Inuyasha opened his mouth as if to speak, but hesitated. He wanted to speak, but stopped himself, unsure of what to say.
Logically, a reunion between father and son after two hundred years should be a heartwarming scene.
Thinking back to those scenes of long-awaited reunions in the movies and TV shows, whether in a crowd, a peach blossom forest, or any other place, as long as the two people saw each other, their eyes would hold nothing but the other person.
The surrounding scenery would either blur or fade in color, as if time and space had frozen.
Until the two of them smiled at each other, the surrounding scenery would regain its vibrancy, and the frozen time and space would begin to flow again.
Wait…
Mu Yang's expression faltered, gradually becoming puzzled, as if something wasn't quite right…
Carefully recalling, a series of memory scrolls emerged in his mind. He analyzed and compared them carefully, quickly discovering the problem.
"It's always a man and a woman..."
As Mu Yang voiced his complaint, the scroll of memories shattered, vanishing like bubbles.
At the same time...
Feeling the awkward atmosphere, Toga, to ease the tension, changed the subject. "Where do you live now? Let's go home and talk!"
Inuyasha scoffed. "Home? I don't have one."
His tone was indifferent, seemingly devoid of any resentment, but how he truly felt... only Inuyasha knew.
The atmosphere immediately became even more awkward. Toga opened his mouth, as if wanting to offer some words of comfort, but for a moment, he didn't know what to say, so he remained silent.
After a moment, Toga broke the silence. "I have something to tell you. Let's leave here first."
After speaking, Toga turned and left. He walked a few steps but found that Inuyasha was still standing in place and hadn't followed. He stopped and turned, looking at Inuyasha.
The pressure created by a father's gaze combined with the gaze of a great demon was more than the sum of its parts, making Inuyasha feel immense pressure, as if he had a thorn in his back.
After a standoff of several seconds, Inuyasha couldn't withstand the pressure and slowly walked towards Toga.
Father and son advanced along the country path, the grass on both sides swaying with the evening breeze.
"I have a way to revive Izayoi."
After walking together for a while, Toga suddenly broke the silence.
"Hmm."
Hearing this, Inuyasha's expression was calm, without a hint of surprise or excitement. It was as if what Toga had just said wasn't a matter of life and death, but a trivial matter like, "What are we having for dinner tonight?"
"I can help too. It'll be faster if we work together."
Judging by this, Inuyasha knew what method Toga was talking about for resurrection, even the details. Otherwise, he wouldn't have offered to help.
Toga was surprised by this, and also puzzled as to why Inuyasha would say that, and immediately fell into thought.
At first, Toga didn't consider the possibility that Inuyasha was also a member, as that kind of coincidence was too unlikely.
But sometimes things just happen that way. After thinking about it for a while, Toga still got nowhere. It wasn't until Inuyasha raised his left hand, and the sleeve slid down his arm due to gravity, revealing the watch terminal, that Toga suddenly understood.
"Add me as a friend, and let's keep in touch."
Toga operated the terminal and asked, "Are you going to act with me?"
"No." Inuyasha shook his head and refused, then turned his head to the left, glancing at a certain place with the corner of his eye, then retracted his gaze and looked ahead, saying, "I promised her that I would go with her to find the Sacred Jewel shards. Besides, searching for the Sacred Jewel shards doesn't stop me from making money."
Hearing this, Toga nodded and said, "Since you've already made up your mind, I won't say anything more."
Having said that, the topic seemed to have come to an end. After a few seconds of silence, he brought up a new topic, "Son, what's your relationship with that girl?"
As a father, he naturally had to be concerned about his son's love life.
Inuyasha was taken aback, his expression shifting. After pondering for a long time, he said uncertainly, "I guess... we're companions?"
"Is that so..."
Toga looked away, not pressing the issue further. From Inuyasha's expression and tone, he already knew that the girl held a special place in Inuyasha's heart, and that his feelings for her were very complex.
As for why they were complex, Toga didn't know, nor was it appropriate for him to ask as a father. After all, it was their first meeting, and in his son's eyes, he was probably just a stranger.
After a few more words, the topic was dropped, and the atmosphere fell silent once more.
This time, Toga didn't start a new topic. He patted Inuyasha on the shoulder and said, "Contact me if you run into trouble."
Then, looking at the broken sword at Inuyasha's waist, he added, "You can ask me if you have any questions about the Tetsusaiga."
As soon as he finished speaking, Toga didn't linger. He immediately flew into the sky and vanished in the blink of an eye.
Inuyasha looked in the direction his father had gone, staring for seven or eight seconds before turning his gaze away and heading towards Kaede's Village.
Mu Yang stared at Inuyasha's back for two or three seconds, shook his head slightly, then looked up at the moon hanging high in the night sky. After gazing for two or three seconds, he nodded slightly.
Inuyasha probably wouldn't do anything tonight; there wasn't much to see. But Toga might be up to something.
He swiped his hand across the space in front of him, and a virtual screen appeared, displaying the image of Toga soaring through the night sky.
From an ordinary dog demon to the great dog demon lord ruling the Western Lands, Toga couldn't remember how many battles he'd fought. However, he still recalled some of the more arduous ones.
For example, the battle with Ryukotsusei, the battle with Goshinki, the battle with Shishinki...
The reason for suddenly mentioning former enemies was that Toga was contemplating how to quickly earn two million in gold.
As a great youkai renowned for his fighting prowess, aside from being exceptionally good at fighting, he hadn't mastered any other skills.
How to use his powerful strength to earn money? Toga's conclusion was to hunt youkai.
After all, a great youkai's entire body was a treasure trove. Teeth, horns, and bones were incredibly hard and could be used to forge weapons. Skin and fur could be made into armor and other defensive equipment. Blood and flesh also had many uses.
If you were to ask Toga why he knew so much, it was thanks to Totosai. Constantly interacting with the swordsmith, he'd learned a little.
"Speaking of which..." Toga lowered his head and looked at his waist. "I don't have a weapon I can rely on."
The three swords that symbolized the path of domination over Heaven, Earth, and Man – the Tenseiga, the Sounga, and the Tetsusaiga. However, he had given the Tenseiga and the Tetsusaiga to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha respectively, and the Sounga…
"Where is the Sounga, by the way?"
After two hundred years, some of the less important memories had become a bit hazy. He vaguely remembered not having given instructions on how to handle the Sounga before his death.
However, judging by the fact that Sesshomaru hadn't looked for the Sounga and instead came for the Tetsusaiga, the Sounga was either hidden extremely well, making it difficult to find, or it had been dealt with by his retainers in some way.
Holding his chin with his right hand, Toga pondered for a moment, "Let's go find Totosai first. I need a sword, whether it's the Sounga or another demon sword."
After all, none of the great demons were easy to deal with. Going in without a weapon, though not necessarily a loss, wouldn't make winning easy either.
Toga flew straight ahead, and after spending some time flying into familiar territory, he changed direction and headed towards Totosai's smithy.
By the time Toga arrived at Totosai's smithy, it was already dawn.
But as a swordsmith, Totosai's schedule was anything but regular. Sometimes, to forge a single blade, Totosai would even stay up for days on end.
Therefore, when Toga arrived, the forge was still brightly lit. It wasn't quite accurate to say "brightly lit," because there were no lamps in the forge; the illumination came entirely from the furnace.
The fiercely burning flames emitted a bright light, illuminating the room and also radiating intense heat, rapidly raising the temperature inside.
Watching Totosai, who was sitting beside the furnace, intently gazing into it, Toga walked over to him and called out in a normal voice, "Totosai."
Totosai didn't move, as if he hadn't heard.
"As expected!"
Toga sighed. When someone is completely absorbed in doing something, they tend to ignore the surrounding movements, and demons were no different.
Toga, who knew Totosai very well, knew that sometimes Totosai would become overly engrossed in forging a sword, and simply calling out to him wouldn't bring him back to his senses.
Raising his right hand, he made a "V" sign, then aimed it at Totosai's eye. The action was as practiced as if it had been rehearsed dozens of times, a skilled little jab...
"Ouch!" Totosai suddenly leaned back, "thump" falling to the ground, clutching his eye and rolling around.
Fortunately, even a small youkai had strong regeneration abilities. After rolling around for a while, the injury to Totosai's eye was as good as new. After all, Toga wasn't doing this for the first time, so he knew how to control his force.
The stinging pain gradually disappeared. Totosai slowly sat up, glaring to the right. He wanted to see who was so bold as to poke him, Totosai, in the eye. Didn't they know that no one had poked his eye in hundreds of years?
"Ara?"
When he saw the person's appearance, Totosai's slightly dazed expression immediately became even more dazed. He stared blankly at the figure, a figure he hadn't seen in two hundred years, a figure that had disappeared two hundred years ago and shouldn't have been able to reappear.
"Am I having eye problems?"
Totosai blinked a few times, then rubbed his eyes a few more times. However, the figure was still there, so Totosai reached out and touched it, leaving a black handprint on the other person's pristine white clothes.
"It has warmth, it's alive!!!" Totosai exclaimed in surprise.
Following that, Totosai began to doubt again. Unlike Sesshomaru, Totosai had lived longer, seen more, and possessed more knowledge, thus he had more guesses than Sesshomaru. He was about to say something when he remembered the Dimensional Store and turned his gaze to Toga's left wrist.
A wristwatch that didn't fit the era, flashing with the light of technology, entered his field of vision.
Upon seeing the wristwatch, Totosai was immediately delighted, but some youkai could change according to what humans and youkai thought.
As an old hand, Totosai knew how to confirm that the acquaintance he encountered was not a youkai that could reflect inner thoughts. He had different methods for different types of youkai.
In the past, he might have needed to put in some effort to confirm, but now he had a simpler method, directly using the wristwatch terminal for confirmation.
After confirmation, it was indeed Toga without a doubt.
"Long time no see."
After a series of confirmations, Totosai's excitement had completely vanished, and he greeted them with a calm expression.
Toga wasn't surprised by Totosai's calm demeanor. He knew Totosai was also a member, as Totosai had used the watch terminal in front of him.
Since he was a member, such a reaction was perfectly normal.
"Long time no see," Toga nodded slightly, skipping the pleasantries and getting straight to the point. "Where is Sounga?"
Totosai stroked his bald head and explained, "I didn't expect you to be resurrected at the time. Sounga was also too dangerous, and no one could control it except you, so we threw Sounga into the Bone-Eater's Well."
Toga knew the legend of the Bone-Eater's Well. It was a well that could make anything that fell into it disappear. He guessed that the well connected to some space, such as the underworld, the space between life and death…
But he didn't know exactly which world it connected to.
Toga had nothing to say about this. He thought that Totosai and the others had done nothing wrong, and their handling of Sounga was very reasonable, so there was no need to criticize them.
Since Sounga was gone, Toga turned to the next best thing, his gaze sweeping over the forge. "...Are there any forged demon blades? I need a sword urgently."
"There are some, but they're not suitable for you."
Totosai pointed to a wall covered with various weapons: swords, spears, axes, and halberds, along with various other weapons piled in the corner.
As a famous swordsmith, Totosai not only forged swords but also crafted other weapons for practicing his skills.
After all, his swordsmithing skills didn't come out of nowhere. They were the result of a bit of talent combined with constant hard work and practice.
The weapons he forged during his daily practice, those of good quality, he kept and would give to those he liked in the future. Those of poor quality, he would melt down and remake.
However, the materials he used for daily practice were very ordinary. Those weapons were divine weapons for ordinary demons, but for great demons, they were only slightly better than junk.
After being washed over by a great demon's surging demonic power, they were of excellent quality, even after just one swing.
"But the materials I'm using in this furnace right now are excellent..." Before he could finish, Totosai's smug expression froze. His smile vanished as he whirled around to look into the furnace, letting out a mournful cry, "My materials!!!"
Over-forged, the materials were half-ruined.
Totosai quickly used his tools to salvage the materials, carefully examining them and pondering how to save them.
"I'll come back in a month. Remember to forge a sword for me; these are the materials."
Seeing the situation, Toga figured Totosai wouldn't be able to forge a sword for him anytime soon. Besides, forging a demon sword suitable for him wouldn't be a matter of just a day or two.
So, Toga snapped off one of his canine teeth and tossed it on the ground before leaving.
Having failed to find a weapon, he needed to adjust his plans.
Pressing his index and middle fingers of his right hand together, forming a sword gesture against his brow, Toga recalled memories from several hundred years ago.
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