Totsuki Culinary Academy, Polar Star Dormitory kitchen.
Ever since tasting Seiya's "Three No Stick" and "Blazing Ice Fresh Sea Bream Mountain," Soma Yukihira had realized there was still an enormous gap between himself and Seiya.
So he decided to defeat every one of Totsuki's so-called Elite Ten Council first, then challenge Seiya, the boss.
However, not long after enrolling, he soon ran into Ikumi Mito, Erina's trusted general, known as "Nikumi."
As one of the Elite Ten Council and the granddaughter of Totsuki Headmaster Senzoemon Nakiri, Erina held considerable authority and status within Totsuki Culinary Academy.
Moreover, unlike some of the Elite Ten Council who were obsessed with culinary research, Erina was equally passionate about managing Totsuki.
Because she greatly admired her grandfather and did not want to see Totsuki Culinary Academy decline.
After advancing to the high school division and earning a seat among the Elite Ten Council, Erina's first strike at managing Totsuki fell upon the academy's various research societies.
These so-called research societies were, more or less, like the clubs found at ordinary schools.
And Totsuki Culinary Academy allocated a certain amount of research funding to such club-like societies every month.
But in Erina's view, research societies were not unacceptable in themselves. It was just that most of them were nothing more than a waste of Totsuki's funds and budget.
So she directly divided Totsuki's research societies into different ranks and used all sorts of means to force those she considered beneath her standards to disband.
Not long after Soma Yukihira entered Totsuki Culinary Academy, he had been touring the academy's research societies when he happened to encounter Nikumi, who had come to cause trouble at the Donburi Research Society.
After hearing her lofty talk about the hierarchy of cuisine and learning that she had been sent