Gideon Ragnason, going by the alias Red, spends years as a knight in the Hero's party led by his own sister Ruti, until her ambitious second-in-command, Ares, engineers his expulsion by branding him dead weight. Red settles in the frontier town of Zoltan to run a quiet apothecary, but the life he built starts to unravel when Rit, a princess-turned-adventurer who fought beside him, tracks him down and asks to move in. This light novel follows Red's attempt to leave heroics behind even as old skills and old companions keep finding him.