Chapter 423

Numawatari is the 423rd chapter of InuYasha manga.

Synopsis

 * Inuyasha fights with Numawatari, who is invulnerable to Kaze no Kizu and Bakuryūha.

Summary
The group finds several ogres who have been cut in half. Inuyasha idenifies Sesshōmaru's scent and assumes it was his doing. Kagome recalls how Sesshōmaru's sword Toukijin was broken in his fight with Mōryōmaru. Sango wonders if Sesshōmaru has gotten a new sword, and Miroku asks if they will follow Sesshōmaru. Inuyasha shows no interest in either question, and leads the group off in pursuit of something.

Sesshōmaru, Jaken , and Rin come across a lake in the mountains. Rin goes to take a drink of the water, but Sesshōmaru stops her and the trio watch the lake devour a bird that got to close to it. He tells the others it is the Numawatari, a man-eating lake.

Inuyasha's group is informed about the Numawatari by the villagers. The group thinks that a yōkai has started living in the lake, and go to investigate. Inuyasha smells a yōkai at the site of the lake, and strikes the lake with Kaze no Kizu. The Numawatari reveals itself, and the group quickly discovers that the yōkai does not live in the lake, but is the lake itself. The Numawatari consumed the old lake and took its' place so that it could devour things that got close to the lake. Inuyasha attacks the Numawatari with the Bakuryūha, but it is again unaffected. Miroku realizes that the yōkai has no real substance because it is made of water.