She could understand what had happened last time, but why had he pushed her away again this time?
Naraku pressed his lips together, then moved them, but in the end, he said nothing.
Xu Zhiqiu waited a while. When she looked up toward him, he was already gone.
At that moment, Xu Zhiqiu felt that her earlier behavior had been laughable. When he had come to save her in Peach Blossom Paradise, she had thought he truly cared about her, forgetting that he might only have come for the Shikon Jewel Shard.
But then why had he gone with her to pull out Ryūkotsusei's teeth for her sword, and even used the Old Immortal's wood to make material for its hilt?
Xu Zhiqiu sat for a long while, then straightened her clothes, picked up her sword, and went outside.
She found Kanna, crouched down, and stroked the girl's white hair. "Kanna, what were you and Naraku watching in this mirror before I came in?"
Kanna said nothing, instead showing her the scene in the mirror.
At that moment, Inuyasha was fighting his final battle against Ryūkotsusei, whose teeth had been pulled out. During the fight, Inuyasha mastered Tessaiga's Backlash Wave and turned the tables, killing Ryūkotsusei.
Seeing Inuyasha and the others, Xu Zhiqiu understood. When she and Naraku had gone there before, Ryūkotsusei had still been sealed. Now his seal had been broken. She connected that with the calculating expression she had seen on Naraku's face when she entered.
Naraku had sent a puppet to break the seal.
Xu Zhiqiu patted Kanna's shoulder, then stood up and headed toward her room.
She felt she would be better off going out to clear her head. If she stayed in this heavily polluted environment any longer, she really might be poisoned to