Shippou appears! The Thunder Brothers, Hiten and Manten [Page 6/7]






Manten:
Now that you mention it...




Interested,
Hiten walks over.




Sorry, anchan!
I found some but...




Hiten:
What do you mean, 'but'?
Surely you didn't forget these shards because of a girl,





and let them out of your GRASP?! Such ferocity!




That girl slumps down dead.
Fried too,
one would suppose.


Manten:
Anchan, so s-sorry!



Hiten:
Really, you're so useless!
If you weren't my brother, I'd' have killed you more than once!
Kagome:
Wh-what's with this guy? He's more dangerous!


Eyecatch!



Some time passes.
Manten must've told his brother of Shippou, because Hiten says:
What? That fox brat had Shikon shards?


Manten asks where
he's heading.
Isn't it obvious? Let's go.





Kagome sneaks off:
A chance to escape...
Manten:
Wait a bit, anchan.
He hurls down a Kagome-sized
butcher knife, she just makes it past its cutting line.



Kagome demands to know what he's doing.
[Must've hit her head a bit in that explosion, ]



Making sure you won't escape by killing you, what else? You're my precious hair-potion-to-be.
[trying to escape with her captor still here...]
Kagome hooks in:
Wait! If you kill me...





Manten takes the bait:
If I kill you...









And Kagome's reeling in:
Um.. you'll never get the Shikon no Tama!
Good, this might work.


This idiot is okay.


The older one is..
Alright! This'll work!



You two..have you heard
of Inuyasha?
He's really powerful.

Hiten has!:
Powerful? I've heard of him, but he's just hanyou.

Kagome insists:
He's powerful!
He's destroyed all the youkai he has met so far...
...and now has collected almost all of the Shikon no Tama shards.
The two are surprised, and -




Good, they fell for it.



Hiten:
Hey.
You're not lying, are you?

Kagome keeps their attention:
You see...
Inuyasha is in love with me.
Hiten doesn't look so trusting. Manten is...
well, Manten.





If you offer me, he'll give up all those Shikon no Tama shards with no fuss.



Manten:
Hiten-anchan,
she's certainly lying...
Hiten:
I'm willing to believe her.

Girl!
Show us where that Inuyasha guy is.
However!


If that story of yours turns out to be a lie...







This cute face will turn into a charcoal lump.Kagome:
He means it...
...that monster.