A/N: Here's the next chapter. It's pretty much filler though. Alice's life is dull compared to Sōma's. I should probably spice her life up some more. That is not a pun referring to Akira…

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Disclaimer: I do not own Shokugeki no Sōma. And every time I read this manga, I get hungry.

Alice looked around in confusion as she searched the hall for Sōma. After finishing up another day, she had been looking forward to teasing Sōma again. It was annoying that they had gotten placed into different groups during the training camp. And now, when they were finally able to hang out, he was gone. It was typical, and very annoying. Alice huffed angrily as she continued to look around.

"This is so weird," A familiar voice said, sighing loudly. "I wonder something could have happened to Megumi."

Alice turned and looked at the direction the voice came from. Seeing the familiar group of the Polar Star residents, she smirked happily and moved a bit closer to eavesdrop on them.

"Everyone should be done with their afternoon sessions," Zenji said. He also looked around the room before hanging his head. "Do you think that…?"

"I didn't see her name on the list of people who failed though." Shun replied coolly.

"Why don't we just go and ask someone who was in her group?" Shōji asked.

"That's a great idea!" Yūki said, perking up. "Maybe Yukihira knows where she is. Wasn't he in her group? Um… Where is he?"

"Come to think of it, I don't think we've seen him either." Daigo said, glancing around.

Alice's ears twitched at this new information. So not even their friends knew where they were. Yet they apparently didn't fail. How strange.

Seeing that they would be no help to her, she left and decided to go and find Ryō.

Luckily, it didn't take long to find him. All she had to do was go near the back of the crowd to find Ryō leaning against a wall with a blank look on his face.

"Seriously, Ryō-kun?" Alice asked exasperatedly. "You're supposed to be by my side at all times. What part of that do you not understand?"

"But you were walking around everywhere, ojou-sama," Ryō said, not bothering to look up in favor of fiddling with his bandana. "I figured that it would be better for me to just wait here for you to be done talking with Yukihira."

"Hmph," Alice turned and pouted angrily at the reminder about Sōma. "Well that was for nothing. I couldn't find Sōma-kun anywhere."

"Oh?" Ryō looked up with semi-interest at this new fact. He had figured that she had just been talking to the transfer student for a long time. But in reality, she had been searching for him. If she had spent that much time looking and couldn't find him, then maybe he had been fired. "Did he fail?"

"Not from what I've heard," Alice bemoaned, trying to figure out just what was going on. The night was almost up and she didn't get to tease him at all today. Honestly, it was pretty annoying. "I don't get it. Where could he have gone?"

Ryō yawned loudly before standing up. At seeing Alice turn towards him angrily, he held a hand up to stop her from yelling. "I'm going to head to the baths if there's nothing else that you need. I can ask around and see if I can figure out what happened to him while I'm there, ojou-sama."

Alice blinked and stared at Ryō as if she was looking at him for the first time. It wasn't often that he was so damn helpful without her ordering him or forcing him to be.

"Is that ok?" Ryō asked again after not getting an immediate reply from Alice.

"Y-yeah," Alice nodded after catching up with the conversation. "Good thinking, Ryō-kun. Go ahead and do that."

Ryō nodded and left, happy that he didn't get ordered to do anything else. Hopefully he could stay in the baths even longer under the guise of asking around for information. He could only hope.

A short time later, Ryō sighed and leaned against the edge of the bath as he enjoyed the quietness. Or at least, he would be enjoying it were it not for a certain pair of idiots causing a ruckus.

Daigo and Shōji.

Ryō stared at them impassively as they continued to yell and splash each other. He wished that he could put them in their place. Unfortunately, he had left his bandana with the rest of his clothing in a bin in the changing room. As such, he couldn't go berserk on their dumb asses. For now, he would just have to hope that they would leave soon.

Unfortunately, they didn't. On the plus side, they did stop and start asking others about Sōma after a while. Ryō listened in carefully, since he was wondering about that too. Most of the students those two asked fell into two different categories. They either didn't know what happened to Sōma or they didn't care about what happened to Sōma. Those students who fell into the latter category were quickly scared out of the baths by Daigo and Shōji.

Ryō quickly got bored after a while and started to tune them out. It was rather easy since they weren't even half as annoying as Alice. A fact that he would never, ever mention out loud. It wasn't until someone they asked acted differently that Ryō started paying attention again.

"That transfer student, huh?" A guy that they had asked said. He looked up in thought before nodding. "Yeah, I was in a class with him. I wasn't paying much attention though; it was a really tough one."

"Isn't everything here tough?" Shōji asked sarcastically.

Daigo nodded empathetically.

"But it was!" The student said. "It wasn't just any alumnus that we had; It was Shinomiya-senpai."

'Ah,' That rung a bell in Ryō's head. 'The prick with glasses.'

"The first seat?" Daigo asked, completely floored at hearing who the session leader was.

"Yeah," The student shivered. It was quite a feat considering where they were. "He was really scary. Over half of the class failed his test. Yukihira managed to pass somehow. Tadokoro-chan, on the other hand…" Here, he looked away reservedly.

"She failed?!" Daigo grabbed the student and forced him to stop looking away. "Is that what you're trying to say?!"

"Sort of," The student said slowly. "I-I mean, Shinomiya-senpai said that she failed the test. Then Yukihira started arguing with him. After that, well, Yukihira challenged Shinomiya-senpai to a Shokugeki."

'What?' Ryō thought, suddenly paying a lot more attention to their conversation.

"What?!" Daigo and Shōji both yelled out in shock. Neither of them bothered with yelling at the other for copying them. They were both wondering if they had heard correctly.

"Yeah," The student laughed, slightly hysterical at thinking back on that moment. "But Shinomiya-senpai said no, of course. After that, the session ended and everyone left."

"But then what happened to them?" Shōji asked, glaring at the student for not giving them that crucial information.

"Well, Gin-senpai came by and wanted to talk to Shinomiya-senpai. I think that Yukihira and Tadokoro-chan went with them. That's all I know." The student said shakily.

Seeing that they no longer needed to talk to him, the student got up and left.

"Shit…" Daigo murmured, staring down at the water.

"Yeah," Shōji said. He scratched his head restlessly. "The others aren't going to like hearing about this."

"No kidding," Daigo agreed. "Dibs on not telling Yoshino about it."

"Huh?!" Shōji glared at Daigo. "The Hell, dude? You should be the one to tell her!"

"I called dibs on not doing it," Daigo said proudly before pushing Shōji away. "So you do it!"

"Why you!" Shōji moved to tackle Daigo.

"That's it!" Daigo grabbed Shōji and tried to get him off.

They started to fight, causing everyone around them to move away to avoid being caught up in it.

Ryō decided it was now time to leave the baths while resolving to finish extra early tomorrow so he wouldn't have to put up with those two idiots again. Now all he had to do was go and try to figure out where the Shokugeki would be held. Hopefully it wouldn't take too long. After today, he really wanted to sleep. This training camp was just too noisy and boring.

"He did what?!" Alice yelled out after hearing what had happened to Sōma.

"I just told you, ojou-sama," Ryō said, masking his irritation as he rubbed his ears. He was starting to regret finding out what had happened to the transfer student, only because of Alice's reaction. "Yukihira challenged Shinomiya-senpai to a Shokugeki to save Tadokoro from being expelled."

"For the dunce?" Alice asked again, trying to recall Megumi. She was nowhere near the top of the class. Although Megumi had been doing better lately from what she had seen. That could most likely be only because of Sōma though. "He's going to get expelled trying to save her?"

"Ah." Ryō nodded apathetically. He didn't really care either way. Although he was a bit curious to see what they would be cooking up. Despite his efforts, marginal as they were, he couldn't figure out where the Shokugeki would be held. Snooping any further could have been dangerous, so he decided to just go back to Alice.

"Grrr…" Alice paced around the room angrily over this turn of events. Challenging Ikumi was one thing. But Kojirō? That man was in a totally different league. Even she would balk at the thought of challenging him. Not to mention the fact the Sōma had challenged him in order to save Megumi. That fact actually irritated her more than anything else for some reason.

"Will that be all then, ojou-sama?" Ryō asked after a few minutes. He had expected Alice to complain to him or to order him to do something. Honestly, he was a bit surprised that nothing had happened. It wasn't unpleasant, but it was definitely unusual. She didn't even seem to notice that he had asked her a question. Was the transfer student that entertaining to her that the thought of him getting expelled actually worried her this much?

"Hm?" Alice turned and looked at Ryō after realizing the he was still here. "Oh, good work. You can go ahead and leave now, Ryō-kun."

"No problem," Ryō said before turning to leave. Right after opening the door, he turned to look back at Alice who had resumed pacing. "Are you sure you'll be alright, ojou-sama?"

"Go to bed," Alice waved at him lazily to leave. "We only have two more days here. We should enjoy it while we can."

"Right." Ryō nodded and left, shutting the door quietly behind him.

Alice missed the look of slight worry on Ryō's face as he left.

"Ugh, that stupid fool." Alice moaned despondently as she jumped into her bed. Despite having a large room all to herself, it was really hard to enjoy it when she was forced to worry about Sōma. If it was a Shokugeki with an alumnus, there was next to nothing she could do to interfere. At this point, she could only hope that the alumni would decide to pity him and allow him to stay. The possibility of him winning was zero. Actually, it was less than that since the alumnus in question was Shinomiya Kojirō.

Alice was starting to wish that she had gotten Sōma's number earlier. It would have made sense, since they were partners for a project. The only reason it had slipped her mind was because they were seeing each other on a very consistent basis. Now she was paying for it. And with it being so late, there was no way for her to call someone at Tōtsuki to find out his number without giving herself away. She knew that is she did, her grandfather would be notified somehow. And if her grandfather found out, her mother and father would both be told almost instantly. Which then, in the end, would make them call her and quiz her on why she needed a boy's number so late at night. No thank you.

With an angry huff, she grabbed her blanket and threw it on top of herself. There was nothing she could do now. In the morning, she would find Sōma and make him pay for making her worry so much.

OMAKE

"Huh…" Sōma looked around in confusion.

With the Shokugeki with Ryō coming up, Sōma had decided to do some last minute shopping for ingredients. It was pretty late at night, and there was barely anyone in the store. At least, that was what he was thinking until he had reached the back of the market and noticed all of the sprawling bodies on the ground.

They appeared to be students from other schools. But based on their uniforms, none of them were from Tōtsuki though. Sōma glanced around uneasily to see if there was an obvious reason for what had happened. None of the other customers were paying the bodies any mind. Could it be a normal occurrence?

Walking passed them, he went towards the area with the bento. After looking around the section, he sighed sadly. It looked like he had missed his chance to get some half-priced bento.

'I guess I'll have to come here earlier next time…' Sōma thought glumly before leaving, being careful not to accidentally step on any of the unconscious bodies.

A/N: So after this, logically, is the egg dish for breakfast challenge. Erina will be surprised by Alice and Sōma knowing each other, I bet.

For those of you that didn't get it, this OMAKE implied a crossover with an anime/manga/light novel called Ben-To. In it, at the end of the night, markets put a discount on bento. Customers, usually hungry teens, all fight amongst themselves to get a bento box for themselves. It's a war zone…

There will be one more OMAKE until Sōma's and Ryō's Shokugeki. Any thoughts or ideas about how it goes/ends? I'm wondering what type of dish they should make too. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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