Mao

Nanoka and Mao are obliged to work with their enemy Sasuga to save a young woman from being sacrificed to a mysterious water god. Then, the cat demon Byoki attacks one of Mao’s allies! Plus, Natsuno brings Nanoka a new training challenge, an ancient, mummified man with a major grudge…

Mao and Nanoka attempt to save Soma both from the beast that possesses him and his own worst impulses. Natsuno continues training Nanoka to wield the power of the earth but can’t stop her apprentice from pushing herself too far. Then Mao is spirited away, and Byoki makes a move. The question remains—where is Daigo’s soul?

Mao attempts to save the victim of a curse as well as the one who cast it. Then, a case of missing children attracts the attention of our friends as well as the Goko clan. Next, a puppeteer creates dangerous living dolls. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the perpetrator from the victim…and sometimes they’re one and the same.

Nanoka encounters an ayakashi on her own and attempts to single-handedly exorcise it and save its host. But when she receives help from an unexpected source, her jealousy is triggered. Will dense Mao understand why? Then, yet more is revealed about the tangled truth behind Sana’s death…

The battle of the Goko clan apprentices reignites, pitting Mao against enemies and allies alike! Then, Diago’s murderer is finally revealed, but will his reanimated body ever regain its soul? Plus, our friends investigate a monstrous patriarch who is terrorizing his own family. And Nanoka suffers a great loss…

Mao and Nanoka investigate a merchant selling a strange ointment that miraculously beautifies his customers. Unfortunately, side effects include death. When the Box of Monstrosity rears its ugly head again, Hyakka and Sasuga fight over it, but then newly resurrected Daigo joins the battle. Whose side is he on, anyway…?

Mao and Nanoka investigate a bronze mirror that drowns all who possess it. Which member of the Goko clan is responsible for this cursed artifact? Then, while Kamon and Shiranui battle over the mysterious body of a woman trapped in a whirlpool, Daigo takes possession of another Goko clan weapon. Plus, an ominous appearance from Byoki, the demon cat!

Nanoka is determined to defeat the beast inside of Soma without harming him. But is that what Soma wants? Meanwhile, Mao pursues a serial assailant with the face of a rat and a deadly bite. Then, rumors spread about a body trapped in a whirlpool. Could it be Masago, Kamon’s lost love?