With Team Japan’s upset of the French team, it looks as if it’s smooth sail for Kazuma and the gang to win the Monaco Cup. But during the group’s little celebration after their victory, Ryou had to lay down the bad news that the American team may be more formidable than they seemed since Shachihoko’s bread had placed 3rd in the competition, meaning the other 2 American members had comparable or even better baking skills. To make matters even more interesting, Mikhail Scupper, the winner of the F1 race at Monaco, declared in an interview that the Go pan created by Shadow from Team America was better than Kama’s Japan #51. But fortunately, Kazuma didn’t take the defeat too hard as he declared that it’ll only drive him to work even harder after he saw Shadow knead bread like a seasoned baker.
Meanwhile, the final round of competition was announced where there will be three themes: Clothing, Food, and Shelter. Each person on a team will take one theme and battle it out with another person from the opposite team, and the winning team will have to win two of the three themes to win outright. Suwabara decides to take the clothing theme, which is to bake a bread that is both appealing to the eye as well as the taste buds. Kawachi takes the food theme, which is to come up with a delicious dinner bread that can go with everyday food. Kazuma takes the shelter theme, which is most appropriate for him since the task is to develop a bread that represents your homeland. Later, we find that from Team America, Monica Adenauer will be taking the clothing theme, Shack will take the food theme, and Shadow will take the shelter theme. At first, Suwabara is disappointed since he figured that Monica was probably the weakest of the three American team members, but Ryou (with a surprise call from Kidd 
) discovered that Monica was a world pastry champion. Upon hearing this, Suwabara gets himself fired up since he knows that his opponent is formidable.
The day of the clothing theme comes around, and Kai is caught off guard when Monica walks in wearing a bikini, but as you can see from the screencaps, he quickly evens things Guess we’ll see if Suwabara’s seemingly archaic way of handling things will help him through this round.
Although I don’t know much about Michael Schumacher in real life, the Japanese writers seemed to out of their way quite a bunch to poke fun at him in this episode. Maybe Schumacher’s Ferrari team has been keeping the Honda team from dominating the F1 circuit
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Your bottom left caption has Kawachi instead of Subawara where it’s a picture of Subawara. Anyway, the manga didn’t make as much fun of Michael Schumacher compared with the anime making him kappa like.