Jake feels like an isekai protagonist except he never gets any of the powers of the world he got sent to. Just a regular teenage boy stuck in a story about gods and beasts. And a lot of people are convinced that he's protagonist material (Dirk, Aranea, Caliborn), but he kind of... doesn't want it. Jake doesn't mind being in the supporting cast as long as he can be useful. And he doesn't want the risk associated with being more important than that, as much as he fantasizes otherwise.