Totsuki academy.
Tomoe walks through the entrance gate, her walks ozzes confident, she gazes at the student neardy.
They were in there luxury sedans, judging the people nearby. Some walk upto other with a smile, in a hope to have connections.
But soon, they are eyes were drawn tomoe, specially, the burnt marks all over her body. Where ever, she passes by people step backs.
As whishpers started to rise.
"She must have gone through something bad."
"Look at that lady, she is tall."
she is probably 6ft."
"she definitely went to gym, look at her body, it's like an fitness influencer."
Tomoe, didn't care about the whispher, as her eyes move around, in scearch of something.
Thankfully there is one
Tomoe walks to the empty bench and sit on it. Her hands flail to the sides, taking away as much as space as possible.
She looked at the people, her gaze sharp like, a tiger look at its prey. They immideatley, look away, and talked about other topics.
Tomoe, look up sigh, nobody bother disrupting her.
This is peace
She look the at the buildings, it was European style.
The buildings stood several stories tall, its exterior clad in pale cream stone dressed with ornate moldings and decorative banding. Tall, narrow windows lined each floor in neat rows, their frames carved with careful detail.
It was beautiful for her.
Soon, an alarm rings in her phone.
She got up walks her way to the building with a large sign saying HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION TRANSFER EXAM LOCATION.
As she entered, the building, her eyes were greeted, with an luxurious interior, that demands awe.
Horedes of ryhtm, heard behind herez it was the student, trying to move in quick.
The examiner, stood and watched, the Student entered the room, he waited for 5 min until nobody was left outside.
The room was almost packed.
"Ahem...I welcome all of the aspirants here, your courage is remarkable but...we don't select students on the basis of courage, what we need is preservarance and talent."
"let me ask you again, are you willing to bet your reputation and life on the line?, if fail , you will known as the student who cannot even pass the entrance exam...I am giving you 10 sec to reconsider your decision."
Panic began to spread, whisher of choas, devour the room. People started pushing eachother, making their way to the exit.
Tomoe looked back as she watches the circus unflod behind her They do care about their reputation, don't they?, is this what it's like to be an heir of rich family.
After the panic stops, what remains now were the students with absolute confidence in their skills, that are willing to bet on their reputation.
The examiner claps and continued " your first exam will be a group interview and...I will be the interviewer."
He started asking questions about whats their cooking experience is and their speciality.
"Contestant no 40, tomoe."
Her name called out, gaze fixated on the examiner, ready for any questions that are about to thrown at her.
"your experience in cooking?."
" I have been onto cooking for 11 years."
"Any, courses you took before coming here?."
"None."
The examiner, raises his eyebrow, then proceed to ask another question
"Any specialty?."
"comfort and soothing food."
The examiner, nodded slowly.
After finishied asking everybody, he claps his hands again. The two doors behind the professors opened and more examiner walks.
He handed the copy to the other, as they started calling out students to the rooms. They were divided into two group in two rooms.
The contestant stands before there cooking station, examiners were walking by and giving them a paper, with what dishes to cook.
Tomoe look at the paper, her dish was an spicy dish. Totally contradicting her speciality.
This is why he was asking about specialty .
Tomoe look at the ingredients on the tables her both hands seated on the cooking station.
Mushrooms, noodles, some vegies, chicken,
Shrimps... She observesthe ingredients. A spicy dish, chilli chicken?, she shakes her head. Maybea spicy sea food dish, that will go well .
Her eyes then fall to the noddles, i got this
She took out 3 medium cloves of garlic and minced them with the knife provided by examiners. Putting that to the side.
Her hands grabs a large onion, and finely chopped it, followed by cabbage and some sliced shitake mushroom.
The examiner eyes wonder around her. Her cutting skills are par with the professionals... Was i wrong about her?.
He watches, the whole process, judging every detail possible. He had a chuckle
Even graceful skills , look brute at the hands of a brute.
I guess, she is making jjampong.
Tomoe was done with the preparation. She filled an medium pot with water and put it in the stove and add a wok to the another stove.
As the wok came to an medium heat, she added oil and garlic, it sizzziles as the fresh scent hit her nose.
After one min, she added onion and cooked it for 2 min before adding the sliced cabbage and shitake mushroom and half of the sliced scallion.
Tomoe let it cook for another 2 min.
She added gochugaru, which is korean red chilli pepper flakes and added the seafood, which was shrimp, squid and clam.
Let it fry for 1 min, she smels the aroma coming from it, the earthiness of the shitake mushroom with a bit of sweetness from the scallion and more to come.
She was happy, but what her face hold is just a serious and unaprochable facde.
Tomoe put in stock, soy sauce and salt and brought it to the boil and lower the heat to a simmer.
With a lid on, she let it cook for 6 min, for the sea food to cooked.
And immediately switch off the heat.
Now onto the noddles, which wasn't much, as she was very proficient in cooking noodles.
Nevertheles It was result, she approved of.
She put the noddles first , followed by the jjampong soup and seafood, topped with scallions on the top.
Her dish is ready.
She looked around, every was busy with their dishes , she looked at the examiners, there were 5 of them. She can take it to anyone.
She puts the bowl on a plate and moves toward the examiner at the middle. It was the same examiner, she first meet at the hall.
The contestants gsaps, surprised that somebody had already done with their dish.
" So, you choose jjampong as your dishes ."
"yes."
The aroma hit, him, it sent a sudden jolt to his body.
He took out the spoon and first tasted the soup.
"uhh~." He moaned, his eyes closed savoring every moment of it. Other examiners looked at him curious.
He opened his eyes "You-you passed."
As the first Contestant to present her dish , everyone was looking at her , except for one.
Whisher brwaling everywhere.
Tomoe was surprised a bit, she didn't thought she would just pass alone from the food. Nevertheles, she bowed and left the room.
The other examiner, look at him " why did you do that?, you haven't even tasted the main dish yet."
He laughed and gestures them to take a piece of it.
Moans, erupted from them. It was perfect, the every ingredients was adding something to it.
The earthiness, the sweetness, the sea flavour, the smooth noddles, that gulp down the moment, they suck and finally the chilli.
It was not over whelming, just the right amount to make their tounge go wild yet still have room to taste another dish.
She is really talented.
Tomoe decided to take a rest, on the bench for a while.
Finally, over , that was scary, with so many people there. She touched her heart, it has clam down a lot. She look around and tapes her cheeks.
Get a grip, be strong.
She had her inner monologue for a while before started making her way, to her assign dorm.
As she was walking, she could heard footsteps behind her. Her heart beat fastened, she immediately put her hand on the pockets.
Grabbing the tesar.
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Ok, the syonosis is horrible. I always wanted to write some novels but I am very lazy. So to push forward, I am uploading this. I just want to get myself in the flow.
Definitely improving that syonosis.