Do you think I don't know how many arrows I have left in my quiver?
Heh, how could that be possible?
As someone who regularly uses a bow, how could I overlook a detail like that?
You think I have only this last arrow left.
And I wanted to tell you that I have only this last arrow left, too.
Once you focus more of your mind on this last arrow of mine, with most of your remaining attention divided between Inuyasha's elder brother and Li Xia, Kagome, that easily overlooked human, will have quite an opening.
At least, her chances of succeeding with one shot were greater than Kikyo's own.
Sure enough.
Kagome did not disappoint her.
Her reincarnation, who had just reached the edge of the battlefield, fired a crucial arrow:
"Manganomaru, you paid too much attention to superficial details; you overlooked the details a layer deeper."
Riding Entei, Kikyo retreated a little farther.
To keep her enraged opponent from targeting her.
In this exchange, the self she presented was on the first layer; Manganomaru and Li Xia had both been fooled into staying on the second layer; then there was her calculating self, actually standing on the third layer like a nesting doll. In other words, the first-layer version of her was only a decoy, a disguise.
(In the original, Kikyo shot at a turtle demon, but her Sacred Arrow could do nothing against its shell; she therefore pretended to retreat, luring the turtle demon into poking its head out to attack, then turned and killed it instantly with an arrow through its head. Her talent for combat was certainly not lacking.
Hmm...
At least she was much sharper than Inuyasha, who only knew how to charge head-on.)
Having lost its support, the enormous crown immediately