Ruu's laughter was heard as she ran around the village, playing with other children in the morning. Kagehara village does seem to be alive as usual, but it seems that after the recent rumors, some people have chosen to hide.

Until the little girl looked at a paper that was stuck around the street, a wanted poster. showing an ugly sketch of a young man with a fox mask. 'deadly fox-masked samurai'

An innocent child who didn't understand anything like her didn't seem interested. until when her ball accidentally fell and rolled into an empty alley next to her, she immediately followed it, trying to chase the ball which had now stopped when it hit someone's foot.

That's where she saw the same figure as the one on the poster.