And back to our boy! His back really hurts and he tries to raise himself. Kaede scolds him: Stop moping around, Inuyasha! Go find some rumors [gossip, news] of the Shikon no Tama. Inuyasha:. Aww, shaddup. My back's killing me after that girl's 'sits'! Damn that bastard Kagome. Oh, just wait until you come back.... Yeowtch. Grampa walks up the modern shrine... ... and sees smoke! It's into our glowing box's place he goes. Yegads! My, are those eyes? That single charred block breaks, and something... shatters its package. Poor Grampa comments that the heirloom scrolls were charred. However, the mask from the package rises: He washes the sacramental sake onto himself, throws it aside, and takes out ofudas: My great-great grandfather received that mask from a Noh-actor to exorcise it.. ... he called it 'The Mask of Flesh'. I had no idea that such a great power possessed it. He throws three ofudas, and the mask incinerates them: Poor body-snatcher Noh-noh lands on a statue, and animates it, but the fire crumples him. The ceiling's caving into a shower of sparks. The mask dives down!! The fire alarm's ringing, the medics approach. The fellow ahead greets the two,: Hey, there's a fire at the Higurashi Shrine!  and they run off to see. A fire! The officers announce that the fire's out and not to worry, and for people to clear the way as the road's blocked. Kagome excuses herself and runs in. Mama gives her thanks to the officer. Kagome runs in: Mama! Mama, what happened? Mama: The storeroom caught on fire. Grampa was stuck in the smoke and Kagome: He's hurt?! Mama: It's okay. He's a little injured, but they say he passed out and took in a littlesmoke. Mama: I'm on my way to visit him in the hospital. Kagome: I'll come too. Mama: Souta still hasn't come home, so would you wait here for him? She agrees, and thinks: How could the storeroom catch fire? There wasn't flammable... One fireman notes that the fire came from inside. Another warns that there's a hole in the floor. Inside, one strays from his work and arrives at the hole. A certain mask rises from the ripples... speeding up and latching onto the guy's face. The fellow screams underneath and struggles. The other asks what's wrong...