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// Dish 08: Prepare for the Devil 
// Story: Food Wars! The Advent of Sunset Shimmer! 
// by ratedoni 
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The tension of those reunited after the heated speech by the newest member of the school could be cut down by a steak knife. Not that any of the reunited students would use a knife like that, is just an idiom. Anyway, the three students were directing glares at each other, or at least the two identical girls while the boy stood aside; the rage emanating from the two females could be seen like a dark aura and Soma, probably for the first time of his life, kept his own mouth shut.

At first sight, one could be forgiven for thinking that the two girls were twins; after all, the only thing in which they could be differentiated was due to the color and style of their hair. One had calm and straight golden tresses while the other one was a raging and waving sea of red and yellow.

The glare contest was stopped when the blonde tsked before crossing her arms underneath her bust. It was clear that Erina was not the biggest fan of the redhead girl in front of her at this point. The embarrassment that she had gone through due to the machinations of Sunset was big enough reason for the prodigy to hold a grudge against her physical double. She was an icon in the culinary world and to be manipulated by an unknown chef had left not only a bad taste on her mouth, but a spot on her immaculate history. Even more important, she had been humiliated in front of her own grandfather, the director of the school and that was not something she will forgive Sunset for.

“What was that speech you gave to the new students?”

“Just something that the old man asked me to do, apparently he is going to use me as some sort of benchmark for the new students, why, is something the matter sister?” Sunset’s eyes held the same edge of haughtiness that Erina had seen multiple times on the mirror and that just made her clench her teeth in rage.

“Do not call me that, I don’t know what you are or if you are human at all, but I won’t accept that humiliation in front of my grandfather, so prepare yourself Sunset because I will not accept you in this school,” The blond pointed at the redhead while the last one was simply smirking at the whole situation. Unlike them, the boy known as Soma was simply looking completely befuddled at what was going on and the way in which the two girls were ignoring him.

“Are you two sisters or something?” Looking at them side by side it was obvious the way in which the two girls got along. It was perplexing.

“Of course no!” “Something like that” And once more the glare contest was on.

“It doesn’t matter; amateur chefs like you will never be able to survive. Only the best students were able to finish the three years of middle school and you two have no chance to compete with them,” Erina said trying to regain some semblance of control over her own emotions. There was just something about those two that made her lose her cool.

“3 years of middle school?” the sudden change on Soma’s voice made both Erina and Sunset turn around to look at the boy who has been more or less ignored with their banter “I first held a knife when I was 3 years old,” Sunset wanted to interrupt him and say that something like that was extremely dangerous, but as a 3 years old unicorn she had been even more dangerous back then “I’ve been practically living in the kitchen for the past 13 years.”

“I suppose living on a restaurant and cooking every single day can help more than anything baby’s school could teach you,” the redhead said once more igniting the temper of her human sister “but I guess you have some advantages to me since I’ve only been cooking for the last six months,” she said making the two humans stay shocked at her words “but then, what that must say about you guys? After all, I don’t have even half your experiences and I can go toe to toe with you, well, see ya around?” Just leaving the two behind after those words Sunset had to laugh a bit.

Of course, once the flame had gone down and she was capable of calming, Sunset had grown morose and depressed at what she have done and said. She blamed the old man for bringing that part of her to the front when it was needed, but she hated it. How easy she could lose control and revert back to the girl she was. Sure, the ‘Devil’ as she called it, had no desire to torment and bully others, but it relished the opportunity to play games with her prey.

Thankfully, as long as she didn’t see Soma around everything would be alright and she won’t go all ‘Kitchen Devil’ again. She bit her tongue once she saw her first class and who was part of it.

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She could feel the weight of the glares and the atmosphere inside the classroom. It was thick and dark just like the ‘Kitchen Devil’ liked it, although Sunset could go for some peace and quiet at this time of the day. Either way, it seemed like Sunset’s new life inside the school will not be boring by the looks of it. At her side she had another girl, one that had long black hair and had some rather stylish glasses on her, although her eyes had that hawk-like trait to it, as if she was some kind of predator.

“Well, not sure if I should call this bad or good luck; I hope you are as good as you think you are Sunset-san, because I do not tolerate idiots in the kitchen,” the voice, calm and collected made Sunset think of her previous Vice-Principal. Miss Luna was always excellent to make her voice sound as cold as an iceberg, probably why she was in charge of detention.

“Well, I suppose this is the way to fame on this school; so you know my name, care to tell me yours?”

“I am Amari Samui and pray this is not the last time we introduce ourselves since this challenge will be quite annoying,” the cold woman said as a blonde older man entered the classroom. She had read about him, the infamous Rolland Chappelle strolled inside the kitchen and made most students start sweating. One of the most infamous members of the school, known by the way harsh evaluations that he did. Looking at the side and the only member of her dorm, Sunset had to stiff a chuckle at the unlikely team that had been put together. Soma and Megumi were so different that this would be fun to see.

But instead of that, Sunset knew that this would be the first step, to something she had been dreaming and thinking of. This was her first test and she will have fun with it.