【Inuyasha】White Moonlight and Vermillion Mole

"Yes, yes, thank you, Master Exorcist, thank you..."

When the villagers heard that the things in the bag were so important, they thanked them more vigorously.

"You're welcome, it's just a convenience."

Coral was used to it. On her way to exorcise demons, she often encountered villages that were ravaged by wild beasts. When she was investigating the traces of the demon wolf tribe in the mountains and forests, she made some more powder to drive away wild beasts. This time she came back and handed it all to the villagers.

"Anyway, thanks to the masters of exorcism, we can live a quiet life."

"Yes, it's great to sleep well every night in the future."

"No need to worry about the fields being destroyed by wild beasts."

"It's safer to go out hunting..."

The villagers responded enthusiastically, complimenting Coral, who was originally calm, embarrassed.

Several people were talking and laughing lively. Kikyo swept her eyes over the villagers. All the villagers she saw last time were here, except... the man in the lead.

Kikyo looked deep into the village. The children who were laughing and playing were gone. I don't know where they went.

She didn't say anything, but her fingers hanging in her wide sleeves moved slightly, and a dead soul bug crawled into the village from a hidden corner where no one could see.

After doing all this, Kagome and others who were talking to the villagers rejected the villagers' enthusiastic invitation.

"We won't go in, there are still things to be solved." Kagome said politely. He was in a hurry to rush to the village because he was concerned about whether the village was targeted by Naraku. At present, the village seemed peaceful, so there was no need to stay longer.

If Naraku did it himself this time, the castle that Naraku carried with him should not be far from here.

Not far from here... You can ask the villagers, Kagome has an idea in her mind.

"Then I want to ask, is there any castle nearby?"

The villagers with regretful faces hesitated slightly when they heard about the castle, and then nodded.

"Really?!"

Getting the answer she wanted, Kagome was overjoyed and couldn't wait to ask, "Is it far from here?"

"Uh..."

"It's nearby... not far, not far."

"Yes, you go in the direction of the north."

The villagers pieced together a rough direction.

"North." Kagome recalled the past, and the vague memory told her that it was too long ago and she couldn't remember it at all.

Hiss, what should I do, what if I recognize the wrong castle and go to the wrong place... Kagome was entangled.

"Since it's not far from here, you should have been there too, can you tell us something about the castle there?"

Miroku, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke.

"Hey." Yes, you can continue to ask.

Kagome's eyes lit up, and she looked at Miroku with admiration in her eyes. He is worthy of being the "brain trust" wizard.

"The situation... what's the situation? The situation of the castle... that... in the castle, um, there is abundant food, and there is also..."

The villagers blinked their eyes quickly, and they were evasive, and they couldn't put together a complete sentence for a long time.

Kagome's expression changed from expectation to confusion. Looking at the abnormal behavior of the villagers, no matter how slow he was, he realized that something was wrong.

"You... haven't been to that castle, right?" Miroku answered with a smile, "Hahaha, don't be nervous, I mean that the castle doesn't allow you to enter? Some castles have rules that do not allow poor... civilians to enter."

The villagers were tense, and after hearing Miroku's words, they hurriedly nodded, "Yes, yes."

"That's right, you are right, how can people like us be qualified to enter such a place."

They were afraid that they would be asked again if they spoke a step slower, so they hurriedly said, "We don't know much, you should have seen me during these days. We are surrounded by wild wolf monsters here... Even if we are not far away, we rarely go out. I am really sorry that I can't help you. "

Looking at the villagers who nodded and bowed, Miroku hesitated to speak, with an ambiguous look in his eyes. He nodded, "I understand. I am still very grateful for the information provided by everyone. We will leave first."

Miroku turned around first, and the Zen stick jingled and clanged. He pushed Inuyasha behind him, "Let's go."

"Oh!"

Inuyasha had long wanted to leave this place that made him feel uncomfortable, and strode forward.

The villagers were still bowing and apologizing, but they didn't expect Miroku to leave decisively. For a while, they were stunned and didn't even straighten their waists. They watched them turn around one after another.

Seeing the backs getting farther away, they straightened up and waved goodbye.

"Have a safe journey, Master Exorcists."

"May your military fortune flourish!"

"Be safe, Master Exorcists~"

The blessings from the villagers were getting quieter and quieter. Knowing that he couldn't hear them, Maitreya stopped, turned around and said to everyone seriously.

"I believe you all have noticed something is wrong."Kagome, Coral, and Kikyo all nodded.

Inuyasha: ? ? ? Woof?

"What's wrong?" He took back his forward step, and Inuyasha's face was full of question marks, "Why did you stop after just a few steps? What do you mean by wrong?"

Miroku ignored Inuyasha, he pointed in the direction of the village, drew a straight line to another direction, "North, that direction... The Steel Fang Demon Wolf Clan has a group of wolves from the north. They found out that the lord of a castle has a fragment of the Four Souls Jade."

"Too coincidental."

Miroku narrowed his eyes slightly, "The villagers here know about the castle, but they have never been in it."

He also tried to conceal and fabricate from them, that extremely crude answer...Miroku even felt that he didn't give an explanation, and the villagers couldn't even make up a decent reason.

"Could it be Naraku's trick to disguise himself as a human to deceive and lure the villagers to not tell it out?"

Kagome couldn't help but guess. The kindness of the villagers really made people suspicious. They were not evil people who served Naraku.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. There are many people who have been deceived by Naraku's disguise." Miroku deeply agreed. His grandfather was cursed by Naraku because of this.

"Coral, have you found anything?" He turned to Coral and asked.

Coral shook her head, "No, but..." She picked up Yunmu on her shoulders, "Yunmu said she felt a faint demonic aura."

"Is he really threatened?" Kagome frowned and walked towards the village without hesitation, "Let's go again. We must not let Naraku take advantage of it."

He had just taken two steps when a hand suddenly grabbed him. Kagome staggered, but fortunately the owner of the hand steadied him.

Kagome frowned and looked over.

"What——"

Who stopped him? I didn't know that if I delayed for a second, I might miss the opportunity to catch Naraku.

When I saw the man's face clearly, Kagome's angry expression suddenly disappeared, "Uh... Kikyo?"

Kikyo sighed slightly, "I told you to learn to use spiritual power to sense the aura..."

Hmm? Kagome blinked.

"The subtle aura that Yunmu felt was from the dead soul bug." Not Naraku.

"Hmm." Coral looked as if that was what she saw, "No wonder Yunmu didn't rush out."

Kikyo looked at Yunmu, who tilted her head with a chirp. The orange-red eyes of the monster were somewhat similar to those of the dead soul bug.

"Hmm."

Kikyo looked away and turned to Kagome, her black pupils without any emotion.

It took Kagome a while to realize what Kikyo meant by asking him to learn to use spiritual power to sense monsters. He avoided Kikyo's eyes and whispered, "I know..."

Kagome couldn't bear the embarrassment and turned her head away pretending to be calm, as if she was caught distracted in class.

Under her short hair, Kagome didn't know that her slightly red ears were exposed to Kikyo's sight.

Kikyo suddenly let go of her hand, and her fingers returned to her sleeves and curled up.

"... The villagers are fine."

He said to Kagome.

Kagome understood almost instantly that Kikyo was comforting him, and raised her head slightly to peek at her, but she only saw Kikyo's profile with her eyes closed.

She couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled, humming quietly in her heart.

Yes, yes, my teacher~

Kikyo was closing her eyes to feel, "The dead soul bug sent a message that the children in the village disappeared, as well as the man who picked us up at the beginning."

Her eyes flickered slightly, "I ran into him in the forest a few nights ago."

Kikyo told about the man she met late at night picking herbs. She pondered for a moment, "I guess he might have been targeted by Naraku at that time, and the children in the village were Naraku's bargaining chips to deal with us."

"The villagers didn't dare to tell us, because they were worried that Naraku would hurt their children?" Coral always felt something was wrong, "Shouldn't they tell us? Isn't it better to entrust us to exorcise the monster than for them to be worried?"

Miroku sighed helplessly, "Maybe they are afraid that if they say it, their children will have no hope of survival..."