Taimanin Kurenai

**Taimanin Kurenai** (**対魔忍紅**), is a Japanese eroge Visual Novel from Black Lilith. It was originally released for in the **Download Edition**, August 25, 2015, with later releases of a **Package Edition**.

Set in the same universe as the previous Taimanin Visual Novels and prequel to Taimanin Asagi. The main heroine and protagonists are the Taimanin Kurenai and her partner Ayame, members of the Fuuma clan. Kurenai is viewed as an outcast because she is half vampire but still fights for justice. As the Fuuma clan has grown weaker in influence, Kurenai, takes up a mission to capture the criminal, Tendo Kazuma and stop the spread of the future drug, Hallelujah.

Taimanin Kurenai is a prequel to the original Visual Novels, and plays first in the timeline chronologically.

## Summary

Long before Asagi was known as the strongest Taimanin, the Fuuma clan and their subclass like the Shinganji clan were the contact to the government.

Shinganji Kurenai is a half-vampire and Taimanin, together with her partner Makishima Ayame they investigate the crime group House of Greed and its boss Tendo Kazuma. A traitor in the Fuuma clan, leads them into a trap, with Ayame and Kurenai pushed into a corner.

However, in the background Edwin Black, Kurenai's hated father, is pulling the strings, wishing for his daughter to give into her demonic side.

## Story

### Prologue

Tendo Kazuma stands on a dock of Tokyo Kingdom, waiting to sell two modified slaves to his client "Donnie Wu", a freelance smuggler from the Chinese Union. Tendo, had been strongly active the last years and had ties to Dragon Gate and its new drug Hallelujah, an expert in the creation of modified slaves. Right before both men shook hands to seal the deal, shots are fired from far away and a bullet kills the smuggler Wu.

Taimanin Makishima Ayame laying far away with a sniper rifle started the surprise attack, using her Ninja Art to see through the heavy fog. Sniping away at more and more of the guards, which can only react with confusion and panic.

Trying to get away, Tendo is stopped with the arrival of Taimanin Shinganji Kurenai, taking out even more of his guards. Introducing herself to the criminal, Tendo, stating that she tasked to capture him to reveal his dark contacts. Kurenai is surprised and attacked by one of his Artificial Demons. The tentacles, however, are not strong enough to hold her, and she cuts herself free, with hidden blades in her clothes. In the ongoing struggle, in which even more of the Flesh Dolls, that Tendo of the House of Greed created, are killed. Tendo is able to escape.  Ayame voicing her concern, for Kurenai both Taimanin consider their mission still a success.

The next day in the orphanage Himawari, in Tokyo, both Taimanin take care of the children. Shinganji Kurenai is reminded that she lost her own parents and her difficult position regarding the Fuuma clan.

Her mother is Shinganjii Kaede and her grandfather Shinganjii Gen-an the clan head of Shinganji, they are high ranking members of the Fuuma clan. Kaede, the upcoming clan head of the subfamily, the Shinganji clan, had been kidnapped by Edwin Black, the Vampire King and boss of Nomad. Gen-an, a master of the blade, traveled into the Demon Realm, with the intention to save Kaede, but all he could do was safe the newly born Kurenai, the first daughter of Black and Kaede. Kaede, herself, could not be saved and remained behind, with Gen-an suffering from heavy wounds, escape was the only option.

Unable to make such a trip again, Gen-an lost most of his strength but became the parental figure of Kurenai, which was often avoided by others for being a half vampire. The old Gen-an spent the rest of his life raising Shinganji Kurenai as a full-fledged Taimanin, and Shinganji Kurenai also devoted herself to training to relieve her grandfather's remorse and rescue her mother.

As, Kurenai grew more skilled, she became involved in the rescue of Makishima Ayame. Ayame had been blamed for a failed mission of the Fuuma, and without full agreement, was tortured to death, by lower ranking Fuuma clan members. As Kurenai was strongly believing in justice she rushed the hideout, as she saw the scene before her, she lost control to her vampire blood, killing all the Fuuma clan members, at this point the Fuuma clan feared her even more. However, Ayame felt saved and alive after seeing Kurenai and developed a deep love towards her, not going from her side no matter what.

After the death of Gen-an, Shinganji Kurenai became the head of the Shinganji family but because of other clan members viewing her as a "half-demon freak" and an "ally killer", this was a fully empty position. Forced to leave the village and clan due to prejudice. Shinganji Kurenai gave up her title and went to the orphanage "Himawari" working there as staff at daytime with Ayame Makishima, who swore allegiance alone to her. At night, both were busy doing Taimanin work. Kurenai still felt guilt for pulling Ayame into that life, as she feared that Ayame only followed out of duty and obligation, something Ayame always denied, and that she would even refuse a direct request of Kurenai to leave.

After playing with the children, both Taimanin were informed about a visitor, Reiichiro Tomari, a lower, former, Fuuma clan member and current agent working for an early Section Three. Informing both that their mission, saved lives but was ultimately a failure, as they did not capture Tendo, the boss of House of Greed. His constant, repeated, mocking comment about Shinganji Kurenai, prompting Ayame to almost kill him on the spot but Kurenai stopped her, as she saw Tendo's commends as in part as correct and viewed her failure as her responsibility. Kurenai promised that on the next mission, she would capture Tendo or leave the Taimanin fully, much to the delight of Tomari.

### Main Plot

Weeks later, Kurenai and Ayame are ordered to the locale King's Pleasure, to be part of a sting operation and capture Tendo. The information provided by Tomari, both Taimanin were tense. Ayame waiting outside observing the area as backup and Kurenai going in undercover hostess, until backup would arrive. Surprised, by the current rules of the club which involved into debauchery, the disguised Kurenai sat next to Tendo but was slipped some of the future drug Hallelujah. Mentally weaker and without weapons, Tendo revealed he knew who she was, and had multiple more Artificial Demons appear out of nowhere, with the whole "sting" just being a trap. Ayame, getting nervous and hearing commission, tried to reach the club but was knocked out by a modified stun gun by Tomari. Carried inside the club as well, Kurenai was forced to give up, given the hostage. Seeing the value in rare half vampires and Taimanin, they were both captured and brought to Yomihara, a city deep under Tokyo.

Tendo and Tomari had worked, together and for Tomari's support he was given Ayame as a slave. Moved to Tendo's mansion in Yomihara, Tendo started to modify both Kurenai and Ayame with, Heretical Acupuncture, hell's technology into slave prostitutes. Making them obey verbal commands without the ability to say no, and increase their sensibility. Using the safety of the other one to force more obedient with the "The Curse of Slavery", which controls the emotion of the brain, Ayame was given over to Tomari as his reward.

Ayame unable to speak about the situation, still going to Section Three meetings, stuck in her own head, because of the influence of the body modification, that slowly broke her mind. While Kurenai awoke still at Tendo's place and was trained next to another demonic slave girl named Felicia which seemed to be already be very loyal. Kurenai herself, suffered great humiliation and was manipulated by Tendo, to view him as her benevolent protector, instead of what he really was. Felicia, herself, was strangely friendly, yet cruel to Kurenai as well, always sure to remind Kurenai of the weakness of humans.

Both Ayame and Kurenai women, would be humiliated and face much more training to the point. Ayame became broken enough to obey with little hesitation, with her free will to be unable to even show itself.

After weeks of training, the day of being auctioned as a slave at the House of Greed. Tendo, greeted Tomari and Ayame, together with his slave Felicia. Kurenai, was the main attraction of the auction, and part of a demonic show to raise her price and secured in the main hall. However, as Felicia, Tendo and Tomari talked, a memory of Tendo struck him as odd. As he told the story of his rise, from a low slave, which found a powerful magician, to make him a Demonologist after years of humiliation, he felt pain in his head with him unable to recall how he escaped and came into the position of the master of the House of Greed. Felicia, herself, used that opportunity, and touched Ayame, breaking apart from the enslavement curse, but Ayame was told that she needed to undo the binding herself.

As the group reached the main event, Tendo presented the captured Kurenai and a number of demonic bugs, which were part of the show.

In the bad endings, Kurenai is either sold to Tomari, which won her as a great price, and uses Ayame and Kurenai to keep members of the lower Fuuma clan happy. Alternatively Yamai Muneyoshi buys, Kurenai which also is a very negative fate. It also is possible that Kurenai breaks enough, that the auction is ended beforehand, and Kurenai desires to be Tendo's slave becoming a breeding tool for his experimentation.

In the **true ending**, Ayame was ordered to be part of the show to humiliate Kurenai which she did to a certain point. However, as she speaks to Kurenai and says that she loves her, it shakes her mind awake once again. Ayame regains her sanity, brute forcing the curse out of her mind, and fights off some of the guards. However, Kurenai is unable to move to weak from the ordeal, with Ayame's own strength also reaching the limit.

Her body can not move anymore, and she is surrounded by a lot of enemies. In desperation and trust in Kurenai's demonic form she saw so many years ago, Ayame bites her own tongue deeply and gives her blood to Kurenai. However, starts to bleed out, drifting in and out of consciousness, as Kurenai awakens to her vampire powers.

Tomari, using a new enhancement given to him by Tendo attacks, Kurenai, but is sliced apart with little effort. As Kurenai's hate grows higher, she remains in control and wishes to capture Tendo as was the mission. However, this is seen as a failure, and Felicia kills Tendo from behind before Kurenai can act.

Edwin Black appeared, and all the events so far were nothing but a sideshow designed to awaken Kurenai, to her demonic side. Felicia is Black's other daughter, that was ordered to look over the situation. However, as Kurenai had not fully embraced her demonic side, it was called a failure. Black explained that he had Tendo unknowingly brainwashed as a puppet as well, with the House of Greed acting as a way to interact with Dragon Gate, which are normally opposed to Nomad.

It is revealed, by Black and Felicia, that Kurenai's mother had already been killed as well. Captured, for the ability of the Shinganji to interbreed with high ranking demons like vampires. Felicia the second child, had killed Kurenai, as she didn't want to share the spotlight, with any more children, which could take the attention of Black away. All other siblings now dead, and Kurenai considered a failure, Felicia got ready to strike her dead as well. Kurenai entered her demonic state and fought against Felicia, enraged but noticed that Black approved of this situation. Kurenai, remembering her grandfathers teachings, regained her composure and fused the power of "demon" and the skills of "human" Taimanin, and unleashes a new attack that is able to cut Felicia apart, in one strike.

Watching the battle of his daughters, Black is satisfied and encourages Shinganji Kurenai to grow further, as he walks to Felicia's bleeding body, he warns Kurenai not to interfere, as time is short for Felicia, and he does not wish to lose two daughters at once, if he was forced to fight. As Black, takes Felicia's body, he disappears into shows from the scene.

Kurenai herself rushes back to Ayame, that at this point is fully unconscious and bleeding out, as close to death as one can be. Unwilling, to let Ayame die, Kurenai, turns her into a vampire, but doesn't change her old personality and just keeps her alive.

As Ayame and Kurenai, return to Section Three and explain the situation with the Fuuma clan traitor, dead Tendo and the current state of Ayame, trust in the Fuuma clan reaches a new low. Unwilling to stay, Ayame and Kurenai leave at night, entering into an endless battle with the demons, traveling on their own. Hoping to take down Black together and make a positive change in the dark cities.

Yamamoto Nobushige, the Section Three chief is displeased by these events, now without even contact to Kurenai and Ayame, and the Fuuma clan viewed as dangerous and unstable, knowing that the world need Taimanin. However, the Igawa Senior/Elder, which often kept to himself, talks about the Igawa clan and the potential of Igawa Asagi, the daughter of the Igawa clan head. As Kurenai disappeared into the night, Asagi and Yamamoto meet for the first time, as the story of Asagi begins.

## True Ending Walkthrough

```
1. Th,that's wrong...!!!

2. What do you know ?!

3. Even so. I'm going to save Kurenai

4. Th,  that's?

```

## Characters

### Main characters

* Shinganji Kurenai
* Makishima Ayame
* Felicia

### Secondary characters

* Edwin Black
* Tendo Kazuma
* Reiichiro Tomari
* Taimanin Senior (Very minor)
* Igawa Asagi (Very minor)
* Yamamoto Nobushige (Very minor)
* Donnie Wu (Very minor)

### Mention or flashback

* Shinganji Gen-an
* Shinganji Kaede
* Fürst
* Igawa Shuzen

## Trivia

* The backstory here between Felicia and Kurenai is not canon in RPGX, outside of them being sisters. Units of RPGX do reference these events in their bio but in the story, Black's and Kurenai's role is very different.
* In the TABA games, which play in an almost identical world to canon, Kurenai and Ayame are seen once again, still active and together.

## External links

* Wikipedia (ja)
* VNStat
* The Visual Novel Database