I Fell in Love with Erina in Food Wars!

I stood before the bronze gates of Totsuki Tea Ceremony and Cuisine Academy, morning dew still clinging to the marble steps. My smart wristband suddenly vibrated, and a pale blue holographic screen unfolded across my retinas:

[Beginner Mission: Golden Laughing Bun]

Mission objective: Win over Erina Nakiri with ingredients from another world

Special item: Gourmet Cell Activator (23:59:59 remaining)

My fingertips brushed the spatial ring, its cool touch putting me at ease. It was dimensional storage equipment bestowed by the System when I transmigrated, and inside it now lay rare ingredients from the Gourmet World: a translucent crystal salmon, a beef tenderloin crackling with arcs of lightning, and a mass of cosmic mica shimmering with starlight in the dark.

"Next, Chen Shuwei!"

The examination room's automatic doors slid open silently. A blonde girl sat upright in a high-backed chair upholstered in crimson velvet. Erina Nakiri's pupils contracted the instant she saw me. Perhaps she sensed something: the Gourmet Cells surging through my body were resonating in a subtle way with this world's culinary laws.

"Commoner, do you intend to waste my time with this pathetic performance?" She raised her chin, her silky golden hair flowing in the morning light streaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Suddenly, a commotion erupted outside, and several staff members ran across the courtyard in panic.

I caught a sickly-sweet scent on the breeze. It was the distinctive odor of the Toriko world: the pheromones of a gluttonous beast. My left hand crept to my waist, where I had tucked the molecular gastronomy knife awarded by the System. The GOD cell crystal set in its handle was growing hot.

"Give me three minutes." I calmly unfolded my meteorite-iron cutting board. The crystal salmon blossomed the moment it touched the air