"Are you okay?"
"No problem here."
Landing steadily on the ground, Koga asked Cu Chulainn, and felt relieved after getting the other party's response.
"Koga... Sorry, because of our fault..."
"Don't say that; this is all my own choice. It's just that the Shikon Jewel fragments and Dragon Ball were snatched away; I'll just snatch them back."
Knowing that these two followers were definitely full of remorse in their hearts, Koga didn't fuss about it.
To him, the lives of his clansmen were much more important than those external possessions. Lost things could be regained, but clansmen's lives might not be.
"That's right, Master. We haven't lost yet."
Looking at Koga's attitude of not blaming at all, Cu Chulainn quite liked this straightforward guy.
"He hasn't gone far yet; chase him!"
"Ah!"
That galloping figure made the two clansmen make up their minds to follow up.
...
"Is Inuyasha not here? What a suitable opportunity."
"Kagura! Kanna!"
On the other side, the two being coerced could only act according to Naraku's previous instructions.
"Enemy?"
Rikuo looked curiously at those two youkai dressed in ancient styles and was puzzled.
He could feel that Kagome and the others seemed not to have particularly much hostility towards these two people.
"[Dance of the Dragon and Snake]!"
Wind blades cut down; even if the group didn't try their best to dodge, it was hard to be hit. This hit rate... made Rikuo look very subtle.
CRACK!!
"Is this human the Servant? Can't see very strong aptitude."
Landing on the ground and standing with Kanna, Kagura shifted her gaze to a strange figure.
Dressed in a coat and black kimono, wearing glasses, looking like a very weak boy.
Such a human... Kagura really found it hard to associate him with being strong.
Compared to the girl seen with Sesshomaru's follower before, this one didn't seem like much.
"Did Naraku send you here?"
Hearing this, Kagome reacted immediately and then shouted loudly.
"The main body didn't come, deliberately sending you to probe for intelligence..."
Miroku also knew Naraku's cunning; he saw through the goal and said in a deep voice.
"Tch!"
Raising Hiraikotsu, Sango thought of her clansmen being utilized again. Naraku was always that despicable and shameless!
"The tall one is called Kagura, the short one is called Kanna; they are both Naraku's incarnations."
Shippo jumped onto Rikuo's shoulder to popularize the information for him.
"Since they are incarnations, they should be very hateful enemies to you guys, right? Then why is it like this..."
Rikuo looked at everyone's appearance of not really wanting to make a move, but understood that things were not as simple as they appeared on the surface.
"Because their original intentions are not so. Kagura's heart is controlled by Naraku; she can't help but obey. Kanna lacks emotions completely and is utilized by Naraku."
As enemies along the way, Miroku and others knew them not too deeply nor too shallowly.
If they said they hated Naraku extremely, they didn't have that much hostility towards Kagura and Kanna. Even Inuyasha was like this...
"I see... clearly being one's own incarnations, yet still using coercion to force youkai to obey oneself?"
Hearing this, Rikuo understood.
Just from this point, he had great ill feeling towards Naraku.
Rikuo couldn't tolerate that kind of youkai acting willfully, especially those utilizing others by threat with important things.
Now he also considered why Kagura's attack of greeting just now was so harmless. Because the other party didn't come with the idea of hurting people at all.
PAT...
Kanna walked forward silently, raising the mirror in her hand.
WHOOSH!
But Kagome was already on guard, drawing her bow and shooting an arrow at her feet. The lingering power of spiritual power forced Kanna to retreat.
"Naive guys! Don't want to get serious? That's not up to you."
Although expecting that Kagome and the others wouldn't kill them, Kagura had to make a move. She already felt that Naraku was looking over here.
WHOOSH!
"!"
Just about to wave the fan, the Hiraikotsu striking in the air interrupted her action.
"As long as we guard against Kanna's mirror, Kagura isn't that hard to deal with."
Knowing these two enemies' moves like the back of his hand, Miroku picked up his Shakujo.
"Wait... that is the aura of Shikon Jewel fragments... Two pieces seem to be polluted. It's Naraku!! Approaching from a very far place."
But Kagome sensed those unique fragments and suddenly spoke.
"Is he coming actively? Damn it! Only Inuyasha that guy isn't here at this time!!"
Shippo was startled, then began to worry.
"It's okay."
Miroku comforted him, looking serious. This time, no matter what, he would risk his life to protect Sango and the others.
...
"Sesshomaru, why did you come back?"
The noble lady sat elegantly on the chair, looking at her son in a mess in front of her and said softly.
"Because of Father's matter."
Hearing the other party speak like this, the lady glanced at Tenseiga hanging at his waist, having expected it.
"Is it because of the problem of mastering moves? That is..."
"No, but does Tenseiga really have secrets I don't know?"
But Sesshomaru's tentative counter-question stunned her.
Reasonably speaking, Sesshomaru should have come to make the [Meido Zangetsuha] unleashed by Tenseiga approach a full circle.
This was the consequence of the task Toga arranged known by her.
Using the Meido Stone to give him trials, letting him comprehend the heart of Compassion further.
But now Sesshomaru didn't seem to come for practicing moves.
"Father has now appeared on the land of the Western Country..."
"?"
"Sesshomaru, this joke doesn't sound like something you would say."
Frowning, the Lady Mother revealed an unhappy expression. Obviously, even if it was her own son, she didn't have such a good temper to face such humor.
"Not knowing the current changes of the world, that is natural. True or false, feel it outside yourself and you will know. I just came to verify the authenticity of the words Father said to me!"
That serious attitude made the Lady Mother's expression complicated.
"What do you want to know?"
"Father exactly..."
Mother and son looked at each other, and then began a dialogue.
...
"Grown up, Inuyasha."
Looking at that outfit and the ancestral white hair in front of him, Toga spoke calmly.
"..."
"Ol... Old Master!!"
But before Inuyasha could say anything, Myoga jumped up excitedly. He didn't expect to see this one again one day.
"Tch..."
But for Inuyasha, he was somewhat speechless. After all, he had never experienced the existence of a father, and even his mother had suffered criticism.
Seeing the other party with his own eyes now, it wasn't as out of control as imagined, but he couldn't say there was any excitement either.
Resentment? Anger? Happy?
Thinking about it now, that was just voicing grievances for his mother feeling wronged and unworthy when he was a child.
If really speaking... maybe the thing he wanted to do most now was perhaps...
Waving the Tessaiga at his waist, Inuyasha slashed forward in Myoga's stunned gaze.
"[Wind Scar]!!!!"