But clearly, he hadn't let Naraku get Kagome's shard of the shikon jewel, so how could the other party still create Incarnations?
Regardless, it didn't matter. He looked at Kanna and said, "Kanna, is it? Why are you spying on us?"
"Orders," Kanna responded, still expressionless.
Seeing that she would actually answer questions, Retsu smiled and activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, returning to the wooden house in an instant.
"Who is this?" Seeing Retsu return with a white-haired little girl after vanishing, Kikyo asked in surprise.
"I'm not sure; she says her name is Kanna." Retsu shook his head, feigning ignorance.
He placed Kanna on the floor and released his grip on her neck.
Once released, Kanna made no move; she simply stood there expressionlessly.
It wasn't that Kanna was obedient or didn't want to escape, but rather that when Retsu grabbed her earlier, he had already placed a Sealing on her.
Kanna's ability is "Nothingness"—no Demonic Power fluctuations, no scent, and no emotions. However, it wasn't that she lacked Demonic Power; it was just that her ability made these traits imperceptible.
"It's strange; she has no Demonic Power on her, not even a trace of presence." Kikyo walked over to Kanna's side and scrutinized her with a frown.
"She was probably sent by Naraku," Retsu said with a smile, then turned to Kanna and pressed, "Did Naraku order you to spy on us?"
Kanna looked at him expressionlessly and said, "Cannot say."
"Then what is your relationship with Naraku?" Retsu ignored her refusal and continued to ask.
"A tool." Unexpectedly, Kanna gave a calm answer.
"Hmm?" Kikyo was stunned to hear this. She hadn't expected the girl to truly be related to Naraku and to speak of it so obediently. This peculiar reaction piqued her curiosity as well.
She noticed the mirror in Kanna's hands and tentatively reached out to take it, but she was blocked as Kanna held onto it tightly.
"May I take a look? Don't worry, I'll return it to you immediately after looking," Kikyo looked at the expressionless Kanna and asked gently after a moment's thought.
Kanna didn't answer or make any move. Kikyo tried pulling on the mirror again, and to her surprise, she actually managed to take it into her hands.
Even with the mirror taken away, Kanna still had no reaction. She simply lowered her hands slowly, her gaze fixed intently on the mirror in Kikyo's hand.
"Thank you." Getting the mirror so smoothly surprised Kikyo. She tentatively reached out and patted Kanna's head.
Facing Kikyo's head pat, Kanna remained motionless, her eyes never leaving the mirror.
"Don't worry, I'll give it back after one look." Seeing how persistent she was, Kikyo withdrew her hand and carefully examined the mirror in her hand.
"This mirror likely contains some of the Mirror Demon's abilities; this girl can use it to absorb souls." After a careful inspection, Kikyo said to Retsu, then returned the mirror to Kanna.
Kanna immediately reached out and took the mirror back, cradling it in her arms again.
"A Mirror Demon?" Retsu looked at the mirror in Kanna's arms and nodded.
He had seen records of Mirror Demons in the book he obtained earlier. Their core abilities were absorbing souls and copying others' techniques; Kanna's abilities were indeed similar.
Naraku himself was formed from the fusion of countless demons, so it wasn't strange for Kanna, as an Incarnation he separated from himself, to possess some of a Mirror Demon's abilities.
Just like her sister Kagura, she probably fused the corpse-manipulating abilities of undead-type demons like Bone Woman, along with the wind-manipulating abilities of a demon like Feilian.
Retsu reached out and gently touched Kanna's mirror, even leaning down to look at his reflection. The mirror looked no different from an ordinary one; it was even a glass mirror, which was extremely rare in this period.
Taking advantage of the moment of contact, he quietly left a Flying Thunder God Mark on the back of the mirror. Then, looking down at the expressionless Kanna, he was momentarily conflicted about how to deal with this "uninvited" watcher.
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