A young - and, in all honesty, not the best - student of a school where the lofty secrets of martial arts have been passed on from generation to generation for decades, centuries, has seriously committed a crime. And punishment cannot correct a wayward boy, as if destined by fate to violate the unbreakable Law. However, the teacher is bad who does not find a way to the student. Even if there is a great danger in the decision to make a STUDENT a TEACHER. Make him know WHAT he is, the lot of leading the younger, dependent ones. The lot of the one who has to grapple with the Enemy - Orshan, the Demon God generated by Darkness, devouring human souls. THEN the young “sensei willy-nilly”, perhaps, will answer the strange question of the wise Sleeping Patriarch. To a question the answer to which will only be found in the final battle between the forces of Good and Evil...