Tsunematsu

**Tsunematsu** (常 (つね) 松 (まつ) , **Tsunematsu**β) is a district situated in Tokyo, Japan, and serves as the main location of the Yotaka District Arc. It is a red-light district, a location with a high concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses.

## History

Tsunematsu was founded in the Yayoi period of Japan, where it quickly became a prominent district for prostitution and sex work. During the Yayoi period, the highest ranking courtesans were known as Kijiri, and are now currently known as hanayuujo, and are typically oirans. Four of the most famous and prominent pleasure houses in the district during the Yayoi to Kyoto period were the Nakazawa House, Akahoshi House, Enken House, and Dona House, and are still all the same.

For nearly two thousand years, Tsunematsu became the home and lair of seven extremely powerful hellions, Azyir, Soh, Uchile, Satan, Asmodeus. Owing to Asmodeus' extreme beauty, her being the sin of lust, experience in sexual activities, and her unique abilities, the five hellions made Tsunematsu a successful and fruitful hunting ground, where they captured and devoured countless humans to their pleasure. Due to Asmodeus' nigh-eternal life and subsequent attempts to hide her true nature, the legend of a very beautiful yet evil Kijiri started, the stories passing down generations. With multiple attempts from the humans to find out more about this legend, none came back with an answer and more still have not came back after multiple millennia.

During the Nara period, after so many years of this legend existing, Tsunematsu's inhabitants started believing the district to be cursed. This belief is now a story "made up" to scare the children and joke about.

Assigned with discovering the demonic presences denning in Tsunematsu by their leader, Corpse, the Bloody Mary sent their warriors, mercenaries, and assassins to Tsunematsu. After approximately a day without receiving any information from their members, Corpse and Coincidence went to investigate themselves alongside their co-leaders and lieutenants, oblivious of Baiko and Niku following them.

## Plot

Corpse and Coincidence attempted to take Charm, Coffin, and Crudity, as they needed women, other than them, to infiltrate Tsunematsu. After forcefully taking the three women with them, Corpse and Coincidence started travelling to Tsunematsu from their graveyard, oblivious of the two Executioners following them closely.

Upon arriving to Tsunematsu, the four were amazed by the bustling city and separated from their leader, Corpse, with Coffin being beckoned by the girls of the district, and Charm, Crudity, and Coincidence in awe of their surroundings, having lived in the graveyards their entire lives. They regrouped at a house and were assigned to individually investigate the most prominent houses under the authoritative power of their president-high governmental positions, without wasting any time on anything within those houses, as Corpse assigned her now missing members to. Coincidence, due to her diligent and hardworking attitude, was taken first and went to the Dona House, where Soh legendarily was said to den.

Later, Corpse, Charm, and Coffin watched as the hanayuujo of the Dona House, Kirakira, travelled with her parade to a new client, which happened to be Niku, much to Kirakira's surprise. During the meeting, it is unknown of what Yoruni talked about with Kirakira, but he mostly was asking her about the Bloody Mary and the legends about the hellions "living" here, in Tsunematsu. Charm was then immediately spotted by the latter of the Enken House, where Azyir as said to lair in, and where she was promptly taken in. Crudity, due to her crude personality that was seen as "seductively dominant", much to her annoyance, was the next to be taken in a House, the Nakazawa House, in which Asmodeus and Satan were said to lair in. Coffin is left last, with Corpse assigning her with the Akahoshi House, where Uchile was said to live in, and where she strangely meets Baiko.

After the four settled in, they each began their own investigation. Coincidence, upon learning that Kirakira and her parade has not returned for some time, walked into Kirakira's quarters to find the place surprisingly clean and devoid of anyone. Seeing the windows closed and with no other possible exit, she uses her advanced sense of hearing and traces a sound down into the entrance of the House. Coincidence follows the sound coming from downstairs, only to find the latter of the House, with her kimono hampering her acute senses and making her lose track of the sound. Meanwhile, Crudity uses her sense of view to see past physical objects through her blindfold, and detects a woman sobbing in a messy bedroom upstairs. She attempts to ask what has happened, but finds herself confronted by the hanayuujo of the Nakazawa House, Utsunoumaru, and her assistant, Yakushimaru. However, their sudden appearance and strange natures catch Corpse, Crudity, Charm, Coincidence, and Coffin's attentions, believing the two women may be hellions, and possibly elder demons or even misotheisms at that. The silence of the seven women's staring is eventually broken by two young men walking up the household's stairs and into the room.