#nakamura azami

This probably takes place after he left Totsuki Academy. Where are my Azamichiro shippers at? All two of you

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I've read a lot of things regarding this chapter, such as the parallelism between Azami&Mana and Souma&Erina (and I thought of them while reading the CH too). People saying that doesn't want Sōma ending up with Erina because of the family drama, and the "need" to please the God's Tongue, so the relationship would be based more on Sōma working his ass off to please Erina's God tongue than to wanting to just give her all the food he wants naturally to come up with.

Let me ask you something: why would Sōma need to save Erina of that despair if she can do it by herself? Erina is known for being extremely talented, even from a young age, which states that she's even more talented than her parents.

I have my guess here but I truly believe Erina already went to that despair road and came back. Just think about everything she went through and tell me if that is not despair. She even lost the happiness found on cooking, which means she only did it just because she had to, not because she wanted to and that MAYBE is another form of storm that comes with being the God's Tongue and ofc, let's not forget that, in case I'm right, the one who pushed Erina to that disastrous storm was no other than her father.

The spartan training from Azami made Erina taste dishes that were "gourmet" only, giving just a unique path for her to follow, ignoring the other paths to innovate and create new dishes and flavors.

After spending time with everyone at the PSD and tasting that Yukihira dish, she found the will to cook again full of joy and happiness, during the Regimental/Central arc we were able to see how she expanded her horizons and experimented something new, created a new dish that could satisfy her and of course, to the judges as well.

Also, even when she's shaking now, please remember that she wants Asahi to win for her mom's sake, not hers. Not for an instant has Erina thought that the same could happen to her, and I believe it wouldn't. Erina's is more strong-willed than her mom, talented and of course, she has been in touch with youngsters that opened the doors for her world of flavors be expanded, something I truly believe Mana didn't had.

So, even if Sōma get to win Asahi and demonstrates that someone with no superhuman ability (ahem...) can create dishes that satisfies Mana's God Tongue, that doesn't mean same applies for Erina. She have the skills to keep herself safe from the destiny of the despair that comes with her gifted tongue.

So, please stop underestimating Erina's character/abilities and also the other ones (especially Megumi, that all the damn time everyone wants Sōma be saving Megumi or avenge her, like she needs that to be done for her and not be done by herself...), because these girls are strong and doesn't need a charming prince to save them.

And this was longer than I expected😅 but yeah, that's what I thought. Sōma doesn't need to save her or end up with her (in case that Tsukuda makes that happen or something) just because she needs someone to avoid her to fall into that God's Tongue storm, and that would be the true parallelism between Erina's parents and her: Azami failed to save Mana. Erina won't fail to keep herself safe. And in case she ends up with Sōma, he will be there supporting and encouraging her to explore other paths, new highs, not trying to save her.