Asa and Kame arrive at the Ooku on the same day and learn within hours that service in the shogun's inner chambers is nothing like either of them pictured. A strange cult circulates among the women, a palace festival keeps being postponed for reasons nobody will give, and samurai turn up where samurai should not be. The Medicine Seller, who sells love potions and mononoke exorcisms in the same breath, is already inside. This manga adapts the film Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain across two volumes.