Yakitate!! 9! The fourth round.
Showdown in Oomagari.
The opponents are Suwabara and Monica, who appeared disguised in ninja costumes.
I can’t hold it in anymore!
I’m going to take those masks of yours off!
Oomagari Shuriken,
Spring Onion Windmill!
Kawachi-san!
Kawachi!
Fire skill: Fried Spring Onion Technique!
Spring Onion Cloning Technique!
Come on, let’s go!
Yo! Ko! Sa! Wa!
This is really good spring onion.
Being bent is...
Wo-n-der-ful!
I got distracted by your technique and didn’t notice,
but now that I look, aren’t you Suwabara?!
Oh, no!
When I did the fire skill technique, I...
If I lose this battle, I will slash my stomach!
H-Hey, Kai...
When you say slash your stomach, do you mean commit suicide?
Yes.
But, you just mean that you’re ready to do it.
You’re not actually gonna do it, right?
I’ll do it.
I won’t let you die.
Monica...?
Definitely...
We’ll definitely win!
Okay.
The local ingredients chosen by both parties
were bent spring onions, chosen because they were bent.
Strangely, they both choose the same ingredients, and the same method of preparation.
However, Suwabara had prepared a secret technique to topple Azuma.
Egg yolk?
Here, we have the former queen of the patisserie world.
We have you.
We’ll have you make it.
With these famous Akita prefecture Hinai chicken egg yolks,
we’ll have you make the ultimate blanchir.
I’ll steal the show from the something-or-other Japan.
Or rather, the Oomagari Lupan...
The Spring Onion Spiral Lupan will!
Just wait, Azuma,
and watch with your own eyes the hidden power of a samurai who has laid his life on the line.
There’s English bread, German bread, and French bread,
but Japan’s bread, Japan, does not exist.
In that case, there’s no choice but to create it.
This story is a serious, biographical ballad of a boy who possesses Solar Hands,
Azuma Kazuma, who will create a Japanese bread made by and for the Japanese people,
which can be presented to the world proudly.
kono koe todoke tai yo, mada chiisana uta dakedo
I want this voice to reach you, even though it’s still a tiny song.
hajimaru yokan ga suru kara
That’s because I have the feeling that something’s gonna start.
Yakitate!! Japan
Translated by: Anime-Empire
hitori de uzukumari, koe shizume nagara otoshita namida wa
As I was cowering, muffling my voice, the tears that I shed
“shinjiru koto wasurekaketeru to” to
probably helped me notice that
kidzukase tekureta no kamo shirenai
I’ve almost forgotten how to believe.
egaita mirai wo
The future that I painted (I will fulfill it)
(kanaerunda)
hareta sora miagete
Looking up to the clear skies,
mouichido hashiri dasu yo. Itsuka ano shiroi sora
I begin to run once again. Someday, I want to dye
watashi iro ni sometai na
that white sky with my colors.
dokomademo tondoyuku yo. Biidama mitai ni hikaru
I’m going to fly as far as possible, shining like a marble,
kono hane wo hirogete
unfolding these wings of mine.
I hate all things twisted!!
Kai and Monica’s two-person tripod!
I hate all things twisted!!
Kai and Monica’s two-person tripod!
Azuma!
Hurry up, will ya?!
Azuma!
What’s wrong?
You still worried that we’re lacking in strategy?
It’s all right.
We’ll be able to make a really delicious spring onion bread with just that.
That’s true, but...
Kawachi-san, please close the front door, would you?
Oh, sorry about that.
Madari Lodge
All righty.
Madari Lodge
Whoa, that was a surprise.
It’s become quite spectacularly flat.
Since this lodge was a little too bent, I’d been kinda thinking that it was dangerous...
In that case, don’t settle on such a place, no matter how cheap it is!
That’s it!
This is it!
This...?
Azuma.
Just to be sure you know this...
My name is...
I know already.
Even without your telling me, I’d have come at you with all I had.
Don’t worry.
Very well, then.
We will now begin the fourth round of Yakitate!! 9 at Oomagari!
Start!
Manager...
What is it?
That ninja guy from the opponent’s side...
I get the feeling I’ve seen him somewhere...
You get the feeling, huh?
Kawachi-san!
Not even one minute has passed since the start of the match!
It’s all right for the commander to sit on his butt during the main show.
Does that pose have anything to do with sitting on your butt?
What’s important are the preparations before the match.
It means that that’s where my power was put to full use.
Oh?
So, what kind of power did you lend them?
Coming back to the subject of recognizing those ninjas...
Of course you would...
Ignoring me, huh?
After all, that ninja is Suwabara!
Huh?
Oh?
That is a surprise...
So, exactly what kind of power did you lend them?
I don’t know what the circumstances are,
but Suwabara joined up with St. Pierre.
At least that much is certain.
Kawachi!
But, don’t worry!
We’ll definitely win!
So, be at ease.
“We,” huh?
I wonder about that...
He is, by nature, a guy who hates all things twisted.
He would have to really brace himself to be able to participate in something like this.
It’s possible for Azuma to lose this battle.
Wh-What’s with the uproar?
The ingredients are absolutely the same.
The methods of preparation are the same as well.
In that case, they’ll end up making the same bread!
It’s true!
Suwabara and Monica came up with exactly the same idea!
Didn’t I tell you that?
In this world, the strongest man is he who has prepared himself to throw everything away.
Just as expected, Azuma.
You came up with the same idea, huh?
However, with just that, you absolutely cannot win against me.
Because...
It looks like your blanchir is being whipped by Kanmuri.
But, he can’t compare in the preparation of cakes and sweets to the world’s #1, Monica.
Moreover... I have a secret weapon.
Monica!
Are you ready?
I’m done.
I mix it in with the dough there, right?
Now!
Th-That is...
Note: Tourner means “to turn” in French.
Tourner?!
Wh-What is that?
Tourner.
It’s when you twist the dough in one direction like that...
A legendary technique.
What’s that supposed to mean?
I’ve never even heard of it.
Kawachi.
When you twist dough, what happens to it?
Well...
Each twisted portion sticks to the next twisted portion, so...
Looks like you’ve realized it.
The portions that are twisted and stuck to each other are hard to warm.
So, they keep fermenting even during the baking process.
In other words, it expands more in the oven.
When you add easily crushed ingredients raw into the dough,
a process called unmixing occurs.
This makes it hard for the bread to expand.
In order to overcome this, both parties seem to have used blanchir.
But, Suwabara judged that to be insufficient and has used a tourner.
Tourner is a technique said to have been developed by French court chefs.
However, the slightest mistake would lead to the gas inside escaping,
leaving it really disgusting.
That’s why these days, it isn’t discussed outside of old cooking books.
And, that’s why it became a legendary technique, right?
Yeah.
Just as you’d expect of Suwabara...
It looks like he wasn’t just a plain old traitor.
This here is a tourner.
One of the Lupan series I created using stolen techniques from various books and literary works.
Even if the ingredients and methods of preparation were the same until here,
this match will be my victory.
We did it, Kai!
It looks like you won’t have to slash your stomach after all.
Yeah, so it seems.
Now that I think of it, it’s been a long journey...
Just eat my croissant without saying anything.
Will I be able to go to heaven?
What?!
Dave-sensei and I went to heaven because of Azuma’s bread.
As long as I can’t go to heaven with your bread...
it’s your loss.
But, this time you are...
Wh-What?!
Pantasia is doing something amazing, too!
The ninja twisted the dough,
but this guy is folding it over.
I see...
It looks like at that time,
Azuma-kun came up with this idea.
Note: It’s probably called the fondue technique here because while eating fondue, you fold a piece of bread on a fork and dip it in the fondue before eating it.
Fondue, huh?
What’s that?
Like the tourner, it’s a technique to help expansion within the oven.
The tourner uses the twisted portions to help it expand in the oven.
Similarly, the fondue expands in the portions that are stuck together.
I thought of using fondue in the beginning as well,
but I knew that the expansion of the tourner was just a little better in the oven, so...
I chose this one.
Is that so?
But in that case, we’re all right.
Why do you say that?
Because, the tourner had the advantage, right?
The breads have been made in the same way after all,
and the quality of our blanchir was better, too.
In that case, it’s obvious that it’s our victory.
Y-Yeah.
Look here, Kai.
Don’t you think that you’re obsessing a little too much over Azuma?
I know that he’s an amazing baker.
But if you don’t concentrate on your own bread, you’ll lose a battle that you’ve been winning.
Th-That’s true.
Thank you for reminding me.
Monica, it’s as you say.
During a match, I should concentrate on my own bread.
Let’s start the baking, without worrying about the enemy!
Yep!
All done.
This is my Oomagari Lupan!
Also known as the Spring Onion Spiral Lupan!
Come, Kuroyana...
I mean, Mr. Judge.
You may eat.
It looks like a delicious bread.
But, for some reason... I feel like I’ve eaten this ninja’s bread before.
What’s wrong?
Oh, sorry.
Whatever.
Either way, I’ll know after eating.
Well, it looks like there wasn’t a big reaction.
Yeah...
He... He’s twisting!
Kuro-yan’s twisted 360 degrees!
540 degrees?!
I don’t quite know, but he’s all twisted for sure!
It was a wonderful bread.
Mr. Mysterious Ninja.
D-Don’t come near me, you monster!
Monster, you say?
How mean. If you say something like that...
I’ll tell the whole country that you’re Suwabara.
No matter who the baker is, their bread is left with subtle peculiarities.
I’m not so unskilled as to not be able to find that out.
Then, do as you please.
Either way, Azuma and the guys know about it already.
I will not run, nor will I hide.
Shucks.
What the...
The rest of them already knew?
How boring.
Whatever.
It’s certain that this bread was truly superb!
I could feel your resolve through the bread.
Whoa, it’s kinda awesome.
Just as you’d expect of Super Kuro.
I’ve worked with you and with other artisans, after all.
Then, this should be all right, I guess.
Then, let’s eat it quickly.
This is my Oomagari Japan.
D-Damn it!
This shape is...
It looks like your face and hands are in opposite directions, so you can’t really pick it up, huh?
In that case, I’ll feed it to you.
Here you go.
I have...
lost this battle.
Wait!
What happened, Kai?!
We’ve almost won!
So, why?
It’s impossible.
Look carefully at Azuma’s bread.
Th-This is...
The folded portion was folded once again!
That’s right.
In addition to using the fondue, Azuma folded it once again.
In other words, he did a double fondue.
Both the amount of dough-to-dough contact and the extent of expansion in the oven are doubled.
The difference between the expansion in the oven of a regular tourner and fondue is slight.
So, even with your blanchir to make up for it, we cannot win.
We won’t know that unless we’ve tried it.
Azuma might have made a mistake somewhere.
Just looking at the bread, it’s clear enough that there are no mistakes.
No, it’s just as this female ninja says.
For now, just let me eat that bread!
If you do that...
What are you, an idiot?!
If you eat this thing in the shape that you’re in right now,
all your bones will break, and you’ll die!
Mind your own business!
If I want to die eating bread, then that’s my business!
I can’t deal with you.
Farewell.
Wait, Kai!
Wait!
Give my bread back to me, you asshole!
That’s right.
This is for the best.
It’s best if only I, the traitor, die.
Don’t let him escape!
Catch him!
Since these people don’t do reactions, it shouldn’t harm their lives.
I’m sorry, Azuma.
I’m going to use this.
Ninja skill: Double Fondue Technique!
Azuma’s bread has...
You mean it is wonderful enough to make complete amateurs have reactions?!
If Kuroyanagi-san were to eat that bread...
Farewell!
Azuma...
I don’t really have the right to ask this of you, but...
What was that?!
Slash his stomach?
Suwabara is going to slash his stomach?!
That’s what Kai said.
He just might do it, too...
Please... Save Kai!
I don’t want Kai to die!
Of course!
We won’t let that happen!
But, what should we do...?
Even if we were to go searching for Suwabara-san,
without knowing where he went, it’s...
That position...
Let me take it.
B-But, Senpai!
How do you plan on looking for him?!
Don’t look down on me, a taste judge!
It’s easy enough for my nose to pick up on the scent of freshly baked bread.
That sounds dependable!
Damn it. I don’t really care if he kills himself.
But I’m going to get that bread back at all costs.
All right!
It’s decided, then.
Let’s hurry!
All right!
Sniff sniff.
It’s close!
There!
In the middle of the river, right?
The Omono River was once twisted.
But now it has been made to flow straight.
While it may have been for the sake of the battle, I betrayed my friends.
There is no place more suitable for a man as twisted as I.
Goodbye, everyone.
I will die and become a straight man once again.
Wait, Kai!
Wait, Suwabara!
Monica!
And, Azuma!
You idiot!
What will you gain from dying?!
You idiots are here, too?
You there!
You’ve been surrounded!
I don’t really care if you die, but give me back the bread!
Come on...
This guy is...
A true Bread Zombie...
Either way...
There’s no meaning to dying in this place all by yourself.
No one wishes for that!
Whether or not you wish it is not in question here.
I want to die because I know I should to settle things.
Whatever.
In that case, just die.
Manager!
But, just remember this!
It’s because of that attitude that you lost to Azuma!
Wh-What do you mean?!
The reason Azuma never compromises on his bread no matter what is because...
he’s a responsible person!
An irresponsible person like you cannot match him!
What...?
What part of me is it you find irresponsible?!
You’re plenty irresponsible.
As a man who’s dying, leaving behind a pregnant woman.
Right, Monica?
What?!
Is... Is that true, Monica?
Uh, ya... well...
It’s true!
How can this be...?
My child in Monica...?
Kai?
Let’s go, Monica!
Huh?
No huh’s...
For now, let’s leave this place.
Follow me!
Okay!
Wait, you asshole!
Leave the bread behind!
Amazing how you come up with these lies...
Can’t be sure if it’s a lie...
We should be fine after coming this far.
By the way, Monica... Since when did you know?
What?
About the child!
Oh! Umm...
For about a week...
I see.
Actually, Monica...
One day, my father said that he was going to master the way of the sword, and left home.
We still don’t know where he is.
Since childhood, I worked at a neighborhood bakery to make ends meet.
Is that so...?
That is why, ever since then, I’d decided deep in my heart...
that a person who seeks to master a path should not have children.
But...
Since you’re pregnant, it can’t be helped.
I will train again, so that the baby to be born will not be ashamed.
And this time, I’ll be sure to win against Azuma.
Kai...
I’ll definitely win,
to become a father that our child can be proud of.
Monica.
I’m not much of a guy, but...
Kai!
Kai! I love you!
But, I’m really surprised.
To think that we made a child between us...
Do women really get pregnant just by hugging a man like this?
A mystery...
All’s well that ends well!
Right?
onna ji kao wo kurikaeshi te, sekai wa kyou mo mawarundarou
The world will probably go on today, with a repetition of the same faces,
demo wa sureteita koto hitotsu
but there was one thing that I’d forgotten.
ookiku iki wo suikondara, mawari ni michita ai no katachi
If I’m to take a deep breath,
then the shape of the love that permeates my surroundings
mabushii kurai ni kirakira to
will shine so much that it’s blinding.
tooku de dareka ga yondeiru
Someone is calling me from far away...
sono koe taezu kono mune ni hibiku
And that voice constantly echoes in my heart.
chiisana yorokobi wo nosete mawari dasu merry-go-round
So, riding on my small pleasures, the merry-go-round begins to turn...
yoake no konai hi demo kokoro ni akari tomo sou
And even on days when the morning doesn’t come, it shines a light in my heart.
Next Episode
Kanmuri-kun!
I see some rather scary-looking brothers out here...
Is that so...?
I may no longer be able to continue as a baker.
Goodbye, everyone!
What was that?!
Next time, on Yakitate!! Japan,
Kanmuri’s secret!!
A jam showdown that lacks moral codes!
Kanmuri’s Secret!!
A jam showdown without moral codes!
Be sure to watch!
Yakitate Seeds of Knowledge!!
Among the ingredients in green onions is sulfur, which has a tranquilizing effect.
If you cut some up and put them at your bedside,
the relaxing scent of sulfur will allow you to sleep.
Hueeeh??