Cooking with Wild Game (LN) Novel

Seventeen-year-old Tsurumi Asuta spent his days as a culinary apprentice at Tsurumi-ya, a restaurant run by his father. A catastrophic fire engulfs the establishment one fateful night, and driven by desperation to save his father's prized Santoku Houchou—a treasured Japanese blade—Asuta rushes back into the inferno. In that moment of sacrifice, his consciousness fades. When he awakens, nothing is as it was before. The world around him is strange, filled with unfamiliar dangers and untamed wilderness. A vicious creature resembling a wild boar lunges toward him, but a mysterious girl named Ai Fa from the [People of Morihen] intervenes, pulling him from death's grasp. Through her rescue, Asuta discovers the horrifying truth: he has been transported to an entirely different world.