Suzu lived about 100 years ago.  She entered the Twelve Kingdoms soon after her family sold her in Japan due to hard times.  She soon becomes the handmaiden to a harsh mistress named Riyou.  In present time, she hears about Taiki and how he grew up in Japan and travels to see him.  Hou has a ruthless king and his daughter Shoukei is blissfully unaware of the mass murders that take place in the kingdom under her parent's rule.  The king and queen are dethroned and killed in front of her in an uprising and she is made mortal and exiled to an orphanage.  Yoko meanwhile begin preparing for her official coronation but starts to get visions again from her sword.