The story centers on a boy named Yamada Uro, and a 17-year old girl named Karon. Both work as part of the "Hero Retirement and Return to Everyday Life Assistance Agency," which takes heroes from another world back to Earth and helps them reintegrate into everyday life. Karon, a former hero herself, works under Uro as they tackle cases, and also lives with him, with Uro constantly failing to rein in Karon's hero-like behavior even as he tries to ingrain the behavior of common people into her.

马缔光也（樱井孝宏 配音）是一位性格非常内向的年轻人，总是无法很好的通过语言来传达自己的想法。可是这样的他偏偏进入了公司的第1营业部，每天的工作都让光也感到压力非常巨大。一天，光也意外的在大街上遇见了名为西冈正志（神谷浩史 配音）的男子，这个看似轻浮又油嘴滑舌的男人，竟然是辞典编辑部的一员。 正志在光也的身上发现了校编辞典的天赋，于是邀请他加入编辑部，开始了对于辞典《大渡海》的校编，光也就此结识了对文字爱得深沉的荒木公平（金尾哲夫 配音）、将自己的一生都投注到了辞海中去的松本朋佑（麦人 配音）以及性格非常努力务实的佐佐木薰（榊原良子 配音）。