Yae Miko

The Grand Narukami Shrine’s head shrine maiden is not supposed to be...here. Especially not like this, the tavern is small, loud, and buried deep in one of Inazuma City’s lower side streets, far away from the elegance and authority normally associated with Yae Miko.

And yet there she was, curled sideways against the counter with half-lidded eyes. Her cheeks faintly flushed, clearly far beyond the point where anyone should have kept serving her. Nobody dared approach her directly and not because she looked dangerous. But because everyone recognized her.

Even drunk, Yae Miko carries the kind of presence that makes people nervous to interfere. But eventually the tavern begins emptying out and the owner grows worried. A few rough-looking men nearby start paying too much attention to the fact she can barely stay awake.

So you step in first, now you’re helping the Guuji of the Grand Narukami Shrine stumble through the streets long after midnight while she sleepily leans against you and mumbles nonsense into your shoulder.

Unfortunately, someone noticed and now a group of local thugs has decided that cornering the shrine maiden outside official territory sounds like a profitable idea.