# E8 - A Showdown! It's a Food Battle!
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Ah, that dog was so cute!
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The way you patted it all over its body.
You almost looked geeky.
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Hey, Izumi. Don't make
it sound so suspicious.
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I wish we could keep a dog at the shop, too.
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Well, that might be difficult.
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Man, what a boring city.
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A place like this should
just disappear already.
**[00:38] ---**
Good morning!
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Oh, where's everyone?
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NOOO!
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The future that is filled with hopes
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The dream I imagined over and over
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Will change tomorrow
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Keep on moving forward,
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Believe in Sky
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The unknown road, taking the first step
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That courage brings new encounters
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When the door connecting the
worlds opens, let's move forward
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Tenderly holding the precious memories
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Of the day we promised each other
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When you get lost, stretch big
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And feel the new wind
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Okay, Start Now!
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Because I have something
to believe in and protect
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I can be strong, stronger
than myself yesterday
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The future that is filled with hopes
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The dream I imagined over and over
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Will change tomorrow
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Keep on moving forward,
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Believe in Sky
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A SHOWDOWN! IT'S A FOOD BATTLE!
**[02:36] ---**
Geez, Nao! You scared us!
You were practicing cooking?
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Yeah. We have a cooking
class at school next week,
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so they were teaching me some things,
but I can't do anything right.
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Practice makes perfect in cooking.
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Come on, Nao. Let's do it again.
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All right. I can do it...
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Calm down, Nao!
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Don't be so nervous.
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You're kinda scary, Nao.
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You need to relax.
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OOOOH YEAH!
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Oh, Izumi! My bad!
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Hey, Nao, look what you did!
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Nao.
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Cooking isn't about strength.
It's about heart.
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It's important to have
the tender mind to think
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about the people who will
be eating your food.
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Heart rather than strength.
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Man, that's what I'm bad at the most!
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Don't give up yet. You can do it.
Let's start over from the beginning.
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My apawlogies for being late.
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I was helping a high school girl
who got caught in a spider web.
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Nejiusa?
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What are you doing, meow?
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N-nothing. I'm not sneaking
to eat the food or anything!
**[04:04] ---**
Wow, it looks purrtty tasty!
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Are they trying to create a new men-mew?
**[04:08] ---**
Th-they must be.
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I see, I see. If that's the case...
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we should taste it, meow!
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Yuina. You're bad, aren't you?
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You can't just add spices on a whim, Nao.
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Yeah.
**[04:39] ---**
Yuina? Nejiusa?
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Yuina? Yuina?! Wake up!
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Oh... my dead grandma is
calling my name, meow...
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Goodbye...
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Nejiusa?! NEJIUSAAAA!
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The world is still spinning...
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Sorry... Are you all right?
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I never imagined that it
would be so apawling...
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It's your fault too, Nejiusa and Yuina.
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You guys were picking on the food secretly.
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Maybe I'm really not made for cooking.
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I'm not handy and too rough.
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I don't have any girly
characteristics inside me.
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That's not true.
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You're very popular among our customers.
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THE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
***SIGN*** Nao's smile always gives me energy. I'll be back! The coffee was great! I drew Nao Does it look like her? Today's coffee was like this.
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Wow! There's so much about you in here!
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R-really? Me?
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I've been asked about your name a few times.
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You play sports, so you have a great physique.
People wish they looked like you.
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And short hair is popular, too, meow.
At this shop, Rei and Nao are the top two, meow!
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What, really?
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Nao, you ARE a cute girl,
so have more confidence in yourself.
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E-everything you're saying
makes me so embarrassed...
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But I'm happy to learn that
people think I'm cute.
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Oh, I should be cooking the next dish now!
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Wh-wh-wh-wh-what just happened?!
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Nao was just acting like a very girly girl!
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Did she eat something weird?!
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I've never seen her like that.
**[06:36] ---**
That was cute.
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The more Nao gets treated like a girl,
the more she starts to act like one.
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I-I had no idea.
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She's not used to being treated like a girl,
so when people commend her,
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She's not used to being treated like a girl,
so when people commend her,
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Get tasty, get tasty!
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she gets excited and goes into a girly mode.
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Get tasty, get tasty!
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she gets excited and goes into a girly mode.
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I see.
**[06:56] ---**
That's cute.
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Sorry about the wait. Here it is!
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Wow...!
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The problem is the taste.
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L-let's have it then, meow...
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Gulp.
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Munch.
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IT'S DELICIOUS, MEOW!
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Seriously, it's purrfect!
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Thank goodness! I'm glad you like it.
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Well, let me see.
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It's good!
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Really?
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Yeah, I'm telling you the
truth! It's very good!
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She will have no problem
in the cooking class!
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Actually...
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Oh?! Am I...
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Oh, it's gone again.
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Just like that, Nao's "girly
mode" doesn't last so long.
**[07:50] ---**
Just like that, Nao's "girly
mode" doesn't last so long.
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What triggers her to go back?
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It's...
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Guys! Look at that!
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A virus!
**[08:01] ---**
Which one this time?!
**[08:03] ---**
The Foodmaster?
**[08:05] ---**
The main character is the so-called Foodmaster
running a small restaurant,
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and he has food battles
in this gourmet manga!
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The extraordinary action scenes
in the anime version made it popular!
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Is this fitting or what?
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Okay! Let's do it again!
**[08:22] ---**
Ayaka, Minami, let's go!
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Roger.
**[08:25] ---**
I think it's going to be very predictable.
**[08:34] ---**
So this is the world of "The Foodmaster."
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It's a very quiet town.
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All the shutters are closed.
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Is that it?
**[08:50] ---**
MEDAMA RESTAURANT
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This is the restaurant of the Foodmaster.
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MEDAMA RESTAURANT
Open for business
**[08:57] ---**
Wow, it's so old!
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I'd never wanna eat the food
from such a restaurant.
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I can hear you all!
**[09:07] ---**
Wh-what are you doing?!
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I can't stand people who criticize my cooking
without even tasting it!
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First you gotta try my food!
**[09:17] ---**
Wh-who's that?
**[09:19] ---**
He's the Foodmaster!
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What are you talking to each other about?!
Go home if you're not gonna eat!
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Let's go.
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I guess we'll have to.
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He's probably just a big
mouth with no skills!
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Man, that was delicious~!
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It's like what they say,
"A man in rags hides a heart of gold."
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Look how quickly your opinion changed...
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As long as he knows, no problem.
**[09:45] ---**
You have such great food,
but there are no customers.
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We didn't see anyone at all
on the shopping street, either.
**[09:55] ---**
It's been like this since
that strange woman showed up!
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She had strange creatures
and destroyed shop after shop in this town.
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A strange woman...
All the other shops went down, but I'm not giving in!
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With strange creatures...
All the other shops went down, but I'm not giving in!
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I'll protect this restaurant no matter what!
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Could it be...?
I'll protect this restaurant no matter what!
**[10:07] ---**
I'll protect this restaurant no matter what!
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You're still in business?
**[10:15] ---**
Okayama! You came again!
**[10:18] ---**
Who's that?
**[10:18] ---**
He's a gourmet reporter
and Foodmaster's rival, Okayama.
**[10:25] ---**
I'll have an order of katsudon.
**[10:29] ---**
Coming right up.
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This is how their food battle begins.
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Thank you for the food.
**[10:51] ---**
This katsudon is crap. I can't eat this.
**[10:54] ---**
There you go again! You always come here
to interfere with my business!
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You're losing the skills of Foodmaster.
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Listen to me!
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Okayama is a popular character who goes to different
restaurants and acts so confrontational like this.
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It's too rich and overdone.
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Grrr....
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These girls here can cook
much better than this!
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He's a pain in the ass.
**[11:08] ---**
These girls here can cook
much better than this!
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Why don't you try?
**[11:17] ---**
Let me correct what I said earlier...
**[11:19] ---**
This tastes just as terrible.
**[11:21] ---**
What?!
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What's terrible is your sense of taste!
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Sorry about the wait.
**[11:33] ---**
Zero points for presentation.
**[11:43] ---**
This is delicious! Too good! What is this?!
I can't put my chopsticks down!
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What the hell happened?!
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Is this because of our training?!
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I'm so impressed. Nao has
turned into a great cook.
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It was very good.
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Thank you very much.
**[12:01] ---**
I should be the one thanking you.
**[12:02] ---**
Huh?
**[12:03] ---**
I met a wonderful woman
like you. I'm a happy man.
**[12:16] ---**
Please come again!
**[12:18] ---**
Oh, she went into girly mode again.
**[12:24] ---**
This is the last day of this
restaurant! Be ready for that!
**[12:34] ---**
M-Maya...
**[12:37] ---**
With this shopping street gone,
**[12:40] ---**
it's as good as this manga's
world being destroyed!
**[12:43] ---**
Go on, little viruses! Get them!
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Memorial Change!
**[13:07] ---**
No, please don't come here!
**[13:11] ---**
Maya! That's as far as you go!
**[13:13] ---**
We won't let you do
whatever you want anymore!
**[13:15] ---**
Th-they're right...
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Oh, you girls came again?
**[13:19] ---**
Well what about you?!
**[13:21] ---**
You lose every time we fight,
but you still can't give up and show yourself again.
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You really don't learn, do you?
**[13:27] ---**
Shut up!
**[13:30] ---**
Well, taking the theme of this series,
how about we have a food battle?!
**[13:36] ---**
A food battle?
**[13:37] ---**
We make the same dish
and compete to decide whose is more delicious.
**[13:41] ---**
How does that sound?
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And if we win, you'll
leave without complaining.
**[13:45] ---**
Of course. But if I win...
this world will be mine.
**[13:52] ---**
Fine. Let's do a food battle!
**[13:54] ---**
All right! If we're gonna have a food battle,
let me handle it!
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Get back! I know who I'm fighting against!
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You! The boyish one!
**[14:04] ---**
HUH?!
**[14:05] ---**
I've already researched and found
that the boyish girl is a terrible cook.
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This is gonna be an easy win!
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N-no way. I can't do this!
**[14:15] ---**
Don't worry. You can win now, Nao!
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Maya doesn't know about your girly mode.
That's why she picked you.
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B-but I'm....
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Be confident. We guarantee
your cooking skills.
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Give it all you got!
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Now! The food battle has
started almost too forcefully!
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The fate of this world
depends on this battle.
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Who's going to win, Nao or Maya?!
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A play-by-play coverage will
be done by me, Nejiusa!
**[14:47] ---**
And joining me is commentator
and judge, Okayama!
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A pleasure.
**[14:52] ---**
So Okayama. So far, what do you think
of Maya's movements?
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Splendid.
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It's probably thanks to having
a single life for a long time.
**[15:01] ---**
Shut your mouth!
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On the other hand, what do think of Nao?
**[15:05] ---**
Very good. No unnecessary moves,
just delicate and elegant,
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like a traditional Japanese woman.
**[15:10] ---**
N-no way, you're embarrassing me!
**[15:14] ---**
H-hey what's going on?
**[15:17] ---**
I thought that tomboyish
girl couldn't cook well!
**[15:19] ---**
What's with her cutting skills?!
**[15:22] ---**
This is bad. At this rate, I could lose.
**[15:25] ---**
It looks like we're gonna win.
**[15:27] ---**
As long as Nao is in her girly mode,
we have nothing to worry about.
**[15:31] ---**
Huh?
**[15:33] ---**
Nao, behind you!
**[15:37] ---**
Whoa! All the viruses have started
to attack Nao all at once!
**[15:42] ---**
What happened to the food battle?!
**[15:44] ---**
She's not an old woman
wearing pumps for nothing.
**[15:45] ---**
She'll do anything to wi-
**[15:46] ---**
That's rude! I'm still in my 20s!
**[15:48] ---**
Nao!
**[15:53] ---**
Are you all right?!
**[15:54] ---**
Y-yes.
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Maya, you're such a cheater!
**[15:59] ---**
Isn't this supposed to
be a one-on-one battle?
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Well yeah, the food battle is,
but I don't care what happens outside of it.
**[16:06] ---**
Go on, interrupt her!
**[16:11] ---**
S-so many are coming now!
**[16:14] ---**
Nao, let us deal with them!
**[16:17] ---**
You focus on cooking!
**[16:26] ---**
I'm sorry, but I'm too
scared. I can't cook well.
**[16:31] ---**
You'll be fine! Just cook as you always do!
**[16:34] ---**
That's right, Nao! Relax
and take a deep breath!
**[16:37] ---**
O-okay.
**[16:41] ---**
Oh no! Don't relax!
**[16:42] ---**
What?
**[16:49] ---**
Whoa! Wh-what is this? What's going on?!
**[16:53] ---**
Nao comes out of her girly
mode when she relaxes.
**[16:57] ---**
What?!
**[17:01] ---**
I'm not quite sure what's going on,
but she looks like the usual tomboyish girl now!
**[17:05] ---**
This battle is mine now!
**[17:07] ---**
Nao, at this point, you have to cook.
**[17:11] ---**
What?!
**[17:12] ---**
We taught you how to make curry.
Remember and you can do it!
**[17:16] ---**
B-but I... I can't...
**[17:20] ---**
The fate of this world
depends on your cooking!
**[17:24] ---**
Please, Nao!
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I'll try!
**[17:37] ---**
Relax your muscles
when you hold a knife and just slide it...
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Cook the onion slowly until it turns brown,
but do not burn it...
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Start boiling with the roughest vegetables,
and carefully remove the scum.
**[17:53] ---**
Th-this isn't looking good.
She's not bad at all.
**[18:02] ---**
Time's up! Now, the judging time!
**[18:08] ---**
First is Maya's curry!
**[18:15] ---**
Go ahead and have some.
**[18:21] ---**
A black curry?! What's this?!
**[18:23] ---**
It's my special virus curry!
**[18:26] ---**
"Virus curry"?!
**[18:27] ---**
That's a terrible name.
**[18:29] ---**
I'd lose my appetite.
**[18:31] ---**
All right then... I shall have it.
**[18:40] ---**
Th-this curry!
**[18:42] ---**
What is it...?
**[18:45] ---**
My hand automatically brings
curry into my mouth,
**[18:46] ---**
Wow, what happened to Okayama?!
**[18:48] ---**
like I'm under a magic spell.
**[18:49] ---**
He's digging into that curry,
like he's high or something!
**[18:50] ---**
I can't stop moving my spoon...
**[18:52] ---**
Is it really that good?!
**[18:56] ---**
That's my curry! I'm the queen!
Yes, the Queen of Curry!
**[19:02] ---**
Look at Okayama's reaction.
**[19:05] ---**
Maybe Maya put in some kind of potion.
**[19:08] ---**
What?! Nao...
**[19:15] ---**
I can't stop eating. Yum, yum, yum...
**[19:20] ---**
Yum... yum... yum...
Here's my curry. Please.
**[19:26] ---**
That looks VERY ordinary...
**[19:29] ---**
I won.
**[19:30] ---**
Yum...
Try it.
**[19:37] ---**
Huh?!
**[19:38] ---**
How dare you...?
**[19:40] ---**
How dare you make me eat this?!
**[19:43] ---**
This... This is...
**[19:46] ---**
SOOO GOOD!
**[19:53] ---**
Such deep flavor!
**[19:56] ---**
The spiciness, sweetness,
depth, and bitterness...
**[19:59] ---**
All the flavors are in perfect harmony!
**[20:03] ---**
Oh, I want to stay dipped in
this sea of curry forever!
**[20:07] ---**
The ingredients are perfect, too!
**[20:09] ---**
They truly synchronize with the curry,
as if they're dancing inside my mouth!
**[20:18] ---**
This is THE ultimate curry!
Thank you! It was great!
**[20:23] ---**
Wow, I just did my best to please everyone.
**[20:28] ---**
That thought made a miracle happen.
This is above ultimate.
**[20:33] ---**
This is a miracle curry.
**[20:35] ---**
"A miracle curry"...
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Congratulations! You're the winner!
**[20:49] ---**
What a surprise!
**[20:50] ---**
Great job, Nao!
Nao, who thinks she's bad at cooking, won the battle!
**[20:52] ---**
A miracle curry, huh? I better work on my skills too!
This is truly a miracle!
**[20:56] ---**
Wait a minute! There must be a mistake!
**[20:59] ---**
How can she beat my curry?!
**[21:15] ---**
If I get serious about cooking,
I can get boys to fall for me!
**[21:30] ---**
How can Okayama say Nao's curry is good
when it made Maya so sick and crazy?
**[21:36] ---**
What does it mean?
**[21:38] ---**
Maybe because of the virus, people in this world
had a strange sense of taste.
**[21:44] ---**
That would mean that
Nao's cooking is still...
**[21:47] ---**
Wow, so my curry's that good, huh?
**[21:52] ---**
Maybe we should keep our mouths shut.
**[21:55] ---**
Ayaka! Minami! Cooking is so fun!
**[21:59] ---**
Teach me more, okay?
**[22:02] ---**
S-sure.
**[22:04] ---**
My pleasure...
**[22:23] ---**
The world I long for and cherish
**[22:28] ---**
Is always in my heart (here)
**[22:31] ---**
It won't fade
**[22:34] ---**
Days when we laugh till our tears fall
**[22:39] ---**
Or get depressed because of mishaps
**[22:45] ---**
We can help each other face obstacles
**[22:50] ---**
We'll make sure to get it back
**[22:57] ---**
To hopes
**[23:00] ---**
When protecting what we cherish
**[23:06] ---**
Tremendous amounts of
power well up from inside
**[23:12] ---**
Because you're here, I won't give up
**[23:17] ---**
I'll push forward, I decided
**[23:23] ---**
Strong bond "miracle" shines and sparkles