Chapter 6
When the daughter of a fallen noble family is chosen to become a sacrificial bride, her groom is none other than the Shinigami— a cold-hearted, human-hating God of Death. Chizuru works for the Sanjou family, a newly made noble house with a thriving textiles factory in Koishigawa. However, as the daughter of a family which once ranked far higher than the Sanjous, Chizuru receives nothing but scorn and contempt from her new employers. Without warning, a plague breaks out in the town and victims of the disease all die with the same words on their lips: ‘The Shinigami stands at my bedside.'In a desperate attempt to appease the god who brought the plague upon them, Chizuru is selected as a sacrificial bride. This is a story of a ruined noble, a God of Death, and the romance that blossoms between their two lonely souls.
Chapter 1
“I was offered as poison bait to a Tengu—but the one who appeared didn’t devour me…” Shino, a young girl living in a poor village in Joshu (modern-day Gunma Prefecture), is sold due to poverty. Just before her fate is sealed, she is "rescued" and taken in by a man named Takenouchi, who claims to be an onmyoji (spiritual practitioner). However, his true intentions are sinister—he secretly forces Shino to ingest poison, intending to offer her as deadly bait to a man-eating Tengu. Abandoned deep in the mountains at the brink of despair, Shino encounters a mysterious figure: a white-winged Tengu who calls himself Sakyo. Thus begins a Meiji-era romantic folklore tale of a sacrificed girl and a lonely white Tengu.