. Leaving his wood carvings with the wolves, Gordon returns to the Black Bulls base only to find it empty. Gordon assumes that everyone had gone looking for him and flew out on a broomstick to search for them, intent on rescuing them if need be.

However, the Black Bulls are not out looking for Gordon. Instead, they are eating at a restaurant that is having a 90% off sale to push excess ingredients. As it turns out, the Black Bulls never saw Gordon's note, or even noticed that he was missing.