As a young child, Kurota-sensei was taught the values of frugality from his mother, as he lived with his 5 brothers and 3 sisters in a relatively poor family. Life was hard for the small family but the Kurotas pulled through, learning things they needed to get through life.

Kurota-sensei’s best memories were eating out at restaurants. His dream was to become a 5-star world renowned chef and cook delicious food for his family. Part of the reason why he loved restaurant food so much was because his mother was a lousy cook. Regardless, he soon took up the job of family chef, cooking for his siblings and parents. He really wanted to become a good chef. Unfortunately, he woke up early and realised that he needed money more than food, so he became a doctor instead. A school nurse, to be exact.

He trained in university to become a doctor but realised he couldn’t really be bothered being an actual doctor. A school nurse job appeared to him and it gave a pretty good money-to-effort ratio so he decided to be a school nurse.

Kurota-sensei soon became known throughout the school as bandage-sensei because of the amount of bandages he used (and how he seems to permanently have bandages on his hands). Even a small cut would call for some good bandaging. He knew his stuff of course, he would be fired if he didn’t. It wasn’t like he bandaged everything, he just bandaged flesh wounds, no matter how minor. This is partially out of habit, as when he first started cooking, he burned and cut his hands a lot. There’s nothing particularly wrong with his hands anymore, but it’s basically a habit.

Yeah, anyway, wrap bandages get money.

Vitality of the hydra god
For eating the heart of the hydra god, Food-kun has been gifted with practically unlimited health regeneration and vitality, to the point where he doesn’t bother wearing armour and stopping your attack on him for a second will be enough time for him to be back on full health.

Tear your heart out and eat it.
Yeah, that’s the best name I could come up with. Simply put, Food-kun jabs his opponent with his bare hand, ripping through their chest and tearing out their heart. Then Food-kun eats it. It’s usually more trouble than it’s worth and really difficult to get, but Food-kun has mastered it and it heals pretty much 100% of his hp when he eats it and increases his stats by a lot temporarily. Also, if he eats special monsters, he gains permanent stats.

Iron claw
A monster skill. Turns the hand into a rigid iron eagle claw temporarily.

Blessing of the cooking gods
The blessing of the cooking gods passively gives Food-kun a better chance to make better food items. Also removes the cap on his food-making skill.

And he has a few other skills, but these are his signature moves.

When Kurota-sensei wasn’t a sensei (that is, in college), he worked a few part time jobs and eventually made enough money to sustainably play a VRMMO. He chose whatever this one was. When he arrived, he noticed that you could be a chef and decided to be the best damn chef in the entire world. He did pretty well at the start, and he was becoming a pretty good chef. However, this wasn’t how he got famous.

There was always something missing in his cooking. He couldn’t really put his finger on it. Making the food was fun and it tasted nice, but he felt it was somehow boring. The turning point came when his order of ingredients was running late.

As it turns out, a group of monsters had derailed the convoy, which kind of sucked. But rather than waiting for another shipment like any other chef, he decided to go to it. In his early days, he’d trained his strength and it’d apparently turned out useless. He’d also recently found a massive cleaver on the market, and he wanted a change. This was the event that led him to his legendary status.

He ran straight to it and arrived pretty early at a den of monsters. He butchered every single one and retrieved his meat. He also took some of the monster meat, which turned out to his benefit. It didn’t exactly taste any better than the other meat, but it tasted different. Kurota-notsensei was devoted to food and Food-kun gave him the opportunity he never had. Food-kun’s aim changed to finding different tastes.

Kurota-notsensei built up a reputation as Food-kun, the battle chef. First he built up his stats by fishing and diving into combat, grabbing as many rare ingredients as he could before cooking them. He slowly started building up fame, but he found that he died quite a bit. Another turning point appeared: it was when he could tear monster’s hearts out and eat them. He could learn it as he was a chef which had high strength. It was difficult to use the skill, however. It required great strength to use and it was ultimately an unarmed attack. Chefs who naturally had weak unarmed wouldn’t be able to use it well. It couldn’t punch through thick armour or scales, so it didn’t help much. However, that changed when he hunted the iron eagle.

He’d been hunting it for days, and when he caught it, he obviously tore out its heart and ate it. With that, he learned the move Iron claw, which made his skill incredibly easy to use. Cut with one hand, tear out the hart with the other. With Food-kun’s weird disposition, he could easily eat with one hand while fighting with the other. He wasn’t practically immortal yet, but he built up fame as an insane battle chef who dove into fights and came out covered in blood.

The pinnacle of his battle prowess was when fighting the evil hydra god, who didn’t spawn many ads, so Food-kun had difficulty killing it. He eventually did, however, using a well-placed meal, and its heart gave him practically impossible regen.

After that, he built up his cooking skill and became the first to achieve the highest rank. Then he was almost immediately one-upped as the cooking gods blessed him and removed his skill cap. Now he was completely unbalanced, and he’d only just finished college.

Food-kun now wanders the continent in search of rare ingredients and delicious food.