Chapter 445 - Heart

"Haha~ it seems like this match is already decided from the very first start."

"Hmmm… this is new, a home cooking in a Shokugeki match."

"Omurice, is this real?"

"Let's taste,"

Dojima and the other and pick their spoon and scop mouth spoon full of it, then they suddenly smell something pretty nice."

"Hmm… this is quite good."

"A spice? The fragrance of Cardamom, Nutmeg, Cumin, Cloves…. Is this a curry flavor Omurice?"

"The flavor of Cardamom shoots through the nose the moment you put it in your mouth."

"But, I'm pretty surprised, it tastes like Curry even though it's an Omurice."

"The slight bitterness complements the sweetness, one would frequently find in a typical Chinese Cuisine."

"And mysteriously, i can smell the aroma of Star Anise in the dish, but I'm confused, i can't see the Star Anise at all or even see if he put it in the dish."

"Yoru right, there aren't any spices in here, so why does it smell?"

"I think I understand why he is sitting and doing nothing from the very start."

"How?"

"Haven't you ever had a pungent odor in an enclosed area permeate other things?"

"Like the smell of smoke inside of a Karaoke Box?"

"Like the car odor?"

"In those times he spends that he looks like doing nothing and flirting, he actually sealed the aroma of the spice inside of the egg by rubbing it into it."

"But how? It's almost impossible to do it within the limited amount of time."

Lou smiled and said." Time Manipulation, by doing that I can easily alter the time and make the process faster."

"A good ability, egg actually breathe, by just rubbing the spice into it made the egg breath the aroma inside of it."

"But there's still something I don't understand here." Inui said.

"And what is it."

"Egg dont last long, by making the team of the egg faster made the egg quality lower right?"

"Well you are right, that's why i use simple magic." Lou mysterious said.

Lou showed them his freezing hand.

"By freezing it the flavor of the egg change, and by doing that, the rich taste of the yellow evolves."

"Richness flavor?"

"That's right, by freezing it, the egg protein turn into a jelly-like structure, because of that, it becomes chewy and round as well as creamy, then the flavor, in general, become much richer."

"And then by adding a special mix spice that has sweet and spicy taste, i was able to make the sauce base even stronger by using cooking wine"

"But there's a problem, if I use a high-class egg there will be a different taste that will come so I chose a simple and pretty effective product."

"So I use a simple bland egg and upgrade it to a world-class egg by doing the three processes."

"I get it now," Erina said, but she still confused," But why do you even chase a bland egg, i know that you said that high-class egg will make your dish change the taste, but you can pick some S Class egg here, after all, every kind of egg available is present here."

"It's given that egg freshness is the main point, and egg freezing is new for all of us, and isn't it normal to think freshness is the best?"

Lou smiled at her and asked," I asked you a while ago, why do you cook?"

"I… I cook because it's my dream to become a world-class Chef."

Lou shook his head and passed a plate of his own cooking," Can you taste it for me? I want to hear from you the judgment of my own cooking."

Erina and the other judge were confused, why he did it but Dojima seemed to understand something from the question.

"Why are you smiling, Dojima-senpai?"

"Nothing, i just see that his couple is a pretty good combination."

Erina looked at the plate of Omurice and took the spoon, she then ate a small portion off it, after that, there's no other reaction at all.

Beside….. She ate it silently without any complaint.

Seeing this Dojima smiled and said," Okay, this is the end, no need to judge it, let's go, i think there's already a winner."

"Really?"

Inui nodded too," There is two things i discover in this match, one is the taste and the second is the hearth."

"She is right, and the result is different base on who eat the dish, and us here is just props if the dish criteria is base on the person who eat it."

"Why?"

"We taste it and judge it base on how delicious the dish,"

"That's right." All of them nodded.

"But I suddenly realize something from that boy cooking,"

"Me too!" Inui said

"Share it to us too, what is it?"

"A dish without heart is a soulless dish made for pigs," Dojima said.

All of them suddenly stop walking and seem to understand the meaning of Lou's cooking, after all, all of them are trying to make a dish that can call the peak of the dish but they suddenly forgot something pretty important.

Lou looked at her and asked, "So, how is it?"

Erina who tear dropping from her eyes look at Lou and understands why she felt different from the food she ate.

Base on the taste of the food her dish is the highest and any judge will pick her dish without any doubt, but base on heart, she can easily pick Lou's dish without a second thought, and she also discovers that her prideful dish is actually soulless dish a incomplete dish made by her own childishness.

"I….. I…. "

"So is it good or is it bad? Tell me?"

"I-It was bad!" Erina then ran while crying leaving Lou slightly dazed from her reaction.