Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now a depraved samurai who left his domain putting aside his past ambition, barely makes ends meet. Toyo, a woman who runs a tavern next door, feels affection for Tajuro who guards her place against nasty customers, but he never realizes Toyo's feelings.

Love's Twisting Path

Otose Nishizono ages out of the orphanage system on her 18th birthday to begin a new life in her own apartment and starts her very first job at a hotel cleaning rooms. But her troubling childhood returns to spoil Otose's fresh start, forcing her to relive the past and confront long repressed traumas.