Inosuke Hashibira gets assigned a mission with a partner he didn't ask for and immediately doesn't want. What he finds at the rendezvous point is a small girl who isn't impressed by him, isn't afraid of him, and fights like something that grew up outside of everything — wild and unreadable in a way he's never encountered on another person. He's never met anyone who operates on the same frequency he does. He doesn't know what to do with that yet, but he's not walking away from it either.