"Please do not get angry. I mean no harm."
"It is simply that this young lady is far too beautiful."
Brook stood beside the Bone-Eater's Well, waving his hands to calm Inuyasha.
"Then please allow me to introduce myself."
"I am Brook. I died once and have nothing but bones left, but I am not a demon. Yohohoho~"
Inuyasha looked deeply suspicious. "How can someone with only bones left still be alive without being a demon? But Tessaiga isn't reacting..."
"W-Wait!"
Kagome pointed at Brook in surprise. "You're wearing a suit?"
Suits had largely taken their modern form in the 1890s and spread widely across countries around the world.
They had arrived in Japan even later, while this was the sixteenth century.
Everything that had happened earlier had been too sudden and too rapid, so she had not noticed this detail.
Now that she had, of course she was extremely surprised.
Kagome began to suspect that Brook had also come from the "future."
"Of course it is a suit. Though speaking of which, your clothing is rather unusual for this setting as well."
"Oh, right. You called him 'Inuyasha,' so you must be Kagome, with the surname Higurashi?"
Brook asked, recalling the information from the "prophecy list."
Kagome cried out again, "How did you know?!"
"Damn it, you're after Kagome!"
Inuyasha flew into a rage and raised Tessaiga, about to attack.
He thought the other party was another subordinate sent by Naraku.
Brook said, "You truly are rather impatient. Please listen until I have finished."
Kagome raised a hand and pressed it onto Inuyasha's shoulder.
"He doesn't look like a bad person. Don't act rashly."
Although she said that, she did not relax her grip on the longbow in her hand.
The year of adventures spent searching for Jewel of