The priestess Kikyou was known to be charitable. She was also known to be a great beauty.

One bandit Onigumo came under her care, after he was paralyzed and severely burned. It came to be that he lusted after Kikyou.

Kikyou, for her part, cared for the bandit as best she could, never knowing that he was fixing his designs on her.

Neither of them knew that a demon was fixing designs on both of them.

But they were short-lived designs.

Kikyou, seeing a demon spider upon her poor patient, quickly scooped it up into the purifying fire.