"Ryūga-san, Ryūga-san, wake up, hurry and wake up, dinner will be served soon!"
The loud knocking and shouting woke Ryūga from his sleep.
Ryūga rubbed his sleepy eyes, sat up in bed, and said something unconsciously.
"Do you want a meal?"
"Does anyone want dessert?"
As soon as Ryūga finished saying this, he was shocked.
Ryūga looked around and discovered a very serious problem.
Where am I?
He clearly remembered sleeping in the university dormitory, but when he opened his eyes, how did the dorm suddenly look so different?
There seemed to be no response from inside the room, and the loud, deep voice came again from outside the door.
"Ryūga-san? Are you there? I'm coming in!"
As soon as the voice finished speaking, Ryūga saw the door open, and then a young man entered.
"Huh? Ryūga-san, you're in the room. I just called you, but why didn't you answer?"
"I just fell asleep and woke up now..."
Although he didn't know what was happening, Ryūga decided to deal with the person in front of him first.
"Is dinner about to start? I'll come down after washing my face!"
"Okay, I'll go to the cafeteria first... come down quickly after after washing your face!"
The young man left after saying this. Ryūga took a deep breath. He planned to wash his face first, calm down, then figure out what happened to him...
Ryūga walked toward the long mirror in the bathroom, looked at his reflection in it, and was suddenly shocked.
Where are my muscles?
He had worked hard for years to get his abs, but where were they now?
And this skinny, beautiful boy in the mirror — is that me?
........
While Ryūga was looking at his drastically changed appearance in the mirror, a massive memory flooded into his mind.
After digesting this sudden memory, Ryūga finally understood what had happened to him.
While he was sleeping in the dorm, his soul traveled through time.
The world he was in now was the world of Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, one of his favorite anime in his past life.
Ryūga, who was originally an orphan, did not have much attachment to his previous life, so he didn't care much about his time travel and accepted it.
In fact, he was very happy that he was able to travel to this world.
As you know, there are many goddesses in this world that make him drool.
Erina, Alice, Rindō Kobayashi...
Wait a minute....
Ryūga suddenly realized a serious problem.
It seems I traveled through the wrong timeline...
The boy who just invited me to eat... he seems to be named Gin Dōjima!?
In other words, I traveled back in time to 22 years before the story began?
Ryūga splashed cold water on his face and felt the need to calm down.
........
Based on the memories that flashed into his mind, Ryūga understood the environment he was in at that moment.
Ryūga Akane is his current name. The original owner of this body was also an orphan like him. He worked in the kitchen of a restaurant in Tokyo while studying. Due to his talent in cooking, he was favored by one of Totsuki Academy's teachers. Thanks to this teacher's recommendation letter, he was able to enter Totsuki.
Due to his humble family background, his predecessor lived in the "Polar Star" dormitory, which is a dorm offered free of charge to academy students.
During this period, the Polar Star Dormitory was at its peak and glory.
As the power center of the academy, Totsuki's Elite Ten Council included five members from the Polar Star Dormitory.
The top ten students are:
First Seat: Gin Dōjima, a Senior Student.
Second Seat: Jōichirō Yukihira (known now as Jōichirō Saiba), a Senior Student.
Third Seat: Azami Nakamura (known now as Azami Nakiri), a Senior Student.
Fourth Seat: Riko Ebisawa, a Senior Student.
Eighth Seat: Shiori Nakatsukasa, a Senior Student.
Thanks to the presence of five of the Elite Ten, it can be said that the Polaris Dorm created a prosperous era at Totsuki.
In addition to the top five students, there are seven other students in the Polar Star Dormitory. Although they are not among the top ten, the remaining students are also well-known figures in the academy.
In comparison, I am the least remarkable person in the Polar Star Dormitory.
Despite Ryūga's talent in cooking, he did not adapt quickly to the teaching style of Totsuki Academy after joining.
So he gradually fell behind, and Ryūga gradually lagged behind his peers.
In other words, I can now be considered the only remaining laggard in Polar Star Dormitory.
However, most of the current members of the Polar Star Dormitory are kind.
They don't look down on me just because I was the last student in class. Of course, they also don't care about me much.
However, Dōjima Gin and Saiba Jōichirō were very interested in him and were the two who interacted with him the most.
After realizing the situation he was in, Ryūga felt a bit helpless.
This is the beginning of hell.
Even though he retained all of his previous memories of this body, his cooking skills were nothing more than those of a third-rate person.
In this academy that values cooking skills, I fear I'll be eliminated at any moment.