Onmyo Knight Towako

Onmyo Knight Towako, (Diviner Knight Towako ~Wicked Incubus Breaker~, Onmyo Kishi Towako) is a visual novel by Lilith. Set in the same world and time as other Taimanin games.

The protagonist of this game is Yagyuu Towako, an Onmyoji a human able to summon a spirit and fight demons.

Summary
Since ancient times, "Diviners/Onmyoji" wielded a great summoning magic "Familiar". In the age of science they led private lives, but there were some who abused their powers.

Normal men and women were helpless against such criminals. Thus, the government employed trusted diviners, called "knights", to defend us from those gone rogue. Yagyuu Towako one of those knights, hunts down Yuyami a dangerous criminal.

Story
The Diviner's are able to use the powers of the spirit world science ancient times but some abuse this power, the "Onmyo Agency" was established to counter them. Under the control of the Japanese government, those Onmyoji Knights would fight criminals that used such powers for evil. Kujou district degraded to slums second half 20th century and now is a place of darkness, a lone woman stands in the ruins of Kujuo, Yagyuu Towako.

Encountering summoned demon's and destroying them easily, she enters a church and meets the source of the demon's Yuyami, standing near an altar, filled with blood and intestines. Towako proclaims she is going be eradicated, by the orders of the Onmyo Agency but asks about another Onmyoji (Yuko Sakura) that came to this place first. Learning that her senior has been brutally murdered by Yuyami, both fight using their summoned Jormungand and Vanargandr to fight for them. After striking down Yuyami and blowing of her head, Yuyami shows her Familiar's ability, regenerating her body and flees.

After calling the agency Rodrico Nakatomi and Abe Koso arrive at the scene to search for new clues while Towako pays a quick visit to the friendly mafia boss Isamu Kondo for information. Leaving the office as it takes time she goes to her home in Shinmachi. Meeting with Shiki Reika in the Shinmachi Paperback, Private Library, looking into the "Jormungand" ability for now. Having lost her parents in a terror attack, she had changed her name and was now only living with Reika.

They are visited by Rodrico Nakatomi, telling Towako that he isn't sure if Sakura was really among the dead, they still found a giant hidden chamber under the church full of corpses but where so far not able to gain any information about the location of Yuyami. A small boy called Mikio walks in prompting Rodrico to leave, and both women to spoil him a bit, as he has been a  constant visitor.

The next day, in the early morning. At the Onmyoji, Diviner Agency branch HQ at the Kitahama district, Abe Koso and Abe Yumei exchange words about a "plan" for Towako. A bit later Towako is stopped on her way home, by Abe Koso informing her about a possible way to find Yuyami. Having gained intel by Isamu Kondo, she trails a slave trader called Byron, as he was spotted with a woman that looked like Yuyami. Being molested on the way and smeared by an aphrodisiac, Towako has followed him to a  shady looking place called the Tower of Pleasure. Towako wants to get in but realizes she could need help but is surprised that Koso was right around the corner, also chasing somebody. After a fake out, in which Towako thinks she has found Sakura, Yuyami reveals herself wearing the skin of her mentor. Taunting Towako again with her excessive cruelty both women battle once more but Yowako  is hit by a taser from behind. Turning around it is Koso, revealing he has been working  together with Yuyami,  fighting now both enemies at  the same time  while being weakened by aphrodisiac, she struggles alot. Still her power is strong enough to even seriously damage Koso's Familliar"Doppelgänger", which makes him unable to use it but after multiple sneak attacks and follow-ups, she loses consciousness.

At the same time, Shiki Reika meets with Mikio, ffeeling slightly weak for a while the boy gifts her medicine and walks home. Returning the next day he reveals that he isn't a human at all but an incubus of considerate age, called Shuten Douji. Having slept with her in, her dreams for a while draining her power, he cursed her. Having pulled her into a dream he controls fully, making her obey  in the dream and wake world, he starts her training.

Towako awakens in a cell under the Tower of Pleasure, by Yuyami and Abe Koso, Koso wishing that she just commit suicide now. His motivation being a power grab, revenge and jealousy, he having been denied the title as the next head of the Onmyoji, by his father. While Towako is the real granddaughter of Abe Yumei, and Koso wishes for the death of both his father and her. Wanting to reform the knights, he allied with Yuyami. Dismissing suicide, Towako swears to kill both Yuyami and Koso. Meaning that she will be turned into a sex slave instead, leaving her a week without food. Her trainer Byron shows up, with his three brothers, stating they were also incubus and used a mix of dreams and natural drugs to train her.

Leaving her after some training, for a week in a tentacle cave, Towako had sex and her mind was eroded slowly but clearly. After much more training, Towako is visited by Isamu Kondo, stating that his mafia was just taken over by Yuyami and he couldn't help her. Using her "charm" as a sex slave without using sex directly, she requests that he sends a simple message to Rodrico Nakatomi, to meet her someday. Facing more training Towako's chances became more and more dim though.

Back at Shinmachi Paperback, Private Library, Shiki Reika training by Shuten Douji continues, but she is visited by Rodrico Nakatomi. Unable to speak out about the demon pretending to be a  boy, she drops a tea cup, which forces Rodrico to leave after talking about the message, saying he understood now. Shuten Douji confused by the situation, doesn't notice that he has moved into a magic trap revealing his true form, though rather weak it only works from a certain direction. Revealing Rodrico standing there having already called his Familiar "Akaname" licking at Reika, erase any form of magical curse or effect. Reika now recovered calls her own Familiar "Weapon Arm" additional two arms with drawn weapons, fighting the demon.

A bit later at the Tower of Pleasure, Towako pretends to be a good slave, Yuyami and Byron enter her cell and talk about a reward. Reika and Shuten Douji enter the room, while Yuyami says her reward will be to watch her friend being turned into limbless sex toy. Trying to trick her "mistress" fails, while Towako panics. Shuten Douji speaks up that his  part of the deal is done,  unclear of the meaning of it Reika states that he  has already died by her Weapon Arm and  is only kept alive by her, cutting the magic his head  falls to the floor. The shock to Yuyami and Byron is used and Towako is guarded by Reika. Yuyami escaping, Towako kills Bryon by punching his face into mush, weakening the curse on her. Rodrico joins both women in the cell and gives Towako new clothes all three escape outside but are now confronted by both Yuyami and Abe Koso.

Reika fighting Koso and Towako fighting Yuyami, while Rodrico is support. The weakened Koso unable to use his Familiar, uses other technics like turning his body into steel to be immune against Reika's heat and  sword  hits. However, her own ability allows her soul a short time with a demonic sword master, able to cut the very soul of Koso, he is killed. While Towako still battles with her own weak body, she is constantly insulted by Yuyami that reveals that she was the terrorist that originally was responsible for the death  of her  parents, and she had performed even more cruel things. Towako using the full power of  her Vanargand used all her anger and after the strongest blow she could perform and significant control of will, she was able to shatter Yuyami into pieces unable to heal.

After the victory Rodrico has returned with Abe Yumei, after harsh words of Towako that isn't a fan of her grandfather. The Familiar of Yuyami shows itself again, Abe Yumei explaining that Yuyami had broken one of the holy rules of Onmyouji and sold her soul to a demon for immortality. That Familiar was her true body and only if the heart of that one was destroyed would she die, "Jormungand" having been the servant to an ancient demon the "White-faced, Golden-furred, Nine-tailed Fox". Unable to fight much more and unable to  fight the strongest Onmyouji Yumei, Jormungand escapes instead. Explaining a bit more about the history and task of the Abe clan, as the below the Onmyo Agency branch HQ the Fox was sealed  by  Abe Seimei (Abe No Seimei) 900 years ago. Since the death of her parents and his own children, he only had hope in her but that push for grand duty created a rift that he regretted. . Wishing still she would become the head of the group after his death to secure the world ending demon.

Days later Towako, Reika and Rodrico drink tea and are joined by Yumei, that keeps looking for excuses to meet his granddaughter and fix their relationship. Both Reika and Rodrico excusing themselves as they have to find out how to deal with the "world ending demon" they are  both Abe after all. Leaving the slightly awkward to reconnect.

Main Character

 * Yagyuu Towako
 * Shiki Reika
 * Yuyami
 * Abe Koso

Minor Character

 * Rodrico Nakatomi (Nakatomi Tadayoshi)
 * Abe Yumei
 * Isamu Kondo
 * Mikio Ooe (Shuten Douji)
 * Byron

Trivia

 * Nothing in the game contradicts the overall state and knowledge of demons, as well as the state of certain cities.
 * Onmyouji seem to be a more public version of Taimanin in the goverment.
 * In Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena both Yagyuu Towako and Shiki Reika show up.
 * Shiki Reika has been an old friend of Fuuma Tokiko, and both talk about relationships from time to time.
 * Should Fuuma Kotaro capture Yagyuu Towako he mentions her past and position, unlike with other cameos he does this not in a way that would imply an alternative universe. Which puts it in the Main Taimanin Universe.
 * In an other Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena event card with Murasaki Shuten Douji and his twin are shown, and Murasaki comments on them being old ancient demons, being fairly known by Taimanin.