99 Koujy~

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"The annual "autumn leaf viewing is around the corner..." 

In a dimly lighted room, a group of elders gathered around a table. Senzaemon, the director of Totsuki addressed the elders in front of his

"The Stagier event is about to be over in a week or so, I have made these pamphlets in preparation for it, it will be released once all of the first years finish their stagier days." Said Senzaemon as he showed his pamphlets to the elders

"This year is the most exciting year of all if I dare to say, it reminds me of the GodMothers generation!" One bald elder said

"Indeed, This year's first years are hidden gems, I can't wait for them to meet their senpais Elite 10 council members!" Another long-haired man added

Senzaemon cleared his throat, interrupting the excited chattering between the elders "I trust that I can leave the preparation of such an important event, right?" he said

"Of course, head director!"

"Please leave everything to us!"

"We promise to make this year be the most memorable year for this generation!!"

Senzaemon looked at his elders and nodded seriously, he turned to look at the night sky where the stars are dancing with their light, his eyes trembled a little 'Erina, my dear child, the stage to free you from that cursed tongue is set, the jewels I have gathered for you will surely, surely break that curse apart, especially him, if it is him, he can do it!' 

In another location, Alexander was walking down the streets of Tokyo with his back curved inside "God, I thought it was just around this area!!" He was dead tired from walking for 2 hours after he got out of the bus this late at night, "Just where is Shino's, last time I visited it was in this area, maybe I should've called Vlad to pick me up instead of walking." Alexander started regretting his decision to walk to Kouji's place.

"Hm? isn't that the street number of his restaurant?!" As soon as he saw the sign, Alexander dashed down the street until he stopped in front of Kouji's restaurant but it was closed

"Sigh~ all of that running for nothing." Alexander felt disappointed as he kicked some air, he turned to leave but his ear's picked up some noise.

"Hm?" his head stuck to the door "I hear it..." His air started shining as he dashed to the other side of the shop, at the back door, Alexander started knocking like crazy.

"YOU WANNA DIE YOU PUNK!!" Koujiro slammed the door open as he shouted

"Hey, Kouji!" Said Alexander.

Koujiro's face twitched as soon as he heard this familiar voice and tone, his eyes went down to look at Alexander, as soon as his eyes saw Alexander's smile, he slammed the door shut again

"Oi, that is very rude of you!" Alexander started slamming the door to annoy Kouji "Don't forget that I am the owner!" Said Alexander.

As soon as he said that Koujiro slammed the door open again "Husshshs!! There are people inside!!" He said, his eyes are shining with murderous intent

"Then let me in." Alexander shrugged his shoulder

"...Tsk, get in." Koujiro opened the door and both of them walked to the kitchen as it was the path leading inside from the backdoor

Once Alexander entered the kitchen, he saw a very familiar red-headed chef cooking while giving him his back

"Soma?" Alexander tilted his head in confusion. The Red-haired boy snapped his head back to see his brother behind him with Koujiro 

"Aniki?!!" Soma ran to Alexander "What are you doing here?" he asked

"I came to visit." He said while pointing at Koujiro who was very annoyed

"Are you two frien-"

"Oi, Yukihira, don't you have work to do?" Koujiro's dark aura scared Soma to death as he had a whole weak to realize when Koujiro is angry or not.

"C'mon Koujy, let the kid say hi to his brother..." Alexander leaned on Koujiro's shoulder while he is joking around

"Just how the hell did I end up with your brother under me?" Koujiro pushed back his glasses. He took off Alexander's hand off him and walked

"That is called Karama and it is spelled HaHaHa!" Said Alexander, he waved at his brother before exiting the kitchen. Soma seems to be making something so he didn't want to disturb him.

When the two exited, Soma was shocked by the group of people in the restaurant.

"Shinomiya-kun, who was slamming the back door?" asked Inui. When her eyes landed on Alexander she felt very shocked, her fellow chefs who were with her in the battle between Alexander and Koujro felt the same.

He also saw Koujiro staff, Alexander recognized most of them, the only one he didn't recognize is the blond-haired old man.

"Isn't it Alexander-kun! what are you doing here~??" asked Inui, as her usual self, she was the one to start a conversation. With her, there was no awkwardness because of is sudden appearance. She also, almost spilled that he and Koujiro had a Shokugeki in front of  Chapelle-sensei who Alexander recognized him now as one of the teachers that did the announcement in Totsuki's Hellish Training Camp.

It seems that Koujiro is holding a new dish competition between his staff members, and one of them will have the privilege to add his dish to be added to the restaurant's menu. And that explained to Alexander why Soma was still cooking in the kitchen, the other 3 staff members had already finished and got their dishes tasted and only Soma is remaining.

"Well, I have some work to do, so I will let you guys do your thing..." Alexander stood up from his chair

"Eeeh!! Alexy-kun is leaving? I thought you will stay longer!!" Inui started behaving like a child again but hse was hit on the head by Mizuhara again

"I am not leaving...OI, Koujy, do you have a laptop in your office?" he asked.

"Yeah, you can use it." Koujiro didn't mind and just crossed his legs together and took a sip of his wine. What Koujiro considered as normal, the others saw it as a sign of the end of the world. When Alexander left for his office, Koujiro's friends and teachers started bombarding him with questions and asking if he's okay.

Only his staff members didn't seem surprised, after all, That young man with a smile on his face is their boss and this restaurant owner.

In the office, Alexander opened the laptop and started sending e-mail to all the people he had gathered under his name. After seeing his mother's project being set in motion, that fired him up to do the same.

Alexander has decided on opening the [Golden Tower], it is time. He will summon all the chefs he deemed worthy enough when he was traveling around the world and bring them to open their shops in his tower under his flag.

"I should tell Koujiro about this, I feel bad for him as he will have to relocate after his pre-opening day soon," Alexander said to himself. Although he did inform Koujro that he will be relocating his restaurant soon but he didn't expect it to be this soon.

After several minutes of working on the laptop, Alexander heard the door of the office open. He didn't take his eyes off the laptop as he already knows who is it.

"What are you doing?" asked Koujiro. He sat on the chair in front of Alexander with his legs crossed

"Sending some e-mails...I am relocating the 99 restaurant chefs I have gathered in my years of traveling." He said.

Koujiro sighed and looked at the ceiling

"Don't be sad, I told you, I am not here to destroy your way of cooking, you are merely relocating your restaurant to a better place, on your own floor, the sign is gonna be a huge [Shino'] restaurant."

"I am not talking about that, I am just wondering how all of that is gonna work? no one even attempted to do such thing as building a ranking tower for restaurants before." Said Koujiro

"Don't worry kukuku~" Alexander's aura turned dark as a sly grin formed on his face "Some rich fat dudes owe me a lot of favors in the past, you don't know how many ads of that tower will be around the world, in addition to the reputation that will come after the chefs I have recruited will be more than enough to give us the spotlight we need...And just to let you rest, I am not expecting immediate success."

Koujiro looked at Alexander who was still busy typing stuff on his keyboard. He sighed "Okay, let's do this, when do we start?" he asked.

"In the next 5 months, First we will focus on marketing the tower and build up the hype around it while showing some features of the tower before the grand opening of the 99th floors."

"And what about the 100th floor?" asked Koujiro.

"That is my floor, it will stay closed until I graduate from Totsuki." Koujiro nodded in understanding.

After a while, Alexander closed the laptop and stretched his body "By the way, how did my brother do? did he win?" Asked Alexander.

Koujiro who was watching tv  while lying on the couch nearby stood up "Nah, he didn't."

"What is he doing now?"

"I showed him some mistakes in his dish and gave him some advice in french cuisine. He still has a long way to go." Said Koujiro as he stretched his body.

The two left the office to see the restaurant empty, but loud noises were coming from the kitchen. They went there and saw Soma surrounded by the other alumni, his teacher, and Koujiro's staff. They were working on Soma's dish and trying to improve it.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot to ask, did you just come back from being stagier at some kitchen owner?" Koujjiro asked. He saw everyone being fully concentrated in what they were doing so him and Alexander didn't want to disturb them and just returned to the tables and sat with each other.

"Yeah, I was sent to the Red Cloud, I worked there for a week." Said Alexander.

When Koujro heard the name of the red cloud, his body shivered unconsciously "Crap, don't repeat that name again, it gives me nightmares." Koujiro can still see that woman's evil grin in front of him now.

"kukuku~Red Cloud~Red Cloud~ Red Cloud"

"You bastard!!" 

"Alexandra Helmet~Alexandra Helmet~Alexandra Helmet~"

"I swear if you don't stop!!" 

"Hahahaha!!"

"Don't laugh!!!"

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