While eating breakfast beside a flowing creek, Somali trips and falls while chasing some horned rabbits, injuring her knee in the process. Suddenly, a dwarf oni named Shizuno appears and offers to help bandage Somali's injury and brings the pair to his home. There, they meet Yabashira, another oni and Shizuno's assistant. After feeding Somali, Golem asks Shizuno to teach him the ways of medical herbology, to which Shizuno accepts in exchange for a small piece Golem's armor to study to further his medical research...