Get ready for a story that will really resonate in your heart -- this marks the beginning of a classic fantasy tale full of epic world building!! A princess who does not yet know her destiny and a boy driven by the urging of his mysterious "peach" powers -- when these two meet, it kicks off an epic adventure!! A princess who aspires to see the world, Saltherine, asks a traveler, Mikoto, to take her outside the walls of her home country. But then a group of "ogres," creatures with immense power, attack the castle, upending the princess's peaceful homeland in an instant!! On her journey to learn about the world outside her homeland, Sally is reunited with Mikoto and swears to fight discrimination before they once again go their separate ways. Sally's next destination is the forest to the west where Winnie the witch lives. Encounters with witches, elves, beastmen, and new ogres teach Sally even more about the problems plaguing her world!! A new chapter in this classic fantasy story that began as a fairy tale, the "Witch of the Western Wood" Arc, begins! You won't want to miss a single page!
Our ragtag group meets up with a witch who agrees to train Sally in magic at the cost of one million... whatever currency they use, it's not specified. Hawthorn also agrees to train Sally in combat, so she's going to be even more overpowered than before...yay. Meanwhile, Carrot is wavering between being a 'true ogre' and her new found friendship and Frau hints at some backstory.
Then we meet some elves and lizardkin who plan to destroy an ogre that has been sealed in the nearby forest and Sally gets a chance to practice her "everyone should get along" speech.
So if ogres are the physical manifestation of the hate humans feel, then what are Sally and Momotaro? Going with the theory of opposites, they would be made out of happiness or acceptance, or something. But considering how utterly OP and terrifying they can be, that doesn't seem to be the case...