Together with Sadlygrove - a Iop he saved, and Ruel Stroud - an old bounty hunter friend of his adoptive dad, Yugo ventures through the Forbidden Forest looking for a way to free the inhabitants of his village, who are struck by a strange evil. On the road, he meets Amalia - a young Sadida princess on the run, and Evangelyne, her bodyguard. Yugo doesn't realize yet that he's just met the very friends who will soon follow him to the end of the world...