Laughing Under the Clouds

In the dawn of the Meiji period the Gokumonjou an inescapable prison has been established in the middle of an enormous lake to counter the soaring crime rates the new era has brought Serving as the ferrymen are the famous Kumou brothers the eccentric family head Tenka the reckless but noble second son Soramaru and the guileless youngest Chuutarou In spite of their grim work the three lead relatively peaceful lives in the evercloudy town of Oumi together with their housekeeper Shirasu Kinjou But buried in the long history of Oumi is the legend of the terrifying Orochi a serpentine beast that awakens every three hundred years in a human vessel Unbeknownst to Soramaru and Chuutarou the actual job of the Kumou family is to seal the Orochi away before it fully revivesor the world will be plunged into destruction Amid the monsters next resurrection the Kumou family must find the resolve to keep laughing under the clouds