Tokyo people don't talk about Wude

Chapter 257 254. The Fall of the Baseball Prodigy

The four of them sat down and started discussing the menu. Genji Takatsuki said he had to go to the toilet, left the table and walked away.

"I feel like the shop owner has a bad attitude towards us." Kyushu Cheng asked in a low voice:

"Is there anything about us that dissatisfies him?"

"Don't take it to heart, Brother Takatsuki's father has always been like this, being indifferent to guests." General Karasawa patted Kyushu Makoto on the shoulder and explained:

"It is said that since his mother passed away, his father has been like this to everyone. Although his cooking skills have not deteriorated, his attitude annoys the guests, so the guests also have a mixture of love and hate for him."

"Probably think of him as a 'master' who has great skills but a bad temper~" Tang Zeguishang added.

"It turns out that his mother passed away." Jiuzhou Cheng asked: "When?"

"I heard it was a year or two ago." Suzuki Hishito replied in a low voice: "Don't ask for details, so as not to make them unhappy."

Kyushu Cheng nodded silently and looked at the menu on the wall.

To put it simply, the Kansai Kushiyaki of Wano Country is made by inserting meat, seafood or vegetables and other ingredients into bamboo skewers, wrapping them in bread crumbs, then frying them in oil, and finally dipping them in Worcestershire sauce. A special sauce as the main ingredient, served with large pieces of pickled vegetables.

The most famous thing about Kansai Kushikatsu is that the dipping sauce is often shared by many people. The owner will place a large basin of sauce on the table, and anyone who wants can bring their own fried skewers to dip it in.

The purpose of Kansai Kushikatsu Restaurant is to do this because they believe that when customers use dipping sauce, the taste of the food in their hands will also be integrated into the dipping sauce, making the dipping sauce more delicious and layered. Many so-called "time-honored" fried skewers restaurants will even put out a basin of dipping sauce that has been used for years or even decades, and use this as a marketing feature.

However, due to food hygiene and safety considerations, Kansai fried skewers restaurants often only allow customers to dip the fried skewers in the sauce once, otherwise the "ancestral dipping sauce" will be filled with the saliva of the guests.

Since they had been watching the concert all morning, everyone was hungry, so they couldn't help but order more dishes.

But even so, the average price per person is just over a thousand yen, which is enough to show that the prices of this fried skewers shop are very affordable.

Everyone wrote down the meals they wanted to eat on sticky notes and gave them to Takatsuki-san’s father.

He took the note without saying a word and turned to the kitchen.

After hearing the crackling sound of frying, Takatsuki's father brought out a large plate full of golden-colored fried skewers, and gave everyone a plate of dipping sauce.

Although "sharing dipping sauce" is a traditional feature of Kansai fried skewers, with the gradual improvement of modern and Chinese people's requirements for food hygiene, some customers still dislike sharing sauce with other strangers, so some Kansai fried skewers restaurants This tradition has been scrapped in favor of single-serve sauces.

After all, the saying "the flavor of the food will be blended into the dipping sauce" is actually mostly a gimmick to attract customers.

After the food was served, Takatsuki-san's father lay down on the chef's table to rest out of boredom.

Kyushu Makoto picked up a skewer of fried shellfish, dipped it in the sauce and tasted it.

"Click~!"

When you take a bite, the fried dough-coated skin bursts out in your mouth, giving it an extremely crispy texture. Next comes the perfectly cooked, juicy snow-white clams and the subtle sweet and spicy sauce. The tastes of the three are like fighting between dragons and tigers, but they form a symphonic resonance.

Kyushu Cheng continued to eat. Whether it was fried vegetables or various meats, they were fried and grilled to perfection. The outer shell is crispy and refreshing, while the inside is tender but not fishy, ​​and the delicious juice bursts out in every bite.

Fried skewers are not Noto's elegant cuisine. However, Takatsuki-san's father controlled the heat and time of each ingredient very well, and cooked the ingredients until they tasted extremely delicious. It must have been a long-term practice and experience accumulation.

Even though it was such a simple fried skewer, it was cooked to perfection, making Kyushu Cheng extremely impressed by the chef's cooking skills.

"Ah~ As expected, the fried skewers at Brother Takatsuki's house are the most delicious!" Takasawa's belly was bulging after eating, and he leaned back on the chair with satisfaction:

"If your father treated customers better, this store would definitely be overcrowded!"

"Is this the way to use overcrowded people?" Suzuki Hisahito picked his teeth with a bamboo skewer and complained in a low voice: "Shouldn't it be better to use 'overcrowded people have mixed eyesight'?"

"." Genji Takatsuki took a sip of Coke and said solemnly: "Let him do whatever he wants. He can't go bankrupt anyway. As long as he is happy."

"The relationship between you and your father is not good?" Kyushu Cheng asked.

"Oh, it's always been like that." Takatsuki Genji calmed down his temper and nodded, but obviously he didn't want to say anything more.

After eating, Kyushu Cheng got up and went to the bathroom to wash his hands.

Along the way, he saw a hanging painting that looked like a family portrait on the wall of the corridor.

In the picture, Genji Takatsuki, who looks like a junior high school student, has a green bald head, wearing a baseball uniform, holding a golden trophy in his hand, and his eyes are as proud as the king of lions.

The woman who appeared to be his mother happily hugged him and smiled at the camera together. His father stood nearby, looking at the mother and son with relief, smiling gently.

He is really good at baseball, Kyushu thought sincerely.

As early as when everyone was giving special baseball training to Mizuhashi's schoolgirl, Kyushu Makoto suspected that Takatsuki Genji had practiced baseball and even had some talent in this area.

After all, that kind of high-speed spiral pitch in the air is not something ordinary high school students can make.

Moreover, Karasawa and Suzuki seemed to have mentioned that Genji Takatsuki seemed to be a member of the school baseball team in junior high school.

Just as Kyushu Cheng was about to leave, a deep voice sounded behind him at some point: "What are you looking at?"

He looked back and saw that standing behind him was Genji Takatsuki's father, who seemed to be passing by to use the bathroom.

"Has Takatsuki-san played baseball before?" Kyushu Makoto asked. "Beat." Takatsuki Genji's father glanced at the photo and said with a slight disdain:
"He used to be the main player of the baseball team. The coach said that he is very talented. Maybe Gao Tianyuanfeng will take a liking to this brat."

Gao Tianyuanfeng Kyushu Cheng was shocked when he heard this name.

As early as in Fukuoka, he had already realized the power of this school, so he naturally understood the meaning of this sentence.

If Genji Takatsuki's father had not exaggerated, then his previous baseball level should have been able to defeat most of his peers, and he was considered a first-tier player.

Moreover, in the country of Wano, sports are one of the few ways for civilians to transcend class. Many children do not hesitate to waste their youth and body in order to stand out on the field.

But as Genji Takatsuki looks like now, he has obviously given up on baseball. What exactly is going on?

"Why did he give up baseball?" Kyushu Cheng asked again.

"Who knows, I can't understand that brat either."

Genji Takatsuki's father snorted coldly. Apparently he didn't want to say anything more, turned around and left. His angry look was completely different from the tenderness in the photo.

After Kyushu Makoto used the toilet, he returned to the restaurant. Suzuki Hisuhito took out a set of cards from nowhere and asked, "Kyushu-san, let's play UNO?"

"Hey, don't use my restaurant as a chess and card room!" Genji Takatsuki's father came over at some point and scolded in a low voice:
"Let's play somewhere else."

"You're so long-winded, you old man." Takatsuki Genji crossed his legs and stared at his father unhappily: "There are no guests now, what are you worried about?"

"You brat!" Takatsuki Genji's father gritted his teeth and said displeasedly: "Go back to your room and don't play cards in my shop!"

"Smelly old man" Takatsuki Genji snorted unconvincedly.

The father and son started to argue for some unknown reason, and the atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly solidified. If there were other guests dining here at this time, they would definitely be too uncomfortable to eat.

"Ah, I'm so sorry, Uncle Takatsuki~" Suzuki Yuhito couldn't stand it any longer and quickly came up to smooth things over:

"Let's go to Brother Yuan's room to play cards, so as not to disturb uncle's business!"

After that, he reached out and tugged Takatsuki Genji's arm, and used his eyes to hint to the others to leave with him.

Everyone understood and went upstairs to Genji Takatsuki's room.

This is a very ordinary boy's bedroom with a somewhat messy environment. The four of them sat around on the ground, and Suzuki Hisahito took the lead in shuffling the cards.

Kyushu Cheng looked around and found a golden trophy on the cabinet beside the wall, engraved with a baseball wrapped around an olive branch, which was exactly the same as what he saw in the family photo.

However, the golden trophy looked like it had not been cleaned for a long time. It was covered with thick dust, almost covering its original color.

"Is this yours?" Kyushu Cheng looked at Takatsuki Genji.

"A boring little souvenir." Takatsuki Genji said lightly and urged:
"Suzuki, deal the cards quickly!"

"Oh! Okay, let's give it out right away!" Suzuki Hisuhito quickly cut the shuffled cards into four parts and handed them out to everyone.

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"UNO!"

Tang Zegui knocked down the cards in his hand, raised his hands and shouted excitedly.

In order to increase the fun of the game, the four of them set a game rule of "whoever loses the most will treat everyone to dinner."

Kyushu Makoto was the first winner in this round to use up all his cards, and he was playing with his mobile phone when he was bored.

Out of curiosity, he entered the name "Takatsuki Genji" into the search engine.

This was the first time in his life that he searched for a classmate's name, as if he expected his classmate to be a celebrity. At least a normal person would not do this.

Sure enough, Kyushu Cheng actually searched for his name and found several news reports about him.

[Genji Takatsuki, the starting coach of the Osaka Ryoka Middle School baseball team, has led the school baseball team to win championships in many youth baseball competitions. He rose to prominence in the U12 baseball youth competition. Due to his wild baseball style and astonishing growth rate, he was named one of the "Six-Pointed Stars of the New Generation of Baseball" by major sports media. 】

[This year's Wano Country U14 Youth Baseball Tournament has entered the semi-finals, with Osaka Ryoka Middle School facing off against the private Fuxing Middle School. The two players who attracted the most attention in this final were undoubtedly 'Takatsuki Genji' and 'Momota Daikichi'. They are both known as the "Hexagrams of the New Generation". This game is bound to be a fierce battle, and the outcome is unpredictable! 】

【Disastrous failure! Genji Takatsuki made many mistakes during the game and ended in a disastrous defeat with a huge score difference! The audience was very disappointed with Genji Takatsuki’s performance]

[Takatsuki Genji's head coach said that he will never play baseball again due to the death of his mother. The genius has died. Will the "six-pointed star of baseball's new generation" be missing from now on? ! 】

"Kyushu-san. Kyushu-san, this game is over!" Suzuki Hisuhito's call made Kyushu Makoto put down his phone.

"Oh, who lost?" Jiuzhou Cheng raised his head and asked.

"Haha, it's Takatsuki-nii~" Takasawa smiled a little gloatingly, and immediately covered his mouth after being glared at by Takatsuki Genji.

"Oh, let's start the next game." Kyushu Makoto glanced at Genji Takatsuki, then placed the cards in the center of the carpet as if nothing had happened and continued the game.

(End of this chapter)