Blessing from the Goddess and Transfer to Another World! ~No Thanks, I Don’t Need a Special Ability~ Chapter 43.5

Chapter 43.5 Food Fight! Sera (First half)

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The town of Liraluka that is on the national border of Kastal Queendom and Eludia kingdom.

On this day is a once-year festival. Its name, “Food fight champions.h.i.+p”. The grounds where thousands of spectators and hundred partic.i.p.ants gathered together was enlivening the border city at an all-time high.

[Alright, it has started this year as well! The annual Food Fight champions.h.i.+p! The stalwarts who have done harsh training for the sake of this day have been eagerly awaiting the start of the contest!]

The host holding the mic (Kastal queendom loaned magic item) begins live broadcasting as though to speak the voices of the partic.i.p.ants.

[With Kastal not supporting the Heroes, the two countries are somewhat on edge, but such things are irrelevant to Food Fight! Let’s be enthusiastic this year as well!]

[So you’re going to tread through things that are hard to say yourself. Yes.]

It was announced that currently Kastal will not be giving support in regards to Eludia’s performed Hero Summon. Kastal had deep affinity with Heroes in the past and Eludia who thus thought they would naturally give their support to the Heroes, is in the process of requesting for a repeal together with complaints.

[Serving you as the host is I, Mic Amplifier of the live broadcasting guild!]

[Umm, this is Nino, Kastal’s cooking commentator. Yes. I’m looking forward to working with you. Yes.]

[This is Dolton, Eludia’s cooking commentator.]

Sitting on the host seats besides Mic (person’s name) is a man in his forties and girl in her early teens.

[Yes! I’m looking forward to working with you, cooking commentator lady and gentleman! Now then, I think I’d finally like to move on to the explanations of the rules! I believe there are many of you ladies and gentlemen who know them, but I cannot just drop it. There are also some changes in the rules, so please go through them with me!]

As Mic said so, a gigantic panel was set up throughout the grounds.

[The first rule! As you all know, the tournament alternates between Food matches and Fight matches and the one who remains at the very end becomes the champion! The Food matches are the so-called binge eating contest and Fight matches are fighting contests! Just by binge eating! And just by strength won’t let you remain victorious! Meaning this will become a harsh battle!]

It is unknown who had begun thinking of what, but it is a compet.i.tion that already boasts a history of more than twenty years and there are many fans in every place. A world tournament is planned to be opened and it is in course of conducting adjustments of schedule for each nation. What about the demons.

[First, I will explain the whole flow of the tournament! What comes at the beginning is a binge eating contest! With this, the number of partic.i.p.ants will first be decreased to 40! The number of partic.i.p.ants have been increasing every year after all. The commemorative partic.i.p.ants will start here!]

10,000g partic.i.p.ation fee is required for the Food Fight tournament. It is quite the amount of money for a tournament partic.i.p.ation fee, but considering the management of the grounds, cooking expenses etc, it is natural in a sense.

Due to the partic.i.p.ation fee of the commemorative partic.i.p.ants (just

partic.i.p.ating becomes proof of a chivalrous spirit), they were able to secure a surplus, so the fact that there aren’t any anxieties in holding the next event is important.

[Next, the remaining 40 people will carry out a fighting contest! We will halve the amount of partic.i.p.ants with this which means 20 partic.i.p.ants will be left!]

For humans, it is quite harsh to do an extreme work-out immediately after eating. This is what they mean with “Harsh battle”.

[After the end of all the battlles, there will be a binge eating contest with the remaining 20 partic.i.p.ants after a ten minute rest. After decreasing the partic.i.p.ants to 10 people, we conduct afighting contest which would leave five partic.i.p.ants and then a binge eating contest with the five until two are left and at the end a fighting contest for the finals!]

Meaning it’s binge eating contest(many numbers > 40 people) > fighting contest(40 > 20 people) >binge eating contest (20 > 10 people) > fighting contest (10 > 5 people) > binge eating contest(5 > 2 people) > fighting contest (2 > 1 person).

It is quite harsh.

[Now onto the minor rules! First are the Food matches! You receive thirty minutes in each contest to keep eating one of the dishes and you compete with the number of completely emptied plates! Naturally, the top will earn the entry qualifications to the fight matches! In case of equal plates, the one with less weight on the last dish wins!]

[If you allow me to speak as a chef, I’d like everyone to savour the taste of our cuisine as much as possible! Yes!]

[It is that sort of battle. Give it up.]

[I do know that though. Yes……]

Cooking commentator Nino seems to be having somewhat of a guilty conscience for the dishes for the binge eating. Dolton seems to have adjusted himself in that area..

[And the other rules that were decided on are: dishes can only be carried one at a time and also “No transformation allowed” and “No using magic”.]

[What is transfomation? Yes.]

[Beastmen have a secret art called . There was someone who chose a method to transform their stomach size and digestion speed and increase the amount they could eat. It was approved in that contest, but was banned from thereon.]

[Thank for your easy to understand explanation, Dolton-san! Yes!]

was the direct cause of this, but to make sure other identical tricks won’t be used, they put them all in “No transformation allowed”.

[Next is the fight match explanation! It is a one-on-one match! A fight with no weapons! Magic and transformation are now banned here too! Contest time is 30 minutes just like the eating contest and the outcome will be decided by being off the grounds, fainting, surrendering or vomiting! It will be a normal arrest in the case you kill your opponent! In case of a time out, the winner will be decided by their ranks in the previous food match!]

[Vomiting is a defeat condition? Yes.]

[Of course. We cannot possibly grant victory to the people who would waste food.]

[That is also true isn’t it. Yes.]

n.o.body purposefully explained it, but even if one vomits, it is safe if it isn’t spit out. There are no problems if one swallows it as is. It is not taken into account on this occasion whether as a person this is a problem or not.

[And this is the meat of

of Food Fight! The partic.i.p.ants will enter the fight match with 1 kg of weights for each dish less than the top partic.i.p.ant in the food match! The person who barely pa.s.s through the food match will be in quite the unfavorable position! Oh, the fight match pairing is completely random, so don’t get me wrong there.]

For instance if the top eats 100 plates and the one who barely pa.s.sed through the preliminaries eats 50, then the partic.i.p.ant who barely pa.s.sed will have to fight with 50 kg of weights on them. Of course the ones who have eaten will have a heavier stomach the more they eat, so it will be a difficult fight dealing with that. The fact you don’t even know how much your opponent has eaten makes the match depend on each partic.i.p.ant’s judgment, tactics and luck.

[Now, it’s the end of the rule explanation! We’re about to start immediately with the first food fight! The partic.i.p.ants seem to be close to their limits of hunger!]

[Well, they have gone without lunch haven’t they. Yes.]

[Of course they would. There hasn’t been even a single person who has eaten a meal and then partic.i.p.ated until now as you would have expected.]

Currently it’s one hour past noon.

[And now, the cooking for the first match is! This! Tadah!]

The host says “Tadah” by herself. She is a model host.

[It’s Smullen Bakery’s Yakisoba bread!]

-*zawazawa*-

The partic.i.p.ants are murmuring.

[To think, the staple food + staple food death combo would be in the first contest……]

[Heh, this level of food isn’t much of an opponent to my well trained stomach.]

[Stuffing your stomach isn’t the problem. The problem is that you get thirsty. The timing of your water intake is going to decide the match.]

[You mean they’re trying to fill our stomach with water from the first round? Heh, they’re completely mad. Not that I hate them.]

It is a tournament with a seemingly large group of junkies in good vibes.

Simultaneously with the announcement, dishes of yakisoba bread are distributed to each partic.i.p.ant.

[This is the best seller of Smullen Bakery whose store is established at Eludia capital city, the Yakisoba bread! It is a dish that uses the cuisine conveyed by the Heroes recently and jumped to the top in a flas.h.!.+ It is highly favored by young men in their prime. Each dish has one bread!]

[Is it really popular? Yes.]

[Yes, however I understood from an investigation that it would destroy your physical health if you keep eating only that……]

[Okay, cooking commentators! Please don’t say anything that will dampen their enthusiasm!]

[Pardon me.]

[I’m sorry. Yes.]

The two cooking commentators apologized obediently.

[Okay then, first round, food match! Begin!]

Partic.i.p.ants altogether immediately sunk their teeth into the yakisoba bread together with the host’s signal.

[Now then, five minutes left for the food match! Currently the first place is S rank adventurer from Kastal and also the last year’s victor! Contestant Galion!]

[He’s eating with an amazing speed. He already pa.s.sed 70 plates……]

The first place Galion keeps eating at a pace of at least one yakisoba bread every 30 seconds.

[I will probably be full with two plates of those. Yes……]

Telling a girl in her early teens to eat a large amount of Yakisoba bread should be harsh.

[And the one running behind him is partic.i.p.ating for the first time today! It’s one of the few female partic.i.p.ants, contestant Sara! She has finished 70 dishes!]

In another table, a blond woman around her twenties is

twenties is eating yakisoba pan with a speed approaching Galion.

Perhaps, there’s no great different in simple eating speed with Galion, but the lady called Sara is eating carefully and elegantly, which causes some differences between them. Evidence of that is that Galion’s table has yakisoba scattered around (you can waste up to a certain weight per dish), but Sara’s table is kept clean.

[Amazing isn’t it. Contestant Se, cough, Sara. It’s surprising that a fellow woman can eat this much. Yes.]

[It’s not 0, but most of the female partic.i.p.ants are defeated at the first fighting contest you see.]

When it actually comes to binge eating, women having such forte are by no means scarce. However, that number drops sharply when it comes women who wins the binge eating and are also confident in combat. Because of that, a few female partic.i.p.ants won’t reach the fight match, but most would surrender at the fight match.

[That onee-chan over there is being risky. She didn’t drink even a single drop of water until now. She’s completely mad. Not that I hate her.]

[Impossible! Even with this stomach of mine I took ten gla.s.ses while eating ten dishes!]

[Being thirsty is unrelated to your stomach. You, you must be an idiot. Also you’re drinking too much.]

As was said by the Junkie partic.i.p.ants, Sara hasn’t drunk even a single cup of her beverage.

Eating dry food like bread in large quant.i.ties without water is a suicidal act, so let’s refrain from doing so.

[Food match is over~!]

30 minutes pa.s.sed and the contest has ended. More than half of the partic.i.p.ants have retired and have gone to the spectator’s side. Since there are a lot of people here and it takes a lot of time to move everyone after the contest is over, they were recommended to move in advance.

[Not surprising for the most part, contestant Galion is the top scorer with 81 plates~!]

-Ohh~!-

Even the spectators are letting out a voice of admiration.

[The second place is regrettably 79 plates! Contestant Sara~!

-*Clap*-

Getting second place in a food match as a woman is normally a spectacular feat. And because of Sara being delicate (except her b.r.e.a.s.t.s), they must be afraid that she is likely to withdraw from the fight match. It is a pity that she wasn’t able to take first place, but it goes without saying that she has gotten a satisfying result, so she was showered with a generous applause from the audience.

Sara looked like she didn’t understand why she was applauded.

[Now, we will move on to the fight match. The 40 remaining contestants, please draw a lot and continue to the ring of the indicated number!]

Changing locations from the food match, the contestants move to the grounds with 20 rings lined up.

A (Ring) is a 10 by 10m stone pavement, positioned 50 cm above ground. You will be disqualified if you fall from there.

The ring isn’t really large, but that usually doesn’t matter for weaponless hand to hand combat.

The weight to be added for the difference with the top are done by attaching rings of 1kg, 5kg and 10kg on the wrists and/or ankles. They’re individially free in its distribution and arrangement. There is also the tactic to put everything on the arms and raising the strength of a blow, so they are surprisingly not to be trifled with. That the way of eating and way of fighting are all connected to victory is one of the interesting of the interesting points of this Food Fight.

[Well then, please get on your respective ring! If you’re surrendering, then it will be easier later if you announce it at this stage, so if you please!]

At this point in time, several partic.i.p.ants request for their surrender.

[Tch~, my opponent withdrew again. If I don’t move lightly and stuff then it’s going to affect the next food match.]

The ones who announced their surrender are the female partic.i.p.ants or partic.i.p.ants who judged their opponent is too badly matched. Specifically the opponent of the S rank adventurer Galion. Since Galion has no fight anymore due to his opponent withdrawing, he lightly runs around, seemingly to encourage digestion of the food.

[What is going on here~! Contestant Sara hasn’t withdrawn! She’s on the ring. Her opponent, Contestant Pymund couldn’t hide his surprise either. Also his gaze isn’t going away from her b.r.e.a.s.t.s!]

Sara’s b.r.e.a.s.t.s has a reasonably destructive power. The opponent’s line of sight is constantly locked onto Sara’s b.r.e.a.s.t.s.

[He is the worst, isn’t he. Yes.]

[He is the worst.]

[Harsh words from the cooking commentators! However Pymund is fixated to her b.r.e.a.s.t.s without caring about that~!]

Pymund’s appearance is, frankly said, unattractive. He didn’t seem to have any female friends. What must be reflecting in his eyes at this moment?

The female spectators are worried about Sara’s physical safety.

[Well then, I feel some anxiety but it’s time. Now, the 2nd round, fight match! Begin!]

By the host’s signal, all matches start simultaneously.

Most of spectators’ line of sight is glued to Sara’s match. Half of male spectators are in antic.i.p.ation and the other half in disgust. Of the female spectators 100% are in disgust.

[Oh~~! Pymund! He dashes ferociously to try and grab contestant Sara! The locations of those hands of his are! Full of intentions to grope her b.r.e.a.s.t.s no matter how you look at it~!]

[He’s trash isn’t he. Yes.]

[He is trash.]

Without being discouraged by the severe comments, Pymund, who is supported by 1/4th of the spectators and turned 3/4th of the spectators into his enemy, fiercely swoops down towards Sara.

The moment the women antic.i.p.ate the tragedy and try to turn away their eyes.

-*Crash*-

[Eh? What? Just when I thought Contestant Sara moved, Contestant Pymund’s weights dropped down?]

The live broadcast couldn’t broadcast it live, but the instant she thought Sara moved, her figure moved 5 meters from her kick-off and got behind Pymund.

And then the weights on Pymund’s arms broke and fell on the ground.

The bracelet is made from metal and it’s the type that adjusts its size after putting it on. It would neither come off nor break easily. Those are rolling on the ground in a bent state as if they were crushed by hand.

[Err, in the tournament regulations, fighting with weights on is determined to be the rule, so with the weights being damaged, it becomes contestant Pymund’s defeat. So, it is contestant Sara’s victory!]

-O-Ohhh~!?-

Spectators could not understand well what happened either. The only one who was able to properly understand it was Galion who stretching nearby in order to barge in immediately when Pymund crosses the line.

(To think this me barely followed her with my own eyes…… d.a.m.n it, are you telling me that beside the guy who beat the demon in the royal castle, there’s another such monster in Kastal?)

After that, Pymund left Liraluka town in order to run away. The looks of 100% genuine scorn from the women was harsh as expected.