[Chapter 018] ~

Half an hour passed. No matter how these people complained, not a single soul left.

They were all curious. What kind of food will Shijun serve?

Even if the other party's cooking process was too simple. After all, in this assessment Miss Erina was attending as the chief examination, and the second seat of Elite Ten was paying attention to this.

Such scenes were rare. Shijun, who had been counting the time silently in his heart, opened his eyes. Standing up, he directly lifted the lid of the pot where the clear soup was being simmered.

In this moment! A strong fragrance overflows. The first-year students standing in the corridor swallowed their throats involuntarily.

"It's only been boiled for half an hour, right?"

"How can it be so delicious?"

"What on earth did he put in the pot?"

"It's amazing, no wonder he was so calm during the assessment." Everyone was praising it and discuss how to cook the dish.

Through the color and aroma, you can simply judge the cooking level of a person. The moment when Shijun lifted the lid of the pot. These people have already understood that the other party was definitely not messing around before.

It's just that they couldn't figure it out. How exactly did the other party cook such a fragrant chicken soup. Smelling its fragrance, it was obvious that the essence of the chicken has been completely boiled out. But in half an hour, how could it be possible to simmer the chicken?

They didn't understand.

Kobayashi Rindou's eyes narrowed, and she had roughly guessed what Shijun was doing. But she couldn't guess what spices the other party put in the soup. Simply cooking chicken will never achieve this effect.

This point, Kobayashi Rindou was very sure.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but move her index finger, wanting to taste Xie Jun's dishes.

For the first time, a surprised expression appeared on Erina's face. She has tasted all kinds of food since she was a child, and she has never smelled such a special soup.

She suddenly felt that she seemed to underestimate this exchange student. However, the other party's cooking has not been finished yet, so she wont make judgments easily.

'The clear soup is done, and the rest is easy.'

After all, the most important thing about 'boiling water cabbage' was this clear soup.

When Shijun brought this dish to Erina. A look of shock appeared in the latter's beautiful eyes, and her face became solemn. Inside this bowl of 'boiling water cabbage', the clear soup was crystal clear and fragrant.

A few pieces of cabbage hearts sank quietly at the bottom of the bowl. It seems plain, but it gives a feeling of being extraordinary. The tangy aroma constantly stimulated Erina's sense of smell.

She had an appetite for no apparent reason.

Erina, who has always looked down on civilian cuisine, has to admit it. Shijun's cooking, even it was an ordinary it gave people a fatal attraction.

The students at the door saw this ordinary. But no one showed sarcasm. Those who can enter Tōtsuki Academy were not fools.

From the aroma of the other party's soup base alone, one can imagine the extraordinariness of this 'boiled cabbage'. Erina finally couldn't help it, and picked up the bowl of soup in front of her.

She took a sip. Then she instantly rooted in place.

'What kind of taste is this?'

The flavors of chicken, hoof, cabbage, almonds, olives and more mashed together. Intertwined into an indescribable taste.

At this moment, Erina was like being in a mountain stream. The cool stream water brushed every inch of her delicate skin.

It's like taking a sip of an ice-cold drink on a hot summer day. A different kind of refreshing feeling arises spontaneously from the bottom of her heart.

"Chicken and hoof are completely stewed, and all the essence is blended in the clear soup."

"However, it's not like it was stewed in a fire. How did he do it?"

"There is a faint sour taste in it, is it because of this? It should be formic acid, right?"

"This kind of novel method is really familiar. The decomposition solution in formic acid can indeed speed up the cooking of meat."

"It's a cool and refreshing. The combination of cabbage and chicken can actually produce such an effect?"

Erina closed her eyes tightly, savoring it. But then, she frowned slightly, seemingly annoyed.

"What is it? Most of the ingredients have been tasted, but there is still this taste, but why can't she think of it?" Even she was thinking very hard, Erina didn't have a slightest clue about it.

She was speaking to herself, and everyone could hear her clearly.

"What? And a spice that Miss Erina can't even taste?" Hisako shuddered, and her eyes revealed disbelief.

She has been by Erina's side since she was a child, but she clearly knows how powerful the other party's "God's Tongue" is.

Like a gift from the god of food, Erina has the 'God's Tongue'.

No matter what ingredients she taste, the taste will be magnified geometrically. In this way, any dish, with its ingredients and spices, will never escape Erina's tongue.

But now, Miss Erina, she couldn't even taste what kind of spices the other party put?

'Is it a spice that Miss has never tasted? ' As soon as this thought came up, Hisako cut it off.

'In this world, there is absolutely no ingredient that the eldest miss has not tasted! '

After all, Erina has been learning to taste ingredients from all over the world from a very young age.