Food Wars: Taste Buds Reversal

094. Giant Tuna [Update 1]

As Bai Mu stirred the river with his hands, ripples gradually spread out on the river surface. Under everyone's gaze, a black shadow seemed to be constantly moving on the river surface. Then Bai Mu sank his whole arm and directly lifted the black shadow out of the river.

This time the prey was twice as big as before. Bai Mu looked at it and found that the river fish in his hand was about ten pounds and was alive and kicking. It was a river fish that was more suitable as food.

""Isn't it a coincidence?"

Yukihira Soma was stunned. He was holding the fishing rod and waiting for the fish to bite, but he had been sitting for so long and no fish had bitten his hook. Shiraki actually reached into the river and grabbed two fish. What was this? Was he a bear?

The other students were silent at this time, especially the student who said that he was a fish chef. Seeing Shiraki's completely chaotic actions, his eyes almost popped out.

"Coincidence... Absolutely a coincidence!"

He kept hypnotizing himself in his heart, as if to strengthen the credibility of his words. The student even pulled his fishing rod on purpose. He had no idea how many times he had fished since he was a child. He could already judge the size of the fish by the bubbles coming out of the water and the reaction from the fishing rod. Logically, no fish should have passed by the position where Shiraki was standing, but... it was luck!

Tanosuke Hui ran to Shiraki with a bucket of water. Looking at the ten-pound river fish in front of her, she was a little overwhelmed.

But she quickly remembered that the two of them had tried to find ingredients, and hurriedly said to Shiraki,"Shiraki-kun, the ingredients are enough now. Shall we go back to the classroom to start cooking? Or should we go find the next ingredient?"

"Don't worry, it only takes fifteen minutes to cook, let's catch a few more fish first."

Shiraki looked at the time required for the A-level cooking card and said to Tansho Kei,"You don't need any other ingredients, just salt."

"Is, is that so?"

Tanoko nodded in confusion, because when Bai Mu was talking to her, he actually fished out a bigger fish from the river... Judging from the size, it was estimated to be about 15 pounds. Even so, Bai Mu just threw the fish into the bucket and continued to stir it under the water.

The people around him were already staring at his actions, and even some students who had not caught any fish imitated Bai Mu's actions and began to squat down and stir the water with their hands. However, the result was obvious. After stirring for a long time, let alone fish, they didn't even touch a stone.

"I wonder if there are any half-man-high tuna or something like that here.……"

Bai Mu twirled his arms underwater and muttered to himself

——There must be a ghost! Do you think this is the sea?!

All the students, including Soma Yukihira, couldn't help but complain in their hearts when they heard Shiraki's"mumbling". Although Shiraki's fishing skills did make them stunned, it was absolutely impossible to catch a tuna half a person's height in the river, right? This was against the ecological system!

However, these students did not expect that the forest on the back mountain here was actually temporarily fenced off because of the arrival of students from Totsuki Academy.

Originally, this was just a place for guests to enjoy the beautiful scenery, not a farm or vegetable garden for growing ingredients.

The chickens, ducks, fish...

and even the wild boars on the mountain were all released here by special staff the day before.

The higher-quality ingredients are more difficult to obtain.

For example, if students want to encounter a whole cow, they must first cross the hillside in front, and then see one or two cows on the grass in the back.

Moreover, the prerequisite for hunting is that the students must first be able to subdue the cow with the strength of two people.

Therefore, the fish in this river are not just ordinary river fish.

As a top-level hotel, Totsuki Rikyu can find almost any ingredients.

It is more than enough to put a few sea fish from the kitchen and then fish them out after the students leave.

As everyone looked at him like an idiot, a black shadow gradually approached Baimu from underwater. The students who were far away hadn't noticed it yet, but the students who were close had already widened their eyes... As expected, after the black shadow approached Baimu's direction, Baimu on the shore seemed to have caught something. His face suddenly changed, and he stood up from where he was with one hand clenched into a fist.

A loud splash sounded, and as all the students looked at him like they had seen a ghost, a huge tuna half a man's height was pulled out of the river with Baimu's fist in its mouth!

"No, impossible!"

"How could there be something like this in the river?!"

"You are cheating!"

"There really is one?"

Because of the noise here, almost all the students who were looking for food nearby looked over. However, when they saw the giant tuna hanging in Shiraki's hand, they were all stunned. Tanado Megumi had already been stunned when she saw the huge fish head coming out of the water. Yukihira Soma, who was fishing, was stunned and the fishing rod fell off his hand. The reactions of others were not much better... They had only seen fish of this size on TV.

Judging from the size of this fish, it must be at least 200 kilograms. Such food would be rare on the market. It can be sold for a few million yen less. Although it is still a big gap compared to the real behemoths - those giant sea fish weighing more than 700 kilograms, it is definitely the top-grade ingredient among the ingredients found by the students now!

Looking at the tuna in Baimu's hand, which is estimated to be another 200 kilograms, and then looking at the palm-sized river fish in his hand... Many students opened their mouths so wide that they could fit an egg. Suddenly, they felt that the gap between people was so big. They worked hard for a long time but didn't catch a single fish, while others caught top-grade ingredients at random.……

"I wonder if there are such big tuna in the river...haha……"Yukihira Soma scratched the back of his head, his head was covered with cold sweat. Although his common sense told him that this was impossible, facts speak louder than words. Shiraki did fish out a tuna half a man's height from this river. Could it be that his former teacher had deceived him?

Yukihira Soma fell into doubt about his life.

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