After reaching a valley outside Tokyo and making sure they would not affect the Sacred Tree—and that there was no one around—Yae Sakura finally stopped.
Along the way, she had seen the gale unleashed by So'unga turn all of Tokyo into a complete mess, with quite a few people dead. But there was nothing she could do. This was a clash between great demons; even the slightest collateral damage could kill and injure countless people.
Toga's corpse alone made that clear. Some great demons had bodies as large as an entire city, and that was no exaggeration.
The Far East boasted eight million gods, but aside from that small group of high-ranking deities in the heavens, the rest were not even a match for demons.
In the nations ruled by great demons during the Warring States era, such as the Western Lands once ruled by Toga, even the gods of the Western Lands had merely been Toga's servants.
Great demons could practically be called the pinnacle of existence in this world, though there were naturally stronger and weaker great demons. Toga had once defeated seven or eight great demons, yet he himself was still a great demon.
And later in the original story... Sesshomaru's power had far surpassed that of his father, Toga, yet he was still a great demon. It could only be said that he had reached a higher level among great demons.
"Why did you stop running?"
Less than a moment after Yae Sakura stopped, Kagome Higurashi, wielding So'unga, caught up. She rose into the air without any wind, floating high in the sky.
So'unga in her hand radiated an incomparably terrifying evil power. Centered on Kagome Higurashi, that dreadful force began spreading outward, as though it intended to turn the surroundings into her domain.
"Since you