Ep. 41: Team Ichigo faces oven failure and meets Ricardo during the food wagon match.

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Judges reveal the food wagon theme, but Team Ichigo’s oven breaks, creating a crisis. The landlady provides a heavy-duty vacuum and recounts her gelato shop closure three years ago. Consequently, the team decides to prepare gelato for the competition. While in town, they encounter Ricardo. The three Sweets Princes glare at him with jealousy. Ricardo then declares that Ichigo will become his girlfriend if his team wins the match. This announcement adds personal stakes to the culinary battle. The team must overcome their equipment failure and rival intimidation to succeed in the upcoming round, relying on the landlady’s past experience and their new strategy to compete against the other princes.