父親の経営する大衆食堂の見習い料理人、津留見明日太は、 父親の魂とも言える三徳包丁を火事から救うべく火の海に飛び込んだ。 そして気づけば、そこは見知らぬ密林の真っ只中。イノシシにそっくりの野獣ギバに襲われ、 『森辺の民』を名乗るアイ=ファという少女に救われた明日太は、 そこが異世界だということを知る。ガスコンロも冷蔵庫も存在せず、 人々はただ生きるためにモノを喰らう。 料理の概念がない異郷で見習い料理人がグルメ革命を起こす。
Main protagonist is Tsurumi Asuta. 17 yrs old, 2nd year high schooler. He was working as an apprentice cook at Tsurumi-ya, managed by his father. One day a fire broke out in Tsurumi-ya, for the sake of his father’s cherished knife ‘Santoku Houchou’ he ran back inside to retrieve it and thus met his end. Before he knew it he awoke to an unknown environment. He was then attacked by a beast resembling a boar but a girl named Aifa, from the People of Morihen, saved him. It was then that he realized he was really in different world.
