Tatsumi is a self-acknowledge country bumpkin who is nonetheless a well trained fighter. He and two companions leave their village to head to the City to find a way to relieve their friends and family from ruinous taxation imposed by the authorities. Yet the City is filled with unimaginable amounts of corruption from supernatural sources. Tatsumi is immediately swindled after reaching the City and nearly loses everything soon after, but finds himself allied with an unlikely group of assassins.