62: Skills

Skills

Please forgive my mistakes, they are not intentional1

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The arena went quiet as the demon of the gourmet world took the first bite. Without any notice, Senzaemon's clothes busted out leaving him with his old fashioned underwear, His face displayed pleasure, his face was red from how hot the noodles are, he didn't care about how hot it is, he didn't care about burning his tongue. All he knows is that he needs to eat more, the flavor is calling for.

"Senzaemon-dono?!!" The bald chibi old man who was with Senzaemon as a judge looked in shock at the strong reaction displayed by Senzaemon, his fellow judges all had the same shocked face...Let's not talk about the students in the audience Arena, their reactions can't be described in one word.

The other judges follow after Senzaemon and took a taste, and what a taste?!

It was a roller coaster of flavors, each one is as strong as the other.

"Oooh!! What is that?!!" Rindo jumped up and down as she saw Senzaemon and the others fall in love with the noodles dish "I want to taste it too!!" She said with glowing eyes

Senzaemon opened his eyes and found himself in the lands of flavors. He could swear he saw a chicken running away from a man made of noodles.

'What is this?!!' He thought

The noodle man looked at Senzaemon and snouted "Senzaemon-chan, come and catch this chicken with me!!"

Senzaemon was stunned but an unknown force moved his body after the chicken, after a while he was able to catch

"Now eat." Ordered the noodle man

Again, that unknown force forced Senzaemon too eat the living chicken even though he realizes it is not cooked.

But he couldn't be thankful enough, for that force he was able to experience another wave of chicken flavors

The audience were amazed, even the MC girl couldn't comment on the situation and just waited for the results.

Soon, the pleasure from the noodle dish made by Alexander started to die down as Senzaemon followed by the other Judges came back from the flavor lands.

Senzaemon looked down at his empty plate and then Alexander, he wished he could get more but Alas, there seems to be no more.

And to confirm that, Alexander who was sitting back at his station shook his head and shrugging his shoulders.

"Excuse me..." The deep voice of Subaru came from behind the MC girl scaring her like a cat.

"I am ready to serve my dish." He claimed shamelessly

[Mimasaki Subaru is ready to serve his dish, please pay attention!] She announced

Subaru passed by Alexander as they glanced at each other, the way they eyed each other were matched as if they were the same person. But they didn't dwell so much on the matter and Subaru proceeds to present his dish.

When Senzaemon uncovered the bowl, it was the same dish as Alexander, the same decoration, the same ingredients, but... What about the taste?!!

"You have an interesting ability there, young child!" Said the chibi judge beside Senzaemon

"Indeed." Senzaemon smiled, he wasn't disturbed by the fact that he copied Alexander's dish, it is not his place to be upset about it.

He has a mission and that is to judge each individual dish.

The judges took a sample as a smile formed on their lips, it grows with each bite they took.

Soon, Senzaemon stripped again from the explosive taste, he closed his eyes to fully understand the mechanism of this dish and value its true taste.

No sooner, the judges came back to reality.

[The tasting is complete, I wonder who's dish will prevail?!!]

"Both dishes were fantastic, I can feel the dedication put into the two," said one judge

"I can't agree more." Said Senzaemon "Alas...Only one dish can win." He continued as he stood up and picked up a giant brush and started swinging powerfully as he wrote Alexander's name

The crowd screamed as Alexander announced as the winner.

In the waiting room, Alice jumped with her fist in the air "YES!!!" She shouted

Takumi looked at her as he rubbed his ear "Be quite Will you? You almost broke my eardrums!" He said

"Whatever...I am just happy that Alexander won." Said Alice

In the Chandra's room, Subaru could not believe his own ears and eyes.

'I...I...I lost...?!!' He thought 'No, that can't be...My tracing worked perfectly, NO!!'

Alexander was looking with a smirk at the breaking down boy in front of him

"That is really an amazing ability...." Said Alexander as he tapped Subaru's shoulder

Subaru slapped his hand off "Shut up!! I did not lose, he must've sided with you! There is no way my tracing didn't work on you!" Subaru pointed at Senzaemon who returned to his resting position

"It did work, that's what got me angry back then," said Alexander with shrug "If you didn't have that little provoking conversation back then, I guess we could have tied or worst, you could even win over me. "

"Then how?!!" He shouted, Subaru wanted to know how he lost if his tracing was working just fine

"Simple, you traced my behavior as a chef, which allowed you to tap on a few skills of mine...but in the end, you are still far weaker to obtain my [Absolute Flavor] Ability." Alexander left the stage and went down as he waved at Subaru who was stunned

"Come and challenge me once you've become stronger." He said.

As Alexander passed by the judges, he heard the words he didn't wish to hear now

"Alexander..." Senzaemon called. Alexander flinched and turned with a fake smile at him

"Yes, grandfather?" He asked

"We will talk after this tournament, so be sure you don't disappear like always." Senzaemon looked at Alexander with pressuring Alexander who laughed awkwardly at that.

"Of course not." Said Alexander, he went down the passage out of the stage and left the room

'Just get Alzheimer already' he thought.

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