A girl, Kaya, is born with plants growing from her head and accompanied by the sound of bells. She becomes lord of a mountain and Ginko stumbles upon her as a teenager although he finds it strange that a human was chosen as the mountain lord. He meets her older brother who has searched for her since she disappeared years earlier. Ginko offers Kaya the opportunity to become human again and rejoin her family, but at a risk to his own life. Kaya intervenes as Ginko is being judged by the law of the mountain and she is consumed instead of Ginko. Her brother finally accepts her fate but keeps her memory alive by placing offerings in the forest.