This chapter definitely highlighted a few things

After reading this chapter, I think Jouichiro began stagnating like Shinomiya was and it was probably a major factor in him leaving Tootsuki. Like Shinomiya he achieved alot of things quickly and thus he no longer had any idea of where to go next in terms of cooking. At Tooksuki he had perfected one style of cooking but it wasn't his style and he probably realized that in order for his cooking to grow, he could no longer remain at Tooksuki. And that's probably why Azami's so hell bent on remaking Tootsuki, afterall when Jouichiro was there he thought Jouichiro's style of cooking at the time was the ideal cooking but then his idol suddenly drops out of school and disappears, and re-imerges with a completely different style of cooking. And as such he deems Tooksuki as the place that ruined Jouichiro but he also blames the outside world and rejects it and the Jouichiro's new style. Which is why he rejects the rebels, because like Jouichiro their style of cooking is not limited to one thing or an imitation of someone else's. Azami's probably spent his life trying to catch up to or surpass Jouichiro but since he's failed he's trying to crush everything they stand for. I wouldn't be surprised if Azami's style of cooking was a imitation of Jouichiro's previous style of cooking. And more than anything he seems to want Jouichiro to acknowledge him

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