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Sixty-Three.

There was more?

"Care to enlighten me, then?"

The demon lord tried to repay her inquisitiveness with tolerance. "There is no hurry. You will see for yourself as soon as we reach my retainer; then you will know why it is impossible for him to take this Sesshoumaru's place."

Kagome rolled her eyes, careful so that he wouldn't notice. He sure loves his secrets, she thought.

But, she added in an afterthought, if I had just lost all my power and my certainties, then I too would hold onto any little thing that maintained even a scrap of my superiority.

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(100 words.)