Any valkyrie could see that the blind seamstress was an ancient fox spirit in human form. But only a half-Valkyrie could see in her a great spirit worthy of Valhalla. Since time immemorial, the village of Aoku has existed peacefully on the edge of the great northern forest.
And then the forest changed.
The winters were getting harsher, and the cold seemed to come from the forest itself. And wolves began to come from the forest, first singly, and then in whole packs. In fear, the villagers gave the forest a new name: Kiba – "Fang".
For the villagers, Yumiko, a blind seamstress, was a naive but happy soul, afraid of dogs and angry only at poor needlework. And no one knew that in the 537th year of her life, she took up a bow for the first time and challenged the forest and the creatures that the Forest spawned. In the first winter she saved the baby from a stray wolf; In the second she protected the sleeping Toror. The number of enemies grew year after year, but Yumiko's abilities also grew. Twenty-five years in the cursed forest - and she single-handedly won
