It is Finished

After dressing in his garden clothes, Lovin went downstairs and toward the kitchen, only to find a group of people already there.

"Oh, Lovin-kun. You're up early as always, are you trying to collect vegetable again?" Isshiki asked, sitting on a chair, butt naked.

"Yeah..."

Looking around, there were Fumio, a semiconscious Megumi with dark rings under her eyes, rocking herself on a chair, Soma and his dad in their cooking clothes.

"What are you all doing?"

"We are having our father and son cooking contest, will you like to join as one of the judges?" Joichiro decides to answer in every one place.

"Sur-" before he can finish his sentence properly, the mansion doorbell ding off.

"Who could it be so early in the morning?" Fumio murmur.

Soma flumps on the flood, scratching his head, "Ah man, just how many times we're going to get interrupted before we can get cooking."

"I'll go have a look" Lovin left for the door, replying as he was on his way.

~

Oping the door, He was met with the three girls he spends the most time with while on the training camp; Erina, Ikumi, and Hisako.

Lovin's smile turns into a bright one and jumps on Erina and Ikumi, hugging both of them before they could even register it.

"Did you miss me so much, that you couldn't go on without being able to see me a least once a day now?!"

The two got fluster and push him off. Erina holds her chest, trying to calm her beating heart. That was the first time she huge by a boy and so suddenly at that.

Ikumi on the other still blushing but she was a bit used to him hugging her so she was faring it better, leaving Hisako the one to speak.

"We here to tell you, your club is finished building, we couldn't call you on the phone since we don't know your number."

"Oh that, I don't have a cell phone" Lovin replied, "but that was fast, the club is done."

Having recovered a little, Erina put her hands on her waist, trying to hide her embarrassment,

"Of course, you are using my name so that a given."

"Anyway, what with the clothes?" Ikumi asked, noticing the garden outfit he has on, instead of his usual black uniform.

"I was gonna look for some vegetable in the back but...anyhow, I got tell the other everything is okay. Soma and his dad are having a cook-off, do you want to see?"

That was a surprise to them that Soma's dad was here and this got Erina a bit curious but she brushes that off, thinking the father wouldn't be anything special.

"No, just go back and get changed, we wait."

~

"It just Erina and Ikumi, it seems the club-" just as Lovin enter the kitchen, speaking, a voice suddenly rang out behind him, "Saiba-sama?!"

Curious got the better of her and wanting to know what Yukihira Soma's dad looks like, Erina follows Lovin back. But never would she thought, standing beside Yukihira Soma was her long-time idol since she was a child. The first time she tries his cooking when he was cooking for her grandfather, she couldn't forget his food. She wants to able to create dishes like him and want to show him how far she has come.

"Oh, Erina! I almost didn't recognize you, you grow up" Joichiro grin, waving at her.

Everyone was shocked that they knew each other and Erina who always look down on people, treat Joichiro with respect.

"Wait, dad! You know each other?!" Soma jump up to his feet and asked.

"Yeah, I met her when she was small."

"Saiba-sama is you dad?!" Erina question, alternate pointing between the father and son.

That was a shock, knowing Soma, the person who she treats as a third-rank cook, calling her idol his dad.

"Yeah, what the big deal?"

While thinking on how to respond back, Erina feels a tap on her shoulder and turns to the person who bid for her attention.

"You can take my place if you want as a judge in the cooking contest," Lovin said, then looks toward the dorm members.

"Anyway, my club is finished building so got to go and let Erina take my place" he then turned back toward Erina, "Me, Ikumi and Hisako will go to club fist, you can follow when the contest is done. I'll go get change, let me know if you staying or not when I get back."

"Wait-" before she could say anything back, Lovin already walk off and out of reach.

~

"Nice, even the road is done," Lovin said as he, Ikumi and Hisako walk down the new-made pathway in the middle of the forest, leading to his new club.

"Yes, with the Nakiri name, the construction work on day and night, that why it was completed so fast," Hisako stated.

"Has you seem the club already, Ikumi?"

"No..." she shakes her head, "I got a call this morning for Hisako and we immediately went to your dorm to get you."

Because of Erina's decision to stay behind, they didn't take the car they came to pick up Lovin with and just walk there since it was already close to the Polar Star anyway.

There was even a small parking lot near the club when they got there and a bit further at the back was a small gate with the club writing on top; Cooking Extraordinaire. The gate was being held by the surrounding trees and the view behind it block by all the tree's body, branch, and leaves.

"I can't believe you seriously stick with that name..." Hisako sigh with a facepalm.

"It's a cool name" Lovin replied as he walks through the gate and thrill as what he sees in front of him.

In front of him was a large space that has a pool, chair, sofa, and tables with a roof deck over them. There in the middle was a cooking burner connecting in a circle. Behind all of them was a small building that uses for storage but it also has all the household necessities.

The club looks like an outdoor relaxing spot more than anything else and just the way he likes it. In the first place, he wasn't even serious about building a club but if he gets to spend time with the girls and taking it easy, he all for it.

"I shouldn't know that was going to be something like this..." Hisako sigh.