Chapter Summaries

Han and Kikyo traveled together after Han saved Kikyo from the cliff, while Kikyo relied on dead girls’ souls to sustain her clay body and wrestled with her feelings about Inuyasha. After Han stopped Kikyo from killing a monk, Kikyo asked whether Han had also saved Inuyasha because she believed it was what the real Kikyo would want.

• Han caught Kikyo as they fell from the cliff, and they landed safely in a forest lake.
• Soul Collectors brought dead girls’ souls to Kikyo, allowing her to move again, and she told Han she wished to die together with Inuyasha.
• A monk tested Kikyo with a Purification Sutra, but Kikyo reversed its magic and sent it back at him.
• Kikyo recognized the Brahma’s Eye in Han’s eyes and said a Sarira had willingly given Han its power.
• The monk tried to bind Kikyo with a Soul-Binding Technique, but Kikyo broke free and Han destroyed the attacking claw before it could kill him.
• Han forced the monk to leave, and Kikyo asked whether Han had saved Inuyasha because the real Kikyo would not want him dead.

Inuyasha and Kagome encountered the resurrected Kikyo while following soul collectors, and Inuyasha tried to reunite with the miko he still loved. Kikyo nearly took him with her to hell, but Kagome’s voice awakened him; Kikyo then departed alone with the soul collectors.

• After hearing that Kikyo was collecting dead girls’ souls, Inuyasha ran ahead while Kagome stayed behind with Miroku and Shippo.
• Kagome followed the soul collectors through Kikyo’s barrier and found Kikyo with Han, who was sleeping beside her.
• Kikyo immobilized Kagome and explained that she wanted to steal Inuyasha’s heart and keep him bound to her through hatred.
• Inuyasha reached Kikyo, embraced her, and agreed to stop time with her as she opened the Gate of Hell beneath them.
• Kagome urged Inuyasha to wake up and reminded him that he still had to live and fight Naraku; her voice broke Kikyo’s hold on him.
• Inuyasha freed Kagome, and Kikyo flew away with the soul collectors after telling him not to forget the kiss they had shared.

Han confronted Inuyasha over his feelings for Kagome and the hurt he had caused Kikyo, then Sesshomaru arrived and attacked Inuyasha for wielding the Tessaiga poorly. The chapter left Inuyasha’s hand corroding in Sesshomaru’s poison as Han and Kagome watched.

• Han slapped Inuyasha, then tearfully accused him of betraying Kikyo by choosing Kagome.
• Inuyasha insisted that Kagome was not Kikyo and claimed he only needed her to find the Four Souls Shards, while Kagome denied liking him.
• Han told Inuyasha that Kikyo had been hurt most by his choice of Kagome and urged him to recognize her pain.
• Sesshomaru emerged from the forest and confronted Inuyasha, who released Han’s wrist and drew the Tessaiga.
• Sesshomaru caught Inuyasha’s sword arm and poisoned his wrist, warning that his hand would melt if he did not release the Tessaiga.
• Kagome asked Han to intervene, but Han said no one could stop Sesshomaru and dismissed the idea that he was acting because of her.

Han removed Tessaiga’s barrier, allowing Sesshomaru to wield it and demonstrate its devastating power against a swarm of monsters. After Han sealed Miroku’s Wind Tunnel, she questioned him about Miya, and Miroku later uncovered and burned a painting that revealed a hidden connection to Han.

• Inuyasha fought Sesshomaru while Han temporarily restrained Kagome and removed Tessaiga’s barrier, enabling Sesshomaru to take up the sword.
• Sesshomaru used Tessaiga to destroy the monsters fleeing the mountain, and Inuyasha refused to give him the sword.
• Miroku opened his Wind Tunnel against Sesshomaru, but Han shot a Sealing Arrow that temporarily closed it and asked him about Miya.
• Miroku returned to Musō Temple and asked Monk Mushin about his ancestors, learning that Miya had left behind a painting scroll.
• Miroku and Monk Mushin submerged the scroll and saw a portrait of Han emerge, then burned it along with its hidden secret.

Sesshomaru battled Inuyasha for Tessaiga until Kagome and Han intervened, and Han protected Kagome from Sesshomaru’s slash. After Tessaiga’s barrier returned, Sesshomaru defeated Inuyasha, then gently gathered Han into his arms and apologized.

• Sesshomaru shattered Evil Spirit’s remains and fought Inuyasha, knocking the scabbard from his hands.
• Kagome shot Tessaiga with a Purifying Arrow, undoing its transformation, but Sesshomaru caught her next arrow and attacked her.
• Han shielded Kagome from Sesshomaru’s slash with Clear Torrent, and Kagome protected Han from the remaining rocks.
• Han warned that Tessaiga’s barrier was returning, forcing Sesshomaru to release the sword, but he then overwhelmed Inuyasha with his Light Whip.
• Sesshomaru lifted the injured Han from Kagome’s lap, and Han woke in his arms as he apologized to her.

After Sesshomaru left with Han, Kagome realized Tessaiga’s barrier repelled powerful demon energy, and Shippo was able to wield the sword. In Kaede’s Village, Kikyo learned how Naraku had deceived her and Inuyasha, then accepted that Han and Inuyasha had moved on as she set out alone.

• Sesshomaru carried Han away and left Tessaiga behind, while Kagome told Inuyasha that the sword’s barrier blocked powerful demon energy rather than monsters.
• Shippo touched Tessaiga without being rejected, picked it up, and was punished by Inuyasha before Kagome scolded Inuyasha for hitting him.
• Kikyo visited Kaede, learned that Onigumo had become Naraku and that Naraku had manipulated her and Inuyasha, and said she had come to learn why she died.
• Kikyo recognized that Kagome was helping Inuyasha heal, then left Kaede’s hut after deciding Han should return to Sesshomaru and find happiness.
• Han stopped Sesshomaru from attacking a Soul Collector, received Kikyo’s apology and farewell through it, and quietly vowed not to disappoint her sister.

Zitan escaped the soldiers who massacred her village and begged Han and Sesshomaru for protection. Han refused Zitan’s request for revenge, but Sesshomaru agreed to let her travel with them until they found a safe village.

• Zitan fled through the mountain forest and collapsed before Han and Sesshomaru, asking them to save her.
• Han comforted Zitan as she woke, and Zitan told her that soldiers had slaughtered her village and hunted her afterward.
• Zitan learned that Jaken had dealt with the soldiers, then asked Han to help her take revenge, offering herself as payment.
• Han initially refused, but silently asked Sesshomaru to let Zitan travel with them for now, and he agreed.

Zitan reached Mount Hakurei but remained consumed by grief and revenge, and a demon’s lure led her to take a powerful blade from a forbidden cave. The blade filled her with evil aura and power, leaving her poised to pursue vengeance.

• Zitan refused to abandon her revenge, while Han brought her to Mount Hakurei in hopes its purity would ease her resentment.
• Han and Sesshomaru left Zitan near the mountain, where Han concealed her appearance and helped her gain the villagers’ acceptance.
• Zitan woke during the night and followed a tempting voice toward a forbidden area of Mount Hakurei.
• Zitan found a long blade on an altar and lifted it despite her doubts.
• The blade released a surge of evil aura that briefly pierced Mount Hakurei’s barrier, while its power filled Zitan with confidence that she could slaughter anything.

Han entered Mount Hakurei to confront Zitan, who was possessed by evil aura and attacked her with the Demon Sword. After Zitan disappeared into the mist, Han collapsed from her wound, but Sesshomaru endured the sacred barrier to reach her, and they escaped together.

• Sesshomaru agreed to wait outside Mount Hakurei while Han entered its barrier alone.
• Han found Zitan overwhelmed by evil aura and tried to stop her without seriously injuring her.
• Han purified the Demon Sword's evil aura with a Demon-Breaking Arrow, but Zitan remained controlled and wounded Han before briefly regaining herself.
• Zitan lost control again, then wandered away into the white mist as Han collapsed from blood loss.
• Han heard Sesshomaru calling and warned him not to enter, but he reached her through the barrier and caught her.
• Han created a mobile Water Wall around them, and Sesshomaru carried her out of Mount Hakurei.

Sesshomaru waited beside the stream as Han recovered from her wounds and underwent a mysterious awakening. When she emerged, they reunited, confessed their love, and promised to remain together; the chapter ended with Jaken and Yunai bickering while Sesshomaru smiled tenderly at Han.

• Sesshomaru recalled how he had endured Tenseiga’s barrier to reach Han and realized he could no longer bear to lose her.
• After several days, the stream surged around Han as she awakened, and Sesshomaru called her back to consciousness.
• Han ran to Sesshomaru, and they embraced, exchanged declarations of love, and promised to stay together.
• Jaken stopped Yunai from interrupting the couple, then scolded the rabbit as they argued about Sesshomaru.
• Han laughed at Jaken and Yunai’s bickering, and Sesshomaru smiled gently while holding her.

Zitan lost control of the Earth Sword and slaughtered the villagers who feared her, sinking back into darkness after seeing the child’s terror. Meanwhile, Naraku and Yan Luo discussed the Shikon Jewel fragment, as Yan Luo planned to use him to gather the Jewel for herself.

• Zitan staggered out of Mount Hakurei and reached toward a child for help, but the child fled after seeing her purple eyes.
• Zitan’s evil aura overwhelmed her, and she learned that the Demon Sword was the Earth Sword of the Heaven-and-Earth Longsword.
• Zitan swung the Earth Sword and killed the villagers, then briefly regained awareness when she saw their blood and the terrified child.
• Zitan lost herself to the darkness again, wondering whether this was the price of power.
• Naraku told Yan Luo that her method had worked as the Shikon Jewel fragment in his hand darkened.
• Yan Luo resolved to use Naraku to gather the Shikon Jewel, believing that she alone could wield its power.

The chapter recounts Naraku’s creation and his struggle with the human heart that both empowers and limits him, then follows Yan Luo’s rise during the fifty years since Sesshomaru rejected her. After Sesshomaru reappears, Yan Luo prepares to pursue him again.

• Onigumo’s soul and body combined with the monsters drawn to his malice to create Naraku, a distinct being with complete reason and will.
• Naraku’s lingering memories and desires helped drive him to turn Kikyo and Inuyasha against each other, and he spent the following fifty years changing identities and devouring monsters.
• Naraku remained unable to overcome the limits of his half-demon nature because Onigumo’s heart was bound to his existence and his devouring power.
• Yan Luo spent fifty years building strength and influence, directing human wars and pursuing ambitions to rule humans and monsters across the world.
• After learning Sesshomaru had reappeared, Yan Luo left her arrangements among humans and prepared to pursue him again.

Zitan reached the city and fought her way to the lord, only for Naraku to reveal that he had resurrected and manipulated her to corrupt the Shikon Jewel. Naraku took the blackened shard from her chest, leaving Zitan dying and longing to see someone from her past again.

• Zitan entered the city and cut through the soldiers and archers who tried to stop her, then demanded to know why the lord had ordered her village slaughtered.
• The lord dismissed Zitan, and Naraku and Yan Luo stepped forward to face her.
• Naraku released his control over the shard in Zitan, restoring her memories of killing villagers and soldiers.
• Naraku revealed that Zitan had died in the massacre and that he had resurrected her with a shard so her hatred and despair would corrupt it.
• Naraku pulled the blackened Four Souls Shard from Zitan's chest, and she collapsed, wondering if she would die and wishing to see someone one last time.

Han drove Naraku away with a Purifying Arrow, then grieved beside the dying Zitan. Sesshomaru used Tenseiga to revive Zitan, who chose to return to her village and take responsibility for her past.

• Han struck Naraku with a Purifying Arrow, forcing him to abandon the Four Souls Shard and flee while resolving to deal with Inuyasha first.
• Naraku recognized Han from Onigumo's memories and realized she had been a monster disguised as a human miko.
• Zitan died in Han's arms after apologizing, and Sesshomaru noticed Tenseiga responding to the Underworld Messengers.
• Sesshomaru used Tenseiga to destroy the Underworld Messengers, and Zitan's heart began beating again.
• Zitan chose to return to her village, rebuild it, and face responsibility for her past without relying on the Earth Sword or the Four Souls Shard.

After Zitan left, Sesshomaru comforted Han and assured her that she was the only one special to him. When Han purified a corrupted Shikon Jewel fragment, she suddenly lost consciousness, and Sesshomaru set off to find Inuyasha and his companions.

• Zitan declined Han's help and walked away in tears, while Sesshomaru reassured Han that she was the only one special to him.
• Han picked up the corrupted Four Souls Shard and purified it with her spiritual power, restoring the surrounding grass and revealing the shard's pale-purple glow.
• An unknown force made Han collapse unconscious, and Sesshomaru caught her as she fell.
• Sesshomaru suspected that the baboon-pelt demon or the Shikon Jewel had caused Han's condition and ordered Jaken to find Inuyasha.
• Sesshomaru flew away carrying Han, with Jaken and Yunai following him toward Inuyasha and his companions.

Yan Luo and Naraku confirmed that human despair had corrupted the Shikon Jewel, and Yan Luo warned Naraku about making rebellious incarnations before telling him about Kagome. Naraku returned to his castle and faced Kagome, whose purifying arrows proved powerful even as he evaded them.

• Naraku told Yan Luo that their experiment had successfully corrupted the Shikon Jewel, and Yan Luo suggested creating powerful incarnations while warning him to guard against betrayal.
• Yan Luo told Naraku that Kikyo’s reincarnation, Kagome, had shattered the Shikon Jewel and was collecting its shards with Inuyasha.
• Yan Luo returned to her territory, and Naraku went back to his castle to see Kagome for himself.
• Naraku trapped Inuyasha and his companions in a sea of miasma, while Sango had stolen Tessaiga under threat to Kohaku’s life.
• Kagome fired two purifying arrows at Naraku, who dodged them and taunted her by comparing her with Kikyo.

Sesshomaru arrived at the castle and destroyed Naraku’s puppet double, but Han awoke changed and fired a powerful Demon-Breaking Arrow at the real Naraku. Naraku fled as dawn broke, leaving the castle’s evil aura to vanish.

• Sesshomaru reached Inuyasha and his companions, dispelled Naraku’s miasma with his Light Whip, and confronted Naraku.
• Sesshomaru attacked Naraku with Tenseiga’s Azure Dragon Blast, but Kagome realized the defeated enemy was only a puppet double.
• Han awoke with a changed appearance and demeanor, then took Heavenly Ma from Kagome after its bowstring failed to appear for her.
• Han fired a Demon-Breaking Arrow into the clouds, badly purifying the concealed real Naraku and forcing him to flee with the Four Souls Shard.
• Naraku’s evil aura receded, the castle crumbled and vanished, and dawn arrived.

Midoriko briefly took control of Han and urged the group to take her to the Exterminator Village, but Magatsuhi forced her consciousness to vanish. Kikyo joined Sesshomaru and the others as they set out for the village, hoping to find a way to save Han.

• Midoriko healed Kirara’s miasma poisoning, then revealed herself before Magatsuhi’s power overwhelmed her and she collapsed.
• Kikyo arrived, identified the Shikon Jewel shard in Han’s palm, and asked Sesshomaru to take Han to the Exterminator Village with her.
• Kikyo learned from Sango that Naraku had destroyed the village and that Kohaku was being kept alive by the Shikon Jewel.
• Sango told Sesshomaru that the Exterminator Village was in a mountain stronghold, and the group prepared to travel there.
• Kirara carried Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Kohaku toward the village while Sesshomaru carried Han through the sky, with Kikyo and the others following.

Kikyo brought the group into the cavern where the Shikon Jewel was born, hoping Midoriko’s lingering power could help Han overcome Magatsuhi. Midoriko’s spiritual light entered Han, leaving her to fight for herself.

• Sango and Kagome explained that Midoriko’s sorrow had barred people from entering the cavern, and the group crossed its barrier together.
• The group found Midoriko’s ancient body still locked in battle with the monsters whose souls formed the Shikon Jewel.
• Sango recounted how Midoriko fought the monsters for seven days and nights before expelling their souls with her own to create the jewel.
• Kikyo told Sesshomaru to lay Han down without letting anyone touch her, explaining that Midoriko’s power might help her resist Magatsuhi.
• White motes of spiritual power drifted from Midoriko’s chest into Han, and Kikyo said Han would have to rely on herself from then on.

Trapped inside the Shikon Jewel, Han resisted its temptations and met Midoriko, who revealed that Magatsuhi had restarted the world and that Han had nearly destroyed the jewel in another timeline. Han summoned Heavenly Ma, purified the fragment with a spiritual arrow, and escaped back to her world.

• The Shikon Jewel tempted Han with visions of her past, Kikyo, and Sesshomaru, but she refused to make a wish.
• Midoriko appeared before Han and explained that Magatsuhi had restarted the world after Han nearly destroyed the Shikon Jewel in the First-Playthrough World.
• Midoriko warned Han that Magatsuhi had summoned a powerful soul from another world and urged Han, Kikyo, and Kagome to work together against it.
• Han refused the jewel's demand to choose and summoned Heavenly Ma through their shared will.
• Han fired a spiritual arrow at the Shikon Jewel, purifying its demonic energy and returning to her world.