For countless years, the Gourmet World had been known as a paradise of ingredients. But recently, at a press conference that sent shockwaves around the world, a Gourmet Hunter who had returned from an adventure there, his entire body wrapped in bandages, overturned that belief.
As it turned out, the Gourmet World wasn't a utopia of delicious food. The reason people who ventured there never came back wasn't that they'd settled down. It was simply that the Gourmet World was hell!
Every Gourmet Hunter who had gone there had died. That man had merely been lucky enough to survive and escape.
According to him, the Gourmet World was filled with terrifying oceans, violent skies and weather, and all kinds of absurd natural environments completely unsuitable for human life. It also had extremely savage super-beasts against which ordinary firearms were completely useless.
At first, during the few days after the press conference was broadcast on various TV stations, people were still somewhat skeptical. But then the International Gourmet Organization announced the emergency closure of all checkpoints leading to the Gourmet World, banned anyone from going there, and stationed heavy forces to guard them. When people saw the sudden change and the IGO's response, how could they not understand what was going on?
So, over the past little while, the world had begun to grow somewhat turbulent.
After all, this was a Gourmet Age built upon food. And now, the uncharted, seemingly endless Gourmet World that people had thought was a paradise of ingredients, a place like Utopia, had turned out to be more like hell. The impact this had on people's understanding—and on the world's established food system—was undeniably enormous and revolutionary.
But...
Unlike the restless world and the ordinary people at a loss about what to do, some people simply