To help pay for her sick mother's medicine, Lydia accepts a job with Lord Evert Drake. While there, she encounters a mysterious, mute girl.

The primary character of the series is the young but precocious Pang-Yi who accompanies his uncle, the Professor Gu-Bon, on various foreign trips for historical studies. They encounter a clue to a lost item,...

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his ...