"What are those balls of light?"
The human among the two boys spoke.
He was Sango's younger brother, Kohaku, who had been missing for a long time.
"Just human souls."
Hakudoshi, dressed in white, spoke softly.
Hakudoshi was short, but he carried a great halberd nearly three meters long.
Naraku had formed this halberd from the hardest bones in his own body, and it had many uses. Its signature ability was erecting a barrier, likewise a high-grade magenta barrier. In other words, Hakudoshi could deploy two layers of barriers at his limit.
Why had a certain someone prepared a double barrier for his incarnation?
Naturally, it was because he had suffered the bitter consequences of an insufficiently strong barrier.
If strength was lacking, he might as well make up for it with numbers.
This time, the barriers also served as positioning markers.
More specifically, Naraku could use these two barriers to teleport over long distances.
Just like how he had dragged his shattered body back from the Demon Graveyard to the Mortal World in the original timeline.
(Come to think of it, how had Naraku in the original anime mastered this move?
Could it have been because, during the movie's Manganomaru storyline, Naraku had revived the thoroughly dead Tree of Ages, then devoured the severely weakened tree with barely any demon power left?
Judging by Tessaiga's capabilities, the Manganomaru storyline should have taken place before Mount Hakurei, and even before Red Tessaiga appeared. Moreover, Manganomaru's two maidservants first tested Sesshomaru before Goshinki appeared, because Sesshomaru did not have Tōkijin then; by the time they tested Inuyasha's group, it was after Ryūkotsusei. That neatly explained the continuity error of Sesshomaru appearing without Tōkijin while Inuyasha had already mastered the Backlash Wave.)
"Hum..."
An unusual fluctuation of demon power came from ahead.