**A bowl of noodles that could end the world-or save it.** In a blizzard-locked diner where bioluminescent fungi pulse with the ghosts of Unit 731, **Seiro serves solace one strand at a time**. His buckwheat noodles promise long life, his broth swallows sorrows-but his own body ferments a darker recipe. When **black snow falls from ChronoGust's drones**, marking every living bioreactor in Blueleaf Town, Seiro's kitchen becomes a battlefield: - **Satsuki**, a German-Japanese martial artist drowning in radiation burns, finds her kicks igniting plutonium-oil fires - **Lin Lan** dissects her mother's suicide notes disguised as autopsy reports - **Granny Kō** buries Auschwitz numbers under bread made from Shōwa 20 starved-bones To survive, they must cook what kills them: ☢️ *Cesium-glowing tuna transformed into chirashi stardust* ☠️ *Solanine-poisoned potatoes bludgeoned into sacramental loaves* ☄️ *A fetal mycoborg grown from wartime sins, demanding to be fed* As the White Night blizzard entombs Japan, Seiro faces the ultimate choice: serve his flesh as the **final course in humanity's last supper**, or let the world forget its own flavor. --- **PRAISE FOR THE BLUELEAF HEARTH** > *"A gut punch of culinary biopunk-imagine *Annihilation* meets *Kitchen*, with noodles that cut deeper than any blade."* - ARC Reviewer > *"Fuses the genetic horror of VanderMeer with the historical weight of *The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle*."* - Beta Reader **FOR READERS OF** - Jeff VanderMeer's body horror landscapes - Tade Thompson's *Rosewater* trilogy - Hiroko Oyamada's surreal food metaphors - Anthony Doerr's WWII trauma narratives

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