The crabs Seiya and the others caught from the river were not large, so extracting the meat from them was a time-consuming and delicate task.
However, to everyone's disbelief, each crab, from being placed on the cutting board to its perfect shell-meat separation, took less than a few seconds!
Each time a crab was taken out, accompanied by a few flashes of knife light, the fine crab meat was perfectly extracted and placed on a plate nearby.
In just a few minutes, the large bucket of crabs that Seiya and the others had caught was processed by Seiya, while the other people around had not even recovered from their shock.
"Was he performing magic just now? I didn't even see how he moved his knife; his hands even had afterimages. Is this something a human can do?"
"It must be just a show for attention. Our eyes couldn't even keep up. Can that crab meat really be extracted cleanly?"
"But even if it's not perfectly clean, that's still incredibly impressive, isn't it? If it were you, could you do it?"
Seiya's technique for processing river crabs directly stunned many Totsuki students present, including Ryoko, who was Seiya's partner, as well as Kutami and Tadokoro Megumi.
Even Inui Hinako, who had only been somewhat curious about Seiya, slowly walked up to Seiya and his group after seeing the skill Seiya had just displayed, and picked up a crab leg that Seiya had processed.
With just one glance, Inui Hinako's face instantly showed a look of emotion.
The crab leg, slightly thinner than a chopstick, was completely separated by a clean and sharp cut, and the crab meat inside was perfectly extracted.
There wasn't even a speck of crab meat left in the crab leg shell in her hand!
In other words, Seiya's dazzling knife work just now was not only fast, but also incredibly fast and accurate!
To perfectly extract these tiny crab leg meats in such a short time requires not only speed and knife skills but also outstanding eyesight.
Inui Hinako wasn't sure if Gin Dojima or Shinomiya, who were more skilled than her, possessed such knife skills, but as for her, when it came to knife work, she was no match for the young man in front of her.
"Seiya, you're amazing! How did you manage to perfectly extract all those tiny crab leg meats at such a fast speed?"
Not only Inui Hinako, but Ryoko, as Seiya's partner, quickly noticed the crab leg shells with no residual crab meat and immediately gasped in surprise.
To this, Seiya merely curled his lips slightly and said, "Nothing much, just practice makes perfect.
Of course, our family's culinary knife techniques are also very powerful."
Compared to the greatly shocked Inui Hinako and Ryoko, Yukihira Soma, who was also paying attention to Seiya, did not show too much surprise on his face.
After all, he had witnessed Seiya's incredibly outrageous knife skills more than once.
However, since the dish Seiya was making this time used crabs as the main ingredient, and such small crabs at that, it couldn't be a sashimi dish.
And as long as it wasn't a sashimi dish that focused on knife work, then he, Yukihira Soma, still had a chance to win!
After Seiya had extracted all the crab meat, he poured oil into a pot nearby and then poured all the crab meat from the plate into the pot, adding minced green onions, minced ginger, and other ingredients for stir-frying.
Due to the high temperature of the oil in the pot, coupled with Seiya's astonishing arm strength and pan-tossing technique, a crimson tongue of flame quickly shot up from the pot.
The Dark Culinary World has a stir-frying method called "Explosive Flame," but the one skilled in this technique is Akan.
Seiya, who inherited the culinary techniques of Xiang En and Rean, did not master this powerful "Explosive Flame" ultimate skill.
However, while he couldn't do "Explosive Flame," he still had a cheat; as long as he subtly released his flame ability while tossing the pan, ordinary people wouldn't be able to tell what was happening.
The flames danced and swirled, and at this moment, Seiya appeared to everyone as if he had transformed into a fire mage.
The extreme temperature and perfectly controlled flames instantly preserved the umami and aroma of the crab meat, and when Seiya poured the stir-fried crab meat back onto the plate, everyone present was still unable to recover from their shock.
The Totsuki students present were also making their own dishes, and if they could, they would have liked to focus on their own creations.
But the main problem was that the commotion Seiya created while cooking was simply too eye-catching and astonishing.
If his previously displayed knife skills could only be seen by those near Seiya's stove, then the astonishing fire skills just now could be seen by everyone in the entire classroom kitchen.
Many Totsuki students even thought there was a cooking accident when that tongue of flame shot up, but they didn't expect it was just Seiya showing off his skills.
"I suspect he's performing magic through cooking. 'Chef' is just a disguise for his identity. His true identity must be from some magical otherworld!"
"Brother, read more cookbooks and less about two-dimensional girls. Is that magic? That's the ultimate fire skill.
Hot oil in a pot coming into contact with flames can theoretically create a visual impact of 'flaring up,' but this is a very difficult fire technique, and the fire skills he just displayed were even like a fiery feast."
"Such exaggerated knife work and fire skills, is this the strength of a Totsuki Special Student!"
Undoubtedly, Seiya's "Explosive Flame" technique, which he had just displayed, stunned everyone present.
Even Yukihira Soma, who had some understanding of Seiya's strength, felt even more pressure after seeing Seiya's "Explosive Flame."
But to make him give up now was certainly impossible; the stronger Seiya's strength, the higher Yukihira Soma's fighting spirit.
After plating the stir-fried crab meat, Seiya then stuffed the crab meat back into the previous crab shells, coated them with breadcrumbs, and deep-fried them in oil.
There is a Japanese cooking method called Tempura, where anything can be fried, so the "Crab Shell" dish Seiya is making now, paired with miso soup and a dipping sauce made from crab roe and crab brains, can certainly be considered a Japanese-style dish.
When the golden-fried crab balls were retrieved from the oil, an exquisite crispy aroma filled the air, and when Seiya and Ryoko finished plating, many of the people present couldn't help but swallow their saliva as they looked at the dish in front of Seiya and his group.
Although they hadn't tasted it yet, just from watching Seiya prepare the dish and the enticing aroma emanating from it, everyone was quite certain that this dish would be incredibly delicious!
