Shokugeki no Soma 90

Shokugeki no Soma 90

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Star: Center color and extended 23 pages for the clash between "Strong Arm" Kurokiba and "Aroma Genius" Hayama for the Election's Semifinals!!
(cutlery) 90 Iron Will, Heart of Steel
Big Text: A clash between protruding "talents"...!!
Shokugeki no Soma
Story: Tsukuda Yuuto
Art: Saeki Shun
Collaborator: Morisaki Yuki
Star: News Flash!! The newest JC Volume 10 and the long-awaited 2nd novel "Shokugeki no Soma à la carte II" come on sale November 4th (Tue)!!

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Voice: !?
Cutlery: A tied Hayama, just why...!?

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Akira: Turmeric, Red Pepper, Cumin, Coriander, Clove.
Akira: Next...The dish on the right, Amchur, Cardamom,
Akira: Dill, Bay leaf, Savory.
Akira: The dish on the left, Star Anise, Fennel,
Akira: Wild Yam, Lemon Balm...
Akira: ......Alright, 100% accuracy with the senses of touch and sight sealed.
Akira: I'm perfectly prepared.

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Jun: .........
Box: Shiomi Jun thought for a second "I understand the blindfold, but why bind the body?"
Jun(thinks): Hayama-kun...! As expected from my assistant!
Box: But after seeing such a serious look she somehow understood.
Alice: Ryou-kun, where are you?
Alice: Geez, I told you you should come within six seconds when I call you.
Alice: Ryou-kun?
Alice: Are you here?

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Alice: !?
Ryou: 110...
Ryou: 111...

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Ryou: ......112...!
Alice: Ufufu...
Alice: Looks like your preparations are going well.
Alice: !
Alice: Hey, you're drenched in sweat! Ryou-kun, that's dirty!
Alice: And here I wanted to ask you to clean my room, I can't ask you like this.
Ryou: Hey
Ryou: Sto...
Alice: Take a shower! Ok!?
Ryou: ...Milady.

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Ryou: You lost against Yukihira Souma yet you look pretty happy.
Ryou: That's exactly why you lose in the first place, probably.
Alice: Such a cheap provocation.
Alice: But I'm taking you on(music note)
Ryou: Don't cry if you lose...

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Gin: The theme is the same as in the first match...
Gin: A "Western-style main dish".
Gin: The second match! Begin...
Gin: Cooking!!
Souma: Hmmm...Next are Hayama and Kurokiba, huh.
Souma: I wonder what kind of match we'll get to see.
Erina: Why are you here like it's the natural thing to do!!
Souma: Well...I took too much time and the next match was about to begin.
Souma: And I'm going to face one of those two in the finals...
Souma: I must watch this closely.
Erina's sd: Move, move away, go over there
Erina's sd: Who do you think I am? A cook on your level can't...
Box: Is what Erina-sama wants to shout out.

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Megumi: Ah...
Ikumi: Hm...?
Megumi: Souma-kun...Is together with Nakiri-san...
Megumi: .........
Ikumi: ......
Voice: Oh...! Hayama is preparing his ingredients!
Voice: It's duck!!
Voice: He's going to cook using duck!
Taki: Hmmm...Duck has a characteristic taste
Taki: How well he can use it will be the deciding factor.
Taki: The aroma expert...Hayama Akira, huh.
Taki: He understands his strong points well.
Gin(thinks): A cook's palate,
Gin(thinks): Is made by drawing out...And accumulating the different flavors he's experimented in the past.

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Gin(thinks): Additionally, having a sense of smell so developed you can identify each spice in a mix on a dish,
Gin(thinks): Is equivalent to having twice the driving force as a cook!
Gin(thinks): In addition to his innate sense of smell, he's received Tootsuki's formal education since he was in first year of middle school...
Gin(thinks): The super elite, Hayama Akira!!
Gin(thinks): The man said to be the next to enter the Elite Ten after Nakiri Erina...!
Guy: Well, this match is...
Guy: Yeah.
Guy: Hayama would win eight or nine out of ten times.
Voice: On the A Block of the preliminaries Kurokiba tied in second place.
Voice: The difference between them was already established on the preliminaries.
Souma: Hmmm...
Souma: What do you think, Nakiri?
Erina: ......

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Erina: I once took a class with him.
Erina: The dish Kurokiba-kun made back then was...Not something you could call a great dish even as flattery.
Erina: Of course, it was on a level where it wouldn't get a failing grade,
Erina: But it somehow felt as if he didn't take it seriously...
Erina: As if he was just cooking to pass the class.
Erina(thinks): ...That was precisely why I got surprised when I saw his dish in the preliminaries...
Alice: Geez, that's exactly why you are no good, Erina.
Erina: Alice!?
Alice: I beg your pardon.
Souma: ...!
Alice: Ryou-kun's strength isn't measurable just using logic.

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Guy: !!
Voice: E...
Voice: Eeeeeeeeeel!!?
Yuuki: Eel!?
Yuuki: It can't be he's making a Kabayaki or something...?
Shun: No, Kabayaki isn't a western-style dish...
Souma: For real...? I heard he's good using seafood
Souma: But he went for a really unexpected one.

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Erina: In French cuisine and in other foreign countries there are recipes which use eel...
Erina: It isn't an ingredient exclusive of Japanese cuisine.
Erina(thinks): Eel...
Erina(thinks): Perhaps his aim is...
Erina: ...Anyway,
Erina: To think I'd hear Alice saying spiritualistic things.
Erina: You, who have a firm belief on cooking using science and logic...
Alice: This isn't spiritualism or anything like that.
Alice: It's a fact that the flavor Ryou-kun's dishes
Alice: Has something that goes beyond all logic.

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Ryou(thinks): I must win.
Ryou(thinks): If I don't win
Ryou(thinks): I won't have a place
Ryou(thinks): To belong.
Ryou(thinks): If I can't win here...
Ryou(thinks): I'll die.
Alice: You see, Ryou-kun
Alice: Survived in a hellish kitchen where useless cooks were immediately banished.

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Alice: All that since he was of age to enter primary school.
Alice: In such a coarse environment all he could rely on were his skills.
Alice: What Ryou-kun acquired in order to survive were---
Alice: Absolute concentration towards flavor!!
Alice: And a fighting spirit that makes his body burn with passion!
Alice: I've had cooking challenges with Ryou-kun almost every day,
Alice: But he's never gone easy on me.
Alice: He came at me seriously trying to kill every single day.

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Alice: Unfortunately our score is almost even...I haven't been able to get a considerable lead.
Alice: If you can say he has something I don't that would be-
Erina: ......Eh?
Alice: No, it's nothing.
Alice(thinks): A lava-like tenacity towards contests.
Alice(thinks): Of all the cooks in this hall, Ryou-kun is the one who possesses that most strongly...
Alice(thinks): That I can declare.

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Souma: He's fast......
Erina: As expected...His seafood preparations are perfect.
Erina: His moves don't have even a glimpse of hesitation......
Erina: And that knife...
Erina: It's an eel knife, a knife specialized to cut open eel!
Erina: That's proof that he's also well-versed in Japanese cuisine techniques...
Voice: Kurokiba...
Voice: Ryou, huh...
Gin(thinks): If I had to illustrate this match somehow,
Gin(thinks): They would be a Steller's sea eagle who's always flown in the sky,

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Gin(thinks): And a fierce tiger who bites and pins down everything to the ground!!
Gin(thinks): It's already bearing its fangs towards its target......
Gin(thinks): And it's prepared to bite at the throat...!!
Ryou: I don't like you,
Ryou: You don't heat up at all towards challenges...!

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Ryou: This is a battlefield.
Ryou: People without resolution to win should go away...!!
Akira: ...You're right.
Akira: My will to "Win and win" may be weaker than yours.

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Akira: The reason is simple,
Akira: As long as I have this nose---
Akira: I feel like it's tougher for me to lose to you.
Ryou: What the hell......!?
Voice: He put the duck breast meat in the oven!!

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Akira: It's perfect.

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Akira: Now...
Akira: Show the best aroma......!
Cutlery: Everything prostrates in front of that aroma......!!
Shokugeki no Soma
(cutlery) 90/End
The aroma genius bears his fangs! Next issue, the tasting! And...!?