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Sample image of Melonbooks' bonus card for buying Shirabe Meshi vol. 8 from them

More color art for Shirabe Meshi that was posted on Take Comic's official twitter. I don't know if this is in the actual final chapter as of yet since I've been reading them once they're free and chapter 50 is currently behind a paywall

The chapter starts with Shirabe in Flower thanking the woman there for a tofu nugget recipe for Nastassja but after eating them, she said that humanity no longer has need of animal protein and should only eat soy, going from one extreme of only wanting to meat to never wanting meat. Of course, eggs were used in the nuggets, so it's not like they were vegan.

The woman then says that she wanted to talk to Shirabe about something while she's there, that with all the help Chris and the others have given, the shopping district has become more lively and new shops are popping up, so she wanted to think up some new recipes as a challenge

Shirabe starts to mention having an idea, but before she can get more out, she gets a call from HQ

It turns out Adam (who had previously escaped some chapters ago) has invited the six Symphogear wielders to a dinner party.

Chris immediately calls it out for being an obvious trap, but Tsubasa says that if you don't enter the tiger's den, you can't catch its cub (a Japanese idiom meaning that sometimes you have to take risks to get results, "nothing ventured, nothing gained" basically...)

Genjuro informs them that the location is an abandoned lab somewhere in the mountains around Tokyo...in other words, the one that Dr. Ver had been in. This is their best chance to catch those two, so they accept the invitation and go to the lab

Dr. Ver welcomes them all there. The others at HQ are surprised at first because the area had been under surveillance, but Elfnein points out that he probably used a teleport gem to get inside and wait for them.

After a short confrontation, he takes out a teleport gem and sends everyone elsewhere

The girls try to figure out where they are so Tsubasa contacts HQ and asks their coordinates, but unfortunately it seems a barrier set up by alchemy is interfering with their ability to detect where they are

Adam himself answers that they are at a banquet

Adam says to eat and talk, but the girls will have none of that and announce that they're going to capture them...only for their Gears to not respond

Because of course Dr. Ver used Anti_LiNKER and then has the nerve to summon Noise to keep the girls there. Adam tells them to sit down and eat, since it's a banquet.

Maria takes note of what's there: Bread, wine, some fish and lemon...and tells everyone in the group to not drink the wine. They try the food and...

"It doesn't really taste all that good"

Tsubasa says it's not that it's outright bad, but she can't say it's good either. Maria says the bread is dry and the lemon is just there to cover up the odor of the fish. Kirika complains that the flavor is hard to stomach unless you're really hungry

Tiki takes offense to this, saying that she was told eating katsudon all the time was boring so she tried to make something that felt more like a proper dinner to which Hibiki says she'd rather have the katsudon

Tsubasa says that there has to be some ulterior motive to forcing them to sit at the table so Adam shows them Noise unleashed on the city

Adam goes on to explain that it's to summon the Anunnaki back to Earth. He knows they're watching from the moon and that they're somewhat overprotective, so of course they wouldn't abandon humanity in a time of crisis and he'll use the opportunity to take them down

Kirika realizes he didn't even notice Shem-Ha was in the sauna right next to the one he was in back in chapter 42. Hibiki also points out that she's come down to Earth several times to eat on top of that. Shirabe kind of feels sorry for him. Chris just wonders why Adam stripped.

Just then, Elfnein realizes what's been up with the Noise: They're fake ones, a variation of Alca-Noise. Dr. Ver got the recipe for Alca-Noise at the Chateau, but of course he wants to be a hero, so his idea was to just make people scared of them so he could step in and it'd look like he saved everyone

Elfnein starts beating herself up over the fact that she assumed they were regular Noise just from their appearance, but Genjuro says that it doesn't matter if they're Noise or whatever, they're still to be considered a threat and they need to find the coordinates of the girls

Shirabe wonders why the banquet was even necessary if they were just going to keep them from using their Gears and hold them there. She points out Adam is a gourmet, but no matter how much good food he eats, he's alone.

She asks if maybe he really just wanted to share that with others

"A human lacking in so many ways dares to suggest that someone perfect and complete as myself is unsatisfied?"

(meanwhile Tiki is offended that he wanted to eat with girls other than herself)

And the girls one by one acknowledge the many ways they're imperfect, coming to the conclusion: "It's because we're imperfect that we can change, that we can connect and become better than we were"

But Adam just says that it's a laughable speech, and that the world is trivial to someone who is perfect like him and orders the fake Noise to attack but they don't do anything

Adam asks Ver why they're not attacking and Ver says that he learned from his mistakes. His likability will decrease as people die so he's limiting it to just scaring them

So of course Adam considers Ver a traitor now. Seeing that Adam is angry and might attack him, Ver says that maybe he'll negate the Anti_LiNKER and give them LiNKER instead and have Adam deal with the God Slayer.

Shirabe speaks up: "We were served food so there must be a kitchen here. Since this seems to be a stalemate, we should at least continue the banquet." Hibiki realizes they haven't really talked yet either which is something she obviously wants to do because...she's Hibiki.

Shirabe starts to get up to make food when they hear a loud rumbling sound. Chris thinks it's Tsubasa at first, but it was Adam's stomach growling

This chapter ends with Shirabe getting ready to cook.