One night, during a camp break, Mile, Reina, Mavis, and Pauline tell each other their background stories. Reina, a peddler's daughter, has come to hate bandits since such people first killed her father and then the Crimson Lightning, an adventuring Hunter band who had taken her in, leading to the revelation of her magical abilities. Mavis ran away from her noble home when her father and brothers denied her desire to follow in their footsteps as a knight. Pauline is the daughter of a well-to-do merchant who was murdered and his business annexed by his treacherous head clerk, driving her into becoming a Hunter in order to avenge her father...