Inuyasha #20 - Shards of Evil?

Rumiko Takahashi

Shonen Sunday

2001

187 páginas

6h 14m

ISBN-1: 0

InuYasha is unable to injure Ryukotsusei, who gloats that his body is harder than steel and thus invulnerable. Toto-sai arrives with InuYasha's group and says that unsealed, Ryukotsusei can only be destroyed with the Bakuryu-ha ("crushing stream", or "backlash wave" in the anime).

When Tetsusaiga is knocked away, InuYasha transforms to his demonic form and begins to drive Ryukotsusei back, but Toto-sai says this will not make Tetsusaiga lighter and wants to flee. Kagome insists that they stay to support InuYasha, who returns to his normal form when he recovers Tetsusaiga, which starts to feel less heavy.

InuYasha pierces Ryukotsusei's heart, but Ryukotsusei merely bleeds a little and keeps fighting. Toto-sai advises InuYasha to run away now that Tetsusaiga is lighter, but InuYasha refuses and says that he will out-do his father by killing Ryukotsusei. Enraged, Ryukotsusai uses his entire aura to unleash an enormous blast of energy; unable to dodge it, InuYasha cuts through it with the wind-scar. Toto-sai is amazed – this is the Bakuryu-ha, Tetsusaiga's ultimate move, which reverses Ryukotsusei's blast and cuts him into small pieces with whirlwinds. InuYasha demonstrates that he can now produce the wind-scar at will, but is chastised for showing off.

Naraku offers the nearly-complete Shikon jewel to the dark priestess Tsubaki, a former contemporary of Kikyo's, who preserves her youth and beauty by dealing with demons. Kagome tells her friends in modern Tokyo that she made up with InuYasha; when she returns, Tsubaki uses the jewel to curse Kagome's jewel shards and control her. Miroku and Sango look for Tsubaki, hoping to kill her and free Kagome.

At Naraku's request, Tsubaki orders Kagome to kill InuYasha and is surprised at her resistance. Naraku tells her not to underestimate Kagome, since she is Kikyo's reincarnation, but Tsubaki is unimpressed.

Kagome tells InuYasha to run away so she can't kill him, but he stays. Miroku and Sango cannot pass through Tsubaki's shield, but Kikyo walks right through it and destroys Naraku's demon puppet. Tsubaki realizes that Kikyo is undead. Kikyo says that Kagome will defeat Tsubaki, and threatens to kill Tsubaki herself if InuYasha is harmed.

InuYasha brings Kagome, who shatters Tsubaki's shield with an arrow. Kikyo leaves. Tsubaki threatens to kill InuYasha if he uses Tetsusaiga, attacks him with her main demon, and reinforces her curse on Kagome. Miroku is unable to exorcise Tsubaki's shikigami to break the curse. Kagome manages to shoot an arrow at Tsubaki, but it misses and Tsubaki reinforces her curse again.
After InuYasha kills Tsubaki's main demon, her other demons and shikigami all attack. Kagome rebounds the shikigami, just as Kikyo did in another duel with Tsubaki fifty years ago. The curse breaks and the jewel is purified, although Tsubaki carries it away with her remaining demons before they die. A saimyosho takes the jewel away from Tsubaki, completing her defeat.