Light of Life in the Night

Synopsis

As Burton and the others walk a mountain road at night, armed men emerge from the woods and attack. After clearing up the misunderstanding, the men explain that the village is being attacked night after night by a lantern youkai—and they mistook Burton, who was carrying a lantern, for the monster. They ask Burton and the others to slay the youkai, but one of them, Jisaku, flatly refuses. It seems he had a fiancée named Onatsu...