Machi Amayadori has spent her whole life as a shrine maiden in a remote mountain village, raised in part by Natsu, the talking bear who's watched over her since childhood. At fourteen she decides she wants to leave for high school in the city, and Natsu, convinced she isn't ready for urban life, puts her through a string of absurd trials meant to toughen her up first. The manga plays Machi's small-town naivety and her ambitions for the city against Natsu's overprotective, increasingly ridiculous lessons.