Souju Kuhouin



Like all Kuhouin women before her, Souju spent her entire life in the Inner Shrine on the family estate and gave birth to a total of three children, even if she was never officially allowed to call herself their mother. Their youngest child is Murasaki, who was doomed to the same fate as her after her birth, which is why Murasaki's existence must never be made public. Shortly after the birth of her last child, the humiliations from which she had suffered her entire life only increased. Because of this inhuman treatment, she finally broke and saw no other way out than to put an end to this nightmare with the help of suicide.

Before her death, however, she asked the chief maid of the Inner Shrine and her only friend Benika Juuzawa to kidnap her daughter from the family estate to save Murasaki from the fate that awaits her according to the traditions of the Kuhouins.