"Naraku, you came after all."
As expected, he would not pass up what seemed like such a perfect opportunity.
After entering the triple formation, Li Xia looked at Naraku, whose body Midoriko had scattered yet again and whose flesh Kikyo's Clone had purified in unknown quantities with a single arrow, leaving him utterly bedraggled. He could not suppress the smile on his face.
"Li Xia, how despicable of you to use Inuyasha as bait!"
A cold snort came from that face of the Young Lord of the Castle.
"Heh, save your attempts to sow discord! First, Lord Sesshomaru approved this arrangement! Even Lord Sesshomaru, his own older brother, had no objections. What are you worrying about?
"Besides, neither Kagome nor Kikyo will fall for your attempts to turn us against each other. Don't forget, I even left my Poison Flood Dragon Shikigami and Mountain Demon Shikigami behind. Inuyasha was in a safer situation than I was."
Li Xia wore a beaming smile.
As he spoke, he slipped an arm around little Kagome, then leaped as lightly as a swallow onto the head of the Poison Flood Dragon approaching him. With a wave of his hand, he took a jade throne obtained from Dream Castle out of his storage Treasure Gourd.
Only after sitting on the throne with the beauty in his arms did he look calmly down at Naraku, who had been forced to release his body's restraints and transform into a disgusting mass of countless intertwined demons.
"Naraku, hasn't your ambition always been to have Kikyo?"
"Kikyo? Hmph, how could that be? Don't mention that hateful woman to me."
Wearing the handsome face of the Young Lord of the Castle, Naraku continued to say the opposite of what he felt.
His body had been scattered by Midoriko and Kikyo's