During the Keicho era, Kikyo, a young girl living with her grandfather Iwanami Rando in the great outdoors of a corner of the Yamato Plateau, comes to the aid of a swordsman surrounded by An'yaken's gang, but ends up in danger and is saved by her grandfather. An'yaken disappears, saying he will use Ushisan's magic to take Rando's life. From the next day, eerie dolls begin to appear around Rando, he develops a high fever, and dies after entrusting a scroll to Kikyo