"Such an outrageous special ability! Can humans really control flames like that? And that heat—is he really okay?"
Alice Nakiri, forced back some distance by the heatwave, couldn't help but exclaim as she felt the continuously surging waves of heat.
Although she knew about Yuuki's special ability beforehand, seeing it with her own eyes was completely different from watching video footage.
"What a freaking monster!"
At this moment, although Ryo Kurokiba was also very shocked, he looked more like he had spotted prey. He had even put on his signature bandana; his expression had changed from his initial poker face to one of fervent excitement.
"Yuuki himself mentioned this before—the high-temperature steam released from his body won't harm him, and the same goes for the surrounding flames. However, for outsiders, it's extremely fatal," Gin Dojima said.
Neither the high-temperature steam nor the flames would harm Yuuki, but for others, getting too close would result in death or severe injury.
"Alright, that's it for the special ability test. This ability is called Inferno, right? I don't have many suggestions regarding the high-temperature steam for now, so the subsequent ability development will primarily focus on the sense of touch."
Watching Yuuki retract the high-temperature steam and extinguish the flames, Soe Nakiri spoke. He planned to focus on developing the sense of touch next, as that was their area of expertise.
"Then, let's start testing your culinary skills. Awakening such a special ability should be a great help to your cooking, right?" Soe Nakiri said.
According to the data, Yuuki was an Intermediate Chef and still quite far from Senior Chef, but with the enhancement of this special ability, his culinary skills couldn't have remained stagnant.
Finally reaching a domain they understood, Alice Nakiri and Ryo Kurokiba on the side perked up, listening with utmost attention. They were also very curious about Yuuki's culinary skills.
"Just make a dish directly. We'll act as judges," Gin Dojima said.
Although there were four of them, and judges are usually an odd number, this wasn't a competition or an exam, so there was no need to worry about such details.
Yuuki naturally had no problem with this; cooking was his forte.
However, what Yuuki brought out next made everyone blink—he was lugging a very large case.
"Is this case for knives? Isn't it a bit too big?" Alice Nakiri couldn't help but ask. Many chefs had their own exclusive knives, including herself and Ryo Kurokiba.
Although the things she usually brought to competitions were much more exaggerated than this, even describable as carrying a wall around with her—
—for simply holding knives, she wouldn't need such a large case. Yuuki's file also indicated that he specialized in Asian cuisine, a bona fide traditional chef, and hadn't dabbled in fields like molecular gastronomy.
However, when the case was opened, they finally understood why Yuuki used such a large case for his knives.
Because Yuuki didn't take out one knife, but a full seven of them. And one of them was astonishingly large, with an estimated length of about one and a half meters. It was hard to imagine it was actually a kitchen knife.
"The shapes look very strange, but on second thought, if you use different knives to process different ingredients, the effect might be very good!"
Although Gin Dojima was also surprised by the number and size of the knives, as a chef—and a First Class Chef second only to Special Class—he realized that while some of these knives had peculiar shapes, they would be very effective for processing ingredients.
The unique designs corresponded to different types of ingredients. After simulating it himself, he found that this set of knives was incredibly comprehensive.
"They are indeed very impressive knives, but correspondingly, the difficulty of using this set of knives is also not low..."
Soe Nakiri naturally also saw the uniqueness of the Seven-Star Knives. But correspondingly, such formidable knives weren't something just anyone could use.
The seven knives corresponded to ingredients of different types, shapes, and sizes. Deciding which knife to use for cooking was a major issue.
To make a dish using such knives, one needed to use different knives to process different ingredients. Switching between knives was also a problem.
Soe Nakiri felt that if he were to use this set of knives, it would be very strenuous, unless he was given a lot of time to adapt.
"Are these knives really that good?"
Hearing Gin Dojima and Soe Nakiri praise this set of knives, Alice Nakiri asked with some doubt. Compared to these two, both she and Ryo Kurokiba were too inexperienced.
After all, both of them were just Intermediate Chefs, and the gap between them and Soe Nakiri and Gin Dojima was more than just a little bit.
"It's not just about processing various ingredients; the sharpness of these knives is also astonishing. Yuuki barely used any force just now, yet these knives plunged directly into the cutting board. And he's using a solid wood cutting board," Gin Dojima added.
Only then did everyone notice the sharpness of the Seven-Star Knives.
Just as Gin Dojima said, Yuuki hadn't used much force at all, yet these knives were deeply embedded in the solid wood cutting board.
They were also chefs. Comparing them to their own knives, they found that the sharpness of these knives was exaggerated to the extreme.
Compared to these knives, their own blades might as well be called butter knives.
Yuuki's subsequent actions also confirmed this. The main ingredient Yuuki used was a chicken, and it was freshly killed.
The Seven-Star Knife glided through the chicken's body as smoothly as cutting tofu. The blade was so sharp that the chicken barely felt any pain at first and hardly struggled.
After removing the feathers, Yuuki directly gutted the chicken.
Similarly, the Seven-Star Knife moved as if there were no resistance. Such sharpness was simply incomparable to the knives of the Food Wars world, even if the technology in this world was much more advanced than in the world of Cooking Master Boy.
But the world of Cooking Master Boy in its later stages was no longer simply ancient times—it was touching the edges of fantasy.
Famous knives born in such a world would naturally not be weak, especially since the Seven-Star Knives were second only to the Legendary Cooking Utensils.
If Rache hadn't died early, given a few more decades, he might have truly upgraded the Seven-Star Knives to the level of Legendary Cooking Utensils.
After removing the internal organs—Yuuki began to make certain cuts on the chicken. He didn't dismantle the chicken but preserved its complete form while making internal cuts.
The main reason for doing this was to allow the seasonings to perfectly permeate the chicken meat.
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