Hengoku no Schwester

The Iron Maiden is remembered as a notorious instrument of torture, one crafted in the likeness of the Holy Mother herself. Its exterior bears the gentle, loving face of a maiden, while its interior bristles with long, cruel nails — any soul unfortunate enough to be sealed inside would be pierced to death within its embrace. Yet, curiously, the Iron Maiden known to the present day is nothing more than a counterfeit, a recreation pieced together from the fragments of old tales. Herein lies a haunting contradiction: a figure defined by a tender, loving countenance paired with a "body" capable of brutal violence. Did such a device truly exist in ages past, or is it merely a phantom conjured by legend? Hengoku no Schwester spins its tale around "her" — the mysterious maiden at the heart of this enigma — tracing the thin line that separates historical truth from terrifying folklore.