Narumi Fujishima keeps to himself at school, barely bothering to learn his classmates' names, until he's roped into the Gardening Committee with Ayaka Shinozaki and then talked into joining NEET, a scrappy detective agency of unemployed slackers. Its de facto leader, a reclusive shut-in who goes by Alice, never leaves her room but runs cases through sheer hacking skill and deduction, pulling Narumi into investigations that go well beyond anything he expected from high school.