Food Wars: Starting with Equipping the Greedy Wolf Pot

"A food battle?"

"Senior Xiang Ji! Are you going to have a food battle with the other seniors from the high school?" Yoshino Yuuki exclaimed in surprise as she looked at Xiang Ji!

What's going on?

There are actually people who want to participate in a food war with Xiang Ji? Are they tired of living?

Nissé salad;

Beef in a clay pot;

The boarding students at Polaris Dormitory know all too well how terrifying Xiang Ji's cooking skills are! It's like a mountain with an unseen peak!

"Yes!"

"The food battle is in three days! Are you guys coming?" Xiang Ji told them the time and place of his food battle with Tanikawa Katsuya!

"Of course!"

"How could we not go and cheer for you, senior? Right, Megumi!" Yoshino Yuuki pulled Tadokoro Megumi and the others along without thinking.

"Uh-huh!"

"We'll go back and cheer you on, senior!" Tadokoro Megumi said shyly.

"Senior Xiang Ji!"

"May I ask what the stakes are for this food battle?" Marui Zenji was curious about what the stakes were for a food battle that would allow Xiang Ji to participate!

"It's nothing!"

"If I lose, it's just me dropping out of Totsuki Academy and paying two million yen in compensation!" Xiang Ji casually stated the bet he made with Tanikawa Katsuya!

what?

Drop out of school!

Even though they had absolute confidence in Xiang Ji's culinary skills, Yoshino Yuuki and the others couldn't help but change color after hearing about the stakes in the food battle!

Especially Megumi Tadokoro!

Her face has turned pale with fright at the words "drop out of school"!

Chapter 29: Knife Skills Training, Polaris Dormitory at 4 AM

Drop out of school if you fail?

Even though Tadokoro and the others were all very confident in Xiang Ji's strength, they were still shocked by the stakes of Xiang Ji's food battle!

It's better to be safe than sorry.

What if Xiang Ji's opponent suddenly has a superhuman performance on the day of the food battle? What if Xiang Ji suddenly falls ill before the food battle begins? What if Xiang Ji...

"Senior Xiang Ji".

“How could you make such a bet? If you lose, you will be…” Tadokoro Megumi stammered.

He used dropping out of school as a wager in the food battle.

This was something Tadokoro Megumi never dared to dream of, after all, she carried the expectations of everyone in her hometown village in Hokkaido on her shoulders!

When she came to study at Totsuki Academy, Megumi Tadokoro secretly vowed that she would become an excellent chef and then return to her hometown in glory!

Not only Tadokoro Megumi, but also Sakaki Ryoko and Yoshino Yuuki would not casually use dropping out of Totsuki Academy as a wager in a food battle. Sakaki Ryoko and the others were in a similar situation to Tadokoro Megumi.

Among all the boarding students at Polaris Dormitory, the only one who doesn't care about being a Totsuki student is probably Isshiki Satoshi, the heir of the Isshiki family.

"I'm sorry, senior!"

“I didn’t mean you would lose to your opponent, senior…” But halfway through her sentence, Tadokoro Megumi felt that what she had just said was a bit ominous, and subconsciously wanted to apologize.

"Hahaha!"

"Xiao Hui! It's okay!"

"I absolutely will not lose this food battle!" Xiang Ji replied with a loud laugh, not taking the food battle seriously at all.

Katsuya Tanikawa!

If you're just a nobody who's never even heard of a character, and you don't even have the confidence to win, what kind of chef are you? Go back to Tokyo University and raise pigs!

"Senior Xiang Ji".

"What's the theme of your food battle?" Marui Zenji asked curiously from the side.

"The ingredient is fish, and the theme is Japanese cuisine." Xiang Ji casually told Marui Zenji and the others the theme of his food battle.

Japanese food?

Fish dishes?

No wonder Xiang Ji seemed so calm.

Upon hearing Xiang Ji's words, Marui Zenji and the others suddenly widened their eyes. Wasn't the food battle topic exactly what Xiang Ji was best at?

Do Marui Zenji and the others still vividly remember the taste of Xiang Ji's Seven Star Broken Army Octopus Strips? They simply can't forget its flavor.

……

The food battle with Xiang Ji was scheduled to begin in three days, but Xiang Ji had already started teaching Tadokoro Megumi and Sakaki Ryoko the Seven Star Sword technique as promised.

The boarding students of Polaris Dormitory were all woken up early in the morning by Xiang Ji, which was also the first group activity since Xiang Ji joined Polaris Dormitory.

At four in the morning, in the Polaris Dormitory, Su Hui and the others stood in the courtyard, both energetic and exhausted, their eyes fixed on the group of people dressed in bulky clothes before them with longing.

"very good!"

"Everyone looks very energetic now!" Xiang Ji nodded with satisfaction, first praising Isshiki and the others.

"Everyone has it!"

"Let's warm up by running ten laps around Polaris Lodge first," Xiang Ji instructed them on the training program.

Running? Ten laps? Warm-up?

Yoshino Yuuki and the others couldn't help but look at each other with disbelief, as if asking if Xiang Ji was joking with them.

Aren't you going to talk about knife skills training?

Why did Xiang Ji make himself run, and at least ten laps? Is there some necessary connection between knife skills training and running?

Of course!

The secrets to mastering knife skills in the world of culinary disasters can't be easily acquired by just chopping around in the kitchen!

Many of the secret techniques in the world of dark cuisine require the combination of martial arts and internal energy. The most famous one is the Demon-Breaking Eight Formations by Kaiyou, the leader of the Five Tiger Stars, a dark secret technique that uses internal energy to change the properties of ingredients.

Even if you don't know martial arts, you should at least have a strong body. Otherwise, you can't even hold a knife properly, so how can you talk about dark secret techniques?

"Let's begin!"

"Could it be that Senior Xiang Ji would lie to us?" Before Xiang Ji could explain, Isshiki Satoshi spoke up for him and the others.

"Mmmmmmm!"

“Senior Xiang Ji must have had his reasons for asking us to do this.” Daigo Aoki’s eyes instantly became incredibly sharp.

"Shoji!"

"Let's see who can finish ten laps first!" Daigo Aoki looked at Shoji Sato, and his whole body suddenly became excited.

Come on!

“I won this match!” Shoji Sato pressed down on Daigo Aoki’s thigh, his eyes fixed on him as he accepted the challenge.

"I'm the one who should win!"

"it's me!"

"it's me!"

Like rams fighting head-on, Shoji Sato and Daigo Aoki were the first to rush out of the Polaris Dormitory.

With Daigo Aoki and his companion leading the way, most of the boarders at Polaris Dormitory exchanged glances and followed suit.

"Senior Xiang Ji".

"Isn't ten laps just for warm-up a bit too much?" Marui Zenji looked at Xiang Ji with a pale face, swaying slightly even before starting to run.

There's no way!

Physical strength is really not Marui Zenji's strong point. Is Marui Zenji's physical strength even weaker than that of Yoshino Yuuki and the other girls?

"A lot?"

“I’ve already reduced your training load a lot,” Xiang Ji said, stroking his chin and then patting Marui Zenji on the shoulder.

Xiang Ji was telling the truth.

Do you really think the secrets of the culinary dark arts world are easy to learn? People really do die when training chefs in the culinary dark arts world!

The training methods arranged by the project were much gentler than those I remembered.

No matter what, Xiang Ji didn't actually give Isshiki Satoshi and Tadokoro Megumi a knife and throw them into the deep mountains to fight with all sorts of wild beasts!

"My Seven Star Blade."

“If your body isn’t strong enough, you won’t even be able to hold a knife properly, let alone wield it,” Xiang Ji continued to say to Marui Zenji.

Physical strength is very important.

"Marui, if you really can't do it, you can choose to give up!"

"Senior Xiang Ji".

"I will definitely finish the race." Marui Zenji recalled the scene of Xiang Ji using the Seven Star Blade, and his expression instantly became firm.

Ten laps!

Let's run!

Xiang Ji has already agreed to hand over the Seven Star Blade to them. If they give up because of this little difficulty, how could Marui Zenji be willing to do so?

"very good!"

"Then go now! I'll wait for you to come back here." Xiang Ji couldn't help but smile as he looked at Marui Zenji.

……

The warm-up run has officially begun.

Apart from Daigo Aoki, Satoshi Isshiki, and a few others, the situation for everyone else was not good, especially for Zenji Marui, who was physically weak.

"Marui!"

"Are you alright? Do you want to rest for a bit?" Ibuzaki Shun asked worriedly, looking at Marui Zenji, whose soul had left his body.

"No, it's nothing!"

"I don't need to rest! I can keep running!"

"Iwu!"

"Aren't you worried about me? You go ahead and run!" Marui Zenji replied, looking as if he was about to die at any moment.

Chapter 30: They can't even kill a dead person! This training is way too safe!

The sun rises in the east!

As the warm sunlight shone on the Polaris Dormitory, Yoshino Yuuki and the others finally finished their warm-up, even though Marui Zenji had finished running with Aoki Daigo's help.

At the entrance of Polaris Lodge, Xiang Ji was waiting for them.

"Thanks for your hard work!"

"Let's eat something first!" Xiang Ji looked at Isshiki and the others, who were exhausted like dead dogs, and immediately canceled the rest of the physical training.

We can't keep doing extra training.

Although they were all around fourteen years old, Isshiki Satoshi and the others were far weaker than Liu Maoxing, the young master.

Not to mention Little Master, even Little Master's apprentice Shiro can't compare!

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