Bore from women who Benkei raped, Shanano,
the leader of the Halfling Demons approached his
father at a young age in a attempt to murder him.
The young child was no match for his ancestor,
though, and was easily defeated after he struck
Benkei with his sword, causing him to strike his
offspring in his own rage.
Decades later, the Halfling Demons, now young
adults, would end up joining with the Genji clan.
They're first sighted by onlookers near the Gojoe
bridge, where they begin attacking samurai in
an attempt to slay one thousand soldiers. The
Heikei clan, the opposing force to the Genji,
respond by sending their special forces to the
bridge to defeat the monsters, but end up having
their entire force killed by the demons. Shortly
afterwards, the Halfling Demons meet up with Benkei
and quickly retreat to a cave in Kyoto after a
brief face off. Benkei follows the demons to Kyoto,
but is trapped in the surrounding Devil's Woods
by the Halfling Demons. He is then captured by
the Heikei clan.
Later, the Heikei clan bind Benkei and returns
him to the Devil's Woods. Not long afterwards,
the demons appear and kill the nearby soldiers
of the Heikei clan, while Shanano fights Benkei
and nearly kills him until Ajari, the monk, shows
up. Following this intervention, the Halfling
Demons once again retreat to the caves in Kyoto.
Upon returning, Shanano insists on putting Ajari's
beliefs to the test by fasting for nine days.
At the end of his fasting, Shanano confronts Ajari
and insists that he has reached enlightenment
and that all of Ajari's gods don't exist. Shanano
then gets fet up with Ajari and kills him. The
Halfling Demons then travel around murdering all
the monks in their path.
Following this slaughter, Shanano contacts Benkei
and informs him that he has slayed Ajari. With
this revelation, Benkei decides to put aside his
Buddhist beliefs and avenge Ajari. He then returns
to Kyoto and meets the Halfling Demons on Gojoe
bridge. Shanano fights Benkei one-on-one again,
and greatly overpowers him until Benkei stabs
himself in the forward, increasing his own strength
and power. However, even then Shanano gains the
upper-hand again and manages to stab Benkei in
the stomach with his sword. Benkei then raises
his own blade to the sky as lightning strikes
the weapon, killing them both.
After their death, the other two Halfling Demons
venture to the Genji tribe declaring that they
are in fact Shanano and Benkei.
