176 The BookMaster

There has been a mistake in one of the latest chapters - The candidates for the Blue are actually 5, not 4. It was corrected. Now you're informed about it. Sorry about that.

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Tokyo - The Golden Tower

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The Golden Tower was as usual busy with people, many people from the rich to the middle-class workers enter this tower in an infinite loop. In the half a year the tower has been running, not one day has it been empty, an important in the gourmet tourists of the world. People travel from every point of the world here to japan just to see the top 99 chefs cooking their food. Food they never tasted the like of before.

From the first floor to the 98th floor, every table was full, reservations for those tables were also full for when the current customers finish. The prices were a little bit high but considering who is cooking the food and how and with the ingredients they were using, it was only natural, in fact, it was cheaper than expected.

But besides that, as stated, every floor was full but one...two actually. The 99th floor. Shinomiya Koujiro's personal floor. It was empty as the desert. Only Shinomiya's team was in, cleaning the tables, preparing the ingredients and cleaning the cooking tools.

Abel, Shiomiya's head chef was with Lucie cleaning the floor shiny, he frowned and sighed "We have been cleaning this floor for half a day...when is this special customer will arrive?" he mumbled.

Lucie, the blue short-haired girl heard him and spoke: "I bet that he will arrive until night..." She said with a bored face "I wish there was more customers, this takes the fun out of it..." she said.

"I agree," Abel added, "Reserving the whole floor for a full day when you're not gonna use for not even 2 hours is too much!"

"Oi! you two, shut up and come help me with the heavy bags!" Gao Wei, the service manager of the floor shouted, behind her are five heavy bags full of new fresh ingredients.

"What the hell do we need those for?" Lucie asked as she went to carry one of the bags.

"Chef Shinomiya said that the customer demanded fresh ingredients..." Wei replied as she took her bag too and carried it to the kitchen.

Abel looked at the ingredients and they were all A+ class ingredients "Please tell me we are no paying for this..."

"Actually no...everything is on the customer," Wei stated with a visible amazed tone.

"Pretty expensive for a one-time dinner in a restaurant, don't you think?" Lucie ran to get another bag.

"It is none of our concerns." Wei got the last bag and carried to the kitchen "If the customer is going to pay for it, then we will give him what he wants."

"Sounds to me like this customer is going to be a pain in the ass," Lucie spoke as she started taking out the ingredients and put them in their rightful places in the kitchen.

A moment later, a ding sound came from the elevator beside the stairs door. Koujiro got out and entered his serving hall. "Abel!" he called making his way towards the kitchen.

"yes, chef!" Avel came out running and met him at the door. Koujiro handed him a paper and walked pass him "This is our menu, start preparing, I got a call from the customer that he will be here 9 PM. With no delay, Koujro and his team started preparing for this VIP customer, even Koujiro himself doesn't know who is this person.

Time went by and night came along and so the clock reached 9 PM. Koujro was in the serving hall waiting. He was getting impatient 'I swear if this is some of those annoying rich love birds...' Before Koujiro could finish his thoughts, a ding sound came from the elevator.

5 men in black suits came out in a circle, clearly surrounding someone important. Koujiro stood up, his staff lined up with him and greeted the customer "Welcome to our humble hall!" they said.

"Hm..." a feminine voice came from behind the men. "...Humble indeed." The woman as. With her fan, she tapped on her bodyguard's shoulder and the 5 of them made way for her as she walked toward Koujiro "Hello, owner of this humble tower." A blond woman with a long golden kimono spoke.

Koujiro raised his head and looked at her. Her purple eyes, short eyebrows were captivating, the pinnacle of the Japanese beauty. Koujiro shook his head and spoke "Hello. We are about to finish your order, 1 minute and it will be served. But I must confirm your identity, the person who reserved this place is Micheal Sword. And I don't think that you're a man." Koujiro said.

The woman smiled "True, I am not Micheal, that is my bodyguard's name..." she pointed at the red-haired man beside her "I am Nakiri Mana." Her bodyguard gave his ID to be confirmed, but that wasn't even important.

'Mana?' Koujiro frowned 'Senzaemon's daughter?' he thought.

"I see that you recognize my name, I have heard that the owner of this place is quite the formidable chef. I reserve the whole floor just to get a taste of your famed food. After all, no one can unite 98 chefs under him without the talent. Not even that foolish Kohai of mine." Mana smiled as she covered it with her fan.

Koujiro sighed "Unfortunately, you're mistaken, I am not the owner." Koujiro realized what is going on and he can predict how this is going to end.

Mana stayed silent but a frown was on her face. Her Bodyguard; Michael stepped forward and spoke: "But you're the president in here."

"Yes, on the papers, in truth i am just replacing the real one until he comes back. He is your guy." Koujiro shrugged his shoulders.

"So, I presume that we have wasted our time?" Mana spoke.

"Sadly yes, but you can still have your order, because unfortunately, you can't cancel the order at this moment." Koujiro reminded them as he pointed at the prepared table near the window.

"...No. There is no need to cancel, but I still demand that You call this mysterious president of yours." Mana frowned, she looked at her bodyguard whose work was so lacking that it caused her this embarrassment. Just her mere glare caused the poor Michael to shiver.

"For what reason? I can't just call the ruler for one customer." Koujiro smiled and turned to his staff "Go turn off the oven and stop the cooking, you can eat it or take it home." He said as his staff.

Mana smiled "For what reason? I am from The World Gourment Organization, We are running an examination immediately, and I demand to see the real president."

Koujiro sighed "You can't, unless you are..."

"The Bookmaaster. I have the authority to execute an immediate examination." Mana took the nearest seat and looked at Koujiro with a challenging gaze "I can lock down your building for days if I want to." She added.

Koujiro looked like he was about to murder somebody. He finally sighed and took out his phone and called Alexander "Hello..."

[Koujy, my man, did you miss so much that you called me?] Alexander's playful voice came out of the other side of the phone.

"HELL NO!!" Koujiro shouted suddenly making even Mana flinch "Alright yellow-eyes, the book master of WGO came and she wants to meet you." Koujiro had no time to play around and he doesn't like Alexander teasing him.

[Eh? book master, is that someone from the library?] Alexander, on the other hand, didn't care less about what he was saying and treated Koujiro's angry voice like a breeze passing by his ear.

"You g- It's from The World Gourmet Organization, she will do an examination now and wants to meet the real owner..." Koujiro looked at Mana who clearly was enjoying this as a smile formed on her lips. Koujiro lowered his voice so Mana can't hear him "...Dude, for fuck sake she wants to lock down the tower for days if you don't show up."

[Who the hell will do what?] Alexander didn't seem to be fazed by that as he just questioned. [I don't care, you're the president and she can't do any further, deal with her, I have a Blue Tournament to go to.] Alexander cut off the line on Koujiro leaving the latter clenching his phone almost about to break it.

Mana looked at Koujiro's dark face "So...is he coming?" she asked.

"No, no he will not." Koujiro sighed and rubbed his eyes behind his glasses.

Mana raised an eyebrow. She was about to speak but Koujiro spoke first "You said you are the book master, right?" he asked.

"Yes. That is indeed I am." Mana spoke, she stood up slowly and walked towards Koujiro "And you know what I will do now, right?"

"You are the one behind the BLUE tournament, right?" Koujiro didn't react and continued.

"Indeed."

"Then, I am happy to tell you that our president will be one of the participants, you wanted to meet him and taste his cooking, then he is at your doorsteps." Koujiro smiled lightly.

Mana was taken back "Certainly there is no one among them who fits the description. How do I know that he is the one?"

Koujiro smiled and took a few steps back "That is because the winner of that tournament will be our president."

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