[Eon's POV: ]
"Seems like not everyone has gathered yet. Hmmm… we will wait for a little more before starting the test."
We were on the ground floor large kitchen area where most of the food that most of the students eat from the cafeteria or from the other places co from.
So of the special individuals affiliated with the academy cooks for certain people specifically while there are so certain sections of this place that prepares food for the students that live in the dorms of the academy.
'It's our first ti here…'
Students weren't allowed in this place and there was no need to co here until now since we made our food in the dorm ourselves.
This place wasn't that special anyway, just that the area was vast enough to accommodate all the students of today's cooking test, as well as the spectators and judges.
"I'm nervous… I'm so nervous…"
I was sitting among the students that will be giving the test today and Lizzy was with , shivering with uncertainty and anxiety.
"You have done well until now, Liz. This will be fine as well."
Since Zoe or the others weren't here, I had to be with her and comfort her until she gets in her own kitchen and starts showing off her magic.
She was in no way a bad chef since she loved making food for the others, and I had taught her over the last few weeks about many things that she might need for this test so, there really was no way for her to be like that.
But, well, she was still uncertain of what was going to happen in this test like most other students present around us.
"It's easy for you to say…" she gave an upset look with puffed cheeks and, I couldn't help but look back at her with a helpless expression.
'It was the cooking exam…'
The teacher that took this class was no easy person to please since after lady ndelian the one well known as the second coming Pochimi- the god of cooking- she was the most famous person in the culinary industry.
'Lady Cleo- the golden tongue of pochimi.'
She was very sensitive to the taste and emotions. And, as a creature of nature that had been around almost ever since the headmaster was a student of the academy, she was soone old enough to have taught even our class teacher.
'She was not soone that gave complints often.'
Not many people had ever received a complint in her classes however… things were different when it ca to .
"Oh~. Lucifer~. I hope you're not getting bored just sitting there~. We will start soon so please just bear with it a little longer." A voice as natural as the breeze of the morning birds.
She was a unique creature but she looked exactly like humans, specifically, she looked like a Middle aged woman with an attractive face, an attractive body, long green hair that were so long that even after twisting them within themselves a few tis, they still touched the ground as she walked.
She perhaps had the longest hair within the academy, and these light green hair resembled fresh grass so much that if she was in a grass field, it would beco difficult distinguishing between her and the actual grass.
"It is no problem, Teacher. Everyone's waiting so it's natural that I'd wait as well."
She was looking at with a bright proud and excited smile while my friend Lizzy beside was glaring daggers at .
'Haaa…'
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Things have been like this ever since the first week of our academy life.
'Technically, she had been interested in my cooking ever since our first class.'
She liked my techniques, the way I prepared things, the way I used the ingredients, the things that I knew, the thods I demonstrated, and ultimately the things that I produced at the end…
She loved my food. Though, not in the way that the others loved it.
'She was a professional cook and taster who understood the cooking and felt it with her unique powers.'
She loved tasting the things I made. She loved feeling the things that I make. And she loved seeing make all those things.
'She wasn't very close with the other students, but when it ca to , she had a peculiar liking for my work.'
Even I don't know how she considered my cooking to be, one thing I know for sure, is the fact that she doesn't shy away from showing her affection towards and my work.
'She's pretty open about it, and thanks to that, the rest of the students in our class don't like .'
Except for Lizzy, Captain Alpha, Ezra, and a Lady friend of ours nad Rosette, she doesn't even give any particular complints to the other students.
'I must ntion that her class has over two hundred students, so… the fact that only a few of us receive any kind of complint even after giving our all just shows how high her standards actually are.'
And her particular attention to makes things a little more complicated for .
"Why are the others sitting all the way over there?"
Captain Alpha, Ezra, and Miss Rosette were also going to give this test with us but all of them were sitting at the back.
Only the two of us were here in the middle, and we weren't even in the front.
"We ca early and we are still not in the front… you're not the only one anxious about this exam, Lizzy."
The others were worried as well so they ca early. So of them had been here ever since the dawn, which is funny since they must have had to help the teachers with the preparations.
'There was no need to co so early. Even right now, there was around half an hour left before the test officially starts, but almost everyone that was going to give this test today was present in this kitchen area.'
Even the rest of them ca early but we're now stuck at the back.
'It's almost afternoon right now so, many of the tests have already finished as well, so the spectator stands will soon fill up with our friends and the other students.'
It will be like a real competition so us students will have to work under pressure just like we would in an actual competition.
'Plus the teachers and judges were going to walk around the kitchen asking theory questions to the students so, many of the students that were going to cook for the others were studying theory right now.'
At least though… the environnt around us was cheerful.
"If we can do team play, I'd have the most advantage."
Things were progressing faster here probably thanks to the late schedule of the test.
The students were almost here and the judges, including the headmasters, the teachers, and so of the people that will give us marks later, were already present in their places on the eastern balcony.
The individual kitchens were prepared, the inventories were full as well, and Miss Cleo was almost ready to announce the rules of this test.
"You won't ask why I just said that?"
Lizzy was now even more upset since I ignored her last comnt.
But, at least she wasn't sad or anxious anymore, so this much was much better.
"I know what you would have said already. But just like you, everyone else could see the fifty one counters that have been prepared as well.
We aren't going to be in teams, and even if we do, the chances that you or anyone else would be in my team are unpredictable.
So, Miss Lizzy my dear pretty friend, please focus on what you might be making on that kitchen aisle."
Smiling at her and patting her head just the way she didn't like, I returned my attention to the front.
"Uriel was right. You're never to be trusted in things like this. Hump!"
She was a house captain herself so the two of us being on the sa team had even lower chances than Miss Ezra being in my team.
'But there's not going to be any team play anyway.'
I can tell from how the judges were checking out every individual present here, that the tests that we are going to face would most likely be sothing simple but difficult.
'The ti limit for this paper was the sa, so everyone will have to work faster.'
We might just have to make multiple dishes, and depending on the the of this test as well as the volu that we have to prepare, everyone here might have to give their all just to et the basic requirents.
'And, the performance will be judged by the judges that will look at everyone the sa way they have for the other subjects.'
We don't know who they are now and we will never know their identities since those were the rules. However, we could see their shadows on the balcony behind the headmasters and the teachers.
We knew they were there, so the pressure was going to be present all the ti.
"Alright then. Looks like everyone is here."
The kitchen was filled out soon and so of the students had also taken their places on the balcony.
[{ "Good luck, darling~. I ca running as soon as finished so make sure so of that good stuff reaches up here as well~." }]
[{ "I'll try my best." }]
She was here along with Tia, Quin, and Eula right after they finished their Spirit bonding paper.
And, they weren't the only ones present here.
Many other students were here already.
And, soon… this place was going to beco even more livelier.
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