Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"How did you get your cooking skills and recipes? Did you really come up with them on the spur of the moment?" The elder of the first clan asked the most critical question.

"I really thought of it myself!" Liu Maoxing said resolutely.

However, under the suspicious eyes of the elders of the Liu family, Liu Maoxing himself frowned and said: "However... I sometimes find it strange that most of the recipes are indeed based on the knowledge I have mastered, but most of the time , My sudden thought will even surprise me, some stunts in my imagination can be mastered very quickly..."

The elders of the Liu family became even more puzzled, but this time they were not suspicious of Liu Maoxing, but purely suspicious of the phenomenon Liu Maoxing said!

"What about the 'Super Taste'? When did you possess this ability?" the elder of the first family immediately asked.

"After entering school! Or... after an accident at home, but before that, my cooking skills were pretty good."

Well, the last sentence is the most false sentence that Liu Maoxing said. If the "system" is excluded and the others are not mentioned, Liu Maoxing is actually not lying.

But the Liu family has no doubts about the most false last sentence!

Afterwards, the elder of the First Clan and Liu Kuishan asked some detailed questions about Liu Maoxing, and then asked Liu Maoyuan to take him to see the collection of "Yuan Cuisine"...

From the beginning to the end, the elders of the Liu family did not mention anything about the "prophecy" to Liu Maoxing, nor did Liu Maoxing take the initiative to ask.

After all, it was Liu Maoyuan who told him that this matter that seemed to be "confidential". Liu Maoxing didn't know whether it was the clan elder's idea or whether it was decided by Liu Maoyuan privately.

It wouldn’t be good if Liu Maoyuan was punished after he said it out… Although Liu Maoxing also suspected that those clan elders, who are all mature, would tell Liu Maoyuan things that shouldn’t be leaked because of their quick talk?

Moreover, Liu Maoxing himself was also resistant to this matter deep in his heart.

"Aren't you going to ask the clan elders about the 'prophecy'?" Liu Maoyuan actually took the initiative to mention it.

"Huh? Isn't that a secret?" Liu Maoxing asked back.

"That's why I'm curious!"

"Aren't you afraid that they will know, you told me?"

"You just say that you guessed it... no, it's fine if you felt it! Anyway, you have already felt so much!" Liu Maoyuan said as a matter of course.

"Ahem, what I said before is true!"

"Why do I think you are guilty?"

Liu Maoxing simply ignored her.

And the reason why Liu Maoxing didn't pay attention to the "prophecy" was also because this world, after all, is a world where cooking is king!

If it were in a world of swords and magic, Nascent Soul and Golden Elixir, Liu Maoxing would definitely feel that things like "prophecy" must have something to do with "saving the world".

But in this world, Liu Maoxing guessed that the so-called "prophecy" might mean that "so-and-so" would be able to make the most delicious dishes in the future, become a new God of Cookery, so he wasn't too curious!

If he knew what the clan elders in the "meeting hall" were discussing now, he would know that he was very wrong!

In fact, in Liu Maoxing's mind, if he hadn't resisted the "prophecy", he should have already reacted!

In the past, it was clear that the elders of the Liu family were quite concerned about the events during the "exhibition", but now that the "prophecy" was mentioned, no one actually mentioned it when they met Liu Maoxing. It can be seen that this The importance of "prophecy"!

The atmosphere in the meeting hall is now more serious than when Liu Maoxing and Liu Maoyuan were there...

"What do you think?" the elder of the first clan asked.

"I think what he said...may have reservations, but generally it is trustworthy." Liu Kuishan was originally quite supportive of Liu Maoxing.

The elders of the first clan are neutral and listen to everyone's opinions, while Liu Kuishan is the elder of the second clan.

"That's right." "Second."

"I think he kept more than a little bit... hey, but that's it!" other clan elders said one after another.

The elder of the first family went on to say: "Then you think that our previous interpretation of the 'prophecy' is really wrong, in fact... refers to this 'Liu Maoxing'?"

When talking about this name, although everyone knew that the elder of the first clan was referring to the "Liu Maoxing" outside, the elder of the first clan also told himself that now he was not talking about his ancestor, but every time he called him by his name, he was still the same. I feel a little awkward.

"I think at least eight points may be like this!" Liu Kuishan said.

"Don't you agree with our previous interpretation? You also believed that Liu Maoyuan was the one who predicted it so much before, and you even told her about the prophecy subtly..." Another clan elder asked He rolled his eyes.

"Ahem, please don't tear down my station all the time! It's not that you didn't know enough about the situation before, so you can only analyze it that way! After all... this matter should be prepared in advance!" Liu Kuishan said with some embarrassment.

"Kui Shan is right. If it is really confirmed that Liu Maoxing is the person who prophesied, we must do something... Hey, everyone, let's take a look at this 'prophecy' again! The 'prophecy' left by my grandfather before he left ’, why is it so vague? This shouldn’t be the style of ‘Great-Grandfather’…” the first clan elder sighed.

As he spoke, he took out a page of rice paper from his pocket. Judging from the texture of the paper, it was definitely not the original manuscript.

The writing on it is also written in big characters with a brush, no matter how you look at it, it is not directly torn from the notebook...

I saw the sixteen big characters on it, "My name reappears, the heaven and the earth are repeated, the dragons seize the pearl, and the divine catastrophe is coming."

Every four characters are written vertically, and then arranged into a four by four square sentence sequence.

Because the ancestor of the Liu family "Liu Maoxing" was in his later years, the writing rules in Chinese culture were undergoing a period of change. At that time, the official had just changed the original "right to left" writing order to "left to right"!

(The world started "from left to right" relatively early.)

Therefore, regarding the order of these four words, the senior management of the Liu family has always been in dispute...

And the reason why the sixteen characters have been causing headaches for the senior members of the Liu family is because they mentioned two words "heaven and earth repeat" and "divine calamity is coming"!

Needless to say, the previous word can refer to the end of the world. It may not be too bad for people to think of just "heaven and earth repeat", but if it is put together with "God's Tribulation", it will definitely not be a good thing. , maybe it really refers to the end of the world.

As for the "Eight Tribulations of the Gods", other people may find it inexplicable when they read it, but a few people such as the Liu family, the Lan family, and Master Xie know the secrets of those years!

After the confrontation of the Imperial Cuisine that year, although Kaiyou stained and sealed all the seven legendary kitchen utensils other than the "Garuda Sword" with blood, just like the Yonglin Sword that was once tainted, it was killed by Master Shiquan in Shanquan. In the same way that it was restored by constant cleaning, in the end, "Liu Maoxing" and others also restored all the legendary kitchen utensils.

But I didn’t find out how to make “immortality” dishes. In addition, “Liu Maoxing” and others at that time believed in their own cooking skills and were not so obsessed with immortality, so they just kept these “legendary kitchen utensils” ,

It wasn't until the ancestor "Liu Maoxing" was in middle age, after several secret discussions with the ancestor "Lan Feihong" of the Lan family, that he seemed to have discovered some secrets in the "legendary kitchen utensils".

For this reason, Ssangyong of Heaven and Earth specially put on all eight pieces of kitchen utensils and went out to investigate something...

But in the end, when the two returned to their families, they only carried Yonglin Dao and Jialou Luo Dao, which were the "legendary kitchen utensils" recognized by the two at the beginning.

Moreover, Shuangshuang stayed in the family, which is similar to the saying that "legendary kitchen utensils" will bring disasters while benefiting mankind.

The last two ancestors, after another secret meeting, both disappeared, only Liu Maoxing left such a sixteen-character "prophecy"...

Therefore, the two families have always been worried about the safety of the two ancestors, and after decades of no news from the two ancestors, they began to worry even more. How big is this "disaster"? Will the "Twin Dragons of Heaven and Earth" who were at the peak of their prime of life disappear?

Has the "disaster" been lifted by the ancestors?

And with the discovery of the prophecy left by "Liu Maoxing", the two families finally believed that the "disaster" should have been postponed by their ancestors, so there was such a saying as "heaven and earth repeat" and "divine calamity is coming".

But for the order of the four words, most people in the Liu family think it should be "from right to left"!

Ordinarily, "Liu Maoxing" was quite old at the time, and he still wrote in the old format of "from right to left", which was also very normal.

The more important reason is that if you read it "from right to left", it ends with "My Name Reappears". There is a feeling of "Liu Maoxing" reappearing to save the world...

However, if you read it "from left to right", you will end up with "God's Tribulation and Eight Advents". It feels like life and death are uncertain!

Because of their instinctive benign guesses about things and their trust in their ancestor "Liu Maoxing", the Liu family is willing to believe that although the ancestors failed to completely eliminate the disaster, they must have left behind who can eliminate the disaster!

However, because of the appearance of Liu Maoxing and the abilities he displayed, it is increasingly impossible to understand it as a "coincidence", which makes the Liu family, Lan family, Master Xie and others more and more inclined to "from left to right" read it.

After all, with the style of Liu Maoxing, the ancestor of the Liu family, he quickly accepts new things, and it is very possible to "follow the trend" and start writing "from left to right" immediately!

"But in this case, 'my name reappears' is the beginning of the prophecy, that is to say, 'heaven and earth will repeat', 'dragons will seize weapons', and... God's catastrophe is coming!" The first The clan elder said with a solemn expression.

According to their understanding at the beginning, it should be "God's Tribulation and Eight Advents" first, probably because something happened to the "legendary kitchen utensils", which finally triggered the end of the world.

But it doesn't matter!

As long as the name of "Liu Maoxing" reappears at this time, the world can be saved and the world will be peaceful...

Therefore, what they thought was that once something happened to the "legendary kitchen utensils", they would immediately change the name of the most outstanding child of the "Suaru" generation of the Liu family to "Liu Maoxing", and then let him save the world!

So ever since the appearance of Subaru, the Liu family has been preparing...

But at this stage, among the generation of "Suaru", the most outstanding person is "Liu Maoyuan", so Liu Kuishan thought she was the person who prophesied.

After all, if there is no such prophecy, even if the generational circle returns to "Subaru", the Liu family will definitely not name the Liu family's children "Liu Maoxing", so in their view, this "my name reappears" It must be the result of human intervention!

But the appearance of Yuanyue Liu Maoxing made them change their views... It turned out that it was really inhumane and purely wild!

"In other words, the 'prophecy' left by our ancestors is just to warn us, not to make me pay attention to cultivating geniuses in the 'Pleiades' generation?" The seventh elder couldn't accept this result.

"In this case, the appearance of this 'Liu Maoxing' is just a warning... Do we need to tell him anything?" The eighth clan elder also asked doubtfully.

Indeed, with such an interpretation, Liu Maoxing seems to have only played the role of an alarm bell, and it was not mentioned later that it has anything to do with him!

"No, I don't think this is just a warning... Don't forget, this 'Liu Maoxing' has awakened a sense of taste similar to that of his ancestors, and has also obtained the sympathy between heaven and man, and obtained countless cooking skills and special skills! I think he must It will be the key to eliminating the 'disaster'...Of course, you can't bet everything on him." Liu Kuishan said.

Indeed, after making such a big commotion, it would be hard to justify the fact that it was just an alarm bell in the end...

"The elder of the Kuishan tribe, do you really believe what he said?"

"Aside from that, is there any other explanation? Even if he is asked to practice hard since childhood, it is impossible to master these?"

"..."

After some debate, the elder of the First Clan decided to give Liu Maoxing some help!

Although this "prophecy" has only fulfilled the first step, what will happen later and when it will happen is unknown, but they believe that there is nothing wrong with being prepared first.

If the ancestors really believed that the current "Liu Maoxing" is the key to eliminating the disaster, then there should be some time before the disaster occurs, right? After all, Liu Maoxing is only sixteen years old!

And just like what Liu Kuishan said, they can't bet everything on Liu Maoxing alone. They will also have other preparations, such as continuing the cultivation of Liu Maoyuan, in case it is still "from right to left"...

"Hey, I've said so much! In fact, the most passive thing we have now is the "legendary kitchen utensils" that are the core of the "disaster", which is not in our hands! If we can't get it back this time, we will be even more passive!"

The elder of the third tribe, with round eyes and a quick temper, slapped his thigh and said.

"That's right, from what Master Xie and Master Lin said, we can probably guess the meaning of 'dragons seize pearls', and we have indeed discovered that the two masters of Michelin and Brahman also possessed it 'inexplicably'." Legendary Kitchenware'..."

"Well, according to what Master Xie said, after he realized the realm of 'Dragon Chef', the 'Magic Holy Bronze Vessel' came out of nowhere and appeared directly beside him. And after Master Lin reached the realm of 'Dragon Chef', , it was the 'Garlou Luo Dao' originally kept by the Lan family that appeared beside him...

It can be seen that when the new 'Dragon Chef' appears, the 'Legendary Kitchen Utensils' will appear in front of him like a congratulatory gift! "

"Hey, it's a pity that Master Lin's 'Congratulatory Gift' is actually the 'Gallou Luo Dao' that he already has in hand. Otherwise, he would have found another kitchen utensil."

"Don't mention it. It's a good thing that Master Lin is the reincarnated disciple of the ancestor of the Lan family. He is half of the Lan family. Otherwise, those members of the Lan family would die of depression!"

"That's right, we can't wait any longer! We must get the 'Eternal Lin Knife' back this time, otherwise when someone breaks through the 'Dragon Chef', what should we do if the Yong Lin Knife also 'flies away'?"

"But... do we have a chance of winning? Subaruyuan's words... I'm afraid it won't work! After all, I can already guess that since she is a cook under the age of 20, the other party must want 'her' to take action! Subaruyuan himself said it's nothing Confidence……"

"Fortunately, in terms of seniority, she is of the first generation. Otherwise, when we heard the news back then, we would have almost regarded her as a prophecy..."

Everyone chattered, and finally the elder of the eighth family gritted his teeth and said reluctantly: "How about... let's take a step back strategically, and if we understand it with emotion and reason, I believe the other party will agree. Put the 'Eternal Lin Knife' in the safest place first! After all, we are a family..."

The meeting hall suddenly became quiet again, and everyone's faces were not very good-looking.

At this moment Liu Kuishan said: "Wait! I don't think that's necessary. Isn't Liu Maoxing... also under the age of twenty! If Liu Maoyuan can't do it, we can..."

"Ah? But what does he have to do with us? Speaking of which, he and the other party..."

"No, no, it doesn't mean that only the Liu family can participate in this event. A few times ago, wasn't the other party's representative also his student?"

"But Liu Maoxing..."

"Actually, I think it's feasible!"

"Isn't it too good? Will Liu Maoxing agree?"

Liu Kuishan said narrowly: "Don't be too specific, just ask him to help with the 'cooking showdown'! When he finds out, the cooking showdown? Started, as a 'cooker', no matter what, it's impossible to admit it on the spot right?"

"this……"

"Of course, if you want to confess your love to that guy directly, you can just beg him well... I guess with his temper, the eight of us will put on our faces and beg him for three days and three nights, and he may agree!" Liu Kuishan finally said.

This time the other clan elders didn't say much, and agreed unanimously: "Then let's do this first... But this month, he must be improved a little bit!"

Liu Maoxing, who was in the Library Pavilion of the Liu family's ancestral home, suddenly yelled, "Ah!"

"What's wrong? You still have a cold?" Liu Maoyuan knew how strong this guy was.

Of course, it wasn't because I saw it by accident in the morning, but I knew it when I watched Yuan Yue's cooking process in the old school building!

"There are no other symptoms... Could it be that someone is talking about me?" Liu Maoxing shook his head while speaking.