Pirate Vice-Captain Heart

Chapter 403 THE397, EMOTION-5
Brook noticed that Sanji frowned after taking a bite of the meat, and asked.

"Sanji-san, what's wrong?"

But Sanji just shook his head, then picked up his chopsticks again, and tasted all the other five kinds of meat he ordered.

However, after tasting, Sanji's brows frowned even tighter.

Seeing the other party's expression, Brooke, who had doubts about this, put down his chopsticks, and Luo also sensed something was wrong, hesitated for a moment, put down his chopsticks, and quietly waited for Sanji's evaluation.

"Sanji! What's the matter? Although this meat is not as delicious as yours, it is still a special feature!" Zibu said inexplicably, the chopsticks in his hand kept holding the delicious food.

Since Farewell to the city of water, Zibesheng has never eaten food that can rival Sanji's craftsmanship.Zibusheng didn't know how many times he regretted it. Why didn't he agree to Hongxin's invitation at that time?

"No, no... Strange, too strange..." Sanji put down his chopsticks, "Although these meats are somewhat different in quality, they are essentially the same kind of meat."

"You mean..." Zibusheng said with a long voice, "Could it be that this is a black shop! The taste is almost the same, but the price is extremely high? To deceive consumers?"

"That's not what it means..." Sanji narrowed his eyes, looking at the dozens of delicious dishes on the table, "But in terms of the chef's craftsmanship, the price is indeed right. And in terms of meat grades, it is also Nothing wrong. It's just..."

"only?"

"These meats are far from delicious as the legend says. What makes the food so delicious comes from the chef's craftsmanship. It is no exaggeration to say that this chef's craftsmanship may be better than mine." Sanji said in a deep voice. Said, "It's just that this meat...is very ordinary, and the ordinary is too much. Even if it is replaced by any kind of slightly high-end meat, the food in front of me will be delicious."

After Sanji finished speaking, he fell into deep thought.

Obviously, he was thinking, why the other party gave up so much good meat and chose to use this kind of meat...

"So have you tasted what kind of meat it is?" Gurner asked.

Sanji shook his head, while constantly filtering various recipes in his mind.He watched the food on the table with a sullen expression, but didn't take another bite.

Brook picked up the Biluochun on the side, tasted it lightly, and didn't take another bite.

Luo protested frantically because of his stomach, after thinking about it, he still picked up the chopsticks.It's just that he didn't pick up the meat anymore, but extended his chopsticks to pasta and vegetarian dishes.

"The members of the Straw Hats are not like the captain at all... The captain is so carefree, but each of you seems to have such a heavy heart..." Yi Zang said, continuing to eat without paying attention.

Marco smiled, and didn't take Sanji's abnormality into his eyes.

Four people eat as usual.

Sanji remained silent for 5 minutes.

then……

His face suddenly changed.

He stood up abruptly, knocking the chair over with too much movement, and the table shook accordingly.

Just when they wanted to ask what happened to Sanji, they looked up and saw Sanji looking at the dishes in front of him in horror, and his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Hey! Don't eat it!" Sanji yelled, then reached out and overturned the entire table.

Everyone saw the delicacies that were still appetizing just now, but they disappeared in an instant.

Everyone still maintained the movements of carrying the bowl, stretching the chopsticks, or chewing, and they froze, and their eyes looked at Sanji who was still panting heavily in disbelief.

The most unbelievable among these people was Zibesheng.He clearly understands Sanji's character, the kind of person who doesn't allow a single grain of rice to be wasted, but now... just flipping the table over?

Silence.

"Well, Sanji-san?" Brooke asked aloud, "Can you explain what happened?"

"This meat...is human flesh." Sanji said these words tremblingly.

"what?!"

Everyone was shocked by Sanji's words.
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Everyone was stunned for a while, until Zibusheng's hands shook and the chopsticks fell to the ground with a crackle, and they managed to regain their senses.

"That...that, don't be kidding, okay?" Zibusheng said.

Yi Zang also shook his head and said, "No matter how insane the Spade man is, it's impossible for him to do such a thing, right?"

Marco threw the chopsticks in his hand, frowned and said, "This store has been open for more than 40 years... Mr. Sanji must have some proof for saying this?"

"Evidence? I haven't eaten it myself... but more than ten years ago..." Sanji said slowly.

More than ten years ago, Sanji and Barefoot Zapp were trapped on an isolated island with nothing.At that time they had only two sacks beside them.

Zhepu said to Sanji, there are food in both bags, one bag for each person.So Bian gave the bag containing the food to Sanji.

When Sanji ate all the food, the rescue still did not come.Sanji hit Zhepu with his idea, and when he found Zhepu, Zhepu was sitting with his back to him, facing the coast, and there was a bag full of "food" beside Zhepu.

Sanji didn't care whether the other party would be angry or hit him, so he cut open the sack with a dagger.

However... what overflowed from the sack was not food at all, but a bag full of gold jewels.

"You...how did you survive?" Sanji asked when he was a child.

Zapp didn't answer.

Sanji went around to Zhepu, but saw a skinny old man, and Zhepu's empty right leg.

It turned out that Zhepu was able to survive during this period of time because... he ate his right leg.

(This is the plot in the manga. In the animation, for all ages, the reason why Zhepu lost his right leg was changed. Zhepu's foot was caught by the boat and couldn't move. In order to go to Sanji, he chopped it off with the anchor own right foot.)
When Sanji began to learn cooking skills from Zhepu, Sanji once asked Zhepu out of curiosity when he was a child... What does human flesh taste like?
Zapp didn't answer the question at first, but scolded Sanji.And later, Sanji's culinary skills were proficient, even far surpassing Zhepu, and then Zhepu told Sanji what it was like to be human.

And just now, after Sanji tasted it, the more he ate it, the more he felt that the taste was very similar to what Zhepu said.

It's just that the other party's cooking skills are exquisite, and a lot of spices are added for seasoning, which makes the originally sour and unpalatable human flesh taste what it is now.

Sanji said in a deep voice, "If I'm not mistaken, the so-called eight grades of meat should refer to humans of different ages and genders..."

As soon as these words came out, the complexions of all the people present changed drastically, and Zibusheng, who ate the most, directly covered his mouth and ran to the built-in bathroom of the private room to vomit.

Gurner got up and knocked on the bathroom door.

"Hurry up, I'll throw up too."

Brooke, who was the only one who didn't eat meat, took a sip of his tea leisurely, and said slowly as he looked at the people queuing up to go to the bathroom to clean their stomachs.

"That's why... you will suffer a loss if you don't listen to the old man..."

(End of this chapter)