Tale, a magical swordsman who is a member of the up-and-coming adventurer party “Sword of Wheat,” has always been troubled by the difference in ability between himself and the other party members. Thinking that this imbalance of abilities could one day endanger the entire party, he voluntarily announces his intention to leave the party, but no one allows him to do so because the party is made up of only his childhood friends. Fearing that he may face irreversible damage in the near future, Tale finally attempts to leave the party by faking his own death by pretending to fall down a cliff in a mountainous area where he is working for a client, but an unfortunate accident causes him to really fall down. Although he managed to avoid falling to his death, he found himself in a den of ferocious demons, and after fighting to the death, he had gained a level of strength that was a cut above his previous level when he left the mountain. When he returns to his home base, expecting to be able to party with everyone again, he finds his childhood friends there, who have fallen ill with despair at the thought of Tale’s death…