After the big names of the food industry and their friends and family had finished Seiya's shumai, left behind piles of business cards, and departed,
Seiya soon welcomed even more customers.
The reason was simple. As mentioned before, people eating at a buffet tended to follow the crowd.
With countless dishes available, why were those food industry bigwigs so particularly fond of Seiya's "Three-Egg Shumai"?
If even people accustomed to delicacies from land and sea praised it so highly, then it had to be genuinely delicious.
Once the ordinary attendees came to that conclusion, the situation naturally began to spiral out of control.
In less than a few minutes, a massive line had formed in front of Seiya's cooking station.
The queue even broke past the hundred-meter mark, and it continued to grow longer as time passed.
The logic was simple: the more people lining up, the more passersby naturally assumed that the food there had a better reputation and tasted better.
If Seiya had not imposed a one-serving-per-person limit, coupled with his exceptional physical fitness and years of high-intensity work in restaurants, he would not have been able to handle so many customers this time.
As they watched the long line before Seiya's station, the other Totsuki students taking the assessment wore a variety of expressions.
Takumi and Alice, who regarded Seiya as a rival, naturally looked grim. Their scores had originally been nearly identical to Seiya's.
But after this move, Seiya's score would undoubtedly leave them far behind.
Megumi Tadokoro, Nikumi, and Ryoko—Seiya's friends—had long since given up any thoughts of competing with him. Besides marveling at how monstrously strong Seiya was, they were also happy that he had achieved such a good result.
As for Soma Yukihira, he did not know whether he should be happy or