Food Wars: The Golden Hands

"You guys..." Alexander looked in front of him inside the rundown wooden shop. Two boys. One is a tall blond-haired with a swirl eyebrow and donning a black suit with a golden 666 on his left side, while the other is a very short young man with black hair wearing a white chef uniform with a logo of a green tongue on his left side too.

The two boys heard Alexander and turned their heads to look at his. The blond-haired one smirked "I know it..." he said, "It is good to see you again, Alexander."

"Alexander-san!" The short one exclaimed. He seems the happiest one to see Alexander apparently.

"Komatsu! Sanji!" Alexander walked inside and greeted his friends. He didn't get in contact with them at all since last year, he is very happy to see them again "I didn't expect to meet you guys here again!"

"Yeah, me neither, I thought I will be paired with some retarded chefs who still go by the book. Thank God it is you two." Sanji fist-pumped Alexander.

"That is so mean Sanji-san!" Komatsu said with an innocent voice "Everyone is special in their own way." he said.

Sanji exchanged a look with Alexander. Both of them shrugged at their partner's kindness. "But anyway..." Alexander shifted their conversation "What is wrong with this shop?"

Komatsu raised his hand "Ah! I know, it is very old, because it is near the ocean and made from wood, it was exposed to too much moisture and humidity, it became weaker and started to rot slowly." He said.

"We can see that," Sanji said with a bit of irritation, he looked for a place to sit on but all he could find is the old chairs in front of the counter, they have mold growing on them.

"Well, I wasn't asking about that, Komatsu, but, I was asking if any of you got any information about why we were sent here especially?" he asked "The guy that led me here only said "Go in and get 30000 dollars." and left, Alexander impassionate the man from earlier.

"Me too. I was dropped off here by my sister, we were on the other side in Rome. She took me out and dragged me here saying "This is where you will have your exam." Sanji softened his voice and spoke like a sassy girl. "Komatsu was already here by the way," he added.

Alexander looked at Komatsu for answers. "Yes. Actually, I have been told that our schools have this rule, when the 1st seats of their elite 10 are in the same year, they are put in one group and thrown in the hardest challenge of the year."

"A stupid rule if you ask me." Sanji scuffed as he took out a napkin and wiped the counter just to see it turn green "TSk!" he mumbled.

"Nothing can be done now. I guess we can only work together just like the last time and started by repairing the shop first." Komatsu tried to be positive and spoke.

"No..." Sanji countered making Komatsu feel down a little.

"What he means is that we need to do another thing first." Alexander ruffled Komatsu's hair "We need to plan first then act."

"Right!! then what should we do?" Komatsu cheered up and spoke up.

Alexander and Sanji exchanged a knowing look as if they are thinking alike. Then they shifted their gaze at the wall beside them.

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Outside of the shop

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"Do you think they can pass this test?" A man wearing sunglasses and swimsuit is talking to the two beside him at the watchtower with a Binoculars in his hands. He was monitoring the trio with the other two guys.

"I don't know, this is the harshest test for 10 years." Another blond man answered him.

With them, the man who led Alexander here is also there. He was calm and leaned on the wall, he opened his eyes and spoke: "They are the best of the current 3 generations, I believe they can." The other two guys smirked as they nodded. But their sense of bondage ended quickly as a loud crashing sound came from the shop, they rushed to see what it is and they saw the front wall of the shop being destroyed.

"What the hell are they doing??" One of them shouted.

"They are destroying the shop!!"

"Ah thank you Mr. obvious. I can see that!!!"

"They are supposed to clean and decorate the shop and open it by tomorrow. This is way off-script!"

"Wait! look, they stopped!"

When the three men stopped acting like little girls, they noticed that Alexader, Sanji, and Komatsu stopped braking the wall after they revealed the inside of the shop completely.

"Alright, that will do, Get some rocks and use them as stairs in here," Alexander instructed and Komatsu came back with a few rocks followed by Sanji holding bigger ones. They placed the rocks and made stairs out of them.

"Good. Now we need some tools to clean the shop and some new equipment to start making some Italian beach food. And a few advertis.e.m.e.nts. This place is forgotten by the people here." Sanji said as he laughed.

"But we need money for that. The academy didn't give us any allowance." Komatsu pointed out.

Alexander thought for a moment "Do you guys have money on you?" he asked.

"Sure I do," Sanji responded.

Komatsu realized where this is going and intervened quickly "I don't think this is allowed, we can't use our own money in the test, this is cheating!" he said.

Alexander and Sanji started laughing out loud making Komatsu a little confused "Ahahaha!!! You're so funny!!" Sanji said.

"whew! Oh boy, listen here Komatsu, they said to clean the shop and run it, they didn't give us any money so of course, they know we have some money. There must be some rule created to that that didn't tell us." Alexander explained. Hearing this, Sanji remembered his conversation with his sister on the way here.

"Oh yeah, my sister said something about that." He said. Komatsu and Alexander looked at him waiting for him to speak "Yeah... she said something like this...uh...Whatever we spend on this from our own money...will be added to our passing revenue mark." he said.

Alexander understood him and nodded "So, we must generate 30000 dollars from this shop, and for example, we spent 1000 dollars to clean and fix..."

"We will need to generate 31000 dollars to pass." Komatsu continued.

"Not a bad idea." Alexander smiled "So, how much money you guys do you have on you?" he asked.

"You first," Sanji smirked and returned Alexander's question at him.

Alexander shook his head and chuckled "Just 5 billion dollars in my personal bank account." he said. making Komatsu's ear's break from such news.

"Hoh! quite the rich guy are you...I have 75 million dollars for my allowance this year!" Sanji said adding to Komatu's shock.

Both Sanji and alexander looked at Komatsu waited for him to speak. Komatsu felt embarrassed and said shyly "Just 7 million dollars from last year's Chinese competitions."

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