Food Wars, I Come From a World Captured by Food

Chapter 64 White Apple Sapling

At this moment, Nakiri Managi sat in the driver's seat, started the car, and drove forward. In the passenger seat, Erina turned around, knelt on the seat, and stared at Lin Qingzheng fiercely, trying to prevent him from touching Alice.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey! What kind of scumbag am I in your heart?"

Just like that, Lin Qingzheng, who was stared at by Erina with wide eyes all the way, felt uncomfortable and had no way to hold Alice's hand to get closer to her. Just like that, the group arrived at the Nakiri family's manor in silence.

"Welcome, Mr. Kobayashi!"

When the car slowly drove into the manor, standing at the door, Nakiri Senzaemon, who was dressed neatly, and a man who looked similar to him but wore glasses and was about the same age as Yao Die came up with smiles on their faces and welcomed Lin Qingzheng's arrival.

"Hi! Mr. Kobayashi, welcome to Totsuki!"

Smiling and bowing slightly to Lin Qingzheng, the Food Demon King was very enthusiastic towards Lin Qingzheng: "You came all the way to Yuanyue pretending to go to school. You must have come for that thing, right? Please follow me, everyone. We have been waiting for you for a long time."

"That thing! Wait for me? Who's waiting for me? Wait for what?"

In response to the words of the Food Demon, Lin Qingzheng asked four fatal questions.

Moreover, after asking the question, he looked at the devil with a smile, waiting for his answer.

"Uh... this... what is it? You'll know later." However, facing his question, the Demon King just smiled awkwardly and avoided the first question.

He started answering the second question: "The ones waiting for you are, of course, our outstanding graduates from Totsuki Academy over the years. Because of the emergence of fantasy ingredients, they have rushed back from all over the world, wanting to see the magic of fantasy ingredients and the style of the world's number one chef.

"Huh?! The outstanding graduates of Totsuki Gakuin want to see me? What do they want? Are they not convinced that I am the world's number one chef and are planning to challenge me?"

Hearing what Nakiri Senzaemon said, Lin Qingzheng was shocked. If someone challenged him now, he would be extremely lucky if he could defeat an ordinary Totsuki student.

"Oh, of course not! They've all lost to Seiichiro. They can't even beat the world's second-best chef, so how could they possibly have the nerve to challenge the world's best chef?"

Seeing Lin Qingzheng's panicked expression, Nakiri Senzaemon also smiled. He had learned from Yao Die that Lin Qingzheng's true level was only that of a cooking student, but he possessed unparalleled talent, so he immediately understood what Lin Qingzheng was panicking about: "So, don't worry, until someone can defeat Seiichiro, no one can challenge you to a food battle."

"Woo~! That's good!"

Lin Qingzheng nodded in relief: "In that case, why did you call me over?"

“Hehehehe…! Well…”

When the Food Demon heard Lin Qingzheng ask this, he smiled awkwardly and tugged at his beard, not knowing how to talk about that matter for a moment.

"That's because we [Nakiri International] have successfully cultivated... [White Apple] seedlings.

To avoid any misunderstandings between us, we invite you to come here to participate in the sapling transplanting ceremony."

Fortunately, at this moment, the man wearing black-framed glasses next to the Food Demon King spoke up in time: "If you feel something is wrong, we will immediately stop the transplanting ceremony and return all the grown saplings to you."

When saying this, Nakiri Munee's face was full of sincerity, without a trace of reluctance or resentment.

"Ouch?! You've grown a White Apple sapling?! And you're planning to transplant it to Totsuki?"

However, something unexpected happened. Faced with the possibility that the fantasy ingredients he monopolized might lose their uniqueness, Lin Qingzheng did not get angry or nervous.

Instead, he looked at Nakiri Munee with curiosity: "Can you tell me how you grew it? I've tried many times, but I can't get the core of the White Apple to germinate. I thought it couldn't reproduce at all."

Lin Qingzheng didn't care at all that the [White Apple] was transplanted to this Food Wars world.

Let’s not talk about whether the [white apples] grown outside the environment of the Food Captive World are the same as the white apples in the Food Captive World.

Who told you that once you grow a seedling and transplant it into the soil, it will definitely survive?

Besides, even if it really survives and can produce white apples, it will take at least ten years for it to grow from a sapling to maturity, right?

If ten years were to pass, Lin Qingzheng still wouldn't be able to squeeze every last bit of oil out of the food wars world and reach the pinnacle of the world.

He might as well just slit his throat and commit suicide, and die cleanly.

Even if the Nakiri family is really that powerful, they can make the white apple tree grow in a day or two, and they can also produce a fixed amount of white apples.

So what? It's just a white apple, but he owns an entire world of prisoners!

Therefore, under the premise of such a huge advantage, Lin Qingzheng is more concerned about how the Nakiri family cultivated white apple seedlings in the world of food wars where gourmet cells do not exist.

"Uh... this... this..."

Facing Lin Qingzheng's question, Nakiri Munee scratched his head and said, "In fact, our initial training work also failed.

Every time we induced seedlings to grow, the seeds would basically absorb all the nutrients and die.

Until one day, a researcher at our Nordic Research Institute made a mistake and dropped the white apple seeds he had just taken out into his instant noodles...

At this point, Nakiri Munee's face was filled with disbelief: "Who would have thought that the secret to growing white apple saplings is to feed them delicious food!"

"It is precisely because of this that Zong Wei decided to give half of the sixteen white apple saplings they cultivated to Totsuki Academy for cultivation."

At this time, the Food Demon King beside him also spoke silently: "Because Totsuki is a culinary academy, it is decided that there will be no shortage of chefs and delicious food."

Oh~! I see!

At the same time, Lin Qingzheng suddenly realized that if one wanted to cultivate gourmet ingredients in an environment without gourmet cells, one needed to feed them delicious food!

At this point, Lin Qingzheng could already imagine how Totsuki would judge students' cooking skills in the future.

xxx successfully made the white apple saplings grow one micron longer!

xxx, successfully made the fruit tree grow a leaf!

And if you want to be one of the top ten, you probably need to be able to make the fruit tree bear fruit, right?

"Success! Success! I managed to make the fruit tree grow one centimeter!"

"From one centimeter, what are you so happy about? I just helped the fruit tree take root successfully!"

No, actually there was no need to wait for the future. While these three people were talking, they had already passed through the front hall of the Nakiri family's manor, passed through the castle-like main building hall, and came to the pavilion in the back garden.

In front of them, a dozen men and women in their twenties and thirties were shouting excitedly around a short sapling.

"Uh... didn't you just say that you would wait until I got here before starting transplanting?"

From a distance, without even having to get close, Lin Qingzheng guessed that what those people were surrounding must be the white apple saplings brought by Nakiri Soe.

Chapter 65 You Must Be Stronger Than Me

"Uh... this... this..."

Nakiri Munee turned his head and looked at his father.

"Uh...this..."

The Food Devil also turned his head and looked at his butler: "xxx, what's going on?

"My Lord, it was the eldest daughter. She...she said she wanted to see what the saplings looked like, so I..."

The butler, who stood next to the food devil and didn't look wretched but gave people a petty look, scratched his bald head and said.

"So you secretly took out a sapling and gave it to her?" The gourmet devil's eyes were as sharp as a knife.

"Hehehehe...! She's a young lady after all! She said she wanted to see it, how could I refuse?"

However, the housekeeper still had a playful smile on his face: "But don't worry, sir, I didn't give her the sapling directly. I took it back after showing it to her."

"Then why is that sapling there?"

"I don't know! I clearly put the things back!"

The old butler looked bewildered and at a loss.

Looking at the butler who had grown up with him, Nakiri Senzaemon's face was full of helplessness: "Okay, xxx, you just hand over your work, and then go home and retire!"

If it was just for his daughter and granddaughter that Nakiri Senzaemon was being tricked, then no matter how many mistakes the butler made, the Gourmet Demon King could choose to forgive him. After all, he was used to it.

But this time, the white apple saplings are not just about the Nakiri family's own affairs.

This kind of mistake, even once is too many!

"Quick! Let's go see how many of the six saplings are left."

Then, the group quickly rushed into the second floor of the main building of the manor, entered Nakiri Senzaemon's study, opened the safe, and then stared at the empty safe with only two saplings left in it in a daze.

"Ooh! Is this the White Apple sapling?"

Ignoring the Demon King and the President who were looking at each other in bewilderment, Lin Qingzheng reached out and touched the two saplings.

"Pfft!"

It feels pretty good, compared to the white apple tree in the world of food captives.

Although these saplings are not very healthy, Lin Qingzheng can feel the vitality in them.

As long as they can be planted and carefully fed with delicious food, they should be able to survive. After all, in the world of cannibals, white apples are famous for their tenacious vitality, which can be regenerated by simply throwing a core and sprinkling some water on the cement road.

In order to prevent his perception from being wrong, he also deliberately injected some gourmet energy into these saplings.

Apart from the feeling that the cells inside are very active, there is really nothing special.

Lin Qingzheng nodded, stepped aside, and handed the saplings to the Food Demon King: "Yes! Both saplings are very healthy. As long as they are planted, they should grow vigorously!"

"Thank you for your generosity!"

Although I just learned from Lin Qingzheng that he was not angry because the Nakiri family casually cultivated white apple seedlings.

But now, after handing the sapling to Lin Qingzheng personally and receiving it back from him, the Food Demon King still breathed a sigh of relief.

That’s great! I got the white apple tree saplings without offending the only source of this fantasy ingredient.

Really good.

The only drawback is...

"Hey! Kobayashi-kun, are there any high-end fantasy ingredients like [Air Water] in the next batch of ingredients you're sending to Tokyo?"

"Mangi, why are you here?"

Looking at his daughter who was walking freely in her room, the Foodie King's brows knitted together. "You stole my six saplings and yet you still dare to show up? Do you think I won't be angry?"

"I stole six of your saplings? No! I only got three!"

However, no matter how stern his face was, facing his daughter, this trick had no effect. Facing his angry face, Nakiri Managi smiled cunningly and complained: "I did get the location of your saplings from xxx (the housekeeper)! But when the people I sent infiltrated, someone else had already arrived! After a fight, they ran away with the three saplings! I had someone leave those two saplings behind on purpose!"

"Oh?! So, I should thank you for leaving two saplings?" Anger flashed across the Foodie King's face. He reached out and grabbed his daughter's wrist: "Hand over the three saplings you stole!"

"I don't want it! Absolutely not! I don't want it even if I die!"

Nakiri Managi closed her eyes and screamed, "I won't give it to you! I absolutely won't give it to you! I won't give it to you even if I die!"

The deafening screams caused a commotion in the entire manor.

All of a sudden, countless people's footsteps came towards this side.

"Hey! Kobayashi-kun, come here, let me introduce you. This is Shinomiya Kojiro, the number one of the Ten Greatest Chefs of Totsuki 79, and he's just as good a chef as Gin!"

Amidst the chaotic sound of footsteps, the first to arrive were Gin Dojima and Yaodie, and next to Yaodie was Kojiro Shinomiya, who was wearing glasses and had a cold face.

"Shinomiya now runs the Shinos restaurant on the banks of the Seine, a vibrant culinary district in Paris, France! He's also the first Japanese person to receive the Order of Prusple, and is known as the 'Vegetable Magician'! He's even better than me when it comes to vegetable cooking!"

"No! No! Thank you for your compliment, Senior Yukihira!"

Shinomiya Kojiro felt a little embarrassed by Yaodie's praise. He looked at Lin Qingzheng and bowed deeply to him: "Meeting Chef Kobayashi, the world's number one chef!"

After paying his respects, he stood up and looked at Lin Qingzheng.

He had already sparred with Yao Di and realized how difficult it was to cook fantasy ingredients and tasted how delicious four-star cuisine was.

That's why he was extremely curious about Lin Qingzheng, the only holder of this legendary fantasy ingredient and the man who could use the fantasy ingredient freely and push the taste limit of the world's cuisine to a level that was said to be five-star.

"Hi! Hello, Chef Shinomiya! I'm Kobayashi Kiyomasa."

Lin Qingzheng didn't quite understand why Yaodie brought him here to meet him. Seeing Shinomiya Kojiro looking at him, he hurriedly nodded to him.

Well, you don't need to say so much anymore. Anyway, starting today, Shigong will be rehired by Totsuki Academy like me and will become a professor at the academy! When the time comes, you two can have a good exchange of cooking skills! "

"Ahhh?! How dare I exchange culinary skills with the world's number one chef?"

In the days after returning to Totsuki, Shinomiya Kojiro was challenged by Yaodie almost every day. From all directions and angles, Yaodie crushed everything he was good at over and over again, until he had a clear enough understanding of the title of "the second best chef in the world" and it was deeply ingrained in his bones.

How strong can the world's number one chef be to make the world's number two chef bow down to him?

Incredible!

But he didn't know that after completing the meeting with him, Yao Die put his arm around Lin Qingzheng's shoulders and took him to find other people: "Hey! Hey! Xiao Lin! Let me tell you! You have to make good use of this Shinomiya Kojiro! His level in vegetable cooking is really extraordinary! Even better than me!

You two already know each other, and I've already helped you defeat him! Be bolder in the future, and ask him if you have any questions about vegetables! Once you've mastered his skills in vegetable farming, learn the skills of the next few people I'll introduce to you, and successfully graduate from Totsuki, you should be better than me!

"Better than you? What's your purpose?"