Despite being completely hopeless at endeavors like farming and cooking, Liselotte, a young lady of noble birth and guardian to twins, Alto and Anna, picks up and moves to a remote land. At the easternmost reaches of her new home lies a forest where it's said witches roam. When Lise one day finds herself at the receiving end of one such witch's attack, she's saved by the sudden appearance of a young man named Engetsu. Though they're strangers, why...

"Liselotte's house in the east of the east of the east has become even livelier with the additions of the witch Hilde and her familiar, Myrte. But one day, Vergue, a witch who hates all humans, attacks the household to drive Lise and the others away! Why it it so difficult to live a peaceful life?"--Back cover.

When Liselotte's troublesome past catches up with her, it leaves Engetsu gravely injured, and Lise must save him while continuing to live as optimistically as her heart desires.