Divine Sakura Princess, The Proud Shrine Maiden's Fall follows Sakagami Mai, a descendant of the family that defeated the oni leader a thousand years ago. Living quietly in the mountains, Mai is summoned to the prosperous Land of Isetsu to destroy a monster terrorizing the capital. Alongside her childhood friend Shigure, she succeeds — but their victory is shattered when the supposedly vanquished Daigoku Dōji resurrects, unleashing a flood of demons upon the town. Mai must now confront the risen oni king and the unspeakable desires that awaken within her.
The Resurrection of Daigoku Dōji: A Thousand-Year Grudge Unleashed
1. The peace Mai earned was never meant to last. When she and Shigure struck down the capital's monster, they believed the worst was behind them. But dark clouds gathering over Isetsu are not a natural phenomenon — they are the herald of a millennium-old vengeance. The oni leader who was sealed away a thousand years ago has clawed his way back from the void, and his return is not a subtle one. Countless demons pour into the town, their claws tearing through flesh, their appetite for human suffering insatiable.
2. Daigoku Dōji is not merely a monster. He is a force of nature, a being whose very existence corrupts everything it touches. The moment he breathes again, the air grows thick with lust and violence. Women in the streets are dragged into alleys, their screams swallowed by the chaos. The shrine's protective barriers flicker and die. Mai feels it immediately — a heat pooling low in her belly, an unfamiliar ache that has nothing to do with the wounds she's sustained. Her body responds to the oni king's presence in ways her mind refuses to accept.
3. The battle ahead is not just one of steel and sacred arrows. Every step Mai takes toward Daigoku Dōji's lair strips away another layer of her composure. The corrupted energy seeps into her skin, making her hyperaware of every brush of fabric against her nipples, every shift of her thighs. Shigure notices the flush spreading across her chest, the way she bites her lip to suppress sounds she doesn't want him to hear. The oni king's influence is not content with simply killing her — it wants to ruin her first.
Shigure and Mai: The Childhood Friend Who Sees Too Much
1. Shigure has known Mai since they were children, and he has spent every year since then watching her with eyes that linger a fraction too long. He knows the exact shade of pink her cheeks turn when she's embarrassed. He knows the way her breath catches when she's startled. What he doesn't know — what he never expected — is how the oni's corruption would amplify everything he's tried to bury. Walking behind Mai through the ravaged streets, he notices the way her hips sway with an unconscious rhythm, the dampness darkening the inner seam of her hakama.
2. There is a tension between them that neither has ever addressed. Shigure has always been the steady one, the rock Mai leans on without realizing how much weight she places on him. But the demonic energy in the air is doing something to him too. His protective instincts are sharpening into something possessive, something hungry. When Mai stumbles and he catches her by the waist, his fingers dig into the soft flesh above her hip. She gasps — not from pain. For a heartbeat, neither of them moves.
3. The oni's influence makes everything worse. Every shared glance becomes loaded with unspoken desire. Every accidental touch sends sparks of heat through both of them. When they find a brief moment of shelter in an abandoned shrine, the silence between them is deafening, broken only by Mai's uneven breathing and the distant sounds of demons ravaging the town. Shigure's hands shake. Mai's lips part. Neither of them reaches for the other — not yet — but the question hangs in the air like smoke from a burning village.
Sacred Power Corrupted: The Shrine Maiden's Body as a Battleground
1. Mai's shrine maiden training taught her to channel purity, to cleanse corruption with her sacred arts. But Daigoku Dōji's power operates on a different frequency entirely. It doesn't repel her holy energy — it feeds on it, twisting her own sacred essence into something dark and deliciously shameful. Every prayer she attempts leaves her flushed and trembling. Every purification ritual she performs sends waves of pleasure crashing through her body, leaving her collapsed on the tatami, her robes hiked up around her waist, her fingers buried between her thighs before she can stop herself.
2. The corrupted energy manifests in crueler ways as she draws closer to the oni king's lair. Phantom hands ghost across her skin in the darkness, teasing her nipples through her layers of clothing, tracing patterns on the sensitive skin of her inner thighs. Mai tells herself it's just the oni's psychological torture, but her body doesn't care about the source. She wakes from dreams where she's pinned beneath monstrous shapes, their claws shredding her clothes, their tongues doing things that make her hips buck against empty air. She wakes with her thighs slick and her shame burning hotter than any sacred flame.
3. The worst part is that she's starting to crave it. The corruption isn't just attacking her — it's rewiring her. What used to be repulsive now makes her mouth water. What used to be terrifying now makes her pulse race with anticipation. When she finally confronts Daigoku Dōji, she knows she will have to face not just the demon king, but the demon he's awakened inside her. And she's terrified that when the moment comes, she won't want to fight it at all.
