"Totsuki's survival-of-the-fittest rule makes this place less of an academy and more of a miniature society.
There are students here who genuinely love cooking and devote themselves wholeheartedly to studying it, but there are just as many who treat cooking only as a tool to make money and become part of society's elite.
The fact that you earned Erina Nakiri's attention and the Totsuki Headmaster's favor proves that you truly have ability.
And with the financial means to casually provide rare premium ingredients to support a friend in a Shokugeki, it is hardly strange that they would assume you came from a prestigious culinary family."
"Not everyone offering rewards for information about you necessarily wants to defeat you and use you as a stepping stone.
Quite a few of them probably want to learn about your background, then curry favor with you and suck up to you.
There might even be plenty of girls planning to throw themselves at you. After all, Seiya, you are quite handsome, aren't you?"
After listening to Satoshi Isshiki, no one present besides Seiya and Soma Yukihira looked particularly surprised. Even the sexy yet airheaded Megumi Tadokoro and the energetic Yuki Yoshino were no exception.
This was Totsuki Culinary Academy, where the strong preyed on the weak. Compared with ordinary schools, the students here were far more mature than their peers due to factors such as their upbringing.
Everyone present other than Seiya and Soma Yukihira had advanced from Totsuki's middle school division, so they had seen enough to no longer find such things strange.
"Unfortunately, the girls who want to suck up to me or throw themselves at me will probably be disappointed.
My family can be considered a prestigious culinary family too, but it is a fallen one. I am no rich young