"Did you get the wrong one?"
Koyanskaya looked at the ramen in her bowl, which was clearly the wrong variety, then turned to glare darkly at Cat Princess beside her, her pretty face filled with fury.
Your Tonkotsu Ramen looked like this? You were deliberately screwing with me, weren't you?!
"That's right. To increase the game's difficulty, starting from the 500th bowl, every hundred bowls after that, the original Tonkotsu Ramen will be replaced with a new variety from one of our sponsors—the Mapo Ramen!"
Cat Princess answered solemnly, then narrowed her eyes with a disdainful look.
"After all that talk, don't tell me you're too scared to eat it?"
"What a joke. What could I possibly be scared of? I'm super brave! It's just one tiny bowl of noodles. You think this can stop me?"
Hearing the little thing's ill-intentioned mockery, Koyanskaya pursed her lips and snorted. She then picked up the Mapo Ramen covered in a thick layer of red oil, confidently stirred it with her chopsticks, and sucked it into her mouth.
The next moment, as the ramen drenched in mapo broth entered her stomach, the canine creature with the sensitive tongue was struck as though by lightning. Her face shifted from white to blue, blue to red, red to green, until even her vision went completely black.
Bang!
Accompanied by a dull thud, a lovely head plunged stiffly into the soup bowl, splashing scarlet broth everywhere. It did not move again.
"Zero! Koyanskaya is eliminated!"
Cat Princess, hiding her malicious glee, leaped onto the table and immediately counted down to zero, loudly and excitedly announcing the canine creature's defeat.
At once, the cat fairies throughout the venue erupted in cheers, while the medics were nowhere to be seen. Trash Fox was left soaking in the soup