Chapter 971: Totsuki Academy Truly Is a Feng Shui Treasure Land

"It's this late, I'd better hurry back to sleep, otherwise I won't be in good spirits for tomorrow's freshman representative speech."

Nakiri Erina glanced at the clock in the kitchen, quickly cleaned up the used tableware, then washed her hands, returned to her room, changed into sleepwear, and lay down to sleep.

Just as drowsiness was about to submerge her consciousness, the phone placed on the bedside table suddenly buzzed twice, startling her awake.

【This late, could it be that tomorrow's schedule changed, and Hisako sent a message to remind me?】

Nakiri Erina picked up her phone with some puzzlement, lit up the screen, and upon seeing the sender was Broly, whose number she had only added to her contacts at noon, the girl's expression turned somewhat cold.

【Didn't I say, tell this guy not to disturb me if there's nothing important, yet he messages me this late, damn it, if it's nothing, just sending goodnight or flattering words, I'll directly put this guy on the blacklist————

Nakiri Erina thought this as she opened the text message, but the message didn't contain goodnight wishes or flattery, instead it was similar to an experiment record report, detailing the improvement progress of Nagahama-style pork bone ramen, what methods were used, what taste was obtained, and what difficulties were encountered.

Until the end, most difficulties were solved, only the issue of aftertaste remained, and the other party invited her to taste the already improved ramen dish tomorrow.

"Fine, tomorrow noon, come to the Sixth Cooking Building, I'll let you taste it."

Nakiri Erina checked the time the message was sent, past eleven at night, and she wasn't angry anymore, directly replying with a sentence.

On Broly's side, noticing the other party's happiness value drop then rise, he thought for a moment and sent another text: "Did I disturb your rest?"

【Only thinking of this now, isn't it a bit late?!】

Nakiri Erina felt a bit displeased in her heart, but still replied: "No, I was just about to sleep too."

"That's good, good night, Miss Nakiri."

Looking at the good night message sent by the other party on her phone, Nakiri Erina hesitated for a moment, then still replied: "You too, good night, Broly."

No more response from the other end of the phone, the screen gradually dimmed, returning to the dark room, the girl whose drowsiness had been startled away found herself unable to sleep.

Tossing and turning in the quilt for a while, counting the number of spoons in her mind, until nine hundred ninety-five, her consciousness finally blurred again.

The next day, Nakiri Erina in a hazy sleep was pushed awake by someone, and upon opening her eyes, she found Hisako Arato looking at her with some worry: "Erina-sama, are you feeling unwell today?"

"Uh, no."

"Then I knocked just now, why didn't you respond?"

"I slept late yesterday, a bit sleepy, maybe I didn't hear."

Nakiri Erina answered with a yawn.

"Erina-sama, you mustn't stay up late in the future, staying up late causes nerve fatigue, leads to deteriorated taste, even lowered immunity, triggering various diseases."

Hisako Arato, born into a traditional Chinese medicine family and skilled in medicinal cuisine, put on a serious face and lectured Nakiri Erina sternly.

【I don't want to stay up late either, but who made it so that just when I was about to fall asleep, someone suddenly sent a text message to me————】

Hisako Arato's gaze, following her own young lady's line of sight, saw the phone on the bedside table, and before she could say anything, she heard Nakiri Erina say: "Alright, I know, now I need to get up and change clothes, you go out first."

Hisako Arato, waiting outside, took out her own phone, but saw the text message the other party had sent her late last night.

Hisako Arato's expression became solemn, holding her phone she rapidly typed on the screen, editing a somewhat long accusatory text message.

However, when she finished editing, just before sending it, reason made her stop.

【Before finding concrete evidence, I cannot arbitrarily conclude that this guy is the culprit who caused Erina-sama to stay up late!】

Hisako Arato ultimately chose to save the draft, planning to find evidence first before deciding whether to send the accusatory text on her phone.

Not long after, Nakiri Erina came out changed into her school uniform: "Hisako, let's go, don't be late for the opening ceremony."

"Yes, Erina-sama."

Hisako Arato hurriedly followed, her gaze occasionally glancing toward the smartphone in her young lady's skirt pocket ahead.

【How can I see the situation on Erina-sama's phone?】

The girl thought, and suddenly had an idea.

"Erina-sama, the manuscript for the freshman representative speech, I've sent it to your phone."

Boarding the chauffeur-driven car, Hisako Arato suddenly said this, and Erina's phone in her skirt pocket also buzzed once, the notification of a new message.

"No paper documents this time?"

Nakiri Erina browsed her phone, sensing the girl beside her craning her neck to peek, and directly asked.

"Sorry, Erina-sama, I forgot to bring it."

Hisako Arato clutched the folder in her hands, her eyes somewhat evasive as she answered.

"It's fine, it's just the opening ceremony freshman representative speech, even without a manuscript I can handle it easily, alright, I'm still a bit sleepy, I'll rest a bit more in the car."

Nakiri Erina said this, then casually placed her phone to the side, sat properly, but closed her eyes to rest.

Hisako Arato glanced at her, then quietly picked up the phone beside her, lit up the screen and browsed the texts, but didn't find the disturbing message she wanted.

【Nothing to do with that guy————】

"Hisako, lend me a shoulder to lean on."

Just as Hisako Arato was about to put the phone back, suddenly her own young lady's body leaned over toward her side.

The girl started, scared by this situation, her body stiffening somewhat, but she quickly reacted, responding: "Yes, Erina-sama."

Hisako Arato didn't notice, the girl leaning on her shoulder had the corner of her mouth hooked up slightly, just like the expression a child shows when a prank succeeds.

Nakiri Erina is very smart, upon discovering her own secretary actually sent the speech manuscript via text message, she sensed something was off.

And knowing Hisako Arato's personality, she quickly guessed the other party was probing for something, but while pretending to browse the freshman representative speech manuscript, she deleted last night's text message records.

【Hisako's guilty look is actually a bit cute~】

Nakiri Erina's head with its soft hair rubbed affectionately against the neck of this friend-slash-secretary girl, but didn't expose the other party's careful action of putting the phone back beside her.

The opening ceremony was about to begin, Broly helping Soma Yukihira carry some boarding luggage, arrived at Totsuki Academy this side.

"Transfer student huh, put luggage in the locker first, after attending the opening ceremony and finishing today's classes, then take it back to the dormitory."

The Totsuki Academy staff member in charge of reception gave the two a locker with a sign, then left to receive other incoming freshmen.

"Broly-san, thanks for the trouble of carrying my luggage."

Soma Yukihira thanked him, and besides changes of clothes, he even brought pots, bowls, ladles and basins, quite a lot of bags big and small.

"No problem, anyway I have great strength."

Broly waved his hand, and in order to highlight the hardship, he didn't even expose the Crystal Palace Space.

"Let's go, follow the others, to the new student opening ceremony venue."

Soma Yukihira led the way, Broly followed behind, the two of them one in front one behind, walking together with the crowd around them toward the Totsuki Academy opening ceremony venue.

Upon entry, someone was distributing the Totsuki Academy new student manuals at the front door; of course, the students who actually needed this thing were actually only the two of them, the transfer students who weren't wearing school uniforms.

As for the other students, they were all people who had advanced from the Totsuki Academy Middle School Division to the High School Division, and didn't need the so-called new student manual.

The moment Broly walked into the new student group, he attracted some attention; after all, his height of over two meters, among a crowd of high school students, gave a somewhat crane-among-chickens feeling, and his excessively burly build was also extremely out of place.

"The students of this academy are truly polite, they actually all make way for us newcomers."

Soma Yukihira walked all the way, and the students blocking the front automatically made way.

【You've got a big guy following behind you, just looking at him is scary, do we dare not make way?】

The students who heard his words inwardly complained in unison.

【New capture target discovered, Mito Ikumi————】

【New capture target discovered, Tadokoro Megumi————】

【New capture target discovered, Nakiri Alice————】

Of course, compared to these ordinary students' fear, Broly's mood was somewhat excited.

The Crystal Palace continuously popped up new capture target discovered prompt messages, giving him a feeling of pies falling from the sky.

When transmigrating to other worlds before, he always needed to search everywhere for capture targets himself, but today it was as if he'd hit the jackpot, not even needing to search, a whole group of capture targets directly popped out.

Mito Ikumi, was a wheat-colored skin, gyaru-outfit blonde short-haired girl, standing in the crowd, looking like a delinquent girl with a couldn't-care-less attitude.

Tadokoro Megumi, when his gaze looked over, this girl who made eye contact with him, her neck shrank up like a quail, looking a bit introverted.

Nakiri Alice, surname same as Nakiri Erina, one look at the name and you know the two should be related, but she was a white-haired red-eyed girl, skin very white, just like snow; upon noticing his gaze looking over, she even waved at him, smiled, as if greeting him across some distance.

The Totsuki Academy opening ceremony proceeded rapidly; Nakiri Erina, as the previously most outstanding student of the Middle School Division, went up to the lectern and gave a speech of encouragement for the new students, then got off the stage and went backstage to rest.

And previously, at the transfer student exam venue, the second-round examiner that Broly and Soma Yukihira had met together, that old man who would burst out of his clothes when eating delicacies, then spoke as the Academy Headmaster, saying a piece about how this school Totsuki Academy, after entering the High School Division the elimination rate was extremely cruel, students able to advance to second year and continue attending were fewer than one in ten.

Graduation rate, not to mention 10%, didn't even reach 8%, but conversely, students able to graduate from this academy

had an employment rate that almost reached 100%, high-quality talents urgently needed by countless people running food businesses.

Graduation equals employment, absolutely not a joke; even if not wanting to work for others but wanting to start a business, as long as in-school grades were good enough, there were also many capitals waving banknotes willing to invest.

And after this old man finished speaking, Soma Yukihira was called up to show his face, and even Broly, as one of only two transfer students, was called up on stage.

"These are the only two transfer students who passed for the Totsuki Academy High School Division this year, please have the two of you briefly introduce yourselves."

The female student host handed over the microphone; between the two of them, she decisively chose to hand the microphone to the powerfully-built Broly first.

"My name is Broly, my purpose for coming to this academy is to search for happiness."

Broly concisely explained his situation, then handed the microphone to Soma Yukihira.

Below the stage, the blue-haired twin-tailed girl, upon hearing his statement, was somewhat surprised.

【Search for happiness? Is this wanting to make cuisine that makes people happy? It really contrasts too much with his scary-looking appearance————】

Tadokoro Megumi felt a bit embarrassed for her neck-shrinking action when she was looked at by him just now, she had actually judged by appearance somewhat.

"Hey, um, I'm Soma Yukihira, having me speak on stage, I'm actually a bit embarrassed, after all, this is the first time speaking in front of so many people.

In short, I'm here to stand above all of you; cuisine-wise, I'm confident I won't lose to a group of students who haven't even faced customers.

In short, I'm here to surpass all of you. As for cooking, I'm confident I won't lose to a group of students who haven't even faced a Customer.

Tadokoro Megumi:

Truly, I shouldn't have judged by appearance.

The one who looks like he has capital to be arrogant spoke very humble words.

And the one who looks like a normal guy instead spoke extremely arrogant words.

What does 'here to stand above all of you' mean, this kind of words seemingly pointing at everyone saying you're all trash, directly provoked public anger from a group of people.

The opening ceremony order directly became chaotic, the students below directly "politely" greeted the Soma Yukihira on stage.

If not for Broly still standing on stage, worried that throwing things up might accidentally injure this excessively burly guy and cause unnecessary misunderstandings, there probably would've been people directly throwing things.

And facing this kind of public anger situation, Soma Yukihira had not a shred of self-awareness, waving his hand bidding farewell to this group of students, and walked toward backstage together with Broly.

"Why are you here, didn't I already fail you?"

Reaching backstage, the blonde girl directly blocked the way and questioned.

"You failed me, but after you left that day, another second-round examiner came, ate my mixed rice, and let me pass."

"You kicked me out, but after you left that day, another second screening examiner came, ate my bibimbap, and let me pass."

"Who, exactly who is playing favorites?!"

Nakiri Erina questioned.

"There, it's the old man sitting in the Headmaster seat on the stage outside."

Soma Yukihira answered the girl's words without any concealment at all.

Soma Yukihira answered the girl's words without hiding anything at all.

Trespassed into the heavenly household, turns out the motherfucker is family————

"Hah, as expected this academy still has reasonable people, didn't let certain guys act arbitrarily."

Soma Yukihira said in a sarcastic tone.

Nakiri Erina was angry, yet also somewhat helpless, after all it was her own grandpa who passed the other party.

"Soma Yukihira right, you remember this, afterwards I'll make you realize, the gap between a third-rate chef like you and my culinary skills."

Hearing this, Soma Yukihira shrugged his shoulders, looking completely unafraid.

"Broly, you'd best not associate with this kind of third-rate chef."

"Broly, don't associate with a third-rate chef like this."

Nakiri Erina pinched her fist, then said this to the Saiyan beside her.

Broly scratched his head, somewhat troubled.

Nakiri Erina let out a cold snort, instructed him in one sentence to come find her at the Sixth Cooking Building at noon, then left directly.

"Broly-san, you improved the taste of Hakata Pork Bone Ramen, actually wanting to use cooking to conquer that Nakiri, right? No problem, I'll do my utmost to help you."

The enrollment ceremony ended, students left for the teaching buildings, Broly walked with the crowd, beside him Soma Yukihira deduced from Nakiri Erina's words just now exactly who the Hakata Pork Bone Ramen improvement was for, yet slapped his chest and guaranteed it solemnly.

Broly listened, feeling somewhat helpless in his heart, sensing that even if he truly made good-tasting ramen, once Nakiri Erina learned of Soma Yukihira's involvement, given the two's mutually intolerable situation, it would probably make that girl even angrier.

Suddenly, he stopped his steps, Soma Yukihira noticed and asked: "What's wrong?"

"You go to the teaching building first, I have a bit of business."

Broly looked back at the enrollment ceremony venue, in his Ki Sense there was a newly discovered Capture Target's Qi lingering there, perhaps helping clean up the scene, he also had to go help a bit.

【That transfer student called Soma Yukihira's words were truly too hateful, absolutely must not produce any contact with the other party————】

【Sigh, with my current terrible grades, if I get an E Evaluation again, I'm afraid I'll become the first high school student persuaded to withdraw————】

Just as Tadokoro Megumi was worried about her academy life, a voice suddenly rang out before her: "This classmate, are you alright, is your body unwell, do you need me to help?"

"Ah, no need, I was just thinking————some things————"

Tadokoro Megumi's voice had a hitch, because the person appearing before her was precisely one of the transfer students who spoke on stage today, seemed to be called Broly, and the other party's overly burly figure, however, made her subconsciously somewhat nervous.

"I saw you staying here unmoving, thought something happened, since you're fine that's good."

However, the words this burly youth spoke next, instead made Tadokoro Megumi relax.

"Thank you for your concern, but I have nothing the matter."

The girl hurriedly waved her hand in thanks.