"Achoo!" Haruki sneezed out of sudden in the middle of his work. The weather has warm enough so it must be not the cold air which caused him to sneeze. "If you have nothing to do, better you leave this place." He said without looked away from the document on his desk.

"You're not hungry?"

"I'm planning on having a meal after I finished this paperwork. If you hungry, get it yourself."

Karen who laid on the couch placed at the right side of that room got up from her position. She sat on it, still busy with her phone. But then she tossed that device and walked toward Haruki's desk. She looked at the older one who didn't take a look even for a second to her. There were also still so much paperwork he should dealt with.

"Let me help you." Those simple phrase succeed in making Haruki stopped his activity for a while and looked up at Karen who has stood in front of him.

"As if you're good with paperwork in the beginning." Haruki was about to go back to his work but Karen took the pen from his right hand, made him looked at her for the second time.

"Who knows about it? Just for this time, I insist to give you my help. So, for the exchange of my hard work, you will have a dinner with us."

Us - by Karen's dictionary was the employees in Nakiri farm. It was not like Haruki hasn't had a dinner with them. Once a week he attended the dinner, just to please the younger one in front of him. Haruki sighed in defeated as he didn't find any lie or joke in her rose gold eyes. So, he took the colorful small sticky note from the drawer in his desk and put it on top of the paperwork set on the right side of the desk, it's about 200 paper sheets in total. "I want you to mark that bunch of paperwork with this sticky note. Green for farm issue, blue for foodstuff makers, red for restaurant, yellow for public institution, and pink for Toutsuki resort issue. You got it?" Haruki explained shortly as he still has so many things to do. The girl in front of him nodded as she took the sticky note from him then took the paperwork and brought it to the other table which placed just next to the couch she laid there before. "She must felt hungry that made her so silent."

The next thirty minutes got spent in silent, except for the ticking sound of the clock and the flipping paper sound be in Haruki's place or Karen's place. Sometimes, keyboard typing sound got heard too. The noisy sound of the printer. Then, the last one was the sound of countless paper sheets got dropped on Haruki's desk. Karen has finished her task. Haruki being the one who gave the task took a short look on her work and that surprised him. She wasn't only attached the sticky note based on the document's issue, she even has arranged it into every issue.

"Finish it faster so we didn't late for the dinner." Karen gave back the remained sticky note to Haruki.

"Yeah... even you say it, we already have been late for it since two hours ago, Karen."

"Just finish your damn work, stupid Ruki-nii."

"Hai... hai."


The next day

It was after he finished all of his classes that day, Souma headed to Don RS's room leisurely. This time, he got there alone as his blue haired friend aka Megumi already has gathering with her Local Cuisine RS. In his left hand was a grocery bag filled with various ingredients he intended to use in his experiment, while the right one brought his cooking utensil's bag. The long conversation he had with his Isshiki senpai last night somehow still glued in his memory clearly.

(Flashback)

"If the Elite Ten Council wanted her to be part of them, why it should be Kimura senpai who conduct that task?" Souma's question made Isshiki got back his attention to the younger one. On Souma's face, a confused look appeared so clearly.

"It's a long story. But to put it simple, Ki-kun has lost in a bet made by all Elite Ten Council member. So, he should did the consequence of it. Even though till now, we haven't succeed in bringing Ren-kun to be part of us."

Souma took another sip on his cold tea, then took the night snack. The long forgotten recipe book got opened again. Just then, he remembered something."Isshiki senpai, Tadokoro has told me about the Shokugeki between that Ren girl with 9th seat Elite Ten. Is that thing... a part of your - I mean, Elite Ten's plan to recruit her?"

Isshiki laughed when he heard that short conclusion made by Souma. But, when he thought about that no wonder that the younger one said something like that. It was true that at the end Nakiri Karen became the part of Elite Ten Council."Souma-kun, I understand why you pull that conclusion after listening to my story. But, that Shokugeki was a different matter. It was truly a mere Shokugeki between Ren-kun with Eizan-kun, our former 9th seat. Even the rest of Elite Ten Council member hadn't expected that Eizan-kun will give up his position in that battle." Isshiki explained, then he casted a look on the recipe book in Soma's hand. "That reminded me, Souma-kun. If I'm not mistaken, you'll have a clash with Mito Ikumi, right?"

"Uh... oh? That's right. Also, we will battle using her specialty."

"Meat?"

Souma nodded as the reply. Isshiki took his cup then sipped his cold tea. "Hmm... maybe, it will be tough for you, Souma-kun."

"Eh?!"

Isshiki put his cup on the floor then took a snack to eat. "She is the heir of Mito group, which conducted in meat business. It's not only she learned about how to make a delicious dish from meat. How to choose a best meat, to preserve it, all the equipment and process about to produce the delicacy of meat itself, she had learned all of it. Even in my generation, she is popular. Niku Master."

Souma put down the recipe book to the floor. "So it's her reason to look down on other ingredient than meat. But, Isshiki senpai. Even you say that it will be tough, I still want to take it. Since in the first place, I've planned to win with my cooking."

Isshiki smiled as he heard his junior's answer. He nodded his head in excitement. "Then, I'm waiting for the good news Souma-kun." He got up from his place as he took the already empty bowl and bottle on the tray. "Good luck. I don't know if it was a coincidence or not. But when you met a difficulty about the ingredient, you can ask their help."

The last part intrigued Souma but he seemed didn't understand fully to it. "Their help? Whose?"

"Of course the ones we talked about this whole time, Souma-kun. Ki-kun, despite he came from a wealthy family but he has several experience of making cheap ingredient into luxurious dish. Also, don't you forget Ren-kun's connection."

With that speech, Isshiki left that room.

(Flashback End)

The last part maybe the fastest way to get him a strength to win against that Niku girl. Being Nakiri Erina's sister, Karen must have known Erina's subordinate's character too. If he asked Karen, he maybe can figured out which part he should polished about his cooking in order to beat his opponent. But then, Souma just realized that it wasn't his style. Moreover, it's not his first time gone into a cooking battle. Hell, he has gone through it countless times back then in Yukihira Diner. Asking someone else about his opponent's weakness wasn't his style. So for now, all he could do is try to figure out what kind of dish he will made.

"Just how many I think about it, even though I have accepted the fact that he will stepped forward to the Shokugeki in the name of Don RS, aren't you being too tricky this time, Ren-kun?"

Souma stopped just right when he was about to step into the room. His right hand which already on the door handle stopped right away when he heard Konishi's voice. From the sound of his voice, Konishi was about to fall into that depressed state again.

"Heh~ I just heard the same thing from Ruki-nii yesterday. Just to make thing's clear here, Koni senpai. I have no malicious intent in the upcoming Shokugeki. I just... did the thing a member should did."

There was silent after that. Souma still stood by the door, listening and expecting the next thing will be spoken out between the two, especially Karen.

"Do you remember my answer when you interviewed me back then, Koni senpai? When I decided to be a member of this research society?"

"Hmmm... yeah, your answer is the weirdest one I ever heard. You can't blame me for it, Ren-kun. You're came from the wealthy, famous culinary family, yet you said that Don is inspired you. Even until now, I still didn't get into it."

Inside the room, Karen looked a bit surprised by that confession. She already has an impression of the senior in front of her that he was plain. He was just plain in everything he did, even Karen has questioned how that plain guy survived in Toutsuki. "It just like what you've always told us about the Don itself, Koni senpai." Karen said finally. The RS's president gave her a questioned look, asked for further explanation. "You said Don is fast, tasty, and cheap. But for me, it's beyond that."

The last part spoken out by her got more curiosity, for Konishi himself, also the one who stood outside the room listening to them.

"In that small bowl of Don, it filled various kind of component. It is common, right? Even in other kind of dish we will met the same situation. But, when I ate Don for the first time, I felt different. I found that... each of component used in Don is have their own story and right to be the part of the Don itself. It brings out happiness, even in that small bowl, even in the short time." Karen paused for several seconds as she looked up at the ceiling. "That kind of feeling, I found it again when I saw the various recipe this RS has created and developed. There are so plenty people out there who still hadn't experienced it." Karen said it with low voice, whisper alike. Then she looked back at her senior. "In short, I just didn't like the idea of this place got transformed just for a single egoist chef." Karen got up from her chair as she tidied up her uniform. "All you need to do right now is guiding that red head boy to make a dish which surpassed Niku-chan's meat dish. As I know that this RS is in money crisis, I will help with the ingredients. Even though it's not as good as the meat owned by Mito group. Then, I take my leave."

Soon after Karen said her goodbye, the door got opened. It showed Soma with his cooking things in his hands. He entered the room then headed straight to the workstation in that room. Lied down the grocery bag as well as his cooking utensils bag. One by one he took out the ingredients from the grocery bag, took bowls and other thing he needed to prepare the dish. He worked in silent but with determined eyes. Just listening to Karen's words had motivated him. He should thanked her, for tricking him in her small game. He should thanked her, for giving him reasons to win the Shokugeki.

"The ingredients I talked about earlier will be sent this evening. It's okay with you, right, Sou-kun?" Karen asked the red haired boy as she took step heading out of the room.

"Didn't mind at all. You've saved us."


At Local Cuisine RS's room

On the white board got written five local dishes, it included the local vegetable dish, noodle dish, local sweets and local beverage. For each dish got added the names of chef who will appointed to it.

"It is the dishes we will served in the upcoming Kanto Traditional Cuisine Festival. The rest who didn't get into the cooking team will be divided in other team just like what we have discussed before. I hope, we get unforgotten experience from it." Fujimaru Kazuki, the president of Local Cuisine RS, explained to the members who sat in front of him. The next thing happened after that was the small discussion here and there, as for the cooking team already split into smaller team and other members begun applied themselves into other teams.

"Are you sure you still want to participate in this, Haruki-kun? I know that you're super busy right now and maybe till the fest." Fujimaru Kazuki asked the department chief once he left the discussion to the members.

"Why not? Even last year I join the team too." Haruki answered calmly, as he wrote down the ingredients he will needed.

"Yeah, that's right." Fujimaru replied back. He watched the other members seemed busy and serious in their own discussion. "It's too bad that the fest is hold just right at the same time of the hell training which the freshmen should attended. We may not getting much help from them at the fest day." He added, still having his sight over the freshmen between the members of the research society.

"It can't be helped, isn't it?" Another member butted into the conversation between Fujimaru and Haruki. It was Inoue Mami, the female vice president of Local Cuisine RS. She sat beside the president guy and looked at the paper where Haruki wrote down his ingredients. "All we could do as the exchange for their support is cheer up them when they came back to this place. Don't matter how many of them who will survived."

Haruki finished his thing, then looked at little commotion in front of him. Discussed students everywhere. Just then, he spotted a blue haired girl who he saw yesterday at Don RS's room. Haruki wondered, how Karen managed to remember that 'ordinary' girl among the other freshmen members in Local Cuisine RS. Speaking of Don RS, earlier Karen has informed him that she will has a short stop to the said research society before she headed to Kirio Farm for her monthly check.

"So, Fujimaru-kun. I hope that you set a bigger goal for this project as our mighty Kimura Haruki will served one of his ace desserts." Inoue Mami added as she took the paper from Haruki. She sent a challenging look to the guy next to her.

"You think I'm not?! Seriously Inoue-san, you should have recognized it first when I plotted the chefs into the cooking team. It's true that I want to create unforgotten experience but I have another goal too. To be the best. It's the least I could do as the president of this RS anyway."

Haruki looked at Fujimaru who spoken out his resolution, but felt something off of the guy. The president guy looked like he was worried about something. "As long as I'm here, you don't need to worry, Kazuki-kun."

Fujimaru as well as Inoue suddenly got their attention on Haruki who looked engrossed into another recipe writing. He didn't glance over the other two as he started drawing his dessert on the white paper using his colorful pen. A small smile emerged on Fujimaru's lips as he replied back. "It can't be helped, Haruki-kun. Recently, the long running research society got shut down just for a mere personal use. I just can't stop thinking about the way to hinder our research society from that." Fujimaru talked honestly. Even the Local Cuisine RS was one of the renowned research society in Toutsuki, but who knows if the unlucky treat will fall over it?

"Hey, you're not the only one here, Fujimaru-kun. You have all of us in your back, also the renowned research society's advisor Nakiri Karen. Don't you worry about that some childish Shokugeki which has had happened." Inoue replied while slapped Fujimaru's back to get him cheered up.

"That's right."

The discussion between the members of Local Cuisine RS has run for almost an hour and half. All the department chiefs themselves also had a discussion forum with both the president and vice president of the RS. With slow and silent steps, Megumi approached the higher up's group. Her group already finished their discussion so she intended to ask a permission to leave the meeting because she has promised Soma to help him. It was Haruki who spotted her first.

"You need something?" Haruki asked her to the point which made the rest of his group members also got their attention to Megumi who already stood in front of them.

"A... ano, senpai, I... can I leave first? My... my group has resumed the discussion and has distributed each task. Also... I have promised a friend of mine to lend a help." Slowly, even almost stuttering, Megumi explained in front of her seniors.

"What's make you so nervous, Megumi-chan?" Inoue tried to cheer up the blue haired girl whom already red like a ripe tomato. "If you said so, you can leave. You don't want your friend to wait for any longer, right?"

Megumi's face turned into relief as she heard her senior's approval. Then she bowed respectfully to the seniors as she thanked them then left.


Got back into Don RS's room

Bowl filled the freshly made Don got offered to Konishi. Yet, only rejection after rejection Soma got after serving almost twelve bowls of Don.

"Delicious! But, not enough!"

"It's really tasty! But still not enough! You can't win against Nikumi using this!"

Those words rang continuously like a broken record inside the room. Just then, Megumi entered the already chaos scene. "Nikumi is meat specialist, especially with beef." Konishi said as he put down the half eaten Don on to table. Souma who hasn't grabbed the best dish needed got slumped down to the chair next to the workstation. He wanted to take a break. Also, maybe his senior will gave him one or two advice. "I don't think there's any need to fixate in beef don. Just take an oyakodon for example, it works with the theme. A dish that overlaps as little as possible with Nikumi's dish is better." Konishi pointed out his opinion.

That example gave Souma another view about the dish used for the shokugeki. "I see. So, it should be as eccentric as possible." Souma responded. Then his golden eyes caught the figure of the blue haired girl and asked for her opinion. "Tadokoro, what about you? Do you have any favorite Don dish?"

"Eh, uhm... I can't call it favorite or not. Also, it's not even a Don dish." Soma gave her a confused look at her random answer. Then Megumi explained further. "You see, you grill a scallop on the net then add a bit butter and soy sauce inside the opening." Megumi's face turned dreamy as well as her mouth almost drooled because of her own imagination. "If you put it on the steamy rice, it will tasted delicious Souma-kun."

Souma smiled awkwardly at Megumi's dreamy talk about her favorite seafood. "That's right. We could have battled using seafood Don." Konishi added but then he got depressed all over again as he remembered yesterday's event. "Yukihira, it's all because you said you'd battled using meat."

Soma sighed at his senior's remark. "The theme of the battle is already decided. So stop grumbling, Konishi senpai!"

"You don't know how strong Nikumi is!" Konishi shouted out his frustration. "If she brings an 'A5' beef, we can't win..." He gritted his teeth because of his anger.

"A5... if I'm not mistaken, it was a rank for the quality of meat, right?" Megumi responded to Konishi's words.

"That's right." Konishi got up from his chair, took the marker and began scrabbled on the white board. "The 'yield grade' that represents the obtainable meat weight proportions of the cut up cow has 3 ranks from A to C." He wrote A, B, and C in the row at the left corner. "The 'meat quality grade' has 5 ranks from 5 to 1. Depending on various conditions like the marbled portion, the meat's firmness, or the luster of the fat." Konishi continued writing the combination code of the number and alphabet on the table. The he circled the 'A5' code. "The meat which achieved the highest rank on both of these is... A5." He finished up as he pointed at 'A5' code. Konishi got back to his chair, leaned his back as he remembered something. "I've eaten steak grilled by Nikumi during school events." He began to drool at his own imagination. "Meat of that level is... DRINKABLE!"

Both Soma and Megumi widened their eyes as if they have heard something alien from their senior. "Drinkable?" Both asked the same question as that term is quite strange to address meat's deliciousness.

"The moment you take bite on the meat, it becomes a mass of deliciousness. You don't need to use your teeth, it just slides through your throat. If you ordered that kind of dish in a restaurant, a few of your yukichi would fly away." Souma didn't give any comment as he just listened to every single word got explained by the president guy. "It's also an important point you should know, Yukihira." Konishi pointed up his forefinger as it gave his speech got more appealing. "The ingredients used in the Shokugeki must be prepared by the competitors. Because being able to get a supply of raw ingredient is a necessary skill of a chef." He paused for a while before he continued the next long planned explanation. "The Mito household is expanding as a large-scale meat distributor. They have complete control over a section of the beef business..."

"That's right. Isshiki senpai has also told me something about that too." Soma interrupted the long explanation which made Konishi stopped midway.

"You have known it, Yukihira!" Konishi shouted. "You must have known the reason why Nikumi's dish are of highest quality." Konishi bowed down as he got dejectedly because of his own words. "I wonder if you can really surpass that meat..."

Soma sighed as this discussion got nowhere. Megumi who listened from the beginning until now also got nothing to say. "Guys, I really think that Don RS should go with beef Don too."

"HUUUUH!"

"Wait, Yukihira. Were you listening to me? With beef, you can't possibly win against Nikumi."

"But, Konishi senpai. You said this, Don is 'fast, tasty, and cheap'. Nikumi is looking down on it, you know?!" Soma reasoned back as he threw his point of his reason. "To make her admit that Don is good, we have to beat her using a cheap priced beef dish or it will be meaningless!"

A soft laugh got heard after Soma's fiery speech. All the attention got to the one who laughed at their 'small' debate. The female student dressed in male uniform leaned on the opened door of that room. Her rose gold eyes got amused by the entertaining scene in front of her. She even wondered why all the three didn't detect her existence even she has stood there for almost fifteen minutes.

"Ren-san!"

"Ren-kun!"

"Kuro Nakiri!"

All the three shouted out in the same time then the amused look on Karen's face got replaced with a questioned one. "Kuro Nakiri?" She asked to the one who addressed her with that unusual nickname. She entered the room then eyed the leftover bowls of the served Don. "You sure have made many of them, Sou-kun. But it seems still haven't satisfied our president." Then she put down the blue box bag on the workstation. "It's the 'cheap priced beef' you have mentioned." Karen announced as she faced the red haired boy.

"You were listening from the beginning, Ren-kun?" Konishi asked. The latter who got asked nodded. "You got it for the Shokugeki?" He asked again.

"Of course." Karen replied shortly then got a chair and sat on it. "I'm a bit lucky today that I get more than usually I get from them. You are free to use it all, Sou-kun."

Soma didn't reply, but then reached up the blue box and opened it. His face got sour as his golden eyes caught the 'cheap priced' beef meat offered by Karen. "It's really the 'cheap priced' beef meat." Konishi as well as Megumi following suit to take a look on the raw ingredient brought by the older Nakiri girl.

"Don't look so desperate. I never promised to bring the beef meat at the same standard as Mito's, right?" Karen got up from her chair. She walked closer to Soma who still eyed the beef meat inside the box. "Ruki-nii has countless times created marvelous dishes with those kind of meat, Sou-kun. I hope that you can make your speech earlier come true." With that words, she left the three as she has delivered her thing.

Soma smirked as he let Karen's word sunk in his mind. He clutched his white head cloth as he got his spirit back. He turned around to face Konishi and Megumi. "That's right. Let's started again!"

Ingredient chopping, butter melting, ingredient frying, those sounds got rang all around that room, created unique orchestra music.

"Have a taste!"

"It's tasty, but it's still less than Nikumi's. I can't feel the impact when I bite on it." Konishi commented.

"Nikumi's dish is... like come with a whonk."

"A whonk? Then, we should added tallow." Fifteen minutes later. "How about this? I put the sweetly fried egg using sugar and tallow beef to make a SUKIYAKI3 DON."

Konishi drooled even before he took a bite on the dish. He took up his chopsticks then tasted it. "It's no good! There's no refined flavor! Try lowering the amount of tallow, instead..."

"H-How about this recipe?"

...


The next day too...

One bowl to another, one recipe to other recipe, got tried again and over again, but none of it was reached the taste of satisfaction. Megumi who came along got busy in supporting Souma. While Konishi, the one who tasted the dishes has turned like a corps.

"Uh... Konishi senpai is pale and dejected again." Megumi took a note of the president's being.

"Throw water to wake him up, Tadokoro!" Souma commanded from his workstation. He was too busy to take a look on the older student.

While outside the room, Karen who got accompanied by Haruki watched in every little thing did in the room from the small opening of the door. "You should have asked for the better meat, not that." Haruki said as he already bored of the useless thing they did there.

"Then, the three main points of Don will have no use, Ruki-nii." Karen replied without looking back at Haruki who stood just behind her back. Her eyes still gazed at the situation inside the room. "Ah... they should have found the resolution or all of this will go in vain."

"Uh... tomorrow night is the real thing. But I can't see that he will win the battle yet." Haruki commented as he following suit looked at the inside. "See, even they already in the brim of death." Karen can't deny it. All the three looked devastated just trying numerous recipes and came into dead end. Konishi already turned white as if his soul has left his body. Megumi sat on the floor, leaned on the workstation. While Souma sat on the chair silently. His back faced the door so Karen can't tell what is running in his head. Karen was about to open the door and stormed into the room but got stopped by Haruki. "Let's wait for a moment." Haruki said as he put his hand on Karen's shoulder. "Let's look till they can't stood on their own feet."

Karen smirked at Haruki's last sentence. "See... who's the evil now?"

"I thought you enjoy it, aren't you?" Haruki asked back.

"Hahahaha... that's right. You got the point, Ruki-nii."

Megumi got up from her situation, took another recipe book which haven't touched. She looked at the silent Souma who still sat on the chair facing the wall. He still seemed deep in thought. "Souma-kun, why don't take a rest a bit?" Megumi's suggestion broke the silence in that room which once was filled with cooking sound. Souma looked at Megumi who approached his place, but still didn't say a thing. "If you have a change of pace, maybe you will get an idea to overcome this. Like in our first class, just kidding." Megumi continued with her smiling face. Souma smiled a bit.

"Ah... that one. When I softened the meat with honey." Just then he stopped as something knocked him once he read the title of the book Megumi brought. An idea popped into his mind right away. Souma left his chair then grabbed Megumi's arms which made the blue haired girl screamed because of surprise. "Thank you, Tadokoro! You are really a life saver!" Souma's face bloomed in happiness.

"Seems that he has found the way." Haruki commented shortly.

"Tsk! It took him decade just to realize it." Karen replied. She folded her hands against her chest. She saw the red haired boy began moving as he took raw beef steak portion and placed it on the steel cooking table. He cut the steak with net pattern then beat it to stretch it. The next thing he did was putting both side of the meat with finely chopped onion then left it for a while. He gave the meat which had the onion got removed with salt and pepper for seasoning. On the fry pan he melted butter to grill the meat. Once the meat has well-cooked, he used the juice that grilled meat to fry the onion. The delicate fragrance of fried onion filled the room. Then Souma put the fried onion equally on the steak. The last thing he did was used the knife's stomach to mark the net lines and put it on rice.

"That is..."

"Chaliapin steak." Karen finished Haruki's word. "It looked delicious."

When Souma hasn't said his usual line which often got said as he served a dish to his customers, Karen already opened the door with loud bang. The three in that room looked at her who suddenly showed up. She stormed right to the workstation and her rose gold eyes gleamed in glee as she looked at the freshly served Chaliapin Steak Don. She took the chopsticks which previously in Konishi's hand then tried to cut the steak meat.

"It's soft." Megumi commented as she saw Karen has no difficulty in cutting the meat.

Then Karen put the meat as well as the rice grains into her mouth, munched it for several seconds. The three looked at the jet-black haired girl in silent as they have waited for her comment about the latest recipe being tried by Souma. "It's delicious." Karen started with short, simple word just like that. "You've found the simplest way to make the cheap beef meat tasted like an expensive one, but... I hope you give more impact in this dish. Or, you won't win." Karen put down the chopsticks after that. She looked up at Souma who still looked back at her. "You should put your attention in the whole composition in your Don, not only the meat."


While at another place, inside Nakiri Erina's room.

Mito Ikumi stood in front of Erina as she reported her preparation to the upcoming Shokugeki.
"I'm using Japanese black fillet. Its grade is naturally A5. Moreover, it has been curing for over a month and when it used, it will be in the best condition. In other word, an A5 that exceeds A5." Erina smiled a bit at Ikumi's report. "By cooking it in a way that brings out its flavor the most, I'll destroy the likes of Don RS."

================= Dish. 04 – Days Before the First Match ==================

Note:

Oyakodon : Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced scallion (or sometimes regular onions), and other ingredients are all simmered together in a kind of soup which is made with soy sauce and stock, and then served on top of a large bowl of rice.

Yukichi : The front side of the 10,000 yen note includes a portrait of Yukichi Fukuzawa, a Meiji era philosopher and the founder of Keio University.