Skill Gained: No Family Recipe

Aki wakes in a different world with a chef’s tongue and a Sage class everyone says should not exist. He opens a tiny restaurant, but every dish tells him who cooked it, what they felt, and what they are hiding. The taste of fear, grief, and pride becomes his only map through a kingdom that keeps trying to file him away as a mistake. His kindness comes through his cooking, but so does his weakness. He cannot stop caring when someone looks hungry or hurt. A badge that reacts to a lost method, a staff hidden in a wooden box, and a pair of borrowed gloves pull him into trouble he never asked for. By the time he starts noticing the pattern, the people closest to him are already tied to it.