Prince Of Cooking

digging open the crust of Naan Pot Pie, the judges and all who in Group A cooking arena was met with another sudden explode of aroma that fills their nostrils with richness.

"Ho, another one and it smells quite good..." the older of the judge said, looking at curry sauce with meat within the pastry pot.

"True, but it's not as fragrance as Lovin-kun is."

Nobody could argue with the Curry Queen on that statement. Even though Hayama's curry pack quite the punch, it is not as dense and powerful as the one before it.

Putting the curry in her mouth and tasting peppery bite with notes of clove and sweet, ‎Natsume instantly knows what herb is.

"Holy Basil! In fact, it's fresh holy basil."

Eating the curry, Soma search for the thing that keeps pulling people back to want to eat more, after a while, he found it.

"Yogurt..."

"That's right" replied Hayama, "With a single misstep, holy basil can overwhelm other spices, but the yogurt mellows it out."

When he explains how his curry more, Hayama feel a bad taste in his mouth, it comes off as if he got the idea from Lovin.

With how good his curry is and knowing how to use holy basil well, the blonde female judges would definitely want Hayama for herself. It's too bad, there already exist someone better in that place in her heart.

[What's Candidate Hayama's score?]

All the students with hate for Lovin fall in a pit of depression when the score was revealed, they thought if anyone who can put the asshole in his place, it will be Hayama since the theme of the election preliminary was curry dish but he only gets...

"80 points, No!"

Royko frown as her name was kicked out of the scoreboard. While in Erina's private booth, she was joined by another two people, Isshiki and the Polar Star door mother.

"It seems, not even the spices boy could catch up to Lovin..." Fumio said, seating on the one seat in the booth.

"Hey, you can't just come into someone else place uninvited!" Erina yells at the two people trespasser.

"It fine isn't it since the white hair girl is here?" Fumio lazily disregards the girl's protest.

[It's time for candidate Yukihira Soma to present his dish.]

With Soma's turn to get his dish judge, they stop arguing and decide to observe the occurrence and see how it will develop.

After taking his curry to the judges, Soma gives one to his rival of the present and smirk.

"I know this dish might not be able to match to Lovin but I'm confident you would like it."

Soma places his hand on the cover of his dish, opening the lib, "It's too bad it comes in third, but my idea wasn't bad at all."

His dish was a beautiful decorative omelet with something stuff inside, but Soma wasn't done yet. Taking a spoon in hand, he slashes open the side of the omelet, revealing the risotto inside and along with the explosion of species fragrance.

Eating the rice, along with enjoying the aroma it gives off, Minatozaka Makito comments on the Curry Risotto Omurice.

"Flavorful after flavor, the taste is on pair with Hayama's sharp curry taste!"

"So you use chutney too, Yukihira," Hayama stated after finally finding the answer to the flavor that has deep ties to the other spices in the risotto.

"That's right, it mango chutney" Soma confirm, show a jar of his home blend chutney.

Putting the spoon down, the oldest judge has a content expression on his face after he has a taste of the curry risotto.

"That was a wonderful experience of fragrance bomb, even if the last two couldn't catch up to the first one."

Over at the booth, Isshiki speaks up after witnessing how Soma's curry experience went down and how much impact it have on the judges.

"It doesn't look Soma-kun's curry will match up to Lovin-kun either, and he so tries so hard..."

"Yeah...in Soma's case, I can understand how he got this good. The other one, I can't figure it out, that kid is one big mystery."

Hearing their talk, Alice was curious and ask her cousin, "I hear Lovin-kun is an orphan, did he tell you anything."

"No..." Erina shakes her head in reply, "Every time we together, he's either making something to eat or playing around. And when he talks about himself...well, you've seemed how he thinks of himself."

[Yukihira Soma place in second place with 80 points]

***

"Now, since we have a tie in 4th place. Judges, please vote on who to kick off. Kurokiba Ryo or Mito Ikumi?"

With the end of the evaluation, Eizan Etsuya requests the judges to vote of who to be eliminated.

The last contestant, Mimasaka Subaru didn't make it into the scoreboard. In there, there only four names written, with two names being ties in the four places.

Ikumi put her hand together in pry while Ryo was piss that he was tied with someone and now, it all comes down to a vote.

As everyone eyes glue on the scoreboard and awaiting the result, the name of Mito Ikumi disappears from the broadcast board.

"She has come far. Not long ago, she only focuses on meat and neglect other ingredients, it did her some good spending time with that boy."

Even though Ikumi lost, the French Cuisine Division, Roland Chapelle can't be denied that the girl has improved tremendously. he wonders if that Lovin student teaches her anything...he don't look like the type, maybe it is all her.

With her head down, Ikumi hides her face that has tears forming in the eyes for showing.

Noticing someone was shadowing over her and patting her head. Recognizing the black clothes and outline of the person, Ikumi looks to meet her the person of her affection, smiling at her.

"Hey, cheer up. You've almost caught up to Soma and Hayama. You've even tied with Alice's aide..."

Lovin then pauses, before continuing, "I cook you something good that truly represents you, even though it's not complete yet. Maybe, you can try to finish it in my place... how about it?"

Hearing his speech and the curiosity of the dish that represents her, the meat girl wipes her tears away and smile back.

"Alright, show me."