The world was different in old Japan. In those days, creatures of myth and legend walked upon the earth, swam in the sea, flew through the air. Some were kind and some were cruel. Some were wild and some, at great cost, could be tamed.

So it was that a wily fox made a wager to dislodge a humble young monk from his home - and lost her heart in the betting.

So it was also that a master of the demons of this world set his own eyes on the monk, seeking to seize the pious man's inner strength for his won.

And so it was, the King of All Night's Dreaming would find himself intervening on behalf of a love that was never meant to be...