But under the surprised gazes of Hayashi and the others.
The little white rabbit model that Takanashi Touka arranged had already taken initial shape.
Even different from Hayashi's little rabbit, it appeared slightly mischievous, sticking out a little tongue, utterly adorable.
This made Hayashi's eyes light up, and he couldn't help but give Takanashi Touka a mental thumbs up.
"Worthy of being Touka, this is amazing."
Hayashi suddenly discovered that although he had reached master level in cooking, he lacked a certain cleverness.
The little rabbit he made was completely assembled according to what Nakiri Erina taught.
Including the taste - everything was a one-to-one replica.
But Takanashi Touka incorporated some of her own creativity.
And she had her own understanding of this dish, adding some different seasonings.
Clearly, Takanashi Touka was using her own method to try to win the competition.
Now Takanashi Touka was only one step away from completion - carving the patterns.
Because beautiful appearance was also part of the scoring.
But the two little girls, Rikka and Kanna, nervously clenched their little fists, staring intensely at the alarm clock in front of them.
Time was flowing rapidly, with only the last ten seconds remaining.
Takanashi Rikka nervously stomped her little feet, constantly cheering for her sister in her heart while hoping time could slow down.
"Sister, hurry up! There are five seconds left, four seconds, three seconds, two seconds, one second."
Takanashi Rikka suddenly stood up excitedly.
Tohru immediately rang the bell beside her.
"Ding dong~!"
"Time's up!"
Just then, Takanashi Touka finally completed the last bit of pattern decoration at the final moment.
This made Takanashi Touka immediately breathe a sigh of relief.
When she came back to her senses and looked at Hayashi beside her, who had already finished his little rabbit dish, she immediately showed a bitter smile.
Hayashi-kun was really amazing.
Even with newly encountered cuisine, he could complete it so skillfully in such a short time.
Looking again at the lifelike little rabbit dish Hayashi made, her heart was filled with even more admiration.
This wasn't just crushing her in one aspect, but crushing her comprehensively.
Only by doing it hands-on could she know how difficult it was to create such a cute little rabbit dish.
Even a somewhat advanced chef like her needed half an hour.
And she believed that even after hundreds or thousands of practice sessions, compressing the time to the extreme, it would be absolutely impossible to compress it to twenty minutes or less.
While she was making it, she knew when Hayashi finished, she just didn't get distracted.
In reality, Hayashi only took fifteen minutes to complete it.
And the first five minutes were spent waiting for Takanashi Touka to prepare the basic processes.
So actually, Hayashi only used ten minutes to complete this little rabbit dish.
However, the quality of cuisine didn't only depend on speed.
That was just one scoring component, and it accounted for very little.
The most important thing was naturally the essence of the dish - how delicious it was.
Then Tohru excitedly rubbed her little hands together, looking at Hayashi expectantly:
"Hayashi-kun, can we start tasting now?"
Hayashi nodded:
"Then please, three judges, give your scores."
As soon as these words came out, all three girls' eyes lit up.
My goodness, they could actually score Hayashi - this was so fun!
Then Tohru cheerfully jumped down from her chair.
She came in front of Hayashi's "Little Rabbit Be Good" dish, stroking her chin and putting on a calculating appearance:
"Mm, the appearance is good, very cute. I'll give full marks of three points for appearance."
"However, you still need to study and practice hard to do even better."
After saying this, with a matter-of-fact expression and one little hand behind her back, she came to Takanashi Touka.
Looking at the slightly mischievous little rabbit in front of her, her eyes lit up as she said with a smile:
"Touka, your rabbit looks much better than Hayashi-kun's."
"Mm, let me think - I'll give Touka the same full marks."
Takanashi Touka nodded happily: "Thank you, Tohru."
Tohru smiled and returned to her seat.
Then it was Takanashi Rikka's turn to judge.
For appearance, undoubtedly both should get full marks.
However, at this time Takanashi Rikka looked at Hayashi shyly.
Every time she looked into Hayashi's eyes, her little face couldn't help but become more rosy.
Even in the end, her entire face was as red as a red apple, even her ears were completely red.
But seeing her sister's expectant gaze.
Takanashi Rikka steeled herself:
"Touka is my sister, so full marks."
"Then... I'll give Hayashi-kun two points."
Takanashi Rikka held up her fingers and found the air suddenly became pin-drop silent.
She immediately said embarrassedly: "Then... then two and a half points."
Then she secretly glanced at Hayashi again.
She found Hayashi was just smiling, looking at her with doting eyes, without any blame at all.
This made Takanashi Rikka even more embarrassed.
But she really wanted her sister to win this competition.
Although doing this was very unfair to Hayashi.
For a moment, Takanashi Rikka embarrassedly pouted her little mouth, with both little hands behind her back, like a student who had done something wrong and was waiting for criticism.
"Rikka is so cute," Hayashi thought.
Then he patted Takanashi Rikka's little head and said with a smile:
"This scoring is fine."
"Judges can give whatever score they want."
Hearing this, Takanashi Rikka immediately felt like her world had been redeemed.
The one eye that was visible sparkled as she looked at Hayashi, her gaze full of worship.
Sure enough, Hayashi-kun was the best, best, best boy in the world.
Hehe~
Takanashi Rikka saw her sister give her an approving look and thumbs up.
The other girls also nodded, which made Takanashi Rikka happily return to her seat.
Then it was Kanna's turn to comment.
Tohru: "Kanna, your turn."
"Okay~"
Kanna jumped down from her chair.
You should know, her height - calling her a little loli would be praise, calling her a little potato would be approval.
She was just a little kid.
But she was sitting on the high bar stools in front of the counter at this late-night diner.
So when Kanna jumped down, she wasn't even half the height of the stool.
She was completely adorable, unable to see what was on the counter at all.
For a moment, Kanna, who couldn't see the counter, could only barely glimpse what was on the counter even when standing on her tiptoes.
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