Episode 6

To prepare for the semi-final, candidates can come back home for a day and comeback tomorrow afternoon for the evening battle. Xen put down his luggage in front of the store and start unlocking the door. Bunny probably is at Mr. Qirlin house, the animal didn’t trust anyone except people that it known for a while so he can’t put it in animal health care. Right now, he has a lot of question needs to answer and a new knife to practice for tomorrow.

Outro pretty much the same from the last time, it only been a few days, but XEN feel likes it been decades from then. Xen quickly drop his bag on the counter and open the store cabinet to look for a new knife. According to his memory, Master has a lot of custom knives on the cabinet. Sir. Qirlin was the one delivered all the custom knives to them, it always a sharp black blade with wooden handle, with Outro logo framed on the bottom of the handle. Xen target was a spare Chef knife or at least a Santoku, but lucky was not on his side, he couldn’t find any of those, they only have a cleaver and fillet knife. If he asks Sir. Qirlin for a new one that would take a week to finish the knife, but tomorrow was the semi-final. He needs to find temporary replacement fast.

Suddenly, a small box falls into his eyesight. It was cover with a torn red fabric; under the cover there was wooden box with Outro logo printed on top. Xen quickly open the box and discover a golden knife lay under a thick pillow. The knife has the God of Cookery title stamp on bolster – 2 knives crossed lay on top a tall chef hat. It weighs lighter than his old knife, but the feeling was quite similar, the handle design was the same with Outro knives. This must the Outblade that his Master used to talk about. The most refine and sharpest knife in the galaxy. It used to belong to the first Master of the Outro. Xen doesn’t know what the blade was made from, but he can see that it been well preservation, the blade is still sharp but there isn’t smell of rust either.

Xen carefully picks up the knife and starts examined it. He returns to the kitchen area and picks some vegetable from the fridge to practice. After a long practice, he came up with a conclusion that the knife was harder to control than the old one. From the outside, the design was the same but when holding it, it feels powerful and wild like a beast. If he can tame the beast then he can become the God of Cookery easily with this knife.

But then, the feeling hit him again. Does he really want to win? Xen asked himself over and over. He wants to win so badly. If he wins, he can bring the attention to the Outro, the Chef Orb will work under his control and then what happen next? Xen can’t think of what he can do or what he wants to do or to change the system. Surely Emily had opened some of her betting tables, but he knows the woman will forgive whatever he do, they are best friends after all.

But Xen still needs to find his answer for himself. there is no way to turn back now, Xen want to find his answer and he believe that the Chef Orb has his answer. Right now, he needs to focus on winning tomorrow battle.

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