"DOJIMA-SENPAI...
"we're the one who issued the challenge! Why?" Yukihira asked the man infront of him who had a firm and very professional expression on him.
"I made this happen when the challenge had no legs to stand on. You have to accept my conditions. Stop this rebellion of yours." Dojima replied sternly, loosening his necktie.
"B-but,"
"Dojima-senpai has a point, Soma-kun. If it weren't for him, Megumi would've been expelled. At least we could repay him back by accepting his condition that he has set." You answered, walking towards them. The red-haired male gave you a glance, his eyes giving you a "You-really-agreed-to-this?"
You just gave him a reassuring smile afterwards, placing a hand on his shoulder and gripping tightly. The red haired male looked away, blushing at your simple actions.
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System:
Yukihira Soma's
affection points: +3
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"Besides, don't you have any faith on Megumi ? The one you had been close with?" You asked, the male stopped from his protests and just sighed in defeat. He had faith in her. She supported and loved her platonically.
"I guess.. You're right." Yukihira mumbled, giving in to the conditions.
"Tonight, this time, at this station, Tadokoro-kun, you're the chef." Dojima announced.
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"Let's do this!" Yukihira shouted, after Megumi explained her plans to make the vegetable based dish. You let out a soft small smile and nodded in agreement.
"Chef Tadokoro," You and Yukihira said in unison. His eyes widened while you just smiled at him.
"Okay." the three of you went to your stations, waiting for Megumi's signal to start.
"I'll cook the tomatoes, Soma-kun, Y/N-chan, please prep the other needed ingredients for the dish," Megumi dictated, proceeding to cut the tomato into smaller pieces.
"Hai~" You sung out and started gathering the ingredients to chop it as well.
"Got it!" Yukihira replied, rushing to wash and dice the needed ingredients for Megumi.
"Shinomiya-senpai!" Inui called out, making you glance at them out of curiosity.
"Oh, she freed herself." You muttered under your breathe, letting out an airy chuckle.
"What, Hinako?" Shinomiya looked at the brown haired female, raising an eyebrow for calling out his name out of the blue and in the middle of the Shokugeki.
"The Dokoro from Restaurant and the dokoro from tadokoro overlap. It makes the name really catchy." Inui whispered, but you still heard it because you were quite close to where she stood at.
"Put her somewhere far away!" Shinomiya ordered, pinching the bridge of his nose.
Wow, even he is petty? You thought to yourself, smiling a bit.
"How cruel." You mumbled softly, glaring playfully to Shinomiya who returned the glare back.
"Oh no! I had to prepare the shoulder cut first! Now the order's all wrong-" Megumi said her thoughts out loud. Yukihira dropped whatever he was doing and went beside her to assist.
"The cut's done. Y/N already removed all the tendons, also." Yukihira said, handing the shoulder-cut meat to the female.
"Which do you want me to work next, the chicken liver or the fatback?" Yukihira asked her, his hands hovering on both of the raw products.
"Let's just split, I'll work on the fatback and you'll work on the chicken liver. Is that okay, Megumi?" You asked, the blue-haired girl nodded her head. You then handed the chicken liver to Yukihira, who mumbled a soft 'thank you' before both of you started to do your individual assigned jobs.
"Y/n-chan, is the mold ready?" Megumi asked you, looking at your work.
"Yup! Here. Yukihira just have to do the pate ready." You informed the girl.
"By the way, I'll be done sautéing the vegetables in 12 seconds." Yukihira is now the next one to informed the chef.
"How can he even know it will be specifically 12 seconds?" You scrunched your nose.
"Th-thanks." Megumi slightly stuttered.
"Both of them are amazing! They deliver all the prepped ingredients to me right when I need them!" Megumi thought to herself, amazed by the both of you who were just focusing with prepping, working in a very fast pace that even she doesn't know that you both are very fast when focused on one particular task.
"Megumi-chan, is this how finely you wanted it chopped?" You asked, showing her the chopped ingredient while your other hand was chopping the other one. The female peeked inside the bowl to look at it, in awe and in shock at your multitasking.
"Yeah!" She replied with a smile.
"They're the only one helping me, but I feel like I'm able to cook several times faster than I'd be able to by myself." Megumi told herself.
"What's going on? They're too fast." One of the judges mumbled, suspicious at your work.
"Both of them are staying several steps ahead of her and providing support without it impacting their own tasks." One of them complimented, whispering it to the judge beside her.
"Well, the other girl is from the Kinoshita clan after all. So it is expected that she is faster than almost light, as some of the people say."
"Both of them are monitoring her very carefully to avoid getting in the way of her work." The other alumni mumbled.
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"Both contestants should begin finishing up!" Dojima shouted.
"We will start plating the dish!" Megumi informed the both of you.
"Got it!" The two of you replied at the same time. After spending a few minutes by just plating the dish, the three of you finally finished at last. Your hair had been slightly a mess compared to the both of them. But it didn't matter. As long as the dish was perfect and tasted amazing then that's all that mattered.
"We'll now begin the judging." Dojima said.
"Prepare the dishes infront of the judges."
"Shinomiya's dish comes first. Serve the dish." The coral-pink-haired male went towards the judges and placed his dish.
"Gah, I'm so nervous." You mumbled softly beside Yukihira. Putting your hand on your chest and started feeling the pounding heart of yours.
You knew what's going to happen, who's going to win and lose. Yet you still get nervous about this. Why? Is it reacting like how the real Y/n Kinoshita in this situation?
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System:
You seem nervous.
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"I already know what will happen but why am I so nervous?"
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System:
A regular human being would be
afraid and feared at high tension situations.
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"No shit."
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Of course, against the alumni, you guys lost the Shokugeki despite the real Y/N Kinoshita's out of the world cooking skills. The male did have more experience in cooking than you students.
But as if someone possessed the cocky alumni, he took back Megumi's expulsion, as well as Yukihira and yours. Making you sigh in relief, you thought you won't be able to have your own harem that you wanted all this time. Then again, System could have pulled out some strings if it were to happen.
But kidding aside, you were still sad about losing despite seeing this happen in multiple gameplays of the game.
"Hey, it's totally dark out." Yukihira exclaimed, looking at the dark sky, not a single glowing star smiling back at you. Has this day really been cursed?
"Mmm.." You hummed softly. Megumi started panicking about something, shuffling around to feel her phone in her pockets. When she found it, she let out a small screech.
"I have so many missed calls from Yuki and the others!" Megumi panicked, making you chuckle at her demise, which was absolutely not needed in her defense.
"There wasn't any signal in the basement. That's why you just saw it now, when we went outside." You told her, in a chibi-anime form while your tiny index finger pointing at the sky.
"Hurry back and show them that you're okay. I'll take my sweet time, though." Yukihira said.
"Okay! Soma-kun, Y/N-chan, thank you so much!" The girl said her thanks and the both of you let out a soft smile.
"Everyone's worried about you. Just go." Yukihira told her.
"Okay." She then started running to the hotel rooms to show herself to the others.
You stayed with Yukihira, though. Knowing him, he would start punching the walls and stuff. Well, it is shown in the anime that you've watched already plenty of times.
"Oh, Y/N! Aren't you going back?" Yukihira said in a cheery-like voice, as if he didn't lost to a shokugeki. You then faced him, your hands were at your back, fiddling with each other.
"Stop faking." You told him, making him off guard.
"W-what? What are you saying, Y/N?" Yukihira asked. Instead of answering him, you pulled his left arm and embraced him into a hug. You rested his head on your shoulders and started patting is head. His arms automatically wrapped around your waist tightly, as he buried his head on your shoulder.
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System:
Yukihira Soma's
affection points: +3
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"I lost, Y/n. I lost. I lost. I lost." He started mumbling that he lost and other stuff, you just let out a hum in response, and started combing his hair with your delicate fingers.
"You know, we really are the same." You mumbled softly.
"Huh?"
"I hate losing too."
"But.. Losing is really a part of life, that's where you learn from your mistake. That's where you grow." You told him, still combing his soft red locks.
"It's part of life. My family wouldn't have had such a huge business if they didn't fail and learn from it afterall."
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System:
Yukihira Soma's
affection points: +10
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"Mmm, do you wanna go to the hotel to rest?" You asked softly. The male shook his head, his hands gripped to the hem of your shirt tightly.
"Can we.. stay like this for a couple of minutes more?" The male asked, slightly blushing but you didn't get to see it because his face was buried on your shoulder, and it is already night time.
"Sure. As long as you like."
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System:
Yukihira Soma's
affection points: +5
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Students started running from here to there, others were mumbling some words, getting anxious. The alumni made them repeat their dishes.
While you wait for the noodles to cook, you started chopping some add ons to make your noodles tastier for the alumni to like it.
After a few minutes, you placed it in the bowl and went towards the male who was tasting the other's dish. He then tasted yours.
"Very good. You pass the test. You may clean up now, Y/N Kinoshita." The male said after tasting it. You gave him a closed-eye smile.
"Thank you." You told him and went to your station to start cleaning up.
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You walk along side Erina, with her secretary walking behind her. A sudden white short-haired girl with a tall guy beside her blocked the way.
"You'd best relieve yourself of the notion that you can stay the queen bee forever." Ignoring what Alice said to her cousin, Erina. You glance at Ryo and a huge grin was already plastered on your face after seeing his handsome figure once again.
"Ryo-kun~!" You shouted in joy as you jumped on his back, making him groan. Both of your arms were wrapped loosely on his neck while your legs automatically wrapped around his torso to stop you from falling. The male accidentally dropped the thing that he was holding as he held both of your legs to support you.
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System:
Ryo Kurokiba's
affection points: +6
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"... Y/n." The male muttered. A light pink blush crept on his cheeks as he glance at you. You let out a cheeky grin as you gave him a peck on the cheeks, you caught him off-guard.
His face started to become red, covering it with his questionable large hands. The eyeliner underneath his eyes were already smudged which made you laugh.
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System:
Ryo Kurokiba's
affection points: +13
Love Interest Percentage:
36%
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System did told you that you always did this to Ryo whenever you see him.
Erina walked passed them, making the atmosphere uncomfortably quiet. Even you, you went to complete silence even though you were playing with Ryo a few seconds ago.
"Thank you for the advice." Erina muttered.
"I'll do my best to keep what you said in mind. As the prattle of the unwashed masses." Erina said before walking away, leaving you behind. You didn't mind though, you were enjoying yourself in a piggyback ride with Ryo.
"Ryo~! I missed youuuu!" You slightly shouted as you hugged him.
He was tall. Very tall. Now that you're getting a piggyback ride from him, you didn't know that it was quite enjoyable to be in this height.
Damn, I could spit at people from up here.
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