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And so, having made their decision, the Polar Star residents submitted their application directly.
Yep, they just gave it to Satoshi Isshiki to take care of—
—This kind of review was also done by the Elite Ten. Polar Star had two Elite Ten members here—just a word was enough.
This application was then mainly handed over to Etsuya Eizan. He was in charge of the school's finances.
When it came to money management, Eizan was the most skilled.
He himself enjoyed it.
Others had no complaints about this. After all, money was inherently difficult to manage; a careless mistake could lead to some accident.
Someone volunteering to manage the funds was naturally a good thing for them.
So, these projects that required spending money naturally all needed to be submitted to Etsuya Eizan.
....
Polar Star's application was approved instantly. Everyone had considerable expectations for Polar Star. There were too many powerhouses there.
But after Polar Star's application was approved, they began to run into difficulties.
The operating location—everyone didn't intend to ask Erina Nakiri or Hisako Arato for help but used leftover materials from Polar Star's past to assemble many things themselves.
But after these things were completed, what they should sell next became a problem.
Everyone's opinions clashed—something Yuuki had seen coming a mile away. In the original story, the Polar Star residents didn't all participate together.
And back then, Polar Star didn't have this many powerhouses. Now Alice Nakiri, Ryō Kurokiba, and others were all there.
Plus, thanks to Yuuki's… interventions, the Polar Star residents' cooking skills had leaped forward by an insane amount. With so many skilled individuals crammed together, each with different specialties—
—everyone had their own ideas... After all, each area had a price cap for what they could sell. So, if they wanted to make money, they had to cut costs. That meant a large-scale banquet-style offering was out of the question.
Of the three areas, only the High-End Area had no price restrictions on its dishes. The Central Area required prices to be kept between one thousand and five thousand yen.
So, the initial idea of everyone making different dishes was shot down right away. The best approach was to focus on a single dish or a type of snack.
And that was the root of the problem...
So many people trying to come up with the main idea was like hiring a whole bunch of master chefs to cook one meal.
Without strict standards, and everyone's Culinary skills not being weak, each having their own ideas—the final result was that nothing could be accomplished.
At this moment, Polar Star's project was also stuck here.
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"Sometimes, having too many master chefs is a problem in itself... And they're missing a leader—" Sarge looked at the current state of the Polar Star residents and helplessly shook her head.
This group just needed someone to take charge.
But since everyone's cooking skills were more or less on par, no one would be satisfied if someone else was made the leader.
Even though they were all friends, when it came to this, everyone thought their idea was brilliant, a surefire bestseller. Then—they could beat Kuga Terunori.
"Alright, you guys can stop arguing. I'll join in too. I'll decide what we're making and who does what."
This bunch bickering endlessly was starting to get on Yuuki's nerves. He'd originally planned to step in if they ran into trouble later on.
But he never expected a major problem to crop up right at the start, forcing him to step in and sort it out—or else the festival would begin, and these guys would still be arguing about what to make.
That would be beyond embarrassing...
"If Yuuki is participating, then I'll listen to him!"
Seeing Yuuki get involved, Alice Nakiri immediately ditched her own idea and fell in line behind him.
Partly because she had a crush on Yuuki—this was a good time to make a good impression. And partly because Yuuki was, undeniably, the strongest one there.
He had spoken up—what more was there to say?
A leader had to be someone everyone respected. No one else had Yuuki's kind of authority.
Polar Star here had a whole bunch of geniuses. Under such circumstances, it wasn't an easy task for one genius to make another genius submit.
But for Yuuki? It was almost too easy. Never mind his status and cooking skills—just the fact that he'd been teaching the Polar Star residents for so long. In that respect, Yuuki was practically their mentor.
So, as long as he spoke, basically everyone would listen to him.
"If it's Yuuki, then it's no problem! I'll listen to Yuuki too!" Megumi Tadokoro and the others also expressed their opinions one after another.
Ultimately, In just a few seconds, the group that had been severely divided suddenly reached a consensus.
"Then what dish are we going to make next?" Everyone looked at Yuuki.
With a leader in place, everyone no longer insisted on their own ideas but was curious about what dish Yuuki would make.
"What I'm going to make is a very interesting dish. Wait for me a moment; I'll go make a finished product."
With that, Yuuki headed to the kitchen. The others' eyes lit up. Yuuki was going to cook—that meant they'd get to eat Yuuki's food.
Yuuki's cooking was, without a doubt, incredibly delicious. No matter what he made, they'd be looking forward to it.
And now, the dish Yuuki was going to make was one to be sold at the School Festival. They were even more incredibly expectant.
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Before long, Yuuki came out carrying a plate. On the plate were some golden-brown buns. But these buns looked somewhat bizarre... They actually had smiling faces.
"Are these buns? Why are they this color? And what's with this smiling face?" Everyone looked at the somewhat peculiar and somewhat bizarre buns before them and asked.
"There's a smell of oil. These should be deep-fried buns, right?" Soma Yukihira said after sniffing.
Hearing this, everyone sniffed carefully and then smelled the fragrance of oil.
However, everyone wasn't too surprised. Because this era was ultimately the information age. Although deep-fried whole buns were rare, everyone knew this method.
Pan-fried buns were somewhat similar. Of course, this was the first time they had seen one entirely deep-fried like this.
"Deep-fried buns are indeed very novel. But what's most surprising is this smiling face, right? What's going on with that? Was it deliberately cut open? But if you do that, won't the filling inside also be deep-fried?" Megumi Tadokoro asked with some confusion.
Besides the skin, the filling was also key for buns. Now, with such deep-frying, no matter what the filling inside was, it would be fried dry, right?
After all, the outer skin was already fried to this extent; the deliciousness of the filling inside would absolutely be completely lost.
"Yuuki couldn't possibly make such a basic mistake, right? We'll know once we try it!" Yoshino Yuki stated.
True...
Who was Yuuki??
He was a legitimate First-Class Officer. And supposedly, he was even stronger than a Special-Class Chef now. How could a chef like that not realize the problem?
However, just as everyone picked up the buns, as the force of their hands acted on the buns, the buns suddenly vibrated and even emitted a silvery, bell-like laughter.
In that instant, everyone's face was a mask of disbelief. The next second, a few of the girls even threw the buns back onto the plate.
As for the boys, Zenji Marui, who was relatively timid, had the same reaction. However, Soma Yukihira and Ryō Kurokiba, who were relatively thick-skinned and bold, held the buns in their hands tightly.
Although they were startled, their first thought now was why the buns would laugh.
Clearly, this wasn't some supernatural event...
So, Yuuki must have done something; otherwise, how could buns laugh out loud?
"From the outside, you can't tell at all how it's laughing. So, it should be a problem with the inside, right?" Ryō Kurokiba directly took a bite.
The next second, the scalding hot meat juice almost burned him.
These were deep-fried buns. While the outside had cooled down enough to be held by hand, the internal temperature hadn't decreased much.
This one bite—And Ryō was in agony...
Swallow it directly? That temperature would be incredibly painful going down.
Spit it out directly? He was reluctant to part with this richly fragrant meat juice.
Keep holding it in his mouth? Similarly, his mouth was also very uncomfortable under this high temperature.
At this moment, Soma Yukihira was like Ryō, his face constantly changing.
"SO HOT, SO HOT! I can't take it anymore!"
Finally, Soma, unable to bear it, directly drank a mouthful of cold water. The cold water cooled his mouth. Though it would affect the taste of the buns, he couldn't help it.
As for Ryō Kurokiba, this fellow was more stubborn. He toughed it out until the temperature dropped.
"Why is there still so much rich meat juice inside this bun? Shouldn't it have been dried out? And what's with this strange texture? It feels like eating some kind of jerky." Ryō Kurokiba looked at the bun in his hand and began to search for answers within.
The others looked at the bun he had bitten open. As a result, everyone saw the filling inside.
"Vermicelli and... meat chunks? Are these meat chunks? They look a bit strange."
Looking at the filling inside, Hisako Arato asked with some uncertainty. After all, these meat chunks had already been fried dry, and they were cut very small.
"They are indeed meat chunks. But why is there also vermicelli inside? And they're separated into two areas!" Asahi Nakiri asked with a puzzled expression.
He broke open the bun in his hand. The filling inside was vermicelli and deep-fried meat chunks, but they were separated into two areas, not mixed together.
You see, the filling of a normal bun, no matter how many ingredients were used, would definitely be mixed together. He had never seen fillings separated like this...
"The state of the vermicelli is also strange. It doesn't look like it's been deep-fried, completely different from the meat chunks. But how can one bun, made with one method, present two completely different effects?"
Sarge stated she didn't understand what was going on; it looked too strange.
"Yuuki, what on earth is going on here?! Tell us quickly!"
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