Chapter 989

"Komekko, did you forget about the cooking?"

Returning to Polar Star Dormitory, Isshiki Satoshi told the dormmates on the same floor about Tadokoro Megumi forgetting to prepare cooking ingredients, and everyone's faces showed the same kind of stunned expression Isshiki Satoshi had at the front door.

"She originally intended to go to the Logistics Department to purchase them, but at this time point, the academy's Logistics Department would also be closing, so I said forget it."

Isshiki Satoshi said.

"I am very sorry."

Tadokoro Megumi bowed and apologized; in a situation where everyone was sharing cooking, she had not shared, and she felt she was the one taking advantage.

"Well, this isn't a big deal; your cooking hasn't never been made for us to eat before."

Sakaki Ryouko didn't mind this kind of thing.

"Speaking of which, Komekko, you're good at local cuisine, right? I happen to raise chickens, ducks, geese, and other poultry; you see what you can use for cooking and just take them."

Yoshino Yuuki said.

"Yuuki, me directly using your raised poultry, is that not too good?"

"What's the big deal? I raised them for cooking anyway; as long as you pay me the feed money afterwards, it's fine."

"What about the artificial cost of breeding and raising?"

"Naturally free; we're all good friends, could it be you also want to stand on ceremony with me about this?"

"Ah, then thank you; please give me a hen around 150 days old."

"No 150-day ones; is 160-plus days okay?"

"Fine, as long as it doesn't exceed two hundred days."

"By the way, what cooking are you going to make?"

Yoshino Yuuki quickly brought out a hen weighing about 4 jin from her own dorm room, and when handing it to Tadokoro Megumi, she asked along the way, clearly curious what cooking the girl planned to make with the chicken.

"I plan to make Akita's local cuisine, Qie Pu Ying Hot Pot."

After receiving the chicken, Tadokoro Megumi didn't keep it a secret either, directly stating the cooking she wanted to make.

"Qie Pu Ying Hot Pot? I recall that cooking should use Akita's specialty product, Hinai-jidori chicken, right? And the chicken flock Yoshino cultivates is a hybrid breed of French Bresse chicken; is that okay?"

Marui Zenji pushed up the glasses on his nose bridge and raised this question.

"Should be no problem; although they are different breeds of chicken, the meat quality of these two chickens is very similar; at most, changing the chicken breed will lead to a difference in the flavor of the resulting cooking, but these are Yoshino's free-range chickens, so the cooking's taste definitely won't be bad."

Tadokoro Megumi said very affirmatively, seemingly very confident in Yoshino Yuuki's hybrid chickens.

"That's right; although my cultivated hybrid chickens still can't achieve perfect quality control, I am confident in guaranteeing that the taste of every chicken from my hand will not lose to authentic Hinai-jidori chicken."

Yoshino Yuuki puffed out her chest; although not bountiful, she won in youthful perkiness.

"Right, Marui, what cooking did you prepare?"

Yoshino Yuuki turned her head and curiously asked the Taste Doctor.

"What I prepared tonight is Honzen Cuisine, however, only the basic version of one soup and three dishes."

"Wait, one of you Honzen Cuisine, one local cuisine; is this preparing for a Noble and Commoner cooking showdown on tonight's dining table?"

"What do you mean?"

Broly asked the Yukihira Soma beside him with some doubt, not understanding how this turned into a showdown again.

"Honzen Cuisine originated in the Muromachi period; it is the banquet for samurai and court nobles holding major rituals; the utensils,

ingredients, required manpower, and rules to abide by were all unaffordable for commoners at the time; therefore, this classical cuisine is usually also called Noble Cuisine or Samurai Cuisine.

And local cuisine, especially the Qie Pu Ying Hot Pot Tadokoro Megumi is making tonight, its origin is said to be hunters and farming families in the Akita mountains, making cooking from local materials; there are no complicated etiquettes, nor need for special ingredients, yet it is the folk cooking of survival and daily life.

Pitted against the former, isn't it exactly a Noble versus Commoner cooking showdown——

Yukihira Soma explained the origins of the two cuisines like counting family treasures.

"I see; then which one tastes better?"

Broly understood, nodded, and asked a more realistic question.

"I don't know that; after all, I haven't eaten cooking they two made before either; I can only affirm that tonight's dinner is worth expecting."

Pausing, Yukihira Soma looked at the burly youth and asked: "Broly-san, what cooking did you prepare tonight, fried rice, seafood stewed mutton, or pork bone ramen?"

Hesitating, Soma Yukihira looked at the burly youth and asked, "Broly-san, what cooking did you prepare tonight, Fried Rice, Seafood Stewed Mutton, or Pork Bone Ramen?"

"Eh? Then what did you prepare?"

"Pufferfish Sashimi Cuisine."

"Huh?!"

Broly's answer drew everyone's gazes over.

"Pufferfish sashimi, that indeed suits you quite well; after all, your knife skills are that good."

Yukihira Soma nodded, acknowledging his cooking for tonight.

"May I ask a question?"

"What question?"

"Broly-san, do you know how to process pufferfish?"

Marui Zenji inquired.

"Yes."

Broly nodded, but his following words made most people present tense up again.

"Just learned the pufferfish processing method today."

"Eh?! You only learned the processing method today, and you dare to directly make pufferfish cuisine?"

", you only learned the handling method today, and you dare to directly make Fugu Cuisine?"

"Uh, then I want to ask, the pufferfish you're going to process should be the artificially farmed kind with almost no toxins, right?"

"Uh, I wanted to ask, the pufferfish you're handling — it should be the artificially farmed kind with almost no toxins, right?"

"No, the poisonous one is the tiger pufferfish."

Broly answered honestly.

Hearing this, the Polar Star Dormitory group fell into a strange, deathly silent atmosphere.

"As expected of Broly-san, he just learned how to prepare pufferfish and dares to directly cook poisonous wild pufferfish cuisine!"

Soma Yukihira, on the other hand, gave him a big thumbs up, looking full of admiration.

"Hey, wait, shouldn't you be worried right now about whether Broly's pufferfish cuisine will send us to meet our great-grandmothers?"

"What's there to worry about? Since he dares to make this kind of cuisine, it's definitely fine. Broly-san, you agree with me, right?"

【Broly-san definitely wouldn't have made pufferfish cuisine before; since he's saying he'll make it now, it proves someone taught him this dish today————】

As for who taught him, Soma Yukihira felt it wasn't hard to guess.

【One of the Totsuki Ten, Isshiki Satoshi — I already witnessed his strength as one of the Totsuki Ten this morning. Nakiri Erina, another of the Ten — the pufferfish sashimi cuisine you taught Broly-san, it really makes one look forward to it!】

Unlike the fear Nakiri Erina speculated, Soma Yukihira did not feel fear because Broly was making tiger pufferfish cuisine; on the contrary, because he guessed the person behind teaching Broly pufferfish cuisine was her, the Totsuki Tenth Seat, he instead felt anticipation.

The water tank containing the tiger pufferfish was brought down, and everyone looked at the few tiger pufferfish swimming rather dazedly in the tank, their gazes subconsciously taking on a guarded look.

This is an absolutely dangerous ingredient; improper handling is the kind that takes lives.

"Their cuisine should still need some time to prepare; how about my pufferfish sashimi cuisine goes first for everyone to eat?"

Broly looked at Tadokoro Megumi, who was preparing to kill live chicken, and Marui Zenji, who was preparing to simmer kelp and katsuobushi clear soup stock, and said to the others.

"Fine, then Broly, your cuisine first."

Isshiki Satoshi nodded, turned his head, and began comforting the somewhat worried Polar Star Dormitory residents.

"Rest assured, we'll watch him handle the tiger pufferfish the whole time in the kitchen; if there's a problem with the handling, just remind him in time."

Although not a single person present had ever personally cooked this special dangerous ingredient, pufferfish cuisine, not having cooked pufferfish cuisine and not understanding this dangerous ingredient are two different things.

Obviously, everyone present who could attend Totsuki Academy had a certain understanding of this dangerous ingredient, pufferfish, and clearly knew theoretically how to handle pufferfish so it can be eaten.

Yet not a single one of these people dared leave the Polar Star Dormitory kitchen, preparing to stare at Broly the whole time until he finished handling the tiger pufferfish.

As for this situation, Broly didn't mind much, just handed his phone to Soma Yukihira to have him film the scene, and pulled a pufferfish from the water tank.

Knife raised, knife fell; one stroke chopped off the pufferfish's mouth, followed by gutting and skinning. When he first learned this afternoon he was still somewhat careful, worried about puncturing the abdominal organs, but now on the second production, having understood the fish's abdominal situation, his movements handling the tiger pufferfish were much more haphazard.

In under 30 seconds, the first tiger pufferfish was divided by him into edible parts, separating the edible and inedible into two basins.

The second was even faster, and so on; by the ninth, chopping the fish mouth, digging out the eyes, gutting, skinning, and removing organs — doing all this took less than ten seconds.

Beside them, the Polar Star Dormitory residents who had surrounded and watched this swift dissection of tiger pufferfish the whole time had only one thought flash through their minds: practiced ease, masterly bearing!

"No, is this way of handling pufferfish really something he just learned today? Why do I feel like in terms of handling pufferfish, he's like a veteran pufferfish cuisine chef who's been immersed in it for many years————

"No, Broly's proficient knife work handling pufferfish is no longer at the level of a veteran pufferfish chef; if he were a bit older and looked like a white-bearded old man, he'd probably qualify for the title of Pufferfish Immortal out there~"

Regarding Isshiki Satoshi's Immortal evaluation of Broly's pufferfish handling technique, the Polar Star Dormitory residents surprisingly didn't find it inappropriate at all.

However, when Broly placed the three-preparation pufferfish cuisine before everyone, aside from Soma Yukihira, surprisingly no one dared to be the first to pick up their chopsticks and taste.

"How about we call an ambulance equipped with a stomach pump first?"

Sakaki Ryouko said hesitantly.

"Grandma who's already gone to Heaven, if I take this bite, will I be able to see you?"

Yoshino Yuuki picked up a slice of fish meat and started acting all spooky and delirious.

"To my dear parents, your daughter is unfilial, sorry for the grace of your upbringing————"

Tadokoro Megumi, holding paper and pen, began writing a will.

"Hey, do you guys have to be this exaggerated? You even wrote wills?"

Soma Yukihira, seeing everyone displaying their unique talents, was somewhat speechless.

"You all watched Broly-san's entire process of handling the tiger pufferfish, didn't you? And no one thought there was a problem. What is all this for?"

"Can't help it. Although we watched the process and think there's probably no problem, his speed handling the tiger pufferfish was too fast, still making one worry if he accidentally cut some poisonous internal organs, causing the fish meat to be contaminated————"

Aoki Daigo's words earned nods of agreement from the few people beside him.

"Uh, handling ingredients too fast is also a problem?"

Broly scratched his head; this still counted as slow for him. He only deliberately slowed down because he saw everyone wanted to watch his knife work.

"Handling normal ingredients fast is no problem, but with wild pufferfish, being able to confirm safety is more important than processing speed."

Isshiki Satoshi walked out of the kitchen, took off his rubber gloves, and said to the others: "Everyone can eat with peace of mind. I've already confirmed the organs of all nine tiger pufferfish; there were no cuts. The sashimi should be fine."

"I told you so; your operations of writing wills and recording final words were a bit too much."

Soma Yukihira said, picking up another slice of tiger pufferfish sashimi, dipping it in wasabi soy sauce, and putting it in his mouth.

"This pufferfish sashimi is truly fresh and sweet."

Seeing this, the others also started moving their chopsticks one after another.

"This is my first time eating pufferfish sashimi cuisine, and this fresh sweetness is somewhat different from the sweetness of sweet shrimp."

"Mm, that's right. If the sweetness of sweet shrimp is a light pop song, then the tiger pufferfish's sweetness is a classical chamber music piece.

The former has a bright melody, direct sweetness; the latter initially tastes light, but the more you chew, the more you can taste the layers and aftertaste. Especially this orange vinegar, it's blended really well~"

"I prefer the way of wrapping it with green onion sections and dipping in soy sauce, but if the green onion sections could be cut into fine threads, I feel the texture would be even better."

After everyone ate the tiger pufferfish cuisine, they gradually threw their worries to the back of their minds, immersing themselves in the taste bud melody constructed from top-tier ingredients.

It's just a pity that the nine tiger pufferfish weighed a bit over 18 jin, yet only yielded about 6 jin of edible parts; divided among the ten-odd Polar Star Dormitory people, the few plates of tiger pufferfish cuisine were quickly finished clean.

"Truly an extreme feast for the eyes and taste buds. Thank you for the treat."

Soma Yukihira pressed his palms together.

"If your other cuisines are all at this level, a seat in the future Totsuki Ten definitely belongs to you."

Isshiki Satoshi stated bluntly, and he wasn't wrong. Nakiri Erina, who taught Broly this pufferfish cuisine, is

indeed one of the current Totsuki Ten.

Apart from knife skills, the orange vinegar dipping sauce in the pufferfish sashimi cuisine is what most embodies seasoning ability.

Clearly, Nakiri Erina held nothing back in teaching this orange vinegar seasoning, and Broly did not get the proportions of this dipping sauce wrong when replicating it.

Outside Polar Star Dormitory, several ambulances had parked not far away at some unknown time.

"What are we doing staying here?"

The young medic sitting in the back asked his companion beside him with some boredom.

"Heard the students of that dormitory building are going to cook pufferfish cuisine tonight, so higher-ups dispatched us to stand by here just in case."

"No way, they're still high school age students, and they already dare to directly attempt such dangerous cuisine that could kill people?"

"Heh, this is a top-tier culinary academy."

"Even so, isn't it too dangerous?"

"Yeah, that's why we're standing by here with stomach pumps."

Beside them, the companion shrugged his shoulders.

"Pufferfish cuisine, ah, I remember when I traveled to Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture the year before last, I ate it there once, the taste was amazing."

"Hey, stop talking you two, I'm getting hungry just listening."

While the medical personnel in the ambulance outside were getting cravings from discussing pufferfish cuisine, Yoshino Yuuki, who had finished eating the tiger pufferfish cuisine at Polar Star Dormitory, took out her phone to look up the price out of curiosity because Fumio Daimido said a line to Broly about tonight being a splurge.

"No way, over 70,000 yen per catty, Broly-sensei, you directly treated everyone to nine of them?"

The blonde bun-haired girl who finished checking the price raised her voice and said.

"In other words, just those few plates of pufferfish cuisine a moment ago, the cost alone exceeded one million yen?"

Sakaki Ryouko was also somewhat surprised.

"One meal treating someone to one million, Broly-sensei, does your family own a mine?"

Yoshino Yuuki suddenly leaned in close and asked Broly.

"My family does indeed own a mine, but tonight's tiger pufferfish wasn't paid for with my family's mine money."

Broly corrected, that money was all obtained by him using himself as bait to fish.

"Master above, please accept disciple's bow~"

Not to mention Yoshino Yuuki's antic of hugging Broly's thigh, Marui Zenji looked at the empty plates on the table, pushed up the glasses on his nose bridge, and said with some emotion: "Whatever noble cuisine versus commoner cuisine showdown, now it's all been crushed by the mine boss's krypton gold cuisine."