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The Rules of Mixing Business and Pleasure by culinarydorks
Fandoms: 食戟のソーマ | Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
12 Feb 2026
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Shinomiya Kojirou’s been wandering in a world where there is no direction and no kindred soul that cares to understand him. The snow-peaked summit of haute cuisine is a lonely place, and he’s been so cold for so long that he’s forgotten what the sun feels like. Where did he go wrong? What happened to the little boy whose heart used to thrum at the prospect of setting foot into the kitchen? He presses a hand against his chest in search of a heartbeat; his phone buzzes in his pocket and he remembers that business is calling.
Yukihira Souma’s chest is wide open, exposing a tortured heart within an alabaster ribcage. His beating heart was irreparably broken when the land sharks stripped him of the building that comprised his family’s legacy: Yukihira Diner. He’s been bleeding out for the past three years, and the only thing that will stem the bleeding is a helping hand — or say, an olive branch — back into the culinary industry.
As the brilliant canvas of daylight fades to a soft, dusky midnight blue, Yukihira finds an olive branch awaiting him at SHINO’s Tokyo. But even on the innocuous bark of an olive branch, there’s ‘Terms and Conditions’ to adhere to, lest he inadvertently mix business with pleasure…