"A demon had died." Sesshomaru suddenly stopped walking.
"What?" The silver-haired girl beside him frowned. If monsters could be divided into good and evil, demons existed only to destroy. Even after they were slain, their remains were still full of demonic poison, which was even harder to deal with than Demon Poison.
"Inuyasha did it." Looking at the remains of the battlefield nearby, Sesshomaru could smell Inuyasha's scent.
"Sesshomaru..." Han sounded worried. Even she could tell that the smell of blood hanging in the air did not belong solely to the demon.
"Yes. Inuyasha did not escape unscathed either," Sesshomaru confirmed calmly.
"How could..." Han looked into the distance. Was that the direction Inuyasha and the others had gone...? Had both Sister Kikyo and Inuyasha been hurt by Naraku...? Seeing the faint spider-shaped scar on the demon's remains, the girl silently gritted her teeth.
Sesshomaru did not answer. Gripping the sharp horn on the demon's head, he lifted it with one hand. He could smell traces of Tessaiga on its teeth. Just as he had suspected, these teeth had bitten through Tessaiga. He had decided on the material for his new sword.
"We're leaving," Sesshomaru said curtly.
"Um... are we taking that with us...?" Jaken stammered, his forehead covered in cold sweat.
"Stop wasting words."
"Yes, Lord Sesshomaru," Jaken hastily replied.
I learned roughly what happened here from the scents on the wind. But what was that? The scent of Inuyasha's blood changed. Yes, it was no longer the scent of half-demon blood, but the same scent as my blood and Father's.
As Sesshomaru pondered this, he noticed the girl beside him still frowning with worry. He took her hand. "It's all right," he said. With a monster's ability to heal, even a half-demon like Inuyasha would not die from