Hōsenki Marsh lay atop a mountain over two thousand meters high.
An enormous plateau spread across the summit, with a vast marsh at its center.
Hōsenki and his son, the second generation, lived here.
Hōsenki's true form was a gigantic clam.
As a great demon who had lived for many long years, he possessed immense demon power and considerable strength, and had been on excellent terms with the Dog General.
He was also a demon who governed stones.
He could create and cultivate special jewels, such as jewels that gave other demons passage to the demon graveyard: the Black Pearl in Inuyasha's right eye was one he had cultivated.
In the world of Inuyasha, even an ordinary stone possessed the Four Souls-the wild soul, harmony soul, happy soul, and miracle soul-and had a heart of its own.
Hōsenki was a great demon capable of listening to the voices of stones.
As a gemstone, the Shikon Jewel was naturally no exception.
A few days earlier, he had obtained two Shikon Shards in succession and heard the jewel's voice.
After learning that the Shikon Shards did not wish to be reunited, he had planned to use up all his jewels similar to the Black Pearl before his death, then take the Shikon Shards to the demon graveyard at the boundary between the underworld and the world of the living when his time came, a place difficult for the living to find.
Yet he had never expected this.
Before he could use up his special jewels, an evil yokai coveting the Shikon Shards had attacked his home.
"In that case, I'll have to teach you a lesson."
He had cultivated himself for centuries and millennia and disliked fighting, but that did not mean he did not know how.
The next moment, a thick,