Addicted to Curry 78

Reserved for Trinity BAKumA. Do not use without my permission.

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Chapter 78: Elegant Cutting and One Single Word Across the Ocean

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Mukai: Yes?
Mukai: Ah.
Mukai: Nao-chan...
Nao: Hey!
Mukai: What's up? So early in the morning...
Nao: Yeah...
Where's Makki?
Mukai: He's sleeping...
Nao: Huh!? Still sleeping?
Mukai: Yeah.

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Mukai: He left for Tsukiji at dawn to buy ingredients...
Nao: Tsukiji!?
TN: Tsukiji is a fish market in Chuo, Tokyo.
Mukai: He came back a while ago saying that he's going back to sleep...
Nao: ...
Nao: So he went to Tsukiji as well...
Mukai: As well?
Nao: Yeah...
Nao: Ryan did the same...
Nao: He took Yui with him to Tsukiji in the morning...
Mukai: Huh?

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Ryan: I'm sorry...it was so early in the morning... Are you sleepy?
Yui: I'm fine! (side) Don't worry!
Ryan: ...
Ryan: To tell the truth---
Ryan: Maybe it's unfair for me to be alone with you like this right before the match...
Ryan: But I have no confidence in me going by myself without having any problems...
Ryan: However...
I got my hands on some good ingredients.
Ryan: I will return the favor...
Ryan: With the curry that I make!

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Ryan: For your sake...
In order to make you happy, I will make the best curry ever!
Nao: But even knowing that he created chaos all around himself...
Nao: He boldly expressed his intentions in front of everyone, didn't he?
Yui(thought): Even if...it makes him look like the bad guy---
Yui(thought): He really....
Yui(thought): Is such a direct person---
Yui(thought): Although---

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Makito: I don't know what you mean...
Yui(thought): He rejected it so strongly in the beginning---
Yui(thought): Even so...
Makito: I'll do it...!!
Yui(thought): But Makito won't smile at me... His image within me---
Yui(thought): Is still blurry---
Yui(thought): Still, he...
Yui(thought): Accepted the challenge---
Yui(thought): So that means---
Ryan: We will make sure one more time...

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Ryan: The theme is Chinese curry. As for the time limit...
Ryan: Let us make it until noon. That is exactly one hour.
Ryan: One hour later...
Ryan: We will have Yui tell us her decision...
Ryan: Any objections...?
Makito: None...!

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Yui: ...
Yui(thought): Makito---
Mukai: Then we will start!
Mukai: Get ready---
Mukai: Start!!

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Nao: Crabs!?
Nao: Ryan is going to make crab curry!?
Ryan: Let's go--- TN: He said it in Chinese.

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Mukai: Amazing... What elegant movements... The flowing motion definitely looks like the work of a professional...
Mukai: Also...some would say that it's all-purpose...
Nao: Huh?
Mukai: I'm talking about the Chinese knife...
With Japanese or Western knives, there are many different types for different uses...
Mukai: As opposed to in Chinese cuisine, one single knife is used to cut up everything.

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Mukai: With a knife that is so large, thick, and heavy,
It will sever even hard bones that can't be cut up with normal knives.
Mukai: On the other hand, it can also handle detailed work such as creating food decorations with ease...
Mukai: It's definitely appropriate to call it all-purpose...!
Ryan(thought): Yui---
Ryan: Souichirou! What photo are you looking at?
Souichirou: Hm?

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Souichirou: This is my daughter Yui. She's almost 11 now...
Ryan: Wow! She's so cute, since she looks nothing like you!
Souichirou: Don't say unnecessary things!
Ryan: ~~~~~
Ryan(thought): After that...he talked about you every single day...
Ryan(thought): You probably don't remember it anymore...
Ryan(thought): But on your 11th birthday...
Ryan(thought): Just once...I talked to you on the phone...
Souichirou: Hey! Ryan!
Ryan: Huh? Me?
Ryan: Hello, this is Ryan Woodgate!!
Ryan: Mmmm...happy birthday, Yui!!
TN: Ryan was speaking in English.
Yui: ...
Ryan: ...
Ryan: Ah...I guess you didn't understand...
Yui: Ah...

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Yui: Thanks...!
Ryan(thought): Thanks...
Ryan(thought): An almost transparent voice... Just one single word...exchanged through the phone---
Ryan: And also...
Ryan: A word...that burned within my heart---

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And...
Makito---
I still remember it vividly...
The time when I first met you---
The young man that was about the same age as me...
Had---
Eyes like those of a beast---
He challenged Souichirou and brother countless times, and the way he cried after losing...
Was just like a child---

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Ryan(thought): But...
Ryan(thought): I envied him... It was the first time that I realized...
Ryan(thought): There isn't anything I'm serious about enough to cry over after losing---
Ryan(thought): It was frustrating...
Ryan(thought): It felt as if...you beat me down---
Ryan(thought): Now that I think about it...
Ryan: So that I can have my revenge against you---
Ryan: Let's have a match, Makito---!!
Ryan(thought): I may have said what I felt unconsciously...
Ryan(thought): Even if it's a coincidence...
Ryan(thought): I'm very thankful that you are here...!
Ryan(thought): It's been six years...

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I worked many times harder than everyone...!!
I also gained culinary skills to rival your own...!!
Then, I found it...!
Something that I can be serious about...
And that is Yui...!!
Please look...Son-sensei...!!
Makito, you taught me...

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Ryan(thought): I will beat you...
Ryan(thought): And win over Yui!!
Ryan(thought): !?
Nao: Hey...
What's going on...?
Nao: It's been about 20 minutes since the match began...
But Makki---

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Had his eyes closed the whole time...
And hasn't done anything...