"How could this be...?"
When they were told that for this training camp, they were forbidden from bringing anything other than the clothes on their backs, including ingredients and cooking utensils, quite a few Totsuki students began to stir restlessly.
The Totsuki instructors had more than sufficient reasons for this. "This training camp is meant to test your ability to perform on the spot.
If you bring along bags and bags of stuff, are you really treating this training camp like a vacation?
Besides, not everyone has access to good cooking utensils and ingredients. Treating all students equally is the fairest thing for all of you."
After hearing the Totsuki instructors' words, Megumi Tadokoro, who had gained some confidence from bringing quite a few rare ingredients, immediately became dejected.
After all, the harshness of the training camp far surpassed that of ordinary formal assessments. Judging by her usual performance, being eliminated this time was practically a foregone conclusion.
In fact, after being told they could not bring other items to the training camp, there were quite a few students present who were as uneasy as Megumi Tadokoro.
For important annual events like this at Totsuki, many people were expelled every year for failing the assessments. One year, more than nine hundred students attended the training camp, but only a little over five hundred returned.
There had been 812 first-year students in the previous class, yet only 76 had advanced to the second year. There was a reason for that.
Because annual events like the training camp were not the only ones they would face that year.
The so-called training camp was merely the beginning of hell!
This year's Totsuki first-year class was larger than any in previous years, with a full 981 students. But based on past advancement rates, at