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"Inviting me to a dinner party? This should be your family dinner, right? Isn't it a bit inappropriate for me to go?"
Before even returning to Polar Star, Alice Nakiri found Yuuki and extended an invitation.
Because all the Nakiri family members had returned, Senzaemon Nakiri would hold a family dinner in the evening. Inviting Yuuki wasn't Alice Nakiri's own decision—Senzaemon Nakiri had called her.
In the eyes of the Nakiri family, inviting Yuuki was very necessary.
One reason was because Yuuki had saved the God's Tongue. This not only saved Mana Nakiri but also Erina Nakiri.
It saved all future God's Tongue wielders that might appear in the Nakiri family.
You see, the God's Tongue ability was hereditary in the Nakiri family. Though it didn't appear in every generation, the probability wasn't low.
But in the past, every Nakiri family member who awakened the God's Tongue ended up the same way—a tragic end.
So, Yuuki's importance to the Nakiri family went without saying.
Another reason was that, in their eyes, Yuuki was basically family now. Because both Erina Nakiri and Alice Nakiri liked Yuuki.
While his two granddaughters liked the same person, for Senzaemon, this wasn't a problem.
The reason was simple: Yuuki was too strong, already strong enough to ignore all rules.
If Yuuki were just a Special Class Chef, then Senzaemon wouldn't allow both his granddaughters to be involved with Yuuki.
When they made the decision to place Erina by Yuuki's side as a secretary before, they had already considered this point.
Yuuki would only be stronger than any Special Class Chef and was destined to surpass the Special Class Chef level.
What Yuuki displayed now wasn't just simple Culinary skill. If nothing else, just the Polar Star series in Yuuki's hands was enough for Yuuki to directly leap to the top international level.
The Polar Star series was enough for Yuuki to develop a family from scratch into a mega-conglomerate. Keep in mind, Yuuki was only sixteen years old now!
To achieve such a thing at this age was even more outrageous than manga or novels—
—So, Senzaemon felt that as long as his two granddaughters were willing and not forced, he would support whatever choice they made.
Senzaemon had spoken to Sōe Nakiri and Mana Nakiri about this point, and both deeply agreed.
After all, having been in the international scene for so long, they knew very well what this world was like. Someone like Yuuki was destined to continuously surpass everything, eventually reaching a point where they could only look up to him.
"No, it won't. Grandpa specifically asked me to invite you." Alice Nakiri shook her head.
In her eyes, Yuuki was one of their own, so inviting Yuuki to a family dinner was a very normal thing.
"In that case, I'll go. But I still need to go back to Polar Star for a bit now." Yuuki said.
Since he was invited as a guest, he had to bring some gifts.
He planned to bring some ingredients he had fished out from The System's space. Although these ingredients couldn't be mass-produced, with the Polar Star series as cover, bringing out these ingredients wasn't a problem.
After returning to Polar Star, Yuuki greeted everyone and then went with Alice Nakiri and Asahi Nakiri to the Nakiri family's residential area.
With a private car escorting them, the group soon arrived at their destination.
....
"Yuuki, long time no see! Do you still remember me?"
After entering, the first person to greet Yuuki was Alice Nakiri's father, Sōe Nakiri. Since meeting Yuuki at the Tōtsuki Resort back then, he hadn't seen Yuuki for almost a year.
"Of course, I remember Uncle Sōe." Yuuki said with a smile.
His memory was exceptionally good. Never mind someone he hadn't seen for nearly a year—with his current memory, even if it were decades or hundreds of years, it wouldn't be a problem.
Afterwards, Yuuki greeted the others.
Though everyone present was from the Nakiri family, he wasn't reserved at all. If anyone was reserved, it was someone else—that person was Asahi Nakiri.
Besides Erina Nakiri, the others had no relation to him. Now, attending such a family dinner, it would be a lie to say he wasn't nervous at all.
For Asahi Nakiri, kinship was his soft spot.
If he were to compete with others, even if he encountered a Special Class Chef, he wouldn't be timid or reserved. But the current situation was completely different.
"Asahi, while you're not very familiar with the people here, we are all family now. You'll gradually get to know everyone's personality as time goes on." Senzaemon Nakiri didn't directly tell Asahi to let go of his reservations.
He knew very well that although Asahi was nominally one of their own now, his mentality was still that of an outsider.
Never mind Asahi; even they couldn't immediately adapt to having an extra person. So, everyone needed time to gradually adjust.
As long as they spent time together slowly, Asahi would adapt.
"I understand... G-Grandpa!" Asahi Nakiri nodded and called him Grandpa, though somewhat stiffly.
"By the way, I also brought some gifts!"
Seeing the atmosphere was somewhat awkward, Yuuki directly took out his gifts. While this awkward atmosphere had nothing to do with him, being in such an atmosphere wasn't very comfortable either.
So, Yuuki directly broke the ice.
"What kind of fish IS this? It looks a bit strange!"
Looking at the fish Yuuki brought, everyone indicated they didn't recognize it.
The people here were all Chefs with considerable Culinary skills—even Leonora Nakiri and Sōe Nakiri were the same.
And there were two God's Tongues present; their knowledge reserve regarding ingredients was even more exaggerated.
After all, to develop the God's Tongue and fully utilize it, one needed to constantly store this knowledge.
But even the two God's Tongues couldn't recognize what kind of fish this was. Asahi Nakiri, at the side, was also completely bewildered.
"Yuuki, is this another one of those special ingredients?"
Even Alice Nakiri, who had always been at Polar Star, hadn't seen this kind of fish.
But she had eaten many special ingredients Yuuki brought out—so she now guessed this should be one of them, just that they hadn't seen it.
"That's right. This fish is called Striped Salmon, a very special ingredient. And this particular Striped Salmon is the most special among all Striped Salmon." Yuuki said.
"The MOST special one? What does that mean?" Alice Nakiri couldn't help but ask.
"Wait, you guys wait a minute! First, tell us what a special ingredient is!" Erina Nakiri said, somewhat exasperated.
These two were talking as if in riddles; they couldn't understand what it meant at all.
Hearing this, Mana Nakiri and the others quickly nodded. They also didn't know what a "special ingredient" was.
Even though Erina and Asahi lived at Polar Star, Yuuki had been researching Polar Star series ingredients during this period, so they didn't know about such a thing as "special ingredients."
"Special ingredients... actually, you all know about them. The Polar Star series belongs to special ingredients. It's just that there are quite a few types of special ingredients, but other special ingredients are very difficult to replicate. Currently, the only one that can be mass-produced is the Polar Star series." Yuuki briefly explained.
Hearing this, everyone finally understood. To put it bluntly, these special ingredients were ingredients similar to the Polar Star series that Yuuki had created using special methods.
It was just that the technology for these ingredients wasn't yet perfected and couldn't be mass-produced. The only finished product that could be mass-produced was the Polar Star series.
"But why say this fish is the most special among Striped Salmon?"
Understanding the meaning of special ingredients, Leonora Nakiri still asked another question.
"There are many finished products of Striped Salmons. These salmon also have roe inside. And among them, the most special kind is called Golden Salmon Roe."
"This is a special individual that only appears in one out of several hundred Striped Salmon. This one, its body contains Golden Salmon Roe. Compared to the Striped Salmon itself, Golden Salmon Roe is even more precious—" Yuuki briefly explained.
This Striped Salmon was caught by a lucky Small Bait some time ago. At that time, there were a total of ten fish, and every single one of them contained Golden Salmon Roe—
—In the world of Toriko, only one fish out of several hundred with roe might yield Golden Salmon Roe.
This probability was pitifully small, a probability of one in several hundred. If one's luck was bad, it might be impossible to find even one in several thousand fish.
That burst of luck made Yuuki happy for some time.
This was why Yuuki was willing to take out such a Striped Salmon. If there were only one, he wouldn't have taken it out.
"Only one out of several hundred! This is TOO precious!"
Everyone knew very well that since the Striped Salmon in Yuuki's hands couldn't be nurtured on a large scale, the quantity was limited.
Within this limited quantity, there was still a probability of one in several hundred. This showed just how precious Golden Salmon Roe was.
This was indeed a grand gift...
"In that case, leave this fish to me to handle!" At this moment, Mana Nakiri stood up.
This rare ingredient... she felt the itch to cook!
"WHAT? YOU'RE going to cook?" Hearing this, everyone was startled. Sōe Nakiri even exclaimed in surprise.
"Is there a problem with me cooking, brother?!" Mana Nakiri looked at her brother, somewhat exasperated.
Why was this guy so surprised??
"N-Nothing... It's just that you haven't cooked for so long. How about you leave it to us?"
"—After my body recovered, I'm now capable of wielding kitchen utensils again!" Mana Nakiri directly rolled her eyes at her brother.
After her body recovered somewhat, she began to retrain her Culinary skills.
Although not yet back to her peak, she was, after all, a Special Class Chef, and one of the top among Special Class Chefs.
So, handling these ingredients was still no problem—
After speaking, Mana Nakiri no longer bothered with her brother.
After asking about the specific situation of the ingredients, she took the ingredients to the kitchen.
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