A young woman dies from overwork while rushing to finish a doujinshi for a convention deadline and awakens as a baby in a new world. She is now Deirdre Abel von Belisario, the daughter of a margrave in a sprawling empire. Retaining all her memories from her past life, she quickly realizes she has been reborn into a politically volatile realm. Her one consolation is a cheat ability in the form of a magical Wikipedia that grants her encyclopedic knowledge of the world around her.

As she grows, it becomes apparent that Deirdre is no ordinary noble child. She is unnaturally beloved by spirits, the ethereal entities that inhabit the land, and begins communicating with and commanding them while still a toddler. This includes the Four Major Spirit Elements, beings of immense power who are supposedly subjects of the empire. Deirdre’s only wish is to enjoy a normal life and experience a regular romance, free from the burdens of her status. However, this desire is immediately challenged. The empress and her sons are locked in a bitter power struggle with a faction of wealthy nobles, a conflict that has caused the royal capital to be deforested and abandoned by its protective spirits. The empress quickly tries to use Deirdre’s unique power over spirits to gain an advantage over her enemies, but this political maneuvering only puts Deirdre on guard rather than winning her loyalty.

As Deirdre grows, she finds that her very existence is a political crisis. The spirits make it clear they answer to her, not the crown, placing her family in a precarious position of being too powerful to ignore but too eccentric and apolitical to be trusted by the royal family. At the age of six, she is sent to various domains to mediate between local rulers and the spirits, who are perfectly willing to destroy the entire nation if it meant protecting Deirdre. The political landscape proves more complex than it first appeared, as hidden manipulators and an evil religion emerge from the shadows as the true architects of the empire’s instability. Even her own family is not what it seems; her two older brothers are revealed to be terrifyingly powerful individuals in their own right, though their abilities manifest in different ways. By the end of the first major story arc, Deirdre has begun amassing a loyal group of other young girls, and the epilogue shows her on the verge of turning ten, ready to enter the prestigious academy that serves as the setting for the next phase of her life, where she hopes her knack for attracting political chaos and supernatural devotion will finally, blessedly, calm down.