Alf, a down-on-his-luck adventurer, is assigned to act as a bodyguard to the childlike reporter Izumi by her editor at the publishing company Swords and Friends. Their mission is to seek out the truth behind the erroneous information compiled in the bestselling Dragon Encyclopaedia that Swords and Friends publishes to correct the embellishments and exaggerations therein. In doing so, Izumi hopes to break the curse she says traps her in a child's body; Alf, meanwhile, has unresolved business with a dragon that can turn back time...