[Machine Translation] In the mid-Heian period, as political corruption ran rampant and demons ran amok in the mountains surrounding the dilapidated capital, Shoji the younger sister of the Minister of the Right chance upon Shuten-doji, the leader of the demons. Shoji gradually comes to trust the affable Shuten Doji, but within the imperial court, the Emperor who had attributed all calamities, from famine and plague to the suspicious death of a noble princess, to the ogres had already ordered Shuten Doji s extermination. Are the beings that threaten humanity truly ogres? Is there no other path but to oppose those of different forms? Winner of the 2026 Japan Fantasy Novel Award." A narrative woven from the intertwining lives of ogres and humans a story we must ask ourselves now, when the line between good and evil is blurring.