Reborn in Japan as a Chef God
Chapter 384 - 383: The Horn’s Call

Chapter 384: Chapter 383: The Horn’s Call

The gaze returned to Tokyo.

In the scorching summer heat, undercurrents surged.

Ten days had passed since the Super Chef summer examination, but gastronomic media, forums, and the culinary world were still discussing that thrilling evaluation.

In fact, there was no fixed time for the Super Chef examination.

Sometimes there weren’t enough candidates during off-years, failing to meet the minimum requirement of six examiners, resulting in a natural delay of the exam.

Other times, it was due to a lack of the latest scientific research achievements.

You see, every Super Chef examination topic is related to a new Fantasy Ingredient.

The discovery, cultivation, and market introduction of Fantasy Ingredients require a time cycle. The most explosive Super Chef examination in Neon’s history occurred about ten years ago when nearly twenty candidates waited a whole two years for the examination topic.

Xia Yu was the focal point of the summer examination, the subject of much attention and discussion. His departure from Tokyo couldn’t be concealed, after all, Xia’s Restaurant had been closed for some time. There was much speculation about his whereabouts both online and offline.

Of course, aside from Xia Yu, there were several other noteworthy new Super Chefs in this examination period.

Nakajima Sei.

The come-from-behind loser dubbed the ’King of the Losers’ by the food media, a model of a reversal.

Ujou Mamie.

The Curry Queen under the HUB Group. Just two days ago, the Chiyoda sisters and Ujou Mamie announced their renewed contract, wherein Ujou Mamie would receive a portion of HUB Food’s stock, continuing to serve the Chiyoda sisters’ culinary group. Granting stock was a common strategy to secure Super Chefs’ allegiance by offering them a stake in profits.

Lastly, there was Beiyexiu.

Compared to others, Beiyexiu was the easiest to overlook.

Like Xia Yu, Beiyexiu vanished after the examination, but today, he appeared at an underground research facility in Hokkaido.

"Click!"

The isolation room door opened, and a naked Beiyexiu stepped out. Two staff members in white lab coats were taking measurements of Beiyexiu, who had suddenly grown taller, his physique broadened and inflated.

A round of applause followed.

Mars and Elizabeth appeared.

"Not bad!" Mars praised, "You’ve endured the pain and made it through. Now, you are a true backbone of the Gourmet Society!"

"Here is your identity badge!"

Elizabeth stepped forward and handed a bronze-colored badge to Beiyexiu.

The badge was as small as a button.

Beiyexiu trembled as he held the badge in his palm.

"How do you feel?" Mars continued, "What you’ve been implanted with is the Gourmet Society’s latest development in visual enhancement cells..."

"Dust!"

Beiyexiu exclaimed, "I can see the particulate matter in the air!"

"Is that all?" Mars and Elizabeth exchanged a look of disappointment.

"Is there more?"

"I feel like I could eat a whole cow!" Beiyexiu, touching his stomach, bared a fierce grin, "So this is the ’Demon’s Stomach’ you get after acquiring a Gourmet Cell!"

Were these just the most basic Gourmet Cells?

Mars pondered.

"Next, you must find ingredients that can evolve your Gourmet Cells." he told Beiyexiu seriously, "Right now, your Demon’s Stomach is only at the most primitive stage of enhanced digestive ability!"

"Also, be wary of the side effects!"

"A Gourmet Demon can devour food, but it can just as easily consume yourself!"

Beiyexiu nodded.

Mars and Elizabeth planned to leave when Beiye suddenly said, "Has the culinary battle between Xia Yu and Yuchuan Ayaka ended?"

Hesitating slightly, Elizabeth replied, "Their culinary battle hasn’t begun yet! In ten more days, at the end of July."

"Phew..."

Beiye let out a sigh of relief, "I can finally go challenge ’Neon’s youngest ever Super Chef’ before their culinary battle!"

"To defeat him before Yuchuan Ayaka!" Beiye clearly couldn’t reconcile with his own failure in the Super Chef evaluation.

Although he passed the evaluation, that kid had stolen all the limelight.

Upon hearing this,

Mars, his back to him, suddenly looked grim.

"What are you planning to do?" Mars’s voice was filled with anger, "The preliminary awakening of your gourmet cells has not enhanced your culinary skills one bit. You must understand, gourmet cells are merely an aid! A tool!"

"Fantasizing that gourmet cells will lead you to defeat a strong opponent is just a fool’s dream and will eventually backfire on you!"

"Stay in the lab this month!"

Leaving a stern command behind, Mars and Elizabeth left together.

At the entrance of the lab,

Elizabeth, sitting in the back seat of a car with her legs crossed, giggled, "Neon’s youngest ever Super Chef, that nickname really does attract envy. Beiye has always been quite composed, unexpectedly, even he couldn’t resist. No wonder Yuchuan Ayaka issued a culinary battle, if that guy was in the United States, I would have been the one to initiate it."

"Right, Uncle!"

The woman with the air of a blonde princess clapped her hands and continued, "The culinary battle is in just ten days, who do you favor?"

"I’ve heard that many culinary battle betting agencies opened their books the very night the Super Chef evaluation ended. Guess who, between that guy and Yuchuan Ayaka, is most favored? I know the wildest odds are like 1 to 9; Yuchuan Ayaka’s victory odds are 1 point something, that guy’s victory odds are 9..."

Elizabeth’s lips curled up with a playful smile, "It seems these betting agencies unanimously favor Yuchuan Ayaka. And thinking about it, it makes sense, after all, this woman has mastered a ’killer’ dish. Even against her, the odds of winning are only fifty-fifty for me!"

"These odds..."

Mars couldn’t help but be moved.

...

At the Yuchuan Main House in Chiyoda.

The Yuchuan Family had quietly held a meeting today.

Branch families and the prestigious elders in the culinary world gathered together.

Yuchuan Xin was the contemporary House Chief of the Yuchuan Family, managing all internal affairs of the main and branch families, in other words, he was the de facto leader of the ’Yuchuan Clan’ within the ’Four Great Houses.’

There were a total of eleven Super Chefs present.

Of course, these Super Chefs, bearing the Yuchuan surname, were family members; in fact, the vast Yuchuan family had many chefs from different surnames.

Scanning the Super Chefs kneeling behind the each desk, some of whom were already grey-haired, while the youngest among them had already married and had children in middle school, Yuchuan Xin inwardly sighed.

The ’Four Great Houses’ had encountered a common dilemma in recent years, with no new Lin Chefs, not even any candidates!

Therefore, when Yuchuan Ayaka had revealed her extraordinary culinary talent, she became the deserved princess of the Yuchuan Clan. Yuchuan Xin visited the head of the Shi Lin Temple for several months and finally convinced the figure to take his daughter as the lowest level apprentice.

Yuchuan Ayaka didn’t waste her talent, eventually becoming one of the representative apprentices of this generation at Shi Lin Temple.

Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump...

At this moment, a series of ethereal footsteps echoed from outside the corridor of the He Feng House.

Inside, the group of Super Chefs with the Yuchuan surname, as if by an unspoken agreement, halted their conversation and looked towards the door.

The eldest daughter of the Yuchuan family, the pearl of the clan, Yuchuan Ayaka, carried in a lacquered food box, stepped inside lightly, and placed the box on the main table. She knelt down, composedly lifted the lid of the food box, and then sat up straight with her eyelids slightly lowered.

"Wow—"

The very moment the lid was lifted, a faint sound of waves began to fill the room!

The Super Chefs of the Yuchuan Clan widened their eyes, "Is this Ayaka’s ’killer’ dish?"