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Chapter III

During the opening ceremony of Totsuki Souma was a bit sceptical when he heard he would be giving a speech, he was waiting for his turn when he caught a glimpse of Erina, as he stared at her, granted that Souma has seen some of the most beautiful women in the world, with his father being invited to most of the biggest fashion shows in the world he can safely say she is one of them.

Time flew as he stared at her and before he knew it he was called on stage, he was glad for the distraction from Erina although he did not know why. He kept his speech short but on point, not really one for dragged out speeches with only one topic being repeated over and over, he basically just challenged everyone to come get him and that he would be taking the number one spot.

When he got of stage he was greeted by probably one of the cutes pout he has ever seen, of course it's also accompanied by a few other curses but cute none the less.

"You do realise that you just made everyone out there to hate you" she stated calmly when she mellowed down from her outburst "your just making your time here that much harder, these students here have been trained for three years in the highest order on how to cook and serve food by the most qualified professors you can't even compare Yukihira-kun"

"They may have trained for three years" Souma added "but none of them have the experience I have, let's just say that I have been handling the knife since I was three, and if any of them wants to come at me? Let's just say that I'll happily escort them out of my way, is that enough to convince you Nakiri-ojou-sama?"

"Don't call me that!" Erina fumed at him "I mean don't call me that if you only mean for it as a mockery, you shouldn't even be in here, I should have failed you, in fact I shouldn't have even entertained your little stunt when you wanted to take the exam!" Erina was mumbling at this point and Souma's intense demeanor shifted.

"Don't worry about it Hime-sama," Souma said with a smile on his face, "I would make sure that you did not make the right choice in accepting a lowly sous chef in a run down diner like me, if I may I would like to excuse myself right now, I have a class to attend" Souma made a half bow, enough to show respect but not enough to show that he was submitting to her.

'That's something only a noble man would do,' thought Erina as he looked at his retreating form 'even the way he talked a second ago was that of a noble man'

Erina brushed the idea off pointing out that he probably just learned how to speak like that in all the low budget movies he watches.

"Does he remind you of someone dear?" asked her grandfather surprising Erina "perhaps an old friend? Or an acquaintance I don't blame you if you do, he kind of remind me of someone I really admire"

Once again this made Erina think, why would his grandfather be reminded of someone when thinking of Yukihira Souma? She knew that Senzaemon knew of him in one of his spontaneous adventures but to be reminded of someone old, is something his grandfather rarely mentions.


Souma's first class was kind of a weird one; all of his classmates were staring at him on a weird way but of course he showed his callous side once again and ignored them opting to have a different persona when around classmates. He has done so since he was first brought to a public school in elementary and he has pretty much been doing it too keep his real identity a secret and now is no different from them.

"Wow, the last time I cook in class was at Home Economics" he said loudly further infuriating his classmates, "So, Tadakoro-san was it? Why are you writing Kanji characters in your palm?"

It seemed kind of weird for him but he guesses that it made her relax for the coming class, he really did not pay much attention to what she was saying he did not know why but his attention span was really short and yet he would still remember what people are talking about when it was time for him to respond.

His professor came as a surprise for him when he realized it was Roland Chappelle one of his uncles former college and of course someone who knew his secret, so when Chappelle-sensei made eye contact with him both of them just nodded to one another and carried on.

He made small talk with his partner but the dish they were supposed to make was simple enough that he really did not need to make too much effort so he just casually talked to Tadakoro making her feel a bit more relaxed and reassured her that she would be fine.

As he wondered around he noticed that the room practically had everything they would need for every dish they would be cooking in the class, 'that's Totsuki for you' Souma thought as he called for his teammate just to take her nervousness away.

Perfect opportunity for his hateful classmates to sabotage their work, when they both arrived at their dish Tadakoro immediately went on a frenzied state saying that they were doomed and that there was no way to make use of the meat anymore. He hurried and thought of a way out immediately thinking of a way to make the dish faster, time sped for him and Tadakoro he finally had the chance to cook for really but he did not thought of it coming of sabotage.

When their dish was finished everyone was surprised none was thinking that they could make it, but when they did present their dish all eyes were on them.

"Evaluation please," Souma exclaimed happily.

Chappelle eyed them, then their dish taking his fork and pressing on the meat, he did not know how Souma did it as he looked away from them when he found out someone messed with them wanting to be surprised on how "The Devil's Right Hand" would react to his problem.

"So tender," Chappelle described it "the fork practically springs back, your team had an incident if I recall, how you managed to finish the assignment?"

"We used honey," Souma beamed with pride "I kneaded it into the meat before the braise, and it was also included in the seasoning"

"Honey has protease, which breaks down proteins" Chappelle added, while cutting some more "the protease went to work on the though beef flank allowing you to tenderize it in the short time you had left, well done monsieur Yukihira"

"I give you an A rating," Chappelle said with a smile, surprising everyone in the class room except Souma, he practically saw Roland Chappelle smile every day when he was working overseas.

"However," Chappelle said "I only regret the fact that I do not have the authority to grant an even higher rating" at this Souma removed his head band and exclaimed his signature catch phrase.

"Glad you liked it" he shouted, earning the respect of Tadakoro and further surprising their classmates.


Done! hope you like it and for the fellas who made a suggestion do not worry I would take it in to consideration, but I already wrote down to until Chapter 10 so most of the changes would probably only be seen at that point.

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