The Four Souls Jewel's Future Plans; Kagome: Chiyo, thank you. Night deepens.
Kagome lay on the tatami in the Japanese-style room, breathing evenly, fast asleep.
Chiyo sat beneath the eaves, his back against a pillar, facing the courtyard.
Moonlight spilled down from the sky, illuminating the great tree until it looked like a silent giant. Its branches and leaves swayed gently in the night breeze, making a faint rustling sound.
Chiyo raised a hand and opened his space.
The Four Souls Jewel appeared inside.
Chiyo reached in and took it out.
The jewel lay in his palm, slowly rotating.
It was different from during the day.
In the daytime, the Four Souls Jewel was black.
That black was not an ordinary black, but a bottomless darkness that seemed to devour light.
Like a miniature black hole, it drew in all the light around it.
But now, under the moonlight.
A dark red sheen surfaced over the Four Souls Jewel.
That sheen flowed across the surface of the jewel like blood, gathering and scattering, scattering and gathering, forming fleeting patterns that vanished almost as soon as they appeared.
Chiyo stared at those patterns for a few seconds.
"It's absorbed about seventy percent of the evil aura."
He murmured to himself.
Faster than he had expected.
Although Black Arashi's self-detonation had left cracks in the Four Souls Jewel, it had also made the jewel, while out of control, frantically absorb a massive amount of evil aura.
The demons corroded by the evil aura slaughtered one another.
The more they killed, the more negative emotions there were.
The more negative emotions there were, the more evil aura there was.
The more evil aura there was, the faster the Four Souls Jewel absorbed it.
It was a perfect positive feedback loop.
But it still