A full year after leaving the pioneer village, Chise and Teto are still searching for a safe place to call home. But with winter coming, they decide to settle down for the season in Apanemis-also known as "e;Dungeon City."e; There, the girls take up adventuring work in hopes of finding clues to the location of the Wasteland of Nothingness, but instead, a chance encounter with a young boy leads the duo to a struggling orphanage. Chise thus takes up a new goal for the short term: now, she'll do everything in her (over)power to save the orphans!