A foreigner, called Shiketa, whom the kuitan met at a dinner was brought in to the agency office. He was in search of a springy, hard Japanese food, which turned out to be Kakuni. To help his search, Kyōko cooked various types of kakuni, but none fitted the taste Shiketa remembered.
Meanwhile, a diplomat Raymond from an oil-rich country visited Chief Yamada and urgently requested police to find the whereabouts of their prince. According to his story, suspicious activity has been detected surrounding the heir prince. Momo and Igarashi were ordered to find the prince and handed down a picture of the prince.
The detectives came over to the agency and found out Shiketa was the lost prince that police was looking for. Oblivious to the development in the office, the Kuitan, Ryōsuke, and Shiketa hopped from one Japanese restaurant to another. Amid this, a sniper attacked the prince, and the surprised kuitan and Ryōsuke lost Shiketa. Momo and Igarashi, who scrambled to the scene, explained the situation to the kuitan. Subsequently, the kuitan found Shiketa in another restaurant and obtained an important clue to the mystery of the food, tofu skin. The food that they all thought kakuni turned out to be a vegetarian imitation. The chewing sensation that was absent from the dishes Kyōko cooked was created by the springiness of tofu skin.
Eventually, Shiketa took out a Japanese wooden bowl and chopsticks that contained a family symbol and told the members of the agency that these were gifts from his mother, who had left his country when he was young. By locating a restaurant that carried the symbol, the kuitan successfully located Shiketa’s mother.
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