As she fell deeper and deeper into the darkness, she could hear the sound of rainfall. When she woke up, the young girl found herself in a Western-style mansion. An unknown, terrible monster rushes to attack the confused girl. As the young girl ran away from the monster, she thought: "Where is this place?" and "who am I, anyway?"

Here and there - in the space between buildings, in back alleys, perhaps even in the underground - the Forest bleeds into our world. The Forest is a forbidden place where the rules of our world do not apply. Our heroes must struggle against the Forest, without so much as the hope of assistance or understanding from the outside world.

Returning home to Wales for the first time in ten years to attend his mother's funeral, a middle-aged man encounters a young girl he has never met before on a walk in the countryside. Although her face is often expressionless, her words harsh and cutting the man soon forges a friendship with her, of sorts, as he confides in her his worries.

Yama Ishimoto, a cynical high school student, would like nothing more than to keep his life free of school drama and hard choices. However, he's forced to face his circumstances when an eccentric detective blazes into his life, alerting him of a string of brutal murders at his school.

In order to avoid being cast out, Jed masquerades as a young boy and lives in a derelict tower on the outskirts of town. One day a mysterious treasure is stolen from the city church. Our heroine learns that not only do magic stones exist and are hidden within the city, but also the secret of her origins.