In the kingdom of Elantine, blessed by spirits, the protective power has waned since the previous Saintess died, prompting a kingdom-wide search for a new one. Agnes, a poor baron's daughter who lost her parents young, is uninterested in the search. She works hard as an apothecary to protect her younger brother and their title. Her peaceful life is thrown into chaos when her childhood companion, a flower spirit named Ripple, reveals she is the true “Beloved Child of the Spirit”! Worse, becoming the Saintess means she would be forced to marry the second prince and live confined in the grand temple. Unwilling to leave her brother, Agnes hits upon an idea: “If I marry someone else, I'll be safe!” Just then, her childhood friend, the elite knight Dicaldo, suddenly proposes: “Then I'll take you as my wife.
