LORE - 10 - Kaiyō Sushi (Patreon)

A unique issue for coastal cities is the effect of overfishing for restaurants and other eating establishments that rely on seafood for their menus. 

While some have simply chosen to shut down upon the scarcity of mainstays such as tuna, and salmon, others have learned to evolve and adapt; rotating their menus and even creating their own self-sustaining farms to ensure their survival in the food industry. It isn't easy, but with the demand for decent seafood alternatives continuing to grow, it's certainly lucrative.

Kaiyō Sushi is a store that thrives on creativity - something that the original owner,  Shōzō Tanaka, believed in the power of. By inventing rolls with unique, readily-available ingredients, sushi could still be the cheap, fresh meal that it had always been, without stretching the limits of what they could afford. They still dabble in seafood, as per their namesake, but the most important factor became representing the ocean through flavor, instead of content.

Difficulties arose as Tanaka grew too old to manage the store - and with fewer and fewer people approaching apprenticeships for such a rare (and potentially extinct) career, he soon feared that the store would be another of the many seafood restaurants taking the plunge. But before his death, he would meet someone who would change the fate of  Kaiyō Sushi forever - a Sukiyabashi SVC-FFX model known as Chizui.

Now, Kaiyō Sushi is under different management. But it is stronger than ever - with the immense library of flavor profiles that Chizui holds, this sushi stall creates combinations that even her master couldn't conceive of. Nowadays, tourists travel to D10 for the interesting foods on display - with androids like Chizui to thank for their unique-yet-familiar meals.