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For last 3 days Shinjiro had stayed inside the kitchen trying out new lamb recipes for his up coming Shokugeki. He was currently Shinjiro had cook in the kitchen inside the polar star dorm. He had only taken a break to go see Souma Shokugeki. He was right when he saw that Soma was able to beat Ikumi Mito, he just wanted show off.
Soon Shinjiro was back in the kitchen cooking, "Okay i think I finally got the dish I wanted.", he wrote done the dish and gather up the ingentes he needed and head out the dorm. Outside he was surprised to meet Isshiki.
"I see that your ready Shinjiro-senpai.", he told his senior, "Follow me. I'll go show you the kitchen that you'll be having your Shokugeki.". He nodded and followed Isshiki to face his opponent.
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Shinjiro followed him to a building, the both enter in a kitchen there inside he saw other students. He recognized only three of the, Erina, Eishi and Rindou, the others were probably the other elite ten.
"Oh, Shinji! You ready to cook some delicious food?", Rindou went and slap on the back, "I can't wait and taste it. Let me introduce to you to the other elite members.".
"This here is Etsuya Ezien.", she pointed at the blonde slickback teen, "He been called a yankee, by most students.".
"Here is Nene Kinokuni.", she pointed at the ponytail wearing girl.
"That is Somei Saito.", she then pointed at a teen with a scar across his nose.
"That little girl there is Momo Kanakubo.", she pointed at a small girl holding a Teddy bear.
"That last one is Tosuke Megishima.", he saw that a student with a buff build.
Shinjiro look around the kitchen, "so where the midget?", he soon heard the doors fing open.
"What did you call me?", Kuga soon enter the kitchen, he was pissed by Shinjiro comment, "I'll show you!".
Shinjiro saw that he was wearing a chef uniform, "So I'm guessing. That your my opponent?".
Kuga gave him smile, "Yeah, that right Shinjiro Aragaki. I want to see your skills first hand.", he walked towards to a station with several kinds of spices at his disposal, "Let me show you the power of cooking!".
Shinjiro smirked at his words, "Alright, I got what i needed. So judging us?'.
Eishi, Rindou, Momo, Enria and Ezien step up, "We will be the judges of this Shougeki. Seeing that it is about us Elite ten.", Ezien told the pea coat wearing teenager, "I just hope you don't disappoint us.".
"Don't worry about that!", he gave them smiled, "I'll show you what I mean business.", he soon pulled out a dutch oven, "I got a secret weapon right here!".
Kuga eyes widen at what Shinjiro had brought, "A dutch oven? What is he planning on cooking with that!".
Eishi look at Shinjiro with interest, "I dutch oven I see.", He stand down with the other judges, "Now let us see what you will cook! You will only have 3 hours now began!".
Shinjiro nodded and began to precook his oven with his lamb. Kuga smirked at what he was doing and began to cooked his dish he had, canola oil, ground cumin, crushed red pepper, soy sauce, cornstarch, toasted sesame oil, sugar, kosher salt, ground black pepper, trimmed boneless lamb shoulder thinly sliced, scallions, cilantro leaves, chicken broth and steamed rice.
In a large bowl, combine two teaspoons of canola oil with cumin, crushed red peppers, soy sauce, cornstarch, sesame oil, sugar and salt and pepper. Add in lamb and onion and turn to coat, he soon let it stand.
Eishi saw what Kuga was cooking, "See that he going to his usaual spicy self", He look at Shinjiro he saw that the lamb from the pot was out. And he was stirring in onions and garlic. Shinjiro soon pour in pomegranate juice into the Dutch pot and scrape off all the brown bits of the onion. He soon pour in balsamic vinegar, he then waited for it to boil.
Enria looked at the two cooks, "interesting, they seem to focus on make a sauce of some sort for there dish.", soon Shinjiro waited and soon put in rosemary, mint flakes and red pepper flakes in the pomegranate mixture.
Kuga began to heat a large skillet he added canola oil in and soon added the lamb and onion. He stir the lamb and onion until it brown. He stirn in the scallions and cilantro. He then added the broth in the skillet. He cooked the broth until it evaporate. He then place steam rice in each bowl and then added the meat on top of them and serve it to the judges, "Have a taste of my Spicy Sichuan-style Lamb with Cumin".
Enria tasted the dish, her widen it had a spicy flavor over flowed her mouth, she felt as if her clothes were stripped from her and beads of sweet fell from her head, "I can stand the heat of the dish but I can't stop from eating! It feel I been enslaved!".
Everyone else were red with heat, Kuga smiled at their faces, Enria looked at Kuga, "It like he's a warlord of spices!".
Rindou wished she could stop but could, "It to good to stop!".
Eishi had a clam looked on his face but had a tinted of red, "You certainly out did yourself Kuga!".
Kuga smirked a Shinjiro "well it looks like I'm the clear winner! Shinjiro-senpai!".
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Kuga and Shinjiro are in a boxing ring. Kuga seem to have an upper hand with quick and powerful punches. It seem shinjiro would be knocked out at any moment. Shinjiro soon dodges one of Kuga punches and pulls back to the ring and charges at the midget with a hard right hook. He's eye turn his yellow. Kuga is soon bombarded by attacks.
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"Don't kid yourself this battle barely started!", Shinjiro soon had a blue aura surrounding him, and his eyes looked yellow, "I'll crush your cooking under my foot!", soon the horse man on the image of the knight riding black stallion appear behind him. It shocked everyone in the room.
He transfer the lamb pieces out of the pot to a plate and set the Dutch oven on the stovetop over high heat. He branged the pomegrante mixture to a boil, to reduce the liquid to ⅓. He stir in honey and season with salt and black pepper. He return the lamb to the oven and stir to combine.
He took out the lamb chops to 5 plates. He garnished with pomegranate seeds, sliced mint leaves and pumpkin seeds. He presented it to the judges, "Here take a bite out of this! It will knock you out clean!".
Everyone tasted the dished, Eishi tasted the dish, "it good but it seem to be missing.. Huh?'".
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Eishi and all the judges are in a meadow with lambs. They were eating broken pomegranates on the ground. Each of them started to pet the fur of the lambs. Shinjiro was sitting on a rock wearing a robe with shepherd staff in his hands, he smiled at them.
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Eishi open his eyes, "This dish is incredible! The lamb is perfect with the pomegranate! It peaceful and heavenly".
Rindou filled her cheeks with the lamb, "Thes fud is amazing Shinji!", she completed to her fellow senior with a mouthful, "What do you think. Enria…?".
Everyone was shocked at what had happen, Enia had stripped down to a bra and panties, "Ahhh!", she try covering herself. Soon something fell to her shoulder it was Shinjiro's pea coat.
"Man, i knew my food was good but i didn't mean to act like the old geezer!', he blushed away from her, "You should go change! Before you judge".
Enria saw he didn't mean to make her do such a thing, she left to go change.
Eishi broke the the silence, "Anyways, Shinjiro what is your dish's name?".
Shinjiro soon turn to the first seat, "oh it called Lamb Braised in Pomegranate.".
"Why did you use pomegranates?", Momo asked the tall teen.
"Oh well pomegranate had sour taste to mix with the heartier flavor of the lamb. I thought of using plums but, that been over use so many times.". He replied to the small girl, "Some recommended it to me for my dorm.".
Isshiki was interested, "Who might that be?".
"Surprisingly it was Megumi. I was trying to find something to go with my lamb'...
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Flash back..
"Should i use apples? Nah, it make it too sweet", Shinjiro thought to himself as he was cooking
Soon the doors of kitchen open and saw the blue haired girl enter she saw Shinjiro deep in thought, "Oh, Hello Shinjiro senpai. What're you doing?".
Shinjiro looked up to the girl, "Oh! Megumi was it? I'm trying to find the right supplement fruit to go with my lamb I'm cooking!`".
"Oh, i see", she replied, she thought to herself and said, "why not pomegranate?'.
Shun jiro looked at Megumi and thought what she had said, "Pomegranate?".
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"So I tried it out with pomegranate and was able to get the right flavor.", he explain to Isshiki.
"I see. Megumi such a sweetheart!", Isshiki praised the girl.
"Yeah, yeah! Can we start the judging Already?', Kuga was impatient wanting to know the results.
Eishi nodded, "We'll start the judging. Momo you go first!".
The girl nodded, "My vote goes for Shinjiro. His dish had a unique flavor and used the dutch pot in such a creative way.'.
"My vote goes to Kuga.", Ezian blurted out as Mom finish, "Shinjiro food might be good but, it did not reach my expectations.".
Kuga had a smiled on his face. Shinjiro did not fazed on his opinion, they looked at Rindou, "Your cooking was good Shinji but i agree with Eizan. Sorry.".
Shinjiro gave her a kind smiled to her, "Nah, don't worry about it! It means I just need to try harder!", Rindou blushed at his comment.
Eishi soon stood up, "I vote for Shinjiro.", he surprised everyone by his comment, "he had showed me his creativity in cooking and finding the right flavors.".
It was now in a tie, soon Erina came in and saw everyone looking towards her, "it seem your are tiebreaker Erina", Eishi explained to the first year.
"I see!", she felt nervous for some reason, there was a tense pressure in the air, she took her time. She try to think of the flavor of each dish, after a while she pointed at a dish. It was Shinjiro dish, "It was something that should be showed to the gourmet world.'.
Kuga was shocked by her answer, he soon saw Shinjiro's dish. He went towards it and took a taste, he felt the overwhelming flavor throughout his body. He almost fainted for the feeling, he looked up to Shinjiro, "what made you want to cook?'.
Shinjiro closed his eye and remember a little girl with white haired and red eyes, "Shinji!".
He sighed , "There was a girl who could make anyone smiled. She wanted to cook, but she burn everything she cooked. So i decided to do it for her.", he chocked a bit, "She was gone before i could show here what I could do. I continue cooking for her.".
Kuga was shocked by his story, Eishi soon walked towards Shinjiro and place his hands on his shoulder, "I'm sorry.".
Shinjiro smiled at his comment, "Thanks, so do you think I could be your sous-chef?"
Eishi nodded, "I believe so. Come let meet in my office.". The two seniors left to go to the office.
Kuga sat on the floor, he could help but smiled, "That guy he really knows how to cook.".
"Yes, he quite the cook.", Isshiki commented, "He was able to beat you. I wish face him in a Shogeki.".
"Not, before me.", Nene blurted out, "Want to see his full strength.".
"Hmph, don't bother I will be the one who face him.", Ezian stated to the two of them.
"No way I want rematch with Shinjiro-sensei!", Kuga yelled as he got out of the floor.
Enria was shocked by the second years reaction, Shinjiro had become their main target. She couldn't help but smiled. Rindou left the kitchen and thought about Shinjiro, she couldn't help have this warm feeling. He made good food but something about him made her feel light.
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This is the end of the chapter please review.
