I can copy the beautiful girl

After understanding this, I held her up and stood up, stepped out of the bathtub, and whispered to her: "I'll take you back to your room."

Ryoko's eyelids trembled, then slowly closed, as if she fell asleep again.

I know.

So I stopped asking questions and just sent her back to her room.

Suddenly, I feel a bit sorry for Xiaohui. I was supposed to stay at her place tonight!

It’s okay, I’ll make it up tomorrow.

——Although what I thought was beautiful, from the next day on, I had no time to rest at all.

Those shameless students actually came to fight me in a round-robin battle!

I have no choice but to pretend to be cool, and I have to finish it even if I have to cry.

So from day to night, and from night to day, I fought with more than ten people every day until the residential training was about to begin.

Sometimes it was just one person challenging me to a food battle, sometimes it was a team of two, and sometimes it was even four people. But in the end, in order to make full use of the round-robin strategy, all the students unanimously adopted the tactic of one person fighting and a very short match time - I can only say that these students are really crazy.

Could it be that I often move a recliner to sleep during food battles to avoid people wanting to send me to the lab, so they have the illusion that they can drag me down to the point of collapse?

Is it because I gave them the hope of defeating me that they are reluctant to give up the honor of defeating me?

"It's a combination of various factors."

On the school bus, Erina, who was sitting next to me, shrugged and said:

"At first, most people probably thought you couldn't possibly survive a food battle with so many people, so they just participated. Maybe if someone beat you, you'd become famous throughout the school."

"And there must have been quite a few who really disliked you and saw how arrogant you were, so they wanted to teach you a lesson. But they didn't expect you to be that strong, and then one after another, the confident students were defeated and fell into a trap."

"Then, as time went on, you began to show signs of fatigue. Naturally, they all assumed you wouldn't be able to hold out much longer, that you'd make a mistake and lose in a food battle. So, like sharks smelling blood, they swarmed over you, wanting to devour you completely—and ended up falling into the trap together."

"Then, as more and more people fell into the pit, which was now filled with gems, those who were tempted by the benefits also met their end. After all, if you win in this situation, you will not only gain reputation, but also the gratitude of all the students you pushed into the abyss and their families. Faced with such benefits, there are very few who can resist being tempted."

"In the end... it's like this now. Hundreds of students and their families are begging outside the school gates. You must be hated to death by countless people."

As the school bus passed the school gate, Erina glanced at the thousands of people crying and begging at the gate, and said with a gloating tone:

"If you still want to survive in the culinary world, you'll have no choice but to rely on me."

I shrugged. "Is that so? You hate me already? Aren't there enough students who get expelled from Totsuki every year?"

"After all, the situation is different."

"Generally speaking, being expelled from school by school rules isn't anything to be hated. After all, they don't dare hate Totsuki. Rather, if it weren't for the reputation of being a Totsuki graduate, or even just a dropout, these prominent figures in the culinary world wouldn't be rushing to send their children to Totsuki. When their children are expelled, even when they know it's impossible, they still cry out and hope for a miracle—that's the value of Totsuki Academy graduates."

"But the expulsion you caused this time was a completely different matter. This wasn't a forced expulsion due to a school exam. You directly confronted everyone, engaging in a life-or-death food battle, ultimately forcing them all to expel. Simply put, it was pure malice—under such circumstances, how could these people, who had lost hope, not hate you?"

It’s not that I don’t understand.

To put it simply, graduates from Totsuki Academy are a golden signboard.

The graduation rate is only in the single digits each year, but every student who graduates from Totsuki can be said to be a chef standing at the top of the culinary world from the moment they graduate.

In the past, Totsuki Gakuen only had an absolute dominant position in the Japanese culinary world, but in recent years, Totsuki Gakuen's influence has been expanding to the entire world, and this golden signboard can be said to be becoming more and more famous.

Look at those people outside the school gate, they are all well-known figures in the culinary world, but even they still hope that their family can have a Totsuki graduate, which shows the value of this signboard.

——But these people are born in the wrong era.

If you are an old fan of the anime, you will definitely understand one thing. Just as the strongest people in Konoha are always the Genin, the strongest people in the school hot-blooded anime are generally the students.

Not to mention the previous time points, at this point in time after the plot begins, the school is always full of monsters.

Because these monsters are needed to quickly upgrade the protagonists. After all, after defeating the BOSS in the school, they will have to face the final BOSS of the world directly. So, being born in the same era with such a group of villain BOSS and the protagonists, isn't that unlucky?

And now you're blaming me for your expulsion? You ordinary people wouldn't even make it to graduation in this crowd of freaks, right?

"And they even accused me of malicious intent. I didn't force them to compete with me in a food battle. They were the ones who insisted on getting me expelled, and they got what they deserved."

"That's true, in theory, but humans aren't the type of creatures who can still reason objectively and rationally when faced with a disaster. We tend to praise those who can be objective and rational in such situations, don't we? It's because we all know that humans are not that rational."

"I didn't expect you to say something so philosophical!"

"After all, I am the eldest daughter of the Nakiri family."

Erina raised her head proudly.

So lovely.

Her raised white neck made me excited.

But it seemed a bit too much to stick it to her neck and plant strawberries here, so I had to give up with regret and had to compromise and choose to stick it to her skirt.

Snapped! !

Erina immediately pressed her hands down, glared at me with fiery eyes, and said silently: "Don't go too far."

I had no idea what she was talking about because I was looking straight ahead, with my legs crossed and my right hand on the armrest, and I didn't see what was going on over there at all.

Erina gritted her teeth, angrily loosened her hands that were pressed down somewhat unnaturally, hugged them to her chest, turned her face to the window, and her breathing gradually became slightly faster, but she remained silent.

After all, this is a school bus and there are quite a few students around, so I didn't plan to do anything excessive. I just satisfied my desire a little. After the school bus arrived at the destination, Totsuki Resort, I calmly withdrew my hand.

Then, just as I stood up and wanted to get off the car, Erina raised her hand and grabbed me tightly, staring at me with a resentful look on her face.

You want to leave me here?!

Or, knowing I'm already so wet, you still want me to get off like this?!

The accusation she made with her eyes made perfect sense.

And I have to say that it would be a little inconvenient for me to get off the bus now.

After all, it might be a little embarrassing if someone stared at me from the front or the side.

So after thinking about it, I sat down again, calmly waiting for everyone to get off the bus before slowly dealing with Erina and my affairs.

"Ms. Erina, why aren't you getting out of the car yet?"

Arata Hisako walked to the side of the car seat and asked with a suspicious look on his face.

She also looked at me suspiciously, obviously suspecting that I had done something to Erina.

This woman doesn't even have any trust in me.

"Hisagi, please get me a change of skirt."

After seeing all the students and the driver get off the bus, Erina breathed a sigh of relief and gave orders to Hisako.

Her order made Hisako stare at me with even more suspicion. I don’t know what random thoughts were running through her mind, but her face turned crimson. “What did you do to Miss Erina on the school bus, you bastard…?!”

"That's probably what I did."

I answered Hisako's question, put my arm around Erina's shoulders, pulled her down, and gave her a gentle lap pillow.

You can ask Feishazi to help you find a set of clean skirts to solve your problem, but how do you solve my problem?

Well, of course you solved it for me.

You will take responsibility, right?

“You, you you you you you! You!!”

Feishazi pointed at me with a red face, her lips trembling and unable to utter a complete sentence.

Erina, on the other hand, was very open and really started helping me solve my problems.

Volume 24: Chapter Little Angel

Dormitory training is the first hell that freshmen at Totsuki have to face.

Generally speaking, after this training session, it would not be surprising if more than half of the students were eliminated, because this was such a cruel hell.

Compared to this, the hundreds of students I beat into expulsion were nothing.

…even though I really want to say that.

"What's going on? Are there so few freshmen this year?"

"Did Totsuki Academy just fall apart in a single year? It looks like there are only around 500 people."

"I heard there were quite a few good seedlings coming this year. Isn't this a huge disappointment?"

On the podium, the graduates of Totsuki Academy who served as lecturers for this training session were looking at the students below in amazement.

Although the number of freshmen at Totsuki Academy is generally around 800, and never more than 1,000 at most, after all, many students are expelled from the elementary school, but no matter what, only more than 500 is too few.

"Because something unexpected happened this year."

He broke the record for the highest score in the graduation exam and took first place in the 69th Totsuki Ten Elites. He is currently the head chef and board member of Totsuki Resort, Gin Dojima.

He cast his gaze towards a calm-looking black-haired boy below and said in a steady voice:

"Before the residential training, a freshman used a food battle to expel all 311 students, which led to the current situation."

"what?"

"what?"

"Is there such a thing?"

"Oh? Which expert is it?"

Following Dojima Gin's gaze, all eyes were finally focused on the black-haired boy whose presence was too overwhelming.

It was very obvious that the students around him seemed to be afraid of him.

The black-haired boy stood at the front of the crowd, surrounded by nine figures of men and women, but apart from him, all the other students did not even dare to stand behind him, leaving a large open space there.

The lecturers had been concerned about this situation before, and now, after hearing what Dojima Gin said and seeing this scene, they immediately realized that this young man was the student that Dojima Gin mentioned who caused hundreds of people to drop out.

"She's so pretty, I never thought she could do something like this. You really can't judge a person by his appearance."

"How could one person use Shokugeki to expel hundreds of students? How on earth did they do that?"

"We can talk about that later. For now, let's do our duty as instructors."

Dojima Gin concluded with these words, then took a step forward, facing the gazes of all the students, and spoke:

"Welcome to Totsuki Resort."

"Every graduate gathered here is the owner and chef of their own restaurant. During these six days of training, we will treat you as employees of our own restaurant. Do you understand?"

"Those who do things that do not satisfy us will be fired, or even expelled from the school—we can make such a decision based solely on subjective considerations."

“So, keep working hard.”

"Wish ya'll good luck."

"Well then! Teams! Get moving!!"

Following Dojima Gin's final loud declaration, the students present immediately dispersed into groups and headed to their assigned examination rooms.

I ignored the curious gazes of the graduates behind me. After copying the two cooks, Inui Hinatako and Mizuhara Fuyumi, and copying the abilities of other graduates, I calmly walked out of the hall with Xiaohui, got on the school bus, and headed to the examination room.

"Everyone's here."

Lecturer Inui Hinatako smiled gently.

"My class will be taught in pairs, following the same grouping pattern used in the first semester. Please take your seats at your designated cooking stations."

It was just like the inertia of the plot. I walked to the cooking table where I was assigned, and as expected, I was assigned to the same group with Xiaohui.

Xiaohui's face turned pale. "What's with that expression? Aren't you happy to be in the same group with me?"

Have you forgotten the night we spent by Daming Lake?

"Let me ask you something, Soma-kun," Xiao Hui asked cautiously, "Are you planning on cooking?"

"I'll leave it all to you. This is also a test for you."

"I knew it…"

Xiaohui looked helpless.

"It's supposed to be a task for two people to work on, but if I'm in a group with Soma-kun, I'll definitely be working alone."

"Don't you like being in the same group with me?"

"Not really... I'm actually very happy to be in a group with Soma-kun. It's like he's saying we're destined to be together."

Xiaohui’s smile is so heartwarming!