"Inuyasha... why are you still alive... you should have been sealed away by me..." As though she had exhausted all her spiritual power, Kikyo sank weakly to her knees and spoke with her head bowed. No one could see her expression.
"Sorry to disappoint you. Fifty years may have passed, but I'm still full of life!" Startled by Kikyo's spiritual power, Inuyasha involuntarily took a step back, putting on a smug air as he spoke.
Kikyo raised her tear-filled eyes, tears welling within them. "I hate you... I hate you so much..."
The resurrected priestess forced herself to her feet and staggered toward Inuyasha, but a wound suddenly split open across her shoulder and back. Bright red blood poured from it, staining her snow-white top. Time seemed to have returned her body to the moment of her death, forcing the priestess to stop and press futilely against her wound.
"No, don't die..." Han said in a trembling voice. She had never truly witnessed that tragic scene fifty years ago.
The instant the soul returned to Kikyo's body, time, which should have stopped for the dead, began to flow again.
The fatal wound reappeared on Kikyo's body. At this rate, her fate would be no different from before.
Han did not know what had happened fifty years ago. Everyone had avoided the subject, and when she returned later, she could only hear scattered accounts from Kaede. But whatever had happened back then, she knew exactly how she felt now: she absolutely would not let Kikyo die again!
"What's wrong, Kikyo?" Inuyasha watched her suffering, his heart still heavy for reasons he could not explain.
Kikyo looked at the blood covering her hand and demanded through gritted teeth, "Why did you betray me, Inuyasha?"
"What's with all that blood?" Inuyasha was bewildered