Akane Kinoshita, a University student, was struck with tragedy when her boyfriend Takuma ended their relationship with the words, “I’ve fallen for someone else.” To make things even worse, it seems the other girl he fell for is someone he met through the online game “Forest of Savior (FOS),” which was a game that Akane also started playing in order to spend more time with Takuma. Unable to hold in her stress, she goes on to relieve her distress onto weak mobs in FOS. Then, YAMADA from the same guild happens to find her. She spills what she had just gone through with her now broken up boyfriend but has no idea that this is going to change her life drastically.

Akane, who attended the FOS offline event coincidentally finds YAMADA there. At the same time however, she runs into her ex-boyfriend (along with his now-girlfriend) and impulsively blurts out that Yamada is her new boyfriend. To amend the trouble she put Yamada though, she takes him to an izakaya where she then ends up becoming completely wasted. Yamada is left with no choice but to care for her at his home where he relieves her, but she also loses her treasured necklace there… In search of her lost accessory, Akane enters the guild hall and happens to see Yamada. However, not only is she treated coldly by him, but he also harshly reprimands the way she is using the guild storage space.

Yamada visits Akane’s apartment to help repair her laptop. After a certain experience he had, Yamada had been trying to get too close to women. However, for some reason, he just wasn’t able to take his eyes off of Akane taking an afternoon nap. He unthinkingly reaches out to touch her hair, but then he stops when he hears the doorbell ring. When Yamada goes to check the front door, he finds Akane’s ex-boyfriend, Takuma, standing there. Shocked to see Yamada coming out of Akane’s room, Takuma explains his reason for his visit…

After hearing each other’s true feelings at the school festival, Akane and Yamada have become closer than ever. Although Akane now had more confidence in how she felt about Yamada, somewhere in her heart she felt needed to hold herself back. With her thoughts in disarray, she finds out a new development was occurring in their FOS guild. It was decided a new female member would be added to the guild. Moreover, this was actually someone that Yamada was introducing to them. And she was also his classmate…

Akane was about to collapse while going through a horrible cold, but then Yamada appears before her. Yamada picks her up and carries her to a nearby hospital. Meanwhile, noticing that he had missed his cram school lesson, his classmate Tsubaki, who recently joined their guild, starts to worry about him. Tsubaki had become acquainted with Yamada after playing against him in another online game and also knows why he avoids associating too closely with women. In her heart, she knew, “it would be horrible to fall for someone this cruel,” but she couldn’t help but feel Yamada was starting to mean more and more to her…