I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

Higashi soba, Yokohama branch.

It's an exquisite little shop with Japanese-style coarse draperies, round lanterns and glazed tile eaves.

The tatami mats, Japanese-style low tables and waiters in kimonos in the store are full of strong historical atmosphere and traditional Japanese style.

On the store sign at the door, it says "Iwate Main Store was founded in the 40th year of Meiji".

It can be regarded as a branch of the authentic century-old shop....

In the store, apart from Kotori Yutaro who was busy returning the car and taking care of the shrine and was absent, the other six people were sitting neatly around the rectangular tatami dining table.

The table is already filled with various and exquisite snacks.

Tuna, salmon sashimi, Japanese-style miso pickled radish, salmon roe, mushroom radish puree, minced meat, miso soup, fruit pudding...

"Zongsuke, are you ready? Once the war starts, there is no turning back!"

Higashino Xingping lowered his brows and eyes, revealing a wolf-like provocative look.

"Hmph, the set meal has already been paid for, so of course it's fully fired."

Sousuke Araki, who was sitting opposite him, looked at him with sharp eyes and without hesitation.

"Ahem, according to the usual practice, I will still be the arbitrator of this duel..."

Before the second, Longma clenched his fist and coughed lightly, with a heavy expression on his face.

"This time? Still? Could it be that this frequent duel is an important part of Araki-sensei's daily practice? You must record the details in a while..."

Sitting next to Araki Sosuke, Kotori Yumasumi took out a notebook from nowhere and began to write carefully.

"I really miss it, it's actually this store... It's been a long time since..."

Even sitting on the tatami mats, Siena, whose height was close to that of the petite waitress, looked around at the interior decoration and sighed.

"Has Uncle Siena been here?"

Sitting next to him, Mochizuki Reino, who looked petite and cute like a doll, asked curiously.

"More than 20 years ago, I happened to have dinner with Mr. Moon Shadow once."

Seemingly recalling something pleasant, Siena also became interested, and a pair of big black hands like cattail fans lightly pressed on the table: "Hey, two little brothers, why don't you let me join in too..."

"Oh? This is a life-threatening contest, are you sure you want to participate?"

"The loser will have to pay the bill for the entire table tonight, okay? We don't want to bully foreign friends..."

Higashino Kohei and Araki Sosuke, who were "looking at each other passionately", suddenly turned their heads to look at him when they heard this, their eyes glowed like wolves.

"Hehe, although I don't have any other skills, but when it comes to this kind of 'war', I have never lost to anyone... I was trapped under the sand cave by the 'Jihad Army' for half a month. The scorpions, snakes and rats were all eaten up."

Siena, who grinned grimly and showed her white teeth, exuded the savage aura of a cheetah on the African savannah without giving in.

The atmosphere on the table was like the heaviness and tranquility before the storm.

The trio who already exudes a criminal atmosphere, plus this strong and tall black priest, and two "coerced innocent girls" next to them...

Immediately, the image of this table was upgraded from "a trio of local gangsters" to "an international human trafficking group under the guise of religion".

Since a group of people entered the store, the dining and checkout speed of the customers in the store began to soar.

Occasionally, guests who opened the door and entered were directly dissuaded by the weird atmosphere.

"Zongsuke, Xingping, can we start now, mother-in-law, my hands are sore?"

At some point, the old lady waiter who was waiting by the side with a tray seemed to know the three of them very well, and asked impatiently.

"Hey, has the real protagonist finally appeared?"

The pile of exquisite "coquettish sluts" on the table is not the "protagonist" of today's meal.

The most famous food of this "Dongjia Soba", which originated in Iwate, is not ordinary soba, but "wanzi soba".

It was the large stack of densely packed small red bowls on the tray in the old woman's hand.

Bowl is a dialect of wooden bowl.

In the Morioka area, there is a custom of entertaining guests with soba noodles.

The origin of small bowls of soba noodles is to provide freshly cooked noodles to many people at once, so a small amount of soba noodles are placed in small bowls, and served bit by bit until the guests are full.

When the guests eat noodles, they will compete with each other for the number of bowls they eat, and the waiter will also pour the noodles in the small bowl into the guest's bowl while yelling "Hai, duo" until the guest uses the lid to cover himself. Cover the bowl to show that you are full.

Of course, in the middle of the meal, guests will also enjoy some side dishes and miso soup.

Over time, this custom has been carried forward from the local area to all parts of Japan.

Even in many places, every solar term and new year, a bowl soba noodle competition will be held to see who can eat more bowls within the specified time.

Wanzi soba competition was originally one of the "preserved items" in the gourmet confrontation between Sosuke Araki and Kohei Higashino.

Today, the war between the two ushered in a powerful intruder: the black-robed and white-toothed priest Siena, who returned from the barren Middle East and claimed to have not had a full meal in ten years.

"Folks of Tieri An, how are you? I am the host of justice, Ryoma Erzai... without further ado, let me announce that the 21st Wanzi Soba War... has begun!"

Accompanied by Ryoma's exaggerated rap declaration like a nightclub DJ, Higashino Kohei, who was sitting at the table, picked up the chopsticks with the momentum of cutting his stomach with a knife, and moved the soba noodles in the bowl along the wall of the bowl with lightning speed. Rush it into the mouth, chew it violently and then swallow it quickly.

The whole movement is smooth and smooth, and it takes no more than a second.

"Wow oh oh, our 'Hungry Dog Higashino' contestant seems to be full of momentum. Today, he took the lead by surpassing Kato-sensei's hand speed and took the lead..."

Sousuke Araki, who was sitting opposite him, followed closely behind, picked up chopsticks and inhaled the soba noodles in his bowl, and swallowed it without chewing.

"YOOOOOO...'Hungry ghost stick' Sousuke Araki was also determined to win today, and he used the secret skill combination of 'storm inhalation' + 'refusal to chew' at the very beginning! Is there a beautiful woman by his side, or is there a strong challenge? What is the reason for the random entry?"

Araki Sosuke's perverted way of eating immediately aroused the admiration of Ryoma's tongue-playing sound before Erqian.

"Hai, shivering."

The old woman who was waiting quietly poured the noodles from the small bowl into the bowl at the moment the two of them swallowed the noodles and took the bowl away from their mouths with a hand speed that did not match their age. In the bowl of two people.

It gives people a sense of sight that the noodles in that bowl have never been eaten.

"It's appeared. Granny Yudou's unique skill makes it too late for people to turn it over and say no to it, 'Light-speed deceit adds face'!!"

"Hmph, young people are really aggressive...but sometimes if you rush too fast, you may fall hard on the ground..."

Siena on the side did not race against time like the two, but swallowed the noodles in a leisurely manner, carefully closing his eyes and savoring the pleasure of the salty, fresh and springy buckwheat noodles breaking in his mouth.

"Oh, our new challenger '20 centimeters per second' has finally made a move! He didn't use any special skills, but instead ate soba noodles with a face full of victory. Could this be the legendary return to basics? ?"

"Hey, Mayumi-chan... It's so boring to eat with these rough guys... Wow, so fresh..."

Looking at the "passionate" game in front of him, Mochizuki Ling Nao stuffed a piece of salmon bone into his mouth with disdain, and immediately showed an expression of enjoyment.

"Is it the secret technique 'storm inhalation' + 'refuse to swallow'? Maybe this contains the secret of becoming a Buddha?"

On the side, the little bird You Mayumi was sweating profusely, taking notes and watching the fierce competition scene seriously, and had no time to enjoy the delicious food on the table.

"Hai, shivering."

With Granny Yudou's rhythmic slogan of "one to three" and the gesture of adding face with afterimages, the number of small red wooden bowls piled up in front of the three began to increase rapidly.

Higashino Kohei, who started first, has always maintained a leading position with his wild chewing and high-speed movements.

And Sousuke Araki also relied on his unique inhalation method to bite him tightly behind him.

"Hey...'Hungry dog ​​Dongye' took the lead in breaking through the 50 bowl mark. It seems that today is going to break through to the end in one breath?"

Before the "host" two, Ryoma enjoyed the food while not forgetting the passionate explanation.

"'Hungry Ghost Stick' Sousuke Araki followed closely behind with two secret skills, and also broke through the 50-bowl mark...unfathomable, unfathomable, the new challenger '20 centimeters per second' just uses the simplest The noodle-eating method has caught up leisurely!!"

Siena maintained the seemingly ordinary way of eating, seeming to slowly and quickly wipe out the constantly "refreshed" soba noodles in the bowl, and even broke through the 50 bowl mark after the two of them.

"It was so intense at the beginning... According to the practice of previous games, the game after the 100th bowl has just started, please look forward to it."

Looking at the two teenagers who were eating soba noodles at high speed in front of him, Siena's thoughts began to wander.

"Hey, don't eat a few hundred bowls, and call yourself a spirit remover."

The scene in front of him began to overlap with a memory that had been sleeping for more than twenty years.

...

twenty years ago.

"Hai, shivering."

"Miss Kino... We are just here to do folklore surveys... Is it really necessary to challenge two hundred bowls of soba noodles... Ah, thank you."

A young man with black-rimmed glasses, messy long hair, and a handsome face asked with a soba noodle in his mouth.

Facing the noodles that were quickly poured into the bowl by the waiter beside him and the slogan that reminded him of his life, he also kept nodding his thanks in good manners, and was mechanically forced to eat the "continuously refreshing" soba noodles in the bowl.

"Hmph, little brother Qingren, if you don't eat a few hundred bowls, you still call yourself a spirit exorcist. You can kill him with the tofu you gave me, right Siena?"

Sitting opposite the young man was a young girl with blond hair and blue eyes who radiated radiance no matter where she went.

She was stuffing buckwheat noodles into her mouth quickly, enjoying this traditional Japanese food with a puffy face.

Her petite chest didn't tremble in the slightest because of the quick movement.

"Hey, that's natural. If you don't eat enough, how can you have the energy to do research?"

Wearing a priest's robe and a cross hanging on his chest, the black boy stuffed soba noodles into his mouth with a heroic gesture and without losing the wind.

"Hey, you are the exorcists, okay? I'm just an ordinary folklorist entrusted to assist you..."

"Hai, shivering."

"...Ah, thank you...why do I have to let people eat it for me all the time here!!!"

The boy who was ignored by the two could only honestly, respectfully and laboriously slurp the noodles that the waitress poured into his bowl, and had no chance to pick up the lid next to it and put it on the bowl.

"Hai, shivering."

...

"Hai, shivering."

"'Hungry Dog Dongye' is as powerful as a rainbow...Look at the trembling hand speed, who can stop it...Wait, it seems..."

"Cough cough cough..."

Keeping high speed to eat the 151st bowl, Kohei Higashino, who was originally smooth, moved his throat slightly, as if he was choked by the noodles.

"Oh, something bad happened. Something happened to 'Hungry Dog Dongye' and he choked on his face? This is a big blow to his original aura..."

Higashino Kohei hesitated for a moment, took a sip of the miso soup on the side, and then continued to eat noodles.

"Fortunately, he chose to drink miso soup to solve the problem with great experience, and then found his own rhythm... However, excessive miso soup will make the noodles absorb water in the stomach and swell, which will affect the contestants' performance on the day. The upper limit of consumption...Let us wait and see how far 'Hungry Dog Higashino' can go today after drinking miso soup at the beginning of the competition!"

"Hai, shivering."

While Higashino Xinghei was drinking the soup, the small red bowl piled up in front of Araki Sousuke was already as high as his.

"Hey, with the help of two secret skills, the 'Hungry Ghost Stick' who has been speeding up secretly, took this opportunity to overtake in a curve. It seems that the winner of today's race is still unknown..."

"Hai, shivering."

Following Granny Yudou's slogan of not rushing and not slowing down, and the speed of adding noodles that can serve three strong men at the same time, the red wooden bowls in front of the three of them kept stacking up.

"Cough cough cough..."

Kohei Higashino coughed again with soba noodles wrapped in his mouth.

As Ryoma said before the second, since the first time he choked, his speed began to slow down gradually, and he also relieved it by drinking miso soup continuously in the middle.

Naturally, he reached out again to pick up the miso soup bowl on the side and put it to his mouth.

"Oops……"

Immediately, sweat broke out on his forehead, and his face turned pale...

"How could it be?! I clearly calculated the remaining amount of miso soup carefully, and used every mouthful of lubrication accurately and fully..."

There should have been more than half of the miso soup left in the bowl in his hand, but it was empty at some point.

"Wow oh oh oh, the 'Hungry Dog Higashino' who just broke through the 200 bowl mark, seems to have encountered the worst situation...the miso soup is gone!!!!"

Suddenly, Higashino Xinghei suddenly realized, and looked at Sousuke Araki opposite him with resentment: "You despicable bastard... When did you do it..."