Food Wars: Starting with Equipping the Greedy Wolf Pot

"If any customer can surpass the chef I hired in knife skills when it comes to preparing sashimi for real sea bream, they can choose a real sea bream for free at our shop!"

"Don't miss this opportunity!"

"Any customers here want to take on the challenge? Anyone want to take on the challenge?" The shop owner shouted loudly to those around him, holding up a red megaphone.

Free real tai?

Upon hearing the shop owner's words, Xiang Ji's eyes lit up instantly, and he immediately squeezed towards the shop owner's seat.

The period from March to May each year is the most delicious time for sea bream.

Rich in fat;

The meat is springy and chewy;

Sweet and savory flavor;

The best time to enjoy the taste of taitai is right at its peak all year round.

Today, Xiang Ji came to the riverside market to buy ingredients, which were originally real sea bream. After all, the ancestor Raine left behind seven recipes, four of which used sea bream as the main ingredient.

"Boss!"

"If I can beat your chef in knife skills, can I choose any sea bream for free?" Xiang Ji asked the shop owner.

"Of course!"

"If you can win the knife skills contest, you can take home a free sea bream," the shop owner assured him confidently.

"The challenge fee is one thousand yen!"

"And if you lose, you'll also need to pay for the two real sea bream used in the competition!" the shop owner added.

"guest!"

"Would you like to choose another challenge?" the shop owner continued.

Xiang Ji: "..."

Wasn't it supposed to be free?

Why do I have to pay a challenge fee of 1,000 yen now?

And if you lose the competition, you have to pay the full amount for the two real sea bream used in the competition?

really!

Where in the world would you find a free lunch?

"Of course!"

"I want to challenge the chefs in your shop! Here's my challenge fee." Although he had a feeling of falling into a Pinduoduo trap, Xiang Ji still happily paid up.

……

"Dear guests!"

"Now we have a new customer challenging our chef!" The shop owner roared through a megaphone as soon as Xiang Ji paid.

"Next!"

"Now let's welcome the runner-up of our Riverside Market's sashimi cooking competition—the drunken leopard!"

"Leopard hides! Leopard hides!"

"The drunken Leopard!"

As soon as the shop owner finished speaking, the many customers gathered at the door immediately cheered in unison for Leopard's name.

Amidst the shouts and cries of "Fleshy Navel!", a man with a skewer of takoyaki in his mouth and a wine jug hanging from his waist slowly walked over!

The man's face was still flushed from drinking.

"Boy!"

"Are you a student at Far Moon Academy? In junior high or high school?" Hyouzou looked Xiang Ji up and down and asked about Xiang Ji's grade.

The boys who appear at the riverside market are mostly students from Totsuki Academy, since Totsuki is the biggest customer of the riverside market.

“First year at Totsuki High School,” Xiang Ji replied calmly.

"First year of high school!"

"Great!"

"Now let me see what you've got!" Leopard's gaze suddenly turned fiery, as if flames were burning within it!

What's going on?

Why did the big man in front of me suddenly change his gaze? Could it be that being a Totsuki Academy student carries extra hatred?

……

"A student from Totsuki Academy! And a first-year student at that!"

"This is going to be interesting!"

"I remember the champion of our riverside market's sashimi cooking competition was a first-year student from Totsuki High School, right?"

"Mmmmmmm!"

"The previous champion was a little girl named Muji!" After hearing Xiang Ji and the other person's conversation, one of the onlookers couldn't help but say.

Is that how it is?

No wonder Hyouzo was so excited when he heard that the other person was a first-year student at Totsuki High School. It turns out that Hyouzo had lost to a Totsuki student before.

First grade? Kikuchi?

Could the person who defeated Hyōzō last year have been Kikuchizō-senpai?

……

After Xiang Ji and Bao Zang took their positions, the shop owner, who was acting as the host, didn't waste any time and directly announced the start of their competition.

The knife skills showdown begins.

Leopard moved instantly, his sharp blade landing on the sea bream's gills and tail in a flash.

After the fish blood is drained, the skilled technique effectively severs the nerves of the sea bream, locking in the freshness of the sea bream meat!

Remove fish scales;

Remove internal organs;

The black membrane inside the sea bream's belly was also scraped clean with a knife!

The movements were fluid and graceful!

Now, Leopard's mind was completely absorbed in his sword, and every cell in his body was cheering, excited about being able to compete with Xiang Ji, a student from the Far Moon Academy.

After losing to Kikuchi Sonoka in the sashimi competition at the riverside market last year, Hyouzo has been practicing non-stop for the past year, hoping to win back his title!

Although Xiang Ji is not Kikuchien!

However, Xiang Ji is also a student of Totsuki Academy, and is also a first-year high school student. If he can beat Xiang Ji today, it will prove that he can defeat Kikuchi Sonoka last year.

"Very clean!"

"Indeed extraordinary!" Xiang Ji's eyes flashed with admiration upon seeing Leopard's actions!

Bleeding is also good;

Descaling is also good;

It's fine to take the meat;

Leopard's movements are clean and powerful, with almost no superfluous movements. No wonder he was the runner-up in last year's sashimi competition at the Riverside Market!

But it still falls short!

Zhengzheng...

Xiang Ji reached out and slowly unfastened the giant sword from his back. With a crisp clang, the sword, its blade resembling a galaxy, instantly appeared in the treacherous, blood-red ravine.

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Although this knife skills competition is not a divine knife skills competition, the prize is just a free sea bream, not the legendary kitchen utensil Eternal Spirit Knife.

Even so, Xiang Ji still had no intention of restraining him.

Seven Star Instant Severing Blade Dance!

Cenglu!

The giant sword streaked rapidly through the air, creating a sharp whistling sound. Its dazzling light instantly captivated the surrounding spectators.

What is this?

The Seven Star Instant Blade Dance's blade light made everyone who saw it feel as if they were facing an unstoppable sea bream.

I can't move!

The sharp, dangerous aura froze them in place, preventing them from moving an inch!

pat!

The scattered flashes of light from the blades spread out like splashes of water.

Immediately afterwards.

The snow-white flesh of the sea bream, rich in oil, gleams under the market lights, its dazzling color so beautiful that it's hard to look away!

Glug~ glug!

After Xiang Ji put the Giant Gate Blade back into its sheath, the onlookers, Xing Shun, were either panting heavily or swallowing hard.

What was that just now?

All those who witnessed Xiang Ji's Seven Star Instant Blade Dance now have only one big question in their minds.

Bleed! Scaled! Remove the meat! Slice!

The boy in front of me had completed the entire process of making sashimi, from opening the fish to slicing it, in the blink of an eye. Moreover, he had used different slicing techniques, thin and thick, for the taiy sashimi.

Is this really something a human can do?

At this very moment.

The audience stared at the composed Xiang Ji with wide eyes. Was this boy really a student at Totsuki High School?

But compared to the crowd who are simply watching, the real challenge is to compare knife skills with the master craftsman.

"You! You are! How did you do that?" Leopard asked Xiang Jixun, his voice trembling as he spoke.

Despite his best efforts to calm his breathing and emotions, Leopard's voice still trembled uncontrollably.

"This? The sword and I are one!" Xiang Ji said, tapping his head lightly with his finger in response to Leopard's question.

"Willpower, spirit, and knife skills are completely integrated, achieving a high degree of unity between consciousness, breath, and knife skills, so that the knife moves as soon as the intention is there..."

"and many more!"

"What exactly are you talking about?" Leopard's eyes showed a hint of helpless confusion, indicating that he couldn't understand what Xiang Ji was saying at all.

Uh...?

Seeing that Bao Zang was still in a daze, Xiang Ji didn't know how to explain it to him.

How to explain it? There's no way to explain it! The secrets of the dark cuisine world cannot be explained by science!

It's like how it's inexplicable that Master Chef dared to wrap dumplings in macaroni and serve them with cream to Pangu during a competition, and then Pangu actually said that the taste was pretty good after tasting it.

Upon seeing Xiang Ji remain silent, Bao Cang's face paled!

In Bao Cang's eyes, Xiang Ji's silence was a sign of disdain for explaining himself to a mediocre chef like him, just like the girl who defeated him in the Riverside Market sashimi competition last year, who also kept her mouth shut and said nothing.

……

"Fun! This is so much fun!"

"I never expected something like this to happen on my second trip to Japan." A tall figure in the crowd stared intently at Xiang Ji.

Was it his knife?

"Was the knife he used a special kind of kitchen utensil like mine? But what exactly is the mechanism inside his knife?"