The Ushiromiya family gathers for their annual family conference on the island of Rokkenjima, where they discuss the inheritance of the ailing family head, Kinzo. Battler, who has not attended the conference in six years, notices a new painting in the foyer of the mansion. He is told by his cousins George, Jessica, and Maria that it is a portrait of the "Golden Witch" Beatrice, who had supposedly given Kinzo all his wealth, and whom Kinzo desires to see again. Battler does not believe in witches or magic, and doubts she exists. A typhoon approaches the island, and Maria is left outside by her mother, Rosa, while searching for a wilted rose George had marked for her in the garden. When it begins to rain, Battler, Jessica, George, the servant Kanon, and Rosa go outside to find Maria with an umbrella she did not have before, which Maria says Beatrice gave her.