章 318: Last minute alterations?!

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Woke up late, dont feel good. Taking a break, tomorrow I'll wake up early, around 7 and pump out chapters to at least 20 by the time I post 3 for you all... So technically, I will write around 7 chaps tomorrow, maybe more. Sorry for the recent low postings... not a good week for me.

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The judges looked at Hiro and grinned, he closed his open mouth and walked to his station, looking perplexed.

Fuji didn't have any problems and started right away. Hiro looked at his station before walking to the pantry, it was open for them since it was a mystery Shokugeki.

Hiro walked inside and Fuji passed him, smiling "Good luck." Hiro nodded at him, Fuji wasn't being sarcastic, he was really wishing him good luck in a kindhearted manner. He was a nice guy.

Hiro wasn't thinking about how nice of a guy Fuji was, he was thinking about how to make his Tiramisu the best! He started 'picking ingredients' from the pantry but really taking them from his Farm. He picked up Lady Fingers and went to leave.

He passed by a wall of wines and paused for a split second before grabbing a Chianti Classico and leaving.

Hiro returned to his station and laid all his ingredients out, perplexing the crowd as to why there was a bottle of win on the counter. Hiro ignored them and took out a french press, while putting water to boil on the stove.

He grinded the coffee beans himself with a mortar and pestle before pouring the grinds into the French press. He looked at the wine before un corking it and pouring a bit of it into the french press as well.

The crowd was stunned before they started laughing.

Milly frowned and Christopher said "Wine in the Coffee grinds?" Senzaemon was also confused and Akira said "Maybe he came up with something creative again?" Milly mumbled badly "He better know what he's doing..."

Hiro looked at the wet coffee grinds and put the wine to the side.

He took out a tray and laid out a bunch of lady fingers on it before preheating the oven to 250. The water was boiling and he took it off the stove before pouring it into the French Press. Hiro took a thermometer and put it in the water, he saw 200 and took the Thermometer out before putting the top on and pressing down.

The fresh coffee smell wafted from his station, but there was a hint of something else in it. He smelled the coffee mixture and nodded before pouring it into a bowl. He sniffed the bowl before pouring more wine inside while sniffing constantly.

He suddenly stopped and corked the wine before putting it aside and stirring the mixture with a spoon.

He pulled the tray to him and took out a brush before brushing the coffee mixture over the lady fingers with a generous helping for each one, just enough to sink in, but not enough to make it soggy and gross.

He flipped the lady fingers and did the same before throwing the tray into the oven to dry them.

He moved the Coffee to the side and took a big mixing bowl before starting to make the cream.

Fuji was doing the same but slightly different, for example he didn't use any wine.

Hiro pulled out a bunch of small circle metal cylinders. They didn't have at top or bottom, normally these are used for cheesecake so that the cheesecake doesn't spill out in the oven when you cook it but Hiro had a better idea.

The metal bins were very small, just about the size of a palm. It had a latch on the side and it was able to become wider or lock into place and stay shut.

Hiro took the tray out of the oven and touched the lady fingers before nodding to himself. He put all the lady fingers together in rows and put the 5 cylinders on them before pushing on them all lightly, leaving marks on the lady fingers.

He put the cylinders to the side before cutting out perfect circles from the lady fingers and gathering all the extra from the cutting on the side.

He placed the cylinders on plates and put the lady fingers at the bottom, touching the plate. He had finished letting his cream set and he spread it on the fingers, making the first layer of cream. He flattened it and cut out more lady fingers, placing them on the cream before covering that in cream as well.

He unclasped the latch and slowly lifted the cylinder off the circular tiramisu.

The sides were revealed to everyone and they gasped in shock. The lady finger layers were seamless! That meant that, you couldn't even tell that they were separate! It looked like a layer of light brown!

Hiro put the Tiramisu's into the fridge before taking all the excess Lady fingers and throwing them in a bowl before adding cocoa powder and shredding dark chocolate into very fine flakes. He crushed everything in the bowl and powdered everything into a fine Cocoa powder dust.

He took the Tiramisus out of the fridge and put the powder into a sieve before lightly tapping it over the Tiramisu, coating the top with Cocoa powder and a bit of the plate. He did the same for each Tiramisu and put the sieve to the side.

He washed a few strawberries and cut them into a beautiful flower shape before placing it against the Tiramisu, on the bottom. He put all the plates onto a tray and looked over to see Fuji was smiling at him while the judges were eating.

Hiro looked at him before letting out a breath and taking his tray to the judges' table.