God of cooking

Chapter 32: A well made dish and good food (3)

It does not belong to me. It is translated by KobatoChanDaiSuki   

He couldn't get asleep. Jo Minjoon closed his eyes trying to sleep, but ended up opening them. He glanced at his handphone and it was already midnight. He buried his face on the pillow, and in the end stood up from the place. He thought that laying like this would be wasting time.

The reason he didn't get sleepy was simple. Because of the case of the low score. Precisely speaking, it was a little different than the score. It was about the limits of cooking. Chloe's potato soup was perfect. If she added something more, then that dish would become something else. But would that potato soup remain as a sloppy 6 points?

"......Stats window."

[Jo Minjoon]
Cooking level: 6
Baking level: 4
Tasting level: 7
Decorations level: 5

Jo Minjoon kept looking at his stat window. Excluding the decorations level that went up by one when he teamed up with Kaya, there was nothing different.

"Level 7..... When will I reach it?"

As he was mumbling, Jo Minjoon's face froze. Since when did he start to care about his level this much? He started to think that at one point, the dishes he made weren't for cooking, but for raising his cooking level.

But he couldn't help but be like that. He was different to Chloe or Kaya. He couldn't ignore the score that was being shown in front of him.

'Even so, the potato soup.....'

He started to remember the flavor. It was thick and stable. It was well cooked so there wasn't even a trace of a bad smell coming from the potato. And also the buttercup aroma. Even though it wasn't splendid, it was delicious. It was fun.
Also, Kaya, who reached the top level 10 in tasting, didn't point anything wrong with the dish. Was it because it was the best the potato soup could get? Or because the potato soup itself was a good dish?

The cooking score was perfect for the system. How much creativity was used while cooking that dish, how stably a skill was used, how harmonious the ingredients became, etc. It was a score taking into account all of that.

A dish with high cooking score was certainly a good dish. However, a dish with a low cooking score was a bad one? Jo Minjoon couldn't stop thinking about that.

Jo Minjoon let out a sigh. His head hurt. And the way he relieved stress was quite simple. To eat.

He opened the door, and the hallway was really dark. Jo Minjoon walked the hallway guided by the flashlight of his handphone. His destination was the pantry, and the kitchen.

As he reached the kitchen, there was an unexpected guest. It was Anderson. It seemed like he was making some gravy. He put onions, pumpkins,etc. in the boiling water and looked at Jo Minjoon. Jo Minjoon waved his hand expressionlessly.

"Hi."
".....What are you doing here?"
"What do you mean? I came to cook."

Jo Minjoon replied as if he was being asked something obvious. Anderson didn't particularly like Jo Minjoon, but it was also the same otherwise. After the first broadcast ended and after what Jo Minjoon said about Kaya winning, he still remembered what Anderson had told him back then. He was beating around the bush, but in the end it meant that first, he had to have some skills to talk.

Of course, Jo Minjoon understood the hidden meaning. He wasn't someone who liked people that disliked him.

The conversation ended with just that. Jo Minjoon went to the pantry and looked for ingredients. Instead of saying that he wanted to practice cooking, he needed food to fill his belly. He wanted to make some , but there was no kimchi in the pantry.