Ichigo Amano is back in Japan and back to her old ways: eating too many sweets and falling down stairs as if she had never left. But the Japan she returns to is not the same as the one she left two years previously. And the St. Marie Academy there is also not the same as before for her. It's not just that she is now a high school student. Her old and familiar place of being with the Sweets Princes in class is gone: Hanabusa and Andoh have left St. Marie Academy to pursue their own pastry dreams more intensely. Kashino, whose grades were top in Paris, was allowed to skip and year and thus is a year ahead of Ichigo. While she is somewhat down (quite naturally) at losing her comfortable place, she has no time to wallow. Henri Lucas suddenly appears in Japan and invites Ichigo to a special meeting. There, along with Kashino, Lemon and new character Johnny, Henri tells the four students that he wants them to oversee a sweets shop in a new shopping village that he has built in Japan. New challenges obviously await in this sequel series to Yumeiro Pâtissière.