Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma Vol. 14 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

At first Shinomiya dismisses Soma as a "student's game" and won't even let him properly work the line. But Soma throws himself into the grunt work, greedily absorbing the restaurant's ways while watching for a chance to put his own cooking on the table. When he finally seizes that moment, he falls short of Shinomiya's impossibly high standard and swallows a bitter defeat—yet his all-out plate genuinely shakes Shinomiya's heart for an instant. Glimpses of Shinomiya's own inner struggle, having lost at Totsuki and left Japan behind, surface, and a faint change stirs in the bond between master and trainee. Turning his crushing loss into fuel, Soma renews his resolve to chase the backs of the elite and moves on to the next stage.