Continuing on their way towards Cold Wind City from the Shaiga outpost, the characters com across a shrine to Oinari, fortune of rice, fertility, agriculture (and foxes) where the priest of the shrine is weeping as the statue of Oinari has been stolen during the night. The priest is well dress and explains that he may have had too much to drink last night and arriving late at the shrine, he found the statue gone! Also stopped at the shrine is Oda, a monk of the Order of Osano-Wo (see the updated cast list). The monk and the yoriki naturally agree to try to track down the missing statue.