The purple-haired girl was, of course, Miss Friedelika Vilbat. She had just turned seventeen, yet had already spent a year at Ocean University and was about to complete her first credit—a true prodigy.
However, the identity she was best known for among the Nephians was another one: the newly crowned "Goddess of the Hearth." In a recently concluded Nephian cooking competition, the purple-haired girl had defeated top chefs from across the Alliance to win the championship, a dazzling medal, and the title of Master Chef. She'd also received an armband embroidered with a dragon and a set of kitchenware said to have been made from zero element.
If this were a food anime, she'd be the typical protagonist.
Of course, if this were a story about a mastermind behind the scenes, she'd have the fate of a protagonist there, too. She was just an ordinary underage girl, yet already one of the leaders of the World-Encircling Serpent—otherwise known as Miss Past.
Still, according to her, the thing she valued most wasn't any of that. It was her role as the protagonist of a food anime.
"I've told you already, Sister Yanni. I'm now a proper disciple of the Rong School's Liu family cooking tradition, and the only disciple of my uncle... Master to earn the Alliance's Master Chef title. We're all family, so why can't I call him big brother?"
"You were about to call him uncle just now, weren't you?" Yameida said with a scowl. "And since when was there a Rong School?"
"The Rong School has always existed. Of course, the cooking passed down from Rongxia Tower belongs to the Rong School. It's just that we didn't have a name for it before. Uh, now that I'm a Master Chef with the Academy of Culinary Arts and the