Naraku, Poised to Strike

"Where are they now?" Kagura asked Naraku.

In a vast, gloomy castle shrouded in a barrier, Naraku, leaning by the window in the uppermost room, gazed at the nearly complete Sacred Jewel in his hand, his voice devoid of emotion.

"They should reach the no-man's-land you mentioned today," Kagura said, leaning against the half-open door and window. Her half-open fan concealed the lower half of her face, revealing only her eyes as she looked at Naraku.

Due to her memories being altered by Lin Yun, Kagura didn't remember her alliance with Lin Yun and the others. And all of this... was being watched by Kanna from the side.

Since Kanna possessed the ability to maintain a constant mental barrier, Naraku couldn't probe her memories even if he wanted to.

Coupled with Kanna's constant pretense of being an emotionless doll with no presence, Naraku felt relatively at ease...

At ease enough to let Kanna practically livestream Naraku's pathetic state to Lin Yun...

"Is that so? They're finally there." Naraku put away the Sacred Jewel from his palm and looked out the window.

"Is there anything strange about that place?" Kagura asked, feigning indifference.

Although her memory had been altered, her thoughts were undoubtedly focused on how to cause trouble for Naraku.

Under these circumstances, with Lin Yun's suggestion technique, a slight inclination led to this outcome.

"Didn't you go there yourself? Aren't you curious why nothing grows there, and why there's no life at all near the center?" Naraku didn't notice Kagura's probing, or rather, he didn't care about it. He held Kagura's heart, and the previous events hadn't gone too awry.

Therefore, no matter what Naraku thought, unless he used divination magic or similar arts to directly ask Kagura and Lin Yun what had happened between them, it was all