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To replicate Yuuki's dish, one had to possess the same knife skills as Yuuki. But was that even possible? Gin Dojima felt that if you gathered all the chefs in the world, no one could compare to Yuuki in knife skills.
So, it would be entirely impossible for them to replicate Yuuki's dish on their own. Of course, they could seek technological assistance. After all, with how advanced technology was these days, replicating Yuuki's kind of beef noodles wasn't a problem.
However, although it could be done with machines, what a machine made would be completely different from what Yuuki made.
Machines didn't have Yuuki's Evolving Touch. Yuuki's Evolving Touch combined with Inferno allowed him to bring out the flavor of his beef noodles to their ultimate potential. Machines couldn't achieve this—they could only destroy the ingredients' taste.
So, this dish had already become Yuuki's specialty. It was simply inimitable.
"Shinomiya-senpai admitted defeat before even finishing his dish?!"
A group of people couldn't help but exclaim.
They wouldn't claim to know much about Kojiro Shinomiya, but for him to admit defeat without fighting—it meant Shinomiya had been certain he had no chance of winning.
For Shinomiya to think he couldn't possibly win—they couldn't imagine how strong Yuuki must be. And most importantly, Yuuki was still a student, a first-year at that.
"His dish... I couldn't possibly compare to it. And those terrifying knife skills and Fire control..."
Kojiro Shinomiya shook his head as he spoke.
Just thinking about that dish made him feel somewhat helpless—he had felt completely powerless in the face of that dish.
After he finished speaking, the others continued to press him for more information. Shinomiya also knew that if he didn't tell them at least some details about that dish, they wouldn't let him off.
Helplessly, Shinomiya could only tell them about Yuuki's cooking process, omitting the Raging Bull Blue Dragon Slash. Everyone learned of Yuuki's incredible abilities—those knife skills, truly out of this world.
He had reached a level only machines could achieve, something normally impossible for humans.
"Yuuki is really amazing! While we've seen it before, I didn't expect him to be so strong that even Shinomiya-senpai was defeated. Unfortunately, he is destined to be unrecruitable—" Hinako Inui said, somewhat wistfully.
Hearing this, the others also nodded continuously—
Indeed, with Yuuki's Culinary skills, by the time he graduated, he might even be a First Class Chef.
How could their restaurants, run by Second Class and Third Class Chefs, possibly attract someone like that?
So, even though Yuuki was extremely outstanding, he was beyond their reach. They could only settle for other, less exceptional, students.
....
While the graduates were shocked by Yuuki's prowess, the Polar Star residents were naturally also amazed—after all, they only knew that Yuuki had clashed with Shinomiya. They hadn't expected them to have a match—
And more importantly, that Yuuki was the VICTOR. He had actually defeated Kojiro Shinomiya!
"Yuuki's becoming more and more incredible! Even defeating a graduate who is a Second Class Chef! I can't imagine what earth-shattering things he'll accomplish in the future!" Yoshino Yuki, full from dinner and relaxing in her chair, couldn't help but exclaim.
Her words echoed everyone's thoughts. While they knew Yuuki was very strong, they didn't expect him to be this strong.
Never mind them—even Soma Yukihira at this point felt that catching up to and surpassing Yuuki was a distant, almost impossible, dream.
Yuuki was too strong.
After understanding Tōtsuki's internal situation and Yuuki's Culinary skills, Soma finally realized just how large the gap was between them.
This wasn't like in the manga...
In the manga, towards the end, to quickly wrap up the story, the plot rapidly accelerated, having Soma Yukihira and his peers, who were still in school, suddenly become world-class Chefs.
Keep in mind, judging by the current situation, Soma Yukihira and the others, even after the Azami Nakiri incident, their Culinary skills would, at most, reach the Senior Chef level. They wouldn't reach Third Class.
However, THE BLUE arc directly catapulted Senior Chefs to Special Class level or even beyond, which contributed to Food Wars' less satisfying ending.
But Yuuki didn't have such concerns right now. After all, this wasn't a manga world. Soma Yukihira and the others wouldn't suddenly become super-powered.
Based on the current situation, even if Soma Yukihira, as the protagonist, developed with all his might, upon graduation, he likely wouldn't be much stronger than Jōichirō and Gin Dojima.
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"By the way, how are your preparations for the breakfast assessment coming along?" Ryōko Sakaki asked.
It was already the second day; the time for the breakfast assessment was drawing near.
"We all know there will be a breakfast assessment, but what ingredients will be used isn't fixed. Preparing anything specific is pointless." Zenji Marui shook his head.
The breakfast assessment was a Training Camp tradition; basically, all students knew about it.
And the handbook stated it clearly. Although it didn't explicitly say it, on that day, there was no bedtime, meaning they had to start preparing for the breakfast assessment that night.
However, there was now also a problem: although the breakfast assessment always existed and was common knowledge, everyone didn't know what ingredients would be used.
This was the most frustrating part.
They knew very well that there would be such an important assessment, but there was no way to prepare in advance; they could only improvise on the spot.
Tōtsuki likely took this into consideration as well. This added psychological pressure was also part of the test for students.
Some students with weaker resilience would make mistakes under pressure. Megumi Tadokoro at the beginning of the original story was like this, so this was also part of the assessment.
And the breakfast assessment was scheduled for the third day, meaning that the students wouldn't only be under mental pressure, but physical pressure as well.
"Actually, preparing in advance is possible. While we don't know the specific ingredients, there's only one key point to this breakfast assessment: how to attract customers." Yuuki said.
Although the specific ingredients were unknown, ingredients weren't the key factor.
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