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Originally Posted by aohige
Not sure if you read the latest chapter, but she IS being used as an antagonist.
Her desire to destroy clubs making "those lowly food for commoners" such as donburi, sending assassins to destroy them, is clearly the role of an antagonist in the current run of the manga.
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I did, and my point is that there isn't a good-vs-evil battle going on where Erina is to be framed as an antagonist, because I don't see Soma as really the "good guy". As far as I can tell, Erina's conceited because she doesn't care for food outside the gourmet peak, but Soma also appears in some way conceited because he doesn't care for cookery beyond the world that is his family diner and thinks the entire school is already beneath him. He doesn't show it as openly now, but it was obvious in the opening chapters.
Erina is already in a position to do lots of collateral damage, but Soma almost tried to take out 7th best student head on without much thought. If he had his way, I think he would have done the same to any who challenge him so that he can go match his dad, because that's all he appears to think about.
EDIT: On second thought, I'm relatively new to the Jump style of shonen manga, so maybe my idea of an antagonist is different. Jump antagonists don't tend to last nearly as long before they turn friendly, do they?