However, Naraku had no intention of answering further.
With the Demon-Blocking Wall, he had been lurking nearby for a long time.
He had been waiting for an opportunity.
It would have been best if Saro could deal with Inuyasha and the others. That way, he could effortlessly reap a huge windfall. If she could not, that was fine too. He would lose nothing.
He simply had not expected Inuyasha and the others to be so useless!
They had actually been toyed with by a newly born fusion of myriad demons.
With things as they were, he naturally had no reason to keep hiding.
He would seize that supreme demon sword before the girl could get Tessaiga, then close in and absorb her. It was practically a buy-one-get-one-free deal, all profit and no loss.
As for Saro...
Seeing Naraku, who did not give off the slightest evil aura, make as though to fuse with her, she felt not panic but delight. The fool could not possibly think their fusion of myriad demons was so easy to devour, could he?
Fuse with them?
Come on, then!
Who was afraid of whom?!
Hah, even a great demon would be devoured without a scrap left.
And then...
"No!
Don't!
Stop...
Aaargh...!"
The girl's face instantly shifted through many different appearances.
There was the Three-Eyed Demon's, the Hairy-Headed Monster's, the Seaweed Spirit's...
All sorts, too many to count.
The only thing they shared was the terror on every face.
Only when their skin touched, when their flesh tangled together, did the myriad demons controlling Saro's body discover in horror just what kind of thing they were facing!
It was a mass of evil aura several times, even more than ten times, stronger than they were.
The other's true identity was all but obvious.
"Naraku, stop...!"