145 Artless!!
Without any further ado, each chef got hold of his ingrediants that he will need to make his dish. The six of them were very fast and nimble in their movement and their eyes were keen when choosing the ingrediants as they wanted the best and only the best.
The crowd cheered on top of their lungs. Urara-chan was commentating on the event, praising the elite 10 while bashing the rebels.
[The game has begun ladies and gentlemen, the scum team is the first to begin cooking followed by our heroes, The elite 10. Die you traitors!!!] Urara-chan shouted.
Alexander washed 3 crabs and separate the claws from the body. Cracked the shell and cut the body into 4 to 6 pieces each. Alexander started humming a song with a smile on his face. Hearing him, Nakazaki felt irritated "Will you stop it!!" She shouted. Her hands froze in their place while working on the crabs because she found it very annoying.
"Shu! Shu!" Alexander looked at her as if she was a dog while telling her to stay back like a dog. Which only made her angrier.
Back in the team's spectacle seats. Alice and Erina shook their heads, Alexander never changes. They know that now he knows that the girl hates the sound of him humming, he will keep doing that until the end.
"He is more annoying than me," Kouga said with a marveled face. Isshiki chuckled and nodded in agreement.
Megishima looked at Kouga like an idiot. He has just admitted that he is annoying, something he gets angry over a lot.
"Takumi-san." Arato went to Takumi and gave him a bowel " Mix this sauce for me." since her theme is Pasta, she knows better than anyone that she can depend on Takumi on that. The rules don't prohibit teammates from helping each other so it is fine "I will bring the dough together for you."
This what they have been working on for the past month. When to ask for help? and how to compensate for it?
Erina saw this and nodded in satisfaction.
"I see, so you still need to ask your friends for help, what a dependable chef you are!" Haisha Ashi looked at Hisako with a mocking smirk.
"Thank you for your compliment!" Arato bowed and didn't mind him which left Ashi flabbergasted.
Ashi looked at his other friends and they exchanged a gaze between themselves. Since the beginning of the match, they have been trying to create a crack between their teamwork and even tried to insult them to work their anger a bit...
But as if...they are hitting a giant cold metal wall, all they have been doing is hurting themselves instead of bringing them down.
Julio gritted his teeth, he stopped his work while his body started trembling "How unholy and barbaric!!" He said with sorrow. "This art, this oracle that is cooking is being sullied by these monsters!!" Julio couldn't tolerate it as his ideals of the perfect chefs is being ruined by Alexander and his friends.
Alexander came to watch the circus show with Takumi while Arato is still working on the dough.
"What is he going about?" Takumi said to Alexander.
Alexander whispered to Takum "Don't raise your voice or he might hear us. He is crazy!" Alexander smiled while backing away. Takumi nodded seriously and let Julio blabber as much as he wants.
But once he spoke for long and no one paid him any attention from the rebels, his speech started to turn awkward and embarrassing. Nakazaki; Alexander's opponent felt a very strong second-handed embarrassment 'Please...just stop!' she thought.
"People who need to say they are artists are no true artist!" Takumi took out his knife and cut some strawberries in pieces like a flash. His words were as sharp as his knife as they halted Julio in his speech.
"What did you say?" Julio asked in a whisper.
"..." Takumi didn't answer. Arato passed his dough after she was done with and he gave her the sauce.
"I am speaking to you," Julio added.
"You have heard me." Takumi's hands stopped and he looked at Julio like a dragon is looking at a sheep "You are an artless chef!!" Takumi shouted, "If you have an ounce of art in you you would have had put it in your dish, instead you are here speaking about it." Takumi despised people like Julio the most.
"Don't speak to me about art. Show it to me!!" Takumi said.
In Yukihira's dinner...
When Soma and the others heard this they felt a shiver run down their spine "Whoa! Nii-san, so cool!" For the first time in ages, Isami spoke those words.
"You tell them Takumi-chi!!!" Yuiki jumped while cheering for the rebels.
"Just look at that blond boy! In your face!!!" Marui laughed as hard as he could. The person that defeated him in the promotional exams was none other than Julio himself. Finally, the words that he wished he had said that time were said by Takumi.
In the arena, Kouga was milking this moment to the most as he mocked the elite 10 and Azami.
Nakazaki clenched her fist "That idiot! I knew that one day that self-centered nature would come and bite him, but why did it have to be when i was with him." Seeing Julio so shocked, she couldn't help but shout "JULIO!!"
Julio snapped out of his trance and look at Nakazaki "Don't stand there like an idiot! Make a dish that will make him swallow his words back, Show him your art!" She never wanted to say those words, but she has to. If the rebels win, then it is bye-bye for their life in Totsuki.
Julio smiled and nodded "Yes, i will do." he said as he returned to his station "Takumi Aldini, I will show you my art!!" he pointed at Takumi who nodded back as a response.
[OH!!! Ladies and gentlemen, Student Arato is ready to present her dish!! The first dish is readyy!!] Urara-chan shouted.
Haisha Aashi snapped his neck at Arato "When!!" He couldn't believe she finished her dish in this short time.
"But wait! where are the judges?!" Kouga asked as he looked around "Oi Azami, didn't you bring any judges for the match?!" Kouga asked Azami who was standing far from them.
"Shut up Kouga!!" Rindo who was angry at Kouga for mocking them earlier shouted "The judges have yet to arrive! they will be here in a minute!"
And as if her words were a cue...
"Oh! Since we are needed, we shall show ourselves!!" a women's voice was heard as three people walked to the judges' area.
"That is!!!"
"It can't be?!!"
"Its the world's gourmet organization's examiners!!"
"Are they the judges for this Régiment de Cuisine?!!]
[Everyone! please welcome WGO Examiners, Lady Anne, Mr.Histoire, and Mr.Charme!!!] Urara-chan was about to explode from excitement, she even dropped her evil act and started fangirling over the judges.
The arena was filled with cheering and calls for attention.
"Fufufu~lively as always, as expected of Totsuki." Anne chuckled.
"Geez, they really had to call us for such a trivial matter!" a black man with glasses with suit spoke. He was Histoire, a second class examiner.
"Don't be like that Histoire, they are paying us a lot of money for this!" Charme; a blonde-haired man who is a third-class examiner said.
As the judges sat on their chairs and looked at students from their high ground giving an aura of supremacy "Bring it to us, that is what you call cooking." Anne said.
"I am done too." Alexander covered his dish and stood beside Arato. "And so am I." Takumi too after he put few sliced strawberries on top of his dish.
"Fast!!" Nakazaki and Julio were shocked. What kind of dishes did they make to be able to serve this early?
Even them, who are now at the pinnacle of Totsuki barely managed to finish after them by a few minutes, something which earned Azami's displeasure.
They stood side by side with Alexander, Takumi, and Hisako with their dishes in their hands ready to be presented.
"Hooo~ So it is you, young rebels that have finished first, Histoire smirked as he pushed his glasses back "Then step forward."
The judging has begun. The arena has died in silence while everyone awaits the result of the first battle of this Régiment de Cuisine. Now, who is the winner? and who is the loser?
Outside of the arena. Hundreds of black cars entered the island and made their way towards the arena. A few helicopters were flying up protecting the cars and providing air support.
As the cars stopped in front of the arena entrance, hundreds of guards wearing black suits with a little logo of a red blind man on their collars.
An elderly man stepped out of a car followed by his wife and another couple.
"Lord! Now I can't see my children unless i move myself." the elderly women spoke as she walked first while the guards are protecting her from all directions.
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