Had he been discovered?
"Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!"
There was a decoy force to the north, while Kagura and a Wooden Puppet were harassing them to the south. Whether Sesshomaru and this human named Li Xia pursued north or went south to help, neither should have attacked the house where he was hiding!
Even if they wanted to attack the wooden hut to test whether he was there, a horizontal strike that destroyed the house should have been enough.
They certainly shouldn't have leaped into the air and attacked down into the earth.
"Damn it...
Where exactly did I give myself away?"
Naraku was both shocked and furious.
No matter how he thought it over, he could find nothing wrong with his arrangements.
In fact, in the original timeline, he had repeatedly avoided the trouble of the Protagonist Group coming to his door by choosing to dismantle himself on new moon nights, when Inuyasha would inevitably turn human. His feints had also worked every time.
Unfortunately, this time, his opponent knew him too well.
Really, truly, far too well.
And precisely because he knew him so well, when he got ruthless, he was willing to sacrifice even his left arm.
Rumble...
Golden blade light tore through the otherwise sturdy wooden hut like tofu, then plunged straight underground. Everything along its path, from the hard earth-and-stone foundations to a blue barrier hastily raised for protection, was destroyed with overwhelming force!
"What?!"
My powerful barrier was actually this fragile?
As Naraku's pupils contracted sharply in disbelief, one of the incredibly sharp golden blade energies treated the barrier as nothing. It ripped through and shattered it like a sheet of paper, then continued unstoppably to slam into his swollen half-body.
Most of his demon body burst apart, sending monster blood of every color and