"This is the Bone Eater's Well…"
Uchiha Lie stood beside the square, ancient well hidden deep within the forest. Vines draped over the rim like hanging curtains, and the stone walls were built from dark green-black rock that carried the scent of age and moss.
He leaned forward slightly and looked down.
The inside of the well was dim. No water. Only dry soil and scattered dead leaves resting at the bottom.
Without hesitation, he leaped.
His body descended lightly, landing a few meters below with almost no sound.
"So shallow…"
It was far less dramatic than he had imagined.
He stood quietly at the bottom and looked up. The circular opening above still revealed a bright blue sky. No distortion. No ripple of space. No change in atmosphere.
Silence.
"It seems even bringing the Shikon Jewel won't let me cross."
Though he had expected this outcome, a faint trace of disappointment surfaced in his eyes.
He took out a shard of the Shikon Jewel and placed it on the ground. The faint purple glow illuminated the bottom of the well.
Nothing happened.
No spatial fluctuation.
No pull.
No sign of time travel.
After a moment, he picked the shard back up and stored it inside the bamboo tube.
"Forget it."
The mechanics of the Bone Eater's Well had always been unclear. Even within the original events of this era, its rules contradicted themselves.
Demon bones thrown into the well would vanish. Kagome could travel between eras. Inuyasha could follow her. Yet Shippō, even carrying Shikon shards, could not cross.
There was no simple explanation.
Still, there were two common factors.
Kagome and Inuyasha both had deep connections to the Shikon Jewel.
And both were tied to the Sacred Tree of Ages.
Inuyasha had been sealed to that tree for fifty years. Kagome grew up beside its counterpart in her family shrine in the modern era.
The Sacred Tree was more than wood and bark. It was a spiritual anchor of space and time.
And the well itself was said to be carved from its trunk.
With that thought, Uchiha Lie leaped out of the well.
His gaze quickly found the massive tree towering in the nearby forest. It stood far taller than the others, its trunk thick and ancient, branches spreading wide enough to blot out the sky.
He walked toward it.
Circling the trunk, he soon found the indentation—the mark left when Inuyasha had been pinned to it by Kikyo's arrow decades ago.
He reached out and touched the bark.
At first, it felt like any other old tree. Rough. Solid. Silent.
"Let's try something else."
He closed his eyes.
Sage Mode activated.
Natural energy flowed into his perception.
Minutes passed.
Then his eyes snapped open.
"It's different."
Within Sage Mode, the Sacred Tree was like a massive reservoir of Natural Energy. Vast. Deep. Ancient.
But unlike ordinary natural energy, this one carried a strange attribute.
It felt similar to the Dragon Pulse of the Naruto world.
Spatiotemporal energy.
The sensation was strangely familiar—almost resonating with the spatial principles behind the Flying Thunder God Technique.
But it was also unstable.
"Too dangerous," he murmured.
This wasn't power that could be casually drawn upon.
Inuyasha had been sealed to this tree for fifty years. Kagome had grown beside it her entire life. Their connection was gradual and natural.
If he tried to forcibly utilize its spatiotemporal energy, he might be swept into unknown dimensions.
He withdrew his hand.
"No need to gamble."
His next goal was clear.
Kikyo.
Based on the timeline, she should have already been resurrected. And according to events, she would have returned to Kaede's Village soon after regaining awareness.
He leaped away from the Sacred Tree and headed toward the village.
—
Perched on a branch outside Kaede's Village, Uchiha Lie sat cross-legged.
Sage Mode expanded outward like ripples on water.
He detected Inuyasha.
Miroku.
Shippō.
But no Kikyo.
Kagome's presence was gone—she must have returned to the modern era through the well.
"Then I'll widen the search."
He moved between nearby villages, using Kaede's Village as a center point.
Three settlements later—nothing.
Aside from casually eliminating a few troublesome demons, he found no sign of Kikyo.
Just as he considered abandoning the search—
A unique aura entered his perception.
It was strange.
Dense death energy.
Thick resentment.
Yet intertwined with it was pure Miko spiritual power.
Contradictory.
Dark and sacred at the same time.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
"This one is different."
Chakra surged beneath his feet as he accelerated toward the source.
He had sensed similar twisted auras before—usually demons pretending to be something else. But this spiritual power… it was unmistakably that of a shrine maiden.
As he approached, he saw the outline of a village built against the side of a mountain.
Even more telling—
The aura had sensed him as well.
It was moving toward him.
He did not slow down.
Just as he landed from a leap and prepared to step into the forest clearing before the village—
A sharp whistle cut through the air.
An arrow.
Coated in pure Miko spiritual power.
It shot through the gaps between branches with deadly precision.
He was mid-air.
For a normal person, there would be no room to evade.
For him? It would have been trivial to catch it.
But a playful thought crossed his mind.
A faint smile appeared.
He allowed the arrow to pierce straight through his head.
"Bang!"
Spiritual power erupted violently.
His head shattered into fragments.
His body, carried by momentum, fell to the ground and rolled several times before coming to a stop—motionless.
The forest fell silent again.
Moments later, a slender figure stepped out from the trees.
She wore red and white miko robes.
Long black hair flowed down her back like ink.
Her beauty was cold and distant, almost unreal.
Death energy lingered faintly around her, yet sacred spiritual power radiated from her presence.
Two opposing forces, perfectly balanced.
Kikyo.
The legendary shrine maiden who once guarded the Shikon Jewel.
The woman who had died fifty years ago—
And now walked the world once more.
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