

Erina Nakiri, the valedictorian of Totsuki's junior high and a member of Totsuki's Council of Ten Masters, presides over the transfer student entrance exam and has candidates cook an egg dish that would satisfy her.

Later, Joichiro closes the restaurant to go on a worldwide cooking tour, and has Soma enroll in Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, an elite cooking academy. Soma improvizes a near-meat dish that overwhelms her in taste. She challenges Soma to cook for her a meat dish, but she has the place vandalized and the meat spoiled. A woman tries to persuade Soma to sell their property so her clients can build a high rise.

