E11 - Clash of the Two Seven Star Knives

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SIGN    True Cooking Master Boy
[01:31] Xiang
    The skills of a spineless
    runaway decline every day.
[01:35] Xiang
    I shall generously make the subject of
    our contest your specialty, seafood.
[01:40] Leien
    That pridefulness of yours once
    made me commit that mistake.
[01:50] Xiang
    The cuttlefish has already been sliced!
[01:53] Mao
    Incredible! The Seven Star Knives
    are sharp enough to cut water!
[01:59] Leien
    I, Lei En, seek nothing else from this world
[02:02] Leien
    than to settle my debts
    with my Seven Star Knives.
[02:07] Xiang
    This is why you're naive.
[02:10] Xiang
    You still haven't let go of that incident.
[02:14] Leien
    What?
[02:18] Xiang
    I am the cooking underworld's
    Ten Feet of Blue Xiang!
[02:22] Leien
    I-Impossible.
[02:23] Leien
    It can't be...
[02:25] Leien
    Those knives are the Seven Star Knives!
[02:33] Xiang
    That's right. Just like yours, these
    are the bloodied Seven Star Knives.
[02:37] Leien
    H-How do you have those?
[02:40] Xiang
    It's no wonder you're surprised.
[02:42] Xiang
    As far as you're concerned,
    it's like you've just met a ghost.
[02:48] Xiang
    But these are indeed
    genuine Seven Star Knives.
[02:52] Xiang
    Observe, and you will have
    no choice but to believe me.
[03:00] Shirou
    A sturgeon?
[03:06] Xiang
    Seven Stars Army Destroyer Quick Incision!
SIGN    Seven Stars Army Destroyer Quick Incision!!
[03:12] Shirou
    She removed the roe.
[03:14] Mao
    Look.
[03:15] Mao
    The cut is closing itself.
[03:21] Xiang
    Have an appetizer from me.
[03:23] All
    Her knife skills are so quick and exquisite.
[03:26] All
    She's on another level.
[03:30] Xiang
    You haven't seen anything yet.
[03:36] Both
    Wh...
[03:37] Both
    What?!
[03:44] Meili
    That sturgeon had its stomach sliced open,
     but is swimming like nothing happened.
[03:48] Mao
    They instantly cut through everything.
[03:50] Mao
    The cells surrounding the wound don't
    even realize they've been sliced.
[03:53] Leien
    That sharpness and sheen is undoubtedly
    that of the Seven Star Knives.
[03:58] Leien
    Why do you have those?
[04:00] Leien
    Only one set of Seven Star Knives
    should exist in this world.
[04:03] Xiang
    The impossible is possible
    in the cooking underworld.
[04:08] Xiang
    As one who feels guilt over that incident,
    you could never understand.
[04:13] Xiang
    Remember this, foolish deserter, Lei En.
[04:18] Xiang
    No matter how far you
    flee from the underworld,
[04:22] Xiang
    no matter how many times you submerge
    yourself in mountain spring waters,
[04:29] Xiang
    your bloodstained hands
    can never be washed clean.
[04:51] Meili
    Lei En!
[04:52] Mao
    Lei En!
[04:55] Meili
    What's wrong, Lei En? Keep it together.
[04:58] Meili
    Lei En, tell me.
[04:59] Meili
    What happened after you left Yang
    Spring Restaurant four years ago?
[05:07] Xielu
    Spit it out!
[05:08] Xielu
    You'll never cook anything delicious
    while you're worrying about the past!
[05:13] Xielu
    Tell us everything and relieve your mind!
[05:16] Leien
    It's none of your business.
[05:22] Mao
    That's not true.
[05:24] Mao
    It is our business.
[05:26] Mao
    We swore we'd share each other's fates
[05:30] Mao
    when we left on this journey!
[05:35] Mao
    Tell us, Lei En.
[05:40] Leien
    Mao, I don't deserve to live anymore.
[05:45] Mao
    What?
[05:47] Leien
    As I told you on the day of
    our knife skills contest,
[05:50] Leien
    I left on a journey to correct my weakness.
[05:55] Leien
    Higher. Aim higher.
[05:58] Leien
    Those who master cooking
    can stand above all others.
[06:03] Leien
    I followed the underworld's training
    and mastered all their techniques.
[06:08] Leien
    It was said that I was unrivaled
    when it came to knife skills.
[06:11] Leien
    But the strange feeling
    of elation didn't stop.
[06:15] Leien
    Higher. Even higher.
[06:17] Leien
    Isn't there anything I can do?
[06:20] Leien
    Then one day, I heard rumors about Lang Tie,
[06:24] Leien
    the world's greatest knife-maker.
[06:35] Leien
    With the best knives,
[06:38] Leien
    I could stand at the pinnacle of all chefs.
[06:42] Leien
    Those knives were the
    miraculous Seven Star Knives.
[06:53] (Flashback) Langtie
    What do you think of the Seven Star Knives?
[06:56] (Flashback) Leien
    It's hard to imagine anything
    this sharp being of this world.
[07:01] (Flashback) Langtie
    I know.
[07:02] (Flashback) Langtie
    You're lucky.
[07:04] (Flashback) Langtie
    I never make the same knife twice.
[07:08] (Flashback) Langtie
    The Seven Star Knives I forged today
    are the best I've ever created.
[07:18] (Flashback) Langtie
    A chef's tools are his life.
[07:20] (Flashback) Langtie
    I want a chef like you to use the best tools.
[07:26] (Flashback) Leien
    Thank you.
[07:30] Leien
    The best knives...
[07:34] Leien
    I am now the best chef.
[07:45] (Flashback) Langtie
    Have a seat. Drink some tea.
[08:11] (Flashback) Leien
    Now no knife greater than the Seven
    Star Knives will ever be created.
[08:16] (Flashback) Leien
    I will forever be the ultimate
    knife skills master.
[08:27] Leien
    When I came to my senses,
[08:28] Leien
    all that remained in my hands were
    the bloodstained Seven Star Knives.
[08:33] Leien
    I could not recover from my remorse.
[08:35] Leien
    When I confessed my crime to the
    higher-ups of the underworld,
[08:39] Leien
    they jeered and said,
[08:42] Leien
    "You did well. That ambition
    is what feeds us."
[08:46] Leien
    In that moment, I learned of the cooking
    underworld's bottomless horror.
[08:52] Leien
    Mao.
[08:53] Leien
    I may not be worthy of
    sharing your fate after all.
[09:05] Xiang
    While you cling to the past and
    have lost your will to fight,
[09:09] Xiang
    you stand no chance against me.
[09:12] Mao
    If that story is true, then how do
    you have a set of Seven Star Knives?
[09:18] Xiang
    The grudge of the knife-maker Lang Tie
[09:21] Xiang
    who you slew lives on in
    these Seven Star Knives,
[09:25] Xiang
    murderer!
[09:29] Meili
    No. Lei En... killed a man...
[09:42] Shirou
    Mao!
[09:44] Mao
    Didn't you decide to fight
    so no one else would suffer?
[09:52] Mao
    Killing another at the end of his
    training and falling to ruin himself...
[09:57] Mao
    That's not the way of a true chef!
[10:00] Leien
    Mao!
[10:04] Mao
    What's important is making
    the next delicious dish!
[10:10] Mao
    If you believe your arrogance in your skills
[10:11] Mao
    made you inflict irredeemable
    misfortune on another,
[10:15] Mao
    then use those same skills
[10:16] Mao
    to make people ten thousand—no,
    100 million times happier, Lei En!
[10:26] Leien
    Happy, huh?
[10:28] Leien
    You're always reminding me of the basics
    of cooking that I'd nearly forgotten.
[10:38] Leien
    Tell me. What kind of
    seafood do you wish to eat?
[10:42] Leien
    As a chef, I shall lead you to happiness
[10:44] Leien
    with the ingredients of your choosing.
[10:52] Mao
    Lei En.
[10:53] Xielu
    That's a sharp idea coming
    from a boorish man.
[10:56] Xielu
    He'll have the judges choose his ingredients.
[10:59] Zhang
    There is no question.
[11:02] Zhang
    Orange eggs resembling precious jewels.
[11:05] He
    The richest, thickest innards.
[11:08] Hu
    Soft, moist, and mellow flesh of pure white.
[11:12] Zhang
    Indeed. It's not Shanghai cuisine without it!
[11:17] Zhang
    Chinese mitten crab!
[11:24] Mao
    Chinese mitten crab?
[11:25] Shirou
    That stuff is crazy good.
[11:27] Sanjie
    Chinese mitten crab, huh?
    It's a difficult ingredient.
[11:32] Shirou
    Why, Sanjie?
[11:36] Sanjie
    Chinese mitten crab is certainly delicious.
[11:38] Sanjie
    But unlike red frog crab and swimming crab,
[11:42] Sanjie
    they're small.
[11:44] Xielu
    Bigger crabs have longer and thicker legs.
[11:47] Xielu
    They've got bigger shells, too.
[11:49] Xielu
    The meat packed inside is easy to
    remove and has a solid mouthfeel.
[11:53] Xielu
    But...
[11:54] Sanjie
    Yeah. Because the small Chinese
    mitten crab has so little meat,
[11:59] Sanjie
    no matter how desperately you dig at them,
[12:02] Sanjie
    you never get the satisfaction
    of a full meal.
[12:04] Sanjie
    Preparing the slender yet supremely
    delicious Chinese mitten crab
[12:08] Sanjie
    depends heavily on the
    skills of the chef himself.
[12:15] Xiang
    Chinese mitten crab? I thought
    they might choose that.
[12:19] Xiang
    Open the crab tank.
[12:29] Xiang
    Behold the brilliant blue of their shells.
[12:32] Xiang
    The golden glow of the fringe on their legs.
[12:34] Xiang
    Taken only from Yangcheng Lake,
    the most famous of places,
[12:38] Xiang
    at the crack of dawn, they are supremely
    fresh and exquisitely delicious.
[12:43] Xiang
    The most genuine and authentic
    of Chinese mitten crabs.
[12:48] Shirou
    No fair!
[12:50] Shirou
    She took all the biggest, meatiest ones!
[12:54] Xiang
    The early bird gets the worm.
[12:57] Xiang
    What are you standing around for, Lei En?
[12:59] Xiang
    The contest starts with the
    choosing of ingredients.
[13:07] Xielu
    He's being so slow.
[13:10] Xielu
    Is he still hesitant?
[13:12] Mao
    No. If I'm right, Lei En
    will probably choose...
[13:18] Shirou
    So small.
[13:19] Shirou
    Lei En's choosing all the small crabs, Mao.
[13:23] Shirou
    And their color looks poor.
[13:25] Shirou
    Aren't Chinese mitten crabs
    small enough already?
[13:28] Shirou
    Why's he putting himself at a disadvantage?
[13:30] Xielu
    His guilt is still making him punish himself.
[13:34] Mao
    It's okay.
[13:36] Mao
    His eyes are confident and clear
[13:39] Mao
    like they were during our
    knife skills contest.
[13:46] Meili
    He's fragile.
[13:48] Meili
    He's always been this way.
[13:50] Meili
    Too serious, inflexible,
    always worrying on his own.
[13:56] Meili
    His fragile and clear heart is too pure.
[14:02] Meili
    So... so...
[14:06] Xielu
    Yeah.
[14:07] Xielu
    Pure-hearted men become increasingly
    unpredictable as their purity increases.
[14:13] Mao
    And because Lei En is like that,
    when his powers are awakened...
[14:20] Mao
    he creates dishes replete with supreme bliss,
[14:24] Mao
    unmarred by a single cloud.
[14:29] Leien
    Peerless knife-maker Lang Tie,
    I won't ask for your forgiveness.
[14:34] Leien
    However, if you'll allow me to go on living,
[14:37] Leien
    I will use these Seven Star Knives to
    create as much happiness as possible
[14:44] Leien
    and in doing so, make
    atonement to your spirit.
[14:49] Mao
    Frying starch?
[14:51] Mao
    He's putting frying starch on
    his small, oddly-colored crabs.
[14:55] Mao
    I knew it.
[14:57] Mao
    You could win this round, Lei En!
[14:59] Sanjie
    Huh? What do you mean, Mao?
[15:01] Shirou
    How can he win?
[15:05] Xielu
    I don't like it.
[15:06] All
    What?
[15:09] Xielu
    After choosing her crabs,
[15:11] Xielu
    that woman has been sitting perfectly
    still and watching Lei En.
[15:16] Xielu
    What's she planning?
[15:19] Xiang
    You still don't get it, Lei En.
[15:21] Xiang
    Chefs make people happy.
[15:24] Xiang
    Put another way, they can
    also make people unhappy.
[15:28] Xiang
    If they control the happiness of people,
[15:31] Xiang
    then the logical conclusion is that
    chefs have the power to control people.
SIGN    Great Shanghai Restaurant
[15:39] Chef
    Yeah. The Grand Alliance is in an uproar
[15:43] Chef
    since the underworld took
    the higher-ups away.
[15:45] Chef
    Longzhen Restaurant's Sanjie
    went to get them back,
[15:48] Chef
    but we haven't heard anything yet.
[15:50] Fei
    I see.
[15:54] Chef
    Hey, wait.
[16:04] Sanjie
    So this is the strength
    of the man once called
[16:06] Sanjie
    the young prodigy of Yang Spring Restaurant.
[16:09] Sanjie
    My inadequate knife skills
    are nothing like his.
[16:12] Sanjie
    He's so incredibly accurate,
    you forget to blink.
[16:14] Sanjie
    His cuts are so delicate and magnificent.
[16:20] Shirou
    What? Not a single sliver of meat is left!
[16:24] Shirou
    But the legs are so slender.
[16:25] Sanjie
    He completely removed all the insides.
[16:28] Sanjie
    I'd expect no less from Lei
    En and the Seven Star Knives.
[16:32] Shirou
    From the bold Raging Bull Blue Dragon
    Cut made by the giant Army Destroyer
[16:36] Shirou
    to delicate knife work using small knives.
[16:40] Shirou
    The Seven Star Knives are like
    farming tools capable of cultivating
[16:43] Shirou
    every last inch of the world
    inside of living beings.
[16:50] Sanjie
    He harvested so much slender pure white meat.
[16:54] Sanjie
    He's fragrantly sautéing it
    with minced onions and ginger
[16:59] Sanjie
    and packing it into the shells
    along with the crab innards.
[17:01] Sanjie
    And on top of it he's
    sprinkling... frying starch!
[17:05] Sanjie
    I've got it! I figured it out, too, Mao!
[17:08] Sanjie
    I know what Lei En is making—
[17:13] He
    One more!
[17:13] Xiang
    Okay, okay. Here you go.
[17:16] Hu
    Pour some for me, too!
[17:18] Xiang
    Oh, please.
[17:19] Xiang
    I thought we were just taking a little break.
[17:26] Sanjie
    Hey! What is she doing?
[17:29] Xielu
    After picking at the crabs
    with her Seven Star Knives
[17:33] Xielu
    and cracking some eggs, she ditched
    her cooking station to go do that!
[17:39] Xielu
    Damn it! I'm kind of jealous of the judges!
[17:43] Sanjie
    But Lei En is taking the
    contest so seriously!
[17:46] Shirou
    She's trying to seduce the judges!
[17:49] Mao
    No. I can tell
[17:52] Mao
    she's more of a chef than that.
[17:56] Mao
    She's up to something.
[18:01] Xiang
    I'd better get back to cooking.
[18:04] Xhang
    Why? Is it over already?
[18:06] Xiang
    We'll continue this later.
[18:08] Xiang
    More importantly, you'd better
    keep those two promises you made.
[18:13] Zhang
    Sure thing.
[18:20] Xiang
    Now, then...
[18:24] Xiang
    I'll mix the eggs with
    the crab meat I removed,
[18:27] Xiang
    cook the ingredients,
[18:29] Xiang
    and pour a sauce over the top.
[18:32] Xiang
    Crab and eggs!
[18:35] All
    Looking good, Xiang!
[18:39] Xielu
    What the hell!? You used good crab
    to make basic crab and eggs?!
[18:43] Sanjie
    Are you even trying?!
[18:47] Mao
    Xiang of the Seven Star Knives...
[18:50] Mao
    What are those knives that shouldn't exist?
[18:55] Both
    Done!
[18:59] Zhang
    Xiang made standard crab and eggs.
[19:02] He
    Lei En made the finest of
    Shanghai dishes, xieduo.
[19:06] Hu
    And it's no ordinary xieduo.
[19:08] Hu
    He wrapped them in batter and
    fried them to a golden brown.
[19:12] He
    I'm starting to drool, damn it!
[19:14] Hu
    Which should we eat first?
[19:16] Zhang
    Lei En's, natura—
[19:18] Xiang
    Governor Zhang!
[19:20] Xiang
    Keep your first promise.
[19:21] Xiang
    Taste my dish first.
[19:25] Zhang
    Oh, that's right.
[19:28] Zhang
    But, Xiang, just so you know,
[19:29] Zhang
    if you think you've won me over by
    pouring me drinks, you're wrong.
[19:33] Zhang
    I'll be judging your dish harshly.
[19:35] Xiang
    Of course.
[19:37] Hu
    Crab and eggs is the most standard
    of standard crab dishes.
[19:42] He
    Not only that, but it's crab and eggs made
    by the skilled underworld chef Xiang.
[19:46] He
    She must've done something
    really special with them.
[19:54] Zhang
    It's good. It's definitely good.
[19:56] He
    Yeah. No complaints here.
[20:00] Zhang
    Thick pieces of crab with thinly sliced
    bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms,
[20:04] Zhang
    all cooked to perfection.
[20:06] Zhang
    The rich creamy sauce, the soft eggs.
[20:11] Zhang
    However,
[20:12] Zhang
    that's all as a completely
    ordinary dish of crab and eggs.
[20:17] Sanjie
    If it's plain old crab and eggs...
[20:19] Shirou
    Then this contest is decided.
[20:21] Mao
    Is it really just ordinary crab and eggs?
[20:26] Xiang
    Here. I made crab soup to go with it.
[20:29] Zhang
    What? It's not just crab and eggs?
[20:32] Xiang
    Your second promise
[20:34] Xiang
    was to eat every last bit of
    what's served to you, remember?
[20:38] Zhang
    Y-You're right. In that case,
    before it gets cold...
[20:49] Xiang
    This contest is mine.
[20:53] He
    How strange.
[20:55] Zhang
    Crab and eggs and crab soup.
[20:57] Zhang
    For relatively small light dishes,
[21:00] Zhang
    I distinctly feel like I've eaten crab.
[21:04] Zhang
    All right. Next, Lei En!
[21:07] Leien
    First, allow me to point out that
    these crabs have just recently molted.
[21:11] Leien
    I used my knife skills to
    remove every bit of meat
[21:15] Leien
    and pack it back into the crab's shell.
[21:18] Leien
    Because the shells of recently
    molted crabs are so soft,
[21:21] Leien
    if you wrap them in batter and fry them,
[21:23] Leien
    you can eat the entire thing, shell and all.
[21:27] Zhang
    Rather than sucking out the flavor
    of the Chinese mitten crab,
[21:30] Zhang
    you can properly taste
    the concentrated flavor.
[21:32] Zhang
    Now this is a true crab dish!
[21:39] Shirou
    I see. That's why he chose such small crabs.
[21:41] Sanjie
    You finally noticed, Shirou?
[21:43] Sanjie
    Did she think she could beat knife skills
    master Lei En's high quality fried shells
[21:48] Sanjie
    with some measly crab and eggs?
[21:50] Shirou
    We won!
[21:52] Shirou
    Hand over the map and code!
[21:54] Sanjie
    Hand it over!
[21:55] Shirou
    Lei En won! Yes!
[22:00] Mao
    Why?
[22:02] Mao
    Why do I feel so apprehensive?
[22:07] Zhang
    Hey, Lei En.
[22:14] Zhang
    Your food sucks!
SIGN    Next Time
SIGN    "Man of Destiny"
[24:09] Narration
    "Man of Destiny."