Autumn Purple Fin Saury

After a couple of days of judging different dishes in the 43rd Annual Tōtsuki Autumn Election, the finals finally start.

And to my surprise, the finals became a 3-way fight between one winner and 2 draws.

Of course, if Lou made the decision, maybe there's a normal match today but sadly, the Headmaster is the one who judges the 2nd match.

"With this, the Semi Finals are finished, next, the management committee will announce the theme for the finals."

One of the students was pushing a giant cube of ice on a giant trolley. It's so huge that it almost accommodates half of the cooking stage.

"Oh! Woooo!"

"It's so huge!"

"A cube of ice?"

"It finally began, the ingredients announcement," Erina said.

"Ingredient announcement?" Lou curious asked.

"Autumn Seasonal Ingredients" are for the finals for every year's selection."

"Is that so?"

"Using the best ingredient brought by the fall harvest, the chosen ones fight each other."

Alice said," This is the most suitable way to bring the Autumn Election to an end."

Senzaemon said." Lou-kun, go and break the ice, take note that the inference should not damage okay."

Lou nodded.

He walks in front of the cube of ice and chants."

"Ice Manipulation."

"Green Lotus Core Flame"

Cold air starts to come out from Lou's right hand while green flame starts to burn on his left hand he then slowly melts it but because Green Lotus Core Flame is too hot, the process is too fast.

Using the Ice Magic, he covers the ingredients with a thin layer of sub-zero ice while maintaining the temperature of the ingredients.

"Heaven Flame? He really has one."

"He also has superb control of fire while using ice at the same time."

Slowly, the ice melted creating a pool of water around the cooking stage, but because of the hotness of Lou's flame, the water evaporated fast like melting ice.

Seeing the steam commit inform the floor, Senzaemon asks the management to open the hall ventilation preventing everyone to drench in sweat.

A couple of minutes later, the huge cube of ice finally melted, the only left is a fish ice figure that Lou covers with his Ice Magic.

"Let's see what kind of fish this is."

Lou snaps his finger and then the thin layer of ice slowly breaks apart and then everyone sees the last theme of the autumn election.

"This is?"

Lou uses his ability to check what kind of fish this is.

...…..

Name: Autumn Purple Fin Saury

Type: Fish Treasure

Capture Level: 800

Location: Deep Pacific

Height: 12 m

Price: 100g / 100,000 Gold Coin

.....

'They are actually using Treasure Fish for the final?!' Lou inward shock seeing 5 pieces of treasure present.

Tootsuki is really not a traditional one but also one of the richest schools in the whole country giving students a chance to cook fish treasure.

"A Souty?"

"No, it's different, can't you see it has Purple Fin."

"But still, Saur as the final ingredient seems.... A bit anticlimactic.."

Senzaemon who was holding the microphone said," Its true that in the past only the masses ate this species of fish, after all, it's cheap and tasty."

"However lately, even High-Class restaurants use it,"

"Needless to say, it's a common fish but it's not. We ask someone to catch one of the treasures of the ocean. The Autumn Purple Fin Saury is one of a kind, it can only be caught during the last day of Autumn and can only be cooked within 12 hours after catching it."

"And right now, the fish only has 1 hour of shelf life before it becomes a waste ingredient so for the theme of the finals, we want you to cook the Autumn Purple Fin Saury before the fish spoils and show your own creativity."

"From now until the time of the fish spoil you can only cook after that the dish you made will be disqualified,"

"And now, let's start, the final of the Autumn Election starts!"

Lou who stands in front of the inference sees the tree of them walk close to pick their own main ingredients.

The first challenge for the theme is to pick, to pick the right sword for their main ingredient, but there's a problem, there's nothing different from each of the fish in front of them so it's hard to tell which is the fresh one and which is the rejected one.

"Hey, senpai, which do you think is better?" Soma looks at Lou and asks.

Lou picked the best one," This one is better."

Seeing Lou did not change at all, Soma knows that Lou is not joking with them so he grabs it but 2 more hands also reach out.

"What are you guys doing?"

"This is mine" Ryo and the other guy said.

"It's mine okay? I'm the one wh oaks."

"I want this."

Seeing the three of them fighting, Lou can't help but to say," This and this is the same quality as the first one I pick, as for the other two, they are badly damaged from mishandling and one is already rotten."

"Good," The three of them pick one and leave like that, leaving Lou looking at the rejected fish.