This episode starts with Yumiko in elementary school, having a difficult time. She has no friends, and thinks those around her are beneath her. She takes her great-grandfather's staff, Kerykeion, and runs away to find the Anehara Cross School of Magic. On the way there she is attacked by Jean-Jacques Guibarthez who wants her staff. She makes it to the gates of the school, where Guibarthez attempts to kill her again. There she meets Koyomi who defends her from Guibarthez.