"I closed the restaurant early today... but none of that matters. I mainly came to tell you that I'd decided to go to the Totsuki Culinary Academy my old man mentioned.
Tomorrow, I'm planning to head to Totsuki Culinary Academy for the Entrance Exam. Do you want to come with me?"
Soma Yukihira had only made this decision after giving it considerable thought.
After this summer, they would be entering high school. Rather than wasting time at some ordinary high school, why not attend a culinary academy like Totsuki Culinary Academy directly?
His old man and Seiya both thought highly of Totsuki Culinary Academy, didn't they? He wanted to see just what was so amazing about the place.
Before Seiya could say anything in response to Soma Yukihira's invitation, Yaeko Minezaki, standing nearby, already wore a lonely expression.
Naturally, she had heard of Totsuki Culinary Academy. In this culinary world, students who successfully graduated from Totsuki were considered the true social elite of the world.
Leaving aside its absurd one-percent graduation rate, merely getting into Totsuki Culinary Academy was an exceptionally difficult challenge in itself.
There was no getting into Totsuki Culinary Academy through connections. One either had to pass the grueling Entrance Exam or earn the recognition of the Totsuki Headmaster.
However, having witnessed Seiya's and Soma Yukihira's cooking skills, Minezaki knew very well that while Totsuki's Entrance Exam might be fraught with difficulties for ordinary people, passing it would not be much of a problem for the two of them.
Minezaki had once been fortunate enough to taste the cooking of a Totsuki graduate.
Though that person had not been a prodigy like one of the Elite Ten Council, being able to graduate from Totsuki Culinary Academy meant their skills were enough to crush eighty percent of the