Oriko, a magical girl with the gift of foresight, knows the fate that awaits any girl who accepts Kyubey's offer of supernatural powers. But when she is struck with a terrible vision of the future-of the devastation caused by the transformation of a single, powerful witch-she decides to take action and prevent the girl from becoming a magical girl in the first place. To draw Kyubey away from the girl's potential, she directs him instead to Yuma, a little girl whose parents were killed by a witch. Despite Yuma's eagerness to gain powers that will enable her to protect herself, that gift will be the thing that ultimately destroys her...