At the center of Cherry Blossom Country.
A city known as the Capital, or Sakura Capital.
This was a vast city that ranked among the largest on the entire Eastern Continent.
And within this vast city, beneath a snow-white mountain peak, stood a manor amid countless pink cherry blossoms.
From here, one could look down over all of Sakura Capital.
This place symbolized the supreme status in all of Cherry Blossom Country.
This was the residence of the Sakurai Family, the lineage that actually held dominion over all of Cherry Blossom Country.
Cherry Blossom Country shared certain similarities with the many other Beast Tamer nations, yet it also had its differences.
In name, Cherry Blossom Country had an emperor.
Indeed, the imperial lineage still existed.
But in reality, over these past several hundred years, that imperial lineage had never again produced a truly top-class, Legend Tier Beast Tamer, and so it had gradually declined over those centuries.
It had become a symbol of an era.
Of course, whether that imperial lineage still harbored ambitions of regaining power was unknown.
In any case, for nearly a hundred years now, the foremost among Cherry Blossom Country's many lineages had been the Sakurai Family, along with the Chigui Family and the Yamata Family.
And the Sakurai Family was also a major lineage that had gradually acquired actual power within Sakura Capital.
At this very moment, within the Sakurai Family's residence...
An argument that had lasted several months had erupted.
Seated at the head was a man with Eastern features, yet his bearing was entirely different from that of most of the short-statured people of Cherry Blossom Country present.
He wore a snow-white suit and showed not the slightest interest in the heated argument below him. All his attention seemed focused on an eagle