| ShortSummary | - Akane attends a party at the palace, where there will a dancing girl who is able to seduce people. When she loses her way to the party, she meets Takamichi and overhears a plot to kill the Emperor. Before she can warn anyone, Akane is caught and locked up, realizing that a demon was behind the plot, though she is rescued by Takamichi.
- A curse is placed upon Kyou and Eisen removes the curse with his Hachiyou power aided with the love he has for Akane.
- When a mysterious girl proclaims herself to be the Priestess of the Dragon God, Akane and Tenma investigate and learn that the girl is Tenma's younger sister, Ran. However, Ran does not recognize Tenma as her brother and has apparently joined the Oni Clan. When Akane awakens from a nightmare and finds dead butterflies under her quilt, Yasuaki reveals that she is cursed and will die the following night.
- Yorihisa is reunited with a long-lost friend, a nue that Yorihisa had tried many times to defeat in his youth but failed each time. When the nue captures Akane, Yorihisa must fight the nue that has frustrated him throughout his life, yet has won his respect and made him stronger as a result or Akane's life is forfeit.
- Akuram attempts to summon a dragon and take Akane's power as the Priestess of the Dragon God while the Hachiyo continue to search for Akane. Meanwhile, Akane manages to free Ran from the control of the Oni Clan.
- Akane is forced to wear an extravagant outfit just to meet the general of the emperor. Tenma nearly confesses his love for Akane. They got to purify a tainted cherry blossom tree and learns more about the onmyouji, Yasuaki. The demon appears and Akane uses her power to purify the tree and make the demon disappear.
- A white rainbow appears to cut through the sun and everyone is afraid thinking that is a bad omen. Akane, Yoshimura, and Yasuaki stay at another estate and Akane ends up talking about her world.
- Inori, a hot-headed young man, despises Oni because of a past incident involving his sister. He becomes a Hachiyo when he saves Akane from an oni.
- Akane meets a girl who looks exactly like her and has the same name as her. She finds out that Akane-hime cannot marry her true love so Akane-miko and the Hachiyou decide to help akane-hime and her love.
- It is now the final fight between the Ryuujin no miko and Akuram. The Hachiyou along with Akane find a way to defeat Akuram. Ultimately, she returns to her own world along with Shimon, Ran, and Tenma while the rest live happily in their own time.
- Shimon befriends a demon, Sefuru. Sefuru thinks that Shimon is a demon and befriends him. When Sefuru realizes that Shimon is living at Princess Fuji's palace, he becomes jealous of the special treatment that Shimon gets as a demon. He later spies on him to see that Shimon is in an alliance with Akane and he thinks up a plan to use him to lure Akane out.
- It was now time for Akane to choose the right decision for her life and the fate of Kyou.
- Separated from her friends, Akane goes to find Tenma, but encounters the masked man instead. As a guest of Princess Fumi, the last descendant of the Star Clan, Akane begs her host to allow her to search for Tenma just as Tenma passes by.
- Akane Motomiya, together with her friends, Tenma Morimura and Shimon Nagareyama, is abducted by an unknown masked man and the three are carried to place known as Kyou, similar to Heian era Kyoto. Here, the masked man tells Akane that she is the Priestess of the Dragon God.
- Yasuaki successfully removes the curse from Akane, but the curse returns to its sender, Ran. When Tenma finds his sister, she is taken by Akuram, who promises to return Ran in exchange for Akane. When Akane learns of offer, she gives herself up, despite Tenma's attempts to stop her.
- Shinri stole the spirit of Takamichi's mother and sealed it in an Onryo. Takamichi must choose between freeing his mother and staying loyal to his duty as a Hachiyou.
- When Akane loses consciousness due to a fever, her soul goes to the place where she last met the masked man. She encounters an Onmyouji and a corpse obsessed with her beauty.
- Yorihisa and Tenma are tested by the Guardian of the Eastern Seal to see if they are worthy to call themselves Hachiyou and receive the seal.
- After purifying the tree, Akane thinks deeply about the demon who injured Yorihisa and how he could do such a thing. Tenma tries to comfort her and almosts confesses his love for her again but fails again.
- A monk dies because of playing an eight-stringed koto, but his soul still dwells within the instrument and plays it. Meanwhile, an Oni places a sleeping curse on Akane through the vengeful spirit, forcing the Hachiyo to go and look at the monk's cursed eight-stringed koto and remove the additional string that was added to it to break the demon's curse. The Oni who created the kin was captured.
- Takamichi tries to find a guardian seal and falls into the trap of a demon woman. Tomomasa comes and rescues him by using his charm to outwit the demon woman.
- To break the sleeping curse on Akane, the Hachiyo must play the cursed eight-stringed koto to determine which string was added. However, playing the koto may result in their deaths and the solution is found when Eisen, the seventh Hachiyo to reveal himself appears.
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