Sapporo, the fifth most populous city in Japan, is also the core of the Sapporo metropolitan area. Even in the coldest month of winter, pedestrians are still coming and going on the streets. Under the sun, this city wrapped in white new clothes shines with shining light, as proud as day. girl.
At this time, two girls who were both known as "cold" in front of others were walking on the streets of Sapporo, looking here and there, but they didn't seem to have much interest in this unique city.
Nakiri Erina and her group came to Sapporo, and it was difficult to go shopping with so many people, so everyone formed their own teams and went to kill time.
Tasori Erina and Nito Hisako were taken away by Nakiri Alice. Nakiri Erina knew that Nito Hiko usually had a hard time taking care of herself, so she specially gave her half a day off so that she didn't have to wait by her side, and Nakiri Erina Ito, Tadokoro and the others went to play for a while and give themselves some time.
Yukihira Souma and Takemi hugged each other and ran away to who knows where. They just hoped that they would not lose track of time.
Meisaku was so high-spirited that he didn’t know what he was doing alone. The three former “Ten Elites” Isshiki Kei, Kuga Teruki, and Megijima Fuyuke were in a very good mood. They found an hourly room to rest, and they didn’t He needs to relax and regulate his emotions, but instead he is trying his best to adjust himself for tomorrow's battle.
"Tsk, junior fellow student is so slow, why aren't you here yet?"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu kicked the slush on the road and complained softly.
"Uh, Shiyu, it's only been five minutes since you hung up the phone. How could it be so fast..."
Regarding Kasumigaoka Shiwa's words, even Nakiri Erina couldn't bear to listen. She reminded Kasumigaoka Shiwa.
"Ah, is that so?"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu was stunned.
There was a narrowing in Nakiri Erina's eyes: "Is it because someone is missing from your side, so you feel that time passes very slowly?"
"That's not the case!"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu hurriedly denied it like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
"Well, really? Then on the plane, why did you keep saying 'junior' was longer and 'junior' was shorter?"
The narrow-mindedness in Nakiri Erina's eyes was even stronger.
Kasumigaoka Shiu crossed his arms and raised his head slightly and said: "I was worried that he would take some unreliable means of transportation and wouldn't be able to reach Sapporo at night. Who knew that he would have already reached his destination first? It's really impossible. Look away, you troublesome guy!”
Hearing Kasumigaoka Shiu's defense, Nakiri Erina wanted to laugh, but she felt that Kasumigaoka Shiu's current appearance seemed very familiar...
Uh, why do you have this strange feeling of looking at yourself through the mirror?
This inexplicable feeling made Nakiri Erina swallow back all the teasing words, otherwise it would feel like she would hurt her enemy a thousand times and hurt herself a thousand times.
Kasumigaoka Shiha thought that Nakiri Erina wanted to say something else, so she quickly changed the subject and said: "Erina, is this your first time in Hokkaido? It's my first time. Although it's very cold, it's so different from Tokyo. , it feels beautiful!”
Nakiri Erina, who had some scruples, saw Kasumigaoka Shiu change the topic, and also took advantage of the donkey down the slope to follow Kasumigaoka Shiu's words: "I have been here several times. I came with my grandfather when I was a child. After all, there are many Totsuki in Hokkaido. Industry, and Hokkaido is a very important food supply place for Japan. It is our responsibility and obligation as the successor of Totsuki to put pressure on the big food suppliers and make them fearful while gaining their dependence. And I I also came here last month to take the upgrade exam with everyone, but the result..."
As a result, he didn't do well as the heir. He took his classmates to take the promotion exam together and promised to pass it together, but he didn't succeed either.
Nakiri Erina sighed. She always felt that her life was a bit of a failure. She failed to protect the things she wanted to protect...
When she was at the Mingshan Apartment, Nakiri Erina could temporarily escape from her worries in the name of special training. Now that the decisive battle is approaching, she is a little upset when she thinks that she will once again carry everyone's expectations to fight. Messy.
No matter how outstanding she is, no matter how talented she is, in the final analysis, Erina Nakiri is just a sixteen-year-old girl, but she has to shoulder the hope of the Japanese cooking world, the future of Totsuki Academy, and the responsibility of her companions. Expectation, this is too heavy for her.
"So, do your best this time, Erina!" Kasumigaoka Shiu hugged Nakiri Erina and said, "What's the big deal if you fail once or twice? When my first volume of the novel was published, it was still being criticized online. I almost shut myself down because of the scolding! But what does it matter? Get up and write the second volume, otherwise? If you are immersed in failure, will success take pity on you and run in front of you? How can there be such a good thing!"
"So, go up to your bastard father, slap him in the face with victory, and tell him that all the talented students he recruited are trash, and you are the best!"
The more Kasumigaoka Shiu talked, the more excited she became. She actually didn't know much about the situation at Totsuki Academy, but she knew that her father took away her daughter's position as commander-in-chief and forced her daughter to risk her own life. How could this happen? It seems that there is something wrong with her father, so she is definitely on Nakiri Erina's side.
"Shiyu, what are you doing!"
Nakiri Erina raised her elbow to push Kasumigaoka Shiu away.
"Don't always look so gloomy! Come on, little girl, give your sister a smile!"
Kasumigaoka Shiha hugged Nakiri Erina forcefully, and at the same time lightly ran her fingers across Nakiri Erina's smooth chin, causing goosebumps to appear on Nakiri Erina's skin.
"Idiot, what are you doing!"
Nakiri Erina was ashamed and annoyed.
"whee!"
Kasumigaoka Shiha couldn't help laughing when she saw that she had successfully "eliminated" Nakiri Erina's depression.
"Sure enough, Erina, you are cuter like this. That expression of bitterness and hatred doesn't match you at all!"
Kasumigaoka Shiu continued to hug Nakiri Erina.
"Shiyu, I'm going to be angry if you do this again!"
Nakiri Erina was moved and angry at the same time, and the expression on her face was almost confused.
Nakiri Erina is over 1.6 meters tall, while Kasumigaoka Shiu is 1.7 meters tall. The two are hugging each other, and both are wearing bulky windbreakers and hats. At a glance, outsiders might think they are a young couple having fun. .
Just as the two were fighting, a strong gust of wind passed by. Yan Kai braked suddenly in the snow. His body was involuntarily affected by inertia and drew forward several meters, leaving two traces on the snow.
He stopped and looked at Kasumigaoka Shiu and Nakiri Erina, who were hugging each other with a troubled face: "Well, it seems that I came at the wrong time..."
Kasumigaoka Shiu and Nakiri Erina were startled by Yan Kai's sudden appearance. They kept hugging each other and didn't know how to respond to Yan Kai for a while.
Yan Kai blinked, then turned his back and waved to the two of them: "You guys play slowly, I'd better go find Xiao Hui and the others."
After taking a few steps forward, he suddenly stopped, turned back carefully, lowered his voice and said to the two of them: "Well, actually I don't discriminate against that, so you..."
"Go to hell!"
Kasumigaoka Shiu and Nakiri Erina finally reacted and separated from each other like an electric shock. Then they picked up a ball of snow from the roadside and threw it at Yan Kai in a neat movement.
This bastard Central Plains man can't spit out ivory from his mouth!
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In the afternoon, taking a ship, the "rebel" team headed by Nakiri Erina finally arrived at the last stop of the Totsuki promotion exam, which was also the stage for the decisive battle with the "Gourmet Central Organization", the remote island.
"By the way, do you, Totsuki Academy, have a dark heart? It's been more than a month, New Year's Day has passed, and your school doesn't even have a holiday."
Yan Kai said to Nakiri Erina while getting off the boat.
The private school's winter vacation has been over for several days, but the final exam (promotion exam) of Totsuki Academy has not yet ended. This is really an eye-opener for Yan Kai.
"You have to take care of it! As a quasi-professional cook who will shoulder the future of Japanese cuisine, if you don't even have this awareness, you can just go home to celebrate the New Year and never have to come to Yuanyue to go to school again!"
Nakiri Erina said angrily to Yan Kai, but her anger was partly because it was hard to say what Yan Kai said just now.
The time span for Totsuki Academy's first-year promotion exam is a bit long. It takes more than a month. By the time the exam is over, other schools may have to start school. And in the middle of the exam, students will certainly not be able to leave or take a vacation. , otherwise it will be treated as a waiver. In other words, the New Year is a very important festival for Japanese people, and Yuanyue students also spend it in exams.
This may be telling Totsuki's students that if they want to be an excellent cook, holidays such as New Year's Day are non-existent, because the more such holidays, the busier it is for cooks.
Think about the world-renowned "God of Sushi" Jiro Ono. He has dedicated his life to cooking. Don't talk about festivals. He works every day, 365 days a year. 996 is nothing, he is 007 I have been working in the industry for nearly 80 years. Except for attending the funerals of friends, I have never had a day off. This is the spirit that a cook should have...
Okay, the above is all made up. Totsuki Academy is a black-hearted school that doesn’t even spare students during the New Year. There’s nothing to say about it.
"Erina, has no one come to this island for a long time?"
After getting off the boat, Kasumigaoka Shiha pulled Erina Nakiri's sleeve and said.
Nakiri Erina pulled back her sleeves, and at the same time kept a distance from Kasumigaoka Shiu, and then answered her: "How is it possible? Although the offshore islands are not used many times every year, Totsuki Academy's first grade upgrade every year The final exams are all held here, and all the current first-year students on the island are taking the final exams, how can it be that no one has come for a long time!"
"Then how did this pier become so dilapidated..."
Kasumigaoka Shiha pointed at the dock floor that looked like it had been plowed by an excavator.
Nakiri Erina was also stunned for a moment. She was also a little confused and couldn't understand how this place could become like this.
After all, it is a place with two boats a day, but not twice a year. How could the pier be in such a dilapidated state!
Is it because the staff on the island are negligent in their duties? But no matter how neglectful it is, it won’t be like this! It would be better to say that the nuclear leakage in Fukushima spread to the waters of Hokkaido, and then a Godzilla was born near the outlying island, and it just came ashore to look for food!
"Junior, what do you think this is going on? Haven't you been here before? Was this how you were when you came?"
Xia Zhiqiu Shiyu asked Yan Kai, but saw Yan Kai looking up at the sky, as if he had not heard Xia Zhiqiu Shiyu's words.
"Junior, what are you doing!"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu raised her voice and said.
"It depends on the weather." Yan Kai said to Kasumigaoka Shiyu, "The wind is very noisy today, it should be a sunny day tomorrow!"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu was stunned for a moment. Is there any necessary connection between the noisy wind today and the sunny day tomorrow?
But considering that Yan Kai seems to have said that he can predict the weather, and his prediction seems to be very accurate... let's just take what he said as true!
"Wow, that's amazing. Is this an outlying island? It's indeed Yuanyue's territory. It's really unique!"
When Nakiri Erina was upset, Yukihira Soma also got off the boat and exclaimed when he saw the ruined pier.
Chic? Your home is so unique!
Even though she knew that Kohei Souma was the child of the person she admired, Nakiri Erina still found this guy to be unusually annoying.
"What is this place...Miss Erina, do you know what is happening here?"
Tadokoro was startled by the miserable appearance of the dock in front of her, so she asked Nakiri Erina.
Other people came down one after another. Although they had long been prepared that they would not be welcomed, but... just to make the pier like this just to not welcome them, it would be a big deal.
"I don't know what's going on..." Nakiri Erina glanced sideways, "Do you know what's going on?"
"I don't know, it was like this when I left..." a certain instigator said calmly.
"You don't know either..."
Nakiri Erina frowned, feeling a little confused. Why did she say "when she left" like this? Shouldn't she usually say "when she came"?
Just when Nakiri Erina wanted to ask Yankai again, Aku ran over quickly with a huge bamboo rat in his mouth.
Yan Kai left Nakiri Erina and took the bamboo rat from Ajiu's mouth.
"Hmm...Ajiu, do you want me to help cook it?"
Yan Kai asked Ah Jiu.
"Woof woof!"
Ah Jiu twisted her buttocks desperately.
Its tail is only short, and it must coordinate with such movements to show that it is wagging its tail.
Throwing the fainted bamboo rat on the ground, Ah Jiu quickly ran to the woods next to the pier, and came there to pick up a dozen unconscious bamboo rats.
This is all the result of its time, hehe!
"This is... a bamboo rat, right?" Tadokoro looked at a pile of bamboo rats about the same size as adult cats on the ground and said, "But wild bamboo rats carry viruses, so you can't eat them!"
Yan Kai picked up a bamboo rat and looked through it for a while, then said to Tian Suo Hui: "Judging from the hair, it should not be wild, but artificially raised."
"Oh, that's it, then you can eat it!"
Tadokoro showed a happy smile, then looked at the plump bamboo rat and swallowed his saliva.
"This thing looks so disgusting..."
Kasumigaoka Shiu looked at the bamboo rat that seemed to be able to fight with a cat, and felt a psychological repulsion towards this animal that was very similar to a rat.
"Then senior sister, you don't want to eat it? The bamboo rat meat is fragrant but not greasy, it's delicious!"
Yan Kai asked.
"No, I want to barbecue, remember to add cumin!"
Psychological rejection is nothing compared to the yearning for delicious food, Kasumigaoka Shiyu said decisively.
