The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - Vol. 10 Ch. 83 - Rentarou's Family vs. Challenge Ramen

[BDK1111]

Also, quick minor details to the ramen chef. Each new challenge dish she makes has an outcome. The hot as hell, sweaty. The steamy-as-hell, assault to the eyes. Tough-as-hell, chipped tooth. Messy-as-hell, sauce all over her.

 

[TheFroz3nOne]

Im pretty much sure that's the difference between long term and short term memory

nano doesn’t really have short term memory though, she has thousands of digits of pi memorized. She’s just that efficient at learning.

 

[database727]

didnot expect ds3 reference here lol

 

[DarkenerPlays]

I'm confused though. Why did she gave up? With that kind of order and they keep coming, the place will make BANK and will probably be the biggest place in the area.

she probably just wants to make people suffer through ramen

 

[Marshal_Zhukov]

Future GF?

 

[SantoDios]

I love that everyone actually loved the taste of the ramen, so the woman was genuinely talented at cooking, she was just too obsessed with the challenge to take advantage of that

 

[Lunkli]

Whenever I see a "super spicy ramen" chapter like this in a manga, I always think "Okay, but how spicy is this really?" The Japanese are quite famously very intolerant of spice. They think freaking wasabi is spicy.

 

[Taper]

Nano's flex on the "Jugemu Jugemu" ramen was even more impressive when you consider that Shizuka does memorize all her books, just to be able to talk. (Admittedly, she probably usually takes more time than a mere glance to do it.)

...though I can't believe I didn't realize earlier that Shizuka may have had less trouble memorizing the name of the dish and more trouble assembling it — she had to fall back to raw syllables to find "Jugemu" in her books.

(I've been running with the headcanon that, as varied as Shizuka's quotations get — from the high-flown fantasy novel descriptions and dialogue to stuff that sounds like it's from a yakuza story — it's all still from the Circlet Love Story series. And from this chapter, I'm adding the detail that the one talking like a Yakuza is Kamakuru's street-tough squire named "Gonzales".)

 

[EirikrInnMyrkr]

I'm confused though. Why did she gave up? With that kind of order and they keep coming, the place will make BANK and will probably be the biggest place in the area.

She wasn't making any money on the challenge orders, though. If you finished the challenge orders, you didn't have to pay for them. That was the setup.

Plus, at the beginning, she stated her motive for making impossible challenge meals was to make other people suffer the ignominy of defeat like she did, not the money.

 

[thatNEET_]

That's gotta be the best AOT reference in the series! XD

 

[Hefnef]

I am kind of lost though
If the point of challenge orders is that you don’t have to pay if you finish it
And if the point of the Expensive-As-Hell Ramen is to be, well, expensive

How is it a challenge order? Do you have to pay regardless? Do you get the money back if you win? What are the rules?

 

[VargaDragres]

How is it a challenge order? Do you have to pay regardless? Do you get the money back if you win? What are the rules?

The point of the challenge was that it was so expensive no one would even bother trying to challenge it. It was not really meant to be feasible as a challenge, just something the owner could put to save her damaged pride. It's why her very last challenge literally put everything in her inventory into the single bowl despite how stupid that is as a business decision: so what if the person failed the challenge, you just put your entire inventory of ingredients to waste on top of all the other debt you accrued. It's why the final blurb said she'll be in debt for the next decade: she may be a good cook, but she's an awful business owner.

Future GF?

Maybe? The volume extra doesn't show her locking eyes with Rentarou, we never see her do so this chapter, and it could be justified that she was so focused on Kurumi as the challenger she barely acknowledged Rentarou's existence this chapter. Granted, if she does return she's gonna be in monumental debt and probably nursing a grudge blaming the family for "ruining" her business... even though it was her own spiteful nature and horrible business acumen that was responsible.