Rating: 15+ for graphic violence
Unwilling to be married to Lord Hirotomo’s eldest son and into a clan that is despised throughout Japan, Ina Senshin decides to run away. Soon after taking her first steps to freedom she experiences some doubts about her plan, given that she’s never survived on her own and that giving into marriage would help her family form a peace treaty.
However, Ina never gets the chance to change her mind as she gets involved with a mysterious and not-so-great swordsman who claims to follow the honorable way of bushido which requires him to rescue her. This swordsman is none other than Yorikiro Wataro himself, the same man Ina was supposed to marry. He has run away from his duty’s in order to stop the corruption of his clan. Together Ina and Yorikiro decide to bring real peace to their clans.