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The amount for the Gourmet Black Card in the previous chapter is incorrect. It should be 2 billion yen (to make it a round number). I forgot to add the money in Rize Yamagishi’s account. I’ll make the correction here.
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Hong Yi and Mito Ikumi ate dinner together, simultaneously running the Devour the Stars Technique to refine the life essence of the red-haired pig.
However.
Being a Capture Level 1 ingredient, it was far inferior to the Rainbow Fruit.
Hong Yi saw that the red-haired pig’s life essence was too little, so he simply stored it in his cells as calories, too lazy to refine it using the Devour the Stars Technique.
Full of food and wine.
Hong Yi pulled Mito Ikumi aside to delve deeper into culinary arts.
In the latter half of the night.
He also taught Mito Ikumi the guidance technique in the Devour the Stars Technique, how to absorb cosmic energy and refine the life essence of ingredients.
This way, even without Gourmet Cells, one could still become stronger and would not waste the life essence (energy) of high-level ingredients they ate.
The next day.
Exhausted, Mito Ikumi was still lying in bed, fast asleep.
Her sleeping posture was still unrestrained and unrefined, her cheek pressed against the pillow, a stream of crystal-clear saliva flowing from the corner of her mouth, her pert and shapely buttocks sticking up.
Hong Yi glanced at the slightly swollen buttocks, shook his head involuntarily, went to the bathroom to take a shower, washing away the sweat on his strong body, then changed into a new school uniform and prepared to go to school.
“According to the timetable, there’s a Gourmet Divination class in the second year in the morning.”
“Gourmet Divination, what’s that about?”
“Is it for fortune-telling? Or for checking one’s culinary luck?”
Speaking of culinary luck.
Hong Yi thought of Rize Yamagishi.
Rize Yamagishi said that he had no culinary luck and should go to the Gourmet Shrine to pray next life.
But Hong Yi had eroded his own culinary luck.
Hong Yi had successfully captured the Rainbow Fruit, the highest Capture Level ingredient in the Ninth Life Environment Garden.
He also enjoyed the delicious and exquisite Brandy Bubble Rainbow Pudding.
No culinary luck?
If you told anyone, they wouldn’t believe it!
Hong Yi decided to check out the Gourmet Divination class.
On the way.
Every student he met greeted him kindly and respectfully.
“Sen… Senior!”
“Greetings, Ten傑.”
“Good morning, Senior!”
“Hong Yi-senpai, you are so handsome. Can you sign my autograph?”
“I… I’m a student in the second year of the Cooking Department. I got an S in the Culinary Theory class and am about to be certified as a one-star chef. Can I be your partner?”
In Totsuki Culinary Academy, the strong are respected.
Senior, senpai, are titles for the strong.
So even though Hong Yi was a new student, he was still called Senior by second-year students, and even first-year students called him Senpai.
Hong Yi wasn’t too cold.
He would nod slightly in response to any student who greeted him politely.
“Excuse me, classmate, where is the Totsuki Academy dining hall?”
Hong Yi casually asked a female student.
“Hong… Hong-senpai, the dining hall is to the east.” The female student answered, blushing.
“To the east? Thank you.”
After Hong Yi left, the female student’s excitement couldn’t be contained. She pulled her friend and excitedly said, “Just now, the Ninth Seat of the Ten傑 talked to me. He talked to me!”
“Girlfriend, girlfriend, did I see correctly? He’s the guy who killed Rize Yamagishi yesterday and made the Food Demon eat crow? He looks so young and handsome!”
“He talked to me. Do you think he actually wants to be partners with me?”
The female student’s friend: “……”
Hong Yi, who wasn’t far away: “……”
The female student’s friend: “Well, maybe Hong-senpai wants to be partners with me, but he’s shy and didn’t want to be direct, so he asked you for directions.”
“……”
Totsuki Dining Hall.
The area was comparable to ten football fields.
Sometimes, Totsuki Culinary Academy’s Autumn Gourmet Festival was held in Totsuki Dining Hall, which could accommodate hundreds of thousands of diners.
“There’s a corn soup tree that receives the grace of the sun, and its sap oozes out like soup!”
“There’s a kind of mimosa whose leaves are made of soft but resilient bread slices and nutritious fried eggs. As soon as a ham butterfly lands on it, the bread slices and fried eggs will clamp down on the ham butterfly, forming a perfect ham and egg sandwich!”
“There’s also an island that produces Eastern breakfast foods, with springs gushing out the freshest soy milk, volcanic craters spewing out deep-fried spring rolls and fried dough sticks, and waterfalls washing down tea eggs into deep pools.”
Hong Yi successfully found the Totsuki Dining Hall from the dormitory area.
It was just breakfast time.
The dining hall’s loudspeaker was constantly broadcasting the magnetic and low-pitched voice of a Gourmet TV host, making passersby hungry.
The dining hall of Totsuki Culinary Academy was basically not contracted out but was run by the school’s clubs.
After all, this was a prestigious culinary academy, and the students themselves were cooks.
Plus, the tuition fees of Totsuki Culinary Academy were expensive.
The Ten傑 Council and teachers all encouraged students to work part-time or operate restaurants and stores on campus, thereby subsidizing their tuition and living expenses.
They could also hone their culinary skills and gain experience before entering society, which was a win-win situation.
“Ninth Seat, would you like a Capture Level 1 thick corn soup? Just 2000 yen.”
“Hong-senpai, our ham and egg sandwiches are from Breakfast Island, freshly made, just 3000 yen per serving.”
“Don’t miss out on the milk from Breakfast Island, fresh off the oat cows, still warm. Just 1500 yen a cup.”
As soon as Hong Yi entered the dining hall, the hawking was incessant.
“You Gourmet Hunters, why are you robbing us chefs of our business?”
“Senpai, senpai, come here. We have fresh buns, steamed dumplings, and fried dough sticks.”
“I heard your name. You must be from the East, right? Our Chinese Cuisine Research Society’s breakfast is authentically Eastern.”
“A steamer of small steamed buns for only 300 yen. Economical and affordable.”
A girl with a bun and wearing a red qipao was enthusiastically hawking.
“Give me two steamers of small steamed buns and a cup of soy milk.” Hong Yi chose this oriental traditional breakfast shop.
He wasn’t very interested in the low Capture Level breakfast from Breakfast Island.
In fact.
Although the breakfast ingredients naturally formed on Breakfast Island were not bad, they were still inferior to the breakfast made by chefs with superb culinary skills.
Because the ingredients on Breakfast Island were easy to capture, they were popular with new students from the Hunter Department.
They could buy from Breakfast Island and sell it in the Totsuki Dining Hall, making a lot of money.
Students with slightly more skills, such as those who had already reached the Bronze Gourmet Hunter level, would capture higher-level ingredients and sell them directly to Totsuki Supermarket, saving the trouble of setting up stalls in the Totsuki Dining Hall in the morning.
Capture Level ingredients that were even higher could be sold to the Gourmet Central Wholesale Market.
It was known as the “World Kitchen,” covering an area of 300 square kilometers, larger than Totsuki Culinary Academy, with a daily inflow of about 900,000 tons of ingredients, with revenue of about 1 trillion yen, gathering rare ingredients from every corner of the world.