It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 89

Chapter 89: BlackChef’s Alley Restaurant: Study Villa (4)

Late at night, Kyung-joon’s study territory.

BlackChef was cooking with the ingredients obtained from catching Ogopogo.

[Extreme Sea Eel Sashimi]

▶Ogopogo that drank the melted water of Chuburian’s perpetual snow. This deep-sea dragon has no fishy smell at all even if eaten raw. However, if you eat too much, you may catch a cold due to the cold in the flesh.

▶Ice attribute affinity is generated.

▶Strength and stamina are permanently increased by 10 due to the effect of nourishing tonic. Limited to 1 time.

▶Item Grade: Unique

Slice, slice, slice.

BlackChef was slicing Ogopogo sashimi.

Every time the sashimi knife moved, a plate of fresh eel sashimi was completed.

“Wow, that knife cuts really well. The meat is sliced really well.”

“The knife cuts fish really well, right?”

“Uh, fish? This is a normal sashimi knife for slicing sashimi… The size, the design…”

Kyung-joon’s eyes gleamed sharply like a hawk aiming for something.

“…… Actually, isn’t this used to cut human skin?”

“Huh huh huh~”

“Hahaha~?”

“Huh huh huh huh~!”

“Hahahahahaha~!”

Despite Kyung-joon’s pointed question, BlackChef just smiled a good-natured smile.

As expected, there was no rebuttal.

Anyway, as time went on, one plate, two plates, three plates……

By the time BlackChef was holding chopsticks instead of a knife, hundreds of plates of Ogopogo sashimi had already been completed.

“Dip it in this special sauce like this. Chomp, chomp, chomp. Oh my, it’s chewy. Everyone, hurry up and eat.”

Eel sashimi that looks delicious!

However, the residents of the territory looked at the decorated dinner plate and made disapproving faces.

“Eating fish raw. This is the first time I’ve seen this cooking method.”

“Will it really be okay……?”

“Even when I wandered as an adventurer 20 years ago, I ate moldy food, but I never ate food without cooking it……”

“The salmon swimming upstream~♪ The salmon swimming upstream~♬ Should we cook them thoroughly?”

They seemed to be experiencing sashimi for the very first time.

“Kyung-joon-nim, wouldn’t it be better to boil or grill it?”

Even Liant, who always agreed with Kyung-joon, couldn’t easily agree this time.

“Why are the people who used to eat slimes raw being inconsistent?”

“That’s slime! Slime and fish are different!”

“Sigh. It can’t be helped. Watch carefully.”

Just as the residents of the territory showed Kyung-joon how to eat slime cold soup, this time Kyung-joon tried to teach them how to eat it.

The way to eat is simple.

Pick up a piece of eel sashimi and dip it halfway into BlackChef’s homemade vinegar soy sauce.

Put it in your mouth.

Chew, chew.

“Eww! You ate it after all!”

The faces of the residents of the territory who watched were filled with horror.

On the other hand, Kyung-joon’s mouth curled up at the new savory taste he felt for the first time.

[You have eaten eel containing the power of the extreme sea.]

[Ice attribute affinity will be generated.]

▶Ice attribute affinity: 10

[Strength and stamina are permanently increased by 10.]

Chew, chew.

Although he hadn’t had much experience with sashimi, the texture was chewy and tasted a bit like flounder sashimi.

In fact, Kyung-joon also imagined a fishy smell or an unpleasant aftertaste when he heard that the eel would be made into sashimi.

But there was no smell at all, and the chewy texture was really amazing.

“But this scent……”

Strangely, the eel sashimi had a faint rice scent.

What I ate was sashimi, but the taste felt like eating sushi.

“The white thing you washed briefly before slicing the sashimi, was it rice water? Makgeolli? Something like that?”

“Heheh. After all, the taste of makgeolli is important.”

The answer was makgeolli.

“It doesn’t matter what kind of flour you use. It tastes much better even if you just mix it with water.”

BlackChef took out homemade nuruk, mixed it with lake water, and quickly made makgeolli with his skill.

He took a sip of it himself and wiped his lips with a ‘Wow!’.

Then he picked up another piece of eel sashimi and chomped on it.

“Oh, it’s delicious. It’s a chemistry I never thought of, sashimi and makgeolli. It’s really delicious to eat them together.”

BlackChef also offered Kyung-joon the makgeolli he had made.

He tried eating makgeolli and eel sashimi together, just like he did.

Kyung-joon felt his mouth water.

‘It’s definitely really delicious. It catches the fishy smell of eel sashimi and adds flavor at the same time. There was a reason why they washed the sashimi with makgeolli.’

From his sashimi slicing skills to his various other know-how, BlackChef was definitely a top-notch chef.

If Kyung-joon had been a chef, he would have immediately knelt down and asked to learn from him.

Of course, Kyung-joon wasn’t a chef and didn’t go that far, but that didn’t mean he had nothing to do with cooking.

‘There was only one thing I knew how to cook. If I can take advantage of this opportunity……’

The only (Unique) dish Kyung-joon could make.

It was bread.

After the eel sashimi meal was over.

Kyung-joon immediately took action.

“Mr. BlackChef. Have you ever seen this bread?”

Kyung-joon took out his unique bread from his inventory.

“……Hmm?”

BlackChef’s eyes widened slightly at the sight.

It was the look of someone who had seen it once before.

“If you don’t mind, can you taste this as a chef? And it would be even better if you could tell me what needs to be improved.”

Kyung-joon wanted to ask BlackChef for his thoughts on the taste of the bread.

Unique bread is also bread and food.

As for food, the better it tastes, the better the effect.

This is the perfect opportunity to increase the value of unique bread!

BlackChef looked at Kyung-joon’s bread from side to side and then spoke as if he realized what it was.

“Ah, this is that. That unique and precious bread made with mana. Look at this. You can see the unique pink color here, right? This bread is very popular these days.”

As expected of unique bread.

As a ranker, he already knew what kind of bread it was, so the story went quickly.

Kyung-joon felt proud of his own bread and urged BlackChef to continue.

“So how is it? It won’t be as delicious as the food you made, but I think it tastes okay.”

As a top-notch chef like BlackChef, he would definitely have a different impression of unique bread.

He would be different from other players or residents who just looked at the effects and exclaimed that it was great.

Kyung-joon hoped for a productive conversation.

But very coincidentally.

“Boss, listen carefully. I think you’re really mistaken about something.”

The following words of BlackChef were completely unexpected.

BlackChef frowned without even taking a bite of the unique bread Kyung-joon had handed him.

“You said something you shouldn’t have said now. Huh? Does this, does this make sense? This, this, this? Ugh?”

He tore apart Kyung-joon’s unique bread and poked at the inside as if scolding him.

“This is not bread…… Bread is about health, well-being, stats, and all that these days…… First of all, it has to be delicious to be good bread. This tastes really bad. Ugh!”

“……?!”

BlackChef’s shocking remark!

The residents’ eyes widened and soon began to protest.

Kyung-joon-nim’s bread tastes bad?!

Unacceptable!

“What! How can you say that about Kyung-joon-nim’s bread!!”

The moment the residents protested fiercely.

Boom!

A huge earthquake that shook the ground!

Clang! Crack!

The empty plates piled up on the outdoor table crashed to the floor and shattered.

BlackChef was holding something like a mortar in his hand.

It was so huge that it could crush a person at once.

“H, Heek?! No one will be safe if they get hit by that!”

“But…… we have to fight! This is our territory!”

The residents took out their farming tools and concentrated their still unstable mana in their hands, preparing for battle.

Seeing this, Kyung-joon thought.

‘Come to think of it, I only installed the Energy Tower, but there’s no specific manual for intruders.’

The Energy Tower could block most monsters, but it couldn’t stop a skilled person like BlackChef who had come to attack.

Also, there was no set procedure for what the residents should do if such a thing happened.

The Energy Tower needed some work, and basic manuals and countermeasures for various crisis situations had to be prepared.

‘……Let’s sort out the situation first.’

“Wait a minute.”

Kyung-joon stretched out his hand towards the residents to calm them down and stood facing BlackChef.

At the same time, he began to draw mana throughout his body.

Until Ogopogo, the two cooperated, but in the end, it seemed that the end would be a disaster.

‘Huh?’

At that moment, Kyung-joon frowned.

The huge mortar-like thing in BlackChef’s hand looked very familiar.

‘Isn’t that what you use to knead bread dough?’

The moment Kyung-joon thought so, BlackChef shouted loudly.

“Do you guys even know what bread tastes like?!”

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

BlackChef, who threw a serious question about the taste of bread to everyone in the study villa!

In the end, he baked bread himself and served it to everyone.

[BlackChef’s Soft Bread]

▶Soft bread made by wandering chef BlackChef. The skilled chef’s skills are evident. By the way, it’s delicious.

▶Appetite is stimulated more, so the feeling of fullness decreases by 10% for a moment and then slowly recovers by 20%.

▶Item Grade: High

The bread BlackChef made was truly ordinary.

It didn’t increase stats like Kyung-joon’s, nor did it restore HP and MP by percentage.

The only slightly unusual thing was that the fullness decreased momentarily and then recovered.

That was really all.

Nevertheless, Kyung-joon had to admit it.

The fact that the unique bread he made was 『medicine』, not 『food』.

“D…Delicious! It’s delicious, damn it!”

“Ugh! Kyung-joon-nim… I’m sorry! The effect of Kyung-joon-nim’s bread is much better…… but this tastes much better!”

“How can it taste like this……! There was nothing unusual about the cooking!”

The residents were greatly disappointed as they tasted BlackChef’s bread.

Because it was so delicious.

It wasn’t like there was cream or any special ingredients in it.

It was just plain, soft bread seasoned with butter, salt, and sugar.

‘……Really, it tastes like I could eat it forever. It’s just plain soft bread, nothing special, but it’s a world of difference from what I made.’

Compared to unique bread, the ingredients were almost the same, but the taste was a world of difference.

Just as everything in the world is made up of electrons, protons, and neutrons.

Like fish, humans, plants, and inanimate objects, all of which are very different depending on how they are combined.

The soft bread BlackChef made contained the beauty of the first life born on the primitive Earth.

Kyung-joon quickly finished the bread BlackChef made and said while drinking milk.

“Hoo. You weren’t kidding when you introduced yourself as a wandering chef. The food you made is really delicious.”

Both the Ogopogo sashimi and the bread just now.

Thanks to this, I don’t think I’ll be able to eat the bread I made myself anymore.

I had some confidence in my research, but it turned out that I didn’t know anything about taste.

BlackChef smiled broadly at Kyung-joon’s clean admission.

“Oh, my, taste is honest. What you know in your head and what actually comes out are completely different.”

“Yes. I learned something.”

“Huh huh huh. You’re as quick to fry as a size 7 chicken.”

He flashed his pearly white teeth and held out his hand to Kyung-joon.

Kyung-joon also reached out his hand.

And a handshake.

“Huh huh, it was nice meeting you.”

“Yes, it was nice meeting you too. I’ll show you some more delicious bread next time.”

Kyung-joon added an important word.

“Oh, and if possible, I’d appreciate it if you could keep what happened here a secret.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that.”

BlackChef said so and shared a status window.

[Wanderer]

▶A special player title obtained when you have played alone for more than a year without any direct relationship with groups such as friends, parties, guilds, or countries. As a player, you can freely enter and exit areas where access is restricted.

※However, if you act contrary to the title description, you will lose the title.

▶Title type: Player-only title

▶Title grade: Unique

It was the moment when the reason why BlackChef was able to come to Kyung-joon’s territory, which was located in Beginner’s Village, was revealed.

At the same time, it was his implicit expression that he had nothing to do with any place, so he shouldn’t worry.

“I can’t just go around bragging about finding such a rare ingredient, can I? I should keep it all to myself. Chomp, chomp, chomp.”

BlackChef said meaningfully and looked at Kyung-joon intently.

He wasn’t looking at the current Kyung-joon.

A look as if he was looking at something beyond.

It was like the look of someone looking at a pig they were raising, hoping it would get fatter and fatter.

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