The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th century. One winter day, fourteen-year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after mailing...

Orphaned, blind in one eye, and hungry, Lukka tries to trade his shoes for a meal. Unfortunately, the villagers don't much care for their local homeless cripple, and he's shoved into the path of an oncoming...

Vowing never to separate from his childhood friend Hisame, Itsuki travels on the Tokaido with him in search of new adventures. Exterminating youkai along the way, they depend on each other to finish the job...