Shokugeki no Soma 98

Shokugeki no Soma 98

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Shokugeki no Soma
Text: Techniques, Ideas, Pride, Determination---
Text: The "things" they've accumulated.
Story: Tsukuda Yuuto
Art: Saeki Shun
Collaborator: Morisaki Yuki
Text: ---They are taking all of them and now...!!
(cutlery) 98 The "Things" They've Accumulated

p2
Jouichirou: Don't go losing to anyone
Jouichirou: Until you lose against me again...!
Souma(thinks): I'm going to become
Souma(thinks): The best of the first years in Tootsuki!!

p3
Gin: None of them has started preparing the pacific saury.
Gin: They're preparing the rest of the ingredients first...They're playing by the book.
Senzaemon: Doing too many things to the fish reduces its degree of freshness.
Senzaemon: They must keep the fish as fresh as possible here.
Leonora: Ufufu...I'm getting a bit excited.
Leonora: In Nakiri International's Labs in Denmark, all our staff are adults.

p4
Leonora: So watching young boys do it is the greatest sight for sore eyes.
Alice: Oh my, Mother, that was a bit improper (music note)
Alice: And the meaning of your words is as biased as always.
Alice: Hey, Erina, you should take a seat over here too.
Alice: It's fine, isn't it, grandfather (music note)
Senzaemon: Yes...There's no problem.
Alice: Hey, hey, Erinaaaaa.
Gin: What a fun family you have, Nakiri-kun.
Erina: Please don't talk about it, Chef Doujima...
Guy: Wow...! The Nakiri family has gathered and is causing an uproar.
Guy: Doujima-senpai's got some incredible grit since he's able to be there with no reserves.
Box: Erina-sama has given up on driving Alice out of the judges' seats.
Voice: Oh!?
Voice: Yukihira took hold of the pacific saury!

p5
Voice: He's washing that mysterious thing with the water stream.
Ooizumi: Hmm...So he's letting it rest for a while to remove some humidity.
Ooizumi: The pacific saury doesn't look particularly weird,
Ooizumi: But that Yukihira lad...What is he trying to do?
Souma: ...If you're curious why don't you take a closer look?
Ryou: Don't fuck with us, who's curious? I'm gonna hit you, bastard.
Akira: You should stop looking away and concentrate on your own dish.
Souma: You're telling that to me?
Ryouko: ......Of course...! They both looked like they weren't even considering him as a rival,
Ryouko: But the opponent they thought they had completely got a lead of came in with a mysterious ace up his sleeve.

p6
Ryouko: That must be really weird for them...!
Thought: Did the curing succeed?
Thought: And just what kind of dish is he making?
Voice: He's taking the drained fish...
Voice: And grilling it on the shichirin!
Voice: Can Yukihira win
Voice: Against those two monsters...!!?

p7
Ooizumi: Oh! Kurokiba is done with the initial preparation.
Ooizumi: The ingredients include shrimp and mussel...It's a heap of seafood!
Man: Also, completely ripe tomatoes and olive oil...Huh.
Man: I see! He's probably
Man: Planning to make an "Acqua Pazza"

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Big Text: Acqua Pazza
Text: A dish native to South Italy.
Text: A simple yet exciting dish which is made by boiling many ingredients together with fish as its core.
Text: It's common to add olive oil, tomatoes, and shellfishes to it.
Erina: It's a really peculiar dish since it doesn't use as many seasonings as other boiled dishes.
Erina: It's simplicity makes the good and bad points of the ingredients appear directly... It's the perfect dish to make best use of a superhuman ingredient-judging capability.
Ooizumi: However, it's fine that he's making an Acqua Pazza...
Ooizumi: But pacific saury has to be the main ingredient in the end!
Ooizumi: And yet all the ingredients have a flavor strong enough to be the main ingredient...
Ooizumi: Won't the fish's goodness be overshadowed by being boiled with all those ingredients?
Man: Certainly! It's the long awaited pacific saury season and yet...
Man: Seasonal---

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Gin: So that's how it is...
Gin: Seasonal pacific saury might not only not get overshadowed
Gin: But also has the potential become the foundation for the whole dish!
Gin: He probably was able to choose this dish out of his confidence in his judging skills.
Gin: ...Anyway, all three of them are rather composed.
Gin: They don't let you feel the tension and fighting mood towards a final at all...That's quite a big deal.
Alice: That's to be expected (music note) Chef Doujima
Alice: Ryou-kun and I have had cooking matches since we were young...He's way more experienced.
Leonora: Fufu...That brings me back.
Leonora: When you two were young...You were really cute.
Erina: That's right...Aunt Leonora, you actually know him from when he was in northern Europe, am I wrong?
Erina: !?
Leonora: You called me old!? That's rude!
Leonora: Boasting on your youth is selfish! Erina-chan!!
Erina: Th...That's not it! Calling you aunt doesn't mean you're old! //lost pun, Erina calls her Oba-sama which means aunt but Leonora heard Obaa-sama which means Grandmother, this was the closest way to portrait that in English I could think of

p10
Leonora: Is this the boy you mentioned, Alice?
Alice: That's right, mother.
Alice: I want to make him my aide.
Ryou: ......Let go of me, I'm stocking up.
Leonora: We have servants in the mansion, don't we?
Alice: Erina has a secretary, doesn't she? I want an attendant that's the same age as me too!
Alice: Hey, hey, can we keep him, Mother?
Leonora: Let's see...We have to ask papa too.
Ryou: Don't try to decide that by yourselves!!

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Ryou: What kind of idiot would obey a stranger who told them "Become my attendant"!?
Ryou: And I'm already the top in this place...I don't need to go under you.
Alice: I told you to refer to me as Ojou-sama, didn't I?
Ryou: Go home.
Alice: Then...Let's have a match.
Alice: A cooking match, if I win,
Alice: Become my dog.
Alice: Woof woof (music note)

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Man: Uheeh...This is giving me the creeps! What kind of dish is this?
Man: Is this even edible?
Man: ...
Man: That girls dish is more...Delicious......!
Ryou: ......!?
Alice: There,
Alice: Bark for me, please.
Ryou: One more time!!

p13 //no dialog

p14
Voice: Just...How many hundreds of matches have they had?
Voice: It's been two years since the first match......And it's finally here!
Voice: Ryou won!!
Voice: It's his first win!!
Ryou: ............
Alice: We're having another match tomorrow!
Alice: Ok!? Ryou-kun.

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Ryou: ......Alright...Milady.
Ryou: I'll face you as many times as you want.
Alice: Then, if I win next time you have to speak politely to me! Ok(music note)?
Ryou: Don't screw with me...Like I can talk like that with a woman!!

p16
Voice: Hm?
Voice: What Kurokiba is cutting...
Voice: Is that heat-resistant film...!?
Souma: Oh? So it's not ordinary wrapping?
Souma: Wow, so that kind of things exist.
Akira: .........
Erina(thinks): It resists temperatures of over 200°C and of under -40°C.
Erina(thinks): You can cook ingredients wrapped with it on a grill or in a steam convection oven!
Erina(thinks): Cutting-edge high-class restaurants are beginning to use it when heating...Or to give an accent to the toppings.

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Erina(thinks): The curry dish for the preliminaries...Back then,
Erina(thinks): He used "droppers" as cutlery.
Erina(thinks): That's an idea very like molecular gastronomy he'd never had been able to conceive in a port town's bar.
Erina(thinks): He absorbed it
Erina(thinks): From his matches with Alice...!
Erina(thinks): The dishes the current Kurokiba Ryou cooks
Erina(thinks): Are the history of their rivalry itself.

p18
Alice(thinks): You can't lose, Ryou-kun.
Ryou: It goes without saying,
Ryou: Milady...
Ryou(thinks): This film is going to become the key for my dish---
Ryou: Hayama...With this,
Akira: !

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Ryou: I'm going to finish you once and for all
Voice: Oh!! Kurokiba is finally...
Voice: Cooking the pacific saury!
Cutlery: Next issue, the tasting!!
Ryou(thinks): The one to stand on top of this election
Ryou(thinks): Is going to be me!!
Shokugeki no Soma
(cutlery) 98/End