Kozakura: Hello everyone! Welcome to the 13th chapter of this book. The Grand prix has begun and soon the story may draw to a close, but don't worry, there will be a sequel of when they are in Paris and the Paris Grand prix. In this episode, we shall follow Team Ichigo as they prepare for battle.

Skylight: Also, we're so sorry for updating late! I had to write an essay that was due yesterday, and since most of the chapter was Ichigo's POV, we couldn't finish it.

Ichigo's POV

Their team had, so far, won a battle against the intimidating group that was a group of third years called Team Ichimatsu. They helped Hanabusa with his rose pound cake in which they combined all their pound cakes to make a rose shape.

The next round was announced that they would be going against Team Lemon, who were transfer students from the Paris branch

Even after their success, Ichigo was still nervous about the next match against Team Lemon. Both Kashino and Hanabusa had both suspected that their group were wolves in sheep's clothing; they may have looked cute and harmless, especially since they were only first years, but they had malicious intentions.

Ichigo decided to follow Rumi's advice and get to know them better. As she said, "know the enemy and the battle will be a breeze". She had to have more of an advantage here, since her team were dealing with such a formidable group.

"They aren't just ordinary first years." Kashino warned, after they had watched the tape of Team Lemon's first match.

Ichigo looked at her team nervously. If even Kashino was this agitated about this, then what should she be feeling about this match?

Ichigo shook her head. 'Be positive, Ichigo!'. "Come on, guys!" She stood up, smiling cheerfully, "It's true that they're amazing, but our pound cake got praised by the chairman as well, right?"

Andou, who had been silently watching the tape the whole time, suddenly asserted quietly, "If we had gone against them in the first round, we would've lost in terms of skill."

"Don't worry about that. We'll work with a different kind of cake. We'll just have to win with that." Kashino interjected.

"That's right!" Hanabusa said, "Now that we know the true potential of our rivals, we just have to add extra care in making sure that we win."

"All right, let's do our best!" Ichigo and Vanilla cheered.

Fumika's POV

Fumika watched Team Ichigo silently as they started discussing about their opponents and how their skills were lacking.

She noticed that all of them were anxious about the battle, but her eyes zoomed into Andou who was sweating as he watched the screen.

Fumika took her phone out and searched up the names of Team Lemon until her eyes landed on Mantarou Kujou.

Fumika scanned his info and found that his family owned a well established Japanese Confectionery in Kyoto and the young master of their house won the national Japanese Confectionery competition.

Fumika smirked, "Ah, Andou knows about Kujou's family background and is getting intimidated by it. This seems like it will be an interesting battle."

Fumika hummed as she closed as her phone and snuck out of there before they noticed her and headed back to Henri to report

She knew that Team Ichigo would struggle in this battle now that Andou was caught up in nerves and that Ichigo seemed to think Team Lemon were easy.

The day of the competition came and Fumika watched the match through the monitors, and she watched that it would be individual match up.

Looks like Henri had took a liking her idea when she proposed that they held individual matches within a team and applied the idea with the staff who've agreed.

The round began and everyone took their positions next to their opponents, matching Andou with Kujou and Ichigo with Lemon. Lemon immediately 'innocently' offer Ichigo that they should both use the same ingredients and Ichigo being Ichigo, agreed.

Ichigo decided she wanted to use Strawberries and Lemon offered to use it with the orange. Ichigo agreed as Lemon also slipped in Kiwis

Fumika sighed knowing what Lemon's intentions were when Ichigo stated that she had never used Kiwi's in jelly before.

Fumika watched as Ichigo made the foolish mistake of using her Kiwi as is while Lemon did the right thing and boiled her Kiwi before they put their mixes in the fridge and she also caught the look of victory in Lemon's eyes.

Fumika sighed shaking her head, knowing that Ichigo already lost that round already cause she didn't have a fruit jelly to compete with Lemon at all and that Andou was most likely sleep deprived.

Ichigo's POV

When Ichigo moved to take the gelatin out of the fridge, she froze when she noticed a slight sheen and a watery movement in the gelatin. No... it couldn't be. She hung her head down in shame as she moved hers to the table.

The fruits jelly hadn't jellified, and it was just a watery mess when she tried to move it from the pan onto the plate. She was lucky that her teammates didn't notice yet, but it didn't matter because soon everyone in the stadium would know.

Ichigo was sweating bullets as they stood in front of the judges. When they announced that they would start grading, Lemon piped up, "The winner of this match has already been decided for the fruit jelly before tasting."

Ichigo yelped, turning her head only to be met with her teammates' questioning looks.

"I completed mine," Lemon said, after the judges questioned her, "but Ichigo senpai's..."

It seemed to Ichigo as if the entire place turned their eyes to her fruits jelly, which was laying in a miserable pile on her plate. Her teammates gaped at it, and Kashino could only stutter as he raised his fist in anger. "You...!"

"I'm sorry!" Ichigo warbled, "I don't know what went wrong, but the gelatin didn't solidify..."

"That's because you didn't boil the kiwi. There are enzymes in kiwis that will dissolve proteins." One of the judges explained, "If you use it without boiling, the gelatin will be digested."

Ichigo heard Andou gasp. "You purposefully chose kiwis because you knew that Amano-san didn't know about them!" He accused, stalking towards Lemon as he glared at her.

"Stop it, Andou." Kashino held his hand out to block Andou. "It's Ichigo's own fault for not even knowing the very basics. Besides, I had already taken into account that she would lose."

"No way..." Ichigo wailed.

However, the team wasn't going down without a fight. Both Hanabusa and Kashino had won their matches because of their elegant designs, and Ichigo was confident in Andou's skills.

However, Andou, due to his sleep deprivation, had miscalculated the amount of sugar he put in and lost. Ichigo stared at him worriedly. Andou looked like he was beating himself up mentally for this small mistake.

Lemon, who had a hint of relief in her eyes, turned and smirked at Ichigo. "This makes it a draw. We'll see each other at the rematch."