「 Parmigiana di Pollo 」

After collecting all the ingredients that needed for their dish, Akira and Erina immediately returned to the class while carrying their baskets, including the chicken who has been butchered. Of course Its all done by Akira.

This certainly caught the attention of other students, because they could not find any chickens around this private place.

"As expected of Erina-sama, she is not only amazing at cooking but also very good at collecting ingredients, she can find something that we, an ordinary people cant't."

"But look who is her partner, that impudent transfer student."

"Tsk, he is lucky to be Erina-sama's partner and get carried in this task."

A lot of responses came from the students when they saw the combination of Akira and Erina, and you can defenitely tell what kind of response they gave to Akira. Well, after his infamous speech in the opening ceremony, Its pretty understandable.

Even though Akira himself is absolutely indifferent about that matter, he couldn't care less about other people opinions of him speaking some facts.

He spent his days in Totsuki mostly on painting and honing his cooking skills, he only attended classes that pique his curiousity and maybe hanging around with Alice and Kurokiba sometime. That's his daily life in Totsuki.

Akira and Erina then began to return to their table, ignoring the gazes of the other students.

Akira glanced at the other students' tables and have some thought.

' It seems like they had prepared their ingredients. But as i expected, no one has flour on their table. Which quite essential in Italian cuisine, because to make pasta you need a flour. As simple as that, no flour, no pasta. But they seems to have some idea, maybe make a Ribollita with some vegetables and stale bread? Or even one of the most simple Italian dish you could imagine like Caprese Salad, which can be very good if you could execute it perfectly. '

Well Akira don't blame them, even he has some hard time to find the flour. And its because of his luck that he got everything that he needs in his basket right now. They have a very limited ingredients that they can choose from this private, limited environment. Some of the students even only have vegetables in their table. Its really sad.

Well at least cheese is available to use. Akira doesnt know why Its not considered as the Ingredients, but Its an advantage so why wouldn't he accept it?

The distinctive feature in most of Italian cuisine is Tomato. From salad, pasta, sauce, stew, almost every Italian cuisine use Tomato. The dish that will be made by Akira and Erina this time is one of the most common chicken dishes in Italy, Parmigiana Chicken. However, the Parmigiana Chicken which will be presented by Akira and Erina this time will be slightly different from the traditional Chicken Parmigiana.

Akira opened up his suitcase, but he doesn't took his black headband as usual. He just simply think that would need one to complete this task, not to mention the God Tongue herself is by his side.

"So... do you want to make the pasta or the chicken?" Erina asked as she looking at Akira in a flat look.

" Hmm... Let me think... " Akira said as he holding up his chin.

" Hurry up, we didn't have that much time to waste! Ugghhhhhh. " Erina growling with an annoyed face as Akira just wheezed.

" Alright, let me cook the chicken... But would you able to handle the pasta though? Especially using 'that'. " Akira said, mentioning the secret ingredient.

But Erina just crossing her arms.

" Of course, who do you think i am? I let you choose your part because its a paired task. I can easily cook both chicken and pasta at the same time, and it will be better than yours. "

Akira just smiled, Its maybe because he also have that kind of arrogance, he just find it funny when someone act that way against him. That's why Its very amusing to tease someone like Erina.

While Erina who already working on the pasta dough, glanced at Akira a little bit.

' Hmm? Its weird... Where is that cocky bastard personality from the entrance exam... No, No, I have to focus on my cooking. ' Erina thought.

Without realizing it, Erina has acknowledge Akira's cooking ability. Even though that Sunset Chawanmushi in the entrance exam wasn't the best dish she ever tasted, but Its defenitely the best looking dish.

As she started making her dough, Erina then also began to take the ingredients she needed to make the dough.

" THAT! "

" Flour!? "

Of course it caught everyone attention because no one actually making a pasta dish. There is no flour, how did you supposed to make the pasta without that? and Where did Erina get that flour from? They have the same questions in their mind.

After taking the flour, Erina then starts to prepare the dough bowl, and put the flour into it, and also some eggs, water, one spoonful of cooking oil before she begin to knead the dough gracefully.

Meanwhile, Akira who just finished the plucking process then proceed to cut the chicken meat into eight pieces before washed it very quickly until Its perfectly ready to cook.

He use the boneless chicken breast, and marinate it in the mixture of pickle juice, and a simple salt and pepper spice mixture.

Time has passed and many students had failed to satsify Donato even after they tried to repeat their dishes multiple times. There is only a few pairs who barely managed to pass the task. Even Donato doesn't seems to impressed by their dish at all.

"Only 10 minutes remaining, you should finished your dish quickly." Donato said, as the students who failed to satify Donato felt despair and hopeless. Because even if they tried to make a whole new dish, there is not much time left.

Then, Akira and Erina then started to move forward while carrying their dish before putting it right in front of Donato, who actually widened his eyes in interest for the first time since the class started.

" Oh!! This is... "

"Parmigiana di Pollo e Spaghetti." Erina said as she smiled gracefully. Donato also smiled as he holding a chin.

" Chicken Parmigiana, very common chicken dish but there is no bread flour, panko or any kind of flour here, what do use as the outer layer and the parmigiana itself?" Donato asked Akira and Erina.

The one who came forward to answer that question was Akira because he was in charge of processing the Parmigiana, Akira then took out a pack of yellow crumbs.

"I use Quinoa as the outer layer." Akira said.

Hearing that unexpectedname, Donato was a little surprised.

"Quinoa? That's an unexpected name... Where did you get something like that from?" Donato asked, because Quinoa is a plant that usually grows in the American continent. Its very rare to use that in Japan.

"Actually, my senpai has a special preference for Quinoa, so she brought me some crunchy Quinoa, with that, I pounded into a crumbs and mixed it with the grated parmigiana as the outer layer." Akira said.

Well, he was lucky that Mea give him some of her quinoa.

Hearing that, Donato couldn't help but praise Akira.

"That's really creative." Donato said as he took a knife and fork, then proceed to cut the Parmigiana Chicken, and the melted Mozarella on top of the chicken Parmigiana is just a cherry on top of the cake. The chicken looks absolutely mouthwatering.

" Hummmmmp! The crispy texture of chicken and the sour and sweet tomato sauces makes an incredible combination in my mouth! It almost feels like the meat is melted with the mozzarella~rella~rella~rella~rella~ '

All of the students looking at Donato with a weird gaze after he said that with his usual pose.

He then continued.

" And also this Tomato sauce, It has some char flavour in it, very sweet, slightly tangy, and light. Its taste slightly different than your usual marinara and pomodoro. "

Erina then opened her mouth.

"That can be done because tomatoes contain glutamic acid. And to reach that flavour i toast the tomatoes before i crushed it into the sauce. And adding some bay leaves, salt, and freshly ground pepper." Erina Said.

' Very simple, but vital. She didnt even looks like she even trying. ' Donato thought as he looked at Erina who still put her cold expression.

"Then, it's the time for the spaghetti." Donato said as he immediately took Spaghetti with a fork and put it in his mouth.

" THIS! So you also use the Quinoa, i mean Quinoa flour in the spaghetti! "

Erina just nodded

as Donato made a strange pose and said.

"Magnifico!" He said before looking at both Erina and Akira.

"Hyoujou Akira and Nakiri Erina, both of you passed!!!"

Hearing that, Erina just turned around and removed the ties in her hair, no reaction whatsoever. While Akira just nodded.

After that, the task finished as there is no times remaining. And the students who couldn't satisfy Donato couldn't do nothing but get expelled.

"Thank you for your hard work, blonde-haired examiner," Akira said to Erina.

Hearing Akira calls her with that nickname again, Erina's face turned irritated and snapped around as she looked at Akira angrily.

"I! Told! You! Don't call me with that name!!!" Erina yelled at Akira who just smiled while rocking her hand.

"Well ... don't be so stiff like that, relax, after all. The first day of the training camp has just finished." Akira said with a smile, however, Erina instead put on a contemptuous look at Akira.

"Finished? It looks like you don't understand the essence of this training camp at all," Erina said.

"Essence?" Akira asked tilting his head.

Suddenly, a voice came from Donato.

"Come on, all students, let's hop on to the bus, we need to back to our hotel, the expelled students too, Let's go!~" He said that with a smile before he left. And the students starting to following him.

However, before Erina stepped away, she turned back to Akira and said.

"I hope you understand that our level is different. And i still don't accept you in this school, but well, i just hope that you don't get expelled from Totsuki because of this Training camp. That way i can crush you by myself in Shokugeki if you are worthy enough to be my opponent." Erina sway her hair before turned away and leaving Akira all alone.

Akira just standing there for a few seconds before he laughing out loud and grinned, something that the usual him never done before.

"Hahaha, i can't wait for that to happen." Akira said nonchalantly.

After that, Akira boarded the bus with his entourage and returned to Totsuki Resort without knowing that there would be another task waiting for him after he arrived at the Hotel.