Hotoke no Kao mo Sando Made

Risho was born into a family that has kept its temple for generations, and to everyone around her, her future was decided the moment she came into the world. One day, she is expected to take her place as the temple's priestess and carry on a sacred legacy passed down through her bloodline. Yet beneath the quiet weight of tradition, Risho's heart speaks a different truth—she has no wish to inherit that mantle at all, a quiet rebellion that sets her at odds with the life laid out before her. Caught between the duty she was born into and the desires she cannot ignore, Risho drifts through her days uncertain of what her future holds. Then fate intervenes in the form of an unexpected encounter: a young man who crosses her path and disrupts the familiar course of her life. Who he is, and why he appears now, may matter more than she realizes. As their meeting begins to stir something within her, Risho finds herself facing a question she never expected to ask. Could this chance encounter be the very thing that changes her mind about the destiny she once rejected?