Chapter 429

"Young lady Erina, look over there, it's the roommate who has been living in Polar Star Dormitory with Yukihira Soma."

Hearing the reminder from Secretary-ko beside her, Erina also turned her gaze to the position where the Polar Star Dormitory crowd was sitting.

Whether it is Sakaki Ryoko or Yoshino Yuki, they are all students of the 92nd term of Totsuki Academy, and they are also promoted from the junior high division to the high school division, so Erina naturally knows them.

And until her gaze swept over the Polar Star Dormitory crowd and finally stopped on a black-haired boy, Erina frowned even more: "So that's it, it's that guy who played tricks!

It must be him who helped Yukihira Soma get the rare ingredients. After all, they were friends in the first place. Damn! Really meddlesome."

For Aunt Wenren Shengzai, who appeared in the Polar Star Dormitory crowd, Erina and Secretary-ko were obviously equally impressed.

Even that day, Erina felt strong and pressured by her peers for the first time.

After returning from Aunt Wenren Restaurant that day, Erina also tried to treat Shengzai as a hypothetical enemy during the period, and constantly made egg dishes and sashimi dishes to compare with the "Three Not-Sticking" and "Fierce Ice Fresh Sea Bream Mountain" that Shengzai showed before.

But what made her extremely unwilling was that no matter how many times she tried, under the appraisal of her "God's Tongue", the dishes she made were far inferior to the level Shengzai showed at that time.

It is also because of this reason that although Shengzai was not in Totsuki, Erina kept people secretly paying attention to Shengzai and collected information about him, and handed it to herself after Secretary-ko managed it.

Erina is interested in Shengzai? No, no, no, the reason why Erina does this is just to know every move of Shengzai and observe how Shengzai practiced such skills in a public restaurant.

She, Erina, is not only gifted, born with the unique talent of "God's Tongue", but also grew up in the Nakiri family, receiving various training, and even when she was very young, she could taste salt from various regions.

Knowing yourself and the enemy, you will be invincible in a hundred battles. The reason why Erina pays attention to Shengzai is precisely because she regards Shengzai as a strong enemy, so she wants to observe how he exercises himself in his daily life.

It's just that what Erina didn't expect was that one day she and Secretary-ko were invited to taste dishes in a restaurant, and then specially took a detour, wanting to see if Shengzai's cooking skills had improved in the past few days, only to find that the Aunt Wenren Restaurant, which had been queuing for a long time a few days ago, was actually temporarily closed!

And after some inquiries, Erina learned that Shengzai and that big-breasted clerk went out to purchase ingredients.

As for what ingredients to purchase, Erina could guess it with her chest.

After all, her grandfather just told the other party about rare ingredients a few days ago, and as a result, Shengzai's restaurant has been temporarily closed these few days.

Erina hasn't been to the camp and trading company that purchases rare ingredients, but she has also heard her grandfather say how dangerous it is there.

Upon learning that Shengzai only took Fengqi to the camp, Erina even specially reported this matter to her grandfather.

Of course, she, Erina, certainly didn't worry about Shengzai's safety, so she let her grandfather use Totsuki's power to take care of Shengzai in the camp's trading company.

It was mainly because she, Erina, felt that it was not easy for a peer to appear who could be called a "rival". If he died in the mountain area like this, it would be too regrettable.

In the following days, Erina also kept paying attention to Shengzai's situation, but it was a pity that Shengzai, who had been in the camp for more than a week, still didn't return to Tokyo.

Not only did he not return, but Erina even heard that Shengzai actually took that big-breasted sister to the mysterious Gourmet Realm!

What kind of place is the Gourmet Realm? That is a mysterious world more dangerous than the camp!

You damn chef, you don't cook well, and you ran to be a Gourmet Hunter!

It's fine to go to the Gourmet Realm to explore, but at least hire a few experienced Gourmet Hunters to lead the way. As a result, you just took a big-breasted sister!

Regarding Shengzai's death-seeking behavior, Erina, who heard the situation at the time, was also speechless.

She could understand that chefs pursue extreme ingredients, but she really couldn't understand such death-seeking behavior.

After Shengzai completely lost news after entering the Gourmet Realm, Erina even regretted that a cooking genius she could slightly look up to had flashed in the pan like this.

Later, the movement Shengzai made in the camp, because of the lag in information, Erina doesn't know yet.

So she, who didn't know that Shengzai had returned to Tokyo and even came to Totsuki, was so surprised to see Shengzai sitting among the Polar Star Dormitory crowd at this moment.

It is impossible for Yukihira Soma to get rare ingredients, and since Shengzai appeared in Totsuki, it can only mean that "Frozen Bison" was brought back by Shengzai from the camp.

Under Erina's gnashing teeth expression, Meat Charm and Yukihira Soma on the stage also completed their rice bowl dishes, and the whole Shokugeki also came to the most exciting judge scoring session.

Iron Horse Running Cow, as a rare ingredient, although the meat quality and rarity are slightly inferior to Frozen Bison, Erina still thinks that Meat Charm still has the possibility of winning.

After all, an expert in cooking meat ingredients, the gap in ingredients can be completely made up by skills.

However, soon, when the three judges tasted Meat Charm and Yukihira Soma's rice bowl dishes respectively, after some discussion, they finally announced Yukihira Soma's victory.

Meat Charm, who could not accept this result, soon raised an objection, and Yukihira Soma, who had been prepared, also served a spare rice bowl for Meat Charm to taste.

"Onion, red wine... and the unique texture of Frozen Bison as a rare ingredient itself is impeccable. As far as meat cooking is concerned, this is indeed quite delicious.

But even so, I don't think the meat I made will taste worse than yours!"

After tasting the meat on Yukihira Soma's rice bowl, Meat Charm, although acknowledging Yukihira Soma's strength, felt that the meat she cooked should taste no worse than the other party.

Theoretically speaking, their cooking is not much different, and she, who used lower-level ingredients, should be the winner, right? But why did the judges keep voting for Yukihira Soma?

Hearing Meat Charm's words, Erina also brought Secretary-ko to the stage, and picked up the meat steak in Yukihira Soma's bowl with chopsticks, then tasted the meat on Meat Charm's rice bowl, and found that the situation was indeed as Meat Charm said.

But when Erina saw the rice grains sticking to the chopsticks, she soon realized the reason why Meat Charm lost.

"It's because of the rice..."

"Because of the rice?"

Seeing Meat Charm's puzzled look, Yukihira Soma on the side also looked at Erina with admiration: "That's right, the reason why you lost this time is because you made the same mistake as I did before."

(End of chapter)