Is that a kiss?

When the demonic energy in the air reached a certain concentration, Huami woke up with a start.

She groggily emerged from Sesshomaru’s belly, her upper body shifting into human form. Catching a whiff of an indescribable, foul stench, her body acted decisively before her brain even cleared, diving straight back into the white dog’s belly without a second thought.

Was there some demon blowing up a cesspit out there?!
It was so pungent!

Taking a deep breath to clear her head, and fully prepared to be suffocated by the smell, she poked her head out again.

When she saw the state of things outside, her scales stood on end in unison—Huami was bristling.

Dark shadows were swarming in the sky.
The firmament was blotted out; outside the barrier, there were dense crowds of demons. The moment they collided with the barrier, green lightning flickered, crackling and popping.

"..." Was she still dreaming? How else could she be seeing herself and Sesshomaru under siege by a hoard of demons?

Feeling the danger drawing near, Huami shivered and pulled herself upright.
Her gaze swept over the canopy above, calm and serious.

The sunlight was blocked by the demons, whose rhythmic attacks were chaotic and disorganized—a classic case of every demon for itself.
Whenever a demon was scorched to death while attacking the barrier, it would be torn apart and devoured by other demons before it could even hit the ground, and those behind would immediately take its place.

Realizing they weren't working together gave Huami a subtle sense of relief.
She didn't fear demons with raw power; she feared demons with brains.
Without reason or intellect, their desperate craving for the bloodline of a Great Demon drove them to try and force their way through the barrier at any cost.
Ugly, twisted, and barely even shapeless.

She looked up for a while. Whether due to inheriting her own demonic blood or some other reason, the sight of this twisted, cruel scene didn't make her physically ill, nor did it stir any deep emotion. She simply commented calmly: "What ugly creatures."

She turned her head to look at the handsome white dog to cleanse her eyes.
Comparison really makes the difference; at a glance, Huami felt that even in his white dog form, Sesshomaru was so handsome it defied the laws of demons and gods alike.

With her snake tail wrapped around a tree branch, Huami cast her gaze toward the calm lake.
The unruffled surface clearly reflected a refined, striking, and gorgeous face: beautiful fox-like eyes, a high-bridged nose, and perfectly shaped thin lips.
Another day of being conquered by her own beauty. Comparing herself to the ugly demons above, as a total visual-oriented person, Huami felt incredibly fortunate that she was a Great Demon!

Looking at her beautiful scales, her curvaceous figure, and her alluring hip line, Huami decided in an instant that being a snake wasn't so bad after all.
Even as a snake, she was a beautiful, stunning snake.

The sleeping white dog opened his eyes to see a snake, not far away, twisted into a ball on a tree branch.
Sesshomaru: ...Was her brain frightened into stupidity?

Completely oblivious, Huami narcisistically touched her well-defined jawline, her voice trailing upward: "I really am the best-looking one, right, tail?"
Her snake tail poked out from beneath the dog's tail and gave a little tap against the tip of Sesshomaru's tail.

The moment she finished speaking, an explosion erupted from above.
"Boom—"
The demons were throwing their bodies against the barrier, with a distinct sense of a suicide squad.
The sound grew louder with every impact.
Light flickered across the barrier, but it remained unmoved.
Good quality.

Disturbed, Sesshomaru shifted his gaze from Huami and looked up at the dense swarm of demons gathered in the clouds, persistently launching their suicidal attacks against the barrier.

Regaining her focus, Huami also looked up at the demons trying to break in, her mind taking a subtle, lewd turn.
*Ahem*, this scene...
It looks a bit like fertilized eggs.

Noticing that Sesshomaru had awakened, Huami leaned in close to the white dog. "Is the barrier okay?"
Her own demonic energy was still quite abundant, and she could fight if necessary, but she didn't have the Great Dog General’s ability to kill hundreds of demons with a single swing. With this many, if a real fight broke out, she would likely be exhausted to death.

The white dog glanced at her.
His gold-red beastly eyes showed no emotional fluctuation.

Huami sat obediently on her own tail, smiling, her brain working rapidly. They were in this together now; the Great Lord Sesshomaru wouldn't just abandon her and run off, right?
Even Jaken could hang around the Great Lord, and Huami felt that as long as she found her niche, she could definitely latch onto a powerful backer!
First small goal as a demon: Latch onto a backer!

Looking away, Sesshomaru let out a puff of breath. A flash of suspicion crossed his gold-red eyes, and he masked all his emotions, calmly and composedly spitting out two words: "It will break."

"..." Such calm words.
Huami looked at him expressionlessly, resisting and resisting, feeling that if she kept holding it in, she would surely suffer internal injuries. Unable to bear it any longer, she blurted out: "How can you be so calm while saying such terrifying lines..."
If the barrier breaks, wouldn't they both become dinner for the demons?

"Click—"
Just as she finished speaking, the barrier above emitted a clear sound, similar to glass cracking.
Silence. Today is a day for silence.

"...Sesshomaru." Her courage suddenly surged, and she called him by his name, her mood quite subtle. "You're a white dog, not a raven, right?"
Easily understanding her meaning, the white dog bared his teeth and placed a paw on her throat.
She instantly cowered. Huami hugged the giant dog paw, smiling as obsequiously as she could. "I was wrong. I shouldn't have questioned your lineage."

He gave her a slow look, but the white dog didn't move.
"Click, click—"
The sound of the barrier cracking rang out again.
It was clear that the barrier couldn't hold much longer. The appearance of the cracks excited the demons above, and their suicidal attacks became even more ferocious.

Sesshomaru and Huami looked up simultaneously.
The cracks in the barrier were visibly widening. She was certain that before long, those demons would swarm in.
Clearly, the current state of the barrier didn't leave her much time for thought. Her blue-and-white scales slid across the tree branches as Huami looked calmly at the demons in the sky.
There were too many of them; victory was basically impossible.

She asked, "Hey—Sesshomaru, can you still use your demonic energy?"
The white dog turned to look at her, his gold-red eyes as indifferent as ever.
"No," Sesshomaru replied with remarkable emotional stability.
After all, his demonic energy during the transformation period was being used to temper his body; he had no extra power to spare.

"Then can you shrink?" Huami asked again, adding an explanation: "We're too big of a target right now."
Once the barrier broke, they would become dinner.

Sesshomaru closed his eyes, his demonic energy contracting wildly. In the blink of an eye, the thirty-to-forty-meter-long white dog transformed into a white dog less than half a meter tall.

"Click—click—bang—"
The sound of the barrier cracking became clearer and clearer.
Huami didn't hesitate. She scooped up the now small-statured Sesshomaru and slid down the tree.

"Click—"
The barrier shattered completely, and countless demons poured in frantically.
The blue-and-white boa constrictor crawled down the ancient tree, her scales leaving visible, deep furrows in the trunk. Her color was too conspicuous in the late-autumn forest, and the demons above almost instantly locked onto her as their target.

Huami changed her size rapidly while slithering away.
Cold snake eyes scanned the demons behind her as she leaped from the hundred-foot-tall ancient tree. The lake connected to the tree remained calm.
"We have to go into the water." Her voice was exceptionally calm.
As her gaze swept over the lake, she somehow knew there were underground channels at the bottom, and... a teleportation stone.

Huami’s eyes flickered slightly. She seemed to know everything inside the barrier like the back of her hand.
Without a second thought, relying on the sixth sense brought by her demonic blood, she wrapped her snake tail tightly around Sesshomaru and dove headfirst into the water, her massive, churning body disappearing into the lake in an instant.

The demons poured in like a frenzy.
The lake was not a clear pond. The moment she entered, the silt at the bottom churned up, obscuring her vision. But then again, a snake didn't need to use her eyes anyway.
Countless demons gathered above the lake, mindlessly diving in after her.

The moment the demons touched the surface, countless green lightning bolts surged across the water. The electric light pulsed, instantly tearing the demons' bodies apart. A damp, sticky, fishy stench filled the air.
In the blink of an eye, most of the demons had been slaughtered.

Sinking to the bottom, the snake head looked back once, feeling quite satisfied with her first attempt—the effect was truly remarkable.
Sure enough, even fighting required brains. Huami breathed a sigh of relief. Water conducts electricity; in the water, her demonic energy could exert maximum power with minimum output, just as she had expected.

Just as she relaxed and curled around the white dog to continue searching for the teleportation stone, the entire lake began to tremble violently.
The water level was dropping at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Huami: ???
No fair! There’s a Great Demon mixed in with the rabble!

Outside the water, the sunlight was blinding.
The water of the lake was sucked into the air, forming a massive and spectacular waterspout, dragging the demons who hadn't managed to escape along with it, crushing them into mincemeat.

Filled with murderous intent, a demon—its face hidden by the surrounding throng—controlled the water, its voice cold and wet: "Sesshomaru must die!"
The water level dropped rapidly.
The corpses of the shredded demons reeked of a thick, fishy stench.
Huami fumbled for the stone at the bottom of the lake. Fortunately, snakes didn't need their eyes to observe.

"Found it!"
She said with excitement, though what came out was a string of bubbles.
The white dog, who had also been searching for the stone, looked over and appeared behind a giant rock in a standard dog-paddle.
Together, they exerted force, and the one-ton teleportation stone was pried from the mud.

The water level dropped fast.
Huami could already feel the air against her tail.
Having never used a teleportation formation before, Huami looked at the white dog and asked, "How do we start it?"
The white dog looked at the teleportation stone, then back at Huami.
His expression was a bit strange.
Huami: ?
Brother, what time do you think it is? Hurry up!

The white dog looked away, seemingly not wanting to be bothered with her. Before Huami could get agitated, he suddenly shifted into human form.
No, not his child form, but that of a handsome, cold young man, appearing alive and well right there in the water.
With his indifferent, icy gold-red eyes and aloof, detached face—elegant, noble, and ethereal—Huami let her mind wander for a second at Sesshomaru’s handsomeness and presence.

The Sesshomaru before her was not the rebellious, untamed figure from the anime.
He was hiding his light, his sharpness withdrawn.
The irritable Huami saw a true powerhouse and immediately shut her mouth.
She could snark at the white dog version of Sesshomaru, but his human form... how could one snark at a male god!

Huami: Damn it, this ill-timed infatuation.
But that was Sesshomaru!

"Close your eyes."
As the indifferent voice sounded, Huami’s eyes were covered by a fluffy, furry tail.
Huami: ??? Is he going to kiss me?
Immediately after, a cool palm touched her shoulder.
Huami: Is he going to kiss me?! I’m ready!

But the next second, her body lifted into the air. Before she could recover, even with her eyes covered, she could still feel the blinding light, and a wave of dizziness followed.
At the same time, the lake was drained dry, with all sorts of fish, shrimp, and seaweed flopping around on the lakebed.