My personal opinion on Gensokyo

"...Alas, Inuyasha, you are too anxious."

Hearing Inuyasha's complaints, the elderly elder witch, Granny Kaede, sighed helplessly and advised in a serious tone.

"To eliminate Naraku, the little intelligence we have is far from enough. Naraku is cunning and scheming, and he also controls a terrifying and poisonous miasma. If we want to defeat him, we must have a foolproof plan. If we rush after him rashly, we may fall into his trap. Don't be impatient."

"Also, the other day, Kagome forced herself to use the purification technique to treat you from the poisonous miasma. This consumed a lot of your physical strength. You will definitely need to recuperate for several days until your body is fully recovered."

Grandma Feng said slowly.

"So, Grandma, I and the Master agree that Kagome should go home and rest for a few days, so that she can better join you in searching for the fragments of the Four Souls Jade in the future."

"...Tsk, if she needs to rest, wouldn't it be nice to stay in your house, Old Lady Feng? Besides, you and Monk Miroku can make some medicine for her, so she can recover faster."

After hearing the reasons given by Grandma Kaede, Inuyasha seemed to disagree and snorted unhappily, his tone somewhat repulsive.

"...Besides, the color on Kagome's face right now is very noticeable no matter how you look at it, right? That weak and pale face, if you rashly return to her home like this, her family will be very worried."

With his hands tucked into the sleeves of his crimson fire rat fur coat, the young dog half-demon, who usually gave others the impression of being very reckless, now appeared unexpectedly thoughtful.

After saying the above words, Inuyasha's young face seemed to show a hint of unknown hesitation.

"...Kagome's mother is a mother who cares about her very much. I don't want her mother to worry too much about Kagome."

Seeing the rare hesitation on Inuyasha's face and hearing his words, Master Miroku and the elderly Grandma Kaede couldn't help but look at each other, both a little surprised.

Although we have long known that Kagome has brought many changes to Inuyasha, it now seems that the changes Kagome has brought to Inuyasha are even more than Master Miroku and Grandma Kaede imagined.

"Tsk, anyway, Kagome went to the forest of the Bone-Eating Well alone, and I don't know if she'll be in danger. I'm going to bring her back."

Shaking his head and putting away the hesitation on his face, the dog half-demon wearing a crimson fire rat fur coat no longer paid attention to the opinions of Master Miroku and Grandma Kaede. Without hesitation, he got up and walked out of the house to chase after the leaving Kagome Higurashi.

The smell was still obvious, Kagome should not have left the house of old lady Feng too far.

Inuyasha walked out of the house, sniffed the air, determined Kagome's approximate location, and quickly chased after her.

Volume 6: Thoughts Across Time and Space: Chapter 443: The Misunderstood Demon Hunter Girl

At the same time, far away from the house where Grandma Feng lived.

"Really, that Inuyasha guy!"

The pretty girl with long black hair and green and white sailor uniform angrily kicked up the small pieces of gravel on the road with her shoes, and her tone was very depressed.

"It was because of him that I used that dangerous spell. And you even said that to me..."

Thinking of the angry thing, the pretty girl waved her white fist angrily, as if she wanted to knock down something in front of her with her fist.

Her pure heart was once again trampled upon by a completely unconscious dog-like half-demon, and the beautiful girl could not suppress her anger at all.

However, just as the girl was walking towards the Bone-Eating Well in the distant mountains and sulking alone, the beautiful girl in a green and white sailor school uniform and long black hair did not notice that under her green and white sailor shirt, the surface of her white belly and soft white skin seemed to be gradually stained with some dark fine marks.

As Kagome Higurashi, who was completely unaware of this, grew angrier, the dark lines scattered across the snow-white skin of her lower abdomen seemed to grow deeper...

"...But, that Inuyasha guy should be okay now, right?"

However, although she was very angry with Inuyasha, Kagome was still a little worried about him.

Turning around and looking at the old house where Grandma Kaede lived in the distance, Kagome Higurashi hesitated again.

"Although I was planning to return home five hundred years from now in a fit of rage and stay there for a few days, and the school exams are indeed approaching, wasn't what I did to Inuyasha a bit too harsh? His injuries haven't fully healed yet..."

"Even if Grandma Kaede and Master Miroku think it's okay and there's no need to worry, Inuyasha's transformation into a human is tomorrow night. Should I wait until after tomorrow night before going home? It shouldn't delay the school exams in a few days, and it would be safer this way..."

Thinking of this, but recalling what happened before, Kagome Higurashi sighed softly with some embarrassment, feeling a little distressed.

"...But I already told Grandma Kaede, Erjuqiliu, Yibaliu, and Miroku-sama that I was going home. Now I don't know how to explain it to them, and I even got so angry that I taught Inuyasha a lesson..."

Kagome Higurashi, a girl with a generous and straightforward personality, seems to be unusually worried now because of the danger that Inuyasha was in the day before.

What Higurashi Kagome didn't know was that as her mood gradually calmed down and she stopped being angry, the dark marks on her abdomen, hidden by her shirt, gradually stopped infiltrating her skin and instead gradually disappeared. Her soft skin turned snow-white again...

"Kagome!"

Just as Miss Higurashi Kagome was considering in some difficulty whether to just go home and rest for a few more days, or find an excuse to stay for another day and go home after tomorrow night, with a loud shout behind her, under the stunned gaze of Kagome Higurashi, a young dog half-demon wearing a crimson fire rat fur coat and silver-white hair quickly caught up with her, staring closely at the beautiful girl in front of him who turned around and was still in a daze, and spoke in a firm tone.

"Hey! Kagome! You can't go home now, stay here!"

“…Huh?! What?!”

Hearing Inuyasha's rude and commanding remarks, Miss Kagome Higurashi, who had just calmed down, suddenly became furious. She confronted him without hesitation, with one hand on her hip and a very angry tone.

"Didn't I tell you all this back home?! The school exams are coming up, and I'm going home to rest for a few days before preparing for them! After the tests are over, this 'ignorant, foolish woman' will come back to continue searching for the Four Souls Jade fragments! There's no need for you to worry!"

"?! What are you angry about?! Idiot..."

Hearing Kagome's angry reply, Inuyasha lost his patience and spoke in a dissatisfied tone.

"What I said is all true. Besides, are you planning to go home like this to see your mother and let her... Tsk, forget it, let's not talk about this. Anyway, Kagome, you are not allowed to go home now!"

Inuyasha was about to blurt out his thoughts, but when he looked into Kagome Higurashi's clear eyes that were overflowing with anger, he suddenly felt as if his mouth was blocked and he couldn't express his thoughts.

Inuyasha, who was unable to express his thoughts, hesitated for a moment, then put this inexplicable emotion behind him and instead asked Kagome Higurashi to stay in a more firm tone without any reason.

"Huh?! What do you mean by me looking like this?!"

Kagome Higurashi, who only heard half of what Inuyasha was going to say and had no idea what he was going to say next, became even angrier.

"What does it have to do with my mother if I go home?! She should be very happy when her daughter comes home! I don't understand what you are trying to say! I want to go back!"

Miss Kagome Higurashi, who was angered by Inuyasha again, no longer hesitated, turned around and walked towards the outside of Maple Village, determined not to pay any attention to the unknown guy behind her.

"Tsk, Kagome, you bastard."

Seeing Kagome's angry and resolute attitude, Inuyasha, who was also impatient, couldn't understand why he and Kagome always quarreled after just a few words.

Of course, even if he couldn't figure it out, Inuyasha quickly put this doubt behind him. Instead, he stretched out his hand half impatiently and half angrily, and forcefully grabbed the weak shoulders of Kagome Higurashi who was about to walk out of the village.

"Anyway! Just come back with me!"

"Ugh! Let go!"

Inuyasha grabbed her shoulders forcefully, and she subconsciously wanted to teach Inuyasha a lesson again with the Word Spirit Spell. However, this time, remembering Inuyasha's physical condition that had not yet fully recovered, Kagome Higurashi turned around angrily and tried to push away the young dog half-demon in front of her.

"I told you I had to go back to school for the exam! You idiot!"

Just as the angry Kagome Higurashi and the very impatient Inuyasha were entangled and pushing each other, not far away, accompanied by a girl's crisp and loud shout outside the Maple Village, a rotating flying bone suddenly attacked, cutting through the air with a loud sound, trying to split Inuyasha, who "did bad things" to Kagome Higurashi, into two halves!

"Damn you, you lecherous dog demon! How dare you do such evil things in broad daylight!"

"Flying Bones!!!"

"What?! What is this weird thing?!"

Inuyasha was about to forcibly take the angry and struggling Kagome back to the old house where the elder witch Kaede lived when he heard a sound of breaking air behind him. He was startled and subconsciously picked up Kagome Higurashi, who was still struggling in confusion. He jumped up quickly, narrowly avoiding the flying bones and landed on a big tree nearby.

Holding the stunned Kagome Higurashi in a princess hug, the dog-clan half-demon, wearing a crimson fire rat fur coat, looked in the direction where the strange thing came from with an embarrassed expression.

"Damn it! Who is attacking me?!"

The spinning flying bone did not knock down Inuyasha, who had keen hearing. It drew a smooth line in the air and flew back in the direction of attack.

The spinning flying bone was grabbed at its bottom by a slender white hand.

"Let go of the girl you caught, you lecherous dog demon!"

Grabbing her flying bone, without even bothering to change into light underwear and protective gear, the heroic demon slayer girl Sango stared closely at Inuyasha, who looked embarrassed on a branch not far away, and Kagome Higurashi, who was in his arms, confused and a little dazed, with an angry expression and a serious tone.

"Let go of her words now, and maybe you can save your life!"

Volume 6: Longing Across Time and Space: Chapter 444: The Village Where Monsters Are Exterminated

"Huh?! I have no idea what you're talking about, you weird woman!"

Inuyasha, who was staying on the tree, became furious at the incomprehensible words of the strange girl not far from the tree.

"You suddenly attacked me, so you should apologize to me immediately, woman!"

Inuyasha jumped down from the tree branch and casually put down Kagome Higurashi, who was still dazed because of his sudden hug. Facing the stern gaze of the heroic demon hunter girl a few meters away, he turned his wrist with an angry look on his face.

"Alright! I'm already feeling irritated, and since you, a woman, dared to attack me, I'm sure you've made up your mind, right?! Don't worry, since you're a weak mortal, I won't kill you. But I can't say for sure how badly you'll be injured afterwards!"

While shouting angrily, the dog half-demon wearing a crimson fire rat fur coat raised his palm high, and his sharp nails popped out.

"Soul-Removing Iron Claw!"

"Hmph! Shameless, lecherous dog demon!"

Seeing Inuyasha's arrogant attitude, the heroic demon hunter girl Sango snorted coldly, grabbed the flying bone, and took three or two steps to meet the attacking Inuyasha, and the huge flying bone smashed down!

"Let them be defeated!"

Boom! ! !

At the same time, nearly a hundred miles away from Maple Village, in the deep mountains of the East Country.

Deep in the mountains, there stands a village.

If you only observe the internal layout of this village, it does not look much different from any other village where people lived during the Warring States Period, but if you look at it from the outside, it is very different.

The village is located on the side of the mountain and was built from bottom to top following the trend of the mountain. It is high above and has a dangerous terrain, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

A sturdy protective wall was built around the village using felled wood. Strong men wearing armor and holding bows, arrows, swords and guns walked back and forth on the sturdy wooden wall protecting the village, alert to any disturbance outside the village.

It seems that the villagers of this village have built this seemingly ordinary village into a castle like a warrior's residence in order to defend against attacks from enemies outside the village at any time.

This is a village where people who have made a living by exorcising monsters have gathered for hundreds of years.

A village where monsters were exterminated.

The demon exorcists in this village who are responsible for exorcising demons are also just ordinary people. However, over the past hundreds of years, they have gradually practiced and accumulated many secret techniques to effectively restrain and kill demons in their battles with demons, and these techniques have been passed down from generation to generation.

Although it is difficult to fight against those monsters with deep demonic powers and real strength, when it comes to dealing with the large number of monsters hiding in the mountains and forests, the people in this village are already very adept and skilled.

Relying on the business of exterminating monsters for generations, while exorcising the monsters in the surrounding area, the people of the monster exorcism village often send young people in the village who are familiar with monster exorcism to the territories of nearby daimyo to accept commissions to exorcise monsters and earn generous rewards.

Over the past one hundred years, the people of the Monster Extermination Village have completed countless monster extermination commissions and earned generous rewards. Although such dangerous work as monster extermination often puts the village's exorcists in harm's way, and casualties are not uncommon during monster extermination, the generous rewards are much higher than the income from rice farming. The elderly in the village will not go hungry, and the children can thrive without worrying about lack of food and clothing. Therefore, for hundreds of years, the people in the village are still willing to engage in the work of monster extermination from generation to generation and make a living from it.

For hundreds of years, they have been making a living by exterminating monsters. Although the lives of the people in this monster-extermination village have become better, it has also caused this hidden village to have an irreconcilable feud with the surrounding monsters. Many monsters in the deep mountains near the village hate this small human village to the core and are always trying to kill all the hateful humans in the village and eat them up.

And in the final analysis, this generation makes a living by exterminating monsters. The monster extermination village located in a remote area seems to have been lucky enough not to have conflicts with truly powerful monsters in the past hundred years, so it has been able to remain safe and sound.

Perhaps, it could be due to some other reasons.

High in the forest outside the village, a shrine maiden dressed in simple red and white clothes, with her long black hair like a waterfall tied up with plain white sandalwood paper and her jade-white and soft hands holding a zelkova bow, stared at the monster-extermination village built on the mountain in the distance, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.

"The village where the monster-killers live should be here..."

The shrine maiden, standing high in the forest, seemed to be worried.

Although she had previously relied on the memories given to her by someone to roughly determine the approximate location of the monster-extermination village, the shrine maiden, who was steady, cautious and meticulous in her actions, still spent several days confirming the details of that person's memory. After careful comparison, she arrived near the monster-extermination village today.

"...So, what should we do next to protect those who have been engaged in monster extermination for generations?"

Looking at the village with curling smoke in the distance, the witch felt a little embarrassed.

According to someone's memory, the village far away that has been engaged in exterminating monsters for generations will probably soon be attacked by many monsters due to the tricks of the dark monster Naraku. The people in the village will be killed by the monsters, and the village that has been engaged in exterminating monsters will be completely destroyed.

This is the fate of a village that has lived by exterminating monsters for generations, as described in someone's memory.

After learning about the sad fate of the village where the monsters were eliminated from someone's memory, the kind-hearted shrine maiden decided to protect the people living in this village so that they would no longer suffer that sad fate.

However, the witch felt a little embarrassed about how to protect the village.

With the unfathomable and terrifying spiritual power of the miko, she could naturally stop the attacks of the monsters that someone remembered hating this village. Even the people of this village, who have been dedicated to exorcising monsters for generations, would not refuse a temporary stay from a miko with such unfathomable magical powers.

The shrine maiden was not worried that she did not have the power to protect the village. Even if the true form of the dark monster Naraku attacked the monster-exterminating village, as long as she was here, even if it was difficult to kill him completely, she could force him to retreat and prevent him from attacking the monster-exterminating village.

What the miko was worried about was what someone had told her before—the cause and effect determined by history, the unchangeable "fate".

...In this world, there exists an unchangeable "cause and effect destiny." The future of this world will follow a strict "script" that existed in the distant past, step by step, becoming "reality" and a predetermined, unchanging "history."

It's the same for me, and it's also the same for this village that fights monsters.

Because of the Four Souls Jade, he would exhaust all his energy and die a second time, and eventually pass away completely in the midst of indelible obsession and regret.

The people in this village will all be killed by the hateful monsters and die in sorrow.

Thinking of this, the witch sighed softly.

This is cause and effect, and also fate.

If you want to change, you will pay a price.

Although I have been able to break free from some of the constraints of "fate" because of... him, and can make choices based on the old "cause and effect", in the final analysis, I still paid the price for these changed "cause and effect".