Yurako

Her name was given by her father, the head of the Goko Clan, and she lived in a cavern filled with wards surrounding her nearby the manor, to serve as a vessel to absorb all the discarded curses into her body. Her father would occasionally visit her to carve marks onto her flesh that would little by little cover all her body over the years. As she knew no other life nor anything about the outside world beyond the cavern she lived in, she did not feel any desire or discomfort. However, one day she woke up to find the gate that kept her captive open for unknown reasons, and all the ayakashis she had absorbed were urging her to go out, leading her to experience the outside world for the first time. She enjoyed seeing the moon and the stars as the ayakashis carried her through the sky, when a tornado of sutras flew out from the manor, wounding the ayakashis and sending her falling to the ground near a river. She crawled to that river and saw her reflection for the first time, revealing half of her face being badly mutilated from the ayakashis she had absorbed, but she didn’t know it was ugly. And right after, she is approached by a young Mao who had been ordered to investigate the ayakashis that were seen flying in the sky and felt moved by him as he asked her if she was alright, but the high priest Sengoku showed up and after ordering Mao to forget what he saw, packed her away in a box and took her back to her cavern where she’d continues her role to absorb curses as the master scolds her for the escaped ayakashis. However, she wanted to see Mao again, as she was unable to forget his kindness, learned to use the curses she absorbed to examine the outside world. She saw Mao enter the Goko Clan’s manor and noticed he had fallen in love with Sana from a distance, much to her grief as she too fell in love with him and could not have him know.