Chapter twenty-seven, invisible pretense is the most deadly
After a ten-minute break, Rei Kawashima returned to the stage to host.
"Everyone, you are all looking forward to it!! Today's second Shokugeki match!! The craziest transfer student in history! Shi Ke!! The battle~~ The eighth seat of the ten heroes! Jiu! Me! Take!! Ji!!!
First of all, please come on, Kuuga Teruki-senpai!!"
The light shines on an entrance to the venue.
"Hey hey hey hey..." A group of bald men wearing indigo tunic suits lined up and trotted in while shouting slogans.
Why do you always shout "hey hey hey" while running?
After the group of bald heads entered the arena, they collectively put their hands behind their backs and stood in a circle around the ring, facing the surrounding auditorium.
"Please, General!!" the bald heads shouted collectively.
In the passage, several people slowly walked out. Teruki Kuaga walked at the front and waved to the audience in the venue. She was dressed in a white modified Tang suit? Or a mixed style of chef's suit, Tang suit, tuxedo and mandarin jacket? Anyway, it was very coquettish.
That's it. Behind him were four bald heads carrying various ingredients.
"Hello everyone!!" Teruki Kuga said waving his hand.
"Next, we invite Mr. Shi Ke to appear!" The lights hit the entrance in the other direction, and the whole audience was speechless.
In the middle of the entrance, Shi Ke was sitting on his food box and dozing off with a steel stick in his arms. The snot bubbles were blowing loudly.
"Pop!" The snot bubble burst.
"Ah! Yawn!!" Shi Ke yawned and woke up, "Ah? It's started? The pause was too long, I took a nap first. Hahaha..."
"This guy!!!" A big tic-tac-toe appeared on Kuga Teruki's forehead, and his gangster face suddenly became much more exaggerated than that of Daigo Aoki and Shoji Sato.
"Hey..." Shi Ke leisurely did a few twisting movements, patted his face, and went on stage carrying the food box and the steel rod.
"Classmate Shike?" Rei Kawashima spoke as soon as Shike put down the food box.
"What's up?"
"Don't you want to bring this weapon with you on stage?" Kawashima Rei pointed to the steel rod that Shi Ke carried on his shoulder.
"This? Kitchen utensils." Shi Ke unwrapped the cloth bag and tapped it twice with his fingers.
"..., kitchen utensil?! What kind of kitchen utensil is this? What kind of food do you need to use this stick?" The whole place was in an uproar.
"Huh? Haven't you seen a rolling pin?" Shi Ke tilted his head.
"Rolling pin?!!" Rei Kawashima looked up and the corners of his mouth twitched.
This is the first time in my life that I have heard that a rolling pin looks like this! You think I have never seen a rolling pin, right?
"Hmm. Rolling pin." Shi Ke leaned the steel rod against the cooking table and began to look through his food box.
"Plop!" Shi Ke took out a tree stump from the box.
"Classmate Shike, what kind of food do you have? Why does it look like... a tree stump?" Kawashima Rei looked at it for a long time and said very uncertainly.
Shi Ke took off the knives he was carrying one by one, and inserted them all into the surface of the tree stump.
"This thing is just a chopping board, used for cutting vegetables. The chopping boards you sell here are a little... not durable." Shi Ke curled his lips.
In the stands, (_)(_)(_)......
Cooking cutting board..., what the hell do you usually cut?
Everyone in the Pole Star Dormitory in the stands looked at Jun Imusaki.
There was a drop of sweat on Imusaki Jun's forehead and he nodded, "He asked me to find a big wooden pile from a willow tree, and he also asked me to bake and dry it for him."
"Are you working as a chopping board part-time? How about making a few for us?" Yuji raised her eyebrows, and Ryoko nodded.
"..., you pay for the materials yourself. It's hard to get wood that meets the requirements."
"Forget it. We don't need a chopping board." Yuji tilted her mouth and looked at the ring again.
"You have a lot of knives." Teruki Kuga noticed the knife inserted by Shi Ke on the chopping board.
"Yes. There are quite a few." Shi Ke nodded.
"But, having many knives does not necessarily mean a chef is strong. Especially for Chinese cuisine chefs. Have you heard of the saying? Chinese cuisine chefs only have one kitchen knife."
"You are one of the top ten. It's normal to be very capable. As for me, I just started learning Chinese cooking. I don't have a knife, so I can't cook." Shi Ke took out a pack of napkins from the food box.
"..., haha. I guess you are self-aware."
"Oops, I didn't catch it." A napkin that Shi Ke pulled out floated away.
"Huh..." The napkin floated towards the blade of the large knife inserted on the chopping board, passing without any hindrance, as if the knife was not there at all.
"Uh?" Kuga Teruki was stunned for a moment.
The napkin split into two pieces in mid-air and fell to the ground.
Kuga Teruki's jaw dropped to the floor.
The whole place was silent.
"My ability is too poor, so I have to use slightly better knives to make up for it. Do you have any objections? Master Shijie, I am my senior," Shi Ke said with a smile.
"No... no objection. Good knives must be mastered with good skills, you... well, you might waste them..." Someone swallowed, trying to save face.
"That's good. That's good. It's good if the family has money." Shi Ke looked relieved and looked like he deserved to be beaten.
"You don't need to mention it if you have money, right?"
"This school is full of rich people. It doesn't matter if you mention it. Besides, I am so tall just because I have money and good food."
"..." Teruki Kuga pointed at Shi Ke while trembling, nodded, said nothing, and went back to sort out his materials.
This is so heartbreaking, old man! You will die if you don’t mention your height!!
After a while, "Wow!!!" the audience in the venue screamed.
"Look! The tofu Kuuga-senpai brought out! It's as flat as marble!! The smooth surface can even reflect light! What a noble tofu it is!" Rei Kawashima exclaimed.
"This piece of tofu is top-quality tofu just purchased from mainland China this afternoon and flown in! It is made by a top-level tofu maker with thirty years of tofu-making experience. I think, for now, it is impossible to make it in Japan.
Let’s find top-quality tofu ingredients that can compete with it.” Teruki Kuga pointed at the tofu on the tray and looked at Shi Ke provocatively.
"..." Shi Ke glanced at it with a dead fish eye, turned around and took out a palm-sized piece of tofu from the food box and put it into the tray. It was an ordinary, featureless old tofu.
"Are you going to use this old tofu to compete with me? Stop joking, okay? Are you going to admit defeat directly?"
Shi Ke took out the second piece of tofu. It was exactly the same size and shape, slightly better and prettier than the previous piece.
"It's no use."
The third piece is better again, this time it doesn’t look rough.
"Um? How much tofu did you bring?" Teruki Kuga felt like he was watching a hat trick. Are you taking out all the money?
"Quality is not good, so we have to rely on quantity." Shi Ke took out another piece, and the quality of tofu was upgraded again.
"Silly idea."
The fifth block, the sixth block, the seventh block, the eighth block.
When the eighth piece of tofu was taken out, Kuaga Teruki felt a little nervous. The quality of this piece of tofu was actually as good as his own.
This is not a problem, the problem is that Shi Ke is still digging into the food box.
"The last big piece." Shi Ke carefully brought out the jade-like tofu on the tray.
"How is it possible?! I had to rely on a lot of connections to get tofu of this quality!! His tofu is actually better than mine!" Jiugao said crazy, "Who are you? You don't want this kind of tofu!"
Where did you get it?”
"I made it all night last night. It is produced in Jiexing Dormitory. The total cost is a little more than 1,000 yen. In the future, I might sell it for pocket money." Shi Ke took out a calculator, pressed it for a while, and gestured with the scissors.
Hand said with a silly smile.
"Holy shit!!!" Teruki Kuaga was knocked to the ground by thunder.
"You bought your tofu from Zhejiang Jiuding Group," Shi Ke said again.
"Hmm. You...how do you know?"
"Three years ago, I taught their tofu makers. My production skills had not been upgraded at that time. However, I didn't expect that after so many years, they still made no progress. I am very good at making tofu."
The whole audience was speechless. Now Teruki Kuga felt like a crow was flying above his head, making it scream miserably.