Sengoku Rance:Story

WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD

The Beginning
Initially, Rance was just touring JAPAN with Sill for an onsen trip with the ultimate goal of H-ing JAPAN's famed beauty, Princesss Aroma. Along the way,Rance was mostly just H-ing people. One day they stopped by a tango house, and met Nobunaga and Princess Aroma (who turn out to be way under the age limit for Rance) of the Oda Clan. Nobunaga and Aroma enjoy the lives of ordinary folks, which is why they often disguise as commoners and work in the tango (several balls with a stick going through them) place. Incidentally, tangos made by Aroma are... inedible... Nobunaga and Rance got along very well. Eventually Nobunaga lets Rance run the Oda house from behind the scenes, because Nobunaga doesn't want to deal with the politics and all, finding it too much a bother.

The Possession of Nobunaga
The Demon Xavier was previously sealed in 8 different gourds. Each gourd was entrusted to 8 different houses by Tenshiism to be guarded through the future generations. Nobunaga's monkey broke the one kept by Oda house, so a portion of Xavier's essence escaped, and possessed Nobunaga. Using Nobonaga's influence, Xavier began organizing a secret group of ninjas directly under his command and began seeking out the gourds kept by the other houses. Four of his acolytes (Seiryuu, Suzaku, Genbu, and Byakko) had their seals broken as the gourds were destroyed and rejoined their master. During this time, Xavier (in Nobunaga's body) publicly proclaimed to be ill, and moved to live in the Honnou Temple where his body may get more rest.

The Honnou Temple Incident
When Xavier got five out of the eight gourds, he brutally tortured and killed a Tenshiism monk. On her visit to the temple and Nobunaga, Princess Aroma witnessed this event. To prevent her from revealing this event to others, Xavier sent his minions to deal with her. After some time passed and Aroma did not return, Rance and the others went to search for the Princess. Eventually, Rance found her with Xavier's cronies outside the Temple and killed the cronies. Princess Aroma shortly after revealed the possession of her brother Nobunaga by Xavier. AFter hearing this, Rance organizes a force to fight the demon Xavier. This force caused Seiryuu to flee and killed Byakku. When they reached Xavier, they saw that Seigan and Kentarou were both just defeated by Xavier. Rance was able to seriously injure Xavier, Nobunaga's last remaining will partially regained control of his body and resisted Xavier, causing more damage to the body. At the end of the fight, Kentarou recovered, and attacked Xavier in such a way that allowed Xavier to escape through the window. Nobunaga's body was never found, but Princess Aroma (who was waiting outside) mentally heard Nobunaga calling out to her. This was the last part of Nobunaga that was left, which meant that Xavier was in full control of the body.

After the Honnou Temple Incident
After recuperating from the battle with Rance and the others, Xavier eventually appeared in South Africa, where the Shimazu brothers rule. Xavier found his daughter, Princess Black, who was a guest of the clan. When the demon was about to kill them, Princess Black begged for their safety. As a result of this, they pledged their obedience to Xavier, and their army was to be called the Demon Army. Through Princess Black's ability to break seals, two Forbidden Youkai were revived. One of the youkai was Stone Grandpa, who can grow larger when in pain. Xavier planned on sinking Japan with this ability. In order to supplement his army's strength, he used the ability of the other youkai, called Soul-Binder. Whenever the Soul-Binder infects a human, they become soul-bound and behave in a way similar to zombies. With this force, Xavier planned to conquer Japan. Fortunate (or unfortunately for those in the way), Rance's army traveled West to face the Demon Army. Eventually the group rescued Stone Grandpa. The final battle between Rance and Xavier took place at the Tenma Bridge. The fight ended with Rance's side winning, and Xavier turning back into a demonic blood soul. The latter was absorbed by Miki, who was the Demon King Little Princess.

Uesugi Kenshin Route
While in a cave in Sado, Uesugi Kenshin finds the Emperor Sword. As a result of this, Amaterasu begins the Emperor Race, which decides who will become the Emperor of Japan. Several of the competitors in the Emperor Race include Xavier (who has the Emperor Hachimaki), Keikoku (who has the Emperor Ring), Nozumi, Baba Shyouen, One Eyed Masamune, and Yuzuhara Yuzumi among others. Most of the competition involved one on one battles between Kenshin and the other potential Emperors. After getting 100 points, Kenshin wins and becomes the Emperor of JAPAN. With the Emperor's Aura, she was able to vassalize opposing houses. Eventually, she used the ability to control Nobunaga, causing Xavier to flee from Nobunaga's body. Xavier escapes to Orochi dungeon, with the hopes of controlling Orochi to destroy the country. In the end, Rance kills Xavier.

House Oda
When Nobunaga welcomed Rance into the Oda House, many retainers of the Oda House rebelled. Their excuse for rebelling was that he is a foreigner. In reality though, the rebellion was actually contrived by the Ashikaga House. The captains who rebelled were already on Ashikaga's side, and Nobunaga saw this as a good opportunity to flush out all the disloyal retainers in his house. He was willing to do this even though he would lose half of his captains, as he wanted a secure future for Princess Aroma through loyal retainers. Interesting fact: Players may notice that every single enemy captain fought in the intro battle ended up in Ashikaga House

On Miki
Miki is the Demon King known as Little Princess. She resists the demonic nature, but physically she's already the demon. In order to do this, she requires lemons that suppress that nature. She and her childhood friend Kentarou wander from place to place, hiding from demons. One faction of Demons want to kill Miki so the leader of the faction can take over and become the Demon King. The other faction Miki to take up teh mantle of the Demon King. They happened to come to JAPAN, and stayed with a random house (which happened to be hostile with Oda House). When Kentarou dueled the Seiryou acolyte and was pierced from the back, Miki lost control of herself, causing a great explosion and killing the Seiryou acylote in the process. In an attempt to save Kentarou's life, she gave Kentarou part of her blood, turning Kentarou into a demon. Due to her causing the transformation of Kentarou, she ran away even though Kentarou doesn't blame her for the action. Without the lemons, the demonic nature was getting a better hold of Miki. When Rance finds her, she apparently was very annoyed with him and wanted to freeze him in ice. Sill took the hit instead (due to her and Miki's friendship and out of loyalty to her master Rance). The shock of Sill becoming frozen caused her humanity to take hold a bit, and Kentarou convinced her to have some lemon to further suppress her demonic nature.

Further Note: If you try letting Miki free Sill from the ice, she wouldn't be able to control her powers and end up shattering the whole thing, causing a Game Over.

On the Four Acolytes
Byakku was the white skinned male with a gun. Seiryuu was the blue/purple hair female with a chicken-feet looking hands (which is probably the dragon's claw). Suzaku was the one sealed inside Ran's body that had a flame aura and randomly killed off captains other than demon Kentarou and Houjyou Souun. Genbu was the giant brown-skinned male with big ears.