novelhk Chapter 150, Part 2: It Still Has to Be Little Cherry Blossom
Chapter 150, Part 2: It Still Has to Be Little Cherry Blossom
"Honestly, that brat looked so uninterested just now, how come he's suddenly so eager?" Sonoko Suzuki grumbled, watching Conan Edogawa drag his friend Ran into the venue.
Then, Sonoko Suzuki turned around and greeted Yu Bai and his group warmly, "Come on, Yu Bai, let's not stand there anymore, let's go in!"
As the three entered the venue, Yu Bai realized that the entire venue was quite large. From the outside, the entire venue resembled a cookie house that had jumped out of a fairy tale book, both dreamy and unique.
As it was a dessert exhibition, the surrounding shelves were filled with all kinds of desserts, from exquisite cakes to small pastries.
These desserts are not only tempting in appearance, but also exude an enticing aroma, filling the entire venue with a sweet fragrance and making this "cookie house" even sweeter.
"Wow~ So many desserts! This is amazing! Let's start our 'attack' with the morning's... uh, no, the noon's activities!" Sonoko Suzuki looked around at the desserts with excitement, her eyes sparkling with anticipation. She couldn't wait to taste these delicious treats.
"Huh? What are you going to 'attack'? Aren't we going home for lunch, Ran-neechan?" Conan looked puzzled when he heard Sonoko Suzuki's words.
Although this exhibition is indeed quite large, is it really necessary to spend all day here?
"It seems there are activities in the afternoon after lunch break. Anyway, let's start with the morning activities to fill our stomachs, and then move on to the afternoon activities," Xiaolan explained.
"Huh?" Upon hearing Ran Mouri's words, Conan's eyes instantly turned into crescent moons, and his lips twitched.
He thought he could see all the dessert exhibits in one morning, but he didn't expect that it would include afternoon activities as well?
"And how do girls manage to eat desserts until they're full? Don't they ever get tired of them?" a straight man wondered.
"So each pastry chef has their own dedicated area! This makes it so hard to choose—where should I even begin?"
Sonoko Suzuki hesitated, looking at the various desserts on the platform, because each pastry chef specialized in different types of desserts. Now it was time to make a choice.
"The person in this photo..." Ran Mouri's gaze fell on the photo hanging on the dessert display stand, her eyes filled with hesitation. Then she looked up at an open kitchen area not far away, where a man was making desserts.
The man had neat short hair and wore a spotless white chef's uniform. His hands moved methodically and skillfully, handling the various tools and ingredients needed to make desserts. His usually serious expression was now very focused.
Kneading dough, shaping cake bases, piping cream, carving decorations… this short-haired pastry chef was even making three different desserts simultaneously, yet every movement he made was so clean, efficient, and unhurried, as if he were performing a meticulously choreographed show. For someone with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, such a scene would be a visual treat.
This caused many guests to stop and watch, and even Ran Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki, and Conan Edogawa couldn't help but stare at it for a long time.
"Wow, that's amazing! This pastry chef can make three different desserts at the same time!" Ran Mouri exclaimed.
As the pastry chef took the baked cake base out and stood by the worktable, straightening his back to begin whipping the cream, Yu Bai and the others happened to see the name tag on the pastry chef's chest: Maeda Tsuyoshi.
"This looks like a competition between pastry chefs," Conan remarked, as he could only stand on tiptoe and crouch at the counter due to his height.
Upon hearing Conan's words, Sonoko Suzuki immediately perked up and began to enthusiastically share with everyone the homework she had done beforehand.
"This pastry chef named Maeda Tsuyoshi is truly an undefeated pastry chef."
"You mean the chef who participated in the cake ironman competition?" Xiaolan suddenly remembered something when she heard Sonoko say that.
Previously, a cake competition was held every now and then for pastry chefs. I never expected that this person named Maeda Tsuyoshi would be the champion of the cake competition. Moreover, according to Suzuki Sonoko, this pastry chef should have been on a winning streak.
"That's right, that's right. Hey, look over there. The pastry chef in the very center is the cake prince with the most elegant movements—Yasuo Fujino. And that pastry chef over there makes candies that seem like magic. She's known as the candy magician, Ms. Tomomi Morimoto."
When it comes to being a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur), it has to be Sakura.
Yu Bai felt his toes curl up as he listened to Sonoko Suzuki talking about the "cake prince" and the "candy magician."
"No, let's go try those desserts too. Before, you..."
"Ahhh, so handsome!!"
Yu Bai was about to take Bu Yue to try all sorts of delicious desserts when he was interrupted by a girl's exclamation before he could finish speaking.
Yu Bai found the exclamation all too familiar; it was the same sound he heard every day when he was studying at Hyotei University.
Usually at times like this, it's mostly the Hyotei team that's showing up... cough cough, the Hyotei tennis club members. As for the Hyotei boys here, there aren't any here, so the only one who could elicit such a gasp is Fujino Yasuo, whom Suzuki Sonoko just called the Cake Prince.
Sure enough, when Yu Bai and Bu Yue looked in the direction of the sound, they saw that Fujino Yasuo's worktable was already surrounded by a group of girls. They watched as Fujino Yasuo elegantly spread cream on the chocolate cake, excitedly recording this rare scene with their phones, constantly shouting, "So handsome! So handsome!"
This piqued the curiosity of Sonoko Suzuki, who loved looking at handsome men, so she pulled Ran Mouri along and squeezed into the crowd.
As Conan watched the two girls leave, he quickly used his height advantage to follow them.
Yu Bai, on the other hand, calmly took Bu Yue's hand and led her away from the crowd to a less crowded area to find desserts.
As he picked out the desserts, he happily said to Buyue, "Buyue, Buyue, this looks really good, take one and try it."
Bu Yue smiled and nodded, taking the dessert Yu Bai handed her and savoring it. Seeing Yu Bai's excited expression in front of the dessert display, a gentle smile unconsciously appeared in Bu Yue's eyes.
However, as the desserts on the plate piled up, Bu Yue quickly reached out a hand to protect the plate from the excess, saying, "This is too much, Feng Yue. We can come back for more after we finish eating."
Yu Bai looked at Bu Yue with a "you don't understand" expression and said, "If I don't take more now, I'm afraid I won't be able to take any later."
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Buyue: Fengyue is so cute, she can't wait to get the dessert. (There are more and more cakes on the plate, almost overflowing) Σ( ° △ °|||)︴ Enough, enough, Fengyue can't hold any more.
Yu Bai: No, you don't understand (￢_￢)～ I thought I was just meeting up with Ran and Sonoko for dessert, but I didn't expect this damn elementary school student to be here too. He should have known better; if Ran came, how could Conan not come?