"Erina, every failure that can't knock you down will become the driving force that makes you stronger. So getting utterly crushed in a Shokugeki is, in fact, a process of absorbing nutrients and growing stronger for you. You have to adapt to that process. Unlike me—wanting to be defeated even once is nothing but a pipe dream. Do you think a life that has never experienced failure is interesting...?"
Whenever Erina Nakiri recalled how, after she lost a Shokugeki in the past, Sogo Doma would feed her what sounded like motivational nonsense—when he was really just sweet-talking her into another Shokugeki—her teeth would itch with hatred...
What did he mean, anything that couldn't defeat her would become the force driving her to grow stronger?
After saying something like that, he should at least not have made her take care of that girl her own age! And he should not have talked Hisako into helping care for her too! Just listen to how that utterly awful guy had talked Hisako into it back then...
"Yo, Secretary. Long time no see."
"Doma-senpai, we met yesterday..." Arato Hisako replied with a wary expression. She had no choice but to be wary. Ever since this "senpai" from the Doma Family had entered Totsuki, he had brought the school's Shokugeki system to its fullest potential. His image among the students had long since surpassed that of the Demon of Food—Senzaemon Nakiri.
He had even been called the ruler behind Totsuki's scenes, the Sixth Heaven Demon King of the cooking world, and so on...
Yet Doma-senpai, who had made such an enormous name for himself, did not cherish his reputation in the slightest. To him, Shokugeki was merely an everyday occurrence, while its punishments came in every strange variety imaginable—from hugging a utility pole and shouting,