—Scarlet WitchI didn't know Hiroshi Tanaka, but I'd certainly heard of him. A mighty warlock in his time -- the Aoi Master. And even though we'd never met, I still felt his death from across this planet -- it was like a part of me was being torn to pieces.
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Inspector Maki Hokkaido (First appearance)
- Madame Noriko Furuya (First appearance)
- Black Bullet (Jun Yamada) (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Miles Benchley (First appearance) (Possessed by an Oni) (Apparent death)
Other Characters:
- Aoi Master (Hiroshi Tanaka) (First appearance; dies) (Reincarnated as a Japanese Red Fox)
- Numerous unnamed Japanese
- Kyōto Prefectural Police (Mentioned)
- U.S. Army (Mentioned)
- Secretary Henry Stimson (Mentioned)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Mentioned)
- Witchcraft (Mentioned)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Mentioned)
- Wong (Mentioned)
- "Witchcraft's Sickness" (Referenced)
- Leo Tolstoy (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Bridge Trolls (Mentioned)
- Oni
- Japanese Red Fox
Locations:
- Earth
- Japan
- Honshu
- Kyoto Prefecture
- Kyoto
- Kinkaku-ji (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Kyoto Station (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Toei Uzumasa Eigamura (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Kyoto International Manga Museum (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Kyoto Prison (First appearance)
- Kyoto
- Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture (Mentioned)
- Kyoto Prefecture
- Honshu
- United States of America (Mentioned)
- Japan
- Hell (Mentioned)
Items:
Synopsis for 1st story
After the death of the mighty warlock Hiroshi Tanaka, also known as the Aoi Master, Wanda felt his death from across the planet and went to Kyoto to learn who killed him and she was followed by him after he was reincarnated as a fox, although he had already forgotten so much of his life and why he died. In order to learn who killed him, Wanda questioned his friend Inspector Maki Hokkaido, his lover Noriko Furuya, and his old enemy Jun Yamada, also known as the Black Bullet, before Yamada told her to ask Miles Benchley if Tanaka had any children.
Then, she confronted Benchley for killing the Aoi Master to take his powers and casting a spell that caused everyone (except for the Black Bullet who had already been under the affects of a spell cast by the Aoi Master prior to his death) to forget about him. Then, Benchley revealed that he made a pact with an oni to get the means to receive the power of the Aoi Master before he used its powers to transform. The powers he got from the Aoi Master were momentarily weak, so he collected Hokkaido, Furuya, and the Black Bullet for the oni to feed from. In order to hurt Benchley but not those the oni was feeding from, Wanda cast a spell of Shiro Maho that purified the lake below them and turned it into the equivalent of holy water, defeating him after he fell in.
Afterwards, Wanda redirected her attention on her plans to go to Eastern Europe to find both witchcraft's sickness and cure while Tanaka wanted to thank her but continued to lose memory of his past life in his fox form.
Solicit Synopsis
• The murder of a famous warlock takes the SCARLET WITCH to KYOTO, JAPAN!
• But little does she know, that as WANDA hunts the murderer, the murderer is also hunting her!!!