‘Lilya?’

'Yes!'

'She can't do it, you know that her body is too weak. I heard that she hasn't cooked for almost two years. I guess she feels unfamiliar, right? Moreover, her strength cannot move...'

‘That is…’

‘That should be Dart win?’

‘Maybe, but I'm in the competition too!’

‘Ah! Mana, you…’

On the other side of the square, the tense Uncle Dart and Miss Karen were arguing fiercely, so that the young lady Lin, who was mixed in the middle, didn't know who to help... and Aunt Mana and Aunt Shasha were also talking in a low voice about something.

"Hello, you're Annie, right?"

"Speaking of this, this is the first time we met. Last time I saw you find the church and saw you and ran away... After so many days, I have never seen you go to church again."

"That would be bad..."

"Anne, don't you need to pray?"

At this time, a strange monk wearing black clothes and holding a black hat in his hand came to Annie and greeted him on his own initiative.

Obviously, the other party was the priest in the church, the guy Annie remembered was called Carter!

“…”

(￢д￢.)

"Well, Uncle Carter, the competition is about to begin. There is still something else to do. Let's talk about it later?"

ヾ(￣▽￣)?

What a joke, let her Queen Anne go to church to pray? Who can pray to, and who can bear her prayer?

So, Annie, who felt that some things would definitely not be able to understand, didn't think about it and just made an excuse to run towards the long table, because now Mayor Thomas has stood up and started his speech, and the food festival competition is about to begin soon, so she must prepare for it.

However, she suddenly realized that some of the names of the mugs in the ore town were really too easy to be confused, such as Uncle Dart in the bar, Dots in the hospital, and Uncle Carter now... Sometimes, she couldn't remember who was who these three people were!

...

Soon, without waiting for Anne to struggle for a long time, the selection competition for the Food Festival officially began with the announcement of Mayor Thomas!

Although many of the residents of Mine Town brought different dishes, there were actually not many people who were confident in participating in the competition, only six people in total? So, everyone, including Anne, stood at the competition table, stood in front of their own dishes, and waited for the big mouth to wait for the foodie who looked like a pig to come forward and evaluate them one by one.

‘Well…’

‘While the ingredients are rich, the taste is also integrated to the advantage. I have experienced cooking techniques and mastered the heat just right?’

‘Anyway, it’s very delicious, delicious! Great!’

The first one to be evaluated was Uncle Dart's cuisine. Then, he, who had already opened a shop and had to cook for customers every day, naturally received a very good and high evaluation.

‘As for this one…’

‘After adding green pepper, the taste is much more mature. Are you the daughter of the Dart player just now? It’s not bad. It seems that he has inherited some skills. Although there are a little flaw, it is still amazing to have this foundation at a young age.’

The second one is Uncle Dart's daughter Lin, who also received a relatively good review. However, from the fact that the foodie can tell at a glance that her cooking skills are from Uncle Dart's lineage, she is definitely not as good as Uncle Dart's.

'ah!'

‘This portion is really special. Although it is lighter, it has a strong fragrance. The lamb chops are fried very delicately, and there is no mutton smell at all, nor greasy, and the taste is refreshing. It is amazing!!’

Then, Annie saw that the third player, the weak Aunt Liliya, had also received very good reviews from the other party's small fried lamb chops, and even faintly above Uncle Dart?

'This is……'

‘Ahhh!’

‘I ate it, and the soup was filled with three kinds of vegetables juice and a little milk. I asked, it was quite smooth. Although it had a little bitter taste, it was still very delicious overall!’

Unfortunately, the soup made by Aunt Mana, the fourth contestant, seemed to have a little flaw, so Annie heard that the big-mouthed gourmet didn't give the other party a good review?

‘!!’

'this……'

‘What kind of weird taste is this…oh…ahhhhh! Sorry, this dish is so weird, I don’t know how to evaluate it.’

When the fat and big-headed and big-mouthed foodie finished commenting on the dark dishes that Miss Karen had turned over and spit out the food that had entered her mouth, she ran away from Miss Karen, and finally, it was finally the last turn of Anne who had the courage to participate in the competition to cook her own dishes.

“Is this roast chicken?”

"It smells very good and looks pretty good, but I'll try it first..."

Standing in front of Annie's cooking table, holding the one-sided glasses on her right eye and studying the roasted chicken for a while, the gourmet was not in a hurry to draw a conclusion easily, but pulled a chicken wing and then bit it at the tenderest meat.

“!!”

"Um..."

"I ate it. Although I didn't add salt or any other seasonings, I had a very good grasp of the heat... Well... This roasted chicken is fat but not greasy, fragrant but not burnt, and the chicken is so fragrant and tender that it's full of the most primitive umami flavor when it comes to your mouth. It should have been washed with hot spring water, right?

"It's amazing. I've never eaten such delicious chicken. This is a huge step ahead of other players in terms of material selection..."

"Little guy, what's the name of this dish?"

I thought that a little girl's cooking must be very ordinary, but I was surprised in the end!

So, while asking the little girl's name for the cooking, he thought about it and even made an exception to reach out and pull off the wings on the chicken wing he had just pulled off.

“It’s the barbecue champion chicken!!”

(????-)?

I was not the first to eat the dishes I made myself. That kind of thing had long made Annie feel a little angry, so while Annie answered, she also reached out to follow the example and pulled the largest back thigh first to hold it, so as not to be snatched away by others later, resulting in not being able to eat it?

“Champion Roasted Chicken?”

"Well... Not bad! You really deserve the name 'Champion'!"

"So……"

"Now that the tasting is over, it's time for me to announce the winner of this food festival!"

"The winner is..."

Soon, when Anne unexpectedly defeated Uncle Dart, who was originally expected to win, and Aunt Lilya, who was a little regretful, and won the final victory, the Food Festival in Ore Town finally officially began!

People flocked to those who had cooked with various tableware, and began to share the food that others brought to the food festival, and soon started to eat it, turning the Rose Square in Ore Town into an open-air and bustling buffet party.

"Hey! Wait!"

ε?(????)?з

"Mayor Thomas, he won now, but, what about his prize, have you forgotten something?"

?(ψ????)o

While others were busy eating, Anne rushed to some shark town where she was also eating and asked sternly.

“??”

"What prize? What are you talking about?"

Thomas, who was grabbed by the corner of the dress by the little girl with her oily little hands, asked inexplicably while feeling sorry for her clothes.

"Of course it is the winning prize for the Food Festival. They are the number one. Can't they get rewards like horse racing?"

(?╭╮?)

"ah?"

"Who said you were the same as a horse racing?"

When Mayor Thomas heard that the other party was holding him, he asked back with some amusement and laughter.

“!!”

!?(?''??)?

"What you mean is that there are no prizes in today's competition?!"

=????(???*)

Annie suddenly felt a little disappointed because she felt that she seemed to have made something wrong?

If she had known this was the case, she would probably not have brought such a good roast chicken at all! She could have eaten the champion roast chicken at home by herself, and then bring some other things to make up for the numbers, such as grilled fish, and then just eat and drink by herself?

"Of course there is no more!"

"Because the food festival is just about sharing and celebrating the festival with what you eat, and by the way, who can make the best dishes, where are there any prizes?"

"Of course not without it!"

"The title of the strongest chef in Ore Town is the best reward?"

Shaking his head and looking at the little girl in front of him who was shocked by his words as if she had been petrified. Thomas didn't know what to say.

"alright!"

"Annie, go and have something to eat too. You can eat here all day today. I heard Lin and Dart say that you are very good at eating," he said.
To be continued...