#403 - Seiya becomes a special student of Totsuki

Once graduates from Totsuki Culinary Academy, especially those from the "Totsuki Elite Ten," they are immediately recruited by renowned restaurants worldwide.

Whether it's wealth, status, or identity, these are almost readily available to graduates of the "Totsuki Elite Ten."

However, these things don't hold much allure for Seiya.

If it weren't for the message in his mother's letter, Seiya would have even wanted to slack off and do nothing. Even though the restaurant is booming, it's actually all managed by Minezaki.

Seiya's workload is fixed, and once it's exceeded, he immediately slacks off. Even if he's working for himself, he doesn't want to make things difficult for himself.

Anyway, as the saying goes, his mother's minimum requirement is just to keep the restaurant from going bankrupt. Based on this foundation, other aspects are unimportant.

The only one who wants to expand the restaurant is Minezaki, who is eager to gain Kiyomi Monzen's approval.

Seiya only accepted Minezaki's management and reforms of the restaurant on the condition that he could earn more money with the same amount of work.

"You're not interested in fame, status, or wealth? Then, as a chef, aren't you interested in things like phantom ingredients?"

Hearing Seiya's reason for refusing, Senzaemon Nakiri understood what kind of person Seiya was, so he immediately threw out another bait.

"Phantom ingredients?"

Seiya knew about the hypersensitivity senses like the "God Tongue" and "God Nose" in Food Wars, and the legendary cooking utensils that could turn decay into magic in Cooking Master Boy.

However, Seiya had never heard of "phantom ingredients" in either Food Wars or Cooking Master Boy!

Seeing the surprise and curiosity on Seiya's face, Senzaemon Nakiri crossed his arms and continued to explain, "The so-called phantom ingredients refer to super ingredients that are different from ordinary ingredients.

Some of these ingredients are located on towering peaks, while others are located in bottomless deep seas. However, because these ingredients are either in remote human restricted areas, or the living ingredients are extremely ferocious wild beasts, ordinary chefs simply cannot come into contact with them.

These rare ingredients are not only precious and rare, but also have unique flavors that can give dishes a distinctive taste. Some rare ingredients are already delicacies in themselves, so these ingredients are also called phantom ingredients by chefs in the culinary world."

When Seiya heard Senzaemon Nakiri's description of "phantom ingredients," he felt a sense of familiarity, but he couldn't quite recall where that familiarity came from.

"Rare ingredients are like dream ingredients for chefs, and these types of ingredients cannot be bought with money.

Totsuki Academy does have certain channels every month to obtain some phantom ingredients, and the "Totsuki Elite Ten" can also obtain phantom ingredients equivalent to their ranking level in Totsuki Academy every month."

For chefs, the most important things are talent, cooking utensils, and ingredients.

Seiya already possesses hypersensitive senses comparable to the "God Eye" and physical qualities far beyond ordinary people, which should all be considered talents.

The Seven Star Sword is not as good as the legendary cooking utensils, but it is far better than ordinary cooking utensils. Maybe he can really get the legendary cooking utensils when he returns to his hometown later.

Now, what Seiya is curious about is what exactly these so-called "phantom ingredients" are.

"I am indeed quite interested in the so-called phantom ingredients, but as I said before, although my mother has traveled far away, she hopes that I will keep the family restaurant running.

But as far as I know, Totsuki is a boarding school. If I go to Totsuki, I will not be able to continue running the family restaurant."

Seiya was indeed interested in the so-called "phantom ingredients," so Seiya originally wanted to use other conditions to learn about rare ingredients from Senzaemon Nakiri.

Although according to Senzaemon Nakiri, the areas where those rare ingredients are located are all in dangerous restricted areas that are rarely visited, Seiya didn't take this too seriously.

Since others have channels to obtain rare ingredients from these dangerous areas, then he, Seiya, will definitely have even fewer problems.

Before, he always felt that the super combat power he shared from Seiya from other worlds would probably not be of much use in this culinary world, but as a result, it's now being used.

Near dusk, Senzaemon Nakiri and Erina's group left Seiya's restaurant and returned to Totsuki.

After negotiating with the Director of Totsuki, Seiya is now considered a student of Totsuki Academy.

However, compared to ordinary students, he is a very special "special student."

In simple terms, although Seiya is nominally a student of Totsuki, he can engage in activities outside the school, but whenever Totsuki holds competitions or entrance exams, Seiya must return to Totsuki for assessment.

Furthermore, as a "special student," Seiya cannot enter Totsuki's "Council of Ten," but in exchange, Seiya also obtained some channels to obtain rare ingredients from Senzaemon Nakiri.

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The "Totsuki Elite Ten" has extremely high authority in Totsuki Academy, but Seiya is not very interested in power and prestige.

As a "special student," he can continue to run his own restaurant, occasionally go to the Totsuki dungeon to gain experience, and he also obtained information about rare ingredients because of this. For him, this is almost the best result.

"Because the "Culinary Demon King" and "God Tongue" came to the store to dine, we received a lot of reservations today, and they are all big shots with considerable assets. Are you really planning to suspend business at this juncture?"

Just as Minezaki had predicted, because the "Culinary Demon King" and "God Tongue" came to the store to dine, and ultimately left with satisfied expressions, the news spread, and the reputation of Seiya's restaurant suddenly became even greater.

In the past, those who booked customized dishes were just the bosses of small and medium-sized enterprises, but today, as soon as the Director of Totsuki and his group returned, they contacted Minezaki through various channels and planned to book a meal. At the very least, they were the bosses of well-known groups or local dignitaries.

After all, human life requires nothing more than food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, and in this culinary world, people's pursuit of "delicious food" far outweighs other aspects.

The "Culinary Demon King" is an authority in the Japanese culinary world. The status of a delicacy that even he personally visits is self-evident.

However, facing the reservations of many big shots, Minezaki was originally very excited about this, and even felt that Seiya might soon become the rising star of the Japanese culinary world.

However, just now, Seiya, who was packing his luggage, told her directly that he wanted to leave the restaurant for a while, and all the reserved customized dishes were canceled.