Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

19, 19, 18, 20, 19!

"The judges gave Erina the score! 95 points! The judges have already given a score close to the full score, and Chef Mu Jiuzhi gave a full score of 20 points! It seems that after the top ten According to Chef Kikuchi who graduated as the second seat, Erina has the strength to graduate as the first among the top ten!" Rei Kawashima announced.

Among the five judges, Kikuchi Sono gave full marks, Dojima Gin gave 18 points, and the other four gave 19 points...

"Huh? This dish already has a level that can pass the three-star chef's assessment, right? Even now, I may not be able to cook the same level of food. Could it be that I am not qualified as the first seat?" Yuan Guo wondered.

Oizumi Kakinosuke heard the words and said: "That's what I said, but I still think that when Dojima was audited by the three-star chef at the graduation ceremony, the dishes he cooked were even better... and the audit was made by the certification agency on the spot , pay more attention to on-the-spot creative ability, and the difficulty is higher.”

And Dojima Yin even said: "Since I have achieved this level, as a reference for the full score standard, it shouldn't be me..."

"Eh? Mr. Dojima, you are too modest, haven't you been the legend of Yuanyue Academy for 20 years?" Yuan Guo said.

Dojima Gin smiled and did not speak, but Dojima Gin, who had always been a "tough guy", looked at Erina, Liu Maoxing and the others with a look of nostalgia.

Few people now know that in Totsuki's golden age, he had 121 duels with Joichiro Cuisine, and only won 20 times!

Moreover, these 20 times were mainly concentrated in the first half of the first semester of first-year students, and several of them were caused by Joichiro's "nonsense" in the competition...

It's just because in the two most critical duels, that is, the finals of the autumn selection competition and the first place in the Shiji, Dojima Gin won in name. "The Blue" didn't even finish, so he dropped out of school and traveled around the world...

So 20 years later, the reputation of "Chef Caibo" is very popular to many senior veterans around the world, but few people associate him with Yuanyue College. After all, this name is in Yuanyue College. It never appeared on the graduation list.

And Senzaemon may also be out of "apology" and did not use Joichiro's reputation to do any publicity for Totsuki.

However, Dojima Gin himself still remembers that "hard worker" who once made an era lose its luster!

"Genius" does not apply to Joichiro. Although Joichiro's talent is considered the top existence in Totsuki's history, his cooking skills are more due to his hard work!

A person whose talent can be called a peerless genius has become a "hard worker" again. It is natural to imagine what kind of brilliance he will bloom.

The highest achievement of a cook is not how many "firsts" he has won, nor how magnificent his restaurant is, nor how much commission he can earn for a meal, but to make diners understand what he is delivering through cooking. Will on the plate!

But for the former Cheng Yilang, it was "Success is Xiao He, and failure is Xiao He". It is precisely because Cheng Yilang is too harsh on himself, coupled with the high quality brought about by being too dazzling, that most of the diners and colleagues, They all attribute his "achievement" to "talent"...

This is also the limitation of Shiro Ichiro's pure duel kitchen heart. Shura's kitchen heart can "outrageously" defeat the opponent, but it cannot make the diners understand the "heart" he wants to present.

The reason why they often come up with some weird "dark cuisine", and even in the cuisine duel, they often come up with some unscrupulous things, even if they are accused by Jing Pu Jiushang of despising the opponent and despising the food halberd, they still go their own way. It's Joichiro's "escape" method - he wants to escape from this culinary world where no one understands him!

Under the pressure, Shiro Ichiro's heart gradually changed, and he began to ignore diners who couldn't understand him, and other cooks who couldn't understand him...

Similar to "This group of scumbags are not worthy of understanding the heart of the plate, nor are they worthy of tasting the dishes that contain the heart. For them, it is enough to be able to produce feed and taste the feed...as long as the feed is delicious enough. !" The idea gradually germinated in Joichiro's mind.

Moreover, the germination of this kind of thinking also affected Nakamura Ji, who was his supporter at the time...

This is exactly why Nakiriji claimed that "diners should also be classified into grades" and "most people are only worthy of food", while promoting the "big change" in the culinary world, hoping to turn most cooks into no-goods. The "puppet" of ideas is the original theoretical basis for the development of the cuisine industry.

"Feed" is the name of the former Joichiro and the current Nakiri Ji, for those dishes that do not contain any intentions, but are just formulaic.

In the end, during "The Blue", because the judges, the audience, and people from all walks of life in the culinary industry had too high expectations for Joichiro, under tremendous pressure, Joichiro, who had a sign of blackening, completely collapsed .

Afterwards, Joichiro accepted the advice of the commander-in-chief, dropped out of the competition, and dropped out of school, went to study around the world, to observe down-to-earth, the lifestyle of ordinary diners and ordinary cooks...

Joichiro, who was studying abroad, gradually moved towards the road of being sought after by rich businessmen and politicians in high-end restaurants, preferring to cook for ordinary people with simple ingredients in small private shops.

And what makes Shiro Ichiro change is precisely "a woman who wants to dedicate all his cooking to her" for him!

Who is this woman who made "Shura" fall in love with the restaurant so much, even changed his cooking path, and made him awaken the second kind of cooking heart? Dojima Gin has never seen it. Twenty years after The Blue, until a while ago Dojima Ginzai saw him for the first time when Ichiro returned the Eirin Sword.

Later, when the two met in private, Dojima Gin was teased by Joichiro, "It's time to find someone to marry."

Dojima Gin can guess a thing or two about that "her" only in the few words of Joichiro, and the gentle eyes that appear in Joichiro's eyes when "she" is mentioned, which he did not have twenty years ago...

But looking at Erina now, Dojima Gin couldn't help but think of another woman who once "loved" Joichiro too.

The woman who used to be a "sister" to him and Joichiro...

The "Miss" who was madly in love with Joichiro...

But her "fascination" is also based on admiration for Joichiro's talent, and even her confidence in Joichiro is enough to become his drag.

Dojima Gin still remembers that when Joichiro accepted Senzaemon's opinion and chose to withdraw from the competition, the most unacceptable was the "Miss" and Nakamura Ji!

The "Missy" even had a big fight with her father Senzaemon because of this, and even went to the airport to stop Joichiro who was about to leave by plane...

"Senior Joichiro! You are the strongest, aren't you? You won't lose! Don't listen to my father!"

"As long as you play, how can other people be your opponent?"

"You are the king in the kitchen, there is just a stage for you to show off, come back please?"

...

Her infatuation with Joichiro, apart from Joichiro himself who puts all his attention on cooking, Dojima Gin and Ji can see clearly.

But in Dojima Gin’s view, she didn’t really understand Joichiro. Her obsession with Joichiro was too hot and lacking in warmth. Rather than saying it was “love”, it was more like those diners who didn’t understand Joichiro The result after admiring him and deepening it hundreds of thousands of times...

The "Miss" couldn't accept Joichiro's "escape" in the end, let alone her Joichiro, who actually started to wander around the market and cook some "poor cooking". Gradually, her fascination with Joichiro made her find a sympathetic partner. Before leaving, Joichiro looked more and more like Nakamura Ji, who is now Nakiri Ji as a substitute!

Just as clear as her infatuation with Joichiro, Dojima Gin also understood that the person Nakamura Ji respected most at that time was Nakasai Joichiro, and the second most respected person was "Miss", although Dojima Gin was the first seat, But it would be nice to be in the top five.

To this day, the badness of this pair has even become the reason why Dojima Gin is still a little afraid of getting married...

To some extent, Nakiri Ji didn’t lie to Ha Shanliang, and sometimes becoming someone similar to the person the “goddess” is obsessed with really helps to become a backup...

It just ignores that Xi Jianjun is not the eldest lady back then! In contrast, Jun Xijian's affection for Joichiro is at best a little green, and the target of the "favor" is Joichiro, not Joichiro's talent.

"Shura" met the angel who redeemed him, brought his cooking path back on track, and made him regenerate the idea that "the purpose of cooking is to make people understand the mind of the cook".

However, after the "devil" got together with his goddess, he got worse and worse, and went further and further on the wrong path that Shiro Ichiro had turned back...

Now, both the angel and the goddess have passed away, and Joichiro and Ji are completely opposite in terms of cooking!

Even after the death of the eldest lady, Nakiri Ji's "blackening" became more intense, and he regarded his own daughter as a tool, instilling his extreme cooking concepts, and was eventually kicked out of the house by Senzaemon.

But at the same time, Erina's psychological shadow has not gradually faded away until now...

When Dojima Gin had just graduated and accepted the employment of Totsuki Group, the number of three-star chefs who lost to Joichiro already exceeded two digits.

Therefore, in his heart, only Joichiro is the standard of the top ten. Giving Erina 18 points already represents the recognition that Erina has similar cooking skills to himself when he graduated...

As for the standard of 19 points, Dojima Yin thinks it can be reserved for the "Nakamura Ji" who has been deleted from the school history by Yuan Yue.

That's right, just a few days ago, I left Edo in a "desperate" way and returned to Nakiriji in America!

Ginya Dojima still remembers that when he was a first-year student, he was ranked third. After he failed to challenge Joichiro, he always regarded himself as Joichiro's follower...

In terms of talent, Nakiri Ji surpassed Dojima Gin and even Joichiro.

Dojima Yin even suspected that if it wasn't because Joichiro took the initiative to take the second seat, he would be content with the third seat, otherwise Nakiriji's goal would definitely be above himself!

Of course, Dojima Gin was also very pleased to taste Erina's "Breaking Dawn".

Dojima Gin also knows about Erina's situation over the past ten years, and the light that finally breaks through the darkness in "Breaking Dawn" also represents Erina's mood at this time...

The "Miss" back then began to suffer from illness after giving birth to Erina. Even with Xinhu's medicated diet all day long, she finally passed away four years later.

In the last four years of her life, the mood of the "Missy" also began to change. She also tried to bring her husband back to the "light", and even confessed that because of "selfish love", she once forced Joichiro, Became one of the straws that overwhelmed him, and also regretted that because of his selfishness, he used Nakamura Ji as a substitute without authorization, admiring his appearance on this road of no return...

It's a pity that Nakiri Ji didn't understand the last long-cherished wish of the "Miss", but regarded it as a "betrayal" and thought it was another "betrayal" after Joichiro's betrayal!

This kind of "betrayal" of ideals is more serious to Nakiri Ji than the young lady who elopes with Joichiro the next day, and it even urges his blackening...

Dojima Gin only learned about this later, presumably when the "Missy" passed away due to illness, her husband and daughter were the most worrying things, right?

At least now, her daughter has broken through the darkness, and I believe that the eldest lady's spirit in heaven will also feel some comfort...

Dojima Gin suddenly smiled, because he saw that the man who guided Erina out of the darkness also started to present dishes at this time!

Bowls of pitch-black ramen that looked like sesame paste were placed in front of the five judges, and at this time the moon had completely disappeared from the skylight...

At the same time, Liu Maoxing snapped his fingers as a signal, and all the lights on the arena of "Between the Moon and the Sky" were also extinguished, replaced by several clustered searchlight lights, shining on the "black face" in front of the judges superior.

If it were someone else who had this kind of "special treatment" when presenting the dishes, it is estimated that everyone would have to "talk about it", even if the object is the top ten, it is inevitable that no one will be sour.

But now that Liu Maoxing is doing this, even if some people feel sore, they can only bear it in their stomachs. Even many shareholders of the academy don’t think there is anything wrong with Liu Maoxing’s actions. Showing off" doesn't even count...

This is also the dish that everyone is most looking forward to since Liu Maoxing exposed his national treasure-level sword skills...