Chapter 369

"Damn it, I clearly had a dream related to my past life, so why is it that what appeared in my dream wasn't a cute girl, but a bunch of grown men!

What the hell is a Kuriboh? I'm into Dark Magician Girl or Dragon Maids and the like!

No, according to the settings of the Food Wars! world, delicious cuisine can bring people happiness and joy, so is the reason I'm having a nightmare right now entirely because of the dark cuisine of the Soma Yukihira, the 'King of Dishes'?"

Just as Food Wars Wen Shengzai was lamenting the powerful effects of the King of Dishes' dark cuisine, the other Shengzais nearby heard his muttering and, too lazy to waste words, walked straight toward him.

"Wait a second, even though you all have the same handsome face as me, I still can't accept anything like self-cest..."

Hearing Food Wars Wen Shengzai's words, the faces of the other Shengzais present immediately turned dark.

They could admit that they were handsome, but treating them like gay men was truly going too far.

Everyone was a Wen Shengzai; although their experiences differed, their essence was the same. If you treat your brothers as gay, can your own XP even be normal?

Watching several Shengzais who looked exactly like him, yet were dressed in bizarre costumes as if playing cosplay, swarm him, Food Wars Wen Shengzai's first reaction was to resist. However, as Naruto Wen Shengzai pressed his hand onto his head, Food Wars Wen Shengzai immediately stopped struggling.

This wasn't because he had submitted, but because through physical contact, a massive amount of memories and power surged into his body like a tidal wave.

Just a few minutes later, as Food Wars Wen Shengzai climbed up from the ground again, the look in his eyes as he gazed at the other Shengzais became excited.

"So I was quite puzzled; as a member of the army of transmigrators, why was I so low-tier, without even a cheat or golden finger? Turns out, damn it, it was just that it hadn't been activated before.

Damn it, if this cheat had been activated earlier, why would I have had to struggle bitterly in my world for over ten years!"

Along with the sharing of power, Food Wars Wen Shengzai gained the memories and power of the Shengzais from other worlds, and the Shengzais from other worlds also shared the memories of Food Wars Wen Shengzai.

Generally speaking, Food Wars Wen Shengzai and Sword and Blade Wen Shengzai didn't have many overlapping experiences. After transmigrating to their respective worlds, one inherited the family's sword technique dojo, while the other inherited the family's Chinese restaurant.

If there was a difference, it wasn't non-existent: Sword and Blade Wen Shengzai, who inherited the sword technique dojo from his grandfather, had quite outstanding talent for sword techniques.

In his first year of middle school, he had already won the national youth championship in kendo.

Compared to that, the Wen Shengzai in the Food Wars! world had a much tougher time.

The Chinese restaurant at home was opened by Wen Shengzai's mother, and she also seemed to be a quite formidable chef.

Influenced by her since childhood, although Wen Shengzai learned quite a few dishes and culinary skills, his talent in cooking could only be considered above average.

As everyone knows, the path of a chef is very particular about foundations. Compared to the naturally gifted Soma Yukihira next door to their restaurant, Wen Shengzai spent a full ten years just on knife skills, wok tossing, and mastering heat control.

Originally, with an awesome mother to guide him, Wen Shengzai had always thought that even if his talent was mediocre, as the saying goes, "diligence can make up for clumsiness" and "the early bird catches the worm." As long as he reached the age of a thirty-year-old wizard, he would at least be able to make a living in this world.

However, what Wen Shengzai didn't expect was that, while he was intent on being a freeloader, he woke up a few months ago to find that his mother had left a letter and departed without saying goodbye.

The letter clearly stated that something had happened in their hometown—that is, over in China—in the Dark Culinary Realm, and as one of the leaders of the Dark Culinary Realm, she had to go back to handle some matters.

Because this return trip would be very dangerous, she had left Wen Shengzai in Japan.

Furthermore, besides the letter, Wen Shengzai's cheap mother also left him a cookbook and a set of knives, stating that Wen Shengzai had now mastered all the foundations to become a chef.

Although this was a sudden, accidental event, for Wen Shengzai, it was not necessarily a bad opportunity for his own growth.

The letter left for Wen Shengzai indicated that she had already prepaid three months of rent for the shop and left enough money in Wen Shengzai's card for one person's ingredient purchases.

Wen Shengzai's mother didn't explicitly state when she would return, but she left Wen Shengzai with a test: before she returned, if the restaurant was managed poorly or went bankrupt, she would definitely make Wen Shengzai pay!

When Wen Shengzai finished reading this letter from his cheap mother, he was instantly stunned.

Before, he had always thought that the world he transmigrated into was the Food Wars! world, a world where cuisine was mainstream.

In this culinary world, as a member of the army of transmigrators, although he wasn't naturally gifted and didn't have a cheat or golden finger, such a world had the advantage of a sufficiently high safety factor!

Moreover, the girls in this world all looked like they were straight out of an adult manga with full sex appeal, and every time they ate a dish, it was a scene that made people's imaginations run wild.

Many girls who came to his restaurant to eat before, after eating the dishes made by his mother, would often give Wen Shengzai "benefits" from time to time.

However, seeing the letter his mother left behind a few months ago, along with the set of knives and the cookbook, Wen Shengzai was completely dumbfounded.

Their family was actually the descendant of the Seven-Star Knife—Lei En of the Dark Culinary Realm from over a hundred years ago.

Or to be more precise, their Aunt Wenren family's ancestors were disciples of the Seven-Star Knife Lei En from over a hundred years ago, and by the time it reached Wen Shengzai's father, they were already third-generation disciples.

And Wen Shengzai's mother was not an ordinary person either; her ancestors were also descendants of the expert of the Dark Culinary Realm from over a hundred years ago, the "One-Zhang Green"—Xiang En.

Because the God of Cooking Liu Angxing led a group of chefs to defeat the Dark Culinary Realm back then, for over a hundred years, these descendants of the Dark Culinary Realm had been struggling to survive in the cracks.

Wen Shengzai's cheap father died because of a food war with others, and to avoid being hunted by enemies, Wen Shengzai's mother took the young Wen Shengzai far away to take refuge here.

When he was a child, his mother had already made Wen Shengzai focus on honing his knife skills, precisely because whether it was the Seven-Star Knife inherited from his father or the "One-Zhang Green" inherited from his mother's side, both required extreme knife skills.

Besides the cookbook, the set of knives left by Wen Shengzai's mother was the Seven-Star Knife forged by a famous master over a hundred years ago.

And besides the cookbook and the knives, there were also a few ancient books with covers that looked very old.

And these few ancient books were the inheritance of the Seven-Star Knife—Lei En's ultimate techniques, the "Seven-Star Instant Severing Knife Dance" and the "Arhat Crystal Slash," as well as the secret knife technique of the Dark Culinary Realm, the "Fierce Bull Green Dragon Slash"!

(End of chapter)