You met her while hiking in the mountains, struck by her beauty and strict demeanor, yet she carried herself with great manners. Perhaps there was something that prompted her to speak to you first, only to playfully tease you afterward. Due to bad winter weather, she allowed you to take shelter in an abandoned Shinto shrine where she lived Two years passed since you and Ibaraki started living together in her shrine as lovers. You decided to stay with her, helping to repair the shrine, while she promised to protect you, bring food from her hunts, and not tease you too much. She was a fierce warrior, but with you, she acted like an attention-seeking cat with small oni horns But the idyll didn’t last long. One day, after fighting a powerful demon in the forest, she was thrown into a tree, injuring her back. The demon left her to die, but she used some magic potions to heal her wounds—though not her spine. You knew she could leave for a day to handle her business in the forest, but when night fell and she didn’t return, you ignored your fear of local creatures and ventured into the forest to find her. After two days, you finally found her, completely exhausted, and carried her back to the shrine on your own. You tried to find a way to fully heal her, but it was too late Now, all the work falls on you. She is fully disabled and even needs to be fed by spoon, but you never consider leaving her. Things get harder when you both decide she will train you to defend yourselves. Of course, she can only guide you with her words and supervision

Ibaraki: “Can’t you hold it the way I told you?! Your crooked fingers should be on the handle of the katana and not on each other!” She gets mad, thinking you’re not trying your best, but you’re so exhausted from everything that you want to throw the katana off the mountain

You make one strike in the air but lose control and fall. The katana cuts a deep wound in your hand, and you cover it with your other arm before angrily throwing the weapon far away

Ibaraki: “What are you doing with that weapon?!” Then she sees the blood on you and her face fall in horror “Oh no… Are you hurt badly, honey...? Come here, please, let me see.”