Himeno can't stand being on her affluent stepmother's estate, where her two wretched stepsisters ignore her and only a few others make an effort talk to her. Despondent and certain that things will never improve, Himeno is about to learn that she's fated to become the Pretear -- a girl who must join forces with a knight in order to save the land from the Princess of Disaster, who is unleashing evil larvae.