375: Chapter 374: Raccoon 375: Chapter 374: Raccoon In Japanese cuisine, seafood and lemon juice are a very common pairing.
Even without ntioning sashimi, when eating Seafood Tempura, such as the famous Shirako Tempura, dipping it in fresh lemon juice while hot is an exquisite taste sensation that can make even the most unresponsive tongue convulse as if shocked by electricity.
“Oh, oh, oh, it’s finally here!”
The first judge, Lord Li, imdiately put down his wine pot, jumped onto his chair with a thud, and banged on the table, shouting, “isha, give it to quickly!”
“Right now, my stomach is full of alcohol…”
He patted his small belly, burped a boozy belch, and drunkenly slurred, “I need so food to sober up!”
“You drunkard!”
Beside him, the red-clothed woman gave an indignant look, her eyes hiding a sliver of helplessness.
The drunken Lord Li was clearly unreliable, and she sensed sothing was amiss, glancing at the judges from the third and fifth seats, her lips silently moving as if conversing and negotiating with them.
This scene caught Xia Yu’s eye, and all he could do was shrug his shoulders.
Reason with a non-human entity?
You must be joking.
That was like a scholar eting a rogue.
Moreover, Xia Yu planned to let his cooking do the talking—his dishes were his fists!
“Wait—”
Yuchuan isha set down her ice tray, turned to get a small plate, picked up a few slices of tuna sashimi emitting a faint chill, placed them on the plate, and offered it to Xia Yu, saying, “Would you like a taste?”
Xia Yu also set down his ice sculpture and handed Yuchuan isha a white ceramic plate filled with sliced fish.
Thus,
In front of the judge’s table, the two competitors, who should have been at odds, were instead exchanging taste evaluations of each other’s dishes in a friendly atmosphere.
“Oh!”
Yuchuan isha’s eyes widened as she picked up a slice of sliced fish with her chopsticks.
“So thin!
It has no weight!” She could not hide the astonishnt on her face, “There is no weight on the chopsticks, just like picking up a strand of hair!”
“How’s the texture?
Such a thin slice should have a great texture, right…?”
Swallowing quietly, Yuchuan isha gently parted her red lips and stuffed a piece of the sliced fish into her mouth.
Crack!
At that mont, the woman with “super hearing” faintly heard the sound of a golden palm seizing the hands of a clock.
Ti suddenly stopped.
A freezing sensation spread from her mouth down her esophagus to her stomach, then diffused from her stomach to her internal organs.
At last, except for a barely clear head, Yuchuan isha felt as if her entire body was encased in eternal ice, losing all sense of ti completely.
She rged with the glacier, sinking into the depths of the sea, day and night surrounded by sea bream, becoming the queen of ice and the ocean.
Just a thin slice.
An indescribable sense of satisfaction soaked her soul and seized her spirit!
“Thud!
Thud!
Thud!”
After an unknown amount of ti, Yuchuan isha, trapped in ice, finally heard sounds from the outside world.
She opened her eyes within the ice layer, then her eyes revealed shock.
A gigantic Mystic Turtle, carrying a hero in heavy armor wielding a great sword, ca before the glacier imprisoning her.
“Crack!”
A sword light suddenly appeared in the sky, breaking the magical barrier.
Yuchuan isha tumbled out of the ice layer, her dress fluttering as she barefoot landed in the arms of the hero.
Then, Yuchuan isha blinked, her face full of astonishnt.
The hero lifted his helt’s visor, revealing, to her surprise, a much younger face than hers.
Her face flushed in an instant.
Yuchuan isha quickly extricated herself from the hero’s embrace, and the mont her bare feet touched the icy layer, a chill crept up through her soles and invaded her body, causing the culinary visions in her mind to vanish.
The temple courtyard.
When Yuchuan isha snapped back to reality, her fair hand gently covered her mouth as she stared in astonishnt at the small plate of sliced fish before her, unable to speak for a long while.
“Delicious!
Delicious!”
“It’s definitely isha’s work, eh?
One slice of sashimi, and it’s like a whole fish, no, it’s like having an entire school of fish!”
Lord Li was almost jumping onto the judging table, dancing with his hands and feet.
Hearing this, Yuchuan isha blushed with embarrassnt.
“Lord Li, please try Yu’s fish slices!” she said hastily, wanting to share the sa joy with the other diners, “His, his fish slices are more outstanding than my tuna sashimi.
Although both dishes are evenly matched in terms of ingredients, I’ve lost considerably in knife skills, and the taste as well…
that incredible taste…
it’s no wonder it’s called ‘ti freeze magic’!”
Yuchuan isha murmured, her words bringing a wave of surprise and astonishnt from the crowd.
“isha!”
The Yuchuan Abbot was the first to object; his white eyebrows twitched as he spoke sternly, “I believe your tuna sashimi, which you’ve tad with ‘Super Hearing’ and endowed with a spirit, won’t lose to that boy’s so-called fish slices!”
“Exactly!” the Red-clothed woman also slamd the table and shouted, “Buck up, isha!
You’re the face of Yuchuan Temple!
Don’t lose to so outsider kid!”
The young monk in the third seat and the long-haired person in the fifth seat who seed neither male nor female also gave Yuchuan isha encouraging looks.
These non-human entities either saw Yuchuan isha as a student or considered her a friend.
Witnessing this scene, Xia Yu’s wariness towards these beings quietly subsided a bit; at least, non-human entities weren’t all malevolent.
His paranormal encounters in Tokyo had made him treat such things like the plague.
But now, considering the current situation, it seed right to regard them as a silly bunch of diners.
“No, it’s not that!”
Yuchuan isha frantically defended, “Yu’s cooking is really, really, really good—better than mine!”
She mustered up her energy, her voice growing louder, no longer the soft whisper it usually was.
She even beca a bit annoyed at the end, pouting with cheeks puffed up, her face showing a hint of anger.
Whoosh.
The courtyard beca quiet in an instant.
The Red-clothed woman stopped her clamor, and Lord Li, the old man, flipped over and sat upright in the judging chair without looking around, his comical face struggling to acquire the serious deanor that a judge should have.
Astonished, Xia Yu quickly glanced at the annoyed Yuchuan isha and wisely chose to remain silent.
“Eat—”
Yuchuan isha, with a tense face, personally picked up a small piece of fish slice from the Mystical Turtle Ice Sculpture’s back with her chopsticks and placed it in front of Lord Li, who was in the first seat.
The old man subconsciously opened his mouth, the fish slice delicately entered and disappeared inside.
The fish piece, which should have brought no whiff of smoke to the air, stunned the old man’s face into motionlessness the mont it entered his mouth.
“Heaven!”
With his mouth wide open and the fish still on his tongue, the old man sat up straight in his chair as though frozen, “I—I’ve tasted heaven!”
“The wind!”
The old man’s head swayed uncontrollably backward, “The wind from heaven!”
A stifling sumr night, complented by a cool piece of fish slice.
The sensation of coolness in an instant led the judge to shed tears of emotion, “Such a smooth, silky texture, exquisite, one bite and it transports you straight to heaven!
I can feel the spirit of the fish surging and leaping on the tip of my tongue, so full of life and vigor…”
As he spoke, the old man’s eyes reflected the image of the Mystical Turtle Ice Sculpture on the table.
An astonishing sight unfolded thereafter.
Fine brown fur erged from the old man’s arms and head, spreading rapidly, and within the blink of an eye, the being seated on the judging chair had transford into a fluffy animal, wrapped in clothes, mimicking the upright seated posture of a human.
A raccoon!
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