Kento Kato is the kind of high school student who blends into any crowd — not a hero, not a scholar, just a guy who likes convenience store nikuman and hates being late for class. So when a strange ripple of light appears on his walk home and swallows him whole, the universe has clearly made some kind of clerical error. He lands in Eldria — a world where magic flows through the earth like groundwater, where beast-kin traders haggle alongside human scholars in cobblestone markets, and where the