104 The First day
There are some parts that are still unedited, I will edit it later when I return
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The Moon Banquet Festival has started, loads of people were flooding the front gate of the festival as they followed their noses to the booth with the best food that suits their taste
"So Good!!"
"Ran, come here, there is a Japanese culinary booth here!!"
"Let us go see the central area, I heard that there are many interesting booths."
Conversations like this filled the main street area, some came alone while others came with their families, friends, lovers, and children.
"Go get the car, we need to go and take our place in the uptown area, this year is quite interesting for Totsuki." One lady who seems to be rich spoke to her friends while ordering her servant to get the car. Her straight blue hair was shining under the main street area's light
"Did you get the news, Araki-chan?" her friends said with a cheeky smile. She was a short red-haired girl wearing a black jacket and pants.
"What is, Dianna?" Araki questioned, she knows that her friends work as a culinary journalist so she must have some interesting news.
"My source told me that the GodMother's son is attending Totsuki."
"WHAT?!!" screamed Araki
"Shh!" Dianna quickly covered her friend's mouth, luckily everyone was
"News about that must not be leaked, the general public still doesn't the heir to the family's appearance. The Media is prohibited from publishing any news about him. If someone knows that I told you about him, i will be fired."
Araki shut her mouth while nodding apologetically.
"But anyway, I heard that he has a restaurant in the uptown area next to Totsuki's first seat; Tsukasa." Dianna looked around her to see if someone did hear them, but apparently, everyone is busy with the food in front of them.
This is Totsuki after all. If the food didn't captivate you, then this must be the wrong place.
"The car arrived, let us go...I will take you to his restaurant, although we may not be able to meet him, we may get the chance to eat his dishes." Dianna dragged her friend to the car and departed to the uptown area.
The car shuffled through the streets and quickly reached its destination. The two girls left the car just to witness an awe-inspiring view.
In front of them is a large circle of large buildings with all kinds of lights serving as illumination.
"Wow!!" Araki opened her mouth in amazement.
"hehe~This is the most luxurious area in this festival, just one dish may cost you hundreds of dollars," Dianna said.
"Araki looked around her and found rich people everywhere, from the young to the old, all of them are here to taste the top tier of dishes that Totsuki can present.
Dianna smirked and grabbed Araki's head and turned it around "...Look there." she said.
Araki saw in front of her a large white building with a giant and long black sign "The North Star Restaurant...?" she mumbled
"This is the hot topic of this school, in this area of the monster of the 3rd years and the elite 10, one single restaurant stood among them...The North Star, a restaurant run only by the top students of the first year." Dianna commented proudly as if she was part of this, her journalist part took over her.
"Hurry up, we are already late or our table will be taken over." Dianna dragged her friend again toward the North Star building. Just like them, other people made their way to the restaurant, although it was managed by first years, it was still bringing in as many customers as the others near it.
Dianna walked inside a large tunnel-like area, in front of them was a chubby boy sitting in a wooden desk with many papers beside him, it was Isami.
Dianna came to him and spoke to Isami "I made a reservation for a table between 7 PM-8 PM, two days ago."
Isami looked at her and nodded " On which platform did you submit your reservation?" he asked
"On the North Star website."
"Hmm..." Isami took out his laptop and looked for a list "Name, please?" he asked.
"Dianna Allbolt."
Isami typed on his keys and smiled "Table for two people, Dianna Allbolt and Araki Stross. Your table is still available." Isami typed something and a paper come out from the machine behind him, he handed the paper to the girl which she received with a beaming face full of smiles.
"YAAY!!" Dianna and Araki rushed inside accompanied by another student who worked as a guide, he demanded the paper be handed to him so he may guide them to their table.
While passing by, Dianna looked around the luxurious room, many waiters are traveling back and forth between the kitchen and the customers, the customers are displaying various kinds of reactions. Dianna whistled "As expected from those who dared to challenge the 3rd year in their own turf." She has been to the Moon Banquette Festival several times in the past and she saw what the third years could do and what they can cook. And she had to admit
"This food is fantastic, we did not make a mistake by coming here." One woman said to her husband
"Of course, it was our son who recommended us to come here."
The couple weren't the only ones who had such thought, the atmosphere was peaceful and lively with many rosy-faces scattered around.
While it was quiet and peaceful in the dining area, the same can't be said about the kitchen. If it wasn't for the soundproof walls, screams of hell would be coming from behind the walls.
"WHERE IS THE BLUE LOTUS PLATES??" Alexander asked "BRING ME FOUR OF THEM!!" he shouted.
"ON IT!!" One boy who was acting as his assistant ran to the back of the kitchen to get them for him. Everyone was shouting for something, it was hell on earth, if you didn't scream, no one will hear.
"ALEXANDER!! THE BEEF IS DONE, WHERE IS THE VEGETABLES??" From the other side of the room, Takumi shouted while flipping a pan of rice.
"READY!" Alexander took out two bowls of broccoli florets and thinly slices carrots "Here take them to him." he ordered another girl beside him.
She ran quickly to Takumi and passed him the bowels and he immediately mixed with the slices of beef and seasoned it with soy sauce and sesame seeds. He then continued to cook and stir until vegetables become tender, about 2 more minutes.
"HERE TAKE THESE TWO TO THE WAITER AND TELL HIM TO SERVE THEM TO TABLE 35? QUICK." Takumi said after he finished his dish.
Hayama in the corner was very angry, he was in a rush and didn't have time. He raised his hand and slammed the table "DAMN IT!! IT BROKE!!"
Alice came out of the backroom with some tools in her hands, she handed two pans to Alexander and 1 large spoon for Takumi while giving Ryo a new knife.
She then looked at Hyama who was clicking every key on the Fruit mixer machine "What happened?" she asked.
"It doesn't switch on!" he said. "I am low on time, i need to mix these fruits soon..." He said.
"Quick, slice the fruits to make it easier for them to be mixed. I will try to fix it." Alice pulled out a screwdriver and opened the machine while Hayama started slicing the fruits into thin pieces.
By the time Alice finished fixing the machine, he had already sliced the fruits and mixed them together so thin they could be made into juice by mixing them with bare hands.
"Just how thin did you need to slice them?" She asked
"Never mind that, quick give me that thing." Hayama quickly mixed the fruits and finished serving his dish by giving it to his assistant who ran outside to give it to the waiter.
"OI, ALICE, COME AND MAKE THE LAMB SAUCE.!!" Alexander shouted from across the kitchen.
"Yeah, coming♪" Alice was the only one not affected by the heated mood in the kitchen, mainly because she wasn't in charge of cooking for the time being but was in charge of maintaining the equipment and managing the stock of the kitchen.
Time went by like a flash and The North Star started closing, and surprisngly, it closed early than anybody.
The gang got out of the kitchen like zombies. "My hands...I can't feel them." Takumi said as he took a seat with the others in the nearest table.
The other staff members started cleaning the kitchen and the tables "I feel like we worked for two days straight..." Alexander got exhausted too, He thought that the festival would only start at night but it surprisingly started at an early time in the day. "And we even had to sign that damned song..." He said.
"That was a traditional song," Alice said, she was the only one who can speak normally without sounding like a zombie.
"Girl, we had to work for more than 12 hours, we started at 7 AM and now it is 9 PM, the last thing i want to start my day with is a song..." Said Alexander.
"I kind of agree..." Hayama spoke with his face flat on the table.
"When will they announce the results of the first day?" Asked Takumi, he took a fan and started making a nice cool breeze for himself.
"For the Uptown area, In a few hours after all the tickets have been counted and submitted, I have sent someone to submitted our earnings. The result will be published in Totsuki's journal..." Alice said.
"I wonder how the others are doing..." Hayama said while stretching "I want to sleep...I didn't know that the festival is this harsh?!"
"It wasn't like this many years ago. Only after the GodMother's generation's that Totsuki expanded the festival's time duration." Alice said with a shrug 'I hope we are at least ahead of Erina...' Alice shifted her eyes to the empty room where it was busy with people just a few moments ago 'I do still think that it was still not enough, today is just the first day and our reputation will increase even more tomorrow...Everything went well with everyone's help.' Alice had high expectations for her team.
Alexander sighed and took off his white chef uniform, he stood up and walked out of the building, it was night time and the uptown area was lively with people going around, surprisngly the first seat's building didn't have that many people around it
'Maybe he doesn't care about the numbers...' Alexander thought. And he couldn't be more accurate.
"Alexander-kun..." Isami came from behind Alexander and called for him "They are announcing the rankings in other areas..." He said. Alexander nodded, he then remembered his brother was challenging Kouga "What about the central area? how did Soma do?" he asked
"...He is in the red."
"...Damn!" Alexander facepalmed himself
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