The Yokai Invasion

The Attack on Akiba

In Yokai, Jaaku has conquered villages but repeatedly failed to take Akiba. Emperor Daisho trusts his army's earlier success in defending the city. His daughter Ai no Miko is less certain: the spirits warn that something has strengthened the shogun, and she asks the empire's allies for help.

You help Miko sustain the defenders with healing and supplies while she investigates the darker power in Jaaku's soldiers. Ancestral spirits warn of whispers twisting his mind and a monstrous source of strength.

As Daisho challenges Jaaku, the shogun reveals Orochi, leaving you and Miko to struggle against the serpent while the emperor overcomes him. Jaaku calls for help, and Orochi kills Daisho before Miko wounds the beast. The shogun retreats on its back, leaving you to tell Miko that her father is gone.

Miko and the Shinrin Do

Miko expects Jaaku to return and wants to strike before Orochi recovers. Healing has been her calling as a priestess of love; now she seeks the Shinrin Do, an enchanted cuirass that could help her protect Yokai in battle. You accompany her into Shinrin Grove.

Kame challenges your intentions, fearing the armor could fall into the wrong hands. After you defeat him, he asks you to save his village. War's negative energy has turned its spirits hostile, and even Otoroshi, normally a guardian against evil, prevents the villagers from entering their own home.

You reopen the gate, put out the fires and drive possessing spirits from the lanterns. Restoring Green Shell wins Kame's cooperation. He has promised the cuirass, but it remains in a chest beneath the lake, and a guardian still stands between Miko and the armor she seeks.

Shinrin Grove and Heiwa Valley

With Kame's water-breathing potion, you search the lake and find the chest seemingly unguarded until Nagami emerges. Rejecting Kame's right to promise the Shinrin Do, the creature threatens to devour the kappa's champions.

After you and Miko defeat Nagami, she puts on the cuirass and feels new strength, resolving to confront Jaaku as Kame's people offer their blades as well.

The road crosses Heiwa Valley, where Koro fears a second army will finish what Jaaku's first began. Miko promises liberation rather than conquest as you help arm the villagers, relieve the restless spirits and tend the remains of the fallen.

A powerful Onryo still haunts the valley. Miko prepares protection and incense to reveal its trail, leading you toward a voice calling for resistance and the protection of a daughter.

Daisho and Orochi

Miko tries to speak to the Onryo, recognizing its pain, but Koro's arrival interrupts the fragile contact and turns the encounter into a fight. Once you weaken the spirit, her magic strips away its terrifying form to reveal Daisho's ghost.

Daisho believed Jaaku had killed Miko, and when she tells him she survived, she blames herself for neglecting the funeral rites while pursuing the shogun. He refuses to condemn her, knowing that delay might have cost many more lives. He trusts her to protect their people, and she finally brings him peace.

At Jaaku's fortress, the eighth head of Orochi offers unexpected help. Miko's light in Akiba freed it, but the shogun's attempts to heal the dragon are filling it with darkness again. You help weaken that hold and reach samurai who were also forced into service.

The other heads wake before you can free them all, and when Jaaku escapes onto Orochi's back, you grapple aboard to pursue him. Fighting past the remaining hostile heads brings you to the shogun, with the freed head still helping you. Jaaku now claims that a queen's strength is enough to defeat you even without his dragon.

Jaaku and the Queen

You suspect the Queen of Monsters, but Jaaku insists that he is not controlled and that his queen has freed him to take what Daisho denied him, asking only that he let her people settle in Yokai. You recognize what opening the land to those monsters would mean, and Miko refuses his bargain.

Jaaku surrounds himself with darkness and attacks, but Miko refuses to give in even as she struggles to withstand it. Daisho's spirit appears behind her, strengthening her light so she can turn aside the attack and defeat the shogun.

Jaaku's Defeat

When Jaaku tells Miko to finish him, she refuses to execute him and offers surrender instead. Voices in his thoughts condemn the choice and question his usefulness after failure, and shadows engulf him as he raises his weapon. Miko later says he is gone.

Back in Shinrin Grove, Miko considers the danger beyond Jaaku: if his queen is the Queen of Monsters, Yokai may need allies outside the continent. For now, Akiba is safe, and Daisho says the restless spirits of those lost in the war will begin to vanish. When Miko asks whether he will disappear too, he promises to remain with her in some form as long as she remembers him. Still uncertain of herself, she promises to do her best.