Yukino Yukinoshita fell into deep thought as well:
No one was perfect, so the more outstanding a person was in this world, the harder their life became. Was there something wrong with this world?
That was the second young lady's heartfelt belief, and also what had confused her the most.
Yet Totsuki had told her in the most brutal way possible that only the outstanding could survive, while the weak deserved nothing but elimination!
This doctrine clearly aligned with her own beliefs, yet...
Totsuki had also shown her, through even crueler facts, that it was serious about eliminating people!
Over the past few days, Yukino Yukinoshita had seen countless weak people fall into despair. Some cried, some begged, some...
Just as Gin Dojima had said, the strong preyed on the weak, and only the fittest survived. Totsuki had long since become unmoved by such people...
Yet as she watched student after student get expelled, the second young lady sank into prolonged thought—in Totsuki, the more outstanding one was, the higher one could rise, while the mediocre would only be eliminated. Thus, the outstanding would not have to live more difficult lives.
But when she saw those students eliminated for their mediocrity begging, crying, or...
The wails of the weak! Yet Yukino Yukinoshita's heart questioned itself: Was this right? Was this the prerequisite for making the lives of the outstanding less difficult?
Utaha Kasumigaoka was thinking as well. So was Mashiro. Everyone was...
Totsuki's residential training camp seemed to have ended, yet it also seemed as though it had not, just as Gin Dojima had said: "I hope that, in the future, you will create Cooking that surpasses ours..."
Even at the very end, he was still encouraging the students and everyone present.
"Found you!" Soma Yukihira was that sort of