I Am Perfectly Average in Every Recipe, and That Is Somehow the Most Dangerous Menu Here

Haruto wakes up with smoke in his throat, a red-circled map in his pocket, and the word never in his own handwriting. After dying once, he works inside a busy small restaurant where every order, customer habit, and kitchen glance feels loaded with meaning. His average skill hides a sharp memory for people, and that makes him useful when the company drags him into public questions, sealed rooms, and quiet threats from above. He carries a hidden planner, a taped retirement tablet, and a locked security card that all point back to one place he was told to avoid. The handwriting on the map matches the hand he remembers from before he died. Someone wanted him gone. Someone else kept his name aliv...