"Am I seeing things?"
Next to her, Nakiri Erina watched, dumbfounded.
The last time she reunited with her mother, even though she liked Golden Ratio Shao Mai then, she never had such a reaction!
It wasn't until her mother, Nakiri Mana, finally came to her senses, slowly wiping her mouth with a napkin, that Erina accepted this reality.
A dream.
No, this was absolutely not a dream.
Her mother, with her God Tongue ability, had truly been conquered by Sosuke once again.
"How was it? The hot pot dish stewed in a paper pot, the taste is quite good, isn't it?"
Sosuke came to her side, first tidying up a bit, then a slight smile curled on his lips as he asked.
Nakiri Mana's face flushed, and she looked up at Sosuke with a charming gaze, softly replying, "Mmm, it truly is excellent."
"Many hot pots leave a faint oily smell on you after eating, but the paper pot has an advantage: it can incidentally filter out this greasiness, preserving the fresh aroma of the ingredients and the air!"
"Mother, as expected, only Sosuke's cuisine in the whole world can truly conquer your God Tongue, and only his cooking can truly satisfy you!"
Erina, in a daze, couldn't help but speak after hearing her mother's explanation.
"I love Sosuke the most in this life, after all, without his cuisine, I would probably still have to rely on nutrient solutions to sustain my life."
Perhaps it was because she had just finished the entire Bao Shan Flying Dragon Pot dish, or perhaps she was a little excited.
Her cheeks were flushed, showing a hint of blush, and a happy smile overflowed on her face!
"Love?"
Erina couldn't help but feel confused.
"Erina, your own God Tongue ability..."
"...hasn't yet evolved to the point of rejecting all cuisine, so you don't know how terrifying anorexia is."
"I, on the other hand, have experienced it for over 10 years, even nearly losing my life several times because of it."
"Therefore, I know even more that when Sosuke's cuisine can conquer the God Tongue, people like you and me, who possess the God Tongue ability, are destined to never leave him in this lifetime."
"It's even possible that we develop a certain emotion and dependence on him because of his cooking."
If it were before, Erina certainly wouldn't have believed it.
After all, no theory could prove that merely conquering the God Tongue would also conquer her heart.
But recalling her feelings for Sosuke recently, she didn't doubt her mother's view at all.
Perhaps.
This was destiny?
Only destiny's deliberate arrangement led her to meet Sosuke.
And it was precisely because of the God Tongue and his delicious cuisine that a certain emotional connection was formed!
...
France, this is a country full of romance.
In literature, they emphasize their subjective world, expressing their pursuit of a beautiful world with passionate language, colorful artistic techniques, and peculiar imagination!
Similarly, in terms of cuisine, French food also has a strong "romanticism."
For example:
In downtown Paris.
A French restaurant named SHINO'S.
Stepping inside, the restaurant's decor and design reflected Chef Shinomiya Kojiro's taste as an art enthusiast.
Each dining table had a perfectly ironed white tablecloth, and a vibrant bouquet of flowers. Chandeliers, nestled amidst lush greenery, swayed with candlelight.
And the diners who came here were all aristocrats from high society.
They ate each exquisite French dish with refined elegance, while several waiters and sommeliers constantly bustled about, everything exuding grace!
It is well known that French cuisine is served in a specific and particularly elaborate order.
By the dessert course, a fresh set of beautiful table linens and cutlery would be laid out. As for the desserts provided by Shinomiya Kojiro, they were equally grand and delightful.
Take a piece of chocolate, for instance; it contained the bitterness of almonds and the aroma of hazelnuts, a very pleasant taste.
As a result, every diner who came here would marvel at how such a young French Chef could possess such outstanding understanding of French cuisine and such a high standard for catering to diners.
...
"Damn it, I told you already."
"The halibut candy appetizer must be made according to my requirements."
"The umami should be normal, and the vegetable dices inside must have a granular texture to be qualified, not like now, where the glutinous rice skin on the outside is a bit too chewy."
In the kitchen at this moment, Shinomiya Kojiro was loudly scolding the newly recruited kitchen assistants.
"We're sorry, Chef, I... we were wrong!"
"We promise that next time we will definitely follow the recipe you provided for this halibut candy dish, and we will never privately alter it to shorten serving time!"
The kitchen assistants, pale with fright, bowed deeply and replied apologetically.
"I'll let it slide this time. If it happens again, all of you are fired."
Shinomiya slightly pushed up his glasses on the bridge of his nose, then said coldly.
Since the Practical Training ended, influenced by Tadokoro Megumi and Sosuke's cuisine, some of his views had inevitably changed.
He still felt annoyed by employees privately altering recipes, but the severity of his punishment had clearly lessened.
Even more unexpectedly, as the Chef, he rarely used to go to the front of the house to greet diners or inquire about their various requests.
But now, after finishing his kitchen work, he would often go to the front of the house to personally greet every table of diners.
"I want both feeling and wisdom to be integrated into cooking. Everyone needs poetic, gentle, and refined things..."
This was Shinomiya Kojiro's answer when a reporter interviewed him two days ago about "Why he decided to open a SHINO'S restaurant branch in Japan."
Clearly, he seemed to have achieved it.
For him, this feeling of re-embracing world-class French cuisine was truly wonderful!
"Oh? Is this the place?"
Just then, a masked figure stood at the entrance of the SHINO'S restaurant, holding a "Shokugeki Challenge" agreement contract. (End of Chapter)
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