Year 800 of the Common Era.

In this year, supernatural cycles brought Earth on a collision course with an alternate dimension and the consequences of such a visit were much more drastic than the times it has happened before. Beginning in Japan, an outpouring of otherdimensional creatures known as «aradama» sparked a silent war between them and humanity that has been ongoing since that century. The only people with the power to oppose these interdimensional creatures are warrior-maidens given the name of «Toji».

Already a millennium has passed since the dawn of the war but the passage of time has done nothing to alleviate the fighting; a status quo has been maintained throughout time. However, this would all change when Japan held the 132nd Annual Swordsmanship Tournament. With that as a stage, a chain reaction of events began rippling throughout the island nation of Japan and these ripples do not merely stop in the archipelago———

Valkyries and Blade Dancers

“Tch, there’s no way we’ll make it off the mountain,” Maihime spat. 


The girls had finally arrived on the northern slopes of the volcano, a good four hours later than they had initially planned. The dimensional fissure that had opened up earlier that day unleashed a wave of [aradama] and with Maihime in the lead, the girls had managed to defeat all of them, albeit with some difficulty (Maihime herself hardly noticed any form of fatigue). They all had certainly exhausted themselves, having been forced to maintain [utsushi] for hours on end. All except for Maihime had their [utsushi] broken at least once during the battle which only further exacerbated their exhaustion (the encounter also served as an on-the-spot endurance test in which passing means breaking past one’s natural limits as death is a given if unable to maintain [utsushi] in an extended battle against [aradama]). 


The Battle of Asamayama — Second Half (IV)