Prince Of Cooking

Stepping out the car, Ikumi scans her self for the fifth time now since she makes her way to her club.

Instead of the clothes she usually wears in school, she has a short jean on, and a purple top that shows off her belly and cleavage.

As she walks toward the gate of the club, she notices her skin slowly gets chilly and her heart starts pounding.

When she was just a foot away from the gate, she couldn't handle the stirring emotions anymore and quickly make her way back toward the car.

Again, Ikumi stops, just as she about to reach the car and go back toward the gate but still couldn't pass through it.

"..." the driver watches with a sweatdrop as the girl pacing back and forth between the small gate and the car, suddenly she stops as if making a decision.

Ikumi struck her cheeks with both hands and take a deep breath to calm her beating heart,

"Ok...I can do this."

~

"Haha...it's almost ready" Lovin chuckle as he covers a large pot, fills with many ingredients.

His grand plan is just a short, future away. He can picture it now, the shock and gasp of everyone faces, it fills him with so much hope and expectation.

'It's time to set the pinnacle of cooking to a whole new level.'

He then notices Ikumi coming toward him with an awkward step and her face beet red, "Hey, Ikumi!"

"Lovin...w-ould y-you likes to, uh...go-ut...you know...I thought...I would get you a phone?"

She was stumbling over her words but he was able to understand the messages she tries to convey so Lovin takes her hands and smiling,

"How could I say no to a date with you" Lovin let go of her hands and run toward the building at the back, "Wait for a bit, I'll get change!"

~

"Nice place" Lovin was in awe, looking at all the shops in the Shopping Complexes, inside the Train Stations.

His outfit consists of a thin, white jacket with a black bottom half. And for his pants, black skinny sweatpants with white stripes, going horizontally.

On the other hand, Ikumi was flushing and wasn't enjoying the scenery, she was busying lost in her own thought. Here she is, on her first date and she was the one who initiates the date, even though she the excuse for buying him a phone.

"Ah!..." Ikumi was started when she suddenly felt something grab her hand.

Only now, did she notices her hand was being held by Lovin and they were already inside of the phone store.

Turning her around to face him, Lovin let go of her hand and say, "Since you're buying for me, you can pick what kind of phone to get me, I wait by the counter."

"Are you sure?" Ikumi question.

She asked but on the inside, she was really excited to be the one picking his phone. It like a girl picking a gift for her boyfriend and whatever she gives pick, he will be happy to receive it.

"Yeah..."

After about an hour of searching, Ikumi smile, satisfied with her choices. In her hand, a black phone, the same model as her and a white case with a cute baby panda drawing.

As she was making her way toward the counter, and as if it was fate. In the corner of her eyes, Ikumi spot a phone charm with cartoonish meat on bone, hanging from it.

Out of impulse, she went and pick it up. Now that it's in her hand, Ikumi faces heat up a bit, she can use this to remind Lovin of her whenever he'll seem this charm.

Walking up to Lovin, she asks with a nervous tone, not looking up to meet his eyes and show him the phone with the case and the charm already attached to it.

"Do you like this, is this okay?"

"Yes, and the meat charm looks cute. It reminds me of you" Lovin said, patting her head.

~

"And done..." Lovin said and hand over Ikumi's phone back to her after putting her number on his phone's contest list.

Right now, they were sitting in a table beside the Shopping Complexes main pathway, eating ice cream parfaits and she was enjoying her alone time with Lovin.

"Lovin and Nikumi!"

All of a sudden, it was ruined when someone calls out to them and she knows exactly who, there is only one person who uses her nickname so causally.

Ikumi jerks her head toward Soma, who was with a girl she never sees before, "Yukihira, what are you doing here?!"

Instead of answering her, Soma slams on the table with a big smile on his face, causing her to get more irritated, "Oh man, I'm sure am glad to see you guys here! I need your help."

"Hey, don't ignore me!"

Just as Ikumi shouted, her phone suddenly rings. The other didn't say anything and wait for her to answers and finish with her call,

"Hello?"

After a moment on the line, she gives the phone to Lovin, "Here...it Erina-sama"

"Erina, you miss me?" Lovin asks, putting the phone close to his ear.

On the other side of the line, Erina grow a tick mark and replied,

"Not now, my grandfather said he can meet you this afternoon but don't past the 6 o'clock mark."

Lovin mouth form into a grin, this is it. The start of his plan of standing at the top of the whole Totuski and even the whole cooking world.

"Pick me up at my club in three hours."

Lovin ends the call and gives the phone back to Ikumi, "Sorry the date has to end so short but I have fun."

Afterward, he runoff, shouting, "And Soma, ask Ikumi to help you!"

~

Erina closes her phone and turns toward an elderly with white facial hair and long white hair.

The man was Senzaemon Nakiri, her grandfather and also know as the Food's Demon King in the culinary world.

"He said to pick him up in three hours..."

"Haha...I can't wait to meet him face to face! The one who is unpredictable and the unexpected find, and the little devil who is here to steal everything that I hold dear, I can feel in my bone!"