Beneath the castle concealed by the barrier, countless yoka and Saimyosho lurked around Naraku. He slowly raised a hand, touching the heart beating within his chest, and his lips curved into a faint smile. "Onigumo, where are your hatred and your desires? Is your heart still longing to obtain that miko?"
The Onigumo pattern, embedded with a large fragment of the Shikon Jewel across the spine hidden beneath the purple kimono, suddenly stirred as if endowed with consciousness, countless spider legs extending and retracting behind his back...
Meanwhile, elsewhere...
Chapter 99