Rindo Kobayashi, a third-year student at Totsuki Culinary Academy, occupies the Elite Ten Council's Second Seat. Her history begins five years before the main events as a Totsuki middle school first-year, where she encountered Eishi Tsukasa and compelled his friendship after learning of his obsessive quest for teacher validation. Entering the high school's 90th Generation, she progressed through the Friendship and Rapport Training Camp, Stagiaire, and Promotion Exams, joining the Elite Ten in her second year before ascending to Second Seat by her third year. Physically, Rindo stands as the tallest female Elite Ten member. She possesses long scarlet-red hair covering her left eye and reaching her shoulder blades, yellow feline-like eyes with vertical-slitted pupils, and pronounced cat-like teeth. Her typical attire layers the Totsuki uniform—sans tie—over a beige sweater with palm-covering cuffs. While cooking, she ties her hair in a ponytail and dons a dark-blue chef’s jacket with an apron. Cheerful, curious, and whimsically carefree, Rindo prefers observing events from the background at her own pace. She neglects responsibilities like paperwork, delegating tasks to others—such as offloading duties to Eishi Tsukasa to watch a cooking duel—and exhibits playful teasing, as when mocking Terunori Kuga after his Moon Banquet Festival loss to Soma Yukihira. A non-picky eater driven by culinary curiosity, she consumes any edible item, including insects. She supported Azami Nakiri’s Totsuki takeover purely on a whim for excitement, not ideological alignment with Central. Despite her Central affiliation, she remains neutral toward rebels like Soma’s group, prioritizing taste over rigid culinary classifications. Her interest in Soma’s unconventional methods led her to facilitate experiences like sampling Eishi Tsukasa’s cooking. Rindo’s cooking centers on exotic ingredients and international cuisine, earning her the title "Rare Ingredients Master." Leveraging Elite Ten privileges, she travels globally—from the Arctic to the Amazon—to source unusual components like live alligators and insects. Her expeditions furnish firsthand ecological knowledge of flora and fauna. She displays exceptional knife skills, swiftly and precisely handling challenging ingredients, such as skinning and bleeding an alligator mid-duel. Her culinary approach innovatively blends techniques from Chinese, Peruvian, and French cuisines, contrasting her laid-back persona with an aggressive, chaotic kitchen style that disrupts workflows. Key involvements include voting for Azami Nakiri’s directorship during the Moon Banquet Festival, ousting former director Senzaemon Nakiri. Later, she appeared uninvited at Shokugeki matches like Soma’s duel against Etsuya Eizan, openly criticizing Eizan’s underhanded tactics while sampling both dishes. She participated in Central’s Survivor’s Purge and Promotion Exams, revealing to rebels they would face the Elite Ten as opponents. During the Promotion Exams, she disclosed Akira Hayama as Soma’s opponent. Post-graduation, she traveled abroad with Eishi Tsukasa to pursue rare ingredients.