The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 307

Episode 307: That’s why

“This taste… What on earth… What did you do…!”

He put the dish I made into his mouth.

The chef is staring down at the dish in a cold sweat.

okay.

That man, Howard Zinn’s cooking skills are definitely real.

To develop that level of cooking skill.

You must have gone through a tremendous amount of hardship.

But…

that goes only so far when it comes to true cooking skills.

This was the standard for a chef ‘before destruction’.

“There is no way something like this is possible! “It must have been something other than cooking!”

“What? Didn’t you just decide to accept the result?”

“profit…!”

This is a matter of pride as a chef.

It was a good opportunity to feed [special sauce], but I didn’t do it on purpose.

Besides that, no other methods other than cooking were used.

Neither of us had any special equipment.

A place to purely compete with each other’s skills.

‘That man’s cooking skills are clearly superior to mine.’

but.

In terms of cooking skills as an awakened person.

‘The true value of the job of [chef] begins in earnest when you start cooking monster meat.’

That guy.

Beginners who haven’t even stepped on the starting line yet.

[Kim Yang-sik Lv.21]

[Shin Young-jun Lv.36]

Between him and me.

There was a difference so far away that I couldn’t even look up.

“Then explain! “What is this liquid?”

He stuck his spoon in the dish I made.

He said, scooping up the thick liquid there.

“At first I thought it was made from ground oats… but no. No matter how thinly you grind it and mix it with water, it cannot become a perfectly smooth liquid like this. It even retains the nutty flavor of the oats! “Isn’t it a mixture of different ingredients with similar tastes?”

“no.”

“Then how is this…!”

In those words.

I grinned.

“It seems a bit rude to ask questions to a senior, but… I’ll tell you this much.”

I walked over to the oats I had taken out of the warehouse.

and.

I grabbed a handful of those oats.

[Elemental cuisine]

Then.

“What… is that?”

“cooking.”

A handful of oats held in my hand.

It turned into a liquid and flowed out.

“Then what did you make this fish taste like?” This fish doesn’t normally taste this oily. “It’s the nature of the ingredients themselves, so it wouldn’t be possible to change the taste…!”

“Like you said, I thought there wasn’t enough fat, so I added it.”

“You added it?”

This time, I grabbed a bit of lard oil in the corner.

I put it on top of the fish.

[Forced feeding]

Then.

The oil melts with a strange glow and is absorbed into the material.

“…What is this?”

Let me tell you the identity of the skills I used in cooking.

Howard, who was looking at that scene, muttered blankly.

“That’s not cooking.”

“It’s cooking.”

okay.

Cooking is correct.

only.

‘It’s just not a recipe from this world.’

It’s so foreign.

A concept that may be closer to magic.

So, it was a very difficult recipe even for me.

Nevertheless.

This was clearly a ‘cooking technique’.

“…what is that?”

“I guess you have one too?”

A dish made by me and that man.

Although I can’t say it with my own mouth.

There was a huge gap in the taste that could never be spicy.

and.

There was only one difference that created the result.

“Skills or characteristics as a chef.”

“….”

He has maintained his cooking skills as a chef before the destruction.

Me, the cook after the destruction.

Even though he was an awakened person, he cooked human food.

Raise your abilities like an awakened person.

I have even learned recipes from other worlds.

Which is better.

Are you closer to a [chef] than a chef?

The difference.

“Yeah… skill characteristics… something like that.”

No matter how good a martial artist he is.

An ordinary human cannot defeat a level 1 combat awakened person.

No, there is no need to go to combat positions.

Right now, when I first got [Minimum Dagger Mastery].

The miracles he performed with that dagger were feats that would have been impossible even for sword masters who left their names in history.

‘Maybe if this guy’s level and stat skills were the same as mine, I might have lost.’

but.

The reality was not like that.

‘Perhaps… he was already an excellent cook. That’s probably why I was bound by the common sense of being a chef.’

The reason why he, who was probably a better cook than me, was unable to adapt to cooking as an awakened person.

Because in the end, he was better than me.

This may be because I was tied to the knowledge and common sense I had accumulated over the years.

“Haha… Oh my god. “I thought the skills I had were sufficiently bizarre… but there are also skills that don’t even resemble cooking.”

On my word.

He seemed to be in great shock and was unable to straighten his body.

He sat down in the corner of the kitchen and said.

“It’s just as you said. “I won’t be able to deny it even if I taste it.”

“then.”

“You won.”

He said with a defeated smile.

“I admit defeat. Yes… if you want, you can call me senior from now on.”

“It’s good to be quick to admit it.”

I looked down at him who fell like that.

He declared calmly.

“I’m going to start cooking now.”

“….”

“As promised, don’t disturb me cooking here. “Don’t even go anywhere and reveal that I’m cooking here.”

In those words.

I flinch.

“Cooking… cooking.”

The body of the man who had his head down moved slightly.

“I know it’s a bit ugly to say something like this after losing. “Can I ask one question?”

“…what? “If it’s about cooking, maybe later.”

“Why do you want to cook in the kitchen?”

I was looking around the kitchen to start cooking.

I turned my head to that question.

“What did you say?”

“That’s it. “I’m not bragging, but… I haven’t lived a very healthy life, have I?”

The man who collapsed on the floor.

He was looking up at me.

“Until I became a chef, I lived the life of a pretty bad, third-rate brat.”

“…I kind of guessed something like that based on his appearance and the way he spoke.”

“Tsk tsk. But you know what? The life of a gangster is not always easy. It’s not easy to survive among these cruel people who never know when an explosion may occur. “Especially a guy like me who doesn’t have anything behind him… he can’t survive if he doesn’t pay attention to what other people think.”

One o’clock is busy.

A guy who suddenly recites his past history.

“Thanks to having lived that kind of life since I was young, I pride myself on having an amazing sense of humor. Even when I got tired of that kind of life and started cooking… I barely survived thanks to this insight.”

When I frowned, wondering if I had listened to some pointless nonsense.

The man opened his mouth.

“As you said, we are not ordinary cooks but awakened ones. “If you really want to cook, you can cook a decent dish even on the street.”

“….”

“If it’s just me, then if it’s as good as you… even a dish prepared so roughly would have a tremendous effect. “Am I wrong?”

no.

It’s not wrong at all.

Definitely as I said.

If it’s an ordinary dish, you can make it right now.

In any case, you can make simple grilling just by purchasing a portable gas stove at a store.

but.

‘My cooking ability now is weaker than when I was in the [Legion].’

[Chef]’s cooking performance is also affected by the awakened person’s stats.

And now I have lost all the equipment I received from the Legion.

My stats would still be overwhelming if I were to look at pure stats.

Compared to how I was when I was in the military, I was at a miserable level.

‘On the other hand, the people who need to be cooked are all high level.’

As the level goes up.

Resistance to supernatural abilities also increases.

Unlike the past times when Lieutenant Kim and other criminals were brought to submission.

Now, it is difficult to keep them locked up and continue to feed them.

“But if you need the equipment… that means you have to make really good dishes.”

so that.

If only to create a taste that would make them submit in just one dish.

The power of thoroughly well-cooked dishes was needed.

“We need a dish that has that level of effect. “There must be a good reason for that.”

His gaze.

It’s focused on me.

“That’s why I want to ask. “What on earth is the reason you have to cook ‘properly’?”

“….”

If you think about it, it may not be a big question.

but.

I couldn’t give any answer to that question.

-I try to manipulate other people’s emotions and use them as I want.

Say something like that.

There is no way I can say it out loud with confidence.

“also.”

I couldn’t answer.

Howard nodded and muttered.

“I survived my days as a gangster and my time as a chef with just this simple trick. Even though I can’t cook better than you. “The sense is alive.”

Only then.

Suddenly, I understood why this man was arguing with me.

“You… are trying to cook for a bad reason, right?”

When you first made eye contact with me.

A man who strangely looked into my eyes.

-You want to cook for your own goals?

This guy back then.

I had already noticed it.

-That goal… I don’t think it’s a proper goal.

The dish I’m going to cook from now on.

The fact that it is by no means normal.

but.

“so?”

For my goal.

I had no intention of stopping here.

“What does it matter to you what reason I choose to cook? I won the cooking competition. is not it?”

“…that’s right. Yes cooking. “It was delicious as hell.”

“Then it must have been a match made on the condition that the right to use this kitchen would be given to me.”

I meet that gaze.

I looked down at the chef who was sitting down.

therefore.

I…

my spirit, which I have intentionally reduced until now.

It was revealed without hiding it at all.

Faaagh!

My stats are already at a level that cannot be compared to other awakened people.

If you really have to compare it, it would be better to compare it to boss-level monsters.

What is especially important is [horsepower]

…gulp.

If I make up my mind and show off my spirit.

That’s similar to a boss-level monster spreading its magic and putting pressure on you…

no, it might be more threatening than that.

“…I mean.”

Unlike me.

That man is a pure cook who has never entered combat.

“He was a third-rate gangster who lived a truly trashy life. I didn’t learn anything, I didn’t inherit anything… This guy who didn’t know anything was trying to make a living somehow. The only thing worth doing was acting like a brat. ”

“….”

“But will it be right to live like this one day? “I thought so.”

Since he has never fought properly,

he must be feeling the pain of being crushed to death by his spirit.

“So I quit my job as a gangster and went into any restaurant and asked for something. Please teach me how to cook. Of course, I kept getting criticized. I often heard people ask me if I was crazy. But… Fortunately, in a world where there is a severe manpower shortage, there are countries that accept people like this.”

He was so overwhelmed by my spirit that he didn’t even faint.

Picking up my fallen body.

“I did it because I thought it would be better than living as a brat, but it was never easy. It was so hard that I almost fainted. “Unlike gangsters like me, even guys who went to good, proper schools had a hard time and ran away, so I told you everything.”

I took out the dagger hanging on one side of the kitchen and held it.

“But… I somehow survived. “I became a chef.”

“….”

“Thanks to you, I, who was like trash, was able to be reborn as a decent human being.”

The posture in which you hold that dagger.

It was something quite familiar to me.

“Cooking changed my life.”

“….”

“I can never ignore something that insults cooking like that.”

[Dagger Mastery]

Until I learned ‘Martial Arts – Sik’.

This is the exact posture I often use.

“A chef as great as you shouldn’t cook for that reason.”

Chef’s.

It was a fighting stance.