Chapter 16 The Last Dishes

"Huh? Master, that kind of thing—"

Suddenly named champion, Meloette was a little flustered. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Black, why don't you taste everyone's food before you make a decision."

Reminded by the ringing night, Black coughed lightly.

"I'm sorry, I'm excited for a while, but it's really delicious, what's the secret?"

"Uh...... If anything, I'm just lucky. ”

"I do remember that Meroyeta's trait was a blessing from heaven." Hibiki said. "In battle, elves with this trait will have a much higher probability of using skills with additional effects that may appear with additional effects."

"Looks like Hibiki-sama got it." Xiaoxian said. "Meloette is like that when she's looking for ingredients, she always has the best ingredients at her fingertips. It's the same when cooking, even if you don't have experience, you can put the heat and seasoning just right. ”

"I see." Black probably understood why Meroyeta made it delicious.

The Divine Favor is not only effective in battle, but also in life, and the effect of this trait is further strengthened after taking on a human form.

In fact, even if you are a novice who doesn't know anything, if you happen to do every step of the cooking just right, you may be able to make it as good as a master's cooking.

The effect of Meloita's Heavenly Favor is to make a delicious random event happen, even if there is only a 1 in 10,000 chance that it will become a reality.

And what is put in front of the black eyes is probably a god-level dish that ordinary people can't make even if it's one in 10,000, and any operation is just right, and there is nothing to find fault with.

"And that's not all Meloyeta does."

Obviously, if it's just a single dish of fried rice, there is a limit to how delicious it is.

But in reality, the ingredients here are also delicately handled.

It seems that Meloette is not relying on luck to cook.

Before cooking, she and Xiaoxian learned a lot about how to handle ingredients and how to make fried rice more delicious.

Of course, as a novice, she can't do all this perfectly, and what makes her successful in making a delicious dish is the blessing of her heavenly blessing ability.

That is, her own characteristics, fulfilled her wishes.

Although it is dependent on characteristics, Meloeta's own efforts cannot be ignored.

It seems that the most satisfying cooking at the moment is Meloita, so can the latter two surpass her?

Finally, Xiaoguang brought his own hot and sour soup up.

Looking at the red color, it doesn't look like a dish that girls are good at making.

"Oh? Although as a mini-boss, I personally support you to win the championship. However, after eating the dishes of the first four people, I think it will be a bit difficult for you. ”

"Don't worry, this is my confidence."

With that, Hikari brought the soup to the black judges' seat.

Scooping a spoonful with a soup spoon, J puts a spoonful of hot and sour soup in his mouth.

Unlike the others, Kuro had a somewhat complicated look.

"Blue hair, let's give you a taste."

"Is that okay?"

Picking up the soup spoon, Hibiki also tasted the soup.

Then, an expression similar to black was revealed.

"Looks like that's it," Kuro narrowed his eyes after seeing Hibiki's expression. "It seems that the boss has failed, and you definitely can't win the championship."

"Why!?"

was made a declaration that he would not win the championship, Xiaoguang shouted loudly.

"Isn't it good for me to make it? Strange, I tasted it before it was served. ”

Hearing Xiaoguang's surprised voice, Hei just let out a faint sigh.

"Although I still don't agree with the theme of the match, this match is a battle for the main palace." Black explained. "Therefore, the focus of this cooking competition is not who makes the best food, but who gets the most praise from me."

"In order to learn how to make parfait, Mei Yi spent a whole day, and although it was not the sweets I was good at, I made the taste perfect."

"After that, Fairy, Toko, and Meroyeta, they all tried their best to present a dish that I loved. Maybe they don't know much about my tastes, but they try their best to guess and try to find out what I like. ”

"However, this hot and sour soup is not like that."

Stirring the hot and sour soup with a spoon, Hei said to Xiaoguang: "Since you have tasted it, you should also know that there is an obvious sweetness in this hot and sour soup." ”

"Eh, shouldn't you add sugar to hot and sour soup?"

"If you have to add sugar, it's only for girls or children with a sweet tooth. By the way, you said that this hot and sour soup is a specialty of the Xin'ao region, but it is not like something that a girl of your age would often make. ”

"So, I'm guessing you saw your mom make this soup when you were a kid."

“！！”

As if he had been hacked to the point, Xiaoguang's eyes widened.

That's right, the reason why I think of making this hot and sour soup is that when I was a child, before winter, Xiaoguang's mother would make this kind of soup for Xiaoguang.

Sweet and sour and a little spicy, drinking this soup in winter makes the whole body warm and comfortable.

It should be said that this has always been her favorite food.

Therefore, before leaving home, Xiaoguang deliberately learned the recipe of this soup with his mother, and worked hard until the flavor of his own soup was almost exactly the same as that of his mother.

Because she liked her mother's dish so much, she thought that if she took it out, she would be sure to win.

However, under Hei's reminder, Xiaoguang suddenly remembered such a passage.

"However, Xiaoguang, it is not enough to simply imitate me. After all, this dish was born for you, and if you want to make it for someone else, you have to transform it into a dish that exists for that person. ”

"You can really taste the flavor that Xiaoguang's mother came up with in this dish," said Kuro, tasting another spoonful of soup. "But cooking itself is about serving people, you have to remember that."

"Just as the writer of a novel must not only think about what he wants to write, but also about what the reader likes to read, the chef must also work on what the diners like to eat."

"I can imagine you trying to learn how to cook, but what I really wanted to taste was not the taste that your mother presented to you, but the taste you wanted to present to me."

That's right.

Xiaoguang had to admit that what Hei said was the truth.

Whether you are a qualified cook or a qualified wife, if you only make what you love to eat, you are not qualified.

Although he was convinced, Xiaoguang was still very disappointed.

It's not that she doesn't think she's good at cooking, but because two of the other four are first-time chefs, and although Xiaoxian is good at cooking, her experience can't be compared to that of a trainer who goes around adventurously. -

Why, as a newcomer with less experience than himself, can think of places that he hasn't thought of?

"Because I like it."

"Huh?"

As if seeing through Xiaoguang's thoughts, Toko suddenly appeared next to Xiaoguang.

"You may be wondering why you can't think of things that other people think." Toko grinned. "The answer, of course, is love, except for you, probably all girls here like black."

"It's-!" At this point, Xiaoguang's face turned red.

"Otherwise, do you think this battle for the main palace was just opened because it was boring?"

Indeed, although Xiaoguang said that she wanted to interfere in the battle for Hei's main palace, she actually thought that the reason for this battle was that Hei, the bad demon king, did something shameless in Castlevania.

But it seems that every girl's feelings for black are sincere, and it's no wonder that she, a half-person, loses so badly when she participates.

I thought I already knew something about Hei before, but when I came here, Xiaoguang felt that he had underestimated him again.

"It seems that I still have a lot to learn."

And it was at this moment that Theresia, the last contestant, brought her own ingredients.

As you saw before, Teresia makes ramen.

But this is no ordinary ramen.

A lot of chili oil and hemp are added to the soup, and some bean sprouts are added to complement this spiciness.

Just standing on the side and smelling it, you can smell a pungent spicy taste, and if you actually eat it, you can't imagine what it will look like in your mouth.

"That brave man, he won't want to assassinate Hei with cooking again." Mei stared at Teresia wary.

"I don't know the specifics of that dish, but I don't think Theresia was that kind of person."

Despite saying this, Toko still couldn't hide her worried expression.

"But," Xiaoxian said suddenly. "It's the first time I've seen that kind of expression on Lady Theresia's."

Unlike when she always looked hostile to Black, Theresia's expression was very soft.

I don't know what happened to the two before, but now, Theresia's feelings for black are probably really liked.

Placing the ramen in front of Kuro, Theresia took a deep breath.

"I hope you like it, Blackie."

“！！”

When he smelled the pungency in front of him, and was called that by Theresia, Black's heart, which had already stopped beating, beat again.

Of course, whenever this heart beats, it only brings inexplicable pain.

Kuro covered his chest again with a painful expression!

"Black!"

"Master!"

Several girls came over worriedly.

"No, I'm fine." Black waved his hand, then picked up his chopsticks.

After rolling up the ramen, place it in your mouth.

The spiciness in the soup completely blends into the noodles, but Kuro still eats it.

What does this taste like?

While tasting this taste, Black's heart beat again.

And Theresia just stood in front of him, quietly watching him.

That's right, if you want to talk about things when you were a child, in fact, Theresia's memory is clearer than Black.

She still remembers that when she was a child, she always went to a ramen restaurant owned by a demon civilian with Hei, and then-

["Little black, chili, chili! ”

"Oh, what's wrong?"

"The chili peppers are piled up on top of the ramen like a mountain, how can you eat them?"

"How to eat? That's how it is eaten. ”】

I eat the chili sauce straight from the top of the soup and roll the ramen from the soup base.

In this way, Kuro put the ramen noodles full of chili peppers in his mouth.

["Really, why does Xiao Hei have to go up the mountain to make chili sauce for everything? ”

"Who knows, for me, food without chili sauce is heresy." 】

That's right, black as a kid was like that.

Wherever you go, you'll always have a bottle of chili sauce in your pocket.

And in two meals at most, he can use up all the jars of chili sauce.

And Black's favorite food is ramen.

For hot noodle soups, he also pours chili sauce into them like solid food, but when the chili peppers cover the ramen, he finds it difficult for his chopsticks to reach the ramen underneath.

But even so, he was always not afraid of trouble and poured out the chili sauce.

Theresia still remembers that it was very interesting to watch the black eat at that time.

But later, it took a long time for Theresia to become a brave man, and Black to become a demon queen.

In this world, when I see the darkness in my life again, the little black who always carries chili sauce and must squeeze a bunch of everything you eat is gone.

However, does that little black really not exist, or is it just hidden?

If, if that little black hasn't disappeared yet, this dish will definitely make him feel his heart.

With this in mind, Theresia made this dish.

"I added Hei's favorite chili sauce directly to the soup stock, so that the taste doesn't change and it's easy to eat. How's it going, is it delicious? ”

The other girls didn't know what Teresia meant.

After all, this is a past that belongs only to Theresia and Black.

However, Black's heartbeat was restored because of this.

Every throbbing brings considerable pain.

However, Kuro did not show any pain, he picked up his chopsticks, rolled up the ramen noodles and put them in his mouth.

It's like going back to when he was a kid, he sucks on the ramen and eats the bacon inside, even the bean sprouts that make his tongue tingle when he sucks up the soup.

After eating the noodles, he drank the unimaginably spicy soup and ate the bowl of ramen without any evaluation.

His heart was still beating, his dark face was red, and his eyes looked like the belly of a mosquito frog, and he looked a little delirious.

Suddenly, Kuroichi grabbed Theresia's hand.

"Theresia - Don't be a brave man...... I want you-when I-"

Black lay on the table.

"Not good! Black actually fainted! ”

The girls immediately picked Black up and carried him back to Castlevania.

Theresia stood still.

"Sure enough, Xiao Hei hasn't disappeared yet......"

And then—

"What the hell do you want to be, can't you make it clear before you fall!?"

Like an ordinary girl, Theresia went crazy on the spot.

Although she still had a little regret in her heart, she couldn't help but smile from the bottom of her heart when she recalled the appearance of black noodles. (To be continued.) )