"Were the demons all eliminated?"
Shinji's heart gave a jolt, and he quickened his pace.
When Haku and Karin went after the demon, they had left marks along the way, so it didn't take him long to find the two of them collapsed beside a pool of water more than ten miles away.
He glanced at them and saw that they were merely exhausted, lying on the ground to rest. He let out a small sigh of relief. "What happened?"
Haku hurriedly tried to get up, but the moment he pushed himself upright, he stumbled and fell back down.
"Don't get up."
As Shinji gestured for Haku and Karin to rest where they were, he surveyed the area.
Haku sat on the ground, panting as he spoke. "My lord, we intercepted a demon here, and then a fight broke out."
"What kind of demon?"
Karin hurriedly answered, "Lower Moon Three!"
Haku nodded in agreement. "Yes. It was a demon that hid inside a pot and could control water and fish, but it seemed to be very badly injured when we intercepted it."
Looking at the ice scattered across the ground and the pool, most of which had frozen over, Shinji could roughly guess what had happened.
Obviously,
the "Lower Moon Three" intercepted by Haku and Karin was probably Gyokko demon, formerly one of the Twelve Kizuki's "Upper Moon Five."
Rain Country had abundant rainfall and a complex network of underground waterways, an environment that was practically home turf for him. That was how he'd managed to escape Amegakure by sheer luck.
Unfortunately, he'd been unlucky enough to run into Haku, who possessed the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai, while badly wounded.
Haku continued, "After I shattered his body with Ice Release a few times, he stopped reviving. I don't know if