"Bet my chastity, my ass! We were betting our integrity... ptooey, it was a battle with our convictions on the line.
"If I lost, I'd have to leave Totsuki Culinary Academy and accept expulsion. If Nikumi lost, she'd have to join the Donburi Research Society."
"I see. So it was a Shokugeki with a beautiful girl's freedom as the stake?
"Then once that beautiful girl called Nikumi joins the Donburi Research Society, will you force her to do something strange?"
At Seiya's words, a row of black lines instantly appeared across Soma Yukihira's forehead. He glared at him irritably. "Hey, don't listen to their nonsense!
"You only met Sakaki and Yoshino today, didn't you? Why have you already picked up their bad habits?
"I don't have any strange ideas about Nikumi, and I'm not even a member of the Donburi Research Society. I only took their place because I didn't like what Erina was doing!
"She acts all high and mighty, dividing food into different ranks. As long as a dish can bring people happiness, it's a good dish, isn't it? Why should there be so many distinctions between high and low?"
The reason Soma Yukihira disliked Minezaki was because she had once been just like Erina was now.
In fact, Erina Nakiri's actions were even more domineering and unreasonable.
What right did someone who casually trampled on other people's culinary dreams have to call herself a chef?
"I get it. Your target isn't Nikumi—it's that young lady Erina, right?
"To be fair, putting aside her tsundere personality, Lady Erina really isn't bad."
"That's not what I said at all, I—"
"I know, I know. You can't stand the things she does, how she casually tramples on other people's passion and dreams for cooking, right?
"Those are textbook protagonist lines.