Watch out!
Inuyasha reacted quickly, immediately stepping in front of Kagome.
Sango, Miroku, and the others also went on guard.
Kagome said gravely, "These should be the myriad demons that Shrine Maiden Midoriko sealed away back then. This is trouble."
But she soon noticed that Miria, as well as Brook and the Frost Bone Dragon in the air, showed no reaction at all.
Just as Kagome was wondering what was going on,
Charlotte Linlin suddenly erupted with an incomparably violent aura.
A surging gale, mixed with crackling black-red lightning, swept out in every direction.
Inuyasha's expression changed drastically. He immediately drove Tessaiga into the ground and roared, "Get behind me!"
In truth, he did not need to say it. After a year of adventures, they had long developed perfect coordination.
Even Kirara flew behind Inuyasha and Kagome at the first opportunity.
The next moment,
as Inuyasha poured Demon Power into it, Tessaiga shone brilliantly, forming a pale-blue barrier that withstood the incoming Conqueror's Haki.
But the demons outside did not receive such treatment.
The Conqueror's Haki was like a raging flood, engulfing every demon in its path and sweeping away their demonic aura and miasma alike.
Only when cracks began to spread across the surface of Tessaiga's barrier did it gradually subside.
The horde of demons that had emerged from the Jewel of Four Souls had already been scattered to the winds.
When Inuyasha, Kagome, and the others came to their senses, they suddenly saw an unfamiliar figure in the sky holding a longsword.
She was bowing to Charlotte Linlin in thanks.
"Thank you very much for helping me. Though there is much I wish to say, I do not have enough time. I can only introduce myself. My name is Midoriko, and I am a shrine maiden."
But before