"Kikyo!"
Watching Kikyo being carried away by Retsu as they disappeared into the cave at the mountaintop, Inuyasha couldn't help but roar in anger.
"Let's go, Sango! Kikyo and Retsu must be up to something big, let's hurry and follow them!" Kagome reacted quickly, turning to Sango with a grave expression.
"Understood! Kirara!" Sango nodded in response and called out loudly to Kirara beside her.
"Roar—!" Kirara immediately let out a low growl, her body rapidly growing larger. Kagome, holding Shippō, leaped onto Kirara's back along with Sango.
"Fly up, Kirara!" Following Sango's command, Kirara took to the air, speeding toward the mountaintop cave with the two of them.
"Kagome! Wait for me!" Seeing this, Inuyasha hoisted Miroku—who was struggling to move due to the evil energy entering his body—onto his back. Exerting force through his legs, he leaped up, following closely behind Kirara toward the summit.
When Inuyasha, carrying Miroku, rushed out of the mountaintop cave behind Kirara, the scene before him left him momentarily stunned.
Naraku's figure stood in a nearby clearing. Countless thick streams of evil energy, like a surging torrent, were frantically flooding into his body.
As for the demons that Inuyasha had been fighting earlier, they had already been completely devoured by him.
At this moment, a majestic demonic aura erupted from all around Naraku. His body was constantly tearing, merging, and restructuring; the sound of bone and flesh writhing was clearly audible, making one's skin crawl.
Inuyasha's gaze quickly found Kikyo.
She was currently standing side-by-side with Retsu not far away, watching Naraku with a calm expression as if appreciating an irrelevant farce.
"The body that Kagome shattered..." Watching the bizarre scene of Naraku reshaping his physical body, Inuyasha's face turned ugly, and he spoke through gritted teeth, "That bastard actually wants to use the The Art of Kodoku to create a new body for himself!"
Before his voice had even faded, Inuyasha suddenly drew the tessaiga and charged toward Naraku like an arrow, wanting to interrupt everything before the restructuring was complete.
"Whoosh—!"
The sound of something slicing through the air suddenly rang out. With a muffled "thud," an arrow radiating a faint white Demon-Slaying Power struck the ground precisely at Inuyasha's feet. The fletching vibrated violently, blocking his path.
Inuyasha came to a sudden halt and looked up. He saw Kikyo slowly lowering her bow, her cold gaze falling upon him. Clearly, that arrow just now had been shot by her.
Inuyasha looked at her and said angrily, "Kikyo! What exactly are you two trying to do?!"
Recalling how Kikyo had intentionally destroyed the seal on the mountaintop and was now preventing him from attacking Naraku, quietly watching Naraku complete his body's restructuring, Inuyasha really didn't understand what Kikyo wanted to do.
Kikyo ignored his questioning. Seeing that he was no longer advancing, she withdrew her gaze and turned it back toward the restructuring Naraku, her expression remaining indifferent.
By this time, Kagome and Sango had also arrived beside Inuyasha and Miroku on Kirara.
Looking at the vibrating arrow at Inuyasha's feet, Kagome hesitated for a moment before speaking to comfort him, "Inuyasha, Kikyo... maybe she has her own plan?"
But even she lacked confidence in those words. Everyone present had their brows furrowed, clearly aware that this was nothing more than self-consolation.
"Damn it! It must be that Retsu guy bewitching Kikyo!"
Inuyasha stared fixedly at Retsu, who was standing beside Kikyo. A wave of displeasure filled his heart, especially when he remembered the image of Kikyo being held in his arms earlier, making him grit his teeth in anger.
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