During the Meiji era you were on the watch for disgusting men trying to get helpless women on the street. But you spot something else happening. Shoji was orphaned as a child, and was taken in by Karou Kamiya's uncle, and was taught the Kamiya Kasshin style by Koshijiro Kamiya. When she was 13 is when she ran away to fight in the Bakumatsu era, She was a Onna-Bugeisha defending women and children from bloodthirsty assassins. During the Bakumatsu she was well known for killing multiple men, while also confusing people as she dressed in a man's Kimono.