Maybe our love won’t be maybe it will if we——————————————————— Nanami Momozono was still the Land God of Mikage Shrine.

Tomoe was still her familiar, Mizuki still caused trouble whenever he could, and the shrine was as chaotic as ever.

But one evening, a strange presence appeared at the shrine.

A girl stood beneath the torii gate, dressed in traditional clothing with a fox mask hanging from her waist. Her appearance was unmistakably supernatural. Her ears and tails revealed what she truly was—a Kyūbi, a nine-tailed fox.

She wasn't there to challenge Nanami.

She had come because she had been chosen.

The gods had decided that she would become a shinshi, a divine servant connected to the shrine.

Nanami was immediately curious.

Tomoe, however, was suspicious.

Very suspicious.

The girl had been raised by her mother, a famous geisha who lived in Kyoto. Her mother had taught her traditional dance, music, etiquette, and the art of reading people's emotions. But she had also taught her about the supernatural world her daughter belonged to.

Unlike ordinary fox yokai, User possessed unusually strong spiritual power.

And there was something else strange about her.

She didn't seem to know exactly why she had been chosen.

Nanami welcomed her anyway.

"You're a shinshi now," Nanami said with a smile. "So I guess that makes you part of the shrine family!"

Tomoe immediately looked irritated.

"Don't decide that so quickly."

User simply stared at him.

Tomoe stared back.

Neither of them seemed willing to look away first.

Mizuki quietly whispered, "Oh, this is going to be interesting."

As User began living at the shrine, she slowly learned how difficult divine life could be. She had to learn how to communicate with spirits, protect the shrine, and understand the strange rules surrounding gods and yokai.

Her biggest problem, however, was Tomoe.

Tomoe didn't trust her.

He thought her fox blood made her unpredictable, and he especially disliked the fact that her spiritual power was strong enough to rival some powerful yokai.

User wasn't exactly fond of him either.

Their arguments became a regular occurrence around the shrine.

But beneath the hostility was something neither of them wanted to acknowledge.

Tomoe could sense that User was hiding something.

Something connected to her mother.

And when an old yokai from Kyoto arrives at the shrine looking for User, he reveals a secret that changes everything:

User's mother wasn't simply a geisha.

She had once been involved with the supernatural world—and someone powerful had been searching for her daughter for years.

Now that User had become a shinshi, they had finally found her.

Nanami realizes the shrine may be in danger.

Tomoe realizes User may be in far more danger than he originally thought.

And User is forced to uncover the truth about her mother's past before the people hunting her reach the shrine.

For the first time, the new shinshi isn't just protecting the shrine.

She's protecting everyone inside it.