God of Cooking Chapter 102 - Cooking Style (1)

Chapter 102: Cooking Style (1)

“If I’m going to be a candle that’s going to be turned off anyways, I would at least want to lit a fire on a big mountain so my shadow never disappears.”

Kaya said in her usual dignified voice…no, it was shining more than usual. Her cooking uniform made her seem more splendid than when she wore a white dress. On her face, there wasn’t her usual contorted smile but a smile that was dignified and filled with confidence.

When was it that she was cautious with other people, that now she was putting a face you couldn’t feel a trace of envy in it. It was the face Jo Minjoon admired. A dignified face you could only see from chefs. Even if it seed rough, you could feel the firmness in every word she said, as well as the ambition and desire that seed a bit dangerous. The Kaya Lotus you could only fall for and love was right there.

However, the mont Jo Minjoon extended his hand, he realized that his hand was too short. No, that he was too small. That he was an existence so small she didn’t even take him into account.

The awful low self esteem ca looking for him like a cockroach. Jo Minjoon stood up from the place with a pale face as if he had seen a horrible monster. Dream. Usually, you would feel relieved that you have woken up, but he didn’t feel like that right now. Rather, his feelings beca revolting because the dream he had just now showed his inner self.

He panted. Jo Minjoon felt his back was wet and frowned. It was a displeasing morning for many reasons.

Even after he finished showering, that feeling didn’t disappear. It was to the point that when he saw Kaya, who seed to be waiting in the hall to tell him sothing, he flinched and stepped back.

“……Did you get diarrhea?”

“Just make breakfast.”

“Now you are really treating like a maidservant. Hey, I told you that I was going to prepare breakfast until I got eliminated? It doesn’t remain much.”

“Why? Are you planning to get eliminated?”

“……No. I’m going to win.”

“If you win you will have to keep making breakfast for .”

At Jo Minjoon’s natural words, Kaya’s face beca weird.

“You really want to keep doing it?”

“I’m joking. If I get to that point, I’m not a chef, but an impostor. Well…… Even if it was half ajoke, I was surprised that you kept your promise. You have done well.”

“Hmph. You dolt. Just because I am poor, my conscience isn’t poor as well.”

“Right. I believe in you.”

Just because her nature was clean and proper could she grow until that point. He ca up with the thought that she was a star. A star he couldn’t reach but couldn’t give up on. Even with the opportunity he got, and being able to spend ti with her, was he going to fall back again?

“………You are always putting a serious face in weird places.”

“What’s weird? It’s showing the trust between people.”

“Leave it. You only made the weird person.”

Kaya twisted her lips and turned her head. He didn’t know why but he wanted to pinch her cheek, but if he did it he may get caught for physical abuse. Although Kaya wouldn’t really call the police.

When Kaya went to the pantry, Jo Minjoon went with her and checked the ingredients. Kaya looked at him as if it was unexpected.

“What happened? I don’t know about lunch, but you always left breakfast for .”

“I got so stimulation in my dream. If I don’t make more effort even in little things……”

“Whew, throw away that sincere character of yours. I do like that point from you but it feels stuffy at tis.”

Jo Minjoon smiled without any word. Originally, he had this temperant, but now that he ca all the way here he couldn’t act like this anymore. There were many people that wanted to return to the past. And he was also one among those people. Why he returned, he couldn’t know the reason. There were no reasons, and perhaps he could only have been lucky. Ti turned back, and he was given an opportunity. The opportunity to cook. If he missed this chance, Jo Minjoon couldn’t be stately to himself anymore.

“It’s because I want to be a good cook like you.”

“You are telling to make it more delicious, right?”

“It’s the breakfast made by the unparalleled Kaya Lotus, is there sothing not delicious that’s made by her?”

“Ugh, what’s with the complints? So disgusting.”

Even after saying that, she couldn’t help the corner of her mouth from rising. She was inevitably putting strength, and in the end she got angry.

“Ah! Because of you I’m smiling for nothing!”

“Then you can smile. Why are you acting that embarrassed?”

“Ah, I don’t know. I’m going to cook. Don’t talk to . The kitchen is a place where if you get sloppy for even a mont, an accident can happen! Understood?”

“Now it seems that you are looking to beco a public benefit model.”

Kaya didn’t reply and glared at him. If he saw that as a cute charm, did he have sothing weird in his eyes? Actually, just like he saw her as an existence that was no different to a an idol, perhaps feeling that way may be obvious. Kaya rubbed her eyes with her fingers and said.

“Ah, my eyes hurt. So what should I do for breakfast?”

“A porridge or paella should be fine.”

“If Chloe was here, she would be terrified because of the carbohydrates.”

“We aren’t even bodyguard…… Ah, I said bodyguard. We aren’t even bodybuilders, so there’s no need to do that. In the first place you don’t even exercise.”

“I do. I lift dumbbells, and what’s that thing you grip with your hands?”

“You do it once or twice and leave it.”

Kaya turned her eyes to the eggs instead of replying. Jo Minjoon shook his head.

“You have to do sothing about starting breakfast with eggs. I didn’t really like eating eggs for breakfast.”

“What? Why is that not delicious?”

“My mouth gets dry while I sleep, and think about putting eggs on top of that. You can only not like it.”

“That’s why you eat it along with sausages or bacon. The deliciousness of the egg is going to wash that dry mouth of yours. You really can’t understand this flavor?”

“I also don’t like eating things like bacon or sausages that have a lot of oil. I prefer roasting it.”

“Fish doesn’t have oil? I understand your cooking style, but stop acting that stubbornly!”

At Kaya’s words, Jo Minjoon face beca absentminded. He looked at Kaya’s face as if he beca possessed. Kaya frowned.

“What. What. Why.”

“………My cooking style?”

“Right. Your cooking style. What about that?”

“Do I also have a style? I……am just like that. Just cook this and that, and copy the dishes of others. Honestly speaking, the cooking thod is also that way and plain. But I have a style?”

“That plainness is your style. You stupid.”

Kaya said as if she couldn’t understand.

“Are you a machine? You are a person. If you are a person you have a character, and if you have a character that’s shown in your cooking.”

“I’m originally the tranquil type. I don’t have any colour.”

“That’s why not having any colour is your style. Why? People must always be magnificent?”

“………Then what’s the most delicious thing among the ones I made?”

“Making anything with a sauce.”

Kaya said with a calm voice. When Jo Minjoon’s eyes beca round, Kaya continued speaking.

“The flavor of your sauce is the best.”

“………And if that sauce was taken from the recipe of others?”

“That’s an obvious thing. How many people you think there are in the world that has their own recipe? If you don’t do weird things like molecular gastronomy, it would be difficult.”

“That’s right. ………But why do you seem more adult today?”

The reply didn’t co back.

The breakfast was blueberry yoghurt with toasted rye bread, butter with the aroma of basil, rolled bacon, and a spanish olette with a lot of tomato paste. Jo Minjoon ate a bite and said.

“That Tess Gilly, how is she doing nowadays? Is she quiet?”

A lot of ti has passed. It has already been almost a month since that case. Yesterday the 14th episode was broadcasted. The contents was about the mission when the top 6 remained. Now, the remaining broadcasts were three. Quarter finals, semi finals, and the finals.

‘………And there are only two missions left now.’

Jo Minjoon’s expression beca serious. Kaya gulped the rye bread sared with butter and said.

“As she makes the case bigger, it would also be announced that she is stupid. And if she’s not dumb, she won’t do it anymore. She will keep saying sothing but…… I don’t know. Martin seems to be handling it sohow.”

“Even so, compared to before you are calr.”

“Even if I do get angry, only I will be at a loss. Even so, back in the days there were many who badmouthed my past. If there is a difference to then, it would be that I can see what happens in the internet. So if I don’t, it ends there.”

“You thought well.”

“You are acting that way again. I told you not to treat like a kid?”

“Right. You aren’t a kid anymore.”

Jo Minjoon smiled. It was a smile that was mixed with satisfaction and bitterness. The complete Kaya Lotus he rembered was slowly manifesting on her. It was sothing to welco, but he was also that much fretful because it getting more difficult to chase her back.

‘At least until the finals……’

He was sorry for Anderson, but he wanted to be the one that would battle Kaya at the last mission instead of anyone else. Even if he did lose, it didn’t matter. A prize of 300 thousand dollars and Grand Chef’s fa, that was all for the second place. But the important thing was whether he could beco that kind of chef or not.

“Anyways, why isn’t Anderson coming?”

“I don’t know. He may be exercising sowhere. That impostor.”

“Impostor? Ah……Are you talking about that ti when he said that Martin called you?”

“Right. He’s sowhat weird. Isn’t it that he has so kind of disease? Why does he pull those kind of pranks? We aren’t that close to be doing that.”

Kaya pressed the olette. The tomato paste pierced through the yellow texture of the olette and flowed like blood. As he turned his sight because of the horrifying feeling, he saw Anderson getting in from the kitchen’s door.

“Are you going to eat?”

“A yoghurt and bread is enough for .”

Anderson talked like that and sat on the place with a thud. He only sat on the nearest chair, but that seat was next to Kaya of all things. Kaya glared Anderson and raised her dish and moved next to Jo Minjoon. The regrettable thing was that Anderson’s seat was in front of her.

“Hey, impostor.”

“……Are you talking about right now?”

“Right, you impostor. Because of you I couldn’t even be with Chloe properly until the end.”

“Ha, You should have done better at normal days. You are planning to do sothing for her when she leaves?”

“Shut up. You don’t have any right to say that. In the first place, why did you make that lie? Did you really do that just to make fun of ?”

Anderson didn’t reply. Kaya looked at Jo Minjoon’s face and said with a displeased face.

“See? He’s like that.”

“Endure it. Anderson, too, may have had a reason he couldn’t say it.”

“What reason……But what’s this?”

Kaya looked at what Jo Minjoon was writing. Jo Minjoon was writing sothing on the note on his handphone. But she couldn’t recognize it. It wasn’t that his handwriting was bad, but the letters were weird because it was Korean. Jo Minjoon replied with a calm voice.

“Practicing designing of recipes. I’m thinking about this and that. Just like you said, if my strongest point is the sauce, that ans that my strongest point will be shown in the recipe. I have to keep grinding and polishing it.”

“………You really work hard. But I usually thought of this but couldn’t tell you, these Korean letters look really cool.”

“It’s different depending on your handwriting. There are people that have handwriting so terrible compared to the alphabet.”

“Hmm……Ah, right. Then do that for .”

“What’s that?”

“Write my na in Korean. It would also be good if you make a Korean na.”

A Korean na. Jo Minjoon just looked at Kaya. And wrote two big letters. Kaya looked at the screen with a face full of excitent.

“How do you read this?”

“ ‘Gaya’(??) It’s the sa. You just have to kill the pronunciation a bit. And it’s also quite a pretty Korean na. In ancient tis…… There was also a country nad Geumgwan-Gaya (????) or DaeGaya (???).”

“Gu, gunganguaya? (????) Ey, I don’t know. Gaya. Gaya. Yeah. It’s good.”

Kaya wrote her na one the plate with her fork and smiled with a good mood. It has also been a while since he saw Kaya smiling cheerfully like a girl that even he started to smile unconsciously. It was then that Anderson, who was looking at the two of them, coughed.

“Do it for too.”

“Na?”

“Yeah.”

Jo Minjoon frowned. To fix the na Anderson, it could only be difficult. At the end of thinking for a long ti, Jo Minjoon slowly wrote the na on the screen. Anderson looked at the screen with expecting eyes.

“How do you read this?”

“……Anduksam (???).”

“Anduksam. Oh…… It’s certainly a na with a mysterious Asian feeling. From now on, if I go to Korea or et Koreans, I will have to tell them this na.”

“Uh……I don’t think there’s a need to do that.”

“No. I liked it. I can take a snap with my handphone and send it, right?”

“Of, of course.”

Jo Minjoon stamred and laughed awkwardly. Anduksam. If he reveals the truth later, what kind of reaction would he show……

‘………He won’t kill , right?’

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Translator: Subak

Proofreader: Saihikawa