章 289: Poor Jacques

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Give me all your stones or the babadook will visit you and take your hats.

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1 and a half years later

Hiro was sitting on a bench in France, smoking a cigarette with his Cabinet next to him. He and Zerotwo had become famous in the world of Chefs. Low level chefs. But not that low!

They were forgotten to be a duo and now they were just singles. Hiro had heard about Zerotwo getting proposed to several hundred times and he was severely angry. He was so angry he almost flew over to wherever she was and start slaughtering fools, but Zerotwo told him that it was okay, these guys disgusted her anyway.

She was currently in Canada on a secret mission.

Hiro was on the phone and said "Angel, I miss youuuuu." Zerotwo giggled and said "I miss you too, Darling~" he heard kitchen noises and asked "What are you doing?" She hummed "Kicking some loser's ass, I'll take his knife and then come meet you, ok?"

Hiro said "Well, I'm in France right now... How are you going to get here?" She replied "I'll just fly." He nodded "Alright, I'll see you soon then... Stay safe, my love." she giggled "Of course, Darling~! Love you! Oh yeah! I got an invitation from this guy... But I'll call you after, I gotta go~!" Hiro smiled "Alright, don't accept things from strangers, you know!" She chuckled "Yeah, yeah. Love you, baby!" He smiled "Love you too." she giggled happily and hung up.

Hiro put his phone away and looked ahead of him to see legs, he didn't look up and said "Come back tomorrow. I'm done for the day." the mystery man said "Heh, the Silver Demon takes breaks? First I've heard of it."

Hiro said "Listen man, I-" he looked up and choked on his words. The man standing in front of him was tall, ripped, and had long black hair with a short beard. There was a noticeable scar over his right eye.

Hiro thought this guy looked familiar but shook his head, continuing "I need breaks too." before grabbing his cabinet and walking away. The man stopped him and chuckled "Alright, don't be like that. Do I look like I'm going to kidnap you?"

Hiro said "I'm not worried about you kidnapping me. I'm tired, lonely, and horny." the man chuckled and shook his head "I'll be back tomorrow. Don't leave, kid..." he walked away and added "I hear the brothels around here are... Questionable."

Hiro was stunned and then quickly left, grumbling "Damn old man! I'm not going to a brothel, I have a goddess for a wife! Hmph! I'd rather die than cheat on her."

The next day

Hiro was standing under the Eiffel Tower and set up an outdoor cooking area with a sigh saying "French Cooks are trash, beat me and win a knife." with his cabinet backpack of knives next to him.

There was already a bunch of angry chefs standing together, cursing in French. Hiro chuckled and said "Cuisiniers de merde, brouillez-vous. Vous effrayez le reste." the cooks were set off, shouting "Va te faire foutre, putain de Black Chef! Sortez de France!"

Hiro chuckled and said "Je vais vous donner une autre chance, combattez-moi encore mais cette fois mettez vos restaurants en danger." he grinned evilly and sneered "Sinon, va shier." the chefs were set off but they didn't dare to bet their restaurants.

Hiro had already humiliated them in their own restaurants and taken their knives! If they lost again and lost their restaurants they would be in deep shit.

Hiro got another challenger, who said in english with a heavy french accent "Black cooke, si I win, you must return all their knives!" Hiro chuckled and said "Bet your restaurant on the line." the chefs looked at the new chef and mumbled "C Monsieur Jacques! Ont été sauvés!"

Jacques puffed up his chest and said "Sure! I'm a 3 Star Chef! How could a Black Chef beat me! Hmph!" Hiro's grin widened "3 stars?" he licked his lips and said "French BBQ is the focus!"

The man from last night was watching in the crowd and smirked. He looked our of place, because he was asian, but he had tanned skin. It was very strange.

Hiro grinned and Jacques smirked "It's my specialty!" Hiro just chuckled and a glint flashed in his eyes, Jacques went to his station and Hiro changed the rules at the last moment "The winner will be decided by the crowd. Serve as many customers as you can in an hour! The ingredients are behind you in that cooler, there's enough in there for hours, so there's no need to worry."

Jacques raised a brow and looked in the cooler before nodding "Je comprends." Hiro chuckled strangely "Good." he clapped and shouted "Toutes les personnes! Nous allons tous les deux cuisiner pour vous aujourd'hui, ce sera gratuit! Vous êtes tous des juges aujourd'hui, les règles sont simples, nous cuisinons, vous mangez, après vous décidez qui vous préférez. Merci!"

He said "Starts, Jacques Foisgras." Jacques was stunned, the Black Chef knew him! Hiro started moving immediately and lit up the grill before dragging the cooler over and slamming down the meat and vegetables on the table.

One hand was chopping meats in different angles and the other was making a marinade/sauce. But then he did something strange. He dipped a brush in the sauce and slathered the grill with it, the grill sizzled and glistened as Hiro covered it with a dome.

He took out a container of sticks and started preparing the meats, it was strange how he did it. His style was constantly changing making people wonder what he was doing. Jacques in particular was getting confused. He focused on his own thing, but when he did, Hiro would make a lot of noise with aggressive cuts and draw the crowd to gasp and talk, making Jacques look over.

Then when he was unfocused, Hiro went to graceful movements. He cut the meat in different cuts constantly while cutting the vegetables quickly and perfectly. He even made small quick cuts on the vegetables before stacking them all of a skewer and slathering the entire thing in the sauce, covering it in tin foil and throwing it in the covered grill.

He continued making skewer after skewer before uncovering the grill and releasing a puff of smoke into the air. He slipped on gloves and took the skewers out, taking off the tin foil and revealing a beautiful red 'Flower' with petals and all!

He slipped the Flower onto a wooden skewer and wrapped the lower half with tin foil, folding it nicely before putting it on display with the rest of the smoked ones. He slapped a bell and started cooking with the normal grill without the tin foil as people started coming over.

They looked at the 'Flowers' in awe, they were even arranged in a bouquet! Hiro said "Take one please, these are the smoked Flowers, the next ones are the grilled roses." the people started taking one and Hiro continued making flowers in all sorts of different ways with the grill, pumping them out like nobody's business.

Jacques was having a hard time, he tried to make chicken on the grill for Chicken sandwiches, but they weren't appealing at all! BBQ might be hos specialty, but serving people and catching their attention was certainly not.

He started panicking as his restaurant was on the line! He started moving faster and making mistakes!

Not everyone was a perfect being like Hiro. His mind and body weren't comparable to anything on Earth. He was like a super computer with the peak of Human ability... Well not really, he wasn't a super computer, more like a smart guy able to multitask.

He continued making flowers for everyone, the food was beautiful and tasted good, so people just came to him. He was crushing Jacques completely, not that it was a big thing. Jacques didn't have a Michelin Star. They were just normal stars.

It worked like this. A restaurant can have 5 Stars from Food associations and stuff, then there were special stars. A restaurant can only have 3 Michelin Stars, but they could also have a 5 Star rating at the same time. Getting a Michelin Star is incredibly difficult, not to mention the 3 Max! A chef was based on his Michelin star rating with them able to accumulate Stars over several restaurants, so they could be a 5 or 10 Michelin Star Chef.

(In real life, there's a guy with 22 Michelin stars, higher than Gordan Ramsey, btw!)

A bit later

Hiro stopped cooking and said to the people "There's not more food, sorry." he showed them the empty cooler and the lack of food on his station. They were all disappointed and Hiro smiled "Just come to my restaurant next time, hehe." the people smiled and Jacques looked like a ghost as not even half his food was eaten.

Hiro snapped his fingers and said "Knife and Deed to your restaurant. Make it quick, I don't have all day, Jacques." Jacques grinded his teeth and teared up. He handed over his Cooking knife and Hiro set it in his cabinet with an evil grin.

Suddenly!

The man from last night came over, eating the flowers, saying "Not bad, kid." noticeably, there was a tear on his clothes. A bunch of tears actually.

Hiro looked at the guy, who added with a grin "How about another challenge? You promised me yesterday." Hiro frowned and the guy said "Silver Demon is scared? Hahahahah!" Hiro said "What do you want from me?" The man said "We'll fight for a very simple thing. If I win, Jacques here gets his restaurant back and you come with me. If you win, you get all my assets!"

Hiro was stunned and said "Who are you?" slowly backing away with narrowed eyes, he had an idea but he wasn't sure. The man said "Who cares who I am? Do you accept or not?" Hiro said "How much assets, what's it worth." the man snapped his fingers and another guy with a suit, sunglasses and a briefcase said "Total sum of all properties and assets total 15 Billion dollars in Cash and 500 Billion in liquid funds. Several Hundred restaurants..."

Hiro's eyes lit up and he frowned "You're obviously a big shot, what do you want with me?" The man grinned "Nothing bad. Hehe." Hiro mumbled "I don't like that Hehe." he laughed "Come on, brat! Just fight me already! This is a fair deal!"

Hiro said "I have rules, I'm not going to be your slave, I'm not going to be a sex toy, I'm not doing anything disgusting, if you want me to kill someone, I expect extra payment, and finally, If I work for you I want a room, clothes, food, etc. Obviously that's only if I lose, which won't happen."

The man grinned "Sure." the man in a suit's mouth twitched at Hiro's demands but he figured it was alright. Hiro said "Where are we doing this?" the man clapped and people started setting up a cooking station right then and there, bringing in coolers etc.

Hiro looked around and the man said "You pick the dish..." Hiro said "Judges?" the man said "They're on their way." Hiro said "Dessert, Tiramisu." the man chuckled "Fine." Hiro grinned, heh, damn old man, you're fucked.

Zerotwo's favorite dish is Tiramisu, he had made it thousands of times.