#421 - Yao Wang wants to recruit Seiya as foreign aid?

Totsuki Culinary Academy, Polaris Dormitory kitchen.

Ever since tasting Seiya's "Three No's" and "Frozen Ice Fresh Sea Bream Mountain," Soma Yukihira realized the immense gap between himself and Seiya.

Therefore, he decided to first defeat all of the so-called "Totsuki Elite Ten" of Totsuki Academy, and then challenge Seiya, the BOSS.

However, not long after entering the academy, he quickly encountered Erina's top general, Ikumi Mito, known as "Meat Magician."

Erina, as one of the "Totsuki Elite Ten" and the granddaughter of Totsuki Academy's Director-General Senzaemon Nakiri, possesses considerable power and status within Totsuki Academy.

Moreover, compared to the "Totsuki Elite Ten" who are immersed in culinary research, Erina is equally enthusiastic about managing Totsuki.

This is because she deeply admires her grandfather and does not want to see Totsuki Academy decline.

After being promoted to the high school division and obtaining a seat as one of the "Totsuki Elite Ten," Erina's first move in managing Totsuki was to target the research societies within Totsuki Academy.

The so-called "research societies" are roughly similar to the clubs in ordinary schools.

Totsuki Academy allocates a certain amount of research funding to these school club-like research societies every month.

However, in Erina's view, research societies are not entirely unacceptable, but most of them, in her opinion, are simply wasting Totsuki's funds and budget.

Therefore, she directly divided Totsuki's research societies into different tiers and used various means to force the dissolution of those research societies that she considered substandard.

Not long after Soma Yukihira entered Totsuki Academy, he was originally visiting the research societies in the academy when he happened to encounter the Meat Magician, who was there to cause trouble for the "Donburi Research Society."

After hearing the other party's remarks about the hierarchy of cuisine and learning that the other party was sent by Erina, Soma Yukihira directly confronted her.

Originally, the two were going to have a Shokugeki to determine the fate of the "Donburi Research Society."

However, after learning that Erina hated Soma Yukihira, the Meat Magician added a wager that he would be expelled from the academy if he lost, and she also took a step back, setting the theme as "Donburi with meat as the main ingredient."

The reason why the "Meat Magician" has this title is because she is a master of meat dishes. Her grades have been in the upper echelons since middle school, and her meat dish grades have all been A's.

With the theme of "Donburi with meat as the main ingredient," meat happens to be her specialty, but Donburi is not Soma Yukihira's specialty.

After learning about the "Meat Magician's" strength, Soma Yukihira did not take it lightly. Therefore, in the time before the Shokugeki, he has been committed to cooking a Donburi that would impress everyone.

Unfortunately, after several days, the "Chaliapin Steak Donburi" that Soma Yukihira cooked was praised by Megumi Tadokoro and the president of the Donburi Research Society, Kanichi Konishi, but Soma Yukihira still frowned and believed that such a dish might not be able to defeat the Meat Magician.

The Meat Magician is not only proficient in meat dishes, but her family's "Mito Meat Products" is also a leader in the beef industry.

Now that it is a Shokugeki, the other party will definitely go all out, and the meat they use will definitely not be of ordinary quality.

Also, the other party is a general under Erina, and although he is unwilling to admit it, after seeing her several times, Soma Yukihira has to admit that the other party's "God Tongue" does have something to it.

Under the commentary of Erina's "God Tongue," the Meat Magician can constantly find flaws in her own cooking.

The people of Polaris Dormitory and Konishi were quite surprised by the words Soma Yukihira said next to them.

Although the time they had been in contact was not too long, they had fully witnessed Soma Yukihira's strength and culinary talent during this time.

Even before, when Soma Yukihira learned that Eishi Tsukasa of Polaris Dormitory was the seventh seat of the "Totsuki Elite Ten," he had a cooking duel with the other party using mackerel dishes.

The members of Polaris Dormitory all knew that in that duel, Eishi Tsukasa did not use his full strength, so he only drew with Soma Yukihira, but Eishi Tsukasa's evaluation of Soma Yukihira was quite high.

Even when facing Eishi Tsukasa, the seventh seat of the "Totsuki Elite Ten," Soma Yukihira did not show any timidity or surrender.

However, in Soma Yukihira's phone call just now, Polaris Dormitory could vaguely hear that Soma Yukihira seemed to admit that he was not the other party's opponent at this stage!

Even Soma Yukihira, who never admitted defeat when facing Eishi Tsukasa and Erina, was now convinced by "that person" on the phone, which naturally made the members of Polaris Dormitory quite curious.

"Yukihira, the person you were on the phone with just now, is it your father who runs a restaurant and taught you how to cook?"

The person who spoke and asked after seeing Soma Yukihira hang up the phone was Ryoko Sakaki, the red-haired, mature beauty and resident of Polaris Dormitory room 112. Although she was a 92nd generation student of Totsuki like Soma Yukihira and the others, her demeanor and figure resembled that of an older sister.

During the self-introduction earlier, they also heard Soma Yukihira say that his family runs a diner, and that most of his current culinary skills were taught to him by his father.

The members of Polaris Dormitory did not know who Soma Yukihira's father was, but they believed that someone who could teach a chef as excellent as Soma Yukihira must also be a formidable character.

"Although I also wanted to ask my old man to try my cooking, he's away on a trip. The guy I was talking to on the phone just now is my childhood friend and best buddy. He's also a very skilled chef.

Although you guys don't know him, he should be considered a student of Totsuki Academy now..."