"Sister Kikyo, what's wrong with you, are you still thinking about that monster during the day? You don't have to take that monster to heart, sister, it must be a coincidence that you can break the Demon Breaking Arrow, and you didn't use all your strength! My sister is the best! ”

In the evening, Kaede, who returned home, began to ask about Kikyo, who had been silent since Inuyasha left, but her understanding seemed to be in the wrong direction, so Kikyo immediately smiled and explained:

"Don't worry, I'm fine, I'm just a little confused why Inuyasha wants to test my strength!"

Yes, the clever Kikyo began to think about Inuyasha's strange behavior yesterday and today after Inuyasha left, and he also saw that Inuyasha didn't mean to hurt himself, and his attack was not murderous, judging from the meaning of Inuyasha's words, he seemed to be verifying his strength.

"And Kaede, I'm not the most powerful, but Inuyasha's strength is probably stronger than mine, and he didn't show his true strength today. My Issei Spiritual Power is just as good as his casual blow, and you may not notice that his movements are twice as fast as yesterday, so he is also hiding his strength! ”

"You're better than your sister, how is it possible!"

Kaede looked at Kikyo in surprise, although she believed that her sister would not lie to her, but Kaede still couldn't believe that someone could be more powerful than her sister.

"The spiritual power is originally to restrain the demonic power, and my demon-breaking arrow can purify and remove the demonic power that is ten times and a hundred times stronger than it, but when I encountered the demonic power of Inuyasha, not only did it not purify, but it canceled out with his demonic power!"

Kikyo couldn't believe that her spiritual power would be ineffective against a youkai, and Inuyasha's sword made her feel extremely terrifying. Seeing the frightened look on Kaede's face after listening to his words, Kikyo hurriedly comforted:

"Don't worry, although Inuyasha said that he wanted to snatch the jade of the four souls, he has no ill will towards us, if he wants to rob it, he can easily take away the jade of the four souls when he first meets me, and ......"

Even the sluggish Kikyo vaguely sensed Inuyasha's strange attitude and feelings towards her from Inuyasha's words and actions. Although her fate has changed dramatically since she received the Jade of the Four Souls, she is the same ordinary shrine maiden as before, while the girls of her age are greasing and enjoying love, she is fighting to the death with the youkai, just like Inuyasha said, her body is stained with the bloody smell of countless yokai.

However, in the depths of the unknown heart, Kikyo, after all, also has the heart of an ordinary girl, no matter how strong, how calm and resolute, wise and unparalleled, under the strong appearance she also has a gentle and enthusiastic heart, like a fire under the iceberg. And since the night she met Inuyasha, Kikyo's frozen heart has slowly opened, and when Kikyo was tired or sweaty in the past, she just washed it with water by the river stream, and now, she will scrub it with the handkerchief that Inuyasha gave her with her, this white handkerchief embroidered with cherry blossoms, is also the only thing that ordinary girls use on Kikyo to carry.

From the next day, Kikyo will go to a waterhole formed by a waterfall deep in the woods to wash his body sooner or later, and after fighting with youkai, he will also go where to wash the traces of the battle on his body, and Inuyasha, and since then, he has not appeared in front of Kikyo again, because he has not yet figured out how to solve the problem of Kikyo's strength, so he can only quietly follow Kikyo in the dark, watching Kikyo fight with the monsters every day, snatching the jade of the four souls, and endangering hài humans. It also helps those who are sick and injured by the war. Every time Kikyo takes a bath, he also patrols and guards the waterfall, and kills the monsters who come to attack and accidentally break in at this time.

In this way, several days passed, and the hundred-legged demon who once possessed the jade of the four souls dragged its broken body and attacked the maple who left the bellflower to collect medicine outside.

"Sour berry grass, it seems that my sister said that it can be used to reduce swelling......"

Although she can't help her sister, Kaede still tries to do something she can, like this kind of herb picking work, she can do it, and at the same time, she can learn how to identify herbs to prepare for future shrine maiden cultivation. At this time, Kikyo was washing her body in the waterhole, so she just took the time to pick herbs by herself.

"The Jade of the Four Souls!"

When the hundred-legged demon saw the lone maple, his broken body shook happily, and he flew in the air and pounced towards the maple.

"I'm going to take you hostage and snatch the Jade of the Four Souls from Kikyo!"

"Help!"

The hundred-legged demon quickly caught up with Kaede, who was running away on the ground, and let out an ugly and smug laugh from his mouth.

Just when the hundred-legged demon was about to catch Kaede, Inuyasha, who was guarding the bellflower in the upper reaches of the waterfall in the waterhole, had already smelled the demonic aura emitted by the hundred-legged demon when it appeared, so he arrived in time at this critical moment.

"Damn, you monster, Soul Scattering Iron Claw!"

"Ah......h

Originally, the hundred-legged demon who was only a mid-to-high-level youkai had only half of his body left, and how could he resist Inuyasha's full force blow that was enough to kill the high-level youkai, so the body was not torn to pieces in an instant, leaving only a terrible howl of death.

"Dare to hurt Kikyo's sister, and fantasize about taking the jade of the four souls, it's good that a little monster like you will be obediently torn apart, hehe!"

"That'...... That one! You saved my life, thank you! ”

Looking at Inuyasha, who was sneering at the hundred-legged demon, Kaede cautiously stepped forward to thank him.

"Don't make me mistake, I just don't want the Jade of the Four Souls to fall into the hands of others, ah! Also, don't sue sù Kikyo I've been here! ”

Inuyasha looked around cautiously, whispered to Kaede, and then turned around and quickly jumped up the tree to leave, because he sensed that Kikyo was approaching, and it seemed that when Inuyasha discovered the demonic aura of the hundred-legged demon, Kikyo also found out, but her speed was not as fast as Inuyasha.

"Kaede! Are you alright, it's ......."

Only five seconds after Inuyasha left, Kikyo arrived, and seeing that his sister was safe and sound, the anxious Kikyo finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when he saw the torn body of the hundred-legged demon on the ground, he became puzzled again.

"Ahh Sister Kikyo, I'm fine! ”

Kaede ran to Kikyo's side, she was really scared just now, if Inuyasha hadn't arrived in time, she would have been caught by the Hundred-Foot Demon by now, and she would have become a hostage to Kikyo's sister. However, due to Inuyasha's instructions, she didn't tell her about being saved by Inuyasha, but even if she didn't say it, Kikyo could guess it.

"It was Inuyasha who saved you!"

"Ahh Sister, how could you ......"

"There's Inuyasha's unique demonic power on it, and the monsters around here, except for this one that was killed, only Inuyasha is there!"

Before Kaede finished speaking, Kikyo had already answered, and there were some words that Kikyo hadn't said, she had already found out that Inuyasha was hiding in the dark and quietly following her, and when she was taking a bath, she had never been attacked by a monster, but every time she could feel that there was an occasional demonic aura near the waterhole that flashed away, and they were killed in an instant when they were just approaching the waterfall, except for Inuyasha who was even more powerful than herself, Kikyo couldn't think of anyone else.

"The corpse of this hundred-legged demon still contains demonic power, let's throw it into the dry well behind the shrine, in there, she shouldn't be able to feel the power of the Jade of the Four Souls!"

Seeing that the corpse of the hundred-legged demon on the ground still exuded demonic energy, Kikyo immediately thought of a way to prevent the hundred-legged demon from being resurrected again because of the jade of the four souls, that is, the bone-eating well that could devour the monster.