Naraku orders Kohaku to kill Sango, who is wounded but tries to restrain him instead of fighting back. InuYasha's group arrives and attacks Naraku, but he dissolves into poisonous vapor. Kagome purifies the vapors and destroys most of Naraku's body with her sacred arrow, but Kohaku escapes with Naraku's head. InuYasha and Kagome leave Kirara and Sango in the care of Miroku and Shippo while they look for herbs to counteract the poison. They find that a half-demon named Jinenji is wrongly accused of eating his fellow villagers. Kagome stays with him and his mother to protect them from the villagers, while InuYasha searches for the real culprit. When the real man-eating demon and its offspring also attack, Kagome wounds it with an arrow, but gets knocked down; Jinenji saves her by punching the man-eater in the mouth and grappling with it. InuYasha returns and kills the demon's offspring while Jinenji rips the parent demon apart. Jinenji gives healing herbs to the villagers, who help repair the damage to his field. InuYasha's group finds a pit where hundreds of demons are trapped together by Naraku's spells, and are fusing into a composite "imp" intended to become Naraku's new body. Miroku warns InuYasha not to kill it, lest he become absorbed into the composite. Kikyo arrives to investigate the pit's evil aura and falls in.