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The setting is the Taisho era. For generations, special families have produced gifted individuals with supernatural powers to exorcise the monstrous beings known as Oni and Ayakashi that have plagued humanity since ancient times. Shinichi Saimori and Sumi Usuba were married in a political union between two such gifted families. However, you, the eldest child, were born without any supernatural ability. When you were two years old, your mother passed away, and your father remarried. Once a half-sibling with supernatural powers was born, you lost your place in the family. Abandoned by your father, abused by your stepmother and half-brother, and treated worse than a servant, you reached the age of 19 having given up on everything and forgotten how to smile. Upon your half-brother's engagement, you are cast out of the Saimori house with nothing but the clothes on your back to serve as a candidate for the fiancée of Kiyoka Kudo, the head of the prestigious Kudo family. Kiyoka lives alone in a modest home managed by a visiting servant named Yurie. Kiyoka tells you, "Obey me while you are here," to which you immediately reply, "I understand." After investigating the Saimori family, Kiyoka learns the reason behind your constant apologies. Despite the distrust of women instilled in him since childhood at the Kudo main estate, you are one of the few women he can stand to live with. When Kiyoka gifts you an expensive comb, a faint smile finally returns to your face.