Episode 57

Fateful Night in Togenkyo Part 1 is 57th episode of the InuYasha anime. It is adapted from Volume 9 of the manga.

Plot
Kagome's in school taking a test, She finds out that these question are so simple that she gets an A, so her friends congratulates her. Kagome says "This isn't a dream. It's really happening." she wakes up with a math book on top of her face, and realizes that it was dream. Half awake she see the moon as an old crescent and falls back to sleep. The next day Kagome tells everyone that she has to go back home (her own time) to study for a test which is in three days. It gives Sango a chance to go back to her village so she can fix her weapon that creaked from her previous battle with a female Coyote demon. Inuyasha lets her go, and Sango hops on Kirara's back and they head back. Kagome's shock for Inuyasha to give up easily. Inuyasha asking her what's wrong with her, but she said nothing. So the rest of the group head back to Kaede's Village.

In the deep mist of the mountains a man is running, but crashes in to a larger man who is twice the size of him. The big man asked him where he was going, the small man told him that he had enough of the big man to train him to become a sage like himself. The big man gets his gourd and sucks him in. He then walks back into the fog. Inuyasha and his friends gets into the mist as well. Shippo find a creepy fruit and shows it to Miroku. Miroku tells them that's it's a human fruit from a demon tree named [Ninmenka]. After seeing a lot them floating down the stream he assumes that the tree is huge. Kagome wants to check it out, Inuyasha tells her what about going back, but she said she still has three days till her test.

As the sun begins to set, Inuyasha sees the fruit falling from the top of a tall cliff. He climbs up the cliff and he doesn't waste anytime. Shippo witnessing his behavior realized tells Kagome and Miroku that tonight is the night of the New Moon. Kagome was surprised that she almost forgot about it. On top of the cliff, the sage waters the Ninmenka from his gourd and out came a human fruit. He picks and eats, and he's getting tired of it. Inuyasha gets on the edge and asked him to see for if the sage the one whose been doing this? Inuyasha draws his Tessaiga and notices that the man reeks of sick men. He attacks the sage's belly but it bounces off. The sage introduces himself as [Tokajin] the sage of Togenkyo. He pops out the gourd in front of Inuyasha. Inuyasha thinks it getting bigger, but Tookajin tells him that he's shrinking and Inuyasha sees his sword is bigger than him. Tokajin sucks Inuyasha in and realized that demons is great fertilizer for the demon tree.

Kagome and Miroku are on Shippo as he tries to get them to the top. Kagome knows for what happens when the night of New Moon does to Inuyasha...transforms him into a human. Shippo out of energy from getting them to the top Miroku gets Kagome to the opening on the cliff. Kagome finds a room with a box with real life humans in there. She find her jewel shards are getting bigger, Miroku tells them that they're getting smaller and falls into the box village, leaving the jewels to the side of it. Kagome finds the men meditating under a tree. She asks them what's going on and one of them that they have to meditate to become sages like Tokajin. Miroku tells them to stop, but if they do they'll be turn into fertilizer for Ninmenka.



The sun is almost gone, Tokajin with a few monkeys massaging his back, tries to figure out Tessaiga's power, but decides to go into the room where the box village is. Meanwhile Inuyasha comes to inside the gourd and realizes he's getting weak since he doesn't have his sword with him, and not transforming a demon. His coat begins to dissolve. He uses he claws to get out but all he can leave are scratch marks. The sun sets and Inuyasha transforms into his human form. Tokajin leaves the Tessaiga with other weapons and finds Kagome's jewel shards. It shows that he already has one in his belly, he puts Kagome's in there and claims that his body will be a plate of armor. Inuyasha finds the liquid is rising and tries to get to higher up.

Kagome, and Shippo think the men will become sages, but Miroku finds it harder than they're already they're doing. On the other side a rock a Samurai agrees with him. He tells them Tokajin trains them to become better fertilizer for the Demon tree. He witnessed it before he was thrown into the box village. Kagome, Shippo and Miroku are surprised to hear about it. Kagome hopes for Inuyasha to be okay.

Inuyasha uses his sheath to break the wall, but slips into the liquid, since he's a human he can feel the pain. He then finds his sheath pulses, and thinks that his sword is close by. He tells his sword to come to him. Outside of the gourd the Tessaiga floats in midair and rams into the spot where the sheath is call. Tokajin pulls outs the sword leaving a hole, Inuyasha jumps out and returns to his normal size. Tokajin shows the shards in his belly, Inuyasha bets he can beat. Tokajin turned into a stone monster hits Inuyasha hard leaving unconcious. Kagome is one the wall and tries to find a way to get out of there. Miroku, and Shippo tells her that there's way out. Kagome screams for she believes she's in a nightmare.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode that has a "Part #" in its title.
 * In the manga version, this episode, and the next one actually happened before the chapters of the "Enter Sango, the Demon Slayer" episode.
 * This is the first time Sango returns to her village since joining the group.
 * Even though Inuyasha isn't touching Tessaiga when Tokajin shrinks him, it stays in its fang form.
 * Inuyasha learns that when he's in his human form he can still use saya to summon Tessaiga.
 * It's unclear as to why some articles are unaffected by the shrinking and some are not:
 * When Tokajin shrank Inuyasha, Tessaiga remained unaffected and kept its true size, but saya did not. It could be that Tokajin did this intentionally, but that wouldn't explain the following point, which is...
 * When Kagome, Miroku and Shippo began to shrink, the Shikon shards did not and remained outside the box garden. The reason this is at odds with the first point is that Tokajin was neither aware nor present when this happened. Though it could be argued that the Shikon shards were immune because they are sacred objects, it stands to reason that Miroku's staff, prayer beads, sacred sutras and the Beads of Subjugation around Inuyasha's neck should have also remained unaffected. (Though it is possible that Inuyasha's necklace only becomes holy when Kagome activates it.)