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“You can rip my body to pieces; I still won't die. Nobody can kill me... not even Naraku himself!”
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Hakudoshi mistakes the ability to regenerate for independence. Kagura has cut him apart without ending him, so his confidence has a visible basis. But the barrier disappears, the poisonous wasps abandon him, and the protection surrounding his body proves less permanent than the body itself. Kagome purifies the miasma he releases; Miroku then draws him into the Wind Tunnel. Hakudoshi's protest that he cannot be used and discarded makes clear what he believes is at stake. He is not merely predicting survival. He is claiming a status that exempts him from the dependence he mocks in Kagura. Naraku does not need to win an argument about which part is his essence. Withdrawing the conditions that kept Hakudoshi safe lets other people dispose of him. The boast conceals a relationship its speaker cannot bear to recognize.