Who am I? (Shokugeki no Soma x reader)

Part 34 - Totsuki Autumn Elections pt 7

The day of the second round for Quarter final had arrived. (name) and Tsubasa were standing at the railing as she watched Hayama's Kebab entranced the whole hall as she simply smiled, 'Akira would never hold back'.

She looked to the side to spot the polar star dormitory sitting together like flocks of birds, along with Ikumi and Isami.

When Hisako served her Suppon Burger, the judges felt young again, and they instantly love it... including Senzaemon who strip while posing, however Hayama's Kebab made the judges switched their attention from Hisako's Suppon Burger to his Kebab, he spotted (name) and the railing and smirked before serving the Kebab to the judges, instantly stealing the judges vote.

After Senzaemon wrote with a big brush a name, everyone cheered, since it was an obvious win for Hayama.

Suddenly, (name) shivered, 'hopefully.... Takumi...'.

Urara announced, "we have an announcement, the next battle between Takumi Aldini and Mimasaka Subaru will be a Shokugeki!!".

(name)'s eyes widened, 'no....'.

'I'm sorry (nickname), this is to protect my brother', Takumi thought to himself before throwing a glove right infront of Mimasaka Subaru, "pick it up.... It's a sign for you accepting a duello", he stated with an evident frown on his face.

Takumi could clearly saw both (name) and Isami from the sidelines, they were looking at him with worried eyes, but he will try to prove them that he can do this, he can defeat Mimasaka Subaru.

As Takumi was prepping, (name)'s golden eyes glistened with anger as she spotted Eizan across from her in the opposite place. Eizan look up and saw her eyes, making him shivered for a while before leaving the place, to watch from another place.

"(name)-sama..", Tsubasa placed a warm hand on her shoulder, "calm down, let's just watch how Mimasaka-san can copy Takumi-san's dessert". "you've seen his records, have you? He has won 99 shokugeki and took precious tools for a chef, if that is not an insult, I don't know what is", her orbs were still golden.

Tsubasa sighed, "if looks could kill... Mimasaka-san would be dead already".

"you bet", she hissed as she continued to watch how Mimasaka threw off and 'upgrade' his baking.

Minutes has passed and Mimasaka was the first to serve his dessert, many of the judges couldn't help but compliment how beautiful the dessert looked. (name)'s face was blank as she watched Takumi serving his dessert infront of the judges, making them compare both of the desserts.

"let's....get down, I already know who's the winner", she said with a worried look. "yes, (name)-sama", he bowed his head and followed her from behind.

'I didn't want to see the pain look on Isami's face if he knew that his brother is going to lose... despite using the olive oil from Trattoria...', she thought to herself before seeing a smiling Isami who looked proud of his brother.

She bit her bottom lip and continued walking down the stairs.

When she finally got down, she saw the dejected look on Takumi's face after it was clear that he walked the path exactly Mimasaka made for him. Mimasaka laughed loudly as he took Mezzaluna from him as he won the Shokugeki, all in his favor.

Takumi was speechless, he wanted to hide away from his brother, he felt humiliated, he walked straight to where (name) was waiting, not even noticing her waiting for him.

As he got closer, she quickly hugged him. "(n-nickname)..?". She shushed him, "I'm sorry..... I'm sorry that you had to go through that, Takumi". Takumi let her hug him as he himself were contemplating in his mind, he knew he was at fault since he didn't listen to her, if he had listened to her, he wouldn't have lost his Mezzaluna and what felt like his bond with his brother. He felt angry at himself, but it was simply due to his pride as an Italian that he did not reject the Shokugeki and how Mimasaka humiliated him.

She could feel him trembling as she still hugged him.

After a few minutes of still hugging him, she finally pulled away and placed her warm hand on Takumi's cheek, "you should go ahead and rest Takumi...".

That was when he noticed, her eyes were puffy, she cried for him and this made him feel even more guilty, but that changed when she smiled sweetly at him, "you fought hard, I'm very proud of you".

His eyes went wide as his blush deepen, he couldn't help but stare at her glossy plump lips. He could've kissed her if they were together, but he valued her feelings and of course he knew the timing was wrong.

(name) then added, "I want to punch Subaru that bad", she huffed in annoyance. Takumi was surprised before holding both her hands in his, "a girl beautiful like you shouldn't defile your beautiful hands with doing those things", he said with a small hidden smile. She sighed and nodded before he nodded his head and walked away.

(name) looked at her watch, it was almost dusk, "let's go Tsubasa".