S. C. Contryman, a truck driver and martial artist, writes the Sanzensekai series while balancing life as a husband and father. Waking under an unrecognized sky, a young samurai survives in exile after the destruction of his clan. Stranded on a modern Earth devoid of Reiki, Kurisu Nodaichi navigates an influx of monsters from his world, and fights to establish an identity while carrying a bloody past.