The Kanto area of Japan's Ikkitousen is embroiled in a territorial war between seven distinct high schools. Among the pupils at these schools are a chosen few who have sacred beads. These magatama house the spirits of Chinese warriors who battled during the Three Kingdoms Era. These pupils are not only endowed with skills that draw from the souls to whom they are linked, but they are also endowed, or maybe cursed, with the destiny of these fighters from the past. Hakufu Sonsaku is one of these kids; she is a young, kind, dimwitted girl who has lately transferred to Nanyo Academy and will be living with her cousin, Koukin Shuyu. The presence of Hakufu produces an almost instant sensation of tension due to her power as a fighter and the possibility that she may be the one who carries the spirit of the Chinese warlord, Sun Ce.