Food Wars: The Fishing System
Chapter 99: [99] - First Class Chef, New Growth Bait Haul

Chapter 99 - [99] - First Class Chef, New Growth Bait Haul

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Azami Nakamura had absolutely no hope of rising again.

For the rest of his life, he could only choose to open a small shop and live on.

With his Culinary skills, although he couldn't become rich and famous, he wouldn't have to worry about food and clothing—

For an average person, this peaceful life would be very good. But for a mentally twisted person like Azami, it was pure torture...

....

Yuuki obviously noticed this matter.

Although he was somewhat puzzled why such a thing would happen, and why the Nakiri family showed Azami no mercy at all—

—he couldn't be bothered to care.

After all, this matter had nothing to do with him. He wished nothing more than for this Azami fellow to suffer misfortune.

This guy's performance in the original story was very disgusting.

After Azami's matter ended, WGO also returned to peace.

Yuuki continued to serve as a First Class Officer—A few days later, Yuuki's Culinary skills finally reached First Class in The System's panel.

It had to be said, The System's standards were REALLY high.

Yuuki's current Culinary skills could easily crush any other First Class Chef—and he wouldn't even be afraid of Special Class Chefs.

But in The System's judgment, his Culinary skills had only just reached First Class.

Furthermore, Yuuki discovered that the division between First Class and Special Class was actually the strength of one's Culinary Heart.

According to the ranking system of the Food Wars world, as long as a First Class Chef mastered Culinary Heart, they would become a Special Class Chef.

But in The System's classification—the strength of Culinary Heart needed to reach a certain level...

The Culinary Heart strength required to enter Special Class was a percentage progress bar in The System. When this progress bar was filled, it meant his Culinary Heart strength had reached the Special Class level—

As for now, Yuuki found his Culinary Heart strength had just reached thirty percent; not even one-third yet.

The stronger the Culinary Heart, the more the dishes made could move people's hearts.

Yuuki's Culinary Heart was a domineering type. Even the dishes he made now had an outstanding effect on those with weaker Wills.

If Yuuki slightly enhanced his Culinary Heart in his dishes, he could make the other party completely obedient to him...

So much so that after Yuuki discovered this, he didn't infuse too much Culinary Heart into his dishes. He didn't imagine what level his dishes would reach when the progress bar was full.

Different Culinary Hearts had completely different effects on people.

Some could make people feel warm and happy, but Yuuki's was different—his domineering Culinary Heart would directly conquer the other party.

As for the effect... it all depended on the strength of his Culinary Heart and the willpower of the other party.

....

After checking the extent of his Culinary Heart, Yuuki began a new fishing session. After all, after reaching the First Class Chef level, he had obtained another Growth Bait.

Growth Bait was good stuff—

He currently had three Growth-type abilities: Evolving Touch, Evolving Vision, and Inferno.

Just now, when he became a First Class Chef, he could clearly perceive the changes in his Vision and Touch.

The change in his Evolving Touch made his control over his body even stronger. He could even freely control some changes in his hair now.

For example, sometimes people's body hair would stand on end. Now Yuuki could freely control this. He could even control his hair somewhat.

Just like Sunny, one of the Four Heavenly Kings in the world of Toriko.

However, his control was still too weak...

Although he could control his hair, at most, he could only make his hair dance without wind now—

—Wanting to achieve Sunny's precise control over every single strand of hair, and for each strand to possess hundreds of kilograms of strength, was impossible.

Perhaps his Evolving Touch still needed to grow and transform several more times to reach that step.

As for Vision, Yuuki found he could already see some of the aura emanating from people's bodies. Although very faint, he could indeed see it.

His Vision was also evolving towards the level of a Demon King's Vision.

Now Yuuki's Evolving Touch and Vision had undoubtedly already surpassed the levels of Super Touch and Super Vision.

As for Inferno... this ability was much simpler and cruder. Yuuki could clearly sense that the temperature of the flames he now released was continuously rising.

The benefits brought by Growth Bait were very significant. Now Yuuki impatiently consumed the Growth Bait—

He was very much looking forward to what he could fish out this time. Growth-type five senses were very useful. He already had two; he hoped he could collect all five Growth-type senses.

As the Growth Bait was consumed, soon, Yuuki fished out something he was very familiar with. This thing, he had fished it out before—it was what transformed Inferno into an evolving ability.

This time, it was also random.

"TIME TO SEE MY LUCK AGAIN!"

Yuuki used this chance. Soon, the result came out. This result made Yuuki very happy.

Because this time, the growth ability randomized was Ki.

It had to be said, Yuuki's luck was indeed very good.

Originally, what he most hoped would be transformed into a Growth-type ability was Ki—

—Although he now had the help of Food Honor, and Ki's growth rate was much faster than before.

Once this ability became Growth-type, the subsequent improvement speed would not be comparable to before.

To make a comparison, it would be the difference between a snail and a supercar.

The moment the ability transformation was complete, Yuuki felt the speed at which his Ki strengthened was constantly increasing.

"This speed of improvement is TOO exaggerated!"

Yuuki felt somewhat emotional sensing the continuous strengthening of Ki within his body. The current improvement speed of Ki was completely incomparable to before.

Yuuki could perceive the changes in the Ki within his body every second.

Soon, Yuuki found that the Ki within his body seemed to have undergone some kind of qualitative change.

The Ki, which had increased to a certain amount, suddenly decreased a lot. But Yuuki could clearly perceive that the quality of Ki had increased significantly.

Yuuki knew very well that his Ki had already reached the next stage.

The quality of Ki being different meant the things one could do were also different.

First-level Ki could only simply change the shape of ingredients and some of their effects.

But as the quality of Ki continuously improved, the things different levels of Ki could do also became more and more exaggerated.

His Ki could currently keep him afloat for a few minutes before being completely consumed.

....

After testing his flying ability, once his Ki recovered, Yuuki once again used Ki on ingredients.

This time, besides the quality of the ingredients changing, something else was added to the information his Vision fed back.

That was, the shelf life of the ingredients became much longer. Ingredients that would originally spoil after only a few days, under the effect of Yuuki's Ki, now had their preservation time extended to several months.

Moreover, Yuuki found this wasn't the limit.

As he continuously infused Ki, the shelf life of the ingredients also continued to extend.

Ultimately, the shelf life of the ingredients stopped at one year.

"It's not that the quantity is insufficient, but the quality is... To continue increasing the shelf life of ingredients, I need to continue improving the quality of Ki!" Yuuki discovered.

After the ingredient's shelf life increased to one year, no matter how much more Ki he infused, the shelf life didn't change.

This meant the strength of his Ki was insufficient.

Now he already possessed the ability to extend preservation.

Yuuki still needed to continuously explore the magical aspects of Ki. His understanding of Ki was still too shallow.

....

Having made a huge gain, Yuuki was quite happy.

He directly used Ki to make some dishes.

This time, he didn't make dishes like Ganges Noodle Dish or Seven-Country Unification Noodle Dish but just some simple home-style dishes.

But because Ki was used, plus his Culinary skills had improved a lot, this time, even the normal dishes he made could be eaten by Mana Nakiri.

Although the God's Tongue had gone out of control, it had also reached its limit. The God's Tongue wasn't Yuuki's Growth-type ability; it couldn't achieve unlimited improvement.

So, Yuuki's current cooking had already completely surpassed the upper limit of the God's Tongue.

....

This made Mana Nakiri happy and extremely shocked at the same time.

"Anne, you should have also noticed, RIGHT? Yuuki's growth speed..."

On the way back after eating, Mana Nakiri couldn't help but say. She needed to confirm if it was her own illusion.

"Yes. His growth speed is very fast, so fast it's hard to believe!" Anne nodded.

She obviously knew just how astonishing Yuuki's growth speed was.

"Looks like it wasn't my illusion. Although Father had told me before his growth speed was fast, I never expected it to be this fast. Truly incredible." Mana Nakiri sighed with immense emotion.

She now finally understood why her father had always emphasized this point.

Yuuki's improvement speed was almost different every day.

That was one thing, but the key was that Yuuki would have a major leap forward every once in a while. This constantly challenged their common sense, which had now been shattered to pieces.

"Isn't this a good thing? He's destined to become the strongest in the culinary world. Now it's just a matter of reaching that level a bit earlier—" Anne stated.

Yuuki himself was destined to become the leading figure in the culinary world. Now, the earlier he reached that level, the better.

One reason was the God's Tongue problem. Another reason was that after Chefs reached Special Class, they were basically stuck—

—Everyone didn't know how to proceed further because the number of people who could reach the Special Class level was too small.

Currently, in the entire culinary world, the number of existences whose Culinary skills reached Special Class could be counted on one hand.

Of course, this was on the surface. But even if you added those hidden ones, there were probably only about a dozen.

Only a dozen or so Chefs in the entire world had reached the Special Class level.

Although they were exploring the path ahead, and even willing to exchange their experiences many times, it was still too difficult to figure out the path forward with just so few people...

....

On the other side, Yuuki received a piece of news he had been very concerned about from Hisako Arato.

Among the commissions here at WGO, one suitable for Yuuki concerning Midnight Chefs had appeared. This commission was issued by a very large-scale food company.

And the Midnight Chef they were facing was named Sergeant Sarge. This woman, among the younger generation of Midnight Chefs, was quite famous.

Her consistent method was to conquer others with her cooking. Anyone with even slightly weaker willpower would directly submit after eating her dishes.

It sounded somewhat similar to Yuuki's Culinary Heart, but Sarge hadn't mastered Culinary Heart.

The reason she could do this was because of her special ability: Armed Dish.

People who ate this dish could feel a strong sense of conquest, so people with weaker wills simply couldn't withstand it.

Some special abilities had the effect of changing the eater's emotions.

In the original story, Megumi Tadokoro's "Hospitality" special ability had a similar effect—It was just that Megumi's wasn't conquest, but making people feel satisfied.

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