His pondering was in vain because Kagome spoke first.
"Ship, we need to talk."
Green eyes darted up to meet blue ones. He nodded as a sign for her to continue.
"A demon attacked me today-"
"You mean yesterday," he interrupted. Seeing her confused face, he explained that she slept through the whole night.
"Ah, yes, well...it didn't occur to me that other demons still exist in this time. I just never put the pieces together for some stupid reason," she said, furrowing her eyebrows in frustration. "I've been overlooking the obvious and forgetting things I used to know like the back of my hand," she said. "Shippo, I have a question that I should have asked a long time ago."