Shokugeki no Soma 125

Shokugeki no Soma 125

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Voice: The Tootsuki Academy Festival,
Cutlery: The food festival begins---!!
Voice: "The Moon Banquet Festival" begins!!
Box: The attendees first buy Food Tickets.
"Shokugeki no Soma"
Box: This tickets serve to prove the sales of each booth.
Text:{
松 [Pine] -> 10,000 yen
竹 [Bamboo] -> 1,000 yen
梅 [Plum] -> 500 yen
}
Box: The tickets are tallied every evening and the top three booths in sales for the day are announced.

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Shokugeki no Soma
(cutlery) 125 Moon Banquet Festival
Box: Uptown Area Meal prices are between 5,000 and (infinite) yen
Cutlery: This is the map of the "festival"!!!
Box: Central Area Meal prices are between 1,000 and 5,000 yen
Box: Main Street Area Meal prices are between 500 and 1,000 yen
Box: Attendees can go around the festival using buses (for free).
Story: Tsukuda Yuuto
Art: Saeki Shun
Collaborator: Morisaki Yuki

p3
Jackets: Don R.S.
Ikumi: Let's fire ourselves up!
Voice: Yeah!!
Guy: How about some of the Don Research Society's delicious don!
Guy: You can buy one for just one plum ticket!
Sign: Branch Trattoria Aldini
Isami: Are you all prepared?
Girls' sd: Yeeeees<3
Takumi: Now, let's go!
Woman: Imonikai!!
Woman: Where's Isshiki-kun's imonikaiiiii!?
Souma: Alright...!
Sign:{
Tootsuki Tea Ceremony And Cooking Academy
Taiwanese Specialty
Hujiao Bing
}

p4
Megumi(thinks): Th...Their booth is just across the street...
Megumi(thinks): But its appearance is just amazingly different!!

p5
Megumi: ............
Megumi(thinks): Many customers are coming...!
Megumi(thinks): I...I'm getting nervous...
Megumi(thinks): Please...!
Megumi(thinks): Let someone...Come to us......!
Guy: Oh! It's Hujiao Bing.
Megumi: !
Guy: You know it? It's really famous in Taiwanese stalls.
Guy: Whoa!? What's this!!?

p6
Guy: The clay oven is completely full with them!!
Guy: So that's how they bake them!
Guy: Give me one!
Megumi: Th...
Megumi: Thank you very much!
Guy: Eh!? Y-Yes! You're welcome.
Guy: Ow, it's hot...

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Thought: Eh!!?
Thought: The piping hot...Meat juice!!
Thought: Is coming out in incredible amounts!
Guy: So this is a hujiao bing!!!
Thought: The dough is crispy and crunchy...! It's like pie crust!
Thought: And the meatball inside has a stinging black pepper flavor...! The sliced onion inside is also great......
Thought: The minced pork's mild body and taste is gushing forth!!
Guy: It's extremely gooooooooooood!!

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Megumi: ......!
Voice: Oh! This is it! Yukihira Souma's booth.
Voice: Oh! The student that got to the election's finals, huh!
Souma: ......The meatballs...They're still too weak.
Souma: The taste, body...And the meat's juiciness isn't nearly enough...
Souma: The dough looks pretty good like this, though.
Sign: Testing
Souma: Maybe we should add more spare ribs?
Ikumi: Yo...How are your tests going?
Ikumi: There are still plenty of Chinese seasonings,
Ikumi: Like oyster sauce, XO sauce...And countless spices!

p9
Ikumi: I tried making Dongpo pork for the election's preliminaries too...So I realized just how deep that topic is.
Souma: I see...Chinese cuisine's Má Là Wèi is also created using spices!
Souma: The curry competition during the election...How to use spices...
Souma: I should be able to use what I learned back then...!
Souma: Thanks, Nikumi!!
Ikumi: D...Don't just go and hold my hands!!
Souma(thinks): How about this...!?
Souma(thinks): Freshly-ground black pepper...
Souma(thinks): Fragrant mild sesame oil!
Souma(thinks): I added the spice mixture that's a must for Chinese food, "Five-spice powder",
Souma(thinks): And "star anise" to amplify the flavor and knead them in!
Souma(thinks): I wrapped the meatball and the sliced onions in the dough and baked it all---

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Ikumi: This is great...!!
Ikumi: It's good, Yukihira!
Megumi: Yes...! It's amazing! With this-
Megumi: We might win against the Chinese R.S.---!!
Terunori: I actually think going for hujiao bing was a pretty good idea.
Terunori: Sure, it's still Chinese
Terunori: But you can show the difference with the Sichuan cuisine I specialize in.
Terunori: And most of all, you can actually enslave the people who eat them with the black pepper's hearty spiciness and the overflowing meat juice.
Terunori: But you know,
Terunori: It's all meaningless if the customers don't put them inside their mouths.

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Terunori: Listen well, Yukihira-chin,
Terunori: The Moon Banquet Festival
Terunori: Is different from "Shokugeki", where the judges must eat both dishes!
Terunori: Customers will only go to the booths of powerful people,
Terunori: It's only natural, isn't it?

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Shouts: Sei
Terunori: Now, now, now, come taste our charming Sichuan dishes!
Terunori: The Chinese R.S.' special dish, "Mapo Doufu",
Terunori: Stir-fried Water Spinaches with Sichuan pepper,
Terunori: Jiaozi with Chili Oil,
Terunori: Mouth-watering Chicken!!

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Guy: So hooooooooot!!
Voice: W...Water! Wateeer!
Woman: ......But...
Woman: I can't stop eating......!!!
Girl: Wah! What's with this pompous booth?
Girl: It says it has Sichuan dishes! Let's go inside.
Guy: The Elite Ten's...Eighth seat...huh.
Guy: Today...Let's eat in that booth...
Megumi: !!

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Megumi: W...We have hujiao biiiing! Eat it while it’s hot!
Megumi: It's only one plum ticket!
Souma: Come by, come byyyy!

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Terunori: Ooooone...Twoooo...
Terunori: .........So maaaany...

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Terunori: Wah! Amazing, you got this much!
Terunori: Well that's great, you got many customers!
Terunori: I'm happy for you as your senpai!
Terunori: Tootsuki's future sure looks bright!
Megumi: .........!!!
Megumi(thinks): There's such a big difference...!!
Terunori: If you didn't try to eat up my sales...And just set your booth on other area,
Terunori: You would've had a fun, fun academy festival,
Terunori: Wouldn't you?

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Guy: Chief...
Terunori: ......Ah, we used up all the ingredients for today? Roger that.
Terunori: Ok, ok, ok! Let's close up for the day!
Terunori: Setup team, begin preparing for tomorrow too, ok?
All: Yeah!!!
Megumi(thinks): W-w-wh-wh-what should we dooooo!!?
Megumi(thinks): We're definitely deep in red for the first day!!
Megumi: Even though Souma-kun m-m-m-might get expelled for this...!!
Souma: You know...I didn't think we'd be able compete with him for the first day,
Souma: But to think they would sell this badly.
Megumi: This is no laughing matter!!!

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Megumi(thinks): Souma-kun...Do you......
Megumi(thinks): Do you have any plan---...?
Souma: Well...
Souma: Here we go.
Man: ......Hm?
Man: There was another booth here...
Cutlery: The stall disappeared, just why...!?
Man: When did it disappear?
Shokugeki no Soma
(cutlery) 125/End
Does Souma have any chance to win...!? Next issue, center color pages!!