Anyway, this episode begins with everyone from the Southern Pantasia store looking depressed when they realised that Azuma sucks at making Melon bread. Thankfully, not long after this, the owner of the Sushi shop that Azuma met on his way to Izu has come to look for him. Apparently he wants to prove to Azuma that he's not a stingy bastard so he comes with a bunch of Sushi materials so he can feed Azuma and his friends for free. In the middle of the Sushi banquet, however, Azuma gets an idea for his Melon Bread and immediately bolts out to look for the ingredients. During the competition, Mizuno tries to intimidate other Southern Pantasia store's employees by showing them that she's going to use the most expensive Melon available to make her Melon bread. Not long after this, everyone in Group A completed his or her Melon bread and Kuroyan immediately fails everyone who failed to make a good one. Strangely, he doesn't say one nasty word to the losers.
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Well, the truth is, instead of saying it out loud, this time Kuroyan decides to whisper lots of nasty insults to the losers' ear to drive down that metaphorical knife to the heart of the losers. As usual though, Kuroyan is taken aback when he sees Azuma's Melon Bread aka Japan 58. The bread looks like Sushi with the bottom part being glued together with a Melon Cream to the crunchy top part of the bread. His reaction to the bread seems to be a good indicator of how good the bread turns out to be. So he declares Azuma the winner. Mizuno is pissed off because Kuroyan hasn't even tried her delicious Melon Bread (oops, unintentional pun there). But Kuroyan tells her what's delicious in her Melon Bread is not the bread but the Melon itself. So it's no dice since this is a Bread competition. Unhappy with her failure, Mizuno refuses to call Tsukino 'Sis' despite her promise. The episode then ends with Ken looking worried about Kawachi's u