Beauty can become power.
It can turn heads, steal hearts, and sometimes even move nations.
Then—
What does beauty become when that power is taken to its absolute limit?
Ono no Komachi.
For over a thousand years, she has been remembered as a woman of incomparable beauty.
Yet strangely, nothing remains to prove what that beauty looked like.
What did her face look like?
What did her voice sound like?
No one knows.
Even so, people have never stopped believing that Ono no Komachi was beautiful.
Gensai Tsuchimikado put that collective memory to use.
What HANGON AI reconstructed was not the appearance of a single woman.
It was “the beauty called Ono no Komachi” itself—an ideal that had grown in human imagination for a thousand years.
And the Komachi who returned to the present possessed an extraordinary power.
She could not cut men down by brute force.
She carried no weapon capable of taking a castle.
Yet Gensai welcomed her into the Makai-shū.
For beauty, too, has the power to dominate the human heart.
Love.
Admiration.
Jealousy.
Desire.
The “weapons of a woman” that have moved human hearts throughout history are amplified beyond anything a human could wield.
Even Gensai cannot tell how far that power might reach.
The resurrected Komachi conceals her face behind an iron Noh mask.
Why does she never remove it?
No one knows.
Only one thing is certain.
No one among the Makai-shū tries to see her face.
Beauty is no longer something to be loved.
It has become something to fear.
ABSOLUTE BEAUTY—Ono no Komachi.