Chapter 1:
Priest Myoue and his wife, Koto, and three children, live in Enzanji temple in Kyoto.  The people around them find them creepy, so they decide to move to the Looking Glass City.
Chapter 2:
The family is happy, but Koto has a dream where disaster strikes the city, so the parents leave their children behind.
Chapter 3:
With the parents gone, the children are left to run the city for themselves.  One day, a girl called Koto appears.
was drawn on a whim to decorate the walls
war aus einer Laune heraus
 an die Wände gemalt worden
fue dibujado por un capricho,
fue dibujado por un capricho,
Il l’avait appelé « Koto »,
le dieu de la capitale.
foi desenhado por ele para decorar as paredes