"It feels... so familiar."
Staring at the So'unga before her, Kagome Higurashi had no idea why it felt so familiar. Though the demonic blade radiated an exceedingly evil power, she did not feel the slightest discomfort.
At the same time, a voice in Kagome's mind kept telling her, "Take it!" "Take it!" "Only by taking it will you have the power to fight that other half."
"The sword... the other half?"
The voice in her mind suddenly reminded Kagome of something. The voice from her dreams... hadn't it kept talking about a sword and the other half?
The sword... was the one before her?
With those doubts in her heart, Kagome involuntarily raised her arm and reached for So'unga's hilt.
"Yes! That's it, take it."
The voice in her mind continued speaking, urging her on, seeming incredibly excited. Kagome Higurashi's mind also began to grow somewhat sluggish. Behind her seemed to lie a bottomless abyss, and within that abyss... a pair of shadowy snake eyes watched everything with cold indifference.
At last, Kagome Higurashi gripped So'unga's hilt.
The instant Kagome Higurashi grasped So'unga, she seemed to suddenly come to her senses. Realizing something was wrong with the demonic blade, she tried to throw it away, but it was already too late.
No matter how Kagome Higurashi tried to discard it, So'unga clung tightly to her hand. Endless evil energy erupted from the blade, shooting from Higurashi Shrine straight into the sky. Above all of Tokyo... the heavens themselves seemed split in two, as if the world had entered the apocalypse.
So'unga's evil energy churned the skies, stirring winds and clouds into endlessly shifting forms. On the ground, violent winds rose as well, whipping up a massive typhoon across Tokyo.
Trees were forcibly snapped apart, vehicles were swept into the air,