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 "Dungeon City." 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!