Chapter 3546: Faceless
When they saw Joichiro Yukihira on the stage, most of the audience didn't recognize him. The status of the world-famous chef is quite high and he often appears in TV newspapers. Therefore, Yukihira Joichiro has aroused doubts among some viewers because he is too unknown.
However, the vast majority of the audience did not say anything. After all, the status of being the second seat of Totsuki Academy was enough to explain a lot of things.
"Hello, Miss Fubuki." Joichiro Yukihira greeted Fubuki, and the atmosphere was quite friendly.
Fubuki nodded slightly. She had to say that she was quite enjoying the Shokugeki these past few days. It can only be said that he is quite adaptable to this food-oriented world.
Fubuki wanted to be a hero before her, so naturally she also liked to enjoy the praise of others. But now, it's also flattering, but it's just replaced by cooking. The world's pursuit of chefs exceeded her imagination. These days, she basically enjoyed the treatment of a top star. This feeling made Fubuki quite enjoy it.
Even the idea that being a chef would be good comes to her mind from time to time, but she also knows that this is a world limit, so she can just enjoy it for a few more days.
"Today's Shoji rules are a bit special." The host here continued, "Both parties have not realized the proposed Shoji theme. Today's Shoji theme will be temporarily decided by the judges on site."
The rules of the Shokugeki are somewhat different these days. Some were proposed by the other party before, and some were proposed by Fubuki himself. It was decided in advance before, but today it was directly changed to a temporary plan.
The reason for this temporary decision was probably because Linton, the contestant Yukihira Joichiro, just came back at midnight yesterday. Yes, Yukihira Joichiro was traveling abroad to learn cooking skills before, but he was called back temporarily. Even if you gave advance notice, he wouldn't be able to make any preparations.
Of course, Linton and the others were notified of the temporary theme selection in advance, so Linton naturally accepted it casually. Anyway, he was not the one participating in the Shoji, and he was not the one who had the headache.
Again, if you are awesome, brag about it. If you lose, the world will be destroyed.
"Mr. Linton, have you thought of any theme?" Nakiri Senzaemon next to him looked at Linton first and asked. Linton is also one of the judges, so Linton's opinion is naturally asked for the theme.
"Whatever." Linton said the most difficult topic in the world, two words that can be called a nightmare.
"Well... then let me think about it." Nakiri Senzaemon thought for a while, and then said, "Okay, I want to eat noodles today."
"Noodles?" The whole audience was stunned. They didn't expect Nakiri Senzaemon to choose such a topic.
"In the past few days, we have been eating all kinds of meat. Today, let's make it simpler and make pasta." Nakiri Senzaemon simply explained, then looked at the other three judges, "What do you think?" < br>
"I think it's pretty good." "Yeah, me too."
The other judges obviously didn't have any opinions, and they didn't dare to refute Nakiri Senzaemon's face. After all, Nakiri Senzaemon's status in the food world is quite high.
"Oh? Speaking of meetings, I have an idea here." Linton suddenly said, "Since you, old man, have proposed a theme, how about I also propose one and let the two of them complete it at the same time? Do you think it would be a dish that fits the theme proposed by the two of us? "Oh? That's a good idea." Nakiri Senzaemon also nodded directly, and it felt more fair that both sides proposed a theme. "Then, little friend, please come up with a theme."
"Since your theme is face-to-face, then the theme I proposed is...not face-to-face." Linton said with a smile.
"Huh?" Linton's words stunned all the audience who were listening to the conversation between the two. What does that mean? Play devil's advocate? That's not right. What Linton said just now is that the cuisine should conform to the themes proposed by both parties at the same time. But the question is, are these themes contradictory to each other?
What is face and not face? Is there such a thing? For a moment, everyone couldn't imagine what kind of food this was.
"Non-face? Hahahaha, okay, it is indeed very interesting." Nakiri Senzaemon was also stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst into laughter. He looked at the three judges next to him and asked, "What do you think of this theme?"
"Agreed." "It's indeed interesting." The three of them nodded directly.
"What about you, do you agree with this theme?" Nakiri Senzaemon continued to look at Fubuki and Yukihira Joichiro in the middle of the field and asked.
"I have no problem." Yukihira Joichiro agreed directly without much thought, although he didn't have a very formed idea in his mind right now.
"Me too." Fubuki was a little speechless, because she was the only one who knew that Linton was obviously ordering food, okay?
"Then the theme of this Shoji is... noodles, not noodles." The host here also continued, "I now announce that Shoji is the beginning!"
One thing that Shoji did not mention this time was the bet between the two parties, but in fact there was a bet.
Totsuki Academy's request has always been for Fubuki to join the Totsuki Group directly, and their bet is on some economic and profit-related matters. Of course, these things were negotiated between Asuna and the Totsuki Group. Linton didn't really care about the details. After all, he was just here for lunch, and it didn't matter what the other party was betting on.
For the college, although there are many things like these assets on the line, it is not very important compared to the current reputation of the college that is beginning to collapse. They are already under a lot of pressure, but if they can win over Fubuki, she will join the academy. In this way, the reputation she lost before will naturally be earned back. This is why they take it so seriously.
As the competition officially begins, the first step for the two is to choose ingredients.
In fact, most of the meals originally shared between students require students to prepare the ingredients themselves, and the college does not provide them. But this time for Fubuki, the academy promised to provide any ingredients.
After all, Yukihira Joichiro himself only came back at midnight last night. He had no time to prepare the ingredients himself, so he just asked the academy to provide both sides directly.
The two of them went directly to the ingredients area next to it. Many common ingredients have been prepared here. Of course, if there are special needs, just tell the on-site staff and they will find a way to prepare them immediately.
"The contestants on both sides have begun to choose ingredients. Let's see what ingredients they will choose to complete this meal." The host also broadcast at any time, "Unexpectedly, neither of them had the first time. I went to get flour and other ingredients, but they all went to the fish and seafood area.”