5 - Convenience Store Brawl

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[00:05] Anne
    To all those who have passed,
    the first gate has been opened.
[00:10] Anne
    Next up is the second trial.
[00:12] Anne
    Those who were exempted from the
    first trial will join the competition here.
[00:22] Soma
    Ts-Tsukasa-senpai!
[00:27] Tsuka
    Yukihira!
[00:29] Tsuka
    Tadokoro and Aldini, too!
[00:32] Tsuka
    Thank goodness there are people I know here!
[00:35] Taku
    It's been a while.
[00:36] Megu
    I guess you're participating
    in the BLUE, too.
[00:39] Tsuka
    Yeah, I received an invitation.
[00:41] Tsuka
    But I've been surrounded by so many
    famous chefs. I felt like withering away.
[00:46] Tsuka
    And there are guys in creepy masks, too.
    What the heck is Noir, anyway?
[00:51] Soma
    Yeah, no kidding.
[00:54] Tsuka
    Surprisingly, though,
    I don't feel like I can lose.
[00:58] Tsuka
    I might've gotten stronger
    these past few months.
[01:01] Soma
    I see.
[01:03] Soma
    But we've gotten stronger, too.
[01:05] Tsuka
    Yeah, I look forward to seeing that.
[01:08] Anne
    Let us now start the next trial.
[01:10] Anne
    The stage for this next culinary battle
[01:13] Anne
    was created specifically for this trial.
[01:15] Anne
    As you can see, it's a convenience store.
[01:18] Soma
    A convenience store?!
SIGN    Food Wars
SIGN    The Second Plate
SIGN    The Third Plate
SIGN    The Fourth Plate
SIGN    The Fifth Plate
SIGN    Convenience Store Brawl
[02:55] Rantabi
    All right, people. Out of my way.
[02:57] Soma
    Hey, it's that one chick again.
[03:01] Rantabi
    Hey, could you get me some water?
    I'm dying of thirst here.
[03:05] Rantabi
    I know I've met some of you already,
    but I'll go ahead and introduce myself again.
[03:09] Rantabi
    I'm a second-class adjudicator
    with the WGO, Rantabi.
SIGN    WGO Second-Class Adjudicator
    Rantabi
[03:12] Rantabi
    I'll explain the second trial now.
[03:15] Rantabi
    As you're all aware,
[03:16] Rantabi
    Japanese convenience stores have
    a wide variety of things for sale.
[03:20] Rantabi
    This trial involves those items.
[03:22] Rantabi
    Why, thank you.
[03:27] Rantabi
    You can use whatever you'd like from there.
[03:29] Rantabi
    You'll use your items to prepare
    a dish to serve to me.
[03:35] Rantabi
    In order to pass...
[03:37] Rantabi
    You'll have to create a dish
    worth more than a hundred dollars.
[03:41] Soma
    Huh?
[03:42] Taku
    A hundred dollars?
[03:43] Megu
    So around 10,000 yen?
[03:45] Chef b
    Most convenience store items
    cost a mere fraction of that.
[03:49] Chef f
    And we have to make that 10,000 yen?
[03:51] Chef g
    That's over a hundred dollars...
[03:52] Rantabi
    Each person will get up to two chances.
[03:54] Rantabi
    You have 60 minutes.
[03:56] Rantabi
    Items that are used will be restocked,
    but popular items may still sell out.
[04:01] Rantabi
    Keep that in mind when you
    come up with your recipes.
[04:04] Rantabi
    All right, get to it!
[04:12] Chef F
    It's true that you can find basic
    ingredients at a convenience store, but...
[04:15] Chef G
    No foie gras or truffles...
    or aged meats or gibier.
[04:19] Chef e
    No premium ingredients.
[04:22] All
    What should we do?
[04:23] Megu
    To think we'd have to use
    convenience store items...
[04:26] Taku
    A hundred dollars is basically on par
    with a high-class French dish.
[04:30] Taku
    There's no way any simple prep will
    produce a dish of that level.
[04:34] Tsuka
    Yukihira, why don't we have
    our own little match?
[04:37] Soma
    Huh?
[04:38] Tsuka
    Let's see which one of our dishes
    will bring in a bigger profit.
[04:41] Tsuka
    It'll be good practice before we see
    who's the best young chef in the world.
[04:45] Soma
    Sounds good. I'm getting fired up.
[04:48] Soma
    That's how the first seat should be!
SIGN    Former
     First Seat
SIGN    Current
    First Seat
[04:54] Megu
    They're both getting so fired up!
SIGN    Former
     First Seat
SIGN    Current
    First Seat
[04:58] Megu
    Though they're a bit out of place,
    what with the convenience store behind them.
[05:01] Taku
    How dare you get fired up without me, Yukihira?
[05:04] Megu
    And now Takumi-kun is on fire, too!
[05:07] Soma
    Right, then. Guess I should—
[05:09] Reporter
    Hey, out of the way.
[05:10] Soma
    Whoa...
[05:11] Reporter b
    Tsukasa Eishi-kun! Congratulations
    on getting into the BLUE!
[05:14] Reporter A
    I hear everyone hopes you will be the
    champion of the chefs on the outside.
[05:18] Reporter A
    How are you feeling about that?
[05:19] Tsuka
    Huh?
[05:19] Sao
    We're counting on you! You're the
    star of the chefs on the outside!
[05:22] Taku
    Looks like the press is here.
[05:24] Soma
    Oizumi-san?
[05:25] Oizumi
    Oh? Ah, Yukihira, my boy.
[05:28] Oizumi
    I highly enjoyed your performance
    at the BLUE Preliminaries.
[05:32] Soma
    What are you doing here?
    Are you one of the judges?
[05:34] Oizumi
    No, we were invited by the
    press to act as commentators.
SIGN    Director of Japanese Cuisine Industries Committee
    Oizumi Kakinoshin
[05:39] Soma
    Huh... It sure is lively, though.
SIGN    Director of the
    Japanese Gourmet Association
    Seishu Saotome
[05:42] Sao
    Of course it is.
[05:43] Sao
    As chefs from the outside world, we don't
    want someone from Noir to win the BLUE.
[05:49] Oizumi
    And our biggest chance to stop them
    from winning is Tsukasa Eishi himself.
[05:56] Asahi
    The former first seat of
    the Totsuki Elite Ten, eh?
[05:59] Oizumi
    Though we're expecting great
    things from you three, too.
[06:02] Oizumi
    You are the current Elite Ten, after all.
[06:05] Taku
    There's clearly a difference
    in expectations.
[06:08] Soma
    Now I really can't lose.
[06:11] Soma
    We'll show you that we've also...
[06:14] Taku
    ...got a chance to win this thing!
[06:15] Megu
    Y-Yeah!
[06:17] Soma
    All right, first...
[06:19] Soma
    Let's see what ingredients they have.
[06:21] Megu
    Looks like there are plenty of vegetables.
[06:23] Taku
    The meat... isn't bad,
    but it's not great, either.
[06:27] Megu
    We have to make something worth
    more than 10,000 yen with this?
[06:31] Soma
    That's probably the most crucial point.
[06:33] Soma
    And that's my specialty!
[06:35] Soma
    I'm gonna be the first in line!
[06:38] Soma
    I'll need some of this...
[06:39] Soma
    Now, then...
[06:41] Soma
    The star of the show's gonna be this can:
[06:44] Soma
    Yamatoni Beef!
[06:46] Soma
    After sautéeing some green onions and
    shimeji mushrooms with sesame oil,
[06:50] Soma
    I'll add in the Yamatoni Beef
    along with its sauce.
[06:53] Soma
    Then I'll add some tofu and let it stew,
[06:55] Soma
    while adding some black pepper and
    squeeze-tube ginger to enhance the flavors.
[06:58] Megu
    Soma-kun's so fast!
[07:01] Taku
    Looks like he got ahead of us.
[07:04] Soma
    Sorry to keep you waitin'.
[07:05] Soma
    Here's your Instant Canned Beef Sukiyaki Set!
[07:09] Oizumi
    That looks fantastic!
[07:11] Sao
    But what about the taste?
[07:17] Rantabi
    It's delicious.
[07:19] Rantabi
    The beef is definitely the star of this dish.
[07:22] Rantabi
    You made the flavors rich, yet not too heavy.
[07:26] Rantabi
    How'd you bring out this depth?
[07:29] Soma
    With this jam bread I found in the bread aisle!
SIGN    Strawberry
SIGN    Jam
[07:32] Soma
    Well, the strawberry jam inside, to be exact.
[07:34] Soma
    If you add a bit of this when stewing the meat,
[07:38] Soma
    it adds a rich sweetness and
    improves the flavor instantly!
[07:43] Soma
    Now, let's see what price
    she's gonna put on this dish.
[07:46] Soma
    Maybe about fifty dollars?
[07:48] Soma
    Nah, maybe I'll get lucky and
    get to a hundred instantly.
[07:52] Rantabi
    All right. I'll give you your results.
[07:54] Rantabi
    Hand over your wallet.
[07:56] Rantabi
    Minus fourteen dollars.
[07:58] Soma
    Wha?
[07:59] Rantabi
    Ugh! You only have yen!
[08:01] Rantabi
    Oh, fine. Yen will have to do.
[08:03] Soma
    Wait, stop! How the hell did I end up negative?!
[08:06] Rantabi
    Why? Because you didn't read the
    rules and wasted ingredients.
[08:10] Rantabi
    Of course you have to compensate for that.
[08:13] Soma
    Wait, fourteen dollars?
SIGN    Receipt
    
    Strawberry Jam Bread 178 Yen
    Yamato-ni Beef Can 198 Yen
    Green Onions 218 Yen
    Tofu 108 Yen
    Squeeze Ginger 128 Yen
    Black Pepper 198 Yen
    Sesame Oil 218 Yen
    Shimeji Mushrooms 128 Yen
    (8% Tax Included on 1,374 Yen)
    
    Total 1,374 Yen
[08:16] Soma
    You mean the total I just spent?
[08:19] Soma
    Meaning I couldn't get any value out of
    this dish and just wasted the ingredients?
[08:25] Rantabi
    Ugh! I mean, you only get two chances,
    so you're free to experiment,
[08:29] Rantabi
    but WGO funds aren't infinite, you know!
[08:32] Soma
    You say that after building
    a convenience store?
[08:34] Rantabi
    Anyway, what I'm saying is that your
    dish was nothing more than addition.
[08:40] Tsuka
    Well, you heard her.
[08:42] Tsuka
    I hope this suits your tastes.
[08:44] Rantabi
    This is...
[08:46] Tsuka
    Beef and Chicken Recital With
    Demi-Glace Accompaniment.
[08:52] Oizumi
    It looks so exquisite!
[08:54] Sao
    It's so beautiful, it could be served
    as a main dish in a French restaurant!
[08:58] Sao
    Did he really make that from
    convenience store ingredients?
SIGN    Beef and Chicken Recital With Demi-Glace Accompaniment
SIGN    Beef and Chicken Recital With Demi-Glace Accompaniment
[09:01] Rantabi
    I see. You're Tsukasa Eishi-kun, one of
    the graduates from Totsuki Academy.
[09:06] Rantabi
    It looks like you understand the assignment.
[09:12] Rantabi
    The tart aroma of the demi-glace
    sauce is exacerbating my hunger...
[09:20] Rantabi
    How dignified!
[09:22] Rantabi
    The two layers of filling wrapped in pie crust
    are enhancing the flavors in harmony!
[09:27] Rantabi
    The top layer is chicken mousse.
[09:29] Rantabi
    He added heavy cream to juicy cooked
    chicken and whisked them together.
[09:34] Rantabi
    And the lower layer is minced
    meat made mostly of beef.
[09:37] Rantabi
    It goes perfectly with the demi-glace sauce.
[09:40] Rantabi
    It's basically perfection!
[09:42] Rantabi
    For this dish,
[09:44] Rantabi
    I might even want to offer
    something money can't buy!
[09:50] Soma
    That's Tsukasa-senpai for you!
[09:52] Chef F
    But he just used convenience
    store items, didn't he?
[09:54] Chef E
    There's no way it can be that good.
[09:56] Rantabi
    You're wrong. The way he prepared the
    dish enhanced it to another level.
[10:00] Tsuka
    I didn't really do anything that amazing.
[10:03] Tsuka
    Well, let's see...
[10:06] Tsuka
    For the chicken mousse,
    I added egg whites whisked to
[10:10] Tsuka
    a stiff meringue to enhance the texture.
[10:13] Tsuka
    Then I added mushroom paste
    and duxelles to add to the richness.
SIGN    Mushrooms
    (Whole)
[10:18] Tsuka
    Canned mushrooms have a slightly pungent odor,
[10:21] Tsuka
    so I chopped them up and sautéed them
    to get rid of most of the moisture,
[10:25] Tsuka
    which eliminated the odor completely.
[10:27] Tsuka
    I also reduced some cheap
    red wine as far as I could,
[10:30] Tsuka
    leaving only its umami components,
[10:31] Tsuka
    and added that to the demi-glace sauce.
[10:34] Rantabi
    Ingredients that get used at
    high-end restaurants tend to
SIGN    Bitterness
SIGN    Umami
SIGN    Saltiness
SIGN    Tartness
SIGN    Sweetness
[10:37] Rantabi
    lean toward one attribute over others.
SIGN    Bitterness
SIGN    Umami
SIGN    Saltiness
SIGN    Tartness
SIGN    Sweetness
[10:41] Rantabi
    But items at the convenience store
[10:43] Rantabi
    are balanced so that they'll be
    enjoyable to a wider audience.
[10:46] Rantabi
    Meaning the flavor is universally balanced.
[10:50] Rantabi
    That applies to the precooked hamburger,
    prepackaged chicken breast,
[10:53] Rantabi
    and frozen pie crust that
    Tsukasa Eishi used for this dish.
[10:56] Rantabi
    None of those items would
    suffice alone for this trial.
[10:58] Rantabi
    So he used the parts of those ingredients
    that he could put in a high-end dish,
[11:02] Rantabi
    and made sure they all worked
    together in harmony.
[11:06] Rantabi
    He was only able to get to this
    level because of his skills.
[11:10] Megu
    Amazing... Tsukasa-senpai was
    only able to pull this off
[11:12] Megu
    to perfection because of his understanding
    of all the ingredients.
[11:16] Taku
    Yeah.
[11:17] Taku
    He definitely leveled up after he left Totsuki.
[11:20] Asahi
    I see... So that's what they mean by
    "communicating with the ingredients."
[11:24] Rantabi
    All right, here's your result.
[11:26] Rantabi
    Plus...
[11:28] Rantabi
    587 dollars.
[11:30] All
    No way!
[11:38] Rantabi
    You there.
[11:39] Soma
    Huh? Me?
[11:40] Rantabi
    You said you worked at a diner, right?
[11:43] Rantabi
    If you served that dish you just served me,
[11:45] Rantabi
    would you be able to ask your customers
    to pay 10,000 yen for that?
[11:48] Soma
    Huh? Well... nope.
[11:51] Rantabi
    Spoken with no shame at all...
[11:52] Rantabi
    Which means you just added
    ingredients together.
[11:57] Rantabi
    You're not going to pass this trial
    using methods anyone could pull off.
[12:02] Rantabi
    You have to find the best ingredients
[12:04] Rantabi
    and exponentially multiply their
    goodness as much as possible.
[12:06] Rantabi
    That's what it takes to be a pro!
[12:10] Rantabi
    Though, of course... nothing at
    a diner would cost 10,000 yen.
[12:15] Rantabi
    I guess this trial might
    be too difficult for you.
[12:18] Soma
    Nah, I wouldn't say so.
[12:21] Soma
    I have just the dish that's going
    to be perfect for this trial.
[12:25] Soma
    Just watch.
[12:27] Soma
    I'll make a dish worth a couple hundred dollars
[12:30] Soma
    that's worthy of the Yukihira name.
[12:43] Rantabi
    Hey, you. You've already
    been judged, so get going.
[12:47] Rantabi
    Oh, and take this with you.
[12:49] Tsuka
    Huh?
[12:49] Tsuka
    Jeez... They're all ones...
[12:53] ---
    Hmm...
SIGN    Cooking Empire
[12:55] Rantabi
    Tsukasa Eishi...
[12:56] Rantabi
    He's got plenty of starred restaurants
    fighting over him right now.
SIGN    The Chef Everyone Has
    Their Eyes on Right Now,
    Tsukasa Eishi
[13:01] Rantabi
    Well done, former First Seat
    of the Totsuki Elite Ten.
[13:05] Rantabi
    Meanwhile, the current first seat,
    Yukihira Soma, is...
[13:11] Rantabi
    Hey!
[13:13] Rantabi
    Why do you have all that stuff?!
    Don't go wasting the limited stock!
[13:16] Soma
    What? I'm gonna use it all, though. Don't worry.
[13:19] Soma
    Just look forward to it.
[13:25] Rantabi
    What's with that guy?
[13:27] Chef F
    Unbelievable.
[13:28] Chef E
    He doesn't have a single ingredient that
    looks like it could be made into a main dish.
SIGN    The Perfect Side
    Stewed Sweet Potatoes
SIGN    Cooked
    Rice
SIGN    Imitation Crab Meat
SIGN    Flavorful Smoked
    Prosciutto
[13:32] Chef G
    He just keeps opening up random ingredients
    and indiscriminately throwing them together.
SIGN    100%
    Orange
SIGN    The Perfect Side
    Stewed Kombu,
    Konjac, and Bamboo Shoots
[13:37] Chef G
    It's clear that he just doesn't care anymore.
[13:40] Oizumi
    What in the world is Yukihira trying to make?
[13:44] Rantabi
    Yeah, your second dish didn't
    reach a hundred, either.
SIGN    Fail
[13:47] Rantabi
    You fail! You fail! And you fail!
[13:52] Rantabi
    Looks like Tsukasa Eishi might be
    the only one to pass this trial.
[13:58] Rantabi
    Ugh, you're back again?
[14:01] Soma
    Come on, now.
[14:03] Soma
    Here ya go.
[14:04] Soma
    My Out-Of-Season Super Osechi Set.
[14:06] Oizumi
    Osechi?! Unbelievable!
[14:08] Sao
    Look at the number of side dishes he made!
[14:11] Sao
    That must've been an immense amount of work.
[14:13] Sao
    He pulled that off in this
    short amount of time?
[14:15] Soma
    Even back home, we'd take osechi orders.
SIGN    Yukihira Diner
[14:19] Soma
    This time, I decided to add
    a few personal touches.
[14:22] Rantabi
    Hmph. This is all just superficial nonsense.
[14:25] Rantabi
    Authentic osechi sets from established
    Japanese cuisine restaurants
[14:29] Rantabi
    use only the best ingredients
    and take weeks to prepare.
[14:32] Rantabi
    I can hardly imagine this being
    a dish fit for this trial.
[14:35] Soma
    Well, you'll have to taste
    it to find out, won't you?
[14:37] Soma
    Dig in.
[14:44] Rantabi
    See? I knew it.
[14:45] Rantabi
    This is on par with your
    negative-fourteen-dollar from earlier.
[14:49] Rantabi
    You didn't multiply anything.
[14:51] Rantabi
    You can keep adding negatives all
    you want, but you'll still have a negative.
[14:54] Rantabi
    Do you want to go bankrupt or something?
[15:12] Oizumi
    What's going on? Despite everything
    she just said, she won't stop eating!
[15:17] Sao
    What kinds of secrets lie in those side dishes?
[15:20] Soma
    Nah, I didn't do anything special.
[15:24] Soma
    The kurikinton chestnuts are just
    prepackaged stewed sweet potatoes.
SIGN    100%
    Orange
[15:28] Soma
    I simmered them in orange
    juice and mashed them up.
[15:30] Soma
    Usually, you use gardenia fruit
[15:32] Soma
    to color the dish orange,
    but I used orange juice instead,
SIGN    100%
    Orange
[15:36] Soma
    making it more of a joke kurikinton
    made out of potatoes.
[15:39] Soma
    The rolled omelet is made out of eggs
    and hanpen I found in the oden corner.
[15:42] Soma
    I blended them in a mixer with sugar and salt,
[15:45] Soma
    then fried them up in an omelet pan.
[15:47] Soma
    For the red and white salad,
[15:48] Soma
    I seasoned a regular salad with salt,
    sugar, and vinegar, and presto!
[15:51] Soma
    A red and white salad.
[15:53] Soma
    Salting the vegetables draws
    out most of the moisture
[15:55] Soma
    and allows the sweet vinegar
    to soak in even better.
[15:58] Soma
    Checkered prosciutto rolls.
[15:59] [SONG] Sign
    Flavorful Smoked
    Prosciutto
[16:00] Soma
    I took some daikon radish
    and carrots cut into sticks,
[16:02] Soma
    and wrapped them in prosciutto.
[16:04] Soma
    Then I used honey and
    mustard as glue on the inside
[16:07] Soma
    of the prosciutto to hold them all together.
[16:09] Sao
    He's made excellent use
    of all the ingredients...
[16:12] Oizumi
    But I can't see that being
    enough to satisfy that judge.
[16:15] Rantabi
    How terrifying... This osechi
    set is a full-course meal.
[16:19] Rantabi
    No matter where you start eating and
    no matter what order you eat them in,
[16:24] Rantabi
    it's all made harmoniously, to make
    you want to eat the next item.
[16:27] Rantabi
    In other words, there's no set
    path in this course meal!
[16:29] Rantabi
    This is the most freeform course
    meal that I've ever had!
[16:33] Oizumi
    Wh-What?!
[16:35] Sao
    He managed to pull off such a complicated
    menu in a matter of minutes?
[16:38] Soma
    Yeah, well...
[16:40] Soma
    It probably wouldn't have worked
    without convenience store ingredients.
[16:43] Soma
    Because I had ingredients that had already
    been prepped, cooked, and seasoned,
[16:47] Soma
    it didn't take me too long to prepare.
[16:49] Soma
    I was only able to make this osechi set
    because I used convenience store items.
[16:54] Rantabi
    He completely ignored multiplying
    the goodness of the ingredients,
[16:57] Rantabi
    and yet managed to pull off a high-end
    cuisine level of harmony in his dish.
[16:59] Rantabi
    Is this even possible?!
[17:01] Rantabi
    He seriously approached this
    trial with addition alone again!
[17:06] Soma
    So... how about you give me my total now?
[17:10] Soma
    I wonder who's gonna go bankrupt here.
[17:13] Rantabi
    H-Hang on a sec! I'm sorry,
    okay?! Please forgive me!
[17:17] Soma
    Ain't happenin'.
[17:19] Soma
    I'll need you to pay your dues even if it
    means takin' the very shirt off your back!
[17:19] [SONG] Sign
    Foreclosed
[17:21] [SONG] Sign
    Foreclosed
[17:24] [SONG] Sign
    Foreclosed
[17:24] Rantabi
    No!
[17:30] Rantabi
    Y-You pass!
[17:32] Soma
    Glad you liked it!
[17:36] Soma
    So? How much was I worth? Well?
[17:41] Rantabi
    Hang on a second.
[17:43] Rantabi
    Crap... I don't have any more dollars on me.
[17:46] Rantabi
    Um... Well, I...
[17:50] Rantabi
    Here! I think there's about a hundred there!
[17:53] Soma
    Huh? Wait, uh...
[17:54] Rantabi
    We're taking a short break!
[17:55] Rantabi
    I gotta go get some more ones right now!
[17:57] Soma
    U-Uh, hey!
[17:59] Soma
    So how much was I worth?!
[18:01] Rantabi
    Shut up! Who cares?! You passed, okay?!
[18:03] Soma
    But I'm supposed to be duking
    it out with Tsukasa-senpai—
[18:05] Tsuka
    Now, now... It's okay, Yukihira.
[18:08] Asahi
    I never get bored watching you, Yukihira Soma.
[18:12] Asahi
    Though I don't know how far
    you're gonna make it.
[18:14] Asahi
    I wonder how Princess Erina's doing.
[18:22] Guy
    All the challengers have lost.
[18:24] Guy
    There will be no rematches.
[18:26] Guy
    Thus, Nakiri Erina has passed her first trial.
[18:33] Guy
    We will now commence the revenge match
    for the losers at the second gate.
[18:40] Erina
    Very well. I accept your challenge.
[18:44] Anne
    Reporting, Bookmaster.
[18:46] Anne
    Miss Nakiri Erina has
    completed her first trial.
[18:49] Anne
    She is now about to begin—
[18:50] Mom
    Let me know about the other participants.
[18:53] Anne
    Right. The trial at the second
    gate has just concluded.
[18:58] Anne
    Half of the outside chefs have fallen,
[19:00] Anne
    and all of the underworld chefs have passed.
[19:05] Mom
    That means the opening act is over.
[19:08] Mom
    Let us inform them at the next gate
[19:11] Mom
    just what this BLUE has in store for them.
[19:17] Rantabi
    You pass!
[19:18] Taku
    Grazie!
[19:19] Rantabi
    You pass, too.
[19:21] Megu
    Thank you very much!
[19:22] Soma
    Man... Thanks for spotting me this.
[19:26] Tsuka
    Well... I don't know what I'd
    do with all those ones, anyway.
[19:30] Soma
    But I'm not gonna let you have the victory.
[19:33] Tsuka
    Yeah, and I don't intend to lose, either.
[19:36] Tsuka
    For Rindo's sake, too.
[19:38] Soma
    Oh, yeah. Rindo-senpai's not
    participating in the BLUE?
[19:42] tsuka
    She got an invite,
[19:44] tsuka
    but she's running around the world going
    after poachers who deal in rare animals.
[19:49] Soma
    Wow, I guess that's the rare
    ingredients master for you.
[19:52] Tsuka
    But it appears that those poachers
    have connections to Noir.
[19:57] Soma
    Huh?
[19:59] Tsuka
    In order to lessen Rindo's burden,
    I don't want to let Noir run free.
[20:05] Soma
    You seem to have changed a bit, Tsukasa-senpai.
[20:08] Tsuka
    You think so?
[20:09] Rantabi
    Hey!
[20:11] Rantabi
    No loitering in front of the convenience store!
[20:13] Soma
    Whoa, you scared me!
[20:14] Rantabi
    All right. Everyone who passed, gather round.
[20:17] Rantabi
    We're opening up the second gate!
[20:33] Tsuka
    It's all the Noir members who
    were exempt up until now.
[20:36] Soma
    So you're saying those three rank higher than
    Tsukasa-senpai, according to the admins here?
[20:42] Soma
    Tsukasa-senpai! Don't let
    them treat you like that!
[20:44] Tsuka
    Why are you getting mad, Yukihira?
[20:47] Tran
    We will now begin the third trial...
SIGN    WGO Adjudicators
SIGN    Tranchant
SIGN    Maturite
SIGN    Essor
[20:49] Mom
    Halt.
[20:51] Tran
    Footage from the castle tower?
[20:53] Tran
    Rantabi-kun, do you know anything about this?
[20:56] Rantabi
    Huh? No! Not at all...
[20:58] Tran
    May I help you, Bookmaster?
[21:01] Mom
    I thought I would add a supplementary
    prize for the winner to this year's BLUE.
[21:07] Megu
    Supplementary prize?
[21:08] Soma
    I don't think it's gonna be a trophy.
[21:11] Mom
    I will allow whoever wins this BLUE
[21:14] Mom
    to be my own personal chef.
[21:18] Rantabi
    The Bookmaster's own personal chef?!
[21:21] Soma
    Is that amazing or something?
[21:22] Rantabi
    Of course it is!
[21:24] Rantabi
    The Bookmaster is one of the most
    important figures in the gourmet world!
[21:28] Tran
    They will serve meals at
    the regular WGO meetings
[21:31] Tran
    and receive an impressive annual salary.
[21:34] Tran
    It's a very enticing deal, young man.
[21:36] Soma
    For real?
[21:37] Mom
    But in exchange,
[21:41] Mom
    I'm going to change the rules
    of engagement at this gate.
[21:46] Mom
    You three Noir members,
[21:48] Mom
    show me your true potential
    right here and now.
SIGN    Food Wars
SIGN    The Fifth Plate
SIGN    A Midsummer Christmas
[23:35] Megu
    A sledgehammer?!
[23:37] Megu
    Wait, on top of a chainsaw?!