When she was assigned to group F, Ryoko Sakaki had originally wanted to partner with Megumi Tadokoro.
After all, for a cooking assessment like this, working with someone she knew better would make for greater coordination and twice the result with half the effort.
However, after seeing Megumi Tadokoro walk toward Soma Yukihira, Ryoko merely gave a knowing smile and decided to find any girl with roughly similar academic advancement scores as her partner.
But before long, Ryoko spotted Seiya amid the crowd, avoided by everyone else as though he were a plague. A smile quickly appeared on her face again. She politely turned down the others and slowly walked toward Seiya.
The entire Totsuki Resort was quite large, and although the ingredients here fell far short of rare ingredients, their quality still far surpassed ordinary ingredients.
When Seiya and Ryoko reached the riverbank, they discovered that the narrow channel was now almost packed with people.
Lecturer Hinako Inui's assessment required them to gather ingredients from nature within a set time and prepare a Japanese-style dish.
Compared to searching for scarce wild game, the fish in the stream were undoubtedly one of the easiest main ingredients for the students to obtain.
"Yo, Seiya, you guys came too? Hurry over and help us. Things are a little tricky here. With just Tadokoro and me, we can't quite handle it."
As soon as Seiya and Ryoko arrived at the shallow part of the stream, they ran into Soma Yukihira and Megumi Tadokoro, who had likewise come to the river to catch fish.
At that moment, both Megumi and Soma had rolled their pant legs up to their knees. One stood on the left and the other on the right, trying to flank the fish in the stream, but the fish nimbly evaded