When a small town is affected by the recession, its residents blame their misfortune on the god who resides at a temple in a nearby mountain. Another resident of the temple, a fox spirit called Gin is angered that the humans are blaming his master, but eventually learns to develop some compassion towards humans.

Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a "mononoke" attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tearoom - Mononokean - for help.

A series of mysterious stories involving the very morose owner of Mononokean, who guides mononoke to pass on to the next world.