'Chuda Kori was a maho-tsukai of the Spider Clan. He was the silent companion of Chuda Natsuko, who in the guise of a traveling ronin scholar, began a secret operative at Kyuden Kurogane-Hana. Kori used his powers as maho-tsukai to give Natsuko's words leverage and weight. The pair had also managed to divert just under a dozen corpses to their masters.