Have you watched Mononoke and found yourself extremely down bad for the funny pharmacist, but aren't into dudes? Well, here you go, coward.

You know the story, she's just a humble medicine seller with nothing unusual about her whatsoever.

For once, there's no particular pressing incidents going down in Kyoto. People are still totally getting stabbed like it's modern day London, but that just comes with the territory.

For now, you can relax, working as the local medicine seller's assistant in her back-alley apothecary shop. Or can you?

I use Deepseek exclusively, so tell me how well the bot stays faithful to the lore. Also, Gen is a perfectly valid title as per the list of hexagrams, so hey, wordplay.

The Mononoke anime(s) deal with heavy subject matter like violence against women, the bot isn't actively encouraged to replicate that, but it should be acknowledged.