Kagura lifted her eyes toward the woman and asked bluntly, "You know Inuyasha and his friends, don't you?"
"Somewhat," Xu Zhiqiu answered.
Curiosity got the better of Kagura. Unable to sit still, she edged closer to Xu Zhiqiu. "Then what exactly is your relationship with Naraku? Are you lovers, or is he forcing you?" She quickly dismissed her second guess herself. No, if he were forcing her, Naraku would never let Xu Zhiqiu leave.
"My relationship with him isn't settled yet. Oh, why are you being so nosy? Apart from that, did he ask you to do anything else?" Xu Zhiqiu chose to change the subject, unwilling to discuss that sort of thing with Kagura.
Seeing that she did not want to talk, Kagura felt a little disappointed, though she could vaguely guess some of it. "He also created a third incarnation. That Goshinki bit through Inuyasha's Tessaiga, but then Inuyasha transformed into a demon and killed him. What an absolute waste."
As she spoke, she made no attempt to hide her disdain for that incarnation.
Xu Zhiqiu understood. She glanced at Kanna, who sat quietly nearby. "What about Kanna? Kanna, has Naraku sent you out to work?"
Kanna raised the mirror in her hands. There were clear cracks in its upper-right corner. "Yes," she answered softly. "But that reincarnated soul was very powerful. The mirror nearly shattered."
"I see. As long as you're both all right."
After drawing information out of the sisters, Xu Zhiqiu compared it with the original plot. There had been more or less some changes, but its overall course remained the same. Naraku still wanted to kill Inuyasha.
Originally, he had only meant to toy with them, but after Kagome shot him, he began nursing a grudge.
No matter how Naraku dealt with Inuyasha and