Was she trying to take revenge because he disn’t reply back last time? Jo Minjoon laughed bitterly and closed his handphone. If she wasn’t replying back, there was no need to keep pressing her because he would know about it when he arrived.
‘Marco’s certainly not……..’
Who else was on that team? Jo Minjoon started to think. The only ones who were close with him were Marco and Hugo. And it wasn’t still clear, but he had also gotten a bit close with Jacob. Aside from them……
‘It doesn’t matter who it is.’
Excluding those three, it would be difficult to say that he was particularly close. Honestly speaking, he didn’t feel too disappointed whoever it was. He just wanted to know if the disqualified one wasn’t among the three. Of course, one day they would have to separate eventually, but he wanted to delay that the most possible.
However, it always happened contrary to what one expected. When the van arrived at Grand Chef’s house and they got down and went to the 4th floor, what they saw was Jacob getting out with his luggage.
Jo Minjoon’s face froze momentarily, but then relieved. If he was going to leave, he didn’t want to show him a preoccupied face. He said with a calm voice.
“Are you leaving?”
“It became like that, Unfortunately.”
“You said that your father cooked french dishes? So are you going to work in his restaurant again?”
“No, I’m not planning to. Working below my father’s shadow, and cooking outside. I felt it this time, that it’s a bit different. I will get reprimanded a bit, but I have to walk my own path.”
Jo Minjoon smiled, but inwardly sighed. He was a bit uneasy. Because Marco’s baking level was 7, Hugo’s 6, and Jacob’s was 5. Because he was at a level where if he slipped once, he would easily disqualify. Although they didn’t have high baking levels, level 5 was the worst of all excluding Jo Minjoon.
‘If I was doing that disqualifying mission……..’
Even thinking about him got him chills down the spine. Jo Minjoon’s baking level was still 4. Probably, the loser would have been decided even before the mission started. Maybe the cooking level would compensate for the lacking baking level……But that was certainly lacking.
Jo Minjoon laughed sadly.
“Bye.”
“Yeah. You survive well.”
Jacob who had talked like that, moved his feet but then stopped. Jacob and Anderson were exchanging sights. Actually, Jacob was closer to Anderson rather than Jo Minjoon. Maybe it was like that because he teamed up with him and Kaya in the past. It was short, they were sharing a dense friendship.
But just because of that, they didn’t need to talk long. Anderson said briefly.
“You have done well.”
“…….Win, Anderson. Win.”
Jacob smiled bitterly and moved the steps he couldn’t. Nobody followed his back until the end. If the did so, then they thought that they will slow him down.
Only after Jacob disappeared down the stairs, Jo Minjoon let the sigh he was holding. Anderson looked at the surroundings with a sharper gaze than usual. In that moment, he looked at Kaya, but then proceeded to look at Marco. He said with a little higher voice.
“Why did Jacob disqualify? Tell me.”
“……He put cheddar in the apple pie and put it in the oven.”
“What?”
Anderson frowned as if it didn’t make sense at all. Because it was a recipe which he could clearly see that it was going to fail even without seeing the results. Apple pie and cheese. Even if you were a skilled chef, it was difficult to bring out the harmony of those ingredients.
At that moment, he understood why he disqualified. Anderson let out a sigh. Kaya glanced at him, but didn’t say anything and looked at Jo Minjoon. It was at the moment Kaya wanted to open her lips. Chloe took a step and approached him.
“How was the three star?”
“It was perfect.”