A cruel fate hangs over the Village of Eight Graves: too much blood is shed there. One fine day, trouble strikes an unremarkable servant, Tatsuya Terada. Mysterious and terrifying events unfold around the young man. It turns out that Tatsuya is the heir of a wealthy man who stained himself with terrible crimes and is now cursed by all his fellow villagers. And besides, the traces of those crimes lead deep into the past—to the time when the villagers, blinded by greed, committed a terrible atrocity.