【Inuyasha】White Moonlight and Vermillion Mole

When passing by the village along the way, he helped the villagers in the village to deal with some small monsters. In return, Kagome only replenished the arrows, and Kikyo gave him a lot of arrows.

"These are enough, thank you." Kagome packed the quiver and weighed the weight, just right.

"We should thank you. If the two adults hadn't arrived in time, maybe..."

The villagers gathered in groups of three or two, leaning on each other with lingering fear. Beside their legs, the ignorant children poked their heads out and carefully observed Kagome and the others.

Kikyo's eyes met with the children from behind Kagome, and the children were startled and retracted their necks.

The child's mother felt the tension of her child and reached out to pat the child's back to comfort him.

Kikyo suddenly asked, "Where are the men here?"

It's noon now, not the stage of busy farm work. The movement of Kagome's exorcism just now was not small, but this group of villagers who came to see the situation were almost all old and weak, mostly women.

Kagome also observed and frowned.

The villagers fell silent after hearing this, and the answer was a small child's voice.

"My father went out to fight."

The child raised his head from behind his mother. His thin face was clean, and his eyes were black and bright. Without the haze of adults, he continued to speak with hope.

"My Lord, are you traveling? The samurai and monks who often come to our village to travel, can you help--"

"Okay! Taro." His mother scolded, and the child shuddered, looked up at his mother, and lowered his head in disappointment.

Kagome did not miss the light in the child's eyes that dimmed, and also noticed the mother's flash of heartache.

"I'm sorry, my Lord, the child is ignorant, but it's true. The men here went out to fight a few days ago and have not returned."

He and Kikyo looked at each other.

Fighting.

This word is not unfamiliar. Grandma Feng often patrols the surrounding villages and is particularly vigilant whenever a stranger appears.

When Kagome was tied up by Grandma Feng and brought back to the village for the first time, the villagers of Feng Village talked about spies and wars.

Sighing, this is not something he can control. Kagome was about to comfort the frightened child when Kikyo spoke again, "If it is a soldier from the east..."

She paused, "You should prepare to move the village."

Everyone looked at Kikyo.

"... I encountered a large area of ​​burned corpses piled together in the wild not long ago. The remains and clothes were all soldiers."

She slowly told what she saw, "Looking at the fire... It should be a big monster."

Bang.

A village woman knelt down on the ground trembling, covering her face with her hands, her whole body trembling, and crying muffled from her palms.

Others also looked sad, and the older ones couldn't help but cover their faces with their sleeves and cry.

Only the ignorant children blinked their eyes, tugged at the sleeves of adults, and looked at Kikyo at a loss, "Father, will he not come back?"

Kagome couldn't bear to look at it, and she opened her mouth twice but didn't know what to say, so she could only clench her fists.

Damn monster.

"I have saved them." Kikyo was still indifferent.

As a shrine maiden, Kikyo had experienced many such scenes and was used to it.

But Kagome, who was close, felt the sadness flashing in her eyes.

"Thank you, sir." The older mother-in-law bowed and thanked, "They have come back later than the agreed time. We...actually, we roughly guessed that they had encountered misfortune, but we still had hope."

The mother-in-law looked at the new daughter-in-law who was crying in her arms and sighed, "Ah...poor you."

Kikyo looked at the group of people, "Hurry up and leave." If only these people were left, they would soon attract bad guys.

After saying that, she turned around and was about to leave, but Kagome hurriedly stopped her, "Wait for Kikyo, we are not in a hurry to leave anyway, it won't be too late to stay and wait until they are all transferred before leaving."

Kikyo didn't say anything, just stared at him.