Food Wars: The Golden Hands

In a Nozomi train that is heading to Nagoya...

"Thank you, pretty sister!" Kouga reached for the tray that a train hostess is holding and took some muffins and hot milk. Alexander who was sitting beside him shook his head, he has been with this guy for just 10 minutes and he was already tired.

"As I was saying Alexander-chi, the guy that died that day, we still don't know if it was an intentional act of murder or it was just an accident! people these days have guns like they have candies in their pockets!" Kouga said as he stuffed the muffins in his face.

Alexander sighed "Kouga..." He called making Kouga gesture for him that he was paying attention "The guy was shot 50 times, they reloaded...twice!" He said.

"Whaa~t?! that's crazy! He must have been dead by the 5th shot!" Kouga didn't stop and continued the conversation.

"The 1st." Alexander corrected.

"How do you know?"

"Because he was shot in the head, genius!" Even Alexander himself doesn't know why he is still talking with Kouga on this topic and now Kouga can't shut up about it and managed to drag Alexander with him.

This continued like this for 90 minutes until they reached Nagoya's train station, the two got off the train and went to visit the guild so they can get more information.

"This is a waste of time!!" Kouga complained, "We should just go and ask the guys who closed their shops, it is easier that way!" He said with his hands locked behind his head.

"That is no good." Alexander responded, "The guild tried to do the same and it didn't help, all the owners refused to reveal the reason behind their actions." Alexander has been thinking about this for some time now, what reason makes the owners refused to answer their guild's questions? whatever it is, it must be serious.

Taking a taxi to the Guild, Alexander and Kouga stood in front of a large Japanese style building, its design is a reference to its origin which is Totsuki "I feel like we have returned to Totsuki all over again." Kouga said as he was not impressed at the very least by the design.

"Let's go in," Alexander said. Kouga followed and they entered the building, they were greeted by the secretary who after they revealed their identity escorted them to the president's office.

Entering the president's office, Kouga and Alexander met a young woman with Red hair and green eyes, she eyed the two like a preditor "I presume that you are from Totsuki." she said.

Kouga looked at Alexander's and his own uniform "I don't know, we may be from NASA. You never know." He shrugged.

The president stood up from her seat and walked towards them "I am really in a bad position at the moment, every day there is a new shop that is getting closed and I don't know who is behind this. So, Spare me the jokes." She said. Kouga smiled back at her and said "Maybe you should note that we are your superiors here. If you hadn't realized it yet, we are the elite 10." he said.

"I know." The president grinned "But I am the president and this is not Totsuki." She responded. While she was arguing with Kouga, Alexander has already moved to her desk without her notice and started looking at some doc.u.ments that are related to their case.

"Hm? most of the closed shops are seafood specialized shops, whoever doing this, is targeting shops like this for a reason," he said.

"When did y-?" The president exclaimed as she saw Alexander on her desk.

"Nice move Alexander-chi, you do really understand me. I distract her and you look for information!" Kouga gave Alexander a thumbs up to which the later rolled his eyes to.

"Give me that!" The president took the doc.u.ments from Alexander's hands and put them back "This is important information! You can't just put your hands on it."

Alexander shrugged his shoulders "Anyway. I am Saiba Alexander and this here my partner Terunori Kouga, we have been sent here by the headmaster to investigate the strange happenings in this city. It would be great if you could help us solve this problem."

"The headmaster sent you?" The president mumbled.

"duh! what'd you think? we came all the way here just because we felt like it? of course we were sent by the headmaster. We are busy people you know!" Kouga rolled his eyes.

Alexander shook his head 'You have been skipping classes and meetings for 2 weeks now, Isshiki has been doing your share of the elite 10 work too. Just what kept you busy?' He thought.

"Well, I didn't receive any notice from Totsuki that they will be sending the elite 10 or anyone to investigate the problem, so I apologize for my behavior earlier." The president said.

"Apology accepted." Kouga nodded seriously making Alexande punch him in the head "Ouch! why did you do that?!" Kouga looked at Alexander with a blaming expression.

"First of all, I am Temari Anna, Totsuki's Nagoya Culinary's Guild president." She bowed a little which Alexander returned.

"Nice to meet you, Anna-san. We came here in hopes we could find some leads so we can stop all of those sudden closings from happening." Alexander said.

"Yes." Anna took out some doc.u.ments "From the security camera's outside the shops, we have found that a hooded person visits those shops at midnight, just a few minutes before closing. After him, the next day the shops he entered closes. We asked what did the man demand, maybe he could've threatened them or something, but the owners never spoke about that matter." Anna gave Alexander some pictures from the security cameras.

"And as you have noted before, the most targeted shops are seafood shops."

"Why don't you then wait for him at the next shops he may visit?" Kouga said as he took the doc.u.ments with the details about the shops.

"That is the problem...we can't." Anna looked at Alexander as Kouga was reading the doc.u.ment.

Alexander raised his eyebrow "The city is 126 mi² big, in just two kilometers there are more than 10 shops of Seafood, and in the city, there are more than 200 hundred shops, those who are under our guild and there are more who are self operative." Anna added.

"How many shops have been closed by now?" Kouga asked.

"25, why?".

"No, I am just checking." Kouga went to the map on the wall and took a marker from the office and started drawing a line on the map "The first case was here at the Oyami shop near the Buddhist temple, then it went in this direction for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and until 25th case with Shin's Seafood shop."

"A straight line, huh?" Alexander said as he noticed the straight line on the map going alongside the Shin's river. "So the next target would be?"

"SwordFish Temple?!" Anna exclaimed.

"We still don't know if this is really a pattern but it is still a possibility." Kouga said. "That person may change his mind and just go for another district."

"But it is still worth a shot." Alexander ruffled Kouga's hair.

"HEY!! Back off will ya!!!" Kouga slapped Alexander's hand away, he doesn't like being treated like a kid. Just because he is short doesn't ake him a kid!!

"Then we should go there immediately. I will get the car." Anna said and took her keys and she gestured for Alexander and Kouga to follow her.

"See, with us here, everything is fine. All this case needed is someone to be in charge." Kouga said with pride, Anna almost tripped in her steps. She looked back at Kouga with a hateful glare

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