"To receive such high praise, why hasn't Hoshino-kun started cooking yet…"
Hoshino Sora had been still for a long time, and Tadokoro Megumi thought anxiously, clenching her small fists tightly, clearly nervous for him. The audience, seeing this, was also somewhat puzzled.
"Hmph, he's probably just seen Marukanta's strength and is too scared to serve his dish."
"I think so too. After all, chefs from the surface world are all weaklings."
"How pathetic. He's clearly a prodigy in school, but once he comes out, he realizes he's nothing."
Seeing that Hoshino Sora hadn't moved, the Midnight Chefs sitting in the corner of the audience couldn't help but mock him.
In their opinion, this guy was just afraid of Marukanta's strength, which was why he hadn't made a move.
"Hoshino-kun moved."
Ignoring the surrounding voices, Eishi Tsukasa's gaze remained focused on Hoshino Sora, making him the first person on the scene to know that he had moved.
"A round ball, rice… I've got it!"
In an instant, as if a flash of inspiration struck his mind, Hoshino Sora immediately had an idea.
Without hesitation, he quickly ran out of the competition venue towards a convenience store not far away. At the same time, he found a spherical tool in the Reputation Mall, which was the key to his cooking.
"He… he ran out?"
"What is he going to do?"
Watching Hoshino Sora leave in a hurry, all the spectators on the scene had question marks on their faces. However, since the time hadn't run out, no matter what the other party did, they could only wait there.
More than ten minutes later, Hoshino Sora walked back into the competition venue with large and small bags. Upon returning, he threw the bags onto the cooking counter without a word, then took out a black-grey iron sphere similar to Marukanta's, but with some differences.
"What is this kid doing? He actually took out a sphere just like Marukanta's, and a bunch of iron chains that I don't know what they're for. Is he trying to replicate his dish?"
Thinking of this, the Midnight Chefs sitting in the corner all looked at Saji, who had been defeated by this kind of technique. To be defeated in one's most skilled area by someone else, there was nothing more humiliating than that.
With everyone's eyes on her, Saji's expression wasn't good, because she had indeed been defeated in her most skilled area, and in a completely crushing manner.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to replicate your dish. It's too low-grade and not worth learning. Watch closely, this is how a spherical cooking utensil is used!"
Bathed in the puzzled gazes of the surrounding audience, Hoshino Sora, who had been silent, finally spoke. Then, he began cooking with extremely fast movements.
He pressed the rice against the inside of the spherical container, then closed it and roasted it over an open flame while rotating it. This required the iron chains; only with sufficient rotation speed could the color of the crispy rice crust be even.
Once the crispy rice crust was set and taken out, the entire sphere was directly placed into a preheated oil pot to be deep-fried, which would create a hollow crispy rice crust. However, it couldn't be fried for too long.
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