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Chapter 431: The Ten Outstanding Graduates of Totsuki
"how so……"

When they were told that they were not allowed to bring anything other than personal clothing to this residential training, including food and kitchen utensils, many Totsuki students began to stir.

The instructors at Totsuki had a very good reason for this, saying, "This residential training is meant to test your ability to perform on the spot.

You brought so many things with you, are you really treating the residential training as a vacation?

Furthermore, not everyone has access to good kitchen utensils and ingredients, so treating all students equally is the fairest way for you.”

After hearing what Teacher Totsuki said, Tanadore Megumi, who had originally felt confident because she brought a lot of rare ingredients, suddenly became a little dejected.

After all, the rigor of residential training far exceeds the ordinary polite assessment. If she performs according to her usual performance, it is almost certain that she will be eliminated this time.

In fact, after being told that they could not bring other items to participate in the residential training, there were many students who felt as uneasy as Megumi Tadokoro.

Because in previous years, many students would be expelled from school due to failing to pass the assessments during such important grade activities. There was even one year when more than 900 students went to participate in residential training, but only more than 500 returned.

There were 812 students in the first grade last year, but only 76 of them were promoted to the second grade. There is a reason for this.

Because there are many grade activities like residential study in this year.

The so-called residential training is nothing but the beginning of hell!

This year, there are far more first-year students at Totsuki than in previous years, with a total of 981 students. However, based on the admission rates of previous years, only about a hundred students can be promoted to the second grade.

After arriving at the residential training location, everyone was gathered in a lobby, and the person in charge introduced the lecturers and judges participating in the residential training to Seiya and the others.

When the students present learned that the lecturers of this residential training were all former Totsuki Ten Outstanding Graduates, they were all very excited.

After all, for them, the graduates of the Totsuki Ten are almost all star seniors.

Moreover, many students believed that since the lecturers and judges were their former seniors, they would be more lenient towards them, their juniors.

One of the lecturers, a Totsuki graduate with glasses and cherry-pink hair, suddenly pointed at a hapless person next to Seiya and said, "Hey there, you're eliminated. Pack up and go back."

Kojiro Shinomiya, the first of the ten best students of Totsuki 79, is the first Japanese to receive the "Order of Prusspur". He owns his own restaurant in France and is known as the "magician of vegetable cooking".

The extra guy was quite excited when he was named by the former leader of the Ten Greatest Players of Totsuki. However, when he heard that Shinomiya Kojiro wanted to eliminate him, his face turned pale and he asked the reason unwillingly.

"You must have used hairspray, right? And it smells like citrus.

Using this pungent hairspray will cover the original fragrance of the food and affect your judgment of the food itself."

After hearing what Shinomiya Kojiro said, the extra student was speechless. He wanted to refute the other party, but he could not find an excuse.

Citrus-flavored hairspray would indeed affect the chef's judgment of taste, but eliminating the other party for this reason was indeed a bit nitpicking in Seiya's opinion.

After all, there are all kinds of smells in life. Let’s not talk about hairspray that only a few people use. What about shampoo and shower gel that most people use? Don’t they have any smell?
Of course, Seiya didn't know the extra, and because he didn't want to get into trouble, he listened attentively to the so-called star senior's long talk.

But perhaps the expression on his face was too nonchalant, or perhaps his sarcastic aura was off, after scolding the extra and eliminating him, Shinomiya Kojiro turned to look at Seiya and said, "And you too, you've been eliminated as well." Seiya: (▽｀)
"You seem a little dissatisfied with what I just said, right?
As your former senior and this time's lecturer, it's understandable that you are disrespectful to me.

But the main reason for eliminating you was because you were too close to him from the very beginning, so you also had a strong smell of citrus hairspray on you.

As a chef, you should be very sensitive to smells, but you haven't noticed anything for a long time. This shows that you are not suitable to be a chef."

After hearing what Shinomiya Kojiro said, Seiya, who had originally thought that it was none of his business and he was keeping a distance from it, just laughed.

"You, the former top ten students of Totsuki, want me to be expelled from school. I don't have any objection to that. After all, I didn't really want to join Totsuki in the first place.

But I have a different opinion on your recent speech.

The pungent smell does affect the chef's sense of smell, but I think a truly excellent chef should be able to adapt to cooking in any environment.

He sprayed citrus-scented hairspray, which shows that he doesn't take cooking seriously and has a bad attitude towards it. But why do you arbitrarily assume that I didn't notice the smell at first? And that I can't become a good chef because of this?"

Seiya's rebuttal also made Shinomiya Kojiro's expression instantly ugly.

He is a man who is quite neurotic and picky when it comes to cooking, and he stubbornly sticks to his own opinions.

But now, he was being refuted by a first-grade kid. How could he tolerate this?

"You are Wenren Shengya, right? I heard Commander-in-Chief Totsuki mention your name.

Sigong was indeed a bit picky just now, and even took his anger out on you, but as the lecturer this time, and a senior who is many years older than you, your words and actions just now were indeed rude.

Let's just leave it at that, just to give me some face."

Seiya didn't care too much about dropping out of school, so he didn't bother to argue with Shinomiya Kojiro and turned around to leave.

However, just as he was about to leave, a man in a suit, with a crew cut and an unusually burly figure suddenly stopped Seiya.

"Dojima-senpai, I..."

Shinomiya Kojiro was a little unconvinced and wanted to say something, but under the strong demeanor of Dojima Gin, he finally chose to keep his head down and remain silent.

The burly man in front of Seiya also introduced himself: "My name is Dojima Gin, and I am also a graduate of the Ten Greatest Students of Totsuki.

But now, I am the head chef of Totsuki Resort and a member of the Totsuki board of directors.

Wenren Shengzai, I heard about you. It is said that the commander-in-chief and Seiichiro are very optimistic about you.

I'm looking forward to your performance during this residential training. I'll see for myself whether the commander-in-chief and his men are exaggerating or whether you truly have the makings of a great talent.

(End of this chapter)