The toad inhales to release its poisonous breath -

Kagome's not very far behind, even though she's supporting Nobunaga as they run. After all, she can just go through the holes in the walls behind Inuyasha, instead of making her own or sticking to normal ways of navigating the castle.

She does pause at the sight of dozens of women caught in giant toad eggs, when she rounds the last corner.

"You want to spit your vapors, toad?" she can hear - and then it's releasing another great gout of poison, and the Tetsusaiga comes down to cleave straight through it, great fang-blade parting the poison as it goes and dealing a fatal blow directly to the toad-lord's chest. "- Then we can open you up."

It stumbles backwards, bleeding badly, desperately outclassed - "I'm... dying?"

"Well, then, I'll take your jewel shard and that'll be that."

"I need a SOUL!"

And it will open its mouth, and dozens of writhing eel-like souls of women will come pouring out cracking eggs and into his mouth. As each one enters, more of his wounds are healed, and after only a moment he's fully recovered.

"Ahhh... my girls are good to me."

- he just ate, like, twenty people. She doesn't know whether those people were even savable, but they might have been, and now they're not. 

She's so distracted that she hardly notices that Nobunaga's weight isn't resting on her anymore.

"Come, cut me again! The more you slice, the more I'll devour!"

"- Why you slimy -"

Princess Tsuyu has been stuck inside a giant toad egg, and might be eaten! This is unacceptable!

He struggles forward and carefully slices the egg open with his sword. "Princess!"

The egg sac contains horrible frog gunk and Princess Tsuyu - who, from how she's hacking it up, also contains horrible frog gunk.

She doesn't look too horrible aside from that, though.

"Princess Tsuyu - are you all right - "

"Nobunaga!" And she will fall into his arms.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY WIFE!"

Inuyasha will clobber him hard on the head with the flat of his blade.

"I don't think she minds."

He's so happy and so overwhelmed and - right, yeah, he should also make sure to place himself between the princess and the demon and defend her. Even if it kills him this time. He's okay with that.

The mildly concussed toad demon will stare off into space, wobble, and flop.

Then start looking very disturbed.

"Who... what?"

He stares in horror at all the soul-bubbles.

"Did I do this?"

Uh.

".....yes?"

"Don't even try that old trick, toad!"

He's just going to sit there staring in horror at his webbed hands and saying "what have I done? What horrible things have I done?" for a bit.

She's so confused. But - if he's not going to do anything - whether he's faking a breakdown or not -

" - stay between us," she tells Inuyasha, and then pulls out the pair of scissors from her first aid kit. She slices open an egg holding a girl who doesn't look very transformed, yet, and watches the toad to see if he'll do anything about it.

Inuyasha nods, sword still at the ready.

She draws a girl out of the egg, hacking and coughing up gunk. She moves on to slice open the next one.

"What do you remember?" she asks the toad demon, sensing that she wants to keep him talking.

"I - fell in a pond - caught dreadfully sick - I remembered everything from when he first possessed me, but then - I lost that -"

"Please kill me. Before - he takes over again - please, before I devour anyone else... before I devour the woman I love -"