During the era of the Age of Paradise, as Orntorra, the God of the future, prepared to send seven angels armed with seven deadly 'War Machines of the Past' to destroy the world, Ruruta was the only one man destined to save it. However, this pressure on him gives him much distress in his heart. Nieniu, the last surviving member of a tribe of minstrels, found him after sensing this distress, so she soothed him by singing. In the present, after Hamyuts sings for Ruruta out of mockery, Ruruta pierces through Hamyuts with a giant tree branch, which Mattalast and Enlike both witness before passing out in the snow...