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Even during a supposedly peaceful era, there are those who always bring conflict with them, like live coals ready to flare into fire. How does the populace face the evils such people unleash? In a small feudal domain in northeastern Japan, on the border between two quarreling domains, a mountain village is annihilated in a single night. Akane, sister to a trusted aide of the lord of Nagatsuno, happens to rescue a boy who has escaped the destruction; what he tells her defies imagination.