Koch at the early morning opens his stall after cleaning as it is Newman’s day. In this day, people in Newman’s door street celebrate the day like Christmas and make new rules on this day. Newman’s day is celebrated for two days in end of winter. Early in the morning, Mitsu drove his cycle to Cuisine and dashed the pots of plant and water kept in the door step. Early in the morning, Koch has to clean it and mop it once again. Koch sighs for a couple of minutes and starts cleaning once again. Yorisa arrives Cuisine at Six o clock and ties his apron and started helping Koch to make dishes. Around seven o clock a huge quantity of customers and delivery orders arrive and this completes at 10.am. Koch, Yorisa and Mitsu started having their breakfast. In that time, Hakim arrives after completing his family breakfast. He entered the stall and grabbed a prune juice that was stored in refrigerator for him and started to drink it at his reserved place. Around Eleven o clock, Luna arrives and starts preparing for an afternoon dance performance in Cuisine to attract more customers. The afternoon passed with two hundred customers. At the noon break, Mitsu, Yorisa and Luna started having their lunch. Hakim was counting the money in his reserved place after completing a dozen of signboard and distributing and making a pile of flyers. During this time, a girl approached Koch.

Koch: Miss, the stall is closed now.

The girl in red dress and red veil hat covering her hairs completely replied, “I don’t want food Mister, I want to meet Hakim. Tell him that Elsa wants to meet him.”

Koch: (shouts) Hakim, you have someone to meet…. Elsa wants to meet you.

Hakim: Who? I don’t know

Elsa pushes the door of the stall and enters the place. Sees Hakim sitting in his reserved place and it is concealed by a cloth. She lifts the cloth and stares Hakim.

Hakim: (Yells)Koch, How can you allow anyone to come to my reserved seat? Is this a customer service?

Koch: (Madden by hunger, shouts) Oh, did I allow? ...And what if I allow? …at least I can get customer…...I, Yorisa, Mitsu, Luna brings customers to shop what do you do? …. Cold faced milk boy. Hakim: What did you call me? Is it my job to bring customers? It is your stall or my stall? I help you by promoting your stall and counting the money…don’t forget it. Koch: (Teasingly) Don’t forget it…. You should remember that your promotion is just vain, Luna’s promotion and my culinary skills has brought the customers and Wèi is the one who handles the finance of Cuisine not you…you don’t do anything useful…The pocket money I give you is literally waste…Yorisa’s and Mitsu’s charm can bring customers…your charm is useless.

The conversation became worser and worser, to calm down Koch, Yorisa started cooking Infront of the stall and Mitsu gave poses this attracted a huge wave of high school and college girls. Koch turns towards Hakim and says, “See what I said is true.” Hakim out of anger takes the cat hairband from Luna’s head and wears it and says, “You Old man, see my charm.” Hakim goes towards the front door and poses like a cat hello greeting etc.… Elsa who was standing there suddenly said,” So, Handsome. So elegant ...just like a wow.” This made Girls to look Hakim and they said to each other to look over the cute catboy. A girl exclaimed, “Wow, he is so cute…he is better than that handsome and hunk…I want him to make food.” Another girl approached Elsa and asked her to take photo of catboy and her. Elsa with a business mind says,” The photo is free of cost, this camera can develop photo easily after I take photo with our dream boy cat boy but catboy can only take photo with us only when you guys eat something from Cuisine food stall, it is a latest camera ‘s developing model. It is so rare do get a photo on it with catboy. Girls became so happy. The news spreads, Cuisine is place where you get delicious food and photograph with cute catboy instantly among high school and college students. Due to this Cuisine had Three hundred customers in noon break which was an impossible record to happen. The evening of day passed solely by Koch culinary skills and had about One hundred Fifty customers with Elsa ‘s help. In the night, all gathered and Koch gave Hakim a cold medicine and says, “You clean freak, you bathed for 20 times today and developed cold but you will not ask for medicine.” And then thanks Elsa. Exhausted heroes Yorisa and Mitsu fell asleep. Suffering Hakim goes back to his home. At this situation Luna removes the veil hat of Elsa and asks Elsa about her reason to meet Hakim and apologized to her for letting her to work and forget to talk to Hakim. Elsa says, “I just want him to stay with me forever for it anything is worthy.” Koch arrives and instructs two girls to stay in his house or Hakim’s house has it too dark to move out. Both of them stayed in the shop itself for the entire night.

The Early Morning sunlight woke Yorisa from his sleep. He stood up and glanced the people around him then he puts blankets for everyone and kept the heater near to them. He then slowly opens the door and moves back to his home to do his daily chores. Around seven o clock both the girls woke up. They started teasing Mitsu for his way of sleeping. Yorisa enters and says, “Thank god, it was first Newman’s door day. So, our parents will not worry about us as on this day we spend it with our friends. Now it’s the second day, we have to head home. By the way Elsa do you live nearby? I have never seen you ere yesterday and why did you want to meet Hakim…Sorry for not allowing you to talk with him yesterday…we tend to forget everything when we work.” Elsa looks into eyes of Yorisa and says, “I heard this stall is offering a job and Mr. Hakim gave an advertisement for it.” Mitsu who had listened to them says, “Oh Elsa, We work here for the taste of food and Koch gives us some pocket money but he can’t give you a salary.” Luna silently sued the boys and held the hands of Elsa and says, “You can be the cashier in the stall and by this way you can get along with Hakim easily.” Both smiles and exits the stall.

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By Evening all gather together to end the festive in Cuisine. Suddenly, a huge number of people marched towards Cuisine. Koch was very happy as he thought they were customers but to his surprise they were not customers. They were headed by Chairman of Newman Commerce Chamber, 1945 and by Countess of Peony. By seeing two radiant important public personalities Koch was sure that something big would happen. As Koch expected they were about to announce but before that President of Rose company, a soap manufacturing company interrupted and commends the youngsters to move with them and only let Countess, Chairman, Mayor of Newman’s Door street and Koch alone in the stall for a while. All left and followed the command.

Countess:(clears her throat) Mr. Koch, How do you do?

Koch: Miss, get to the point

Mayor: You see, yesterday was Newman’s day and as usual we meet with other streets in south. We did it and found out that the Tales street had plotted some spies and caught our spies and some business and tax secret got exposed. Our business stocks in England have seen a great down fall due to it…we negotiated about this matter with Tales street’s dignitaries. We ended up with a match…stall of each city which has seen more customers on yesterday has to combat in a cooking battle. If we win, we get Tales Street’s secret missions and our spies and stocks and if we lose, we have to evacuate Newman’s Door street leaving behind the wealth. As it is not a trivial matter, we chose you.

Koch:(laughs) For me it’s a trivial matter. There are hundreds of food stalls bigger than Cuisine which had better count of customers than Cuisine yesterday like Joy man shop etc… why don’t you try with them? I am not interested in the combat. If nothing else then navigate yourself to the door. Don’t disturb my business. I have to prepare for my daughter’s arrival.

Chairman: Do you want some money?

Koch:(Angrily) I guess I made myself clear. Find someone who is interested.

Countess:(Shouts) Even though there are hundred head chefs only you can compete in this combat. The opposite side is Mr. Triche.

Koch: That brat, don’t worry I will talk with him and cancel the combat.

Countess:(yells) You can’t, you can’t, can’t! He is supporting Tales street’s evil mayor and he wants the Urama vase, it is the winning prize that had been allotted. If you win you will get it and if you lose, they will get the vase and Peony heart.

Koch:(shouts) Who allowed you to stake Peony heart and how is Urama Vase in the bet? You know the importance of both… if they go in wrong hands then the world will not me in peace. How can you?

Countess:(Calmly) Listen carefully, when I was searching the Urama vase with my troop we got a part of map of it and other was taken by Tales. I have the key to open it but I can’t bring back the vase without the map. So, I used this opportunity to get the map for which I staked the Peony heart. I heard from my sources that Tales has joined hands with some evil gang and is plotting to use the vase in a wrong way. So, only this match can save the world. Here is the challenge letter, Sign it.

Suddenly all men except Koch fainted and arrows were launched from air then followed bullets but none shot Koch and Countess. After a pause, men in black dress and black hat entered and started to attack. One man said, “Old man, I guess the powers of you has exhausted. So, you better surrender to us otherwise I may cook and eat you.” Eyes of Koch sparkled with golden colour and he stretched his hands and pointed it towards the goons, as he did it the knifes from the kitchen attacked the trespassers. The count of black dressed men increased but all were shot down by Koch. Out of nowhere men in violet dress with a mask emerged. They stretched their hands and as they did it salt, eggs, pan, oil, wine, sugar, pepper etc... appeared in the air and flew towards Koch and Countess, Koch dogged it all with knifes and broke items like egg and pan but he couldn’t defend the power of wine. The wine shot him, intoxicated him and made him to lose his conscience. Men in violet used this chance to attack again and were successful in it. The sharp knifes could cut anything anymore and the eggs hit Koch’s shoulders successively. The pan hit Koch’s face very hard rapidly and the pepper entering his nose and skin causing irritation. All these led to Koch to bleed, Koch’s sleeves were covered by full of blood from his shoulders and the floor was wet by the blood from Koch’s nose. Now a man waved his hands towards Koch, the salt moves toward Koch and deposits in his wounds. The paint made Koch to fall on the floor and cry hard and faint. Countess yells and thank god for allowing her to be a human who has no powers. A man in violet steps forward and tells, “Countess, give us the peony heart. You know we didn’t attack you as you don’t have any power. You relied on this old man, what a shame, he used his all powers to knock out silly low-level army. We, Cullinan who has culinary powers that can be used to threat and treat the world ask you, a Lobian, assistant of Culinan and keeper of culinary treasure to hand over the peony heart. It is all the same if it is in your hands or in my master’s hand. It will be the best for you to hand over it fast or we may attack you too, I know I can’t use my powers on you because of peony heart but remember I can use