Shokugeki no Souma 122

Shokugeki no Soma 122

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Cutlery: The TV anime is also (3 stars)! It's airing with rave reviews!!
Shokugeki no Soma
Cutlery: VS The Chinese Master, Fight!!
Story: Tsukuda Yuuto
Art: Saeki Shun
Collaborator: Morisaki Yuki
(cutlery) 122 "Má" and "Là"

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Text: During the festival, Tootsuki academy
Text: Becomes a gourmet town...A gourmet country!!
Text: The Tootsuki Tea Ceremony And Cooking Academy Festival, it's official name is:
Text: "Moon Banquet Festival"!! //Gekkyousai
Text: A massive gourmet event that takes place along five days and has over half a million visitors!
Cutlery: It's humongous!!
Text: People from all places rush in every day,
Text: The numerous domestic and foreign VIP that come are warmly welcomed by using both the lodging facilities inside the academy and Tootsuki Resort Facilities to their fullest.
Text: It's an outrageous academy festival which leaves Tootsuki great profit just with the lodging expenses.
Kanichi: "You're expelled if you end with a deficit!" that's true,
Sign: Donmono Research Society
Kanichi: But actually, almost no booths end up with a deficit.
Kanichi: And that's because...

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Kanichi: In the middle school division, each practical class sets a booth,
Kanichi: And the academy's lecturers supervise and guide these efforts.
Kanichi: They calculate the ingredients and seasonings' cost price, the various equipment’s costs, and the cost of heating and lighting,
Kanichi: And plan things so that after considering the expected number of customers and subtracting the cost prices, there's a proper net income.
Kanichi: The students gain experience and knowledge at every years Moon Banquet Festival...And eventually try to set up booths either on their own or with a research society.
Ikumi: ......
Kanichi: So, as long as you don't try to do some impossible business, you won't end with a deficit.....For example,
Kanichi: Unless you try putting a booth just in front
Kanichi: Of a really strong competitor...
Souma: ............

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Ikumi: As usual, I have no idea what the hell you had on mind, you big idioooot!!
Ikumi: Forget about challenging the Elite Ten, you might get expelled...!!
Souma: Well...I'll manage somehow.
Souma: I'm a special-of-the-day restaurant's heir...I was born on a house that does business, after all.
Ikumi: You're zero convincing, I know how haphazard you are, after all.
Souma: Well...Anyway,
Souma: The Don R.S. sure became a big family now.
Ikumi: Yeah...We got a flood of underclassmen wanting to join.
Guy: Big sis Ikumi! We've finished preparing the equipment!
Girl: Ikumi-senpai! Please check this documents!
Ikumi: Yeah, wait a sec!
Girls' sd: Ikumi-senpai's so cool<3
Kanichi: That Nikumi...She's gotten more charismatic after her stagiaire.
Kanichi: She won the shokugeki against Sadatsuka Nao easily too!

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Ikumi: ......Hey, Yukihira.
Ikumi: If possible...I would've wanted to help with your booth,
Ikumi: But I have to look after this guys,
Ikumi: So......
Souma: Don't mention it, Nikumi,
Souma: I was the one who told you to do your best at the Don R.S.
Ikumi: ...Yeah,
Ikumi: But, you can rely on me if you get to a dead end.
Kanichi: It's just like Nikumi said!
Kanichi: I mean, you and Tadokoro...
Kanichi: Are Don R.S.' honorary members!
Souma(thinks): .........Were we...?
Souma: Thanks!

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Souma(thinks): Alright...I've got to do this!
Souma(thinks): I'll start making my menu today!
Souma: What's this? There's a huge uproar...
Souma: Are these also preparations for the festival?
Souma: Who'd do something this exaggerated...?
Souma: Ah, yeah, it was Nakiri.
Erina: Yukihira-kun...! You again?
Souma: What are you doing?

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Erina: ...They're taking out the furniture that was inside the building I'll use as my booth.
Erina: I'm changing everything so that it's more adequate to the atmosphere of a course menu.
Souma: Is this really a high school festival? (cd: That's amazing.)
Erina: This kind of setup is only natural for Elite Ten members.
Souma: Hmmmm, I see...
Souma(thinks): She's a stronger rival than I thought...
Hisako: Erina-sama! It seems the contractors bringing in what you asked for are going to be late by around one hour! (cd: It seems there's traffic congestion...)
Erina: What? Good grief...That can't be helped.
Souma: Ah! Then, you two are free?
Erina: Huh...?
Souma: I was thinking of making a couple of the dishes I made at home.
Souma: Can you taste them for me?
Erina: Wha...!? Why do I have to do such thing...!?
Hisako: You have only one hour, Yukihira! Erina-sama is a busy person.
Erina(thinks): Hisako won't try to stop him!?

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Erina: ......Hisako...
Hisako: What is it?
Erina: N-No...It's nothing.
Hisako: ......?
Souma: Here, sorry for the wait!
Souma: It's the Yukihira-style Mapo Doufu Meal.

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Hisako: From the looks of it, it's a typical dish from a restaurant for the masses, Erina-sama.
Erina: .........Yes.
Erina: Hmm...I see.
Erina: You will never defeat Kuga-senpai with this dish.
Erina: And that's because---
Erina: Your dish is overwhelmingly low in both "Má" and "Là".

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Souma: Mandla...?
Souma: What's that, Nakiri?
Erina: You should be ashamed of your ignorance!!
Erina: Listen well! The spiciness in Chinese cooking has too pillars!
Erina: The spiciness originated from chili peppers which makes the tongue sting..."Là wèi"!
Erina: And the numbing spiciness originated from huājiāo, "Má wèi"!
Souma: Oooooh...
Souma(thinks): Huājiāo...The spice Nikumi used for the Election's preliminaries, huh!
Erina: To begin with, even if we talk about Chinese cuisine as a whole, its culture is vast.
Erina: In China, many different cuisines developed around the country with their roots on each area's climate and customs.
Erina: Among them...Kuga-senpai uses "Sichuan Cuisine" which specializes in spiciness and---

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Erina(thinks): O...Oh now...! I gave this man useful information...
Souma: Wow that was really easy to understand.
Souma: Sorry, I had you explain everything to me.
Erina: F-Forget about it! Forget all you heard here!
Souma: That's impossible.
Souma(thinks): I see...Houjou said something like that too.
Miyoko: The reason why I didn't join the Chinese R.S....Was partly because of the training I received at home,
Miyoko: But it was mainly because I don't like Kuga's policy.
Miyoko: Originally, the Chinese R.S., as its name suggests, studied every aspect of Chinese Cuisine...But that guy,
Miyoko: Remade it into something specialized in Sichuan cuisine and now has full control of it!
Miyoko: All by using that violent má là wèi as his weapon
Miyoko: To have many shokugeki in the R.S....

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Hisako: ...Come to think of it, Kuga-senpai once said this:
Terunori: When people eat my dishes,
Terunori: They aaaall begin sweating a lot and their faces get, like, super red, right?
Terunori: But even then they get addicted to it and keep eating.
Terunori: I just love seeing that.
Terunori: Having people pant after eating my dishes
Terunori: Is just so fun I can't get enough of it.
Souma: I kinda understand how Kuga-senpai feels...
Souma: Sometimes, rather than when seeing someone smile after saying my dish is good
Souma: I have more fun cooking when they faint in agony after they say it's bad.
Erina(thinks): This man is plenty of a deviant himself...

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Erina: Anyway...It's a delicious flavor brought by spiciness that resembles a lightning strike!!
Erina: Kuga-senpai fully knows that such flavor makes it possible to rule over people!
Erina: That's how he made it to the Elite Ten...!
Souma: .........
Erina: Sichuan cuisine's strong spiciness...And the complex deliciousness that lies after it!
Erina: As long as you don't have a way of countering that---

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Erina: You'll never be able to win!
Megumi: Souma-kun...You were here.
Souma: Oh, Tadokoro.
Megumi: ......I see...Nakiri-san said that...
Souma: Exactly.
Souma: My current dish can't defeat Sichuan cuisine's strength...
Souma: It's a similar problem to when I had that Beef Stew battle against Mimasaka.
Megumi: Hmmmmmm...It's a difficult question...
Megumi: The best thing would be if you could use your best techniques,
Megumi: But you can't draw the people who came for Kuga-senpai's Chinese dishes like that.
Megumi: You see! I thought it might help so I brought a Chinese recipe book-
Souma: ......Hm? Tadokoro...
Souma: You aren't setting a booth with the other Polar Star dorm members?
Souma: Didn't Isshiki-senpai ask you?
Megumi: Ah...Yes, the Local cuisine research society is setting a booth too,

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Megumi: But I refused them both...
Souma: Eh? Why?
Megumi: Eh...I mean, I thought you'd need help, Souma-kun......
Both: .........
Megumi: !!
Megumi: Ah! U...Umm umm, right! I might get in your way...Right!!?
Megumi: Sorry that I just planned to help like it's the most natural thing in the world......!
Megumi: B...But, my home's a small ryokan and I helped serving customers sometimes
Megumi: And I studied a bit during the stagiaire period...So I thought I might just be of some help.

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Megumi: So...Ermmm......
Megumi: Souma-kun, if you're ok with it...I can help with your booth......
Souma: ......Tadokoro,
Souma: That's
Souma: A lifesaver!
Megumi: O...Ok!
Souma: Alright! Let's do this!
Souma: Let's make something good, Tadokoro!
Megumi: Yes!
Alice: Haaayama-kuuuuuun!
Alice: I beg your pardon.

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Akira: ............
Akira: .........What do you want?
Alice: I have a message for you.
Alice: On this occasion, I, Nakiri Alice, waited until the time is right
Alice: And decided to participate in the Moon Banquet Festival.
Akira: Right...I see.
Alice: But...The booth submission reception was already over.
Alice: So let's do our best together (music note)
Akira: Hm......?
Alice: Let's all use the Shiomi Seminar's booth together.
Alice: I just got permission from professor Shiomi (music note)
Alice's sd: Look!
Akira: Huuh!?
Shokugeki no Soma
(cutlery) 122/End

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Akira: This is Jun's writing...
Alice: Ah, naturally, I'm the leader, ok? (music note)
Akira: What "Naturally"!!? Like hell that's happening!
Akira: Kurokiba...You tell her too!
Ryou: ...When milady says she's doing something she's unstoppable...
Akira: Don't give up, try harder!
Alice: Now, just wait for us, Yukihira-kun!
Alice: Oh, and Erina too!
Alice: I'm going to leave you both speechless at the festival (music note)
Akira: By the way, our booth is on the main street area.
Akira: So it's not near Yukihira or Nakiri Erina's.
Alice: Oh my! How could this be!?
Cutlery: Alice joins the fray!?