Food Wars: The Golden Hands

After the Autumn leaf viewing between the election top 10 and the elite 10, Alexander took Zeff on in a Shokugeki, going by the history of such thing, Alexander crushed Zeff into pieces. An expected result but a hard loss on Zeff.

"You really didn't go easy on that boy, huh?" In the Elite 10 hall, Kouga had his legs on the table while leaning on his chair

Alexander who was doing the same while playing a game on his phone shrugged his shoulders "I was on a whim." He said.

Isshiki on the other side shook his head with a smile in his face "All the first seats were strange but none of them humiliated another student on a whim." He said.

"Who cares!" Alexander rolled his eyes "Wasn't he the one who wanted the fight. Don't look at me like that." He said.

"Anyway. Let us see what we can do about the festival. There is no point to talk about a first-year who lost a fight." Eizan spoke with a sigh.

"Four eyes is correct, we should finish this, the festival is in one month." Alice supported Eizan after insulting him, though, what could Eizan do...She was Alexander's fianceé.

Nene adjusted her glasses passed a sheet of paper to each of the elite 10 "Isshiki and I worked on a few possible courses of action, but as always, we need to vote for it."

"We thought that maybe for this year, we should add a theme to the festival in each of the three areas. For years, students have been making their own thing and only worrying about their revenue and not falling under the redline, like this, we can create more competition while pushing the students further to bring out their max. What do you guys think?" Isshiki said while reading the paper.

The rest read the paper carefully, there were more suggestions but the one Isshiki mentioned was more appealing "Who wants to apply the Theme battle in the festival raise your hand." Nene said.

Alexander, Alice, Subaru, Kouga, Nene, Isshiki, and Eizan put up their hands. "7 out of 10...Why was the rest against it?" Isshiki asked.

Hayama shook his head "The students shouldn't be bound by themes at this stage, this festival is more about creativity and fun rather than competition." He said.

"The same goes for me, though there is a certain level of competition, it not that tough to overcome," Soma said while shrugging his shoulder.

Takumi looked at Isshiki "The more reason that I am against this is that not all students are required to participate in this festival, some of them will just stay in their dorm. For three days straight." He said.

"Then we will just make everyone participate, besides, this Festival is one of Totsuki's best yearly money-making machine, Sadly to say it, but our focus should not be the students as of now, but how to make Totsuki make more profit during the festival."

Takumi thought about this for a moment and then he nodded "..." There was no need for him to agree, the deal was set as they already have 7 votes against 3.

"Then it is set, A theme will be placed on the Festival and All students will be required to participate. The theme will be decided on another date." Alexander said as he stood up while putting his phone in his pocket. Everyone stood up after him, Isshiki and Nene were responsible for organizing the festival with the help of Eizan's finance manager position in Totsuki.

Each Elite 10 was busy the following 3 weeks, Alexander had to travel a lot, mainly to go see his Son; Arc while making a few deals here and there for Totsuki as the First Seat. Alice and Erina stayed at Totsuki as they got busy with their own family business making Alexander keep traveling between Japan and Russia a lot, he basically started living in his private jet. Poor guy!

Soma as the 10th seat had the least amount of work as he was just responsible for overseeing the construction work with Hayama and Subaru.

Kouga...Was ditching his work on Isshiki...as always.

The Moon Banquet Festival arrived soon after that and every student with his own group had a stall for themselves. The theme was decided to be about The Sakura Tree falling leaves. A hard one but not impossible.

JUts like last year, the North Star bunch Restaurant which had 4 Elite 10 in it dominated again this year. And it seems that the Election top 10 decided to join hands and work together and be on top, their work was magnificent but they fell behind the North Star in 2nd place. An incredible feat but note unexpected as the 10 started to get a reputation for their crazy strength.

During the 3 days of the festival, Alexander was visited by Mana as she camped in his restaurant while demanding food made by his hands. Alexander could swear that he saw Erina peeking from outside the door of the restaurant while looking at her mother.

The Festival came to an end and life went on calmly...But as they say, it was only the calm before the storm...For the second years that is, and especially the second years of the elite 10.

Alice, Alexander, Takumi, Hayama, Soma, and Subaru were called in by Erina to her office.

"Why the hell did you call us here?" Alice was not happy about being called here like a little servant, but Erina gave her no mind. Everyone was curious to why they were called.

Erina reached behind her and tossed each of the 6 of them a small notebook and a passport "The Second years' final exam is starting." She said.

"Yeah, we know that, we were talking about it just a few days ago." Alexander leaned on the couch and said with a bored expression. "We know what we need to do." He said.

"Yes, thank you for your hard work, but the elite 10 final exams will be a different one," Erina said with a smile on her face. This normally includes her but as the book master, she needs to do a specially exam on her own organized by the Chairmen so she can skip this exam and only oversee the situation.

"Each of you will be sent to a certain business institution, information about that will be in that notebook I gave you and most of them are in another country, hence the special passport," Erina explained briefly as the boys and Alice looked at their notebook.

Alexander frowned"...Spirit Airlines National Station?!" he said with a deadpan face "...Really?"