![]() ![]() ![]() Every woman from any tribe or walk of life may enter-so long as they are human and not yokai. Every generation, women from all corners of the country flock to the capital for the prince’s hand. ![]() Her mission isn’t to con local farmers out of their money, but to win the tournament of all seasons, marry the prince, and make off with the royal treasury.įor you see, in Honoku, the Empress is determined in a very different kind of way. ![]() Because she’s plain and her beast side is only half-formed, Mari has been trained to fight. While most animal wives run this particular scam multiple times-also getting with child until they give birth to a daughter and their service is complete-Mari’s task is very different. As an animal wife, Mari has been raised with a singular goal for her entire life: to marry a man, and steal his fortune for the good and profit of her people. Mari is a yokai-not just any yokai, but an animal wife, born to a village of women atop a mountain on the outskirts of the Empire. And so, to combat their fear, humans have outlawed the yokai and enslaved them with magics of their own, thanks to the power of the divine Emperor, who has been blessed by the gods themselves and fashioned in their image. Crafted with magical abilities and bearing fanciful, wild physical features such as scaled or transparent flesh, the yokai are powerful and feared by humankind. In the world of Honoku, there are humans and there are yokai. “Our bodies are not ornaments, they are instruments.” ![]()
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