Cuisine!
It can express emotions.
It can also warm a person's entire life!
Despite possessing the God Tongue, Nagiri Mana, during her student days,
actually most enjoyed immersing herself alone in the atmosphere of appetizers, soups, side dishes, main courses, and red wine at high-end restaurants, carefully savoring the Chef's intentions.
Sometimes, she would also stroll around a bit, and if she felt hungry again, she would eat her favorite fried foods, wontons, and barbecues at familiar restaurants.
It was evident.
Unlike her daughter, who disdained commoner cuisine,
Nagiri Mana, when she was young, did not feel that those ordinary shops would diminish her status.
On the contrary, the human touch there made her feel a different kind of happiness!
It's just that such a feeling might no longer exist.
Now, she couldn't even find the most exquisite caviar delicious.
So, how could the shops and places in these food streets possibly catch her eye?
...
"I often thought about it."
"If, in time, a dish appeared that I could truly love, what would it be like?"
"Japan wagyu?"
"Australian lobster?"
"Korean ginseng?"
"Bluefin tuna?"
"Or Iberian ham, caviar?"
"These ingredients, representing the world's rarest, have never truly made me feel fond of them."
"So I always believed that what could truly move me must be a super dish full of the essence of various ingredients!"
"However, I never expected that the dish that would ultimately conquer the God Tongue would be a fried rice dish made of spinach, qingjiang vegetable, and rice."
At this point, Nagiri Mana, who had fully recovered her senses,
her originally aloof beautiful face, when looking at Sosuke, immediately showed a look of respect.
Clearly, she was finally deeply impressed by Sosuke's talent and cuisine.
And after that, she even quickly got up and bowed to Sosuke, softly saying, "Sosuke, thank you!"
"It is your cuisine that allowed me to see hope again in the darkest moment of my life."
...
"Wuwuwu!"
"This is wonderful, truly wonderful!"
"I... I... wuwuwu... I really don't know how to thank you... wuwuwu..."
Beside her, seeing Mana restored to her spirits,
Annie couldn't help but cover her mouth slightly with both hands, sobbing.
Mana quickly turned her head to look at the weeping Annie, and her eyes suddenly filled with tears as well.
Recalling these past years, in her most helpless moments, the only person who had ever stayed by her side was this loyal secretary, and thus her heart also felt a little warm.
"Annie, you've worked hard all these years!"
Finally, she could only slightly raise her hand to gently pat Annie's shoulder, saying softly.
Annie, hearing this, immediately shook her head, raised her tear-filled eyes, and firmly said, "It's not hard. Compared to the pain you, Lady Mana, have endured in your life, what does my effort and hardship count for?"
"Moreover, without your guidance and support in the beginning, how could I, with my own foolish aptitude, have become a first-class executive officer of the WGO?"
"So for you, I would even die willingly."
"Annie, I should be thanking you!"
Looking deeply at Annie, Nagiri Mana's heart was filled with satisfaction.
...
The strong.
They are respected everywhere.
Especially in this culinary era where "cuisine is supreme."
A Chef like Sosuke, who is young and possesses superb cooking skills, can even more so earn Nagiri Mana's respect!
After all, to be able to create a dish that conquers the God Tongue with just a few ordinary ingredients, based on this courage and ability alone, she had to be completely convinced.
It's even not an exaggeration to say that in the future, it might be impossible for another Chef like Sosuke to appear in the entire world!
And she, possessing the God Tongue ability, is destined to be unable to leave Sosuke's cuisine from now on.
"Ever since I left Nakiri."
"In these past ten-plus years, I have been constantly searching for various cuisines and delicacies all over the world."
"Along the way, I also met many talented Chefs."
"Their dishes were not lacking in excellent works, nor were they lacking in creative ideas that made my eyes light up."
"But for some reason, no matter how hard they tried, they just couldn't conquer the God Tongue with their cuisine, nor could they gain my approval."
"The food they made was always difficult for me to swallow."
"Perhaps."
"The entire culinary world now."
"For any Chef, I, Nagiri Mana, am that insurmountable high wall."
"It's just that this high wall was broken by a fried rice dish in an Izakaya tonight."
"So in a sense, Sosuke, you are in my mind, the strongest Chef in this world, without a doubt!"
After venting years of emotions with Annie, Nagiri Mana refocused her gaze on Sosuke, then truthfully spoke her thoughts.
"Ah?"
"The world... the strongest in the world?"
Annie wiped her tears.
Upon hearing Nagiri Mana give such a high evaluation of Sosuke, she couldn't help but be surprised again.
One must know that every year, "THE·BOOK" updates its three-star restaurants, and the Chefs of these three-star restaurants basically represent the pinnacle of power in this world!
And yet, none of these Chefs had managed to gain Nagiri Mana's approval!
As a result, Sosuke, with just one Comet Fried Rice dish, was able to earn the title of "Strongest in the World" from Nagiri Mana?
Annie couldn't help but feel a little dazed, as if she were in a very ethereal and illusory dream.
But this dream... was ultimately too real!
...
"Alas!"
"It's just a pity."
"I cannot eat this fried rice dish every day."
"Otherwise, one day I would also, as before, grow tired of it once the God Tongue adapted to the taste!"
Although Sosuke's cuisine had reached a realm that even the God Tongue had never reached,
the God Tongue also evolves. When it grows to adapt to the taste of Comet Fried Rice someday in the future, then she, Mana, would still not escape the fate of starving to death.
But truthfully, such a result already made her quite satisfied.
After all, for a dying person, to be able to taste a dish she truly loved again before death, there were truly no regrets!
Moreover, just thinking back to those Chefs who aimed to conquer the God Tongue.
They all ended up having their mental state completely collapse because their own culinary skills couldn't keep up with the evolution speed of the God Tongue. Some even, due to this psychological trauma, never returned to the kitchen again.
Therefore, Nagiri Mana was very afraid in her heart and did not want Sosuke to suffer the same fate as them.
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